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New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Putin Defends War, Without Signaling Escalation — 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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U.S. Department of the Treasury:
U.S. Treasury Takes Sweeping Action Against Russia's War Efforts
U.S. Treasury Takes Sweeping Action Against Russia's War Efforts
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YouTube:
Zelensky releases video on day of remembrance: ‘We hear “never again” differently’
Zelensky releases video on day of remembrance: ‘We hear “never again” differently’
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Reason
Associated Press:
Russia marks WWII victory overshadowed by Ukraine
Russia marks WWII victory overshadowed by Ukraine
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Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Russian ambassador to Poland hit with red paint
Russian ambassador to Poland hit with red paint
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Washington Post:
Russia's ultimate political survivor faces a wartime reckoning
Russia's ultimate political survivor faces a wartime reckoning
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Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Russia's War on Democracy, Axios, Mother Jones, Politico and TheBlaze
Washington Post:
Dozens feared dead and injured after Russia bombs school in eastern Ukraine
Dozens feared dead and injured after Russia bombs school in eastern Ukraine
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Washington Examiner, Newsweek, RedState and The Daily Wire
Financial Times:
Transcript: Vladimir Putin 'doesn't believe he can afford to lose' — William Burns, CIA director
Transcript: Vladimir Putin 'doesn't believe he can afford to lose' — William Burns, CIA director
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Radio Free Europe/Radio …, NPR, Axios, CBS News, The Hill, Politico, Politico and Los Angeles Times
Washington Post:
Miss. governor doesn't rule out banning contraception if Roe falls — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) on Sunday refused to rule out the possibility that his state would ban certain forms of contraception, sidestepping questions about what would happen next if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Winning after Roe — People want the vast majority of abortions to be legal
Winning after Roe — People want the vast majority of abortions to be legal
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YouTube:
Roe v. Wade Cold Open - SNL
Roe v. Wade Cold Open - SNL
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Senate Democrats Warn of G.O.P. Effort to Restrict Abortion Nationwide
Senate Democrats Warn of G.O.P. Effort to Restrict Abortion Nationwide
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Alexander Shur / madison.com:
Watch now: Madison anti-abortion headquarters hit by apparent Molotov cocktail, vandalism, graffiti
Watch now: Madison anti-abortion headquarters hit by apparent Molotov cocktail, vandalism, graffiti
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO PLAYBOOK: Democrats go on offense over abortion
POLITICO PLAYBOOK: Democrats go on offense over abortion
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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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CNN:
Oath Keepers sharing with January 6 investigators their efforts to find election fraud, communications with Trump allies — Top leaders in the Oath Keepers, the far-right extremist group, have been turning over phones and digital files and sitting for interviews with the FBI …
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Raw Story
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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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.
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
Mark Esper details his time in President Trump's Cabinet
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, Insider, Mediaite, New York Post, Joe.My.God., The Hill and HuffPost
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Esper: We had to stop Trump team ideas for military action in Venezuela, Iran
Esper: We had to stop Trump team ideas for military action in Venezuela, Iran
Trafalgar Group:
PA Sen GOP May 2022 — See Report Here
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Rolling Stone:
Even Trump Is ‘Completely Weirded Out By’ Madison Cawthorn's Antics — You just can't pretend to be horny on cam — Donald Trump helped make Rep. Madison Cawthorn a star of the MAGA movement, but now the lawmaker risks falling out of The Donald's good graces.
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 …
New York Post:
Hollywood lawyer paid off over $2M of Hunter Biden's delinquent taxes — A bigshot Hollywood lawyer reportedly paid off Hunter Biden's delinquent taxes — which a source told The Post amounted to more than $2 million — as President Joe Biden's notoriously troubled son awaits the results …
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Washington Post:
Lawyers are nearing a settlement deal for the infamous 2015 OPM hack — Welcome to the Cybersecurity 202! HBO's Julia Child biopic “Julia” is fantastic and I give it my strongest recommendation. The only drawback is it looks as if Jacques Pepin won't be introduced until Season 2 at the earliest.
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Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Biden disinfo chief Nina Jankowicz pushed Trump-Russia collusion claims — The head of the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board has an extensive history of promoting baseless Trump-Russia collusion claims from Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign …
Politico:
Democrats' chance to save the House majority runs through these districts — Every two years for the past decade, Democratic recruiters would come to Rudy Salas with the same question: Would he challenge Republican Rep. David Valadao? — The California state legislator grew up working summers …
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