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Mayor Brandon Johnson spent his first full day in office Tuesdayvisiting Chicago government facilities housing migrants, including a Pilsen police station and Little Village park center where he decried Republican governors who continue busing asylum-seekers to the city."It's wicked.It's unconscionable.

KYIV, Ukraine The United States on Wednesday promised to fully and quickly give Ukraine the weapons required for a spring counteroffensive against Russia, addressing one of the most critical needs amid a global shortage of ammunition caused in part by the yearlong conflict.The intensity of the battles in Ukraine has strained the production capacities of the West and Moscow.

On a military base on a frigid February morning in Warsaw, Poland, civilians are learning to become soldiers.A banker, a high school student, and an aspiring opera singer are among dozens dressed in military uniform, practicing their shooting stance, working through tactical drills and learning how to communicate on a battlefield.

World War II veteran Jake Larson, a 100-year-old American best known on social media under the name Papa Jake," enjoyed giving hugs to the many fans he met during his trip to Normandy for D-Day commemorations.Larson, who has more than 600,000 followers on TikTok, attended a ceremony on Tuesday at the American Cemetery marking the 79th anniversary of the assault that led to the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi control.

The husband of Nikki Haley, the Republican presidential candidate and former governor of South Carolina, is preparing to deploy to Africa with the Army National Guard, a military tour that is expected to last a year and for most of the G.O.P. primary race.The deployment of Michael Haley, a major in the National Guard, was confirmed on Friday by a person familiar with his plans.

Bob Dylan once named Gordon Lightfoot one of his favorite songwriters, and called the musician somebody of rare talent while inducting him into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1986.On Dylan's 1970 album Self Portrait, he even recorded Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain, and the respect was mutual Lightfoot listened carefully to Dylan's songs, which instilled in him a more direct approach, getting away from the love songs, he once said.

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has warned that an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive could turn into a tragedy for Russia, and complained that his fighters lacked ammunition, in an interview with pro-Kremlin war correspondent Semyon Pegov.Prigozhin, whose group is spearheading Russia's attack on the embattled city of Bakhmut, predicted a Ukrainian counterattack in mid-May and said Wagner had only 10-15% of the shells that we need.

The British Ministry of Defense said in an intelligence update on the war in Ukraine that recruitment from Russian prisons has decreased since late last year."Data from the Russian Federal Penal Service had already suggested a drop-off in the rate of prisoner recruitment since December 2022," it said.

Two U.S. Army helicopters returning from a training flight crashed near Healy, Alaska, on Thursday, officials said.Emergency medical workers were at the crash site, the U.S. Army Alaska said in a statement, noting that the incident, which involved two AH-64 Apache helicopters, remained under investigation.

The pilot of a National Guard F-15 jet based in Fresno had to make an emergency landing Thursday after an unintentional fuel dump, officials said.The incident occurred during during a training flight Thursday morning.The plane, assigned to the 144th Fighter Wing of the California Air National Guard, reportedly dumped an unknown amount of fuel during the flight, prompting the pilot to land the aircraft back at Fresno Yosemite International Airport, officials said.

After 10 months of one of the longest and bloodiest battles in Russia's war in Ukraine, Ukrainian soldiers are now defending a shrinking half-circle of ruins in a western neighborhood of Bakhmut, only about 20 blocks wide and continually pounded with artillery.Pushed into this ever-smaller corner of the 16-square-mile city, the Ukrainian army is determined to hunker down and hold out, even as allies have quietly questioned the rationale for fighting block by block, sustaining significant casualties, in a city that is a devastating panorama of damaged buildings and rubble.

Soldiers relax at a rehabilitation course in between tours in northeastern Ukraine.Claire Harbage/NPR KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine Vlad is one of four soldiers in his unit who survived a tour of duty defending Bakhmut, the city in eastern Ukraine that Russia has tried to capture for months."Bakhmut," he says, his voice breaking.

A boy lays a flower at the scene of a helicopter crash crash in Brovary, Ukraine, where at least 14 people died, including Ukraine's interior affairs minister Denys Monastyrsky.Ed Ram/Getty Images BROVARY, Ukraine Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and a child are among at least 14 people who died in a helicopter crash Wednesday morning, after the aircraft slammed into an area holding a kindergarten and its playground in Brovary, an eastern suburb of Kyiv.

Four days after the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, held a secret meeting in the parking lot of a Texas electronics store.Mr. Rhodes had gone to see a soldier-turned-I.T.-expert who, he had been told, could get an urgent message to President Donald J. Trump.

A mass shooting at a Russian school Monday left 13 people dead, including numerous children, in an act allegedly carried out by a former student, local authorities said.The shooting at School No. 88 in Izhevsk left 23 other victims wounded, with officials identifying the gunman as Artyom Kazantsev, whom they say killed himself following the massacre.His comment came after the Investigative Committee said seven of the people killed were children.Officials offered a disparity for how many of the victims were children, with Brechalov saying nine of the 13 killed were kids.

National Guard Going Door-To-Door To Help Those Possibly Trapped In San Bernardino Mountains
California National Guard personnel have arrived in the San Bernardino Mountains.They're there to help rescue residents who have been trapped in their homes for days by the recent heavy snowfall.Hunger Strike Continues In Protest Of Two Kern County Detention Centers
A hunger strike at two California immigration detention centers in Kern County is entering its third week.

Children with the respiratory illness RSV are filling Chicago-area children's hospitals, leading to longer ER waits, occasionally delayed surgeries and difficulty transferring pediatric patients between hospitals.RSV, which stands for respiratory syncytial virus, can cause a runny nose, coughing and fever, and in most people is mild and resolves within a week or two.