President Biden’s move to ban oil from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was met with calls to boost U.S. production to help bring down soaring gasoline prices.
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Watching the war from afar prompted a Chicago artist to help. He built a Zelensky ‘Lego’ to raise money.
Trupia’s creative way of helping raised a total of $145,388 for Direct Relief, an organization providing medical aid to Ukraine.
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Putin appears at big rally as Russia rains lethal fire on Kyiv, other cities
The leader of Russia’s delegation in diplomatic talks with Ukraine says the sides have narrowed their differences, but the Ukrainian side says its position remains unchanged.
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Maine’s U.S. senators traveling to Poland and Germany
Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King will be part of a bipartisan group of 10 senators planning to meet this weekend with foreign leaders and Ukrainians living in Polish refugee camps.
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Koch Industries to stay in Russia, says exiting does ‘more harm than good’
Koch’s decision was disclosed after more than 400 global companies publicly announced plans to withdraw, suspend and scale back their operations in Russia because of its invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
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Rescuers search Ukraine theater rubble as Russian attacks continue
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calls for more help for his country in a video address to German lawmakers, saying thousands of people have been killed, including 108 children.
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Maine’s members of Congress support additional assistance for Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a plea for more U.S. assistance in an address to Congress on Wednesday.
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Netflix is bringing back ‘Servant of the People,’ the TV show that made Ukraine’s president famous
The show stars Zelensky, who was a comedian before he entered politics, as a Ukrainian high school teacher who unexpectedly becomes president after a video of him complaining about corruption goes viral.
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Bodies of the dead pile up as Ukraine’s Mariupol descends into despair
Each airstrike and shell that relentlessly pounds Mariupol — about one a minute at times — drives home the curse of a geography that has put the city squarely in the path of Russia’s domination of Ukraine.
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Glimmers of hope in talks, even as Russia’s onslaught goes on
Russia’s military forces are blasting Ukraine’s capital region and other major cities as they try to crush a Ukrainian defense that has frustrated their progress nearly three weeks after invading.