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Liz Sly / Washington Post:
A global divide on the Ukraine war is deepening  —  Russia capitalizes on disillusionment with the United States to win sympathy in the Global South.
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Financial Times:
How Putin blundered into Ukraine — then doubled down  —  The decision to invade was taken after consulting only a tiny circle.  The Russian leader has since become even more isolated  —  At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, received a troubling phone call.
New York Times:
The U.S. Tried to Isolate Russia. It Didn't Work.
Discussion: CNN
Yoshiaki Nohara / Bloomberg:   G-7 Countries Condemn Russian Aggression, Increase Aid to Ukraine
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Most people in most states support legal abortion  —  The Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade last year is perhaps the preeminent modern political example of the dog catching the car.  —  Republican leaders had pledged for decades to restrict abortion and to challenge the precedent in Roe …
Discussion: Fox News and NBC News
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PRRI:
Abortion Attitudes in a Post-Roe World: Findings From the 50-State 2022 American Values Atlas  —  The End of Roe  —  In late June 2022, the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson overturned Roe v. Wade, reversing nearly five decades of precedent that had established a national right to abortion access.
Discussion: Religion News Service
New York Times:
Trump Visits East Palestine, Seeking to Draw Contrast With Biden  —  The former president has attacked the administration's handling of the train derailment, even as his own environmental policies while in office have been criticized.  —  EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — It was evocative …
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Erin Snodgrass / Insider:
Donald Trump, who rolled back rail safety regulations and slashed environmental protections, donates Trump-branded water to East Palestine residents
W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
Ohio train derailment: Trump shows signs of life — can he bottle it for 2024?
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy's Jan. 6 footage stunt demands a real response  —  Democrats have loudly expressed outrage about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to grant Fox News's Tucker Carlson exclusive access to surveillance footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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New York Times:
Giving Jan. 6 Tapes to Carlson, McCarthy Keeps a Promise to the Hard Right
James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal:
Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson Arrested After a Former Executive Pleads Guilty to Fraud  —  Samir Rao, company's former chief operating officer, appeared in court as John Doe and admitted wrongdoing in probe of the company's practices  —  Ozy Media Chief Executive Carlos Watson …
New York Times:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Subpoenaed in Jan. 6 Investigation  —  The special counsel overseeing the inquiry into Donald Trump's efforts to retain power after the 2020 election wants the former president's daughter and son-in-law to testify to a grand jury.
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Washington Post:
Crew tried to stop Ohio train after alert about overheating wheel bearing, NTSB says  —  Federal investigators' preliminary report provides clues about the cause of the derailment and the response.  —  By Ian Duncan and Luz Lazo  —  The crew of the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine …
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ProPublica:
A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts
Discussion: Bloomberg and ABC News
Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Republicans call opioids No. 1 health threat  —  Republicans see fentanyl and other opioids as the biggest threat to Americans' public health, while Democrats say it's guns, according to a new Axios-Ipsos survey. … - The survey also found that Americans overwhelmingly …
Washington Post:
Trump's grip on the Republican base is slipping — even among his fans  —  More than 150 interviews in pivotal electoral states show the former president maintains a bond with his GOP voters, but faces rising interest in a new standard-bearer  —  One recent snowy evening at a gun range …
Brian Faler / Politico:
House GOP's top tax man throws K Street in a tizzy  —  Rep. Jason Smith hasn't been chair of the House Ways and Means Committee very long, but he's already done something rare for a Republican: He's struck fear into the heart of corporate tax lobbyists.  —  The Missouri lawmaker is making …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Considers Release of Intelligence on China's Potential Arms Transfer to Russia  —  Western nations have intelligence that Beijing might end its self-imposed restraint on weapons supplies to Moscow  —  The Biden administration is considering releasing intelligence it believes shows …
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Joyu Wang / Wall Street Journal:
Taiwan Foreign Minister Held High-Level Meeting in Washington
Discussion: National Review and Political Wire
Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis wants to roll back press freedoms — with an eye toward overturning Supreme Court ruling  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' broken relationship with the mainstream media could get even worse.  —  At the governor's urging, Florida's Republican-dominated Legislature …
Adam Rawnsley / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk's Twitter Goes Dark on Government Data Grabs  —  “That shit went out the window right after Elon came in,” one former staffer says of Twitter's previously routine transparency reports  —  TWITTER BOSS ELON Musk has railed against what he sees as U.S. government attempts to “censor” the social media company.
