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The Conservative party named Rishi Sunak as the successor to outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss, the Kremlin claimed that Ukraine is preparing to detonate a dirty bomb, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced charges against two suspected Chinese spies, a gunman broke into a St. Louis high school and shot eight people, Ethan Crumbley pleaded guilty to terrorism and the first-degree murder of four students, one of the former police officers involved in the death of George Floyd pleaded guilty, math and reading scores dropped in every state over the past year
Migrant encounters at the U.S. southern border have soared to a new record high, a California judge has ruled in favor of a bakery owner who declined to make wedding cakes for a same-sex ceremony, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is asking the Ukrainian people to conserve electricity, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has become the country’s most powerful dictator, former President Trump has reportedly told associates that he’ll consider complying with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee
Tory party leaders in London are looking for a new prime minister, Iranian troops have been on the ground in Crimea supporting Russia’s drone attacks in Ukraine, the Biden administration announced that the Pentagon will pay the travel costs of service members and their dependents who seek an abortion in another state, Biden touted bipartisan infrastructure spending on a campaign stop, a record number of migrants have died at the U.S. southern border, the CDC will likely add COVID-19 vaccines to its child immunization schedule
British Prime Minister Liz Truss will keep pressing forward amid calls for her resignation, President Biden says he will release another 15 million barrels of oil from the nation’s strategic reserve, Israel says it stands with Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, Vladimir Putin declared martial law in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow has attempted to illegally annex, New York City set up a complex of giant tents to shelter migrants arriving in the city from the southern border, polls show that voters are more concerned about inflation than about access to abortions
President Biden is banking on abortion to help his party keep control of Congress, Germany’s foreign minister is warning that her country cannot make the same mistakes with China that it made with Russia, Russian airstrikes have taken out at least 30 percent of Ukraine’s power stations, Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic in Russia will remain behind bars, British Prime Minister Liz Truss is scrambling to recover her grasp on power, a French cement company has pleaded guilty to charges that it paid millions of dollars to ISIS
Russia sent drones packed with explosives that struck Ukraine’s capital, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says it’s time to hit Iran with more sanctions, members of the House Armed Services Committee are warning that the United States needs to step up preparations for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to continue flights sending migrants to Democrat-led cities, many students in southwestern Florida are back in class, the Justice Department is pushing for a harsh sentence for former Trump adviser Steve Bannon
Kyiv residents continue to weather Russian attacks on civilian targets, Oksana Markarova also expressed optimism about keeping the Starlink internet service up and running in Ukraine, thousands of delegates gathered in Tiananmen Square’s Great Hall for the start of the Communist party conference, Biden is cracking down on Venezuelan migrants who attempt to cross without authorization, a 15-year-old boy killed five people and injured two more in a shooting rampage in North Carolina, gas prices have dipped once again after rising last week
NATO’s Secretary General says Vladimir Putin is failing in Ukraine, the United States is edging closer to sending more advanced air-defense systems to Ukraine, President Biden is rethinking America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, the United States negotiated a draft energy deal between Israel and Lebanon, NASA says it successfully knocked a small asteroid off course, Angela Labsbury died at the age of 96
Russian missiles rained down on cities across Ukraine, an army of 42,000 utility workers has restored electricity to more than 2.5 million homes in businesses in Florida, the remnants of Hurricane Julia have continued drenching Guatemala and El Salvador, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is running a new series of out-of-state ads encouraging women to come to his state for an abortion, Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke won the Nobel Prize in economics, North Korea says its recent barrage of missile launches simulated nuclear strikes against U.S. targets
The White House is still trying to explain President Biden’s mention of possible nuclear armageddon, Vladimir Putin called the attack that damaged the bridge connecting Russia to Crimea “a terrorist act” by Ukrainian forces, some Floridians were able to return home over the weekend, mourners in Thailand gathered for weekend services to honor the victims of the daycare massacre, anti-government demonstrations erupted once again in Iran, gas prices are moving in the wrong direction again
