Saudi, Emirati Leaders Decline Calls With Biden During Ukraine Crisis  —  Persian Gulf monarchies have signaled they won't help ease surging oil prices unless Washington supports them in Yemen, elsewhere  —  The White House unsuccessfully tried to arrange calls between President Biden …

Mark Meadows Spread Trump's Voter Fraud Claims.  Now His Voting Record Is Under Scrutiny.  —  The former Trump aide listed a mobile home in rural North Carolina as his residence at the same time that he was running operations at the White House.  —  Mark Meadows, the White House chief …

Statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland in connection with the statement by the US Secretary of State on providing airplanes to Ukraine  —  The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Goverment, are ready to deploy …

Fox News Poll: Gibbons and Mandel lead Ohio GOP Senate primary  —  The race is unsettled, though, with one-quarter of voters saying they are undecided  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for March 8  —  Businessman Mike Gibbons and former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel lead the pack among Ohio …

US demands shale industry does ‘whatever it takes’ to ease oil crisis  —  Top official urges domestic producers to call investors and 'tell them there's a war going on'  —  The Biden administration has ratcheted up pressure on US shale producers, telling them they should be doing …

Biden Answered the 3 a.m. Call  —  When Hillary Clinton sought to sow doubts about Barack Obama, her rival for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, she ran an attack ad tarnishing him as dangerously inexperienced.  As the screen shows images from a suburban house, a husky-voiced narrator intones …

Arizona lawmaker speaks to white nationalists, calls for violence — and sets fundraising records … Midway through a white nationalist's conference in Orlando last month, one speaker drew applause calling for gruesome violence against “traitors” after excoriating critics of the “honorable” …

Missouri lawmaker seeks to stop residents from obtaining abortions out of state … The pattern emerges whenever a Republican-led state imposes new restrictions on abortion: People seeking the procedure cross state lines to find treatment in places with less-restrictive laws.

Iconic U.S. brands Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's and Starbucks suspend business in Russia  — PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks each said Tuesday they are suspending business in Russia after that country's invasion of Ukraine.  — It's a symbolic move by the iconic U.S. brands …

Longtime Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio charged with conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol  —  Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, a leader of the extremist group the Proud Boys, has been indicted on a conspiracy charge in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Dual U.S. / Russian National Charged With Acting Illegally As A Russian Agent In The United States  —  Elena Branson Allegedly Willfully Evaded FARA Registration for Nearly a Decade, Working to Advance the Interests of the Russian Government While Receiving Tasking and Funding from High-Level Russian Officials

Meta's Sheryl Sandberg: ‘No two countries run by women would ever go to war’  — “No two countries run by women would ever go to war,” Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said Tuesday.  — If half the world were run by women, Sandberg believes the world would be “safer” and “much more prosperous.”

Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels  —  This fall, Knopf will publish two interlinked books that are a thematic and stylistic departure for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.  —  During a rare appearance in Santa Fe, N.M., in 2015 …

Judge Orders Immediate Release of Wisconsin Election Investigation Records  —  Update: American Oversight has received more than 700 pages of records.  Details below.  —  A Wisconsin judge today ordered the immediate release of a set of documents sought by American Oversight …

Justifications for Destroying a People … IN THE DAYS since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Ukrainians and their supporters have been lionized for the same forms of resistance to oppression for which Palestinians are routinely condemned.  Western television networks …

WSJ Poll: 79% of Americans Back Ban on Russian Oil Even if Energy Prices Rise  —  A wide majority of Americans, 79%, said they favored a ban on Russian oil imports even if the prohibition increased energy prices in the U.S., according to data from a new Wall Street Journal poll.  Just 13% said they opposed it.

Republicans would be wise to follow Tom Cotton's vision for the future  —  Tom Cotton staked a claim to the Reaganite lane of the 2024 presidential race on Monday night, only it's not the lane you might think.  —  In a speech delivered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley …

Johnson blocks vote on antisemitism envoy, meets with truckers instead  —  Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Tuesday blocked a vote on the nomination of Deborah E. Lipstadt as the Biden administration's antisemitism envoy.  Instead Johnson met with a group of truckers in Washington, D.C. …

McDonald's to Shutter 850 Russia Stores After Backlash  —  McDonald's Corp. is temporarily closing all 850 Russia locations, following mounting criticism that the fast-food chain failed to act quickly following the nation's invasion of Ukraine.  —  The company will continue paying …

Michigan GOP candidate says he tells daughters to ‘lie back and enjoy it’ if rape is inevitable … A Republican candidate favored to win a seat in the Michigan House said he tells his daughters to “just lie back and enjoy it” if raped, as he attempted to make an analogy about abandoning efforts …

'Don't Say Gay' bill: Florida Senate passes controversial LGBTQ school measure  —  The Florida Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would prohibit “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity” in the state's primary schools.  The measure, dubbed the “Don't Say Gay” …

Smartmatic can pursue election-rigging claims against Fox News, Giuliani … The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article.  We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta.  We welcome feedback …

United Nations bans staff from using ‘war’ or ‘invasion’ regarding Ukraine  —  Email on communications policy reminds staff of their responsibility to ‘be impartial’  —  The United Nations has banned its staff from referring to the situation in Ukraine as a “war” or “invasion” …

Senate passes $107 billion overhaul of USPS, lauding mail agency's role in pandemic response … The Senate on Tuesday approved a $107 billion financial overhaul of the long-beleaguered U.S. Postal Service, providing monetary relief for the agency that leaders say will allow it to modernize and invest in efficient service.

72-Year-Old Lawyer With AR-15 and ‘To-Do List’ Admits Threatening to Kill Senate Dems  —  GUILTY AS CHARGED  —  A former Pennsylvania attorney charged with threatening to kill Democratic members of the U.S. Senate has pleaded guilty, according to court records.

IT IS NOT NEWS THAT BILL BARR LIED TO PROTECT KLEPTOCRACY IT IS NOT NEWS THAT BILL BARR LIED TO PROTECT KLEPTOCRACY  —  Let's talk about what Bill Barr did in his second tenure as Attorney General.  —  Even before Jeff Sessions was fired, Barr decided — based on the false claims he saw on Fox News …

New York's Russian Restaurants Feel War's Impact  —  Most owners are antiwar, and many of them are from Ukraine.  But customer numbers are down all the same.  —  After Russia invaded Ukraine, Sveta, a small restaurant in the West Village known for its Instagram-friendly cocktails …

U.S. Probes Options Trade That Gained on Microsoft-Activision Deal  —  Entertainment-industry titans Barry Diller and David Geffen made purchases just days before the merger was announced  —  Federal prosecutors and securities regulators are investigating large bets that Barry Diller …

US government gets $57,000 Pokemon card after Georgia man is convicted in loan scam  —  DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man was sentenced to three years in prison after illegally obtaining a coronavirus relief loan and using more than $57,000 of the money to buy a collectable Pokemon card, authorities said Monday.