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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy urges calm as world leaders work to avert Russian invasion

With more than 100,000 Russian troops on his borders, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that the reaction of world leaders had created a “panic” in his country. (Image credit: Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/AP)

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Russian President Putin said the West has not addressed Russia’s main demands

Russian President Vladimir Putin weighed in for the first time on answers from the U.S. and NATO to Russia’s security proposals. Other signals from the Kremlin are encouraging.

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Inflation Continued to Run Hot and Consumer Spending Fell in December

Prices are rising rapidly, wages are growing and consumers are glum as a fraught economic moment poses big challenges for policymakers.

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One former NASA astronaut’s view on what is next in space exploration

“It’s a good time to be a human being because, you know, these things are starting to open up and everybody is going to be able, or more people at least are going to be able to see what it’s

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Burkina Faso at risk for more unrest after coup

Already there appear to be tensions between the military and gendarme security forces. There is also the risk that some elements within the military could stage a counter-coup against the junta now leading the West African country.

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Red States Aren’t Waiting for the Supreme Court’s Roe Decision to Push New Abortion Bans

As the Supreme Court weighs the high-profile case that could unwind Roe v. Wade—and, with it, the Constitutional right to abortion—conservative state lawmakers are introducing a wave of new bills aimed at limiting abortion at the state level. While several

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East Coast prepares for possible winter blizzard conditions

Residents and officials in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. are bracing for a powerful winter storm expected to produce blizzard conditions Friday and Saturday.

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Bridge in Pittsburgh collapses hours before scheduled Biden visit to talk infrastructure – CNN

Bridge in Pittsburgh collapses hours before scheduled Biden visit to talk infrastructure  CNN Pittsburgh bridge collapse causes massive gas leak leaving 4 hospitalized ahead of Biden’s visit  Fox News Human chain formed to rescue people from dangling bus after Pittsburgh bridge collapse

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Pentagon Warns Russia Could Seize Ukrainian Cities, While Kyiv Pleads for Calm

The Pentagon warned that Russia has amassed sufficient combat power to take cities and substantial swaths of territory in Ukraine, whose leaders warned the U.S. was overstating the Russian threat.

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U.K. police request redactions to information on lockdown violation parties

British police say they want parts of a key report into lockdown-breaching government parties to remain unpublished until they finish a criminal investigation.

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