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Ukrainian soldiers recover the remains of four killed civilians from inside a charred vehicle in Bucha, outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

EU council head suggests giving asylum to Russian deserters

European Council president Charles Michel says European Union countries should think about ways to offer asylum to Russian soldiers willing to desert Ukraine battlefields
FILE - This photo made available by the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia shows students at a Presbyterian boarding school in Sitka, Alaska in the summer of 1883. U.S. Catholic and Protestant denominations operated more than 150 boarding schools between the 19th and 20th centuries. Native American and Alaskan Native children were regularly severed from their tribal families, customs, language and religion and brought to the schools in a push to assimilate and Christianize them. (Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia via AP, File)

First pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning

U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their histories operating boarding schools for Native Americans
FILE -- German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach during a press conference on the coronavirus pandemic in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. Germany's health minister has backed off a decision to end obligatory isolation for people who test positive for COVID-19, declaring that it was a mistake and sent the wrong signal. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn,file)

German minister backs off ending compulsory COVID isolation

Germany's health minister has backed off a decision to end compulsory isolation for people who test positive for COVID-19, declaring that it was a mistake and sent the wrong signal
FILE - A doctor administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a man, inside the Klunkerkranich restaurant and night club during an ongoing vaccination campaign of the Clubkommission in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. European health officials say it's 'too early' to consider giving a fourth dose of the messenger RNA coronavirus vaccines to most people, but say an extra booster can be administered to people over age 80. In a statement on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said they had reviewed data for a fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Inc. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

EU officials say it's too early to consider 4th COVID dose

European health officials say it's too early to consider giving a fourth dose of messenger RNA coronavirus vaccines to most people, but say an extra booster can be administered to people over age 80
A car that crashed into the gates of the Russian Embassy is seen partly covered in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Police in the Romanian capital say a car has crashed into the gate of the Russian Embassy, bursting into flames and killing the driver. Police in Bucharest say the sedan rammed into the gate at about 6 a.m. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
Car rams Russian Embassy gate in Romania, driver dead
Police in the Romanian capital say a car carrying containers of flammable materials has crashed into the gate of the Russian Embassy, bursting into flames and killing the driver
A woman pulls up her mask to get her throat swab at a coronavirus testing site near residential buildings, Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Shanghai to allow parents to stay with COVID-infected kids
Following a public uproar, Shanghai will allow at least some parents to stay with children infected with COVID-19
Today in History: April 6, first modern Olympics begin
Today in History Today is Wednesday, April 6, the 96th day of 2022. There are 269 days left in the year.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell answers questions from reporters, at a press conference after the close of the NFL owner's meeting, Tuesday, March 29, 2022, at The Breakers resort in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Attorneys General warn NFL to improve treatment of women
The attorneys general of six states have written to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell , expressing concern over the league's treatment of female employees and admonishing him for a lack of improvement to the league's workplace culture
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, April 7, 2022. NATO foreign ministers are meeting to discuss how to bolster their support to Ukraine, including by supplying weapons to the conflict-torn country, without being drawn into a wider war with Russia. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)
Ukraine appeals to NATO for 'weapons, weapons, weapons'
Ukraine is appealing to NATO for more weapons in its fight against Russia to help prevent further atrocities like those reported in the city of Bucha
FILE - A Ukrainian serviceman walks next to the wreck of a Russian tank in Stoyanka, Ukraine, March 27, 2022. With Russian hopes for storming Kyiv and other major cities in northern Ukraine dashed by stiff resistance, Moscow has refocused its efforts on the country's east, seeking to make gains there and use them to dictate its terms in talks on ending the conflict. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
EXPLAINER: After failed Kyiv blitz, Russia focuses on east
With Russian hopes for storming Kyiv and other major cities in northern Ukraine dashed by stiff resistance, Moscow has refocused its efforts on the country's east, seeking to make gains there and use them to dictate its terms in talks on ending the conflict
The affidavit to support the arrest of Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali is photographed Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Federal prosecutors have charged the two men they say were posing as federal agents, giving free apartments and other gifts to U.S. Secret Service agents, including one who worked on the first lady's security detail. Both were taken into custody as more than a dozen FBI agents charged into a luxury apartment building in Southeast Washington on Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
US: 2 posed as agents, gave gifts to Secret Service officers
Federal prosecutors have charged two men they say were posing as federal agents, giving free apartments and other gifts to U.S. Secret Service agents, including one who worked on the first lady's security detail
In this May 2019 photo provided by the Potomac-Chesapeake Dolphin Project, dolphins swim together in the Potomac River between Lewisetta and Smith Point, Va. Dolphins are extremely playful animals and often swim close together, sometimes even touching fins. "We call it holding hands," says Janet Mann, who directs the nonprofit Potomac-Chesapeake Dolphin Project. This photo was made under NOAA NMFS permit numbers 19403 and 23782. (Ann-Marie Jacoby/Potomac-Chesapeake Dolphin Project via AP)
Dolphins' playful social habits form bonds, but spread virus
While friendly close contact is essential to dolphin social bonds, sharing space and air can also quickly spread disease
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Justin Bieber, left, and Hailey Bieber arrive at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, April 3, 2022, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
PHOTO GALLERY: Music stars arrive on the Grammys red carpet
Shaykh Mahmoud Ali leads a service at the Masjid Al Huda Midwest Islamic Center Friday, April 1, 2022 in Schaumburg. The first day of fasting for the Islamic holy month will begin Saturday or Sunday based on the lunar calendar and new moon sighting. This Ramadan, in-person services and breaking of the fasts together with family, friends and community members will resume more normally at Chicago-area mosques after two years of pandemic restrictions. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, revered by 1.9 billion Muslims worldwide. Muslims fast, abstaining from food, drink and sensual pleasures, engage in spiritual reflection and take part in charitable deeds in hopes of bettering themselves during this month.
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Jamie Lee Curtis holds up a blue ribbon in support of refugees of Ukraine as she arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
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People mingle in the lobby of College of DuPage’s McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn on Saturday for an announcement party tied to a summer 2023 exhibit focusing on American pop artist Andy Warhol. The college’s Cleve Carney Museum of Art will host 94 works drawn from Bank of America’s “Andy Warhol Portfolios: A Life in Pop.”
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Paul Pater, right, a nurse from Evergreen Park who works at the University of Chicago Hospital emergency department, delivers boxes of signatures to the front door of the Joint Commission building in Oak Brook Terrace. “We are demanding the Joint Commission mandate safe staffing ratios be part of their accreditation process,” he explained.
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Elgin Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year finalists, including winner Michelle Olsen, turn around to react to audience applause during the awards ceremony Thursday. Olsen, a senior at Larkin High School, received full-tuition scholarships from Judson University and Elgin Community College.
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