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Maura Reynolds / Politico:
Fiona Hill: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’ — It's been nearly eight months since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops and tanks over the border into Ukraine, and a lot has changed in that time. Ukraine has shown itself to be a far more robust military force than pretty much anyone predicted.
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Boris Bondarev / Foreign Affairs:
The Sources of Russian Misconduct … For three years, my workdays began the same way. At 7:30 a.m., I woke up, checked the news, and drove to work at the Russian mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva. The routine was easy and predictable, two of the hallmarks of life as a Russian diplomat.
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia sentences U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets — The Saudi government has sentenced a 72-year-old U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets he posted while inside the United States, some of which were critical of the Saudi regime.
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump charged Secret Service ‘exorbitant’ rates at his hotels, records show — Former president Donald Trump's company charged the Secret Service as much as five times more than the government rate for agents to stay overnight at Trump hotels while protecting him and his family, according to expense records newly obtained by Congress.
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New York Times:
Trump Hotels Charged Secret Service Exorbitant Rates, House Inquiry Finds — Records obtained by the House Oversight Committee show the former president's properties charged more than $1.4 million to agents protecting him and his family. — WASHINGTON — The Trump Organization charged …
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Helen Branswell / STAT:
Boston University researchers' testing of lab-made version of Covid virus draws government scrutiny — Research at Boston University that involved testing a lab-made hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is garnering heated headlines alleging the scientists involved could have unleashed a new pathogen.
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Eric Garcia / The Independent:
Exclusive: Gisele Fetterman calls for NBC to apologise following ‘shocking’ interview with husband John Fetterman — John Fetterman's wife speaks to Eric Garcia about closed captioning and the controversy after Senate candidate's interview with NBC News — Pennsylvania Democratic Senate …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Trump Says He Wants Marjorie Taylor Greene in His Next Administration — “Wouldn't she be great?” former president tells confidants of a person who mocked a school shooting survivor and blamed wildfires on a secret space laser … As he lays the groundwork for a 2024 presidential run …
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Bloomberg:
Ye Says He Bought Parler Because Instagram, Twitter Penalized Him — Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, said he was motivated to acquire the conservative social media service Parler by his belief that existing platforms like Instagram and Twitter are too restrictive when it comes to user speech.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Scalise acknowledges GOP plan to change Social Security, Medicare — As the midterms elections near, voters don't appear focused on Republican plans for Social Security and Medicare. That's probably a mistake. — The latest New York Times/Siena College poll asked respondents about the major issues facing the country.
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
GOP wants to push to extend Trump tax cuts after midterm elections
GOP wants to push to extend Trump tax cuts after midterm elections
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: Republican JD Vance has slight lead on Democrat Tim Ryan in Senate race in Ohio — Republican J.D. Vance has opened a narrow edge over Democrat Tim Ryan in the Senate race in Ohio, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, as President Joe Biden's unpopularity complicates …
Leor Sapir / City Journal:
No Laughing Matter — John Oliver badly botches the “gender-affirming care” debate. — The Social Order — Health Care — Yesterday, John Oliver devoted an episode of Last Week Tonight to transgender rights, specifically the controversy over “gender-affirming care” for minors.
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House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis:
New Select Subcommittee Report Details Trump Administration's Assault on CDC and Politicization of Public Health During the Coronavirus Crisis — Report is the third installment detailing findings from investigation into Trump Administration's political interference with federal coronavirus response
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Jeannie Baumann / Bloomberg:
Trump's CDC Changed Covid Reports Under Political Pressure, Panel Finds
Trump's CDC Changed Covid Reports Under Political Pressure, Panel Finds
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Gordon Corera / BBC:
Ex-UK pilots lured to help Chinese military, MoD says — Former British military pilots are being lured to China with large sums of money to pass on their expertise to the Chinese military, it is claimed. — Up to 30 former UK military pilots are thought to have gone to train members of China's People's Liberation Army.
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CNN:
Why Wakanda might be a model for our future cities — Wakanda is a marvel. The fictional country of the Marvel Universe is the most advanced civilization in the world, years beyond the rest of the world in technological learning. — But it's a little-noticed part of Wakanda that may predict …
Hannah Dellinger / Houston Chronicle:
New law asks Texas schools to distribute kits to students to keep DNA samples in case of emergencies like Uvalde — Texas public school systems are set to distribute DNA and fingerprint identification kits for K-8 students to parents who wish to store their child's DNA is case of emergency.
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Iain Marlow / Bloomberg:
Blinken Says China Wants to Seize Taiwan on ‘Much Faster Timeline’ — China has made a decision to seize Taiwan on a “much faster timeline” than previously thought, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, shortly after China's leader reiterated his intent to take the island by force if necessary.
Bryan Metzger / Insider:
Ted Cruz reimbursed himself $555,000 after successfully challenging a political spending law at the Supreme Court — Ted Cruz's campaign paid him $555,000 to cover old personal loans to his Senate committee. — It comes after Cruz successfully challenged a law that capped the amount candidates could repay themselves.
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The Daily Beast:
Fox News Execs Hunt Down the Tucker-Kanye Video Leaker … This reporting appears as one of several scooplets featured in this week's edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media. Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.
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Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Oath Keepers Trial Rocked by Wacky Sexts Between Militia Boss and Lawyer — The case against the far-right group for its role in the Capitol riot was already disturbing. Then came evidence of what prosecutors say is an inappropriate relationship. — Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes …
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Marisa Kabas / MSNBC:
In Kari Lake and Tudor Dixon, the GOP offers a cynical alternative to Trump — Arizona Republican nominee for governor Kari Lake declared in a Sunday interview on CNN that she will accept the results of her state election in November — if she wins. — In that declaration …
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Sara Novak / New Scientist:
Menstrual cycle lengths vary between people of different ethnicities — Cycles may be 1.6 days longer in people who self-identify as Asian compared with their white non-Hispanic counterparts — A person's ethnicity may influence the length of their menstrual cycle.
Pamela Falk / CBS News:
U.N. Security Council considers sending multinational force to Haiti — United Nations — The U.N. Security Council met in an urgent session on Monday to deal with the gang violence that has enveloped Haiti. The Caribbean nation has been dealing with what the U.N. called “catastrophic” …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Congress braces for new members who were at Capitol on Jan. 6 — Three people who were on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6 stand a serious chance of returning to the site of the deadly riot next January — this time as duly elected Republican members of Congress.
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Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Herschel Walker tries to turn ‘prop’ badge controversy into campaign gold — GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker discusses why he flashed a badge during Friday's debate — Herschel Walker was widely mocked and criticized for flashing an honorary deputy sheriff's badge onstage …
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Detroit News:
Lee Chatfield suspected of engaging in criminal enterprise — Lansing — Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield is under investigation in connection with an alleged “criminal enterprise,” potentially involving embezzlement, bribery, campaign finance violations and controlled substances …
Julia Rock / The Lever:
Ted Budd Aided Donors Trying To Bypass Predatory Lending Laws — North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Ted Budd used his congressional office to press federal regulators to let financial institutions evade his own state's prohibitions against predatory lending, despite warnings …
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Dan Snyder / KOKH:
New poll shows Hofmeister leading Stitt in Oklahoma Governor's race — New polling from Oklahoma-based political consulting firm Ascend Action shows a close gubenetorial race just weeks ahead of November's midterm elections.
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Political Wire and Daily Kos
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Furrygate: A Litterbox of Lies — What are the teachers doing with their students' poo poo? Does the smell just waft through the room until class is over? Doesn't that embarrass the little kitties . . . errr, kiddies? — These are just some of the questions that have been nagging at me for the last few weeks.
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