❗️ Eight people were injured as a result of the Ukrainian shelling in Russia's Bryansk region on Thursday, the Russian Health Ministry says.

Out of the eight wounded, six people have been hospitalised and two are in serious condition.

The Ukrainian soldiers who laid down their arms were brought to the site of a mass grave of those killed as a result of Ukrainian shelling.

A woman who has lost her children and a 5-year-old grandson approached them, saying that the Ukrainian army didn't even let her bury her children properly.

A DPR military serviceman who was one of the first to enter Mariupol and was wounded in action, explained the tactics used by Ukrainian combatants in the city.

❗️Sullivan: Russian strike on NATO nation supplying materiel to Kiev would invoke Article 5

⚡️ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs 15-week abortion ban into law

❗️ Ukraine shells Russian village in Belgorod region, governor says

❗️ Biden: US has not made decision yet on sending senior officials to Ukraine

🇨🇳 CIA director dubs CHINA "single most important" CHALLENGE for US in 21st century

"The second [challenge to shape the future] is the longer term problem posed by China's ambitious leadership, the single most important geopolitical challenge as far out I can see into the 21st Century," Burns said during remarks at Georgia Institute of Technology.

❗️ US continues to build a 'coalition of the willing against the Russians', UN envoy says

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US Ambassador to the UN, made the remark on Thursday as she insisted that Washington has not run out of options to "put pressure" on Moscow amid its special military op in Ukraine

⚡️ British Daesh 'Beatles' Jihadist found guilty of kidnap and murder of US hostages in Syria

⚡️ Biden says he's ready to go to Ukraine

‼️ Pentagon not ruling out future security aid for Ukraine that includes more Stingers. LIVE UPDATES

‼️ Russian Defense Ministry: Damaged Moskva cruiser sunk after entering stormy waters

💰Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43 billion In just ten days, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has gone from popular Twitter contributor to the company’s largest individual shareholder to a would-be owner of the social platform — a whirlwind of activity that could change the service dramatically given Musk’s self-identification as a free speech absolutist. Twitter revealed in a securities filing Thursday that the sometimes-whimsical billionaire has offered to buy the company outright for more than $43 billion, saying the social media platform “needs to be transformed as a private company” in order to build trust with its users. The turnabout led CEO Parag Agrawal to warn employees earlier this week that “there will be distractions ahead” and to “tune out the noise and stay focused on the work.”

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✍️ Abortion ban after 15 weeks signed into law in Florida

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a 15-week abortion ban into law Thursday as the state joined a growing conservative push to restrict access to the procedure ahead of a US Supreme Court decision that could roll back abortion rights in America.

Republicans nationwide have moved to place new restrictions on abortion after the US Supreme Court signaled it would uphold a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks. The high court’s decision, expected this summer, could potentially weaken or overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the nationwide right to abortion.

The law DeSantis signed Thursday also deals a blow to overall abortion access in the South, where Florida has provided wider access to the procedure than its regional neighbors.

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🐥 2 bird flu cases confirmed in US zoos as virus spreads

Two cases of bird flu have been confirmed in US zoos, but officials said they won’t order widespread euthanasia of zoo birds the way they have on farms. Many zoos across the country have closed down their aviaries and moved birds inside whenever possible to help protect them from avian influenza that officials believe is primarily being spread by the droppings of wild birds.

Nearly 27 million chickens and turkeys have been slaughtered in 26 states to limit the spread of bird flu during this year’s outbreak. Officials order entire flocks to be killed when the virus is found on farms.

The disease also doesn’t represent any immediate public health threat, and no human cases have been found in America.

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🚇 Subway shooting heightens NYC mayor’s focus on rising crime

Mayor Eric Adams, a former New York City police captain, took office this year with a central focus on making the city feel safe and trying to return it to some sense of normalcy post-pandemic.

In New York City, like many places around the country, violent crime rates have climbed since the pandemic, though they remain far below rates seen three decades ago during the city’s notoriously grittier era, or even just a decade ago.

After this week’s subway shooting, Adams, in a series of interviews, discussed plans to increase the number of police officers patrolling the subways and suggested metal detectors could be installed in stations — a decision that ultimately would rest with the transit authority, which falls under state control.

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🏠 Biden administration unveils steps to boost equity in gov’t

The Interior Department is providing technical assistance to Native American tribes to help them apply for grants. After more than a year of review, more than 90 federal agencies, including all major Cabinet departments, released their “equity action plans” on Thursday.

The plans outline more than 300 strategies and commitments that aim to make federal policies fairer for everyone, including poorer communities and communities of color; tribal, rural and LGBTQ communities.

Some of the equity plans have been announced, such as work by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to close the racial gap in homeownership, address disproportionate rates of homelessness among underserved communities and reduce bias in home appraisals.

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