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10:45 AM ET, February 19, 2023

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New York Times:
Haley Walks Treacherous Road for G.O.P. Women  —  Nikki Haley's presidential campaign is a major test of her party's views on sexism and female leaders.  Just don't call it identity politics.  —  EXETER, N.H. — According to Nikki Haley, bullies are best subdued by a counter kick — in heels.
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Far-right election denier beats Trump's pick for Michigan GOP  —  Kristina Karamo, who refused to concede her run for secretary of state, beat Donald Trump's choice for state chair in a chaotic convention  —  LANSING, Mich. — Republicans here, reeling from a midterm election rout …
Liz Goodwin / Washington Post:   Kari Lake, still pushing midterm fraud fiction, edges closer to Senate run
Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
Art Fair Visitor Breaks a Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculpture  —  A woman accidentally knocked over a bright blue dog sculpture at Art Wynwood in Miami, causing the $42,000 artwork to shatter, witnesses said.  —  The balloon dog sculptures made famous by Jeff Koons so closely imitate …
The Carter Center:
Statement on President Carter's Health  —  After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.  He has the full support of his family and his medical team.
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Former president Jimmy Carter opts for home hospice care for final days  —  Jimmy Carter, at 98 the oldest living former president, has chosen to spend his final days at home in Plains, Ga., in hospice care after a series of brief hospital stays, the Carter Center announced Saturday.
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Associated Press:
Charity: Former President Jimmy Carter enters hospice care
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
28 Children Rescued, 59 Adults Arrested in Massive DFW Child Porn Investigation: Police  —  Local police, FBI work together to rescue 28 children investigators say were sexually abused, exploited online  —  More than two dozen children have been rescued and nearly 60 people …
Discussion: KFOR-TV
New York Times:
Blinken Has Tense Meeting With Chinese Official Amid Spy Balloon Furor  —  The meeting resumed diplomatic contact between Washington and Beijing that had been frozen since the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon.  —  Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken held what American officials described …
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New York Times:
‘Brainwashing a Generation’: British Schools Combat Andrew Tate's Views  —  Alarmed by an online personality's popularity among their students, educators are mobilizing to combat the sexism he promotes.  —  As the seventh graders settled into a lecture hall at a school near London …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Institute for the Study of War:
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 18, 2023  —  Click here to see ISW's interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report.  —  Russian forces conducted another missile strike targeting Ukrainian infrastructure throughout the country.
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
February 18, 2023  —  Republican leaders are recognizing that the sight of Republican lawmakers heckling the president of the United States didn't do their party any favors.  —  It not only called attention to their behavior, it prompted many news outlets to fact-check President Biden's claim …
Tim Adams / The Guardian:
Bernie Sanders: ‘Oligarchs run Russia.  But guess what?  They run the US as well’  —  The veteran senator is now part of Joe Biden's inner circle, and is still fighting his country's vast inequalities  —  fter the State of the Union address at the beginning of this month …
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Biden's ‘Buy America’ bid runs into manufacturing woes it aims to fix  —  Infrastructure officials complain they can't find U.S. suppliers for items they need to buy American by law  —  The “Buy America” initiative that President Biden says will promote domestic manufacturing and fuel …
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Twitter Foes Call For Rupert Murdoch To Be Deported After Peddling Fox News Lies  —  The billionaire's critics are raging on social media to boot him out of the country.  —  Twitter critics are lining up to demand Australian-born right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch be stripped …
Discussion: Resolute Square
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Lawmaker Bares Blow-By-Blow Of Marjorie Taylor Greene Spy Balloon ‘S**tshow’  —  “She's unbelievable... she made a total, absolute fool of herself,” said Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.).  —  A Democratic lawmaker has spilled the tea on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's cringey performance …
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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Hannah Mackay / The Detroit News:
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Raw Story:
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Washington Post:
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Niha Masih / Washington Post:
Over 30,000 Wagner Group fighters killed or injured in Ukraine, U.S. says
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Oliver Brown / Telegraph:
Trans woman competes against girls as young as 12 - parents demand answers from ECB
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