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People work in the subway station being used as a bomb shelter during a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Ukraine’s air force said it shot down more than 60 of about 70 missiles that Russia fired on in its latest barrage against Ukraine. It was the latest onslaught as part of Moscow’s new, stepped-up campaign that has largely targeted Ukrainian infrastructure and disrupted supplies of power, water and heat in the country as winter looms. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)

Moscow claims Ukraine hit two air bases deepest yet inside Russia

Moscow unleashed another massive missile barrage in Ukraine on Monday, striking homes and buildings and killing civilians, hours after the Kremlin claimed Ukrainian drones struck two air bases deep inside Russian territory.
Hospital staff take care of orphaned children at the children’s regional hospital maternity ward in Kherson, southern Ukraine. Throughout the war in Ukraine, Russian authorities have been accused of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories to raise them as their own. At least 1,000 children were seized from schools and orphanages in the Kherson region during Russia’s eight-month occupation of the area, their whereabouts still unknown. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Ukrainians hid orphaned children from Russian deportation

Throughout the war in Ukraine, Russian authorities have been accused of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories to raise them as their own. At least 1,000 children were seized from schools and orphanages in the Kherson region during Russia's eight-month occupation of the area, their whereabouts still unknown.
A four-seater plane takes flight from the suburbs as part of a network of volunteer pilots with Elevated Access.

In post-Roe America, pilots take the abortion battle to the skies

"That's the Wisconsin border," the pilot tells a passenger. Down below, a sliver of land marks a barrier between legal and illegal abortions. The pilot is part of Elevated Access, a fledgling Illinois nonprofit of volunteer pilots ferrying people seeking abortion care.
A police officer uses a robot to investigate a bomb threat in San Francisco. San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots in November after supervisors approved limited use of the remote-controlled devices, addressing head-on an evolving technology that has become more widely available even if it is rarely deployed to confront suspects.

US police rarely deploy deadly robots to confront suspects

The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots this week after supervisors approved limited use of the remote-controlled devices, addressing head-on an evolving technology that has become more widely available even if it is rarely deployed to confront suspects.
This combination of photos shows Herschel Walker, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate for Georgia, left, and Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Sen. Raphael Warnock. Walker is running against Warnock in a runoff election.
Warnock, Walker: Starkly different choices for Black voters
Both men have common upbringings in the Deep South in the wake of the civil rights movement and would make history as the first Black person elected from Georgia to a full Senate term. Yet Warnock and Walker have cut different paths and offer clearly opposing visions for the country, including on race and racism.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Jurors started deliberating Monday in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial, weighing charges that former President Donald Trump’s company helped executives dodge personal income taxes on perks such as Manhattan apartments and luxury cars.
Trump Organization trial deliberations continuing Tuesday
Jurors in the Trump Organization's criminal tax fraud trial will continue deliberating for a second day on Tuesday as they weigh charges that former President Donald Trump's company helped executives dodge personal income taxes on perks such as Manhattan apartments and luxury cars. The jury deliberated for about four hours on Monday.
This photos shows the gate to the Duke Energy West End substation in Moore County, N.C. on Sunday. Tens of thousands were without power in the county after what authorities say was an act of criminal vandalism at multiple substations. The Pilot newspaper in Southern Pines reported that infrastructure at the West End substation was damaged.
North Carolina power outages could last days after shootings
Tens of thousands of people braced for days without electricity in a North Carolina county where authorities say two power substations were shot up by one or more people with apparent criminal intent.
Oxford Dictionaries said Monday that “goblin mode” has been selected by online vote as its word of the year. It defines the term as “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.”
Oxford Dictionaries names 'goblin mode' its word of the year
Asked to sum up 2022 in a word, the public has chosen a phrase. Oxford Dictionaries said Monday that "goblin mode" has been selected by online vote as its word of the year.
A Maasai man walks with his livestock in search of grassland for them to graze at Ilangeruani village near Lake Magadi in Kenya. The conference known as COP15, which begins Tuesday, hopes to set goals for the world for the next decade to help conserve the planet’s biodiversity and stem the loss of nature.
UN summit: Don't repeat mistakes on nature, scientists warn
Scientists around the world are warning governments who will be gathering in Montreal this week for the United Nations biodiversity summit to not repeat past mistakes and are urging officials to "avoid trade-offs" between people and conservation needs in a report Monday.
This combination of photos shows, Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., left, and Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker. Walker is in a runoff election with incumbent Warnock.
What to watch in Tuesday's Georgia Senate runoff election
ATLANTA -- The extended Senate campaign in Georgia gives Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker a second chance to persuade voters to send them to Washington. But without party control of Congress at stake and absent other candidates on the ticket, the runoff looks different from the November general election. The results of the AP VoteCast survey illustrate some of the challenges each candidate faces on Tuesday. Walker will need to turn out a GOP base that wasn't enamored with him to start with, and do it without the more popular Gov. Brian Kemp on the ballot. Warnock must get his coalition of some lower-propensity voting groups to turn out.
Sudanese demonstrators attend a rally to demand the return to civilian rule a year after a military coup, in Khartoum, Sudan. Sudan’s ruling generals and the main pro-democracy group signed a framework deal until elections, but key dissenters have stayed out of the agreement. The deal pledges to establish a new, civilian-led transitional government to guide the country to elections and offers a path forward in the wake of Sudan’s stalled transition to democracy following the October 2021 coup.
Sudan's generals, pro-democracy group ink deal to end crisis
Sudan's coup leaders and the main pro-democracy group signed a deal Monday to establish a civilian-led transitional government following the military takeover last year. But key players refused to participate, and no deadline was set for the transition to begin.
Ed Evans, Democratic West Virginia delegate and retired public school teacher, sits this summer beside a sunken grave in the unmarked cemetery where more than 80 coal miners killed in the 1912 Jed Coal and Coke Company disaster are buried in Havaco, West Virignia.
Unmarked graves, an 'ugly history': West Virginia weighs mine safety
West Virginia's Republican supermajority has introduced multiple bills over the past year that would eliminate worker protections in an attempt to bolster the shrinking coal industry, including a sweeping overhaul of the state agency that inspects coal mines.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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