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Maura Reynolds / Politico:
Fiona Hill: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’  —  It's been nearly eight months since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops and tanks over the border into Ukraine, and a lot has changed in that time.  Ukraine has shown itself to be a far more robust military force than pretty much anyone predicted.
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Boris Bondarev / Foreign Affairs:
The Sources of Russian Misconduct
Discussion: HotAir and Cyprus Mail
Holly Dagres / Atlantic Council:   Ex-empires Iran and Russia forge new bonds as both blame their woes on the West
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia sentences U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets  —  The Saudi government has sentenced a 72-year-old U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets he posted while inside the United States, some of which were critical of the Saudi regime.
Discussion: The Hill
Gordon Corera / BBC:
Ex-UK pilots lured to help Chinese military, MoD says  —  Former British military pilots are being lured to China with large sums of money to pass on their expertise to the Chinese military, it is claimed.  —  Up to 30 former UK military pilots are thought to have gone to train members of China's People's Liberation Army.
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Boston University researchers' testing of lab-made version of Covid virus draws government scrutiny  —  Research at Boston University that involved testing a lab-made hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is garnering heated headlines alleging the scientists involved could have unleashed a new pathogen.
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION and Daily Mail
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Caitlin Tilley / Daily Mail:
Boston University CREATES a new Covid strain that has an 80% kill rate — echoing dangerous experiments feared to have started pandemic
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump charged Secret Service ‘exorbitant’ rates at his hotels, records show
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump and Kanye West speak amid rapper's antisemitic rants, acquisition of Parler  —  Former President Donald Trump spoke with Kanye West over the phone following the rapper's decision to buy his own social media platform, a person familiar with the call told POLITICO.
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Bloomberg:
Ye Says He Bought Parler Because Instagram, Twitter Penalized Him
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Trump Says He Wants Marjorie Taylor Greene in His Next Administration  —  “Wouldn't she be great?” former president tells confidants of a person who mocked a school shooting survivor and blamed wildfires on a secret space laser … As he lays the groundwork for a 2024 presidential run …
Eric Garcia / The Independent:
Exclusive: Gisele Fetterman calls for NBC to apologise following ‘shocking’ interview with husband John Fetterman  —  John Fetterman's wife speaks to Eric Garcia about closed captioning and the controversy after Senate candidate's interview with NBC News  —  Pennsylvania Democratic Senate …
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Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:   The Survivor Vote  —  This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides …
CNN:
Why Wakanda might be a model for our future cities  —  Wakanda is a marvel.  The fictional country of the Marvel Universe is the most advanced civilization in the world, years beyond the rest of the world in technological learning.  —  But it's a little-noticed part of Wakanda that may predict …
Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: Republican JD Vance has slight lead on Democrat Tim Ryan in Senate race in Ohio  —  Republican J.D. Vance has opened a narrow edge over Democrat Tim Ryan in the Senate race in Ohio, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, as President Joe Biden's unpopularity complicates …
Iain Marlow / Bloomberg:
Blinken Says China Wants to Seize Taiwan on ‘Much Faster Timeline’  —  China has made a decision to seize Taiwan on a “much faster timeline” than previously thought, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, shortly after China's leader reiterated his intent to take the island by force if necessary.
The Daily Beast:
Fox News Execs Hunt Down the Tucker-Kanye Video Leaker … This reporting appears as one of several scooplets featured in this week's edition of Confider, the newsletter pulling back the curtain on the media.  Subscribe here and send your questions, tips, and complaints here.
Discussion: Raw Story
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Oath Keepers Trial Rocked by Wacky Sexts Between Militia Boss and Lawyer  —  The case against the far-right group for its role in the Capitol riot was already disturbing.  Then came evidence of what prosecutors say is an inappropriate relationship.  —  Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes …
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Pamela Falk / CBS News:
U.N. Security Council considers sending multinational force to Haiti  —  United Nations — The U.N. Security Council met in an urgent session on Monday to deal with the gang violence that has enveloped Haiti.  The Caribbean nation has been dealing with what the U.N. called “catastrophic” …
New York Times:
Voters See Democracy in Peril, but Saving It Isn't a Priority  —  A New York Times/Siena College poll found that other problems have seized voters' focus — even as many do not trust this year's election results and are open to anti-democratic candidates.  —  Voters overwhelmingly believe …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Congress braces for new members who were at Capitol on Jan. 6  —  Three people who were on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6 stand a serious chance of returning to the site of the deadly riot next January — this time as duly elected Republican members of Congress.
