While the state plans to stop handing out free bottled water Saturday night, the city said water pressure still hasn’t been fully restored, and state health officials said lead in some pipes remains so worrisome that pregnant women and young children should still use bottled water.
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Ukraine unearths mass gravesite, says bodies bear signs of torture
Workers hauled body after body out of the sandy soil in a pine forest near Izium that police said contained 445 graves in an area recently recaptured from Russian forces.
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Phony document lands on court docket in Trump search case
A document purporting to be from the U.S. government and claiming the Treasury Department had information related to the search at Donald Trump’s Florida estate was a fabrication
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China sanctions Raytheon, Boeing Defense CEOs over Taiwan arms sale
The U.S. announced a $1.09 billion arms sale to Taiwan last week.
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Biden accuses Republicans of using migrants as ‘props’
The president spoke hours after two buses sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott arrived near Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence in Washington.
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University of Vermont president denies antisemitism allegations
The Department of Education is investigating a complaint that Jewish students were excluded from clubs and that a teaching assistant made anti-Semitic remarks.
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Veteran New York judge named as arbiter in Trump Mar-a-Lago probe
The judge also grants Raymond Dearie access to the entire tranche of documents seized from the property even though the Justice Department had said the arbiter shouldn’t be permitted to inspect the batch of classified records.
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Ukraine’s president: Mass grave found near recaptured city
A mass grave of Ukrainian soldiers and unknown buried civilians was found in the forest of recently recaptured city of Izium.
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Putin thanks China’s Xi for his ‘balanced’ stand on Ukraine
Xi’s government, which said it had a ‘no-limits’ friendship with Moscow before the invasion of Ukraine, has refused to criticize Russia’s military actions.
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‘Torment of hell’: Ukraine medic describes Russian torture
A Ukrainian volunteer medic captured by Russian forces during their deadly siege of the port city of Mariupol has told U.S. lawmakers how Russians routinely tortured her and other prisoners, killing many.