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The war in Ukraine has forever changed the young students of one kindergarten classroom, who are now scattered all around the world. For the past year, NPR's Elissa Nadworny has been following a group of six-year-olds from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. After the city came under attack by Russian forces, the children's school abruptly closed and many families fled. In this episode of The Sunday Story from Up First, Nadworny helps us understand the ripple effects of war through the eyes of children who lost the world they knew.
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The Supreme Court overturned restrictions a lower court placed on the abortion medication mifespristone. U.S. embassy staff are preparing to flee violence in Sudan. Russia says it accidentally bombed a Russian city near its border with Ukraine.
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The Supreme Court is set to decide by midnight tonight whether to allow an abortion pill to remain widely available or restrict its access. The U.S. is sending additional troops to its base in Djibouti in case of a possible evacuation from Sudan, as violence escalates in the country. U.S. officials have launched a new effort to arrest operatives of the Mexican cartel smuggling most of the fentanyl that reaches Americans.
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The White House says it is prepared to fight for reproductive rights, as abortion access lingers in the hands of the courts for now. President Biden rejected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's plan to raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion. UNICEF says 67 million children worldwide missed out on immunizations because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Fox News averted a major trial by settling a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million. The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling on access to mifepristone, which is the most commonly used abortion pill. And Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking top-secret documents, will appear in federal court in Boston.
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A US diplomatic convoy came under fire as clashes in Sudan continue between rival military factions. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Republicans will vote to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts. And the deadline to file taxes is today, and it comes as the IRS is embarking on a makeover to improve the agency.
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Last December, a jury convicted rapper Tory Lanez of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the feet. The high profile trial shined a light on the misogyny directed towards Black women and femmes in hip-hop. In this episode of The Sunday Story from Up First, Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael, the co-hosts of the podcast Louder Than A Riot, help us understand and unpack the oppressive, unspoken rules of rap that they say have held the entire culture back.
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President Biden directs the intelligence and military communities to tighten the security of sensitive information. The Supreme Court temporarily blocks a lower court ruling limiting access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Inflation has eased and grocery prices are down, but recession worries still loom.
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21-year-old Air National Guardsman, Jack Teixeira will appear in court on charges of leaking classified documents. Some doctors are saying the back-and-forth legal battles over abortion rights are complicating medical care for patients. And, North Korea says it tested a new powerful type of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that could be a game changer for the country's military.
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A federal appeals court has put a partial hold on the controversial ruling from a Texas Court that bans the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. Calls for California, Senator Dianne Feinstein to resign are growing louder after months of absence from Congress. And, Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is in China this week and is expected to meet with president Xi Jingping to discuss economic ties.
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