One year after President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, a settlement is nowhere in sight.
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Russia launches rescue ship to space station after leaks
The capsule leak in December was blamed on a micrometeorite that punctured an external radiator, draining it of coolant.
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Two Pakistanis leave Guantanamo after 20 years without charges
U.S. officials accused the two Pakistani brothers of helping al-Qaida members with housing and other lower-level logistical support.
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Trans youth care ban headed to Tennessee governor’s desk
Republican Gov. Bill Lee has voiced support for the bill.
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IS attacks on Syria truffle hunters are deadliest in a year
Sleeper cells still terrorize populations nearly four years after the group was defeated in Syria.
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U.S. mass killings linked to extremism spiked over last decade
The number was at least three times higher in the last decade than the total from any other 10-year period since the 1970s.
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Harvey Weinstein gets 16 years for rape, sexual assault
The sentence comes on top of the more than 20 years the 70-year-old Weinstein has left to serve for a similar 2020 conviction in New York.
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U.N. approves resolution calling for Russia to leave Ukraine
The nonbinding General Assembly resolution, considered a barometer of world opinion, passed 141-7, with 32 abstentions.
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Drone footage shows Bakhmut’s destruction, a year after Russian invasion of Ukraine
New video footage of Bakhmut shot from the air with a drone for The Associated Press shows how the longest battle of the year-long Russian invasion has turned the city of salt and gypsum mines in eastern Ukraine into a ghost town
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Michigan State shooter’s father wants stricter firearm controls
Michael McRae, 67, told The Detroit News he is praying for something to change in America, even as his son, 43-year-old Anthony McRae, was accused of being behind the nation’s 67th mass shooting in 2023.