Monday marks three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, 2022. Alicja Hagopian and Tom Watling report on the many costs of Putin’s war

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The sea lions may be suffering from domoic acid toxicity, experts say

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Tulsi Gabbard joins Kash Patel and the Department of Defense in instructing employees not to respond to the email

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Some agencies are already fighting Musk’s order, telling their employees to not respond

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Lachelle ‘Shelly’ Jeannine Waite was found dead at 18 in 1986

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DC Marriott hotel evacuates convention floor as building was swept, event organizers said

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The 88-year-old pontiff is still alert, says Vatican in late update, as he continues to battle pneumonia and complex lung infection

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The speech marked former VP’s first major public appearance since Joe Biden left White House

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Buriticupu, in the Brazilian Amazon, has declared an emergency in the face of these sinkholes

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White House has fired C.Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, chief of the Navy and vice chief of the Air Force

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Conservatives have long criticized ATF for being over regulatory of firearms

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Trump fired the Kennedy Center’s leadership upon his return to the Oval Office and put MAGA loyalist in charge of the famed institution

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Ukraine’s children have lost much of their childhood to war. Three years into invasion, how are they coping and what are their dreams for the future?

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending President Donald Trump’s firing of the nation’s senior military officer and a wave of top dismals at the Pentagon, insisting that they weren’t unusual despite accusations that the new administration is injecting politics into the military

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A traffic stop that led to the shooting death of a border patrol agent in January has cracked open a cult-like group known as the ‘Zizians’, linking some of the members to a slew of killings across the country. Andrea Cavallier takes a look at the their alleged violent rampage

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Briana Payne and her three daughters, 7-year-old Aurorah, 7, Ava, 6, and Alayna, 4, killed in shocking incident

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Russia has launched a record number of drones into Ukraine on the eve of the three-year anniversary of Moscow's full-scale invasion

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The prison van containing Mohamed Amra was ambushed by gunmen in a bloody attack last May that left two guards dead

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Moscow has launched near-nightly massed drone attacks at Ukraine for months

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Pope Francis is fighting pneumonia in both lungs amid fears the infection could spread and cause sepsis

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