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In our news wrap Wednesday, the Kremlin accused Ukraine of striking more targets inside Russia, including oil facilities and a border town, the U.S. and South Korea condemned North Korea’s attempt to launch its first spy satellite and Sudan’s army

Youngkin says “leadership solutions” at the federal level are falling short, leaving states to fill in the void. Virginia Democrats are criticizing the move as an abuse of state resources to further a culture war in Texas.

Uganda just enacted one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws. Same-sex relations were already illegal there, but the new law goes much further, including life imprisonment for anyone convicted of homosexuality and in some cases mandates the death penalty. The

Danny Masterson Found Guilty of Raping 2 Women in Retrial  The New York TimesView Full Coverage on Google News

The national attention on acts of police brutality often overlooks one group of victims, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. That’s because data show that, as a whole, they experience low rates of fatal police violence. But new research shows the

NASA UFO Panels Says It’s Pushing U.S. To Collect Better Data  The New York Times Nasa UFO team says over 800 ‘incidents’ investigated  BBC NASA debunks UFOs seen in new video  WCNC NASA talks UFOs with public ahead of final report on unidentified

Over the past few years, this country has seen a dramatic rise in partisan animosity with dangerous implications for the health of our democracy. Judy Woodruff profiles some of the work being done to understand what’s driving that trend and

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Kremlin officials said Ukraine’s allies should have condemned the strike, and argued again that its real war was with the West.

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