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11:25 PM ET, May 1, 2022

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Reuters:
Lavrov Compares Ukraine's Zelenskyy to Hitler, Who Also ‘Had Jewish Blood’  —  Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview on Italian television on Sunday that the fact Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish does not negate the Nazi elements in his country.
Discussion: The Times of Israel
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Wall Street Journal:
Nancy Pelosi Visits Ukraine's President Zelensky in Kyiv  —  Congressional trip comes as Moscow's attempted military push into the nation stalls and saboteurs are blamed for attack inside Russia  —  RZESZÓW, Poland—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a delegation of U.S. lawmakers pledged Sunday …
New York Times:
Russian Tycoon Criticized Putin's War.  Retribution Was Swift.  —  Oleg Y. Tinkov was worth more than $9 billion in November, renowned as one of Russia's few self-made business tycoons after building his fortune outside the energy and minerals industries that were the playgrounds of Russian kleptocracy.
Discussion: UPI and Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Hacking Russia was off-limits.  The Ukraine war made it a free-for-all.  —  Experts anticipated a Moscow-led cyber-assault; instead, unprecedented attacks by hacktivists and criminals have wreaked havoc in Russia  —  For more than a decade, U.S. cybersecurity experts have warned …
Discussion: Bob's Newsletter
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal:   Russia's Occupation of Southern Ukraine Hardens, With Rubles, Russian Schools and Lenin Statues
Farnoush Amiri / Associated Press:
Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump election schemes  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rioters who smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, succeeded — at least temporarily — in delaying the certification of Joe Biden's election to the White House.
Discussion: The Guardian
David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Role Model for the Midterms  —  Democrats need to fight back against the Republicans' phony culture war.  Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow showed how.  —  “Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.”  The famous line is from Brecht's “Life of Galileo,” and it's often trotted …
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Axios:
Dems punch back against GOP's “culture war” attacks
Discussion: RedState
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Opinion Can Democrats knock Republicans off their two-faced midterm strategy?
Discussion: The Hill, CNN, Townhall and Washington Times
New York Times:
Biden Received Early Warnings That Immigration and Inflation Could Erode His Support  —  Confidential polling data obtained by The New York Times underscores the biggest challenges for President Biden and his party as they face the prospect of losing power to Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
Parodying conspiracy theories with the Birds Aren't Real movement  —  There have always been conspiracy theories: the moon landings were fake, Elvis is alive, Paul is dead.  But as disinformation has sprouted across the internet, more malicious conspiracy theories have entered our homes, workplaces and even the halls of Congress.
Anti-Defamation League:
Remarks by Jonathan Greenblatt to the ADL Virtual National Leadership Summit  —  Thank you for that kind introduction.  I am so glad to welcome you - leaders from coast to coast committed to the fight against antisemitism and hate.  —  I don't need to tell you how important and pressing this work is.
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Ben Samuels / Haaretz:   ADL Chief Compares ‘Radical Left’ Critics of Israel to Right-wing Extremists
Kevin Landrigan / UnionLeader.com:
Stepdaughter: William Loeb sexually molested me as young child  —  Ending an almost 70-year public silence, William Loeb's stepdaughter said last week that the late iconic publisher of the Union Leader sexually molested her repeatedly when she was 7 years old.
Discussion: Media Nation
Wall Street Journal:
Disney's Clash With Florida Has CEOs on Alert  —  State's pushback against the company shows the risks executives may confront  —  In private meetings and coaching sessions over the past few weeks, top business leaders have been asking a version of the same question: How can we avoid becoming the next Walt Disney Co.?
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
White House correspondents' dinner: Biden jokes about return to near-normal  —  After a two-year pandemic delay, the dinner returned with a comedy routine from Trevor Noah and celebrity cameos by Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson.  —  Washington's media and political elite partied like it was 2019 …
Laurence Norman / Wall Street Journal:
Europe to Make Fresh Push to Revive Iran Nuclear Deal  —  Talks have hit a deadlock over Iran's demand that Washington lift terror designation on Iran's Revolutionary Guards  —  European officials are preparing to make a fresh push to salvage a nuclear deal with Iran, offering to send …
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David Cohen / Politico:
Iran talks unlikely to yield good deal, Menendez says
Discussion: Fox News
Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
Kathy Boudin, Radical Imprisoned in a Fatal Robbery, Dies at 78  —  She had a role in the Brink's heist by the Weather Underground that left two police officers dead.  But she became a model prisoner and, after being freed, helped former inmates.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
In 2020, Biden was a political juggernaut in Massachusetts.  A new poll shows voters have soured on him.  A lot.  —  In March 2020, President Biden swept through Massachusetts' Democratic primary with a come-from-behind Super Tuesday victory.  He later topped Donald Trump …
Discussion: NPR
Stephanie Slade / New York Times:
Ron DeSantis and Other Republicans Desecrate What Their Party Long Championed  —  In 2010, the Supreme Court held that “political speech does not lose First Amendment protection ‘simply because its source is a corporation.’” The case was Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission …
Sandy Jorgenson / Washington Post:
How I'm uplifting and affirming my trans child amid the hate  —  I am doing everything in my power to protect my child from harm  —  Sit with me for a moment and consider what power there is in motherhood: how strongly those tendrils of ferocious love wrap around every bone in our children's bodies …
David Cohen / Politico:
Biden: Mondale rescued me from darkness  —  President Joe Biden said Sunday that former Vice President Walter Mondale helped him through some of the darkest days of his life.  —  “They helped me find my purpose in a sea of darkness and pain,” the president said of Mondale and his wife during …
 
 
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British Virgin Islands premier rejects direct rule from London
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CSIS flags issues with U.S. intelligence prior to Jan. 6 riot, says it faces the same problems
New York Times:
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump's criminal justice reform bill becomes persona non grata among GOPers
Discussion: Raw Story
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