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Experts say Biden’s risk-averse approach to Russian could create greater threat
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WARSAW, Poland) — President Joe Biden’s high-stakes summit with other NATO leaders on Thursday will be one of the most scrutinized meetings on the world stage in decades, and could have enormous [Read More…]
Tornado outbreak in Texas, Oklahoma kills one, injures at least 10
PBNJ Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least three southern states were under a tornado watch Tuesday following an outbreak of twisters Monday night in Texas and Oklahoma that cut a path of destruction, killed [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Moscow responds to Biden on biological, chemical weapons
Andriy Dubchak / dia images via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” [Read More…]
Prominent Putin critic Alexey Navalny sentenced to additional nine years
Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images (LONDON) — The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to an additional nine years, in a fresh trial roundly criticized by human rights organizations as politically motivated. [Read More…]
Doctors on Ukraine border say mental health is top medical priority
Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since the war in Ukraine began, more than three million refugees have fled — by bus, train, car and foot — for neighboring countries. Some have [Read More…]
K-pop inspired food trucks help COVID-hit restaurants and children in need
ABC News (SEOUL, South Korea) — The scrumptious smell of shrimp patties and brioche buns cooking over a sizzling pan filled the air. Watermelon-shaped rice cake bars were piled up in one corner, iced tea [Read More…]
US recognizes Myanmar’s atrocities against Rohingya as ‘genocide’
Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. government has determined the attacks by Myanmar’s military against the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority, constituted genocide and crimes against humanity, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Monday. [Read More…]
Injuries, damage reported from Texas tornado
PBNJ Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Injuries have been reported and multiple homes and businesses are damaged after a tornado tore through Round Rock, Texas, Monday evening, according to the local fire and police departments. [Read More…]
Climate change exhibit opens at DC’s Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center (WASHINGTON) — A man submerged up to his chin in brown, murky floodwaters and a group of miners covered head to toe in black soot — these are a few of the [Read More…]
Firefighter injured in central Texas as wildfires rage on
Visoot Uthairam/Getty Images (HOOD COUNTY, Texas) — Extreme weather conditions are causing deadly wildfires across the country. A wildfire in central Texas that started over the weekend has burned over 11,000 acres and injured a [Read More…]
Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized with infection, Supreme Court says
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized with an infection, the Supreme Court announced in a statement. Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Friday evening after [Read More…]
One dead, at least 28 shot, including children, at Arkansas car show
Courtesy Amberly R. Taylor (DUMAS, Ark.) — At least 28 people were shot, including six children, at a car show in rural Arkansas on Saturday night. At least one person has died, according to police. [Read More…]
Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings live updates: Nominee responds to attacks
Sha Hanting/China News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, faces up to 11 hours of grilling Tuesday on Day 2 of [Read More…]
Eric Greitens, GOP Senate candidate and former governor, accused of abuse by ex-wife
Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some GOP members of Congress are calling on fellow Republican and former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens to drop out of his Senate race [Read More…]
After Pentagon demurs, Biden confirms Russia fired hypersonic missile: Ukraine Day 26
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine’s efforts to resist. Here are highlights of what a senior U.S. defense official told reporters [Read More…]
Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings updates: Questioning begins Tuesday
Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in its 233-year history, will appear on Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first [Read More…]
Ketanji Brown Jackson faces 4th Senate grilling as Republicans preview attacks
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, the easiest part of a Senate confirmation hearing is over. Next come the questions — 19 hours [Read More…]
Phil Mickelson will not play in 2022 Masters
Oisin Keniry/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Phil Mickelson won’t be on the green when the 2022 Masters kicks off at Augusta National Golf Club next month. Mickelson, a three-time Masters champion, was expected to play [Read More…]
Scoreboard roundup — 3/21/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION LA Lakers 131, Cleveland 120 Charlotte 106, New Orleans 103 Portland 119, Detroit 115 Brooklyn 114, Utah 106 Philadelphia 113, [Read More…]
Scoreboard roundup — 3/20/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Indiana 129, Portland 98 Memphis 122, Houston 98 New Orleans 117, Atlanta 112 Orlando 90, Oklahoma City 85 Phoenix 127, [Read More…]