Discussion: Fortune and The Onion
Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
Schiff, Porter in tight race to replace Sen. Feinstein, poll shows; others trail far behind  —  The race to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein is shaping up to be a close contest between two congressional colleagues who have built national profiles and potent fundraising operations but appeal …
Spectrum News 13:
Remembering Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons  —  Dylan Lyons was born and raised in Philadelphia but made Central Florida his home, when he enrolled in, thrived in and graduated from UCF.  —  That's when he began his journey up the ladder of career success.
Spectrum News 13:
Spectrum News 13 crew member, 9-year-old girl killed in Pine Hills shootings  —  According to Orange County Sheriff John Mina, two members of a Spectrum News 13 crew at the scene of a homicide investigation were shot Wednesday afternoon.  —  One of the two has died, he said.  —  What You Need To Know
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Why This Democratic Strategist Walked Away  —  Simon Rosenberg delivered a major surprise last week when he announced that he was shutting down NDN, the Democratic advocacy and research group he has led since the mid-1990s.  —  After working for three decades as an operative in the upper reaches …
Marilyn Singleton / Washington Post:
I'm a Black physician, and I'm appalled by mandated implicit bias training  —  Marilyn Singleton is a board-certified anesthesiologist and a visiting fellow at the medical advocacy organization Do No Harm.  —  I'll never forget my parents' reaction when I was accepted to the University of California at San Francisco's medical school.
Discussion: HotAir, Fox News and CNN
The Daily Beast:
Ron DeSantis' Press Secretary Throws Hissy Fit at NBC, MSNBC  —  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' office has announced it would be boycotting both NBC News and MSNBC after pushing back on a report by the network's Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell.
Sharon Lerner / The Guardian:
This ‘climate-friendly’ fuel comes with an astronomical cancer risk  —  Almost half of products cleared so far under a new US federal ‘biofuels’ program are not, in fact, biofuels  — This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Kyrsten Sinema's $300,000 Security Expert Is Tulsi Gabbard's Sister  —  The Arizona senator has a security arrangement that raises several ethical red flags, according to campaign law experts. … Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) spends more of her campaign funds on security than nearly every …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
‘Incredibly damning:’ Fox News documents stun some legal experts  —  The disclosure of behind-the-scenes emails and texts greatly increased the chances that Dominion will win its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox, experts say.  —  The disclosure of emails and texts …
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
GOP group of 16 complicates McCarthy's debt ceiling leverage … - As it stands, Republicans are already divided over which government programs to cut — handing Democrats an opening to accuse them of wanting to axe Social Security and Medicare.  — The Biden administration, meanwhile …
CNN:
First on CNN: Former Trump national security advisers among witnesses testifying at House hearing on China  —  The House select committee on China will feature four high-profile witnesses during its first hearing Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET, including former President Donald Trump's national security adviser …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Reuters
 
 
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Matt Lamb / Washington Examiner:
Leave pregnancy resource centers alone
Discussion: RedState
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha / Detroit Free Press:
We're waging war on our children. It has to stop.
Gillian McGoldrick / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Gov. Josh Shapiro expects John Fetterman to ‘come back stronger than ever’ after hospitalization for clinical depression
Discussion: The Hill, Washington Times and PennLive
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
US mass killings linked to extremism spiked over last decade
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Initial House Ratings: Battle for Majority Starts as a Toss-up
New York Times:
Bulgarian Factories and Secret Task Forces: How the West Hunts for Soviet Arms
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Jon Stewart Explains Why Fox News Is Now ‘Far More Devious’ Than Alex Jones
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Beast
 Earlier Items: 
Miles Johnson / Financial Times:
Russian warlord passed UK money laundering checks with mother's utility bill
Discussion: Russian Free Press
Kelly Kasulis Cho / Washington Post:
5 killed in Little Rock plane crash with no survivors
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Exclusive: Arms sales under Biden to get stricter human rights review, officials say
Discussion: The Intercept
Etan Smallman / Telegraph:
Evanna Lynch: ‘JK Rowling has always advocated for the most vulnerable members of society’
Discussion: Althouse
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Georgia juror unsettles Trump investigation with revealing interviews
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Former Arizona attorney general failed to release report disproving election fraud claims
 

 
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