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Putin calibrates his message to Russians, not asking for much more from them. — Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. — Against a backdrop of armored vehicles and soldiers in regalia, President Vladimir V. Putin hailed Russia's army for “fighting for the Motherland,” …
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BBC:
Putin blames West for war in Ukraine — Updates from BBC correspondents: Jenny Hill and Steve Rosenberg in Moscow, Sarah Rainsford and James Waterhouse in Kyiv, Andrew Harding in Donbas, Laura Bicker in Zaporizhzhia, Lyse Doucet and Hugo Bachega in Dnipro, Joe Inwood and Sophie Williams in Lviv, and Caroline Davies in Odesa
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Pjotr Sauer / The Guardian:
‘Paranoid dictator’: Russian journalists fill pro-Kremlin site with anti-war articles
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Steve Rosenberg / BBC:
Ukraine War: Putin gives few clues in Victory Day speech
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YouTube:
Zelensky releases video on day of remembrance: ‘We hear “never again” differently’
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Winning after Roe — People want the vast majority of abortions to be legal — I think abortion should be very broadly legal. Without the constitutional protections offered by the Roe v. Wade decision, abortion is going to become much less broadly available, which is bad.
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
Michigan's abortion ban is draconian and should be vacated, attorney general says — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she won't enforce her state's 1931 abortion law — and she's hoping the Michigan Supreme Court finds it unconstitutional, even if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down its Roe v. Wade decision.
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Washington Post:
Miss. governor doesn't rule out banning contraception if Roe falls
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Senate Democrats Warn of G.O.P. Effort to Restrict Abortion Nationwide
Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO PLAYBOOK: Democrats go on offense over abortion
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Steve Schmidt / The Warning:
No Books. No Money. Just the Truth. — This is a story about lying. Public lying. It is a story about Senator John McCain's lying, and the damage it has done to many people, including me. It is also a story about my lying because, ultimately, John McCain's lie became mine.
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Politico:
How the Jan. 6 panel broke through Trump allies' stonewalling — Donald Trump's top election-subversion wingmen have stonewalled the Jan. 6 select committee for months, but investigators have found a reliable workaround: their deputies and assistants. — Time and again, the panel has managed …
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Mark Esper / Politico:
‘I Want to Meet With the Taliban’: Tales of Trump's Head-Scratching Diplomacy — On Friday, Aug. 16, 2019 — just three weeks after the Senate confirmed me as secretary of Defense — the national security team met with President Donald Trump at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club.
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Norah O'Donnell / CBS News:
Mark Esper details his time in President Trump's Cabinet
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Tim Reid / Reuters:
Suburban Phoenix is cautionary tale for Democrats hoping to galvanize voters on abortion — Laura Wilson is a mother of three who lives in the sprawling suburbs of north Phoenix, a hotly contested electoral area of Arizona that could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate after November's congressional elections.
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Zach Everson / Forbes:
Madison Cawthorn's Campaign Gets Donation From Associate Of Sanctioned Russian Billionaire — Chalk up one more controversy for Rep. Madison Cawthorn, the North Carolina Republican who seems enveloped in it. Cawthorn's cash-strapped campaign for re-election received a donation Friday …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Surprising Backstory of How the Steele Dossier Was Created — Report that rattled the political world often echoed chatter among three friends, one a former schoolmate of the main investigator — Former press aide Olga Galkina, PR executive Charles Dolan Jr. (center bottom) and researcher Igor Danchenko.
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Inside Mark Meadows's final push to keep Trump in power — The former congressman played a key role in Trump's effort to overturn the election, according to his texts, congressional investigations and interviews — Behind closed doors in a civic center outside Atlanta …
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Ariel Zilber / New York Post:
Ex-porn star Lisa Ann wants Elon Musk to ban X-rated content on Twitter — An ex-porn star demanded that Elon Musk ban X-rated content when he takes over Twitter, accusing the social-media giant of being “the largest distributor of illegal content to minors.”
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Eric Greitens leads in Senate GOP primary in Missouri per internal campaign poll — Former Gov. Eric Greitens leads the pack in the race for the Republican nomination for Senate in Missouri, according to a poll conducted for his campaign. — In the survey, Greitens led Rep. Vicky Hartzler 26% to 19%.
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
A.O.C. and Eric Adams Have Not Spoken in Nearly a Year — Mayor Adams and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represent divergent wings of the Democratic Party, have not spoken one-on-one in nearly a year. — Give this article- - - Read in app
New York Times:
What's Your Rate of Inflation? — Inflation is at the highest level in four decades. But how you experience it can vary greatly depending on what you eat, how much you travel and your other spending habits. Answer seven questions to estimate your personal inflation rate.
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
QAnon Joins Vigilantes at the Southern Border — Far-right activists are intercepting migrant children and collecting information about their families, based on an unfounded conspiracy theory that they are falling prey to sex-trafficking rings. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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