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11:40 AM ET, May 9, 2022

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New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Putin Defends War, Without Signaling Escalation  —  Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.  —  Against a backdrop of armored vehicles and soldiers in regalia, President Vladimir V. Putin hailed Russia's army for “fighting for the Motherland,” …
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BBC:
Putin blames West for war in Ukraine  —  Updates from BBC correspondents: Jenny Hill and Steve Rosenberg in Moscow, Sarah Rainsford and James Waterhouse in Kyiv, Andrew Harding in Donbas, Laura Bicker in Zaporizhzhia, Lyse Doucet and Hugo Bachega in Dnipro, Joe Inwood and Sophie Williams in Lviv, and Caroline Davies in Odesa
Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Russian ambassador to Poland hit with red paint
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Western allies unveil new Russia sanctions on V-E Day
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Winning after Roe  —  People want the vast majority of abortions to be legal  —  I think abortion should be very broadly legal.  Without the constitutional protections offered by the Roe v. Wade decision, abortion is going to become much less broadly available, which is bad.
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Washington Post:
Miss. governor doesn't rule out banning contraception if Roe falls
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Senate Democrats Warn of G.O.P. Effort to Restrict Abortion Nationwide
Mark Esper / Politico:
‘I Want to Meet With the Taliban’: Tales of Trump's Head-Scratching Diplomacy  —  On Friday, Aug. 16, 2019 — just three weeks after the Senate confirmed me as secretary of Defense — the national security team met with President Donald Trump at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club.
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Tim Reid / Reuters:
Suburban Phoenix is cautionary tale for Democrats hoping to galvanize voters on abortion  —  Laura Wilson is a mother of three who lives in the sprawling suburbs of north Phoenix, a hotly contested electoral area of Arizona that could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate after November's congressional elections.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
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Politico:
Democrats' chance to save the House majority runs through these districts
Discussion: Battleground
Politico:
How the Jan. 6 panel broke through Trump allies' stonewalling  —  Donald Trump's top election-subversion wingmen have stonewalled the Jan. 6 select committee for months, but investigators have found a reliable workaround: their deputies and assistants.  —  Time and again, the panel has managed …
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:
Oath Keepers sharing with January 6 investigators their efforts to find election fraud, communications with Trump allies  —  Top leaders in the Oath Keepers, the far-right extremist group, have been turning over phones and digital files and sitting for interviews with the FBI …
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Raw Story
Steve Schmidt / The Warning:
No Books.  No Money.  Just the Truth.  —  This is a story about lying.  Public lying.  It is a story about Senator John McCain's lying, and the damage it has done to many people, including me.  It is also a story about my lying because, ultimately, John McCain's lie became mine.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Madison Cawthorn's Campaign Gets Donation From Associate Of Sanctioned Russian Billionaire  —  Chalk up one more controversy for Rep. Madison Cawthorn, the North Carolina Republican who seems enveloped in it.  Cawthorn's cash-strapped campaign for re-election received a donation Friday …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Rolling Stone:
Even Trump Is ‘Completely Weirded Out By’ Madison Cawthorn's Antics  —  You just can't pretend to be horny on cam  —  Donald Trump helped make Rep. Madison Cawthorn a star of the MAGA movement, but now the lawmaker risks falling out of The Donald's good graces.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
A.O.C. and Eric Adams Have Not Spoken in Nearly a Year  —  Mayor Adams and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represent divergent wings of the Democratic Party, have not spoken one-on-one in nearly a year.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Inside Mark Meadows's final push to keep Trump in power  —  The former congressman played a key role in Trump's effort to overturn the election, according to his texts, congressional investigations and interviews  —  Behind closed doors in a civic center outside Atlanta …
New York Times:
What's Your Rate of Inflation?  —  Inflation is at the highest level in four decades.  But how you experience it can vary greatly depending on what you eat, how much you travel and your other spending habits.  Answer seven questions to estimate your personal inflation rate.
New York Post:
Hollywood lawyer paid off over $2M of Hunter Biden's delinquent taxes  —  A bigshot Hollywood lawyer reportedly paid off Hunter Biden's delinquent taxes — which a source told The Post amounted to more than $2 million — as President Joe Biden's notoriously troubled son awaits the results …
 
 
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Washington Post:
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Ross Barkan / Political Currents:
The New York Times Ignores Its 20th Century Homophobia
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden targets GOP on inflation as prices skyrocket
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NBC News:
Manchin says he'd pass parts of Biden's agenda. But Democrats may have to write the bill for him.
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