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Ukraine The House of Representatives yesterday passed a roughly $40 billion bill to deliver aid to Ukraine as it continues to face Russia’s brutal assault. The measure will next need to be passed...

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“The two couples lived next to each other. On the final day before the Russians left the village, soldiers knocked at one home. Valya’s husband, Pavlo Ivanyuk, opened the door. The soldiers took ...

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As the war drags on, the parallels deepen. The Russian invasion has already spawned an enormous refugee crisis, hollowed out many Ukrainian cities and towns, and led to the suffering of countless...

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New Yorker article The Russians Fleeing Putin’s Wartime Crackdown Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing—and the more people who leave, the faster ...

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I really really really need a subscription to the Washington Post In a dingy Russian classroom with worn-out rugs, elementary school students lined up to form the shape of the letter Z: the symbo...

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Washington Post The scariest site on the Internet isn’t lurking on the dark web, but hiding in plain sight at nuclearsecrecy.com. “Nukemap” lets you pick the size of a nuclear bomb, plunk it anyw...

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Washington Post From email newsletter on 3/9/22 The latest Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, many long-haul covid-19 patients who are unable to work are being denied disability benefits fo...

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, Dana Goldstein, who covers education for The Times, has been hearing from parents concerned that their young children’s language development might have been h...

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Chernobyl plant disconnected from power grid in what Ukraine called an ‘extremely dangerous situation.’ Ukraine’s closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been disconnected from the nation’s pow...

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Washington Post The pandemic has not been kind to many couples. Lockdowns have added strains to relationships, leading to a spike in divorces when they were lifted. Differences in opinion over va...

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Omicron has pushed U.S. cases to record levels of more than 800,000 per day. Infection levels seem to have peaked in some of the places that were hit first, including Puerto Rico, Cleveland, Chic...

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Fom the New York Post Health workers call it quits The U.S. is experiencing a crisis of burned-out health care workers. For nearly two years, overwhelmed nurses, doctors and hospital staff have r...

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From The New York Times Omicron is here The all-too-familiar messages came pouring into my phone this week. Vaccinated friends texted with Covid scares. A colleague told me on Slack that contact ...

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The Franklin County Health Department reported 104 new cases of COVID-19 from July 17 to July 23, the highest number reported since the county moved to weekly instead of daily reports in May. Th...

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Missouri Hospital Just Hit its all time high for covid cases. But the county fair which attracts 1000s won’t be cancelled

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From a fb post by the Gasconade County Health Department on 7/22/21 “There have been: 48 new COVID positive cases since our last post on July 14, 2021 0 new COVID deaths since our last post on Ju...

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By Olivier Knox with Mariana Alfaro Welcome to The Daily 202 newsletter! Tell your friends to sign up here. On this day in 1934, the original “Public Enemy No. 1,” bank robber John Dillinger, was...

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By Adam Taylor with Claire Parker Struggling global covid-19 response dims hopes for climate change action Across the world, covid-19 is again surging. The global number of new coronavirus cases ...

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25 new cases confirmed last week in Gasconade CO. “Recent reports suggest the Delta variant is 200% more contagious than the original strain of Covid. A possible reason was published in a study ...

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Research: India’s deaths during pandemic 10X official toll By SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the officia...

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Private spyware licensed to governments for tracking terrorists found on the phones of journalists and activists worldwide Military-grade Pegasus spyware licensed by Israel’s NSO Group to help go...

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The unusual Lambda variant is rapidly spreading in South America. Here’s what we know. Its mutations help it dodge the immune system. Researchers are scrambling to figure out if it is more danger...

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All are clips from Washington Post articles Biz Markie, whose ‘Just a Friend’ climbed the charts in 1989, dies at 57 Biz Markie, who was born Marcel Hall, had a hit with “Just a Friend,” about a ...

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Europe floods: Death toll over 110 as rescues continue By FRANK JORDANS BERLIN (AP) — At least 110 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium, officials sa...

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