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A Russian armored personnel carrier burns amid damaged and abandoned light utility vehicles after fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The city authorities said that Ukrainian forces engaged in fighting with Russian troops that entered the country's second-largest city on Sunday. (AP Photo/Marienko Andrew)

Pressured Putin hints at nukes but agrees to talks with Ukraine

Facing a wall of global opposition and unexpectedly fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin played the nuclear card Sunday, ordering the country's vast nuclear arsenal be put on a "special combat readiness" status to persuade the U.S. and European nations not to come to Kyiv's aid.

February 27, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, poses for a portrait, Friday, Feb., 18, 2022, in her office at the court in Washington. President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senators expect less contentious, quicker confirmation battle for historic Supreme Court pick

The push to make Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson the first Black female justice in the Supreme Court's 233-year history should be less contentious and speedier than past confirmation fights because President Biden's historic pick is replacing a liberal justice and is well-known to senators from a floor vote less than eight months ago, senior lawmakers said Sunday.

February 27, 2022
White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

White House: Putin making up threats to justify aggression

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to put nuclear forces on alert is part of a pattern of manufacturing threats that don't exist to justify more aggression.

February 27, 2022
In this file photo, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP) **FILE**

CDC relaxes masks guidance in major change to agency’s view of risk

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention significantly relaxed its mask guidance in a major update to its COVID-19 rules Friday, pivoting to a system in which severe disease and hospital capacity are key factors instead of case counts and positivity rates alone.

February 25, 2022
In this Oct. 7, 2021, file photo, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., presides during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Bill Clark/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

House Democrats ramp up their probe into Trump records

The House Oversight Committee said Friday it is expanding its probe into former President Donald Trump's handling of presidential records after archivists identified items marked as classified in boxes recovered from his Mar-a-Lago estate, plus his reported penchant for tearing paper records to pieces.

February 25, 2022
The Wall Street street sign is framed by the American flags flying outside the New York Stock exchange, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, in the Financial District, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) **FILE**

Wall Street has a roller-coaster day after Russia invades Ukraine

The Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a tumultuous day on Wall Street as stocks took a dive before major indexes recovered to positive territory, buoyed by investors buying the dip on tech stocks and gains in defense stocks amid the upheaval. Meanwhile, Russia's markets had to suspend trading as stocks plunged as much as 45% before closing 33% down, and the ruble dropped to a record low against the dollar.

February 24, 2022
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after a Republican strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 15, 2022. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin's "yearning for empire" and a perception of American weakness led to the crisis in Ukraine and urged President Biden not to hold back in the next round of economic sanctions against Moscow. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

McConnell to Biden: Ratchet the sanctions against Russia all the way up

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin's "yearning for empire" and a perception of American weakness led to the crisis in Ukraine and urged President Biden not to hold back in the next round of economic sanctions against Moscow.

February 24, 2022