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• Russian TV shows videos of 2 US vets captured in Ukraine Russian state television showed video Friday of two U.S. military veterans who went missing last week while fighting in Ukraine, confirming that the men were taken captive and raising fears about their fate. Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh, both from Alabama, were believed to be the first Americans captured by Russian forces since the war began on Feb. 24. Drueke, speaking into the camera from what appeared to be an office, sent a message to his mother, concluding with a…
• Russian TV shows videos of 2 US vets captured in Ukraine Russian state television showed video Friday of two U.S. military veterans who went missing last week while fighting in Ukraine, confirming that the men were taken captive and raising fears about their fate. Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh, both from Alabama, were believed to be the first Americans captured by Russian forces since the war began on Feb. 24. Drueke, speaking into the camera from what appeared to be an office, sent a message to his mother, concluding with a…
• Human remains found in Amazon confirmed as those of missing British journalist A fisherman has confessed to shooting the two men (Picture: Reuters/Getty/AP)Human remains found deep in the Amazon have been confirmed as belonging to missing British journalist Dom Phillips, police in Brazil have said. The 57-year-old freelance writer disappeared on June 5 alongside indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, 41, in the remote Javari Valley bordering Peru and Colombia. Earlier this week, police recovered human remains from a grave in the jungle where they were led by a fisherman who confessed to killing…
• Russians focus firepower to seize 2 villages in east Ukraine The Russian military expanded its grab of territory in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, capturing two villages and vying for control of a key highway in an offensive that could cut supply lines and encircle some frontline Ukrainian forces, British and Ukrainian military chiefs said. Britain's defense ministry said that Ukrainian forces had withdrawn from some areas near the city of Lysychansk, the latest major battlefield in Russian President Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine, to avoid the possibility of being encircled…
• U.S. veterans missing in Ukraine formed bond over background Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh are both military veterans from Alabama, so it was natural that they formed a bond once they met in Ukraine, where each traveled separately with the intention of helping defend democracy against Russian invaders. “They became buds,” Dianna Williams, Drueke's aunt, said in an interview Thursday. Both men are now missing after their group came under heavy fire in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border on June 9, leaving loved ones…
• Biden Told ‘Be Bold’ in Order to ‘Save the Republic’ Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesIt is not every day you get to talk to the president, and Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude tells The New Abnormal’s Molly Jong-Fast that he wasn’t going to let the profundity of the situation stop him from telling “the most powerful man in the world” that he had a chance to “usher in a new America.” Glaude, an expert on African American studies and host of the History is US podcast, said Americans…
• Man pleads not guilty to trying to kill Justice Kavanaugh A man who was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home in Maryland earlier this month pleaded not guilty Wednesday to trying to kill Kavanaugh. Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, California, remained in custody after his arraignment on one count of attempting to assassinate a Supreme Court justice. During the arraignment, he bowed his head and clasped his hands around his neck as he answered U.S. Magistrate Judge Ajmel Quereshi's questions. His public defender, Andrew Szekely, told…
• EXPLAINER: Why is China denying Hong Kong was a UK colony? Hong Kong is preparing to introduce new middle school textbooks that will deny the Chinese territory was ever a British colony. China's Communist rulers say the semi-autonomous city and the nearby former Portuguese colony of Macao were merely occupied by foreign powers and that China never relinquished sovereignty over them. It's not a new position for China, but the move is a further example of Beijing’s determination to enforce its interpretation of history and events and inculcate patriotism as it…
• Supreme Court limits reach of federal gun crime law The Supreme Court on Tuesday limited the reach of a federal statute that requires stiff penalties for crimes involving a gun. The 7-2 decision united both conservative and liberal justices, though one dissenting justice compared the result to "Alice in Wonderland." The justices said the law can’t be used to lengthen the sentences of criminals convicted of a specific attempted robbery offense. The case before the justices involved Justin Taylor, who in the early 2000s was a marijuana dealer in…
• Supreme Court limits reach of federal gun crime law The Supreme Court on Tuesday limited the reach of a federal statute that requires stiff penalties for crimes involving a gun. The 7-2 decision united both conservative and liberal justices, though one dissenting justice compared the result to "Alice in Wonderland." The justices said the law can’t be used to lengthen the sentences of criminals convicted of a specific attempted robbery offense. The case before the justices involved Justin Taylor, who in the early 2000s was a marijuana dealer in…