Zelenskyy fires recruitment officials for accepting $10,000 bribes to help Ukrainian men dodge the draft: 'bribery during war is treason'

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Warsaw, Poland, on April 5, 2023.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Warsaw, Poland, on April 5, 2023.

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Ukrainian troops face critical delays while learning to pilot F-16 jets and won't be ready to fly until next summer

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An F-16 jet with its landing gear extended to land at the U.S. military airfield at Spangdahlem, Germany.
President Joe Biden, who had staunchly opposed sending F-16s to Ukraine, in May reversed course and backed the idea of providing training to Ukrainian troops to pilot the jets.

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For over 20 years, archaeologists in Germany thought a 35,000-year-old figurine they found was a horse. Now, they aren't sure whether or not it's a cave lion or cave bear.

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The Hohle Fels animal figure from left front

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Sam Bankman-Fried is being sent to jail after a judge revoked his bail over alleged witness tampering

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:59 FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at Manhattan federal court, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, in New York.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrived at federal court in Manhattan on Friday ahead of a judge revoking his bail, and sending him to jail, over witness-tampering.

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Trump was warned by a judge about making even 'ambiguous statements' that could intimidate witnesses or influence jurors in the Jan. 6 case

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Former US President Donald Trump.

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Ukrainian pilots have been taking English classes in between their missions to prepare to fly US-made jets

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A F-16 is flow during a mission at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, Feb. 14, 2019.
Biden green-lit F-16s in May after increasing pressure from Ukraine and NATO officials, but the timeline for Ukrainian forces to get the prized jets is still up in the air.

US Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. John Raven

Jeff Bezos has added a $68 million waterfront mansion on Florida's 'billionaire bunker' to his real-estate collection: report

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Jeff Bezos has reportedly purchased a waterfront mansion in Indian Creek, an artificial barrier island in Miami.
Jeff Bezos has reportedly purchased a waterfront mansion in Indian Creek, an artificial barrier island in Miami.

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Archaeologists discovered a 17th-century 'vampire child' with a padlocked ankle in a Polish 'necropolis' graveyard

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The skeletal remains of what researchers believe to be a 17th-century
Archeologists discovered the skeletal remains of what they believe to be a 17th-century "vampire child" in an unmarked Polish cemetery.

Courtesy of Dariusz Poliński

An AP Psychology teacher in Florida says she's afraid to say the wrong thing in class for the first time in her career

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A classroom with empty desks.
A classroom with empty desks.

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The girlfriend of a Ukrainian soldier fighting on the front lines is shocked Kyiv residents are partying while the war grinds on

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A soldier sits and holds a telephone near Donetsk in Ukraine.

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