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Financial Times:
How Putin blundered into Ukraine — then doubled down — The decision to invade was taken after consulting only a tiny circle. The Russian leader has since become even more isolated — At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, received a troubling phone call.
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Der Spiegel / Spiegel Online:
China Reportedly Negotiating with Russia To Supply Kamikaze Drones
China Reportedly Negotiating with Russia To Supply Kamikaze Drones
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The Gateway Pundit, Fox News, Noahpinion and The Sun
New York Times:
The U.S. Tried to Isolate Russia. It Didn't Work.
The U.S. Tried to Isolate Russia. It Didn't Work.
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Fox News, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Washington Post, The Bona Fide, The Hill and Ukraine War Truth
Greg Myre / NPR:
Putinology: the art of analyzing the man in the Kremlin
Putinology: the art of analyzing the man in the Kremlin
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Bloomberg and StephenKMackSD's Newsletter
Politico:
Judge orders depositions of Trump, Wray in long-running dispute with ex-FBI officials — A federal judge has agreed to permit former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to take sworn testimony from former President Donald Trump for two hours as part of their long-running lawsuits related …
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Trump may be questioned in lawsuits by ex-FBI employees Strzok and Page — Two former senior FBI employees who allege they were targeted for retribution after FBI's Trump-Russia probe may question Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray, a judge ruled. — A federal judge on Thursday ordered …
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CBS News:
Special counsel asks judge to compel Mike Pence to testify in Jan. 6 probe — Washington — Federal prosecutors have asked the chief judge in Washington, D.C.'s federal court to compel former Vice President Mike Pence to comply with a grand jury subpoena and testify as a witness …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Most people in most states support legal abortion — The Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade last year is perhaps the preeminent modern political example of the dog catching the car. — Republican leaders had pledged for decades to restrict abortion and to challenge the precedent in Roe …
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Politico:
Buttigieg world frustrated at GOP attacks over train wreck — This month's toxic derailment in a small Ohio village has put Pete Buttigieg under pressure like never before — leaving him scrambling to contain a public health and transportation crisis only partially under his purview …
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Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Pete Buttigieg rep tells ‘aggressive’ reporter to turn off camera at Ohio derail site
Pete Buttigieg rep tells ‘aggressive’ reporter to turn off camera at Ohio derail site
Washington Post:
Crew tried to stop Ohio train after alert about overheating wheel bearing, NTSB says
Crew tried to stop Ohio train after alert about overheating wheel bearing, NTSB says
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Sam Ford / WJLA-TV:
Teen winds up in ambulance after trying to carjack DC grandma on her way to chemo: MPD — A teen tried to carjack a DC grandma as she was headed to chemotherapy, MPD says. The teen ended up in an ambulance.
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Axios, The Western Journal, The Gateway Pundit, TheBlaze, DCist, Raw Story, Fox News and The Daily Caller
Molly Jong-Fast / Vanity Fair:
The Fever of Trumpism Shows No Sign of Breaking in 2024 — As much as Tim Scott pines for an “American sunrise” or Nikki Haley talks about “fiscal responsibility,” the GOP base seems stuck on Trump and DeSantis-style culture wars and grievance politics. — Republicans are lining up for the presidential primary like it's 2015.
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New York Times:
Republicans Will Hold Their First Presidential Debate in Milwaukee — The debate is set for August, in the same city that will host the party's 2024 convention. — The Republican National Committee will hold its first presidential primary debate in Milwaukee in August, its debates committee decided in a vote on Thursday.
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fully Unhinged ‘Dilbert’ Guy Tells White People to ‘Get the Fuck Away’ From Black People — “I don't think it makes any sense as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore,” the pro-Trump cartoonist said, adding: “This can't be fixed.”
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Brennan Leach / Medill on the Hill:
WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS PRESIDENTIAL RUN IN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, BECOMING FIRST PROMINENT DEMOCRAT IN 2024 RACE … MEDILL ON TWITTER — Tweets by medillonthehill — MEDILL TODAY - FEB. 22 SPECIAL REPORTS — STATE OF THE UNION 2018 — Medill on the Hill teamed up with Northwestern News Network …
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The Hill, Fox News, New York Post, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Just The News, The Daily Caller, Washington Times and Politico
David Moye / HuffPost:
GOP Politician Uses Polish Slur In Speech Claiming Party Isn't Bigoted — “Doesn't matter what your race, your color, your creed, Norwegian, Polack, Somalian, you name it,” said Minnesota state Sen. Mark Johnson (R) Wednesday. — A Minnesota state senator is getting criticized after a speech …
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The Independent and Raw Story
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
The Billionaire's Daughter Knows What You're Thinking — Elizabeth Koch, daughter of Charles Koch, the billionaire right-wing political force, has a new venture that is all about self-investigation. Two words: Perception Box. — Even as a young girl, Elizabeth R. Koch was keenly aware of her family's extreme wealth.
Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos hires investment firm to consider bid on Commanders — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has hired an investment firm to evaluate a possible bid for the Washington Commanders, according to two people familiar with the situation. — Bezos is working with Allen & Company …
Politico:
Trump-allied group wants J6 committee staffers blacklisted — A conservative non-profit group allied with former President Donald Trump urged “Hill staffers and their colleagues” to cut off meetings with any former Jan. 6 committee staffers who have since joined firms that lobby.
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The Hill, Raw Story and Political Wire
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
U.S. Sends Home Brothers Held for Nearly 20 Years at Guantánamo Bay — The latest release, of two Pakistanis never charged with a crime, reduced the detainee population of the once-sprawling prison complex to 32. — GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — The U.S. military released two brothers …
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Associated Press and HotAir
Henry Grabar / Slate:
We Finally Know Why It Costs So Damn Much to Build New Subways in America — For the past decade, as the cost of building American mass transit has soared to world records, advocates have found themselves in a bind. Should they draw attention to the problem, fighting for top-to-bottom reform …
Washington Post:
‘Incredibly damning:’ Fox News documents stun some legal experts — The disclosure of behind-the-scenes emails and texts greatly increased the chances that Dominion will win its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox, experts say. — The disclosure of emails and texts …
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Media Matters for America
Aaron David Miller / Foreign Policy:
Netanyahu Faces His Own ‘Israeli Spring’ — Protesters in Israel are rallying to oppose an extremist and fundamentalist government that is trying to change the status quo and reshape the country's character. — Twelve years ago this spring, protests shook the Arab world in what became known …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
No, Teen Suicide Isn't Rising Because Life Got Objectively Worse — Over the past 15 years, the mental health of young people in the United States has rapidly deteriorated. Between 2007 and 2018, the suicide rate among Americans ages 10 to 24 increased by nearly 60 percent.
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CNN:
House GOP looks for plan B after struggling to pass border security bill — House Republicans had hoped to pass a narrow border security bill within the first two weeks of their new majority, notching an easy win and delivering on a key campaign promise in the process.
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Politico, WKRG-TV, Raw Story, PBS NewsHour and The Daily Caller
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
Congressman Tim Burchett says he won't lift the debt ceiling — period. — Put down Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. as a hard “no” on lifting the debt ceiling later this year. — The Congressman told Semafor in a Wednesday phone interview that he doesn't see a circumstance in which he casts …
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Sputnik News, Axios, Washington Examiner and FiveThirtyEight
Ivana Saric / Axios:
All U.S. extremist mass killings in 2022 linked to far right, report says — Right-wing extremists committed every ideologically driven mass killing identified in the U.S. in 2022, with an “unusually high” proportion perpetrated by white supremacists, according to a new report published Thursday.
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ADL, New York Daily News, UPI, Associated Press and The Hill
James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal:
Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson Arrested After a Former Executive Pleads Guilty to Fraud — Samir Rao, company's former chief operating officer, appeared in court as John Doe and admitted wrongdoing in probe of the company's practices — Ozy Media Chief Executive Carlos Watson …
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Sharon Lerner / The Guardian:
This ‘climate-friendly’ fuel comes with an astronomical cancer risk — Almost half of products cleared so far under a new US federal ‘biofuels’ program are not, in fact, biofuels — This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump 2020 Fraud Backer Sidney Powell's Texas Ethics Case Tossed — A Texas judge has tossed out a disciplinary case against attorney Sidney Powell finding state bar regulators failed to present enough evidence to keep alive claims that she violated ethics rules by filing frivolous post-election lawsuits.
ABC News:
Internal chaos plagues Bannon-fronted $FJB cryptocurrency, critics say — Questions about mismanagement and donations to charities have surfaced. — When former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon and Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn took control of a MAGA-branded — cryptocurrency
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story and Rolling Stone
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
Florida Executes Man Used As ‘Political Pawn’ By Ron DeSantis — “I know I hurt people when I was young. I really messed up,” said Donald Dillbeck, who was sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury. “But I know Ron DeSantis has done a lot worse.” — Florida on Thursday executed 59 …
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Tallahassee Democrat, Religion News Service, SCOTUSblog, Twitchy, WFLA-TV, Tampa Bay Times and The Hill
Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Republicans call opioids No. 1 health threat — Republicans see fentanyl and other opioids as the biggest threat to Americans' public health, while Democrats say it's guns, according to a new Axios-Ipsos survey. … - The survey also found that Americans overwhelmingly …
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Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, Washington Times, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Twitchy and Political Wire
Neirin Gray Desai / Daily Mail:
Black Panther communist Angela Davis - who teaches that U.S. was built by racist colonizers - faces calls to pay reparations after genealogy show reveals her white puritan ancestor arrived in America on the Mayflower — Angela Davis, 79, learned that her ancestor came to the US on the Mayflower