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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, INVASION, KYIV
Street fighting breaks out in Kyiv as Russian troops press toward Ukraine's capital
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russian troops pressed toward Ukraine's capital Saturday after a night of explosions
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TRUMP, CPAC, RUN, UKRAINE
Former President Donald Trump addressed a raucous crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday night — and reiterated claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin would never have invaded Ukraine had he won the 2020 presidential election.
He
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SUPREME, COURT, BIDEN, PICK
The safe pick
In the end, Biden went with the safe choice.
That might sound like an odd thing to say, considering that Jackson is poised to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court after 230-some years that were dominated by white men. But she’s
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SWIFT, RUSSIAN, BANKS, INTERNATIONAL
European leaders have moved closer to cutting Russia off from the SWIFT banking system as Germany remains the sole holdout over implementing the extreme measure following the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine Thursday
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CNN, LICHT, CHRIS, ZUCKER
New York (CNN Business) Chris Licht, the producer who created "Morning Joe," revamped "CBS This Morning" and revitalized "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," has been selected to run CNN once Discovery merges with WarnerMedia this spring, according to three
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VEGAS, HOOKAH, SHOT, LAS
One person is dead and numerous wounded following an early Saturday morning shooting in a Las Vegas hookah lounge.
KTNV reports that police began receiving calls about the shooting at approximately 3:15 a.m.
Fourteen people were shot, one of whom died.
News3LV
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NORTH, KOREA, MISSILE, FIRES
South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile into the sea off of its eastern coast
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea on Sunday launched a suspected ballistic missile into sea on, South Korean and Japanese officials said, in
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President Biden in an interview released Saturday defended the slew of sanctions the U.S. has imposed against Russia and its elite, saying the punishments are the only way to avoid a global war.
Mr. Biden’s comments come amid criticism that the penalties the
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YEARS, 10, TRAYVON, MARTIN
A decade ago, a 17-year-old Black teenager left his father’s fiancee's home in Florida to go to the store at night. He left with tea, a small bag of Skittles and his hoodie. A neighborhood watch volunteer suddenly stopped him. The man questioned the teen, a
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ACQUITTED, RETIRED, MOVIE, THEATER
Witnesses and prosecutors described a different scene.
Mr. Oulson, a Navy veteran and finance manager at a local motorcycle dealership, was on a date with his wife. Their 22-month-old daughter, Alexis, who was with a babysitter at home, was not feeling well.
Prosecutors
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RUSSIAN, OLIGARCHS, RICH, MISS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The term Russian oligarch conjures images of posh London mansions, gold-plated Bentleys and sleek superyachts in the Mediterranean, their decks draped with partiers dripping in jewels.
But the raft of sanctions on oligarchs announced by President
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WARSHIP, STRAIT, TAIWAN, SENSITIVE
A U.S. warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Saturday, part of what the U.S. military calls routine activity but which China described as "provocative."
The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet said the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph
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UKRAINIAN, VIDEO, SHOWS, RUSSIAN
The Russian invasion of Ukraine may already be running out of gas, if the video posted by one citizen is any indication.
The minute-long clip shows a man driving up to a group of soldiers and what appears to be a Russian tank, stopped on a rural road. “Are
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SEARCHERS, DIG, EARTHQUAKE, INDONESIA
Searchers dig in Indonesia earthquake rubble for victims
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PASAMAN, Indonesia (AP) — Searchers in Indonesia continued to dig in the rubble of collapsed buildings and mud from landslides for
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RUSSIA, FACEBOOK, INVASION, UKRAINE
Facebook and Twitter limit ads over Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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Facebook is blocking Russian state media from running ads on its platform anywhere in the world. The move comes after Russia said
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SCHOOL, DISTRICT, REINSTATED, DECISION
A suburban St. Louis school district has reversed its earlier decision to remove a book from its school libraries in the face of criticism and a class-action lawsuit
WENTZVILLE, Mo. -- A suburban St. Louis school district has reversed its earlier decision
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UKRAINIAN, PROTECTING, 13, WARSHIP
Ukraine will posthumously declare 13 soldiers Heroes of Ukraine, the nation’s highest honor, after making a defiant stand on Thursday and losing their lives defending the strategically important Snake Island from a Russian warship.
On the first day of fighting
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AMERICANS, 57, POLL, MCLAUGHLIN
Fifty-seven percent of Americans believe the United States is in a recession, a trend that started at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in February 2020, and has continued since, according to a recent Mclaughlin poll.
Current sentiments of those polled
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SUPREME, COURT, CONFRONTS, PLANET
(CNN) The Environmental Protection Agency faces a Supreme Court case on Monday that could deal a significant blow to the federal government's ability to fight the climate crisis and prevent its worst outcomes .
Republican attorneys general will argue the EPA
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ADDRESS, SOTU, BILL, QUARTERBACK
"Real Time" host Bill Maher took aim at Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over her scheduled rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union address next week.
It was announced that the Democratic "Squad" member will be making a speech to push the progressive
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RUSSIAN, STAR, TENNIS, WATCH
The horror of war inevitably presents opportunities for extraordinary people to demonstrate extraordinary acts of courage. As we reported on Friday, Vitaly Skakun, a Ukrainian Marine engineer, intentionally gave up his life as he blew up a bridge near Kyiv
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