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Russia unleashes deadly strikes on cities across Ukraine after Crimea bridge attack — Russia unleashes missile strikes across Ukraine after Crimea bridge attack — Russia unleashed a barrage of deadly attacks on cities across Ukraine on Monday, hitting the heart of the country's capital …
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New York Times:
Russian Hawks Celebrate Ukraine Strikes — Here is the latest on the explosions across Ukraine. — KYIV, Ukraine — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia ordered a far-reaching series of missile strikes against cities across Ukraine on Monday morning, hitting the heart of the capital …
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The Daily Beast, Associated Press, The Guardian, Fox News, UPI, The Daily Wire, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, Forbes, TASS and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
Putin's Regime Faces the Fate of His Kerch Strait Bridge — On Saturday, the Ukrainians hit the Kerch Strait Bridge, which leads from Russia to Crimea, with something—a missile, explosives planted by naval commandos, a truck laden with explosives. No one who knows is saying for sure.
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HotAir, Reuters and Foreign Policy
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Kanye West's Twitter, Instagram accounts restricted after alleged anti-Semitic posts — Kanye West's Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted over the weekend, with the social media platforms saying they removed the rapper's posts after online users condemned them as anti-Semitic.
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Associated Press, TechCrunch, HuffPost, Page Six, The Times of Israel, Bloomberg, One America News Network, CBS News, UPI, The A.V. Club, The Hill, Occupy Democrats, TheBlaze, Gizmodo and Variety
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Hanna Panreck / Fox News:
Ye locked out of Twitter due to ‘violation’ of policies
Ye locked out of Twitter due to ‘violation’ of policies
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New York Times, Deadline and Billboard
David Mack / BuzzFeed News:
Twitter Has Locked Kanye's Account After He Posted An Antisemitic Tweet
Twitter Has Locked Kanye's Account After He Posted An Antisemitic Tweet
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HuffPost, Variety, Raw Story, RedState, ABC News, Billboard, Mediaite, Deadline, CNN, The Guardian, NPR, The Verge, New York Post, Greensburg Tribune-Review, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Times of Israel, The Daily Wire, Breitbart, Page Six, Media Matters for America and NBC News
Los Angeles Times:
Racist remarks in leaked audio of L.A. council members spark outrage, disgust — Behind closed doors, Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez made openly racist remarks, derided some of her council colleagues and spoke in unusually crass terms about how the city should be carved up politically.
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New York Times:
After Racist Comments, Los Angeles City Council President Faces Calls to Resign — In a leaked recording of a meeting last year, she mocked Indigenous immigrants and the Black child of a fellow council member. — LOS ANGELES — The president of the Los Angeles City Council faced widespread calls …
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Los Angeles Times and Eschaton
KTLA:
Calls for resignations mount as L.A. City Council members, union boss apologize for offensive remarks heard in leaked audio
Calls for resignations mount as L.A. City Council members, union boss apologize for offensive remarks heard in leaked audio
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CBS News and Los Angeles Times
Jon Peltz / Knock LA:
Council President Martinez on DA Gascón: 'Fuck That Guy...He's with the Blacks.'
Council President Martinez on DA Gascón: 'Fuck That Guy...He's with the Blacks.'
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Los Angeles Times, WEB OF EVIL and ABC7
New York Post:
Two shot outside NY gov. hopeful Rep. Lee Zeldin's Long Island home while twin daughters inside — Two people were shot outside the Long Island home of GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin on Sunday while his teenage twin daughters were at home, he confirmed to The Post.
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National Review, Just The News, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, RedState, Power Line and The Daily Beast
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New York Times:
Skepticism, Confusion, Frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Struggles — Meta's push to develop virtual and augmented reality technology has had a bumpy year. — Last October, when Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, announced that the company would change its name …
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Althouse
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
McCarthy told 2 officers in private meeting that Trump had no idea his supporters were attacking Capitol on January 6, newly obtained audio shows — During a private meeting last summer, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told two police officers who defended the US Capitol on January 6 …
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CBS News, Talking Points Memo and Insider
Sune Engel Rasmussen / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Protests Are Proving a Durable Challenge to the Islamic Republic — Demonstrators' main tactic—women removing the mandatory headscarf—is a kind of everyday civil disobedience that is hard to contain — Three weeks after antigovernment protests erupted across Iran …
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Reuters and jihadwatch.org
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Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
In Kyiv, U.S. midterms, and need for aid, cast shadow on battlefield gains — KYIV, Ukraine — As American officials pore over maps tracking developments in Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russia, their Ukrainian counterparts are monitoring a different kind of contest back in the United States …
Adam B. Vary / Variety:
Nikki Finke, Deadline Founder and Iconoclastic Journalist, Dies at 68 … Nikki Finke, a tenacious journalist who revolutionized entertainment reporting with what became the Hollywood trade website Deadline, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, Fla. after a prolonged illness. She was 68.
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The Hot Button, Deadline and New York Post
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Erik Pedersen / Deadline:
Nikki Finke Dies: Deadline Founder & Longtime Entertainment Journalist Was 68
Nikki Finke Dies: Deadline Founder & Longtime Entertainment Journalist Was 68
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
West Virginians Sour on Joe Manchin After He Delivers a Big Win for Democrats — Over the last quarter, Manchin saw a greater decline in his home-state approval rating than any other senator — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin's job approval rating has fallen by double digits among West Virginia voters …
Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Nobel Economics Prize Goes to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for Research on Financial Crises — The final prize announced this year was given to the former Federal Reserve chair and others for their research “on banks and financial crises.”
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CNBC, Associated Press, CNN, UPI, Raw Story, One America News Network and NPR
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
From fringe to front row: Congresswoman Greene rises in GOP — Marjorie Taylor Greene took her seat directly behind Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, a proximity to power for the firebrand congresswoman that did not go unnoticed, as he unveiled the House GOP's midterm election agenda in Pennsylvania.
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New York Daily News
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Alabama's Tommy Tuberville injects the ghost of Bull Connor into 2022 midterms — In the morally downhill midterms of 2022, there are dog whistles ... and then there are just whistles. Nowhere is that more obvious than a place called Minden, Nev. — a small town near the California border …
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Daily Kos, RedState, al.com and PoliticusUSA
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Brad Dress / The Hill:
House Republican defends Tuberville over reparation remark
House Republican defends Tuberville over reparation remark
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Mother Jones, Las Vegas Sun, Occupy Democrats, USA Today, CNN, al.com, Raw Story, Mediaite, Vanity Fair, Alternet.org and Rolling Stone