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New York Times:
Russia's top officer visited the front line to change the offensive's course, U.S. and Ukraine officials say. — ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — The chief of the general staff of the Russian military, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the country's highest ranking uniformed officer, made a visit …
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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.
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 …
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi, Congressional Delegation Statement on Visit to Kyiv, Ukraine
Pelosi, Congressional Delegation Statement on Visit to Kyiv, Ukraine
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New York Times:
Long lines at Ukrainian gas stations reveal just the tip of a looming crisis.
Long lines at Ukrainian gas stations reveal just the tip of a looming crisis.
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Matthew Luxmoore / Wall Street Journal:
Nancy Pelosi Visits Ukraine's President Zelensky in Kyiv
Nancy Pelosi Visits Ukraine's President Zelensky in Kyiv
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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.
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The Times of Israel
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The Times of Israel:
Russian foreign minister: So what if Zelensky's Jewish, so was Hitler — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Ukraine can have Nazis, even though its president is Jewish, since, he claims, Adolf Hitler had Jewish ancestry. — “The fact that Zelensky is Jewish does not negate the Nazi elements in Ukraine.
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.
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The Guardian
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.
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.
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Axios:
Dems punch back against GOP's “culture war” attacks — Democrats are starting to fight back against the bludgeoning they've taken since the Republicans seized on socially charged issues to help win this fall's midterms. … They want to make 2022 a referendum on MAGA nation and its agenda.
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Opinion Can Democrats knock Republicans off their two-faced midterm strategy?
Opinion Can Democrats knock Republicans off their two-faced midterm strategy?
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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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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.
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 …
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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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
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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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 …
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James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal:
A Wild Turkey Is Attacking People in D.C. Multiple Agencies Are in Pursuit. — More than half a dozen agencies have assembled to cage the wily bird; ‘Turkey Interview Talking Points’ — WASHINGTON—On a recent sunny spring day, cardinals, meadowlarks and bobolinks flit through …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Three steps for Elon Musk if he's serious about free speech at Twitter — But first, a primer for a somewhat confused billionaire on what the First Amendment actually entails — As the would-be new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk has been touting his passion for free speech over the past week.
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