- Taliban Kill Head of ISIS Cell That Bombed Kabul Airport (nytimes.com)
- Social Security services to worsen despite budget boost, agency head says (washingtonpost.com)
- Trump has frozen out GOP challengers: ‘As soon as someone pops their head up, he’ll be whacking on them’ (rawstory.com)
- Teachers’ union head accuses Pompeo of stoking hate with ‘filth’ comments (theguardian.com)
- As CPAC’s head faces sexual assault claim, other leadership concerns emerge (washingtonpost.com)Fox News Appears to Distance Itself From CPAC Amid Groping Allegation Against Boss Matt Schlapp (mediaite.com)
- Fierce fighting in north of Ukraine’s Bakhmut, says Russian head of Wagner militia (reuters.com)Ukraine Says It Will Not Strike Russian Territory With New Missiles (rferl.org)Germany has 'hundreds' of pieces of evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine (france24.com)
- Early voters in Georgia head to the polls Saturday for Senate runoff (washingtonpost.com)
