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10:50 AM ET, September 21, 2022

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Washington Post:
Putin's partial military mobilization condemned by U.S., Europe … Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement of a “partial mobilization” of troops was condemned by United States and European officials as a dangerous escalation as the invasion in Ukraine falters.
Discussion: Slow Boring and Bloomberg
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NBC News:
Putin mobilizes more troops for Ukraine war, threatens nuclear retaliation and backs annexation of Russian-occupied land  —  Watch: Putin announces partial mobilization of Russian military  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the partial mobilization of his country's military Wednesday …
New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Putin Calls Up More Troops as His War Effort Falters  —  In a rare address to the nation, the Russian president railed against the West for providing Ukraine with weapons and made a veiled threat of using nuclear weapons.  Russia's defense minister put the number of new call-ups at 300,000.
Wall Street Journal:
Putin Orders Draft of Reservists for War in Ukraine, Threatens Nuclear Response  —  Russian president made the announcement amid faltering Russian offensive, Ukrainian advances in northeast  —  MOSCOW—In a major escalation of the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin raised …
The Economist:
Vladimir Putin's situation looks ever more desperate  —  A planned military mobilisation in Russia, and fake referendums in occupied Ukraine, are signs of weakness  —  Editor's note (September 21st 2022): This piece was updated after Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilisation of reservists …
Karl Ritter / Associated Press:
Putin sets partial military call-up, won't ‘bluff’ on nukes
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
The Performative Sadism of Ron DeSantis  —  The Florida governor and MAGA heir is betting his political future on hurting vulnerable people to own the libs. … The GOP—under Donald Trump and perhaps soon under his would-be successor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis—is rapidly becoming …
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Washington Post:
‘Unchecked’ book excerpt: Inside McConnell's decision not to convict Trump  —  “Let's just ignore him,” the GOP Senate leader said at one point, underscoring his hands-off approach on whether to stand up to pro-Trump lawmakers after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol
Discussion: The Hill, CNN and Raw Story
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Inside McConnell's fateful impeachment decision  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  “MITCH McCONNELL sat in his office on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, agonizing over how to cast what he knew would be one of the most pivotal votes of his career.”
Discussion: The Hill
Juliette Kayyem / The Atlantic:
Trump Endorsed QAnon Because He's Stuck  —  For a man who believes in nothing, has no coherent ideology or value system except his own continuing relevance, obsesses over conspiracies, and subsists on grievance and anger, Donald Trump took a long time to fully embrace QAnon.
Discussion: Raw Story, Insider, Rolling Stone and CNN
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
House Rating Changes: Schweikert Moves to Toss Up, Cuellar to Lean Democrat  —  As both parties begin to blitz the competitive battleground with ads, Republicans continue to be the party playing more offense, linking Democratic incumbents to “wasteful spending” and more IRS funding in the just-passed reconciliation bill.
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David Wasserman / NBC News:
The six types of races that will decide control of the House in 2022
Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
Trump's legal payments soar in wake of Mar-a-Lago search, campaign finance filings show  —  Spending by Donald Trump's Save America PAC surged in August to more than $6.3 million — its highest monthly total of the year — as the former President waged court battles over the FBI's search of his waterfront Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Mar-a-Lago probe gives Trump plenty of headaches ... and political benefits, too
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
Special master to Trump's lawyers: 'You can't have your cake and eat it'
Susan Page / USA Today:
Trump vs. DeSantis in 2024?  USA TODAY/Suffolk poll shows Florida Republicans prefer their governor  —  In a hypothetical 2024 presidential primary in the Sunshine State, DeSantis leads Trump 48%-40%.  That's a reversal from a poll of Florida in January, when Trump led DeSantis 47%-40%.
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Candy Woodall / USA Today:   How Fla Gov. DeSantis decision to send migrants to blue states could help a 2024 showdown with Trump
Ashley Gold / Axios:
Meta: We're not-so-big tech now  —  As Meta shapes its antitrust defense, it has begun pointing out its plummeting stock price as a sign that competition is alive and well in its market. … It has lost ground to its surging rival TikTok, and its revenue has been curtailed by Apple's iOS privacy changes.
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Matt Henson / InForum:
Police: Driver admitted to intentionally killing teen at North Dakota street dance after political dispute
CNN:
House set to consider proposal for legislation to prevent another January 6  —  The House on Wednesday is set to consider legislation introduced by GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California to make it harder to overturn a certified presidential election …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Liz Cheney's role in electoral count bill fuels GOP distrust
CBS News:
Personal and national factors collide in tight Georgia Senate race — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll  —  It's the personal vs. the partisan in Georgia's Senate race, where the candidates are close in support, but voters' rationales for supporting each of them are quite different.
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
Most Republicans Support Declaring the United States a Christian Nation  —  Christian nationalism, a belief that the United States was founded as a white, Christian nation and that there is no separation between church and state, is gaining steam on the right.
The Guardian:
Revealed: the ‘shocking’ levels of toxic lead in Chicago tap water  —  Tests performed for thousands of Chicago residents found lead, a neurotoxin, in amounts far exceeding the federal standards  —  Erin McCormick, Aliya Uteuova and Taylor Moore with photographs by Jamie Kelter Davis
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The U.N. is getting Ukraine surprisingly right  —  As President Biden and other world leaders gather in New York this week to address the U.N. General Assembly, there's an unusual twist: The United Nations, so often derided as a useless forum for debate rather than action …
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Biden aims to rally world leaders behind Ukraine in U.N. remarks
Washington Post:
GOP attorneys general back Trump in court fight over Mar-a-Lago documents  —  Texas's Ken Paxton and 10 other GOP state attorneys general came to the defense of former president Donald Trump on Tuesday in his legal fight over documents the FBI seized last month, filing an amicus brief …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Remember the baby formula shortage?  It's not over.  —  Remember the baby formula crisis?  —  Public attention has largely moved on, but the U.S. supply shortage isn't over — and the scarcity continues to distress parents and doctors struggling to feed vulnerable infants.
Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
Scoop: McConnell-aligned super PAC pulls out of Arizona  —  The Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund is canceling $9.6 million in television ads for the Arizona Senate race, confident that other outside conservative groups will make up much of the difference for Republican nominee Blake Masters.
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