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As Kyiv’s offensive looms, Xi sides with Putin because he can’t justify his rule.

>> so democrats in the state senate, they were able to temporarily block the bill, but are unlikely to be able to hold it off for a long. as you mentioned, the session ends on may 12th. how are you preparing for its effect? what do you most concerned about? >> well, im most concerned about our police chief. we just hired the first external police chief in our citys history, and he just started on january 9th. he needs time to bring proof and strategies to bay here and st. louis, you can help us ...

Louis here? >> the state legislature is trying to take us backwards into a civil war era law that would control the police departments of st. louis and kansas city. my, to st. louiss police department is still under state control. about ten years ago, there were statewide referendum, the voters of missouri overwhelmingly adopted a law that allowed st. louis to have local control over its police department. state control was a hot mess back then. it was a hot mess when we had, it its a hot mess i...

Mayor Tishaura Jones hasn't changed her stance against state control of St. Louis police, and she made that clear during Tuesday's State of the City address.

Over the past few years, the Covid pandemic and the various responses to it turned vaccines into a major talking point – appropriately or oddly, depending on perspective, given the importance of vaccines to public health for the past two hundred plus years.

Republican lawmakers in Missouri are pushing for a state takeover of the St. Louis police department. Republican officials in Mississippi and elsewhere also have acted this year to take control over some functions in Democratic-led cities and Black-majority cities such as Jackson, Mississippi where the NAACP have launched a lawsuit

Can join those convoys so long as they are prepared to take the risk and provide their own vehicles. of course. vehicles are one thing, but then youve got to fuel them. youve got to get water. youve got to get food and that those essential items are in very, very short supply as khartoum continues to be the scene, a very heavy fighting one of the aspects of the fighting in khartoum, which i think is very important to get across, is that its in a series of different pockets. there isnt a clear fr...

The dictator is alienating the last supporters around him.

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The story for us. >> reporter: its been nearly ten months since the end of roe v. wade and the beginning of abortion access falling solely under state control with major developments in four states this week. in idaho the governor signed a controversial new law making it a felony for non-parent adults to help a minor cross state lines for an abortion, the first law of its kind nationwide. planned parenthood is slamming the measure as extreme, saying it will put young people in dangerous and isol...