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Politico:
‘Something Was Badly Wrong’: When Washington Realized Russia Was Actually Invading Ukraine — This oral history was compiled and woven together by writer and historian Garrett M. Graff, based on dozens of hours of interviews by POLITICO national security reporters Erin Banco, Lara Seligman …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S., Allies Issue Fresh Sanctions Against Russia — Washington, alongside G-7 partners, sanctions more than 200 additional individuals and entities — How Ukraine's Growing Military Has Changed Over One Year of War — Created with sketchtool. … 1x
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CNBC, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Financial Times, Washington Times, The Daily Caller, Reuters, Reuters, TASS, Russian Free Press, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Sputnik News, CNN, Washington Examiner and The Hill
Defense One:
EXCLUSIVE: Seven Former NATO Supreme Allied Commanders Say U.S. ‘Must Do Everything We Can’ for a Ukrainian Victory
EXCLUSIVE: Seven Former NATO Supreme Allied Commanders Say U.S. ‘Must Do Everything We Can’ for a Ukrainian Victory
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Financial Times, National Review, New York Post, Politico and NPR
Associated Press:
US commits $2 billion in drones, ammunition, aid to Ukraine
US commits $2 billion in drones, ammunition, aid to Ukraine
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Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Examiner, Fox News and UPI
William Saletan / The Bulwark:
Some MAGA Republicans Break with Fox Over Ukraine
Some MAGA Republicans Break with Fox Over Ukraine
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Los Angeles Times
Kelly Hooper / Politico:
White House announces new sanctions against Russia on invasion anniversary
White House announces new sanctions against Russia on invasion anniversary
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Politico, RedState, The Daily Caller, The Hill, NBC 6 South Florida, NBC News, Associated Press, Reuters and TASS
NBC News:
Where Putin's war stands a year after Russia invaded Ukraine
Where Putin's war stands a year after Russia invaded Ukraine
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U.S. Department …, The RAND Blog, Politico and BizPac Review
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The Biden administration is wrong: Time is not on Ukraine's side
The Biden administration is wrong: Time is not on Ukraine's side
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Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Half say US should support Ukraine as long as it takes
Fox News Poll: Half say US should support Ukraine as long as it takes
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Opinion Today and The Hill
CNN:
Exclusive: How a box with classified documents ended up in Trump's office months after FBI searched Mar-a-Lago — The Justice Department wants to know how a box containing a handful of classified records scattered among copies of presidential schedules turned up at Mar-a-Lago late last year …
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Classified Trump schedules were moved to Mar-a-Lago after FBI search - sources — Exclusive: Junior aide took the box, including some classified documents, from a government-leased office in Palm Beach to Mar-a-Lago — Donald Trump's lawyers found a box of White House schedules …
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Kathryn Varn / Tallahassee Democrat:
Strapped to a gurney, death row inmate Donald Dillbeck saves his last words for DeSantis — RAIFORD — Donald Dillbeck didn't mince words in the minutes before the state executed him Thursday night. — “I know I hurt people when I was young. I really messed up,” Dillbeck, 59, said …
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Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
Florida Executes Man Used As ‘Political Pawn’ By Ron DeSantis
Florida Executes Man Used As ‘Political Pawn’ By Ron DeSantis
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Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
GOP Rep. John James won't seek Michigan's open Senate seat — Republican Rep. John James filed paperwork Friday to run for reelection to his Detroit-area House seat, opting against a campaign for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Debbie Stabenow in 2024.
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Derek Willis / ProPublica:
After a Decade of Tracking Politicians' Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More — Whether officials were deleting an embarrassing post or just correcting a typo, Politwoops tracked them all. But service changes made after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter have rendered it impossible for us to continue tracking these tweets.
Beth Mole / Ars Technica:
Florida surgeon general fudged data for dubious COVID analysis, tipster says — The state closed the investigation, leaving more questions than answers. — Florida's health department opened and then closed an investigation into the state's polarizing surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo …
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Politico
J. Michael Luttig / New York Times:
Mike Pence Should Drop His Grand Jury Subpoena Gambit — Former Vice President Mike Pence recently announced he would challenge Special Counsel Jack Smith's subpoena for him to appear before a grand jury in Washington as part of the investigation into former President Donald Trump's efforts …
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Associated Press:
China calls for Russia-Ukraine cease-fire, peace talks — 1 of 2 — China has called for a cease-fire between Ukraine and Russia and the opening of peace talks as part of a 12-point proposal to end the conflict. The plan issued Friday morning by the Foreign Ministry also urges the end …
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Haley Britzky / CNN:
US defense secretary tells CNN he hasn't spoken to Chinese counterpart for a ‘couple of months’
US defense secretary tells CNN he hasn't spoken to Chinese counterpart for a ‘couple of months’
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Politico, Washington Examiner and Political Wire
Washington Post:
The right's new culture-war target: ‘Woke AI’ — ChatGPT and Bing are trying to stay out of politics — and failing — Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who led campaigns against critical race theory and gender identity in schools, this week pointed his half-million Twitter followers toward …
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Wired and New York Times
Platformer:
New cracks emerge in Elon Musk's Twitter — Jira went down, Slack's gone, and site performance is degraded. What's next? — Today, let's check in on Elon Musk's Twitter, where sudden software outages and another dubious transparency effort have left the company's remaining workers more beleaguered than usual.
