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A man stands looking at the burning and destroyed Retroville shopping mall after
a Russian attack on the northwest of the capital Kyiv on Monday. The high-rise
building was hit by a powerful blast that also destroyed vehicles and left a
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RUSSIA-UKRAINE RECAP


TODAY IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: KYIV SETS A CURFEW UNDER RELENTLESS RUSSIAN
BOMBARDMENT

In the south, Russia offered to let civilians out of Mariupol and let
humanitarian aid in, but only if the city surrendered. Ukraine refused. See
those and more of the day's top stories.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives for her confirmation
hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill March 21, 2022, in
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POLITICS


JUDGE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON CONFIRMATION HEARINGS: WHAT HAPPENED TODAY

On Sept. 1, 2021, 7 inches of rain from the remains of Hurricane Ida hammered
down on Cresskill Middle/High School in Bergen County, N.J. Superintendent
Michael Burke walks through what's left of the media center. Mohamed Sadek for
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EDUCATION


THIS SCHOOL WASN'T BUILT FOR THE NEW CLIMATE REALITY. YOURS MAY NOT BE EITHER

March 21: Ukraine Army Chaplain Mikola Madenski walks through debris outside the
destroyed Retroville shopping mall in a residential district in Kyiv after a
Russian attack on the capital. At least six people were killed in the overnight
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THE PICTURE SHOW


PHOTOS: UKRAINE REJECTS RUSSIAN SURRENDER REQUEST AS ATTACKS PICK UP


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REVIEW: HEAVY, BUGGY STEAM DECK WINS OVER A NINTENDO SWITCH FAN

The Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense
Council of Ukraine warns of a sharp rise in online ads seeking truck drivers.
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UKRAINE INVASION — EXPLAINED


RUSSIA IS TRYING TO RECRUIT DRIVERS WHO KNOW UKRAINE'S ROADS

From March 2019: Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes part in the shooting of the
television series Servant of the People, in which he played the role of the
President of Ukraine. Then a presidential candidate, art imitated life when he
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ASTRONOMY'S CONTRIBUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE RIVALS THE EMISSIONS FROM SOME
COUNTRIES

Building and operating telescopes can generate a lot of greenhouse gases. In
fact, it's as if each astronomer in the world was driving more than 100,000
miles per year, a new study finds.


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HOW TO MANAGE THE HOMEWORK OF ADULTHOOD, FROM PAPERWORK TO REPAIRS

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appointments to make, forms to sign, carpools to organize. Here's how to conquer
the responsibilities on your to-do list so you can get back to your life.

HOW TO MANAGE THE HOMEWORK OF ADULTHOOD, FROM PAPERWORK TO REPAIRS

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After 20 years of setbacks, the U.S. military court in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is
exploring the idea of settlement talks for the 9/11 detainees. If that happens,
the defendants could plead guilty, serve life in prison and avoid the death
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GUANTÁNAMO PROSECUTORS ARE EXPLORING PLEA DEALS IN 9/11 CASES AFTER YEARS OF
SETBACKS

After 20 years of failure, the U.S. military court in Guantánamo is admitting a
9/11 trial may never happen. Instead, the defendants may plead guilty, serve
life in prison and avoid the death penalty.

GUANTÁNAMO PROSECUTORS ARE EXPLORING PLEA DEALS IN 9/11 CASE AFTER YEARS OF
SETBACKS

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U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne
Neuberger warned companies that the Russian government could be preparing to
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UKRAINE INVASION — EXPLAINED


THE U.S. WARNS COMPANIES TO STAY ON GUARD FOR POSSIBLE RUSSIAN CYBERATTACKS

President Biden said "evolving intelligence" showed Russia is "exploring options
for potential cyberattacks." The U.S. has previously warned about Russia's
capability to attack U.S. infrastructure.

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southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. Robert Gill/Dartmouth/Robert Gill
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UKRAINE INVASION — EXPLAINED


UKRAINIAN STUDENTS IN THE U.S. WATCH A WAR ON THEIR HOMELAND UNFOLD FROM ABROAD

More than 1,700 Ukrainians are studying in the U.S. Three of them spoke to NPR
about their feelings of guilt and distraction, and what they're doing to help.

UKRAINIAN STUDENTS IN THE U.S. WATCH A WAR ON THEIR HOMELAND UNFOLD FROM ABROAD

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Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during her confirmation
hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. Jacquelyn Martin/AP
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POLITICS


READ KETANJI BROWN JACKSON'S STATEMENT AT HER SUPREME COURT CONFIRMATION HEARING

Read the opening remarks Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson prepared to read on Monday,
the first day of her Supreme Court nomination hearing.

