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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Graham walks out of Jackson's hearing after rant over indefinite detention at Gitmo  —  With Coca-Cola in hand, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham had enough of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday.
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GOP.com:
Important questions for KBJ … This week, Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson will be questioned before the Senate.  Concerning questions have been raised about her record and her judicial philosophy.  —  Here are just a few that Americans need answers to:
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
Judge Jackson actually sounds conservative.  That's important.  —  Numerous conservative legal leaders have been tweeting, quite correctly, that Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson began the interrogation part of her hearings sounding almost like a conservative's dream nominee.
Politico:
12 Questions That Would Actually Tell Us Something About Ketanji Brown Jackson
Politico:
Jackson defends sentencing record, parries Supreme Court expansion questions
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Ukraine Must Win  —  The war in Ukraine has reached a turning point.  The Russian troops that invaded the country from the north, south, and east are now scarcely moving.  They have targeted schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, and a theater sheltering children, but they are not yet in control even of the places they occupy.
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William J. Broad / New York Times:
The Smaller Bombs That Could Turn Ukraine Into a Nuclear War Zone
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
BuzzFeed investors have pushed CEO Jonah Peretti to shut down entire newsroom, sources say  — Several large shareholders have urged BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti to shut down the company's news organization.  — BuzzFeed News has won awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, but is now shrinking through voluntary buyouts.
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Why the MAGA Movement Loves Putin  —  The Far Right's adulation for Putin is closer to mainstream GOP thinking than many would have you believe.  —  It says everything about the modern Republican Party that in the days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it wasn't clear whose side the GOP would be on.
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Kid Rock says Donald Trump sought his advice on North Korea and Islamic State
Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
The Rise of the Tucker Carlson Politician
CNN:
White House press secretary Jen Psaki tests positive for Covid-19  —  (CNN)White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on Tuesday that she has tested positive for Covid-19 for a second time and is experiencing mild symptoms, less than one day before President Joe Biden is scheduled to depart for his trip to Brussels and Warsaw.
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Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
White House press secretary Jen Psaki tests positive for COVID for second time  —  White House press secretary Jen Psaki has been benched from a second foreign trip in a row after testing positive for COVID-19.  —  Psaki had two two socially-distanced meetings with President Joe Biden …
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 …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell sidesteps saying if Greitens should end Senate bid
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Project Veritas says feds secretly accessed its emails  —  A group that has singled out journalists and Democrats in undercover operations contends that prosecutors misled a federal court and sought unwarranted gag orders during a federal investigation of the group's ties to the alleged theft …
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Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Alcohol-Related Deaths Spiked During the Pandemic, a Study Shows  —  The deaths were up 25 percent in 2020 compared with 2019, amid heightened stress factors and delayed treatment, according to a new report.  —  Almost a million people in the United States have died of Covid-19 in the past two years …
Associated Press:
School apologizes after teacher leads California preschoolers in anti-Biden chant  —  NORCO, Calif. — A Southern California private school apologized to parents after a teacher shared a video last month of her leading preschool students in a chant denouncing President Joe Biden.
Alexander Ward / Politico:
Russia launched hypersonic missiles due to a low stockpile, sources say  —  The leading theory for why Russia launched hypersonic missiles into Ukraine last week is that it's running out of precision-guided weapons to strike faraway targets, a senior U.S. defense official and a Western official familiar with assessments told POLITICO.
Madison Muller / Bloomberg:
Covid Tests Show the Omicron BA.2 Subvariant Is Gaining Ground in U.S.  —  The omicron subvariant BA.2 is continuing to gain ground in the U.S., according to Covid-19 tests sequenced over the last two weeks.  —  Helix, a San Diego-based genomics firm, has been watching the BA.2 variant since …
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Madison Muller / Bloomberg:
Omicron Subvariant Takes Hold in U.S. as New York Cases Tick Up
Andy Blatchford / Politico:
Trudeau will be prime minister until 2025  —  OTTAWA, Ont.  — Justin Trudeau has brokered a deal with the left-leaning New Democrats that will keep his minority Liberal government in power until 2025.  —  The Canadian prime minister announced Tuesday a formal entente that will see the NDP vote …
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John Kenneth White / The Hill:
Being president means expecting the unexpected  —  In an era when norms are often cast aside, one cardinal rule of the presidency remains intact: expect the unexpected.  That rule is being vindicated once more.  On Election Day 2020, few expected Russia to invade Ukraine and begin the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II.
United States Department of State:
The Evacuation of Pediatric Oncology Patients to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital  —  Our partnership with, and commitment to, the people of Ukraine is steadfast and enduring.  To that end, the Department of State has coordinated with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital …
Discussion: CBS News, KARK-TV and IJR
Tom Mutch / New Lines Magazine:
In Kharkiv's Rubble, Hatred for Russia Is Strong  —  Once an admirer, citizens have now nothing but contempt and worse for the invaders  —  “Russian terrorists did this. ...  And my father is Russian, from Belgorod!”  Galina, a 63-year-old cashier, says as she pulls her belongings from the wreckage of what used to be her apartment.
Washington Post:
Democrats circulate plan for changing 2024 nomination calendar, moving against Iowa and welcoming new early states  —  Democratic Party officials circulated plans Monday for a 2024 presidential nominating calendar that would select up to five states to hold contests before March based upon …
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 …
Discussion: Politico and Washington Examiner
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Porn star Stormy Daniels loses appeal in Trump case, vows ‘I will go to jail before I pay a penny’ of $300K  — 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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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
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Discussion: Bloomberg and The Daily Caller
Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:
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Wall Street Journal:
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Selim Algar / New York Post:
Florida to require high school financial literacy class to graduate
Shah Meer Baloch / The Guardian:
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Discussion: Politico
Reporters Without Borders:
Chilling account of Radio France fixer who was kidnapped and tortured by Russian soldiers in Ukraine
Discussion: The Guardian and CBS News
Kimberlee Kruesi / Associated Press:
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Discussion: The Root
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Nikolas Lanum / Fox News:
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