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TGIF: An Assassination. A Murder. And a Win.
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By Nellie Bowles
02.18.22 — TGIF
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We’ve got the headlines we’re following. We’ve got a summary of this week on the site. It’s TGIF. You know what we do here.

Americans evacuate another country: As America withdraws from the world, other powers step into the breach. First, Afghanistan fell to the Taliban—and China lept to fill the void we left behind. Now Russia is preparing its invasion …

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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