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Strike on Russian oil depot reported as Ukraine talks resume
By JEAN-CLAUDE BENOIT and PYRAM LIGIERE
Kryviy Rih, Ukraine — Russia accused Ukrainian forces of staging a daring air raid against an oil depot inside Russian territory Friday morning. The regional governor said two Ukrainian helicopters attacked the fuel facility in Belgorod, about 20 miles inside Russia, and video showed storage tanks in flames.
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Ukrainian troops are resisting a heavy Russian offensive in and around the city of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region, despite the continued bombardment from several directions, according to the Ukrainian military. Russian forces have tried to carry out offensive operations under cover of heavy shelling, the head of the Luhansk regional military administration said, but they are having trouble dislodging the determined Ukrainian resistance. Officials say Russian forces are making modest gains and have resorted to one principal tactic: fire at any and all Ukrainian positions to leave nothing standing that can be defended. Separately, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that Ukraine is moving along the path to becoming part of the European Union. The EU is deciding this week whether the country should be formally considered for candidate status.
As Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, US Attorney General Merrick Garland said a new accountability team will be formed to identify and prosecute anyone who committed war crimes in Ukraine. The team, according to Garland, will be led by the Justice Department’s best-known Nazi hunter Eli Rosenbaum — who helped the department to strip citizenship from or deport accused Nazis in more than 100 cases. The announcement is a strong signal from the department that it is interested in investigating war crimes in Ukraine and follows a previous effort to lock down the assets of Russian oligarchs. Meanwhile, heavy fighting is taking place in southern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials.
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Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk province, said Friday that Ukrainian troops were retreating from Sievierodonetsk after weeks of bombardment and house-to-house fighting. He confirmed Saturday that the city had fallen to Russian and separatist fighters, who he said were now trying to blockade Lysychansk from the south. The city lies across the river just to the west of Sievierodonetsk.
Pope begs forgiveness of Indigenous for Canada School abuses
By JEAN-CLAUDE BENOIT and PYRAM LIGIERE
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Strike on Russian oil depot reported as Ukraine talks resume
Kryviy Rih, Ukraine — Russia accused Ukrainian forces of staging a daring air raid against an oil depot inside Russian territory Friday morning. The regional governor said two Ukrainian helicopters attacked the fuel facility in Belgorod, about 20 miles inside Russia, and video showed storage tanks in flames.
Capturing Lysychansk would give Russian forces control of every major settlement in the province, a significant step toward Russia’s aim of capturing the entire Donbas. The Russians and separatists control about half of Donetsk, the second province in the Donbas.
Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted a spokesman for the separatist forces, Andrei Marochko, as saying Russian troops and separatist fighters had entered Lysychansk and that fighting was taking place in the heart of the city. There was no immediate comment on the claim from the Ukrainian side.
Pope hails families, blasts ‘culture of waste’ after Roe
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated families Saturday and urged them to shun “selfish” decisions that are indifferent to life as he closed out a big Vatican rally a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion.
Francis didn’t refer to the ruling or explicitly mention abortion in his homily. But he used the buzzwords he has throughout his papacy about the need to defend families and to condemn a “culture of waste” that he believes is behind the societal acceptance of abortion.
“Let us not allow the family to be poisoned by the toxins of selfishness, individualism, today’s culture of indifference and waste, and as a result lose its very DNA, which is the spirit of welcoming and service,” he said.
The pope, noting that some couples allow their fears and anxieties to “thwart the desire to bring new lives in the world,” called for them not to cling to selfish desires.
Pope Francis celebrated families Saturday and urged them to shun “selfish”
The Catholic Church holds that life begins at conception and must be protected and defended until natural death.
Francis delivered his homily in a packed St. Peter’s Square at the end of the World Meeting of Families.
Biden signs landmark gun measure, says ‘lives will be saved’
President Joe Biden signs into law S. 2938, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act gun safety bill, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, June 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Trump Threatens Mitch McConnell Over Gun Bill: 'Final Straw'
Former President Donald Trump came out strongly Thursday against the bipartisan gun bill, threatening Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has supported advancing the legislation along with 13 other GOP lawmakers.
