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Plus: Landlines are back | Friday, February 16, 2024   Open in app View in browser   Presented By Hyundai   Axios PM By Mike Allen · Feb 16, 2024 Good afternoon. Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 435 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing.     1 big thing: World mourns Navalny Alexei Navalny during a hearing on Jan. 11. Photo: Vera Savina/AFP/Getty Images "Make no mistake, Putin is responsible," President Biden said today after Russian activist Alexei Navalny died in a remote prison. Navalny was one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's harshest and most persistent critics. He was an anti-corruption activist whose sheer determination and knack for capturing public attention made him the face of Russia's otherwise fractured opposition. "I do this because I hate these people," h

Plus: Factory farming, Haitian gangs, and more February 16, 2024 View in browser   Good morning. Tensions are building in Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city, as Israel warns of a ground invasion; senior producer on the Today, Explained podcast Avishay Artsy is here to explain. — Caroline Houck, senior editor of news   Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images Things are only getting worse in Rafah More than four months into the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza residents are struggling to survive winter conditions with insufficient food, drinking water, medicine, and clothing.   The majority of them have fled to Rafah, a city in the south bordering Egypt