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Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
Republican leadership bars journalists from Iowa Senate floor, worrying press advocates — When Iowa's 2022 legislative session commences Monday, there will be a notable absence on the floor of the state Senate: reporters. — Republican leaders in the state Senate told journalists last week …
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Ron Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
Why I'm Seeking a Third Senate Term — I'd like to retire, but I think the country is in too much peril. — I decided to run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 because growing entitlements and out-of-control federal spending had exploded our national debt to $14 trillion.
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NPR
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
How a Simple Twist of Fate Could End Democrats' Control of the Senate — It's not the just the midterms that should have Democrats worried. — The list of what threatens to end the Democrats' control of the Senate is familiar: History says the White House's party usually loses seats in midterms.
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Washington Examiner and Raw Story
New York Times:
U.S. Details Costs of a Russian Invasion of Ukraine — The Biden administration and its allies are developing new possible sanctions ahead of a series of meetings to defuse the crisis with Moscow. — WASHINGTON — The Biden administration and its allies are assembling a punishing set of financial …
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ABC News, The Guardian, Financial Times, The National Interest, Bloomberg and Washington Post
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Prospects dim as US, Russia prepare to meet over Ukraine — WASHINGTON (AP) — With the fate of Ukraine and potentially broader post-Cold War European stability at stake, the United States and Russia are holding critical strategic talks that could shape the future of not only their relationship …
Luke McGee / CNN:
The West has a rare window to put Putin in his place — Biden to Ukraine: US ‘will respond decisively if Russia further invades’ — (CNN)Next week may see one of the most significant and defining moments in relations between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia since the break-up of the Soviet Union.
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Los Angeles Times and New York Times
Valerie Hopkins / New York Times:
Amid Crisis, Kazakhstan's Leader Chose His Path: Embrace Russia
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The Guardian, Washington Post, Associated Press, Bloomberg and CNN
Wall Street Journal:
How the Trump Social-Media Ban Paid Off for Trump, Platforms — One year after being kicked off Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, the former president is raking in campaign cash and planning his own social-media company — For an entire year, Donald Trump has been banned from mainstream social-media outlets.
Washington Post:
U.S. experts offer a sensible strategy for living with covid. Biden should listen. — Quite understandably, the coronavirus pandemic at first was a dire emergency. But it can't be one forever. The crisis will have to shift to a manageable health threat without massive disruption and overwhelming anxiety.
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Daily Kos, Los Angeles Times and New York Post
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Graham: 'These are the most dangerous times since the late ‘30s’ — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted on Sunday that in 2022 Americans will vote “not based on what happened on January 6th, but based on this failed Democratic radical agenda,” claiming that because of that agenda the nation …
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The National and New York Post
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Biden shied away from news conferences, interviews in Year 1 — WASHINGTON (AP) — In what's become a familiar scene President Joe Biden lingered after delivering a recent speech on the pandemic as reporters fired a barrage of questions. — He bristled at a query about the shortage …
Washington Post:
Trump's Cable Cabinet: New texts reveal the influence of Fox hosts on previous White House — Stephanie Grisham, former press secretary to President Donald Trump, remembers the challenges that came from so many Fox News hosts having the direct number to reach Trump in the White House residence.
Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Baby lost in chaos of Afghanistan airlift found, returned to family — An infant boy handed in desperation to a soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghanistan has been found and was reunited with his relatives in Kabul on Saturday.
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The Daily Beast
Politico:
‘We are going right to the belly of the beast:’ Biden takes on Georgia — Fresh off a high-profile speech in which he warned that a dagger had been placed at the throat of American democracy, President Joe Biden will travel to the state that White House officials view as “ground zero” for Republican-led election suppression efforts.
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Washington Examiner and Los Angeles Times
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
A Rise in Deadly Border Patrol Chases Renews Concerns About Accountability — The increasing number of deaths adds urgency to questions about when and how agents should engage in high-speed chases as they pursue smugglers and migrants. — WASHINGTON — Angie Simms had been searching …
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Obama, Biden pay tribute to Harry Reid: ‘Brilliant, sometimes irascible, deeply good’ — LAS VEGAS — President Biden and former president Barack Obama, speaking at former Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid's memorial service Saturday, lavished praised on Reid's pragmatic, dealmaking style …
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New York Times, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, The Hill and CBS News
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Claire Rafford / Politico:
‘Deeply good man from Searchlight’: Democratic leaders pay tribute to Harry Reid in Nevada
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KXAN-TV, CNN, Associated Press, The Guardian, NPR and Washington Times
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