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 …

The White House is freaked out that Putin's next big win could be in Paris  —  The White House has begun to harbor fears that Vladimir Putin could soon notch his biggest victory of Russia's invasion of Ukraine — in Paris.  —  There is growing concern within President Joe Biden's administration …

‘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 …

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 …

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

The Veteran Who Launched A Multimillion-Dollar Effort To Build A Border Wall Has Agreed To Plead Guilty To Fraud Charges  —  Brian Kolfage, an Iraq War veteran who launched a multimillion-dollar crowdfunding effort to build a private border wall, has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges …

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 …

Peter Thiel calls Warren Buffett a ‘sociopathic grandpa from Omaha’ and bitcoin's ‘enemy No. 1’  — At a bitcoin conference in Miami, venture investor Peter Thiel presented a slideshow that included criticisms of financial opinion leaders who he says are trying to stop the cryptocurrency.

Compact Fake Gay History  —  From Mariupol to Missouri, in real wars and culture wars, soldiers like to film themselves in battle.  Twitter is awash with footage of Ukrainian and Russian troops showing off their tactical prowess and grisly exploits.  US culture warriors do likewise.

Cancel Your Disney Vacation And Go To Dollywood Instead  —  Dollywood turned out to be the perfect family getaway, with fresh, clean fun for every age and need.  —  Our family ended up at Dollywood recently by happenstance.  We were visiting family in Tennessee.

Madison Cawthorn's GOP Colleagues Have a New Reason to Hate Him  —  Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) isn't exactly making friends in Congress these days.  His new stance on raising money for the party isn't going to help.  —  Last year, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) pulled hundreds of thousands …

Google's Gmail favors left-wing candidates, sends far more emails from conservatives to spam: study  —  ‘Percentage of emails marked by Gmail as spam from right-wing candidates grew steadily as election approached,’ researchers wrote  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for April 8

Do Democrats Really Want Amazon's Workers to Win?  —  Seventy-nine years old and slouching toward a devastating midterm rebuke, President Joe Biden rarely appears to be enjoying his job these days.  But some of the old spark was there Wednesday, when he addressed a gathering of building-trades unionists …

Finland is hurtling towards NATO membership  —  The NATO-Russia border would double at a stroke  —  EVEN AS RUSSIAN troops were massing on Ukraine's borders in January, Sanna Marin, Finland's prime minister, insisted that it was “very unlikely” her country would join NATO during her time in office.

TikTok star briefed by the White House admits he was used as a PAWN when parroting their claims that Putin was to blame for soaring gas prices and the rest of the influencers just stayed on message  — The White House held a Zoom briefing for about 30 popular internet figures …

4/8/22 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM. … IN FACT, TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO ORDER IT FROM THEIR LOCAL BOOKSTORES. … “THE EXPERIENCE OF BEGGING FOR SUPPORT WAS WEARING ON HER. ..  PELOSI WAS THE ONLY DEMOCRAT IN THE CHAMBER — THE ONLY DEMOCRAT ALIVE — WHO HAD ALREADY SERVED AS SPEAKER …

Unraveling the tale of Hunter Biden and $3.5 million from Russia  —  “She [Russian billionaire Elena Baturina] gave him [Hunter Biden] $3.5 million so now I would think [Russian president Vladimir] Putin would know the answer to that.  I think he should release it.  I think we should know that answer.”

ACLU helped defeat plan to seize Russian oligarchs' funds for Ukraine … The American Civil Liberties Union helped scuttle a bill this week that would have enabled the Biden administration to liquidate Russian oligarchs' assets and turn the proceeds over to Ukraine.

TX-34 Special Election Gives GOP an Early South Texas Gift  —  Blue Dog Democrat Filemon Vela (TX-34) did his party no favors when he announced he would leave Congress early on March 31 to join the lobbying firm Akin Gump.  Now, GOP Gov. Greg Abbott has used his authority to call an “emergency” …

Hmmm: Federal appeals court upholds vaccine mandate on federal workers  —  Better late, politically speaking, than never?  Joe Biden won a round for his workplace mandates, albeit the narrowest of the bunch.  Late yesterday, the normally conservative Fifth Circuit vacated an injunction imposed …

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.

Russia's war dead belie its slogan that no one is left behind … Soon after the invasion began, a hashtag war slogan popped up everywhere in Russia: “We don't leave ours behind.”  But many were.  —  In Irpin, on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, two Russian soldiers killed …

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 …

DeSantis tops $100 million for Florida reelection race — and sends signal to 2024 Republican field  —  Ron DeSantis is thinking about running against other GOP candidates 01:53  —  (CNN)Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has raised more than $100 million for his reelection effort …

Russia's genocide handbook  —  The evidence of atrocity and of intent mounts  —  Russia has just issued a genocide handbook for its war on Ukraine.  The Russian official press agency “RIA Novosti” published last Sunday an explicit program for the complete elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such.

Luxury Yachtmaker to the Oligarchs Checks Up On Who Its Customers Are  —  Germany's luxury yachtmaker to the oligarchs is making sure it knows who its customers are.  —  Luerssen, which built two of the three largest superyachts detained by authorities over their links to sanctioned Russian billionaires …