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MOVIE INTERVIEWS


'FLEE' CREATORS ON BEING A REFUGEE: IT'S NOT AN IDENTITY, IT'S A CIRCUMSTANCE OF
LIFE

The film Flee opens with a question: "What does the word 'home' mean to you?"
For Amin Nawabi, the answer is complicated.

Vice President Kamala Harris looks at a hyperwall during a climate change
discussion at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard
Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on Nov. 5 , 2021. The SEC unveiled new
proposals on Monday requiring companies to disclose climate-related risks.
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BUSINESS


THE SEC WANTS COMPANIES TO DISCLOSE HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS IMPACTING THEM

Under the rule proposals, companies would be required to share information about
their greenhouse gas emissions as well as climate-related risks faced by their
businesses.

Ukrainians in Lviv show support for the residents and defenders of Mariupol on
Saturday. Ukraine rejected Russia's calls to surrender the strategic southern
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UKRAINE INVASION — EXPLAINED


UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS EMPHATICALLY REJECT RUSSIA'S CALL TO SURRENDER BESIEGED
MARIUPOL

After weeks of bombarding the city, Russia offered the ultimatum on Sunday: If
Mariupol surrenders, it will let civilians leave and humanitarian aid enter.
Ukrainian officials refused.

UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS EMPHATICALLY REJECT RUSSIA'S CALL TO SURRENDER BESIEGED
MARIUPOL

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A single lot of Great Value Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix, sold at Walmart, is
being recalled due to "possible foreign material contamination." U.S. Food and
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NATIONAL


GREAT VALUE PANCAKE & WAFFLE MIX IS RECALLED DUE TO POSSIBLE CABLE FRAGMENTS

A single lot of the pancake mix, which is sold at Walmart, could be contaminated
with the foreign material.

Congress is debating legislation banning lawmakers from trading individual
stocks. There is already a Senate rule requiring committee aides to divest
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POLITICS


ETHICS ADVOCATES SAY SENATE STAFFERS COULD BE BREAKING RULES ON STOCK OWNERSHIP

There is no ban on lawmakers trading stocks, but there is one for Senate
committee aides overseeing industries before their panels. One review found five
aides appear to be violating ethics rules.


UKRAINE INVASION — EXPLAINED


A 96-YEAR-OLD HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR WAS KILLED WHEN RUSSIAN FORCES SHELLED HIS HOME

Boris Romantschenko was killed last week in a Russian attack in Kharkiv. He
survived four concentration camps and later "campaigned intensively for the
memory of the Nazi crimes."

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a press conference in Budapest on Feb.
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CULTURE


IN HUNGARY, THE ARTS ARE BEING SUPPRESSED BY THE GOVERNMENT, A NEW REPORT SAYS

The Artistic Freedom Initiative contends that consolidated state power under
right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and artists' self-censorship has led to
an "existential crisis."

A Russian court has declared Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and
WhatsApp, an extremist organization. WhatsApp is excluded from the ruling,
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TECHNOLOGY


A RUSSIAN COURT BANS FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM FOR EXTREMIST ACTIVITIES

The ruling amounts to an immediate ban of Facebook and Instagram in Russia,
where both platforms are already blocked. WhatsApp, also owned by Meta, is still
allowed.


RUSSIA IS RESTRICTING SOCIAL MEDIA. HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW

FILE - Residents watch as a China Eastern passenger jet prepares to take off on
a test flight from the new Beijing Daxing International Airport on Monday, May
13, 2019. State media are reporting a Chinese airliner from China Eastern with
133 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday. Ng
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ASIA


JETLINER CRASHES WITH 132 ABOARD IN SOUTHERN CHINA, OFFICIALS SAY

Authorities have not yet determined the total number of casualties or why the
plane went down as debris is seen littered across a mountainside in Guangxi's
Teng county.

Shararah's 2021 Nowruz feast isn't possible this year because of a ban on the
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CULTURE


NOWRUZ IS BANNED IN AFGHANISTAN, BUT FAMILIES CONTINUE TO FIND WAYS TO CELEBRATE

One woman living in Kabul describes how, despite food shortages and repression,
her family is celebrating the Persian new year with what they have.

Volunteers connect I-beams to make anti-tank obstacles known as Czech hedgehogs,
in a workshop in Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 3. Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty
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UKRAINE INVASION — EXPLAINED


THE WAR IN UKRAINE HAS REINTRODUCED THESE WORDS AND PHRASES INTO OUR VOCABULARY

We're using new geopolitical and military terms – and resurrecting and revising
old ones – to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a conflict where information
is treated as another battlefield.

