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Russians celebrate Victory Day on Monday, May 9. The annual event marks the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, but it has taken on added importance this year because of Ukraine. (Image credit: AP)

(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky recently announced that the company’s employees will be able to work from anywhere, including (for up to three months) overseas.

The Supreme Court draft opinion signals a new era for the 50-year effort to end the constitutional right to abortion. Next goals include a national ban and, in some cases, classifying abortion as homicide.

Many factors drove women into the work force in greater numbers in the 1970s. Scholars argue that abortion access was an important one.

Villagers shared Google map locations with Ukraine’s military on Russian positions at great risk to themselves, turning a highway into the stage for a Kremlin defeat.

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No law or written code of conduct prescribes how an investigation into the leak of a draft opinion should proceed, or whether journalists will be swept into it.

With the worst of the thick wildfire smoke having blown out of town, residents of a small northern New Mexico city tried to recapture a sense of normalcy amid predictions of extreme fire conditions. (Image credit: Cedar Attanasio/AP)

Newly released video shows Alabama corrections officer at hotel morning of escape  NBC News Reward for Vicky White and inmate Casey Cole White increases  10 Tampa Bay Casey White manhunt: Alabama jail boss Vicky White visited hotel morning before inmate escape  Fox News