Discussion: HotAir
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Scalise acknowledges GOP plan to change Social Security, Medicare  —  As the midterms elections near, voters don't appear focused on Republican plans for Social Security and Medicare.  That's probably a mistake.  —  The latest New York Times/Siena College poll asked respondents about the major issues facing the country.
Sara Novak / New Scientist:
Menstrual cycle lengths vary between people of different ethnicities  —  Cycles may be 1.6 days longer in people who self-identify as Asian compared with their white non-Hispanic counterparts  —  A person's ethnicity may influence the length of their menstrual cycle.
Leor Sapir / City Journal:
No Laughing Matter  —  John Oliver badly botches the “gender-affirming care” debate.  —  The Social Order  —  Health Care  —  Yesterday, John Oliver devoted an episode of Last Week Tonight to transgender rights, specifically the controversy over “gender-affirming care” for minors.
Bryan Metzger / Insider:
Ted Cruz reimbursed himself $555,000 after successfully challenging a political spending law at the Supreme Court  — Ted Cruz's campaign paid him $555,000 to cover old personal loans to his Senate committee.  — It comes after Cruz successfully challenged a law that capped the amount candidates could repay themselves.
Discussion: Raw Story
Hannah Dellinger / Houston Chronicle:
New law asks Texas schools to distribute kits to students to keep DNA samples in case of emergencies like Uvalde  —  Texas public school systems are set to distribute DNA and fingerprint identification kits for K-8 students to parents who wish to store their child's DNA is case of emergency.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Raw Story
Julia Rock / The Lever:
Ted Budd Aided Donors Trying To Bypass Predatory Lending Laws  —  North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Ted Budd used his congressional office to press federal regulators to let financial institutions evade his own state's prohibitions against predatory lending, despite warnings …
Discussion: Cyprus Mail and FOX8 WGHP
House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis:
New Select Subcommittee Report Details Trump Administration's Assault on CDC and Politicization of Public Health During the Coronavirus Crisis  —  Report is the third installment detailing findings from investigation into Trump Administration's political interference with federal coronavirus response
Detroit News:
Lee Chatfield suspected of engaging in criminal enterprise  —  Lansing — Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield is under investigation in connection with an alleged “criminal enterprise,” potentially involving embezzlement, bribery, campaign finance violations and controlled substances …
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
New York Apple Growers Fume Over Overtime Rules  —  New regulations, called overdue by worker groups, upset farmers in a state with a long history of apple orchards, who say some fruit might go unpicked  —  KINDERHOOK, N.Y.—Golden Harvest Farms has grown from a small apple-growing operation …
Marisa Kabas / MSNBC:
In Kari Lake and Tudor Dixon, the GOP offers a cynical alternative to Trump  —  Arizona Republican nominee for governor Kari Lake declared in a Sunday interview on CNN that she will accept the results of her state election in November — if she wins.  —  In that declaration …
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Herschel Walker tries to turn ‘prop’ badge controversy into campaign gold  —  GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker discusses why he flashed a badge during Friday's debate  —  Herschel Walker was widely mocked and criticized for flashing an honorary deputy sheriff's badge onstage …
 
 
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Jonas Schöley / Nature:
Life expectancy changes since COVID-19
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
How Liberals Should Confront a Right-Wing Supreme Court
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Althouse
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Biden administration officially opens application for student debt cancelation
Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
DOJ Seeks 6 Month Prison Sentence For Steve Bannon
Hanna Kang / Insider:
Trump-backed congressional candidate Bo Hines says he 'can't afford' to give up his salary. But federal records show he has no salary.
 Earlier Items: 
Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
Tulsi Lobs a Bomb in NH: She Compares Biden to Hitler
Discussion: Fox News and Bloomberg
Steve Schmidt / The Warning:
The country is edging towards an abyss
Dan Snyder / KOKH:
New poll shows Hofmeister leading Stitt in Oklahoma Governor's race
Discussion: Daily Kos and Political Wire
New York Times:
Right-Wing Leaders Mobilize Corps of Election Activists
Discussion: Forbes and Election Law Blog
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Furrygate: A Litterbox of Lies
Discussion: Reason
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Johnson's campaign is paying the law firm of a Trump attorney allegedly connected to Jan. 6 fake elector plot
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Politico:
Biden Covid officials scramble to plan for Omicron subvariant threat
Discussion: STAT, UPI and Political Wire