Anti-coup protesters are shown running around their makeshift barricade as they
make a defense line during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 28,
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ASIA


U.S. OFFICIALLY SAYS MYANMAR'S VIOLENCE AGAINST ROHINGYA WAS GENOCIDE

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum on Monday, accused Myanmar's military of carrying out a genocide and
crimes against humanity in 2016 and 2017.

Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah
Pride Center, poses with books, including The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison and
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison, that have been the subject of complaints from
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NATIONAL


BOOK BANS AND THE THREAT OF CENSORSHIP REV UP POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN THE SUBURBS

A conservative campaign to ban certain books from schools is prompting other
parents to push back. The issue is often framed as the latest "culture war"
battle, but some see democracy itself at stake.

Nutritionist Shaunté Fields and bus driver Treva White, left, deliver meals to
children and their families in Seattle. When schools closed because of COVID-19,
Seattle Public Schools began distributing breakfast and lunch to students
through a network of 26 school sites and 43 bus routes five days a week. Karen
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SHOTS - HEALTH NEWS


MILLIONS OF CHILDREN WILL MISS HEALTHY SCHOOL MEALS WHEN PANDEMIC RELIEF EXPIRES

A boost in funds and flexibility in how food is prepared and packaged was a
lifeline for kids coping with hunger. But these measures, passed in response to
COVID-19, expire in June, with no extension.

Lee Yong-soo, a South Korean sexual slavery survivor who has been demanding
since the early 1990s that the Japanese government fully accept culpability and
offer an unequivocal apology, wipes her tear during an interview in Seoul, South
Korea, on March 16, 2022. Lee Jin-man/AP hide caption

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ASIA


SOUTH KOREAN SLAVERY VICTIM SEEKS U.N. JUSTICE AS TIME RUNS OUT

The grievances over sexual slavery, forced labor and other abuses stemming from
Japan's WW II-era colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula have strained
Seoul-Tokyo relations in recent years.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, 73, has been at Sibley Memorial Hospital
in Washington, D.C., since Friday, after experiencing "flu-like symptoms," the
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LAW


JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS HAS BEEN HOSPITALIZED WITH AN INFECTION, SUPREME COURT
SAYS

Justice Thomas' condition is improving and he will likely be released within two
days, the court said. He'll stay involved in the consideration of any cases the
court hears this week.


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POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR


WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KANYE

Kanye West has become a public lightning rod for his acrimonious divorce
proceedings with Kim Kardashian, his outspoken support of Donald Trump, and much
more.


YE, AKA KANYE WEST, IS BANNED FROM PERFORMING AT THE GRAMMYS

TV host Maury Povich is ending his talk show after more than three decades. Alex
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TELEVISION


'MAURY' ENDS A 30-YEAR-RUN, MARKING THE CLOSURE OF AN ERA

For decades, audiences have loved the chair-throwing, bleeped out antics of
Maury Povich's guests. But at the end of this season, viewers will have to be
satisfied with reruns.

Police secure the area after an incident at a carnival in Strepy-Bracquenies,
Belgium on Sunday. A car slammed at high speed into revelers, killing six people
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EUROPE


AT LEAST 6 PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHEN A DRIVER SLAMMED INTO CARNIVAL REVELERS

Prosecutors, who are in the early stages of the investigation, said there were
no elements to suspect terrorism was behind the incident. Ten other people
suffered life-threatening injuries.

A person walks by Chicho's Pizza Backstage, in Norfolk, Va., where a fatal
shooting took place outside the restaurant and bar early Saturday. Newspaper
reporter Sierra Jenkins was one of the people killed during the shooting after
getting caught in the crossfire. Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot via AP hide
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NATIONAL


SHE WANTED TO SPEND TIME WITH A FRIEND. SHE BECAME 1 OF 2 PEOPLE KILLED IN A
SHOOTING

Journalist Sierra Jenkins was at a restaurant and bar in Norfolk, Va., when
shots rang out. She was caught in the crossfire. Three others were injured in
the shooting.


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View NPR's maps and graphics to see where COVID-19 is hitting hardest in the
U.S., which state outbreaks are under control and where cases are still
spreading.


HOW ARE THE COVID-19 VACCINE AND BOOSTER CAMPAIGNS GOING IN YOUR STATE?


ARE COVID HOSPITALIZATIONS HIGH WHERE YOU LIVE? LOOK UP YOUR HOSPITAL


DO YOU NEED TO WEAR A MASK WHERE YOU LIVE? UNDERSTAND THE CDC'S NEW GUIDANCE


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