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Ukrainian soldiers recover at rehabilitation center in Kharkiv before returning to front lines

Ukrainian soldiers recover at rehabilitation center in Kharkiv before returning to front lines

Posted by | Jan 21, 2023

Sitting on comfy armchairs in a low-lit room smelling of lavender and pine trees, the men take deep breaths as they close their eyes and listen to meditation music. But this is not a spa. Uniformed Ukrainian soldiers are taking a break at this rehabilitation center in the Kharkiv region to restore their bodies and minds before going back to the front line. The relentless 10-month war has prompted a local commander to transform a Soviet-era sanatorium into a recovery center for servicemen to treat both mental and physical ailments. “This rehabilitation is helping soldiers, at least for a...

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What madness looks like: Russia continues to escalate onslaught with new levels of death and devastation

What madness looks like: Russia continues to escalate onslaught with new levels of death and devastation

Posted by | Jan 20, 2023

Russian forces are escalating their onslaught against Ukrainian positions around the wrecked city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian officials said, bringing new levels of death and devastation in the grinding, monthslong battle for control of eastern Ukraine that is part of Moscow’s wider war. “Everything is completely destroyed. There is almost no life left,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in mid-January of the scene around Bakhmut and the nearby Donetsk province city of Soledar, known for salt mining and processing. “The whole land near Soledar is covered with the corpses of the occupiers and scars from the strikes,” Zelenskyy said. “This...

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America’s spy network lags behind rivals in seizing on intelligence data hiding in plain sight

America’s spy network lags behind rivals in seizing on intelligence data hiding in plain sight

Posted by | Jan 20, 2023

As alarms began to go off globally about a novel coronavirus spreading in China, officials in Washington turned to the intelligence agencies for insights about the threat the virus posed to America. But the most useful early warnings came not from spies or intercepts, according to a recent congressional review of classified reports from December 2019 and January 2020. Officials were instead relying on public reporting, diplomatic cables and analysis from medical experts — some examples of so-called open source intelligence, or OSINT. Predicting the next pandemic or the next government to fall will require better use of open...

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Child care disruptions continue even as Americans try to move on from COVID

Child care disruptions continue even as Americans try to move on from COVID

Posted by | Jan 19, 2023

Forty-seven. That was how many days of child care the 3-year-old son of Kathryn Anne Edwards has missed in the past year. RSV, COVID-19, and two bouts of the dreaded preschool scourge of hand, foot and mouth disease struck one after another. The illnesses were so disruptive that the labor economist quit her full-time job at the Rand Corp., a think tank. She switched last month to independent contract work to give her more flexibility to care for her son and 4-month-old daughter. In the first and even second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, multi-week quarantines and isolations were...

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COVID-19 surge in China increases likelihood of new mutant virus as elderly resist vaccinations

COVID-19 surge in China increases likelihood of new mutant virus as elderly resist vaccinations

Posted by | Jan 19, 2023

“The ability to control is different from the ability to govern.” – Chen Tianyong Could the COVID-19 surge in China unleash a new coronavirus mutant on the world? Scientists do not know but worry that might happen. It could be similar to omicron variants circulating there now. It could be a combination of strains. Or something entirely different, they say. “China has a population that is very large and there’s limited immunity. And that seems to be the setting in which we may see an explosion of a new variant,” said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert...

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Farmers of color file class-action lawsuit against federal government for promised financial aid

Farmers of color file class-action lawsuit against federal government for promised financial aid

Posted by | Jan 18, 2023

The federal government has illegally broken a promise to pay off the debts of a group of Black farmers, according to a class-action lawsuit. The group hopes to put pressure on officials to keep their word and to restore funding that was dropped after a group of white farmers filed legal challenges arguing their exclusion was a violation of their constitutional rights. The lawsuit filed in October remains active even as the U.S. Department of Agriculture moves forward with another effort to help farmers in financial distress in addition to paying farmers who the agency discriminated against. John Boyd...

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