Pakistan’s prime minister says his government is grappling with food shortages following months of deadly floods in the impoverished nation
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Ukraine pushes back to northeast border, captures many POWs
While Ukrainian cities began emerging from Russian occupation, a local leader alleged that the Kremlin’s troops had committed atrocities against civilians there similar to those in other places seized by Moscow.
Biden hopes ending cancer can be a ‘national purpose’ for U.S.
His speech comes as Biden seeks to rally the nation around developing treatments and therapeutics for the pervasive diseases that the CDC rank as the 2nd-highest killer of people in the U.S. after heart disease.
Police believe mother drowned 3 children at NYC beach
Police say three children have died after being found on a New York City beach.
Queen hailed in Edinburgh service as a ‘constant in all our lives’
Scenes of large crowds lining the route as her coffin journeyed south have underscored the deep bond between the queen and Scotland.
Americans give U.S. health care system failing mark, AP poll finds
A majority of adults in the U.S. say health care is not handled well in the country.
Ukraine pushes big counteroffensive as war marks 200 days
Facing the prospect of a large group of its forces becoming surrounded, Moscow pulled back its troops from Kharkiv in a dramatic shift in the state of play.
Last reactor at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant stopped
With external power restored to the plant, reactor No. 6 has been transferred to the ‘safest state – cold shutdown.’
Marsha Hunt, ’40s star and blacklist victim, dies at 104
The actor worked with performers ranging from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith in a career disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist.
Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin takes long road through Scotland
Mourners pack city streets and highway bridges or line rural roads with cars and tractors to take part in a historic goodbye to the monarch who had reigned for 70 years.