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A year ago I went back to Kyiv on my own. The country had taken a hold of me. I couldn’t just leave and forget it. So I started this newsletter, The Counteroffensive. I wanted to keep reporting on an invasion which has left a terrible mark on millions of people.

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Tim Mak

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2 years

Good morning from Ukraine to those waking up on the east coast. Kyiv is still standing. Western intel predictions varied, and even most optimistic said city would fall within 2-3 days. But the out-matched Ukrainian military is putting up a valiant fight to defend the city

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THREAD - History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes: a thread about the **Anti-Mask League** of 1919. I'm not kidding I went HAM researching this So, starting in Sept 2018 San Francisco suffered from Spanish Flu pandemic. Initial mask wearing was good -- around 80 percent

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доброго ранку — Good morning — from Ukraine to our U.S. readers. Kyiv remains under Ukrainian control. And not only that, a senior US defense official said Russian forces don't appear to have made significant progress, despite committing near 95% of the forces they had staged.

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Good morning from Ukraine to those waking up in the U.S.: Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. And in fact the flow of dramatic information about Russian advances appears to have slowed. Reports are that Russia has turned up its bombardments on civilian areas across the country

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Good Morning from Ukraine to the US. Kyiv is still in Ukrainian hands. Overnight, Russian/Ukrainian militaries signaled an agreement on a temporary ceasefire and humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians from the embattled towns of Mariupol and Volnovakha. BUT...

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Good morning to my friends waking up in the US: Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Ukraine warns Russia about to conduct naval landings around Odessa. Power is out in Mariupol. And residential areas are getting bombarded in Kharkiv per UA The fire at the nuclear complex is out.

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Morning from Ukraine to all those reading. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. However, tensions are high along the Ukraine-Belarus border. On Friday afternoon, Ukrainian officials accused Russia of staging a false flag attack...

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Morning to everyone who finds this. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. However troubling signs overnight at the Chernobyl nuclear site, which lost power at 11:22 a.m. local time in Ukraine. The decommissioned site is controlled by Russian forces.

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NEW: A federal judge has dismissed the NRA's bankruptcy case, finding that the NRA was just using the bankruptcy as a vehicle to avoid the New York AG's attempt to dissolve it for alleged corruption

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Morning to readers, from Ukraine to wherever you are seeing this. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. But deadly news overnight: at least 35 have been killed, 135 injured, at the Yavoriv military base near the Polish border, an upwards estimate from initial reports.

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The reason you've never heard of Parkrose High School in Portland, Ore -- and why it isn't on this year's list of school shootings -- is because of Coach Keanon Lowe, who disarmed and embraced a student with a gun who was having a mental health crisis

New video shows the moment Oregon school coach took shotgun from student, hugged him

Keanon Lowe, a former star player for the University of Oregon Ducks who works at the Portland school, said he knew from the student's face the gun was real.

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Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, but is under a multi-day curfew until Wed AM Zelenskyy: since NATO won’t accept Ukraine, we will need to look for other guarantees…

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The whistleblower who raised concerns about White House security clearances, Tricia Newbold, was suspended w/o pay for 2 weeks. The stated reason? Failure to follow a new policy to scan documents in separate pdf files instead of a single pdf file

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Morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, while the city of Mariupol refuses to surrender. The Russian military said it had until this morning to do so. An advisor to the Mariupol mayor responded on Facebook with an expletive.

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Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. NATO estimates between 7,000-15.000 Russians soldiers have been killed in Ukraine in the month since the invasion has started.

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Morning to all from Ukraine -- another cold sunny day from where I am sitting. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, with v little movement on the fronts around the capital city. The world's eyes have instead been on the horrors in another place: the SE port city of Mariupol.

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Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Putin held a stadium rally last night; while Zelenskyy gave a one-on-one appeal to the camera... Zelenskyy said 180,000 have been rescued by humanitarian corridors, including thousands from embattled Mariupol...

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Morning from Ukraine to readers waking up all over. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. However, strikes overnight hit cities in Western Ukraine, places far from the front lines and which have not been hit since the early days of the war.

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NEW: NPR has decide to publish the audio of Michael Cohen making legal threats against me while I was a Daily Beast reporter in 2015, as part of a larger story on Cohen's history of threats: Listen here:

LISTEN: How Michael Cohen Protects Trump By Making Legal Threats

Michael Cohen is facing legal peril. But he's usually the one using legal pressure to fix issues for Donald Trump before they become problems. NPR has audio of Cohen making threats in 2015.

