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Politics chat: State Republicans set agenda with reactive bills ahead of midterms

7:59am March 06, 2022

by Mara Liasson

We look at how Republican-controlled state legislatures are shaping their strategy ahead of the midterm elections, and how their Democratic counterparts are crafting their messaging.

Some Russians in the U.S. fear sanctions' impact on family back home

7:59am March 06, 2022

by Matt Sepic

Many Russian immigrants in the U.S. express solidarity with Ukraine while worrying about how the tough sanctions on Russia will affect their loved ones back home.

Ukrainian servicemen carry a baby stroller after crossing the Irpin river on an improvised path under a bridge that was destroyed by a Russian airstrike.

Putin says Ukraine's future is in doubt as cease-fires collapse

1:33am March 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

Vladimir Putin warned Saturday that Ukrainian statehood is in jeopardy and likened the West's sanctions on Russia to "declaring war" as Russian troops continued to shell encircled cities

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Lawyer organizes fellow Russian émigrés to condemn Putin's invasion in Ukraine

4:51pm March 05, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with attorney Lena Zezulin about organizing Russian-Americans and émigrés in the U.S. to speak out against the invasion of Ukraine.

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What a Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson could bring to the Supreme Court

4:51pm March 05, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin to speaks with Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, about the historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson could bring public defender background to Supreme Court

4:51pm March 05, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin to speaks with former Federal Public Defender Martin Sabelli about why he thinks so few public defenders are appointed to federal judgeships.

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A visit to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice

4:51pm March 05, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin visits the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, founded by attorney Bryan Stevenson, to memorialize the victims of lynchings that took place in the U.S. after the Civil War.

Ricki Foster is one of 30 members of the first class at United Airlines' new United Aviate Academy flight school in Arizona.

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Few women of color are pilots. United Airlines' flight school is changing that

2:06pm March 05, 2022

by David Schaper

The profession is overwhelming white and male. As baby boomers retire, airlines seek to knock down barriers for women and people of color to refill the pilot ranks.

Women and children from Ukraine arrive at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, on Saturday.

Evacuations are halted in an area of Ukraine where Russia had pledged a cease-fire

8:40am March 05, 2022

by The Associated Press

Ukrainian officials said the work to evacuate civilians from two cities had halted amid shelling, just hours after Russia announced the deal.

Sacramento's dense population of Ukrainian immigrants are sending help back home

8:01am March 05, 2022

by Pauline Bartolone/CapRadio

A group of Ukrainian Christians in Sacramento is responding to the war by both praying and working to get relatives out of Ukraine. Many were refugees themselves because of religious persecution.