Lloyd Austin said Ukraine’s effort to defeat Russia’s invasion ‘matters to the rest of the world’ and that U.S. support would continue ‘for the long haul.’
Katherine Lee
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Appeals court appears inclined to reimpose gag order against Trump in election interference case
Judges asked aggressive questions of both sides while weighing whether to restore an order from a trial judge that barred Trump from inflammatory comments against prosecutors, potential witnesses and court staff.
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Shooter kills security guard before being fatally shot at New Hampshire psychiatric hospital
The shooting comes 3 weeks after 18 people were killed and 13 others injured in a mass shooting in Lewiston.
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IBM and EU pull ads from X after Elon Musk’s antisemitic tweets
IBM said this week it stopped advertising on X after a report said its ads were appearing alongside material praising Nazis. Ads from Apple, Oracle, NBCUniversal’s Bravo network and Comcast also were placed next to antisemitic material.
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British writer A.S. Byatt, author of the novel ‘Possession,’ dies at 87
‘Possession,’ published in 1990, follows 2 modern-day academics investigating the lives of a pair of Victorian poets. It won the prestigious Booker Prize that year and was adapted as a 2002 film.
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Judge in Trump’s Georgia election case limits disclosure of evidence after videos released
The ruling came after news outlets this week reported on the contents of and published clips from interviews that four defendants conducted with prosecutors as part of their plea deals.
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The world’s first gene therapy for sickle cell and thalassemia has been approved
The move could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling illness in the U.K.
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Rep. George Santos says he won’t seek reelection after scathing House report
The committee said that Santos’ conduct warrants public condemnation, is beneath the dignity of the office, and has brought severe discredit upon the House.
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Finland to close 4 border crossings, accusing Russia of organizing flow of migrants
Finnish President Sauli Niinistö on Wednesday linked Russia’s actions to Finland’s NATO membership in April after decades of military non-alignment, something that infuriated Moscow.
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Biden, Xi met for hours and agreed to ‘pick up the phone’ for any urgent concerns: ‘That’s progress’
President Biden and China’s Xi Jinping opened their first face-to-face meeting in more than a year with a solid handshake.