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10:05 AM ET, March 15, 2022

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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
How Kyiv's outgunned defenders have kept Russian forces from capturing the capital  —  IRPIN, Ukraine — The bodies of Russian soldiers were scattered by the wreckage of charred military vehicles and shelled buildings.  Twenty feet away, behind tanker trucks, Ukrainian volunteers stood watch …
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The Guardian:
'We're living a nightmare': life in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine  —  Officials in Berdyansk and Melitopol were removed and local radio reports on ‘liberation from Nazis’  —  Shaun Walker and Isobel Koshiw in Kyiv  —  Russian soldiers patrol the streets of Berdyansk in cars …
CNN:
White House under pressure from Congress and Zelensky to find ways to deliver Soviet-made weapons to Ukraine  —  Washington (CNN)Nearly three weeks into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is still assessing the most effective way to get military aid into the country without triggering a wider war.
Discussion: National Review and Изв …
Petr Fiala:
Today, we are going together with PM of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, deputy PM Jarosł …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal:
Putin Signs Law to Seize Foreign Aircraft, Redeploy for Domestic Use
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Axios
Washington Post:
Producer who crashed Russian TV broadcast with antiwar message can't be found, lawyers say  —  A day after she burst onto a live news broadcast on Russian state television holding a sign denouncing the war in Ukraine, lawyers with human rights groups told The Washington Post they are unable …
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Wild Kremlin TV Hosts Threaten the U.S. With Nuclear Strikes Unless Sanctions End and Reparations Are Paid
Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Employee bursts onto live Russian state TV to denounce war: ‘They are lying to you here’
Politico:
Schumer's Senate shocker: Bills are passing (seriously)  —  It's the Capitol's election-year surprise: The 50-50 Senate is actually working.  —  After high-profile partisan failures on President Joe Biden's signature domestic policy bill and on weakening the filibuster for voting reform …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
The Times of Israel:
Russia says it received guarantees from US on Iran nuclear deal  —  MOSCOW — Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that Moscow has received guarantees from the US on its ability to trade with Tehran as part of ongoing talks to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.  —  “We received written guarantees.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Townhall
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Bloomberg:
Russia Says U.S. Sanctions Won't Impede Iran Atomic Business
Discussion: The New Arab and Melanie Phillips
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Document in Jan. 6 Case Shows Plan to Storm Government Buildings  —  New details from evidence cited in the indictment of Enrique Tarrio, the former head of the far-right Proud Boys, reveal a plan with similarities to what unfolded at the Capitol.  —  A document found by federal prosecutors …
Joe Eskenazi / Mission Local:
SF is now boycotting most of the United States  —  Gavin Newsom likes to say that San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.  Well, okay then.  In reality, he's actually ripping off a line from Jefferson Airplane's Paul [...]  —  SF is now boycotting most of the United States
Discussion: Instapundit
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
How does Ron DeSantis sleep at night?  —  Republicans are killing us.  —  No, really.  —  Until now, we've known that covid-19 death rates were higher among the unvaccinated, and also higher in counties that went for Donald Trump, whose supporters were more likely to resist vaccinations, masks and other pandemic precautions.
Discussion: NBC News and Twitchy
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Covid, Russia and crime: GOP presidential hopefuls take swipes at Trump's record  —  Republicans looking to run in 2024 once lived in fear of crossing former President Donald Trump.  —  That's starting to change.  —  Over the past few weeks, three would-be presidential candidates who hail …
Discussion: Raw Story and FiveThirtyEight
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Putin Killed Trump's ‘America First’ Movement  —  In 2016, Trump wooed disaffected Republicans by bashing Bush's wars.  But Russia's bombardment of Ukraine has changed things. … In political campaigns, we are always fighting the last war.  —  Donald Trump's election in 2016 was …
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
China Is About to Make a Big Mistake by Supporting Russia  —  The Chinese government could be a peacemaker in Ukraine or it can be Putin's enabler.  But it can't be both. … China is about to make a big mistake.  —  Faced with the choice between playing a constructive role in helping …
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CNN:
China has expressed some openness to providing military and financial aid to Russia, US cable suggests
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
In embattled Mariupol, glimpses of devastation and misery emerge  —  In the more than two weeks that it has been cut off from the outside world, Mariupol, the southern Ukrainian port city, has become synonymous with the horror of the Russian invasion.  —  It is a place of overflowing morgues …
Discussion: HotAir
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
‘Liberal Hack Tournament’ returns, tourney all-stars compete with newcomers for viral glory  —  Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin made history last year as the first woman to win #HackMadness  —  CNN faces new turmoil amid Cuomo probe  —  One of the most viral events of the year is underway …
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Millions of vulnerable Americans likely to fall off Medicaid once the federal public health emergency ends  —  As many as 16 million low-income Americans, including millions of children, are destined to fall off Medicaid when the nation's public health emergency ends, as states face …
Discussion: New York Times
Robert Costa / CBS News:
In private speech, Romney warns of “extraordinary challenge” to preserve American democracy  —  McLean, Virginia — Senator Mitt Romney, of Utah, offered more than 200 Republican donors a stark message on the fragility of American democracy during private remarks on Monday night at a fundraiser in Northern Virginia.