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Good morning — or доброго ранку — from Ukraine to our friends waking up in the U.S. Kyiv remains under Ukrainian control. There are signs that routes west of the city are open for medical evacuation t/w Kyiv. While still dangerous, it is a positive sign for Ukrainian military.

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Morning to those in the U.S. from Ukraine, where Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. One week ago at around 5 a.m., and like many Ukrainians, I received the rudest wakeup call of my life. The Russians were invading, and a bombardment had begun.

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Good morning to readers; hello from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, and was the site of a U.S. congressional delegation led by Speaker Pelosi. They met with Zelenskyy, who awarded Pelosi the Order of Princess Olga

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Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, and this morning is emerging from a multi-day curfew. It coincided with a Ukrainian mil counteroffensive; and such curfews have been implemented in part to root out saboteurs, which is the topic I want to start with...

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SCOOP: The day after Columbine shootings, top NRA execs, PR experts, lobbyists scrambled on conference calls to strategize. Over 2.5 hrs they laid out the playbook of the NRA after mass shootings for the next 20+ years. I have the secret tapes.

A secret tape made after Columbine shows the NRA's evolution on school shootings

Just after the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School, NRA leaders agonized over what to do. NPR obtained recordings of the calls, which lay out how the NRA has handled mass shootings ever since.

www.npr.org

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Morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, but the southern port city of Mariupol is in a dire situation. Ukrainian officials say Russia's military bombed an art school sheltering ~400 people, adding to already unbearable and deteriorating conditions in the city

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Good morning from Warsaw. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. A personal note: I will pause the daily Ukraine updates for a break after a month in Ukraine. Will expand, but first let's start with the news... POTUS is in Poland now, and is expected to be in Warsaw this evening.

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Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. But western Ukraine was the target of strikes overnight: a number of missiles struck an aircraft repair facility in Lviv just before dawn. Here are the details…

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Good morning from Ukraine to those waking up on the east coast. Kyiv is still in Ukrainian hands, defying western intelligence assessments that it would fall in a matter of a few short days. In the south, more land appears to be under Russian control.

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Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, but was shelled overnight in the Svyiatoshynsky and Shevchenkivsky districts. Meanwhile Mariupol has been shelled from the Sea of Azov… This invasion turns a month old tomorrow…

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AOC, speaking at House Oversight Committee meeting, mocks Jared Kushner for reportedly using WhatsApp to conduct sensitive conversations: "What's next, putting nuclear codes in Instagram DMs?"

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Good morning to readers! Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. And in the southwest corner of Ukraine, a notable meeting: U.S. First Lady Jill Biden has crossed into the country at war to meet with Ukraine's Olena Zelenska.

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Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Please RT this thread. It’s an important one. Some news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically cut the org's workforce. I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting. But this time, alone.

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Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, although it was the site of a strike overnight. It's a sunny spring day here in Odesa, which is just 60 nautical miles away from where the Moskva suffered a fire, an explosion, and ultimately sunk.

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SCOOP: Secret recording obtained by NPR shows that Senate Intel Chairman Richard Burr raised alarms about Coronavirus weeks ago in private meeting with well-connected constituents -- concerns he never shared with the public

Weeks Before Virus Panic, Intelligence Chairman Privately Raised Alarm, Sold Stocks

Sen. Richard Burr issued a warning at a private event weeks ago to prepare for dire effects from the coronavirus, going further than his more public comments, according to a recording obtained by NPR.

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Sen. Corker, emerging from Khashoggi briefing, said that if MBS was in a courtroom it would take 30 minutes for jurors to unanimously convict. "No question" MBS responsible

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Good morning to readers; hello from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. All eyes on Transnistria, the Ukraine-adjacent breakaway region of Moldova controlled by pro-Russian leaders. It also hosts Russian troops. Explosions were observed there. Here's why that matters:

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Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, a point that Zelenskyy stressed in his most recent address. “Do you remember when Russia bragged it would seize Kyiv in 48 hours? Instead Ukraine has been repelling the enemy for 48 days.”

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Good morning to American readers waking up, and to everyone else, good day. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Let's start with a different track today: it's International Women's Day in Ukraine (and everywhere else). Long lines of civilians and soldiers alike at the florist.

