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| Russia continued its deadly shelling attacks on Ukraine's Donetsk region, as the Kremlin's foreign minister said Ukraine risks provoking World War III. The Supreme Court will hear arguments over President Joe Biden's move to suspend the Trump-era "remain in Mexico" immigration policy. Today is the 36th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst nuclear accident. And officials in China are taking extreme measures to stall COVID-19 outbreaks in Beijing and Shanghai. |
| I'm Nicole with Tuesday's news. |
Some top stories right now: |
| 🐤 Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk is set to buy Twitter for $44 billion. |
| ❎ Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, was registered to vote in three states. |
| 🔴 A child has died in connection with a mysterious liver disease outbreak affecting kids. |
| 🟦 Donald Trump will appeal a New York judge's order to hold the former president in contempt. |
| 👉 The world's oldest person, Kane Tanaka, died in Japan at 119 years old. |
 | | Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare released a public statement announcing Kane Tanaka's death. She died April 19. She was bornon Jan. 2, 1903. | | Takuto Kaneko, Kyodo News via AP | |
| 🚲 From the product experts at Reviewed: Here are 11 bike commute upgrades to make your ride to work smoother. |
| 🎧 On today's 5 Things podcast, Congress reporter Candy Woodall talks through the chamber's latest priorities after a return from recess. You can listen to the podcast every day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your smart speaker. |
Ukraine continues to absorb Russia's shelling attacks |
| Four people died and nine more were wounded Monday in the Russian shelling of the Donetsk region , the region's governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said Tuesday. Two of the victims were children: a girl, 9, and a boy, 14, Kyrylenko said in the messaging app Telegram. In other news, Ukrainian forces have repelled six attacks in the past 24 hours in the two regions that comprise the Donbas, Ukraine's industrial heartland, the General Staff said Tuesday. The Staff says Russian forces continue offensive operations in the country's east in an effort to take full control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and establish a land corridor to Crimea. Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Monday that Ukraine risks provoking World War III and said the threat of a nuclear conflict "should not be underestimated." On Monday, President Joe Biden announced that he will appoint Bridget Brink as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, filling a position that has been vacant for three years. |
| 👉 More news: Join our Russia-Ukraine war Telegram channel to receive updates straight to your phone. |
Supreme Court hears challenge about 'remain in Mexico' policy as Biden faces immigration backlash |
| The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday over President Joe Biden's effort to suspend a Trump-era policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are considered. The appeal brings former President Donald Trump's "remain in Mexico" policy back before the justices, only months after a majority said the Biden administration did not properly shut down the controversial program and ordered immigration officials to reinstate it. Immigration has resurfaced as a key election controversy as the Biden administration comes under fire for attempting to end a related policy known as Title 42, in which migrants are rapidly expelled from the USA without legal review. Though the two programs are based on different laws, experts say the Supreme Court's ruling in Biden v. Texas may have implications for Title 42. |
 | | Children play as families live in tents the Movimiento Juventud 2000 shelter with refugee migrants from Central and South American countries including Honduras and Haiti seeking asylum in the United States, as Title 42 and Remain In Mexico border restrictions continue, in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on April 9, 2022. | | PATRICK T. FALLON, AFP via Getty Images | |
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Chernobyl disaster anniversary: Russian invasion creates new dangers |
| The 36th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster is Tuesday. On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power station near Pripyat, Ukraine – then part of the Soviet Union – was destroyed by an explosion. At least 28 people were killed initially, but thousands more have died from cancer as a result of radiation that spread after the explosion. The resulting disaster has rendered the area surrounding the station uninhabitable, potentially for thousands of years. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday its director general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, will visit the plant Tuesday, on the anniversary of the 1986 disaster. The IAEA said it will deliver "vital equipment," repair remote monitoring systems that stopped transmitting data to the IAEA and conduct radiological and other assessments at the site, which Russian forces held for five weeks during their invasion of Ukraine, until withdrawing March 31. Thousands of Russian troops did significant damage during the occupation and likely exposed many to radiation. |
 | | A Russian firing position sits adjacent to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near Chernobyl, Ukraine, Saturday, April 16, 2022. | | Efrem Lukatsky, AP | |
Wildfires tear across US, with more danger expected in Nebraska |
| Firefighters across the country are battling multiple wildfires as tinder-dry conditions and high winds whip up flames from Arizona to Florida — including a prairie fire in rural Nebraska that has killed one person, injured at least 15 firefighters and destroyed at least six homes . Thanks to lighter winds in the Midwest on Monday, firefighters made progress on the fire that's burned about 70 square miles of mostly grasslands and farmland near the Nebraska-Kansas state line. They made the most of the opportunity to dump water in dry creeks and draws filled with cottonwoods where dense fuels and brush has built up ahead of the return of more dangerous conditions expected on Tuesday, said Jonathan Ashford, spokesman for the Rocky Mountain Complex Incident Management Team. "It's supposed to be about 20 degrees warmer tomorrow, lower humidity and increased wind," he said Monday night. |
 | | This Wednesday April 20, 2022, photo provided by Bill Wells shows his home on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Ariz., destroyed by a wildfire on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. The wind-whipped wildfire has forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes and animals. (Bill Wells via AP) | | Bill Wells, AP | |
ICYMI: Some of our top stories yesterday |
| ⚖️ Melissa Lucio, on death row for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter in 2007, hopes to "prove my innocence" after a Texas court granted a stay of execution. |
| 🏛 The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared sympathetic to a former football coach who lost his job for kneeling to pray. |
| 🔴 Some lawmakers discussed using martial law to keep Trump in office after Jan. 6. |
| 🐛 How could eating bug powder and fungus meat help fight climate change? |
| 🟤 "The only person I ever abused in my life is myself": Johnny Depp closed his testimony in a libel lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard. |
 | | Actor Amber Heard listens in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Va., Monday, April 25, 2022. | | Steve Helber, AP | |
Beijing conducts mass COVID testing; Shanghai still under strict lockdown |
| The Chinese capital of Beijing was conducting mass testing Tuesday of most of its 21 million people as a new COVID-19 outbreak sparked residents to stockpile food and worry about the possibility of a lockdown. Meanwhile, the southern business hub of Shanghai is expected to remain under lockdown as it works to contain China's largest COVID-19 outbreak since 2020. The city has been under a strict lockdown since March amid the omicron variant outbreak. The 25 million residents have only gradually been allowed to leave their homes after three weeks of confinement. Public transportation has also been suspended and grocery stores are closed, leaving residents hungry and frustrated as they have to order food or wait for government drop-offs. Beijing has recorded 80 cases in the most recent wave, while Shanghai has seen more than 300,000 and 190 deaths this month. |
 | | What the COVID-19 lockdown looks like in Shanghai. | | USA TODAY | |
📷 Photo of the day: Muslims around the world observe Ramadan 📷 |
 | | People pray prior to a break in fast during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at a roadside, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Ramadan is marked by daily fasting from dawn to sunset. | | Muhammad Sajjad, AP | |
| Muslims are observing Islam's holiest month, which started April 1 and lasts through Sunday. The month began with preparatory prayer, shopping for food and decorations, while parades with lanterns and sparklers lit up the sky when the first crescent of the moon marked the start of Ramadan. For the period of Ramadan, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk. In many places, mass food distribution campaigns of meals to break the fast, a common feature during Ramadan, returned this year after a two-year disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Click here to see photos of Ramadan 2022 around the world. |
| Contributing: The Associated Press |
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