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Start-of-summer weekend: Why Memorial Day travel jams are expected to be much worse this year

Start-of-summer weekend: Why Memorial Day travel jams are expected to be much worse this year

Posted by | May 25, 2024

When travel restrictions were lifted after the COVID-19 pandemic, most people expected that summer travel would be easier. 2024 is proving for the second year that it is not. Highways and airports are likely to be jammed the next few days as Americans head out for Memorial Day weekend getaways and then return home. AAA predicts this will be the busiest start-of-summer weekend in nearly 20 years, with 43.8 million people expected to travel at least 50 miles from home between Thursday, May 23 and Monday, May 27. The Transportation Security Administration expected up to 3 million might pass...

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Ukraine can finally target Russian-occupied areas with long-range missiles secretly provided by U.S.

Ukraine can finally target Russian-occupied areas with long-range missiles secretly provided by U.S.

Posted by | May 24, 2024

Ukraine for the first time began using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea and Russian forces in April. Long sought by Ukrainian leaders, the new missiles give Ukraine nearly double the striking distance, up to 190 miles, that it had with the mid-range version of the weapon that it received from the U.S. last October. Officials said the U.S. was providing more of those missiles in a new military aid package signed by President Joe Biden, after the pro-Putin faction of the Republican party delayed funding for six months....

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Russia’s brutal advances strain Ukrainian front-line troops just as mobilization law comes into force

Russia’s brutal advances strain Ukrainian front-line troops just as mobilization law comes into force

Posted by | May 24, 2024

A divisive mobilization law in Ukraine came into force on May 11, as Kyiv struggles to boost troop numbers after Russia launched a new offensive that some fear could close in on Ukraine’s second-largest city. The legislation, which was watered down from its original draft, will make it easier to identify every conscript in the country. It also provides incentives to soldiers, such as cash bonuses or money toward buying a house or car, that some analysts say Ukraine cannot afford. Lawmakers dragged their feet for months and only passed the law in mid-April, a week after Ukraine lowered...

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A 98-year-old Ukrainian woman escaped Russian occupation by walking in slippers for miles to safety

A 98-year-old Ukrainian woman escaped Russian occupation by walking in slippers for miles to safety

Posted by | May 24, 2024

A 98-year-old woman in Ukraine who escaped Russian-occupied territory by walking almost 6 miles alone, wearing a pair of slippers and supported by a cane has been reunited with her family days after they were separated while fleeing to safety. Lidia Stepanivna Lomikovska and her family decided to leave the front-line town of Ocheretyne, in the eastern Donetsk region, last week after Russian troops entered it and fighting intensified. Russians have been advancing in the area, pounding Kyiv’s depleted, ammunition-deprived forces with artillery, drones, and bombs. “I woke up surrounded by shooting all around — so scary,” Lomikovska said...

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The health of America’s growing economy is increasingly dependent on immigrants eager to work

The health of America’s growing economy is increasingly dependent on immigrants eager to work

Posted by | May 23, 2024

Having fled economic and political chaos in Venezuela, Luisana Silva now loads carpets for a South Carolina rug company. She earns enough to pay rent, buy groceries, gas up her car, and send money home to her parents. Reaching the United States was a harrowing ordeal. Silva, 25, her husband and their then-7-year-old daughter braved the treacherous jungles of Panama’s Darien Gap, traveled the length of Mexico, crossed the Rio Grande, and then surrendered to the U.S. Border Patrol in Brownsville, Texas. Seeking asylum, they received a work permit last year and found jobs in Rock Hill, South Carolina....

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appeal extradition order to U.S. after London court ruling

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appeal extradition order to U.S. after London court ruling

Posted by | May 22, 2024

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal against extradition to the United States on espionage charges, a London court ruled on May 20, a decision likely to further drag out an already long legal saga. High Court judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson said Assange has grounds to challenge the United Kingdom’s government’s extradition order. Assange, 52, has been indicted on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over his website’s publication of a trove of classified U.S. documents almost 15 years ago. WHAT ASSANGE IS CHARGED WITH Assange, 52, an Australian computer expert, has been indicted in...

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