A motorist fills up with gasoline at a Texaco gas station
The price of a regular gallon of gas is more than $4 in all 50 states for the first time as gas prices continue to rise nationwide. Texas has one of the lowest averages while California is the highest at over $6 a gallon. (Aaron M. Sprecher via AP)[/caption]
Biden will "continue to find solutions" to ensure abortion rights, according to White House
People protest about abortion, Saturday, June 25, 2022, outside the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court’s landmark abortion cases. (AP Photo/Steve Helber).
'This is such an enormous step backwards': Sen. Baldwin weighs in on Supreme Court’s Roe decision
Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin joined American Voices with Alicia Menendez to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and what lawmakers and voters must do to keep the fight for reproductive rights alive.
By JEAN-CLAUDE BENOIT
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Takeaways: Trump risked provoking ‘constitutional crisis’
WASHINGTON — Steven Engel, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, from left, Jeffrey Rosen, former acting Attorney General, and Richard Donoghue, former acting Deputy Attorney General,
TRUMP’S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN TURMOIL
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee used Thursday’s hearing to show how Donald Trump tried to install a loyalist atop the Justice Department who would pursue his false claims of voter fraud and stop the certification of the 2020 election that Democrat Joe Biden won.
It’s the latest account of how perilously close the United States could have come to a constitutional crisis if the department leaders had not threatened to resign over the scheme and the defeated Trump had been able to orchestrate a plan for the U.S. government to overturn election results in several pivotal states.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., led the hearing, saying it would show “how close we came to losing it all.”
The committee investigating the causes of the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been trying to make the case that Trump’s efforts to reverse his loss resulted in the deadly siege after he sent supporters to the Capitol as Congress was certifying Biden’s victory. Here are some important takeaways from this month’s fifth hearing.
How a Supreme Court opinion could impact abortion rights
The Supreme Court on Friday reversed Roe v. Wade, the 50-year-old court precedent enshrining a right to abortion. Doing so now gives state lawmakers the green light to aggressively limit or ban abortion.
Since a draft for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked last month, CNN readers have asked hundreds of questions about what a reversal of the Supreme Court’s abortion rights precedents would mean and how it will affect access to the procedure. The final decision released Friday closely tracked the leaked draft.
Guns and abortion: Contradictory decisions, or consistent?
he bulk of Justice Clarence Thomas’ opinion on gun rights is devoted to history and what it says about the Founders’ intentions when they crafted the Second Amendment and when lawmakers crafted the 14th Amendment on due process in the 1860s. Thomas broached a long list of historical figures, including the English King Henry VIII, who the ruling says worried that the advent of handguns threatened his subjects’ proficiency with the longbow.
“I understand how it might look hypocritical, but from the perspective of the conservative majority on the court, it’s a consistent approach to both cases. Consistency, though, cannot mask the fact that there has been a seismic shift on the court since President Donald Trump appointed three conservatives.
A damning Donald Trump quote from Thursday's January 6 hearing
Donald Trump said and did a whole lot of things on and around January 6, 2021, as he sought to use the levers of government to push his false election fraud schemes and remain in power.
Another solid month of US hiring expected despite obstacles
The House Select January 6th committee wrapped up its 5th public hearing with a bang by revealing the names of several Republican lawmakers who sought presidential pardons for their role in spreading Trump’s election lies. Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D- U.S. Virgin Islands) Rep. Plaskett
A poll that should scare Donald Trump
A new poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire has some startling news for Donald Trump: He’s no longer the big dog on the block.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis takes 39% in a poll of the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire, while Trump is at 37%.
Guns and abortion: Contradictory decisions, or consistent?
The court majority’s decisions on gun rights and the ruling a day later on abortion both rely on a philosophy of constitutional interpretation called “originalism.” To assess what rights the Constitution confers, originalists hone in on what the texts meant when they were written.