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Will a $1.6bn defamation lawsuit finally stop Fox News from spreading lies? — Advertising boycotts don't restrain the rightwing network, but the Dominion lawsuit may succeed in holding them to account — If you've paid even the slightest attention to how Fox News operates …
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Politico
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Will D.C.'s Least-Popular Team Owner Get Bought Out by Bezos? — It's been a busy and heavy week, with the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine; President Biden visiting Kyiv; a talkative grand juror relishing her moment in the spotlight; belated national attention …
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The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights:
On Anniversary of Justice Jackson's Nomination, New Report Highlights Our Ongoing Fight for an Equal Justice Judiciary — For our democracy to thrive, it must be multiracial, inclusive, and work for all of us. But today, our democracy — and our hard-won civil and human rights — are under attack.
Andrew Ferguson / Washington Free Beacon:
‘A Great, Great, Great Man’: The Cringey Gushing Over Jimmy Carter … Is it the very unseemliness of the death watch over poor Jimmy Carter that has forced everyone to talk balls? — We human beings often react this way when we catch ourselves doing something that's in poor taste or otherwise undignified.
Natalie Allison / Politico:
The GOP field descends on Iowa, readying to eat some humble pie — DES MOINES, Iowa — Sen. Tim Scott arrived in Iowa this week amid buzz about a presidential bid to come. But shortly after stepping foot in the state, that enthusiasm was complemented by the humbling elements that come with politicking in such an intimate place.
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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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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
U.S. Justice Dept accuses Google of evidence destruction in antitrust case — U.S. Justice Department lawyers say that Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) destroyed internal corporate communications and have asked a federal judge to sanction the company as part of the government's antitrust case over its search business.
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NBC News:
McCarthy and Jeffries are creating a bipartisan task force that will set a process for booting lawmakers off committees — WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have agreed to create a bipartisan task force that will establish a process to remove members …
Ian Haworth / Washington Examiner:
It's not ‘homophobia’ to admit Pete Buttigieg got his job because he's gay — An unfortunate symptom of a society that's suffering from a serious case of identity politics is that people are celebrated simply for their membership to a particular, and usually immutable, identity group.
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New York Daily News
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Key US inflation measure surges at fastest rate since June — 1 of 2 — The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge rose last month at its fastest pace since June, an alarming sign that price pressures remain entrenched in the U.S. economy and could lead the Fed to keep raising interest rates well into this year.
Laura Benshoff / NPR:
This group gets left-leaning policies passed in red states. How? Ballot measures — One side effect of political division in the states - blue states getting bluer and red states getting redder - is that some policies don't have a chance of getting passed by partisan state legislatures, even if a majority of voters back them.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Don't Let Politics Cloud Your View of What's Going On With Teens and Depression — Last year, a study came out showing that left-leaning adolescents were experiencing a greater increase in depression than their more conservative peers. Indeed, while girls are more likely to be depressed than boys …
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Selene San Felice / Axios:
GOP goes after DEI degrees — A new bill calls for the removal of degrees in critical race theory (CRT), gender studies, and other majors and minors that promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from Florida's public colleges. … - It also threatens state colleges and universities …
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Insider, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Resurgence
Adam Kotsko / An und für sich:
Rebuilding the Closet — Gender and sexuality are a spectrum. In common discourse, we lose sight of what that means. Very Online approaches to gender and sexuality seem to say that gender and sexuality are a spectrum, but everyone is at a very specific and static spot on that spectrum.
David Smith / The Guardian:
'Biden's the most impressive president of my lifetime': Mehdi Hasan on Fox News, tough questions and post-Trump politics — The progressive journalist praises the bluntness of British colleagues and says the real ‘cancel culture brigade’ is on the right — ne evening this month on cable television …
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HuffPost and Commonwealth Club
Brennan Leach / Medill on the Hill:
WILLIAMSON CONFIRMS PRESIDENTIAL RUN IN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, BECOMING FIRST PROMINENT DEMOCRAT IN 2024 RACE — WASHINGTON — Marianne Williamson confirmed in an interview with Medill News Service on Thursday that she is running for president as a Democrat, becoming the first announced candidate for the party.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Has a Dream — Marjorie Taylor Greene, now one of the most influential Republicans in the House of Representatives, says it is time for Americans to consider a national divorce. — “Tragically, I think we, the left and right, have reached irreconcilable differences,” Greene wrote a few days ago on Twitter.
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