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The exhibit explores how Native Americans have used water. But it also points out how political water is. (Image credit: Cara Romero/Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Independence Day arrives at a time when the United States is roiled by hearings over the Jan. 6 insurrection, awash in turmoil over high court rulings on abortion and guns and struggling to maintain the common bonds that keep it

A Russian scientist who was arrested on suspicion of state treason and flown to Moscow despite being “on his deathbed” has died, according to lawyers and a family member.

Copenhagen’s police chief said investigators had no indication that anyone helped the gunman, identified as a 22-year-old Dane. (Image credit: Olafur Steinar Rye Gestsson/AP)

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will pledge that the UK will “do everything possible to ensure Ukraine wins the war and recovers”.

At least six people hiking along a popular Alpine trail in northeastern Italy were killed on Sunday when a large chunk of glacier broke loose.

A second woman has been killed in a shark attack off Egypt’s Red Sea coast.

We stuck rigidly to a narrow strip of safe ground. To the left and right it’s littered with mines.

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 131 of the invasion  The Guardian With latest capture, Russia edges closer to complete control of Ukraine’s Donbas  NPR Ukrainian Withdrawal From Key City Allows Russia to Refocus  The New York Times Russia Claims Control of

Ex-PM denies sending request to change 18-month rule so he’d get car, driver, office; Bennett said worried his time as alternate PM won’t count; Lapid’s office: Relations are good