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Search and rescue called off after Ukraine's largest children's hospital partially destroyed

Ukraine mourned a Russian strike on the country's largest children’s hospital, as President Joe Biden called “a horrific reminder of Russia’s brutality.”

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A car lies under the rubble as emergency and rescue personnel search for survivors outside the children's hospital.

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Medical staff in blood-soaked gowns clean up the rubble and search for victims.

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Polina, 10, looks after her sister Marina, 3, outside the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital.

France's Emmanuel Macron keeps prime minister, cites 'stability' after chaotic election

The French President refused the prime minister's resignation, asking him to remain temporarily after chaotic election results left the government in limbo.

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Participants gesture towards a giant banner which reads as "France is the fabric of migration" during an election night rally at Place de la Republique in Paris on July 7, 2024.

Persistent heat wave in the U.S. expected to shatter new records as it bakes West and swelters in East

LOS ANGELES — A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. persisted on Sunday, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that caused the death of a motorcyclist in Death Valley and held the East in its hot and humid grip.

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A woman holds iced drinks against her forehead as the temperature reaches 119 degrees in Palm Springs, Calif., on Friday.

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People visit the beach at Coney Island on a sweltering afternoon on the first weekend of summer in New York City on June 22.

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A person cools off during the Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland, Ore., on Friday.

The brutal killing of a Detroit man in 1982 inspires decades of Asian American activism nationwide

Four decades after Vincent Chin was killed by autoworkers who blamed Asian manufacturers for industry decline, activists fight to ensure Chin is not forgotten.

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Lillie Chin, mother of Vincent Chin at Detroit's City County Building in 1982.

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Activists walk to the grave of Vincent Chin in 2002 in Detroit.

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Vincent Chin died three days after being battered to the pavement with baseball bat.

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Demonstrators hold a mural of Vincent Chin at the National Mall in 2022.

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People gather for a remembrance ceremony for Vincent Chin in Chinatown on June 23 in Boston.
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