Note: No essay today. Just the headlines, including six of the other tributes to Victor Navasky, truly a towering figure of American publishing, politics and culture.
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Russian strikes reported across Ukraine a day after German, U.S. tank deals (WP)
US economy beats expectations with 2.9% growth (Financial Times)
Will the 2016 Election Ever End? (Atlantic)
Yes, 2023 Is An Election Year. Here Are The Races To Watch. (538)
2023’s Biggest, Most Unusual Race Centers on Abortion and Democracy (NYT)
Palestinians say Israeli troops kill 9 in West Bank raid (AP)
Thousands of Australians marked the country's national day celebrations with rallies in support of Indigenous people, many of whom describe the anniversary of the day a British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour as "Invasion Day." (Reuters)
Rep. Adam Schiff announces run for U.S. Senate in California (WP)
House Republicans are demanding sharp spending cuts in exchange for voting in favor of raising the debt ceiling this year, but they’ve suggested President Joe Biden should specify what exactly to cut in the federal budget. Their refusal to lay out a detailed plan is a result of the many internal disagreements within the narrow House GOP majority, as well as reluctance to propose cuts to popular domestic programs, including Social Security and Medicare. [HuffPost]
Veterans of the Obama-era debt ceiling standoff on the current one: We may be doomed (Politico)
Backlash grows against DeSantis decision to block AP class on Black history (WP)
National Archives asks former presidents and vice presidents to check for classified and presidential documents (CNN)
How classified documents became a schoolgirl's show and tell (AP)
All 5 former Memphis police officers charged with murder in Tyre Nichols’ death, court records show (CNN)
Google will stop letting political campaigns dodge its email spam filters. The company introduced the controversial exemption last year after Republican lawmakers blamed Gmail’s spam filters for poor fundraising performance. (WP)
The number of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border dropped off dramatically from December to January following new rules that expel them back to Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security said. (Reuters)
Taliban working on guidelines for women NGO workers: UN says (Al Jazeera)
India/ Egypt: Ongoing human rights crisis in both countries must be addressed (Amnesty)
Meet the man who unwittingly triggered the war over gas stoves (WP)
Harvard neuroscientist: The ‘most underrated’ skill all successful people have—‘especially introverts’ (CNBC)
Victor Navasky: An Avatar of the American Left, 1932–2023 (The Nation)
Victor Navasky’s Vast Intellectual Universe (TNR)
Victor Navasky, award-winning author and editor of the Nation, dies at 90 (The Guardian)
Victor S. Navasky, a Leading Liberal Voice in Journalism, Dies at 90 (NYT)
Remembering Victor Navasky, the Unflappable Ringmaster of “The Nation” (Mother Jones)
Journalist Victor S. Navasky has died. For years, he led The Nation. (NPR)
Scientists invented a melting liquid robot that can escape from a cage (WP)
ChatGPT could make these jobs obsolete: ‘The wolf is at the door’ (NY Post)
Sam Altman, the maker of ChatGPT, says the A.I. future is both awesome and terrifying. If it goes badly: ‘It’s lights-out for all of us’ (Fortune)
52 million years ago, strange primates lived in complete darkness in the Arctic (LiveScience)
For the Beatles-obsessed, here are 3 never-before-seen photos from 1964 (NPR)
Water From Splash Mountain Selling For Up To $1,000 On eBay After Ride Closes (The Onion)
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