The overall uptick is significantly less than the 13% jump the Defense Department saw in 2021 but is overshadowed by the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps all reporting more last year than in the previous year.
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NATO: Ukraine’s allies sent 1,550 combat vehicles, 230 tanks
Russia and Ukraine are far apart in their terms for peace, and Beijing – while looking to position itself as a global diplomatic power – has refused to criticize Moscow’s invasion.
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Monument to Coretta Scott King dedicated in Atlanta
Bernice King and her niece Yolanda Renee King – the 14-year-old daughter of Martin Luther King III – together untied a ribbon on the gate of the garden and cut another ribbon on the monument.
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Washington, Minnesota become trans refuges, shield abortions
The law, which protects patients and providers, tells other states they will not be able to use Washington state courts or judicial processes to enforce their bans on abortion and gender-affirming health care.
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Trump lawyer cross examines E. Jean Carroll during rape trial
Donald Trump’s lawyer suggested Carroll’s claims strained credulity, contending that she only came forward in 2019 because of her disdain for his politics and because she wanted to sell copies of her book.
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U.S. sanctions Russia, Iran entities for detaining Americans
The senior administration officials said that relief from the sanctions could be used as an inducement in negotiations to try to secure the release of the Americans held overseas.
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Carolyn Bryant Donham, center of Emmett Till death, dies
Donham – then named Carolyn Bryant – accused Till of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money.
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Fighters rampage in Darfur as Sudan extends fragile truce
The mayhem in the Darfur city of Genena pointed to how the rival generals’ fight for control in the capital, Khartoum, was spiraling into violence in other parts of Sudan.
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U.S. to open foreign centers in bid to stop migration surge
The migration centers are part of an intense effort to try to prevent thousands of people from making the often-dangerous journey to the southern border.
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Jerry Springer, politician-turned-TV ringmaster, dies at 79
Jerry Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show unleashed strippers, homewreckers and skinheads to brawl and spew obscenities on weekday afternoons, has died.