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New York Times:
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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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
9 Theses on Putin's Fascism for 9 May — How Putin's myth of 2022 differs from the history of 1945 — How can Putin carry out obviously fascist policies, such as a genocidal war of destruction in Ukraine, while claiming the mantle of anti-fascism? As we saw again today in his Victory Day speech …
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
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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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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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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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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Everdeen Mason / New York Times:
A Note About Today's Wordle Game — At New York Times Games, we take our role seriously as a place to entertain and escape, and we want Wordle to remain distinct from the news. — Give this article- - - Read in app — It's been just over three months since The New York Times acquired Wordle …
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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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U.S. Department of Commerce:
Raimondo Announces Temporary Suspension of 232 Tariffs on Ukraine Steel — Suspended tariffs will bolster one of Ukraine's most important industries — Today, United States Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the United States of America will be temporarily suspending 232 tariffs on Ukrainian steel for one year.
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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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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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Susan Rinkunas / Jezebel:
Rep. Henry Cuellar Tried to Discredit a Staffer He Fired at 28 Weeks Pregnant — Court documents show that the congressman himself requested staffers write letters about the woman's job performance after he fired her. — Alerts — In August 2018, Kristie Small was newly serving …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The New York Times's Editorial Board Is Apparently Extremely Stupid — Over the weekend, the New York Times's editorial board submitted this paragraph for public consumption: … The people who wrote these words are stupid — yes, stupid — and they should all be unsurpassingly ashamed of themselves.
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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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%.
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.
Washington Examiner:
Daily on Energy: Biden leasing promises meet political reality — HOW IT'S GOING: President Joe Biden's promise to oversee an end to oil and gas leasing on federal lands is colliding with the cold realities of soaring fuel costs. — Some centrist Democrats, several of whom are up for reelection this year …
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Conor Lamb is the best choice Dems have to flip a Senate seat. | Endorsement — At the White House Correspondents' Dinner last month, President Joe Biden joked: “I came to office with an ambitious agenda, and I expected it to face stiff opposition in the Senate. I just hoped it would be from Republicans.”
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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
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