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Texas Guardsman who went missing along Rio Grande identified as search continues The Texas Military Department identified the missing Guard member as Specialist Bishop E. Evans, 22, from Arlington. Evans went missing on Friday as he jumped into the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass along the U.S.-Mexico border. Read more >

Ukraine official: Zelenskyy meets with Austin and Blinken Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin came as Ukraine pressed the West for more powerful weapons in its fight against the Russian invasion, which began 60 days ago. Read more >

Johnnie Jones, World War II veteran and Army’s first Black warrant officer, dies Johnnie Jones was born Nov. 30, 1919, in Laurel Hill, La., and raised on Rosemound Plantation by his parents, who farmed 73 acres of land but insisted that their son get an education. He graduated from Southern University and then was drafted in 1942. He became the Army's first African American warrant officer. Read more >   Long-serving Utah Senator Orrin Hatch dies at age 88 A conservative on most economic and social issues, Orrin G. Hatch nonetheless teamed with Democrats several times during his long career on issues ranging from stem cell research to rights for people with disabilities to expanding children’s health insurance. He also formed friendships across the aisle, particularly with the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Read more >   In Mariupol, echoes of history, utter devastation and a last stand The fight in Mariupol is not over. Civilians and Ukrainian fighters — including combatants from the Azov Regiment, the same nationalist unit that helped wrest back the city in 2014 — remain hunkered down in a dramatic last stand at the sprawling Azovstal Iron and Steel Works. Read more >

Russian officer: Missile to carry several hypersonic weapons Col. Gen. Sergei Karakayev, the commander of the Russian military's Strategic Missile Forces, said in televised remarks that the new Sarmat ICBM is designed to carry several Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles. Read more >   On 50th anniversary of Apollo 16, astronaut Charlie Duke remembers the thrill of it all Two dozen American astronauts visited the moon between late 1968 and late 1972. Half of them walked on its heavily cratered surface. Only four in the latter group — Charlie Duke, Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott and Harrison Schmidt — are still alive. Read more >   ‘Worth a lifetime of PTSD’: Cradling a Ukrainian infant, an Idaho Marine veteran finds meaning in his pain On March 22, Idaho Marine veteran Jared Malone came to Ukraine to raise money for Victory Christian Church and help rent a building in Lviv that could house refugees. He spent nearly a month in Ukraine, flying back to the U.S. on April 16. Read more >   North Dakota World War II veterans, brothers, die hours apart Anton "Tony" Hatzenbuhler, 100, died April 18. His brother Mathias "Matt" Hatzenbuhler, 96, died a few hours later on April 19. They will be buried at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery with military honors. Read more >   France's Macron is reelected, but far-right rival Le Pen gains A second five-year term for French President Emmanuel Macron spares France and its allies the seismic upheaval of a wartime shift of power to Macron's populist challenger Marine Le Pen. Read more >   Remains of 17 French WWI soldiers buried at Gallipoli The World War I Gallipoli campaign aimed to secure a naval route from the Mediterranean Sea to Istanbul through the Dardanelles, and take the Ottoman Empire out of the war. Around 44,000 Allied troops and 86,000 Ottoman soldiers died in the fighting. Read more >

 

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