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At least 7 killed in Ukraine's Kharkiv as Russian missile hits apartment building

Ukrainian officials say that at least seven people have been killed and 10 others, including three children, have been wounded by a Russian missile strike on a five-story residential building in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned Saturday's attack and called for an international response. He said that Russia struck Ukraine overnight with 29 missiles and 480 drones, targeting energy facilities in Kyiv and other central regions and damage reported in at least seven other locations across the country. In Kharkiv, in Ukraine’s northeast, emergency workers were still combing the rubble in the morning, looking for survivors.

Videos show US citizen's shooting death in Texas last year by federal immigration agent

Newly released videos showing the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent in Texas last year call into question assertions by the Department of Homeland Security that a driver intentionally rammed an agent with his car. The footage released Friday comes nearly a year after the death of 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez. His death was the earliest of at least six fatal shootings by federal agents since a nationwide immigration crackdown was launched in President Donald Trump’s second term. A friend who was riding in the car with Martinez told investigators the driver had not intended to harm federal officers but panicked because he feared getting arrested for driving while intoxicated.

4 dead in Michigan as powerful storms that produced at least 1 tornado rip through the state

Four people have been killed in southern Michigan as powerful storms that produced at least one tornado on Friday reduced homes to rubble, sent parts of roofs flying into the air and left a trail of debris hanging from power lines. The Branch County Sheriff's Office says three people were killed and 12 injured in the Union Lake area, near Union City, after an apparent tornado hit. About 50 miles southwest, Cass County officials say one person was killed and several injured after a tornado touched down. The National Weather Service says at least one tornado is confirmed to have touched down in southern Michigan. The service says there have been reports of possible others.

As citizen voting bill stalls in US Senate, some states forge ahead

Strict citizen voting requirements sought by President Donald Trump have stalled in the U.S. Senate. But Republicans in some states are pressing ahead with similar measures. Bills requiring people to show proof of citizenship to register to vote won final approval this week in South Dakota and Utah. A similar measure has passed the Florida House. And supporters in Michigan turned in 750,000 petition signatures this week to try to get a proof-of-citizenship measure on the November ballot. Federal law already requires people registering to vote to affirm they are U.S. citizens. But Trump contends more proof should be required.

Iran war deaths could resurface Trump’s complicated history with military sacrifice

President Donald Trump will visit Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Saturday to view the dignified transfer for six soldiers killed during his war with Iran. It’s delicate for any president to watch the flag-draped transfer cases return home from overseas, a solemn event that honors the dead but shines a spotlight on the human costs of the president’s decisions. The visit could be an especially fraught moment for Trump, whose comments on military service and sacrifice have prompted some of the biggest controversies of his decade in politics.

State actors are behind much of the visual misinformation about the Iran war

A deluge of misrepresented or fabricated videos has spread widely online since the Iran war began last weekend, fueled in part by state-linked propaganda influence campaigns — particularly around who is winning the war and how bad casualties have been. Artificial intelligence has helped fuel misinformation in ways that weren’t possible during past conflicts, even just a few years ago. Coupled with state-linked disinformation and censorship, this creates an even wider vacuum in which the truth can get lost.

After a president-filled celebration, Rev. Jesse Jackson's family gathers for a private homegoing

The family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is honoring him with a private memorial at Rainbow PUSH headquarters in Chicago. Saturday’s service closes a week of public commemorations that included state tributes and presidential eulogies. Members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. conducted a private ceremony honoring Jackson at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Jackson’s family members invited activists and alumni of the organization to gather at its headquarters. After the final memorial service, the family and activists will hit the road for another commemoration. Members of Jackson’s family are expected to attend the annual commemoration of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march in Selma, Alabama.

War in the Middle East ensnares many Muslim pilgrims in travel chaos

The travel chaos from the war in the Middle East has ensnared many of the Muslims who have converged on Saudi Arabia for the Umrah pilgrimage, leaving them stranded and scrambling to find other ways home. Others had to scrap their planned visits altogether. For some who performed the religious rituals, the war roiling the region has cast a pall on their experience of visiting the kingdom’s holy sites. One Indonesian government official says that as of Thursday, over 58,860 Indonesian pilgrims were stranded in Saudi Arabia. He said the government is negotiating with Saudi authorities and airlines to ease the financial burden of hotel and flight costs on the stranded pilgrims.

Noem's firing is little comfort to Minneapolis residents struggling to recover from crackdown

A Latino grocery owner in Minnesota says Kristi Noem’s ousting does not undo the damage from the federal immigration crackdown. He says customers still are staying home and spending far less. President Donald Trump fired Noem Thursday. Her ousting came amid mounting criticism over her leadership, including her handling of the crackdown and the aftermath of the shooting deaths of two Minneapolis residents by federal officers. Activists say community organizing helped force her out. And they say the surge sparked the formation of strong neighborhood networks that will live on and continue to push for social justice.

Trump administration's embattled FDA vaccine chief is leaving for the second time

The Food and Drug Administration’s controversial vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced the departure to staff in an email late Friday. It's the second time he has abruptly departed the agency following controversial decisions involving the review of vaccinations and specialty drugs for rare diseases. Makary said Prasad would return to his academic job at the University of California, San Francisco. Prasad's time on the job has been marked by a string of reversals in the FDA's review of vaccines and specialty drugs.

Fired Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore reaches plea deal to resolve home invasion case

Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore has pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors in a criminal case that arose immediately after he was fired for having an inappropriate relationship with his executive assistant. The deal was struck Friday, on the same day that a judge planned to hear a challenge to Moore’s arrest in December on three charges, including felony home invasion. Those charges were dropped in exchange for Moore pleading no contest to trespassing and malicious use of a telecom device.

Evidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian school was likely a US airstrike

Satellite images and videos of an Iranian girls school damaged by large explosions at the start of a U.S.-Israeli airstrike campaign targeting the Islamic Republic indicate a targeted attack from the air hit the building. That's according to military experts who spoke to The Associated Press. Iran says the blast killed at least 165 people, most of them children. The location of the strike, its affiliation to a coastal defense unit of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and the tight pattern of the damage suggest a targeted airstrike on the site. Several factors point to a U.S. strike, given the proximity of American forces to the school and focus on missile sites and naval forces in the war.

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