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Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for an open U.S. Senate seat is too close to call and is likely headed for a statewide recount.
- The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Republican lawmakers in Arizona after the 2020 presidential election to choose their own slate of electors, arguing that results giving Joe Biden a victory in the state were marred by fraud.
- Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine.
- Former President Trump has paid the $110,000 in fines he racked up after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general.
- In the past week, Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, U.S., Sweden and Canada all reported monkeypox infections, mostly in young men who hadn’t previously traveled to Africa.
- The slow return of diversity to an area in Georgia that brutally drove out its Black residents has been accompanied by a boom that gives the lie to “Great Replacement” conspiracy theories.
- President Joe Biden’s approval rating dipped to the lowest point of his presidency in May, a new poll shows, with deepening pessimism emerging among members of his own Democratic Party.
- The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommended a third COVID-19 shot to healthy elementary-age kids.
- Oklahoma lawmakers approved a bill prohibiting all abortions with few exceptions, and providers said they would stop performing the procedure as soon as the governor signs it.
- Rosmarie Trapp, whose Austrian family the von Trapps was made famous in the musical and beloved movie “The Sound of Music,” has died.
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- Turkey’s leader flatly opposes having Sweden and Finland join NATO, but the military alliance’s chief said he was confident the standoff would be resolved.
- The Senate overwhelmingly approved a $40 billion infusion of military and economic aid for Ukraine and its allies on Thursday.
- Here's what to know about monkeypox, its symptoms, how it's treated and more.
- With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to let states tightly limit or ban abortion, reproductive rights advocates are planning to open new clinics or expand existing ones in states where lawmakers are not clamping down on access.
- The white man accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was scheduled to appear in court Thursday.
- Hundreds more Ukrainian fighters who made their stand inside Mariupol’s bombed-out steel plant surrendered, bringing the total to over 1,700, Russia said Thursday.
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- Mary Martha Costello, a former supervisor in the Child Protective Services Division of the Baltimore Department of Social Services, died of heart failure April 19 at the Barrington at High Oaks, an assisted living home in Richmond, Virginia. She was 82 and had lived in Towson and in Harford County.
- Pimlico draws a crowd for new event featuring an evening of music and entertainment by some of the hottest names in the business.
- Three people were injured Friday evening in shootings in Baltimore City, where communities are experiencing a disturbing rate of gun violence in 2022.
- Baltimore’s top public defender, Natasha Dartigue, will become the Maryland public defender in July.
- Roy McGrath, facing charges from his time leading the Maryland Environmental Service, abused his office by hiring loyal associates and incurring exorbitant personal expenses, according to a new report.
- The women’s soccer game is every bit as gripping and entertaining as the men’s game.
