🚨 Teen killed after fight at Alexandria Bradlee Shopping Center

Police are investigating after an 18-year-old Alexandria City High School student was killed during an off-campus fight at the Bradlee Shopping Center. 

Police received a call around 12:26 p.m. to respond to what they called a "large group fight." According to police, the unidentified student was critically injured after being stabbed during a fight that involved 30 to 50 people. The student was taken to a nearby hospital, where they were later pronounced dead. 

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Latest on Uvalde Shooting:

- 19 students and two school employees killed
- Shooter deceased, acted alone
- Motive unknown
- Shooter alleged to have killed his relative

🤱 US births rose last year but still less than before pandemic

US births bumped up last year, but the number of babies born was still lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic. The 1% increase was a bit of a rebound from 2020, the first year of the pandemic, which witnessed the largest one-year drop in the US births in nearly 50 years.

But there were still about 86,000 fewer births last year than in 2019, according to a government report released Tuesday. The US was once among only a few developed countries with a fertility rate that ensured each generation had enough children to replace itself — about 2.1 kids per woman. But it’s been sliding, and in 2020 dropped to about 1.6, the lowest rate on record. It rose slightly last year, to nearly 1.7.

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📦 Walmart is expanding its drone deliveries to reach 4 million households

Walmart announced on Tuesday that it’s planning on expanding the number of stores that offer drone-delivered packages; by the end of the year, it hopes to fly deliveries from 34 sites across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. 

Walmart says that customers who live near drone-capable stores will be able to order items weighing less than 10 pounds in total between 8AM and 8PM. The deliveries, which cost $3.99, are done via a drone operated by a company called DroneUp, which has a partnership with Walmart. Workers at the Walmart location receive the order, pack it into a box, and then secure the box to a drone. 

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⚡️ Zaporozhye region's administration rules out return to Ukraine

⚡️ Chinese armed forces conduct military exercises off Taiwan, People's Liberation Army says

⚡️⚡️ UK government grants license for sale of Chelsea to Todd Boehly’s consortium

Watch: Communication personnel of the Western Military District during combat work

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📹 Russia's armed forces delivered about 70 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the residents of Kharkov region

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⚡️ Moscow says premature to talk about creation of Russian military base in Kherson region

📹 Russian sappers demine Azov Sea coast in Mariupol

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⚡️ ⚡️Moscow rejects claims Russian military smuggles grain from Ukraine

Russian MoD video: Russian Ka-52 helicopters destroying Ukrainian command posts

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Footage of Russia's rockets launching at the Motor Sich workshop in Zaporozhye, which produced engines for Ukrainian military aviation (video by the Russian Defence Ministry)

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❗The European Commission has officially proposed that circumvention of sanctions should be regarded as a crime at the level of the European Union, according to a commission document

📹🎞 A civilian from Volnovakha died under fire from Ukrainian forces

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📞 Russian jokers Vovan and Lexus have published a behind-the-scenes photo of their prank with George W Bush: the office of the former US president shared this picture with them minutes after their hilarious talk ended 😏

📌 The latest updates on the Ukraine operation from the Russian Defence Ministry:

▪️ Russian forces have destroyed the production facilities of the Motor Sich plant in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️ Russian air defences have shot down one Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Nikolaev region;

▪️ Russian aviation hit two weapon ordnance and 46 areas of Ukrainian troop concentration;

▪️ Russian forces destroyed Ukrainian reserve troops near a railway station in the Dnepropetrovsk region on their way to Donbass;

▪️ Russian high-precision air-based missiles hit three command posts, a radio technical centre in the Nikolaev region as well as two fuel bases in the Kharkov region during the day;

▪️ More than 1000 Ukrainian drones have already been destroyed during Russia's special operation;

▪️ Mariupol port reopens and is functioning as usual

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⚡️⚡️ Sue Gray’s 'Partygate' report into Downing Street lockdown breaches released

📹🎞 Ukrainian armed forces shelled the residential building and damaged the apartment of someone living in the LPR's Pervomaysk

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⚡️ US doing everything to make confrontation in Ukraine more bloody, Moscow says