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William J. Broad / New York Times:
The Smaller Bombs That Could Turn Ukraine Into a Nuclear War Zone — In destructive power, the behemoths of the Cold War dwarfed the American atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Washington's biggest test blast was 1,000 times as large. Moscow's was 3,000 times.
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The Hill, Al Jazeera and Wide World of News
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The Real Goal of Kremlin Disinformation Isn't What You Think — On Sept. 1, 1939, the New York Times ran a banner headline reading, “German Army Attacks Poland, Cities Bombed, Port Blockaded.” What became known as World War II had begun. — Weeks later, however, the banner headlines were gone.
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Friends beg Putin's lover Alina Kabaeva to persuade him to end the war
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Washington Post:
Biden's pledge to help Ukrainian refugees could soon be put to the test
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Politico:
Biden warns Russian cyberattacks ‘coming’
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Valerie Hopkins / New York Times:
As Mariupol Is Bombed and Besieged, Those Trapped Fight to Survive
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Politico:
12 Questions That Would Actually Tell Us Something About Ketanji Brown Jackson — Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will face a barrage of senatorial questions over the next two days, as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee scramble to get their moment of face time in a high-profile confirmation hearing.
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Conservatives Can Oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson Without Lying
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Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz told Ketanji Brown Jackson that Bushrod Washington was not ‘controversial.’ He was an enslaver.
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Power Line
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Attacks on Judge Jackson's Record on Child Sexual Abuse Cases Are Misleading
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The collapse of Supreme Court consensus
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Politico, Washington Examiner, Townhall, National Review, Raw Story, Reason, Outside the Beltway and The Dispatch
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Friction between Harris and Biden camps revealed in new book — DRIVING THE DAY — The White House has worked hard to project a united front between President JOE BIDEN and VP KAMALA HARRIS and their respective teams. — But the upcoming book “This Will Not Pass …
Tom Davies / Associated Press:
GOP Indiana governor vetoes transgender girls sports ban — INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's governor on Monday vetoed a bill banning transgender females from participating in girls school sports. — Opponents of the transgender sports bill argued it was a bigoted response to a problem that doesn't exist …
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Matt Smith / The San Francisco Standard:
Search for Russian Oligarch Wealth Hits a Wall in SF, Thanks to City's Disregard for Public Records Laws — As governments scour the earth for Russian oligarchs' yachts, mansions and bank accounts in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, a global network of news publications today released …
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Greg Rosalsky / NPR:
How ‘shock therapy’ created Russian oligarchs and paved the path for Putin
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Raw Story
Joann Muller / Axios:
Wage increases are not keeping up with inflation — U.S. wages are increasing, but not nearly enough to keep up with the soaring cost of gasoline and rent, according to a new analysis by the Urban Institute. … - Higher prices for gas and rent are shrinking these families' budgets for other daily needs, like food.
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Kid Rock says Donald Trump sought his advice on North Korea and Islamic State — Musician, who visited White House in 2017 with Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin, said I'm like, ‘Am I supposed to be in on this shit?’ — The rapper Kid Rock said Donald Trump once asked him for advice about US policy on Islamic State and North Korea.
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The Daily Beast, The Hill, Raw Story, The Morning Missive, Stereogum, Mediaite, Consequence and Rolling Stone
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Porn star Stormy Daniels loses appeal in Trump case, owes former president almost $300,000 — Porn star Stormy Daniels must pay ex-President Donald Trump nearly $300,000 in attorneys' fees, a federal appeals court said in a ruling upholding a judge's order in her failed defamation lawsuit.
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Washington Post:
White House officials say U.S. has exhausted funds to buy potential fourth vaccine dose for all Americans … The Biden administration lacks the funds to purchase a potential fourth coronavirus vaccine dose for everyone, even as other countries place their own orders and potentially move ahead …
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Washington Examiner and Politico
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
World's Dullest Editorial Launches Panic — In an inane sequel to the Harper's Letter fiasco, a New York Times editorial ignites a fury proving its anodyne thesis — The New York Times ran a tepid house editorial in favor of free speech last week. A sober reaction:
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The Liberal Patriot
Associated Press:
Navalny sentenced to 9 years in prison by Russian court — MOSCOW (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced to nine years in a maximum security prison on Tuesday, in a trial Kremlin critics see as an attempt …
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The Moscow Times, CBS News, One America News Network and Reuters
Nikolas Lanum / Fox News:
Bill Barr says Joe Biden lied to Americans about Hunter Biden laptop: ‘I was very disturbed’ — Barr had previously refused to speak with Trump about Hunter Biden. — Bill Barr says Biden lied to the American people about Hunter Biden laptop — Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr appeared on …
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Koch Industries, Built on Oil, Bets Big on U.S. Batteries — CEO Charles Koch has fought climate regulation; his company is now spreading investments across the U.S. battery supply chain — Koch Industries Inc., the energy-based conglomerate whose CEO long opposed environmental regulation …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Vulnerable Democrats eye GOP transit mask repeal — The chair of the House Democrats' campaign arm and some of the vulnerable members he's charged with re-electing are voicing support for a Republican-led mask mandate repeal bill. … - The backing also illustrates how Democrats …
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Accountability to others is the price of freedom for ourselves. But too many Americans want democracy on the cheap — Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King Jr and Audre Lorde knew that shared problems demand shared responsibility. — Anne Tyler, the American novelist …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Amid War Crimes in Ukraine, American Right Wingers Are Applauding Russia — From Trump adviser Roger Stone to rocker Aaron Lewis, MAGAworld has unleashed a flood of praise for Putin — Vladimir Putin is ramping up his brutal assault on Ukraine, shelling civilians from Odessa to Kharkiv …
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