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Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, but was subject to airstrikes Tuesday which hit residential buildings areas around the city. And tension is rising in the city due to a curfew that will begin this evening, and run until Thursday morning.

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Good morning to my American friends, from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. But talks have broken down over a humanitarian corridor leading away from Mariupol, which says a lot about hopes for broader negotiations for ceasefires or even peace.

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"I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we're in the courthouse... I'm warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?" Michael Cohen to me, July 2015. Listen:

LISTEN: How Michael Cohen Protects Trump By Making Legal Threats

Michael Cohen is facing legal peril. But he's usually the one using legal pressure to fix issues for Donald Trump before they become problems. NPR has audio of Cohen making threats in 2015.

www.npr.org

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ALERT: "The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies — part of a push for new powers that comes as the coronavirus spreads through the United States."

DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic

One of the requests to Congress would allow the department to petition a judge to indefinitely detain someone during an emergency.

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Morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Overnight Zelenskyy said expected Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine had begun. This coincided with what Russia claimed were 100s of strikes on mil targets. Zelenskyy said he has observed a change in Russian strategy…

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Good morning to readers! Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. As we approach Russia's 'Victory Day' on Monday, it's worth reflecting on how Putin misjudged the appeal and meaning of Russian language, identity and empire to Ukrainians...

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Good morning to readers waking up; hello from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, and along with cities all across the country is celebrating Orthodox Easter Sunday. Yesterday, soldiers and civilians crowded into a tiny church in Dnipro. But not for Easter services...

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Pompeo: Point out Ukraine on a map NPR's Mary Louise Kelly:

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Good morning to readers, hello from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. The situation in Mariupol, however, remains dire for the Ukrainian troops still in the city. One unit commander made an urgent appeal for evacuation…

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It's incredible that this is happening: The Commerce Secretary, aware of a coming negative story about his links to a Kremlin-linked firm, shorts the stock and sells after the story publishes

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Days after I sought comment from Wilbur Ross about his investment in a Kremlin-linked shipping firm, he shorted stock in the company, then sold it after my story with @sashachavkin came out, per @DanAlexander21

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NEW from me: The National Rifle Association was a 'foreign asset' to Russia in the period leading up to 2016 election, a Senate report finds. The 77 page Senate report draws on contemporaneous emails and private interviews

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THREAD: A month ago, Trump declared a Coronvairus national emergency in a Rose Garden address. NPR's investigations team went through every promise he made at that critical time and contacted all the groups. Barely any of the promises were fulfilled.

A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump's Promises Largely Unfulfilled

On March 13, President Trump promised to mobilize private and public resources to respond to the coronavirus. NPR followed up on each promise and found little action had been taken.

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Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. It’s the 50th day of the Russian invasion. The Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet has suffered an explosion and a fire, according to both Russian and Ukrainian sources

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Good morning from Kyiv. Explosions heard by NPR correspondents here and in Odesa and Kharkiv. Wi-Fi and cell service as well as electricity seem to be holding up.

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Good morning to readers, hello from Ukraine Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Back in the capital for first time since late Feb. Much has changed! But first the news: British intel claims Russia used ~65% of ground forces in Ukraine; and more than 1/4 are now combat ineffective

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Spokesperson for New York AG Letitia James to me just now: "The Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James has launched an investigation related to the National Rifle Association (NRA). As part of this investigation, the Attorney General has issued subpoenas."

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Good morning to readers; hello from Ukraine! Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, and was site of visit b/n US SecState Blinken, SecDef Austin and Zelenskyy The officials said US diplomatic presence will soon resume in Kyiv, announced $300 mil in military financing and...

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Mayor of Kyiv: "today [Russia] created a clone of my Instagram... Russian internet media was sharing information quoting me that Kyiv is supposedly surrounded and evacuation of people is impossible... Don't believe the lies. Get your information from official sources!"

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Good morning to readers, and hello from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. A sense of the morale among even close Putin allies… Even while defending Russian invasion, Belarus' authoritarian President Lukashenko told AP: "I feel like this operation has dragged on."

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Justice for 66-year-old Jerry Foxhoven!

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Iowa official ousted after bombarding employees with emails about Tupac Shakur

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Daily Mail reports that Melania Trump boarded her plane to Texas wearing a jacket that said on the back, "I really don't care, do u?"

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Good morning to readers -- Merry Christmas from Ukraine. A quiet day in Kyiv. Air alarms have gone off, but no explosions in the capital so far. Many Ukrainians are celebrating Christmas on Dec 25th for the first time.