Discussion: The Guardian and Morning Shots
Rep. Jason Smith / Washington Examiner:
One year later: Why Biden's ‘American Rescue’ failed  —  Friday marked the anniversary of President Joe Biden signing his $2 trillion American Rescue Plan into law.  Although Biden and Democrats argued every which way about the urgent need to pass the monstrous bill, Congress …
Discussion: The White House and Power Line
NBC New York:
NY Woman Punched 125 Times, Foot-Stomped in Brutal Hate Crime Beating: Police  —  A 42-year-old Yonkers man has been arrested on attempted murder as a hate crime and other charges in the vicious caught-on-camera beating of a 67-year-old Asian woman who was attacked as she returned home last week, police said Monday.
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
MSNBC Almost Brought Back Olbermann to Replace Maddow  —  In this week's Source Material we reveal how MSNBC almost filled Maddow's soon-to-be vacant time slot with her own former mentor—until Rachel killed the deal. … To fill its upcoming Rachel Maddow void, MSNBC almost took a time machine back to the good old days of 2011.
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
C-SPAN poll: Americans clueless about court, but trust it  —  C-SPAN's latest survey on the U.S. Supreme Court showed continued support for transparency — and in-court cameras — as a way to build trust and knowledge about the third branch of government.  —  While the just-released voters poll found …
Discussion: The Federalist
ABC News:
White House to ‘stop critical COVID response efforts’ as funding stalls in Congress  —  The Biden administration has warned for weeks there was not enough money left.  —  The White House is preparing to “stop critical COVID response efforts” as additional funding for COVID-19 relief sits stalled …
Discussion: CNN and ABC7
Kathryn Joyce / Salon:
How this tiny Christian college is driving the right's nationwide war against public schools  —  Exclusive: In the full-scale conservative assault on public education, Hillsdale College is leading the charge  —  The mood in Costa Mesa on Feb. 2 was more love bomb than fire bomb …
Karin Lips / Washington Examiner:
Reconsidering the gender wage gap and retirement inequality  —  While watching the Big Ten basketball tournaments this month, viewers saw advertisements for the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America with the hashtag #retireinequality.  —  TIAA partnered with influential players …
Discussion: The Federalist
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Election ‘Vigilante’ Group Posing as County Workers, Says New Mexico's State Auditor  —  One of the group's leaders gave a speech in a church about the audit where he said “I want arrests, I want prosecutions, I want firing squads.”  —  Leaders of a far-right Telegram group pledged …
Discussion: Raw Story
Colleen Shalby / Los Angeles Times:
Gov. Newsom signs law to stop UC Berkeley enrollment cuts  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that will rescue UC Berkeley from a court-ordered enrollment freeze and steep admission cuts and allow the university to resume plans to enroll more than 5,000 California first-year students.
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
An Illinois Dem Helped Biden Cancel Keystone.  Now, She's Campaigning on US Energy Independence.  —  Nikki Budzinski has promised to reduce America's ‘dependence on foreign energy from unstable regimes’  —  As a federal official, Nikki Budzinski helped the Biden administration cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Having a Blast Watching Ohio Senate Candidates Try to Kiss His Ass  —  Former President Trump might not even endorse in the Ohio slugfest, but that doesn't mean candidates vying to be the Republican nominee won't try everything to win his favor.  —  There's the Ohio Republican …
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
Jake Zuckerman / Ohio Capital Journal:
DeWine signs law removing training, background check, permitting requirement to conceal carry  —  Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law Monday removing training, background check and permitting requirements to carry a concealed weapon in Ohio.  —  When the law takes effect in 90 days …
 
 
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GOV.UK:
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
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