Biden said he was 'honored' to return to Kyiv and that the city 'captured' his heart on his surprise visit

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US President Joe Biden meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Ukrainian presidential palace on February 20, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
President Joe Biden meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Ukrainian presidential palace on February 20, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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George Santos — who is Catholic — insists he used to say he was 'Jew-ish' as a party joke. Now he says he's taken 4 DNA tests to prove his maternal grandparents are actually Jewish.

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New York Congressman-Elect George Santos speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) annual leadership meeting.

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How Jimmy Carter helped to practically wipe the horrific Guinea worm parasite off the face of the earth

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Former US President Jimmy Carter.

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Pro-Putin pundits are furious Biden made a surprise trip to Kyiv, calling it a 'humiliation' for Russia

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Russian President Vladimir Putin talks on the phone as part of a nationwide charity campaign, in Moscow on January 3, 2023.

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The US military once blasted airships with nukes on balloons to see if they could drop nuclear bombs on submarines and survive

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A picture from nuclear tests, codenamed Stokes, involving airships in 1957 during Operation Plumbbob.
A picture from nuclear tests, codenamed Stokes, involving airships in 1957 during Operation Plumbbob.

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US and South Korea will wargame a nuclear crisis just days after North Korea issued its latest threat

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US and South Korean air force taxi down a runway during an exercise at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea on March 2, 2012.

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Russia tried to shuffle spies around Europe after they got kicked out, but everyone already knows who they are

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Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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A top Russian military official is dead after falling out of a 16th-floor window, the latest in a string of untimely deaths

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the plenary session of the Commonwealth of the Independent States (CIS) Summit, October 14, 2022.

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Russian balloons are drifting over Kyiv, likely to fake out its air defenses and force them to waste valuable missiles, Ukraine says

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National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS)

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New video captures the moment one of Russia's horrifying thermobaric weapon launchers was destroyed, Ukraine says

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A screenshot from a video of Ukrainian forces destroying a Russian thermobaric weapon launcher.
A screenshot from a video of Ukrainian forces destroying a Russian thermobaric weapon launcher.

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