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Good morning to readers; hello from Warsaw! Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. The daily thread will pause again since my second rotation into Ukraine is ending. But first let's talk about the news: Russia's 'Victory Day' and Putin's remarks...

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Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, but is under a city-wide lockdown until Thursday morning. Local authorities have not said why. Zelenskyy speaks to the U.S. Congress shortly, and is poised to ask for more help.

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Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. For the last year, I've been tracking a notorious Russian unit known for its role in killing 100s of civilians. This week we published how we found them. Meanwhile, Putin visited Mariupol overnight. More below...

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Schiff memo: FISA warrant against Carter page received independent scrutiny and approval by four different federal judges: 2 appt'd by GWB, 1 by GHWB, one by Reagan.

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There is a website called , and you have to be straight to use it:

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I came into the U.S. more than a decade ago on a J visa, then scrambled for years on H-1B work visas. I sought and received a green card. Then I earned citizenship by joining the military and swore in on the graduation field at Ft. Jackson. That's a pathway now closed.

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President Trump will freeze green cards for new immigrants and sign an executive order to suspend H-1B, L-1, J and other temporary work visas for skilled workers, managers and au pairs through the end of the year.

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Good morning from Ukraine. It’s the first day of Spring. One Ukrainian told me in response to possible food shortages, “It will be spring.. We will grow something” That’s the dry determination we have witnessed from many residents over the last few days across this country

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Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. And further to the south, unarmed Ukrainians continue to bravely demonstrate against Russian occupation. Notice no one reacts w fear when shots are fired in this video from Kherson

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"חייל רוסי - כובש פשיסטי". הסיסמה שצעקו היום תושבי חרסון בתהלוכה במרכז העיר. בסוף הסרטון נשמע ירי, אבל איש לא מתחיל לרוץ

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Wow. This is just an incredible allegation Duncan Hunter wife told him to buy shorts at a golf pro shop "so they could falsely describe the purchase later as 'some [golf] balls for the wounded warriors.'"

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This suspension was the first formal disciplinary action in her 18 year career working for Dem and GOP administrations, and came after she repeatedly raised concerns about the security clearance process in the White House

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As part of the effort to stop the war, Ukraine has set up a hotline for Russian women concerned about their sons/husbands/boyfriends etc. It’s the “Come Back from Ukraine Alive” hotline, said an advisor to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

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Here's what Ms. Newbold said regarding her dwarfism and what she viewed as retaliation: "As little as I am, I'm willing to fight and stand up for what I know is right... it's humiliating to not be able to independently work and do the job that you need."

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And it's not just dogs: Sophia, wearing a Tik Tok toque, holds her rabbit Rebecca, who has endured an 15 hour trip from Kyiv.

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Here is the email 66 year old Jerry Foxhoven sent to his staff, the day he was fired. He notes 2Pac's bday is also Father's day "Hard to believe he has been gone for almost 23 years" By all accounts, a kind email

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The Ukrainian government advisor said that five women in Kyiv have received 700 calls from Russian mothers “who are horrified” and they missed several thousand more calls. “All conversations are naturally recorded and are a valuable source of intelligence.”

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SOURCES: The University of Michigan's Influenza Encyclopedia The San Francisco Chronicle’s archives America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby American Pandemic by Nancy Bristow /END THREAD

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Newbold says the files were also moved out of her reach during the Obama administration. In contrast, however, when she raised concerns, the Chief Admin Officer for the WH personally walked down to file room and made sure that the files were moved to where she could reach them.

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Following her raising national security concerns, Tricia Newbold claims her supervisor began to humiliate her -- she has a rare form of dwarfism. "Mr. Kline repeatedly altered her office environment... such as physically elevating personnel security files out of her reach."

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If you were asleep, you would have missed both the ceasefire and its immediate collapse. Just hours into the evacuation of civilians, the effort was halted due to claims of the Russian mil firing on the corridor:

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Breaking: The governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, has accused Russia of breaching a ceasefire that was only just agreed upon. "Due to the fact that the Russians...continue shelling of Mariupol, the evacuation of the population has been postponed,' he said.

