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New York Times:
Live Updates: At Least 39 Killed in Strike on Train Station, Ukraine Says, as Thousands Flee From East — The station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk had been a main point of evacuation as the region braced for a scaling up of Russia's offensive. The European Union formally approved …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
As Ukraine braces for a second round, the West has a duty to step up
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Dalton Bennett / Washington Post:
In eastern Ukraine, Russian military razing towns to take them over
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TechCrunch, Common Dreams and The Atlantic
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Germany Became Putin's Enabler
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Bill Emmott's Global View and Defense One
Associated Press:
Missile kills 30 evacuees at busy Ukrainian train station
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Alexis Petridis / The Guardian:
‘This is a crazy, unjust attack’: Pink Floyd re-form to support Ukraine
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
GOP ‘built on fraud, fear and fascism’? If the jackboot fits... There were even more vermin than usual in Washington this week. A rabid fox at the Capitol bit at least nine people, including Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.). And Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison attacked Sen. Tom Cotton …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
District Man Sentenced to 151 Months in Prison for Receipt of Child Pornography — Defendant Requested Videos of Babies — WASHINGTON - Ruben Verastigui, 29, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 151 months in prison on a federal charge of receipt of child pornography.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Ex-RNC staffer gets more than 12 years in prison in child porn case — A former GOP staffer and Republican National Committee aide who admitted to being part of a ring that traded child pornography involving babies was sentenced Thursday to more than 12-and-a-half years in prison Thursday.
Elena Schneider / Politico:
‘If we do this right...’: The new Dem organizing strategy catching fire ahead of the midterms — A group of Democratic strategists is trying to spread a novel organizing tactic in this year's election. Technically, it's called “paid relational organizing,” but it boils down to this …
New York Times:
F.B.I. Preparing to Investigate How Classified Material Went to Trump's Home — Federal authorities want to know more about how sensitive national security information came to be in 15 boxes of documents and mementos sent to Mar-a-Lago from the White House. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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The Daily Beast:
‘Gutted’: Inside the Manhattan DA's Unraveling Trump Probe — The Manhattan DA's case against Donald Trump increasingly seems to be going nowhere. … Over the last several weeks, the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation into former President Donald Trump has appeared to be unraveling …
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Occupy Democrats, CNN, Yahoo News, Raw Story and Political Wire
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New York Times:
A Reinvented Marine Le Pen Threatens to Upend French Elections — The far-right presidential candidate has opened up about her personal life and tweaked her policies to gain sympathy and credibility among more mainstream voters. — STIRING-WENDEL, France — Marine Le Pen …
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NDTV, The Guardian, YouGov, The New Arab and New Statesman
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Right-wing populists are thriving — even when they're friends of Putin
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Financial Times
Abram Brown / Forbes:
Peter Thiel Pumps Bitcoin, Calls Warren Buffett A ‘Sociopathic Grandpa’ — Peter Thiel, the lightning-rod venture capitalist, offered up what he called an “enemies list” on Thursday, his attempt to call out anti-crypto investors while speaking at a prominent cryptocurrency conference in Miami, a crypto hot spot.
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Capitol attack investigators zero in on far-right Oath Keepers and Proud Boys — Panel appears to believe militias coordinated to physically stop certification of Joe Biden's election victory on 6 January last year — The House select committee investigating January 6 appears to believe …
Choire Sicha / New York Magazine:
Journalism's Twitter Problem Is the Journalists — Today, New York Times honcho Dean Baquet ordered a company-wide “reset” in how his staff should think about Twitter. Mostly, he'd like them to never look at it again. — You can see why. Most of the people who work for him are very bad …
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Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Yakuza Boss Arrested at Manhattan Steakhouse for Alleged Rockets-for-Heroin Scheme — “The drugs were destined for New York streets, and the weapons shipments were meant for factions in unstable nations.” — A Japanese organized crime kingpin conspired to broker massive deals …
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Justice News, The Guardian, UPI, Raw Story and Voice of America
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
GOP's ‘Putin wing’ takes a bizarre stand on war crimes resolution — Six House Republicans opposed a resolution on collecting and preserving evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. — Much of the world has been horrified by evidence of Russia committing gruesome war crimes in Ukraine …
CBS News:
Men accused of impersonating federal agents being investigated for possible ties to Iranian intelligence — The two men accused of impersonating federal agents over the course of several years will remain in jail pending a detention hearing Friday, a federal magistrate judge ruled Thursday.
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Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Don't count on aggressive redistricting to blunt Democratic losses in the House — There is a consensus view among political analysts that redistricting has so reduced the House playing field that Republicans will likely gain only a few seats despite President Biden's unpopularity. That may end up being true.
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CNN
Trish Bendix / New York Times:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls the Police on Jimmy Kimmel — Kimmel said of Greene's angry tweets about a joke he made earlier this week: “She's a snowflake and a sociopath — a ‘snowciopath.’” … Marjorie Is the New Karen — Jimmy Kimmel struck a nerve with Marjorie Taylor Greene this week …
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Breck Dumas / Fox Business:
GEICO apologizes, reverses course after inviting Linda Sarsour to speak at company event — The pro-Palestinian activist has been widely accused of anti-Semitism — Property and casualty insurer GEICO landed in hot water with several Jewish advocacy groups this week after inviting pro-Palestinian activist …
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The Daily Caller, OutKick and The Daily Wire
Jennifer Haberkorn / Los Angeles Times:
Rape exceptions to abortion bans were once widely accepted. No more — As conservative states enacted stringent abortion bans in recent decades, there was one threshold they were loath to cross: Abortion was nearly always allowed in cases of rape or incest.
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The Guardian
Jennifer Hassan / Washington Post:
A Zelensky impersonator escapes Ukraine — helped by fake Putin, Kim Jong Un — The day after Russia invaded his country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the world that he was “the enemy's number one target.” Around the same time, a man famous for looking startlingly like Zelensky …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Elon Musk to address Twitter staff after internal outcry … Twitter plans to host Elon Musk for a question-and-answer session with employees after a week of internal outcries over his appointment to the social network's board of directors, according to company messages obtained by The Washington Post.
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“The Conversation About CNN Changed”: Network Leaves Drama Behind With Focus on War in Ukraine — With dozens of reporters on the ground, from Christiane Amanpour to Anderson Cooper, CNN gets back to basics in the wake of leadership turmoil. “This is what we are there to do,” senior international correspondent Sam Kiley says.
ABC News:
Is Trump's hold on the GOP waning? We're about to find out. — The former president will see his influence tested in a series of primaries. — A former president who famously claimed he would win so much that his followers would be “sick and tired of winning” faces the prospect of something …
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Kansas City Star:
Request for investigation sent before alleged abuse by Greitens — Missouri state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed grew concerned enough about Gov. Eric Greitens' potential for violence in April 2018 that she sent a letter asking the Department of Public Safety to investigate rumors of an incident involving …
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Raw Story
Joan Walsh / The Nation:
Eric Boehlert Got Everything Right About Our Petty, Self-Congratulating Media — From his early coverage of political reporters' savaging Al Gore to his incisive critique of their Joe Biden coverage right before he died, he got it. And he will be missed. — I am brokenhearted over the news …
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