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The head of Crimea's Russia-backed leader Sergei Aksyonov gestures as people celebrate in Lenin Square, in downtown Simferopol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Polls have closed in Crimea's contentious referendum on seceding from Ukraine and seeking annexation by Russia. The vote, unrecognized both by the Ukrainian government and the West, was held Sunday as Russian flags fluttered in the breeze and retirees grew weepy at the thought of reuniting with Russia. (AP Photo/Max Vetrov)

Crimea votes in favor of secession; U.S. rejects

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with Russian athletes, winners of the cross country 4x2.5km open relay, at the 2014 Winter Paralympic, Saturday, March 15, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Putin’s Games end under a Crimean cloud

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

A man and child exit a voting booth after casting a vote in the Crimean referendum in Simferopol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Residents of Ukraine's Crimea region are voting in a contentious referendum on whether to split off and seek annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Crimeans vote to leave Ukraine, join Russia

By MIKE ECKEL and JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG - Associated Press

**FILE** Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican (Associated Press)

McCain: ‘Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin listens during a U.N. Security Council meeting on the Ukraine crisis, Saturday, March 15, 2014, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Russia vetoes U.N. resolution on Crimea’s future

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Ukrainian soldiers carry garbage outside the Ukrainian infantry base in Perevalne, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The Group of 7 world leaders said in a statement released from the White House on Wednesday that they won't recognize results of a referendum for the Crimea region to split from Ukraine and join Russia.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

In Crimea, uncertainty grips Ukraine’s military

By MIKE ECKEL - Associated Press

A pro-Russian soldier is back dropped by Russia flag while manning a machine-gun outside an Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Tensions are high in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, where a referendum is to be held Sunday on whether to split off from Ukraine and seek annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine says Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships move outside Crimea

The Washington Times

Minnesota man seeks son’s return from Ukraine

Associated Press

National security team briefing Obama on Ukraine

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Minnesota news in brief at 7:58 p.m. CDT

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Russia beats Ukraine in freestyle wrestling

By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON - Associated Press

Ukraine's athletes cover their silver medals with hands after finishing second in cross country 4x2.5km open relay at the 2014 Winter Paralympic, Saturday, March 15, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. The majority of Ukraine's Paralympic medalists covered their medals during medal ceremonies. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Covering medals, Ukrainians stage silent protest

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

This undated photo released Thursday, May 30, 2013 by aerospace technology company Northrop Grumman shows the RQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft that students in the University of North Dakota aviation program will learn to fly. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Northrup Grumman)

Russia claims to have downed U.S. drone over Crimea region; Pentagon denies

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Lisa Bundy, foreground center, of Montgomery, Ala., hugs her father, Wayne Munsch, and friend Pat Creppel, both of New Orleans, upon returning to American soil, Friday, March 14, 2014, at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in Atlanta. Lisa and daughter Nastia returned from Ukraine after finalizing Nastia's adoption there. (AP Photo/AL.com, Julie Bennett)

Alabama family reunited after adoptions in Ukraine

By ALEX SANZ AND PHILLIP RAWLS - Associated Press

In this photo taken Saturday, March 8, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin watches downhill ski competition of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Roza Khutor mountain district of Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Half of Americans worried about second Cold War: poll

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Ohio Democrat (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Rep. Marcy Kaptur: GOP leaders need to ‘get their act together’

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

A member of the Crimean self defense stops a man at the main railway station in Simferopol, Ukraine, Friday, March 14, 2014. Members of the Crimean self defense forces check the luggage and identity documents of passengers arriving by train, especially from western Ukrainian cities or the capital, to Simferopol, looking for what they label as provocateurs, ahead of the March 16 referendum that will ask residents if they want the territory to become part of Russia. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

As Ukraine crisis simmers, U.S. transport planes heading to Poland

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Hoeven joins senators’ economic mission to Ukraine

Associated Press

Ukrainian oligarch faces US corruption charge

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press