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Good morning from Ukraine. I'm back! What did I miss over last two weeks outside the top news headlines? Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, w/no Russian troops in vicinity. Today's news: all eyes on the east, where British intel estimates fighting will intensify over nxt 2-3 wks

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But audio only, a press pass, and a U.S. passport will settle things down. My puzzling ethnicity also helps. Remarkable what the phrase "американський журналіст" -- "American journalist" -- will do to calm nerves. Another plus: the disarming baby blue murse:

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FIRST ON NPR: The New York Attorney General took action today to dissolve the National Rifle Association after an 18 mo probe that found evidence the org was “fraught with fraud and abuse.” Full details:

New York Attorney General Moves To Dissolve The NRA After Fraud Investigation

New York's attorney general announced civil action to dissolve the National Rifle Association after an investigation found millions of dollars in alleged fraud by CEO Wayne LaPierre and others.

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Good morning to readers, from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Open source satellite imagery has given public a new window into the war. Today, a grim realization with photographic evidence: The existence of what appears to be a mass grave site west of Mariupol.

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Ukrainians simply will not leave their animals behind. Here's Monty, evacuated from Kyiv.

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On Thursday a senior western intelligence official told NPR that by Thursday “evening at the latest, Kyiv is likely to be encircled.” Here we are on Sunday afternoon, and the latest information is that it has not been.

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Good morning to readers; hello from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, but just days before Russia's 'Victory Day,' RUS military has bombarded targets all across Ukraine. Rail infrastructure was an apparent target: 6 stations in western/central Ukraine were hit...

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I asked Sen. Burr spokesperson Caitlin Carroll if her office had a comment re: the reports about the senator's stock sales amid the Coronavirus crisis. She responded, 'lol.'

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By November cases were down, and public health officials recommended re-opening the city. Residents rushed to entertainment venues after having been denied this communal joy for months. The Mayor himself was fined by his own police chief after going to a show without a mask.

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NEW from me: Alan Gross, an American who was a prisoner in Cuba, said that when Sen. Bernie Sanders visited him behind bars, the senator commended the Communist country, saying: "I don't know what's so wrong with this country."

Former Prisoner Recalls Sanders Saying, 'I Don't Know What's So Wrong' With Cuba

Alan Gross, an American who was detained in a Cuban prison for several years, tells NPR that Sen. Bernie Sanders visited him in detention and remarked he didn't understand why others criticized Cuba.

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An NPR reader posts this very helpful graphic breaking down the $2 trillion rescue package. Via reddit:

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In learning about the Anti-Mask League of 1919, we see many of the same human elements as today: a portion of the population resistant to the measures; a business community crying out for relief; a second wave after an initial loosening; threats to public health officials

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But the public declined to listen to SF's Public Health Officer. On Dec 19, officials voted down a mandatory mask order. “The dollar sign is exalted above the health sign," sighed the public health officer. By far the worst day of flu/pneumonia deaths followed on Dec 30

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Booker as Beto speaks in Spanish

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I'm at a bar demanding people identify Ukraine on a map

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NEW: Chairman of the House intelligence, foreign affairs and oversight committees are requesting docs related to Trump’s in-person encounters and phone calls with Putin

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Before we continue: I ran into some Free Burma Rangers here in Ukraine who are helping with humanitarian aid. They implore the world to watch Myanmar as well, where massacres, razing and torture are commonplace methods used by the Myanmar military.

The Myanmar military is employing a familiar strategy of massacres and burnings

The massacres and scorched-earth tactics represent the latest escalation in the military's violence against both civilians and the growing opposition to the military's February coup.

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Morning to readers, hello from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Russia acknowledged 27 crew members from Black Sea flagship Moskva are missing; and 1 dead. The Russian govt had been challenged over whether it is being complete with its report of casualties.

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But a second wave surged in Dec 1918, and SF's Health Officer again urged people to wear masks voluntarily Left to their own devices, most citizens - by one count 90 % - refused to wear masks. Businesses, concerned about Christmas sales, opposed. So did Culinary Workers union

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!!!! Buried in the appendix: WB: "According to White House officials... this was 'not the first time' under this Administration that a Presidential transcript was placed into this codeword-level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive... information."

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Scoop: Through FOIA litigation, I've obtained docs showing what Russian agents Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin discussed in the 2015 meetings with Fed, Treasury officials. Hint: They couldn't stop talking about the NRA

Exclusive: Documents Detail Meetings Of Russians With Treasury, Federal Reserve

Alexander Torshin and Maria Butina met in 2015 with top leaders in the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve, according to materials obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

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