Friday, March 4, 2022

A fire at a Ukrainian nuclear plant has put Europe on alert. Russia now controls the facility, and the fire is out. How safe are Ukraine's other nuclear plants? Russia continues its indiscriminate attacks on Ukrainian cities. Thousands of people are believed to have been killed or wounded, and the country's economy has changed overnight. And in the first trial connected to the January 6 attack on the Capitol, a son testified against his father. Guy Reffitt was bragging about the attack when his son Jackson secretly recorded him and turned him in.

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