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- Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky meets with President Biden and addresses Congress. The high profile trip is his first known visit outside Ukraine since Russia’s invasion. President Biden and Congress responded by promising new military aid, including the delivery of highly sophisticated surface to air Patriot missiles.
- One thousand U.S. religious and peace leaders urge a Christmas truce in the war.
- The January 6th committee delays release of its final 800 page report by a day.
- With temperatures plunging, thousands of asylum seekers wait on the Mexican side of the border with Texas to see if the Supreme Court will give the green light for them to enter the U.S. to press their claims.
- The city of Oakland votes to reinstate a mask mandate inside city facilities in the face of high numbers of cases of COVID and other diseases.
- And a blast of Arctic air threatens to upend holiday travel plans and endanger the lives of homeless people throughout much of the country.
- Power was restored today for tens of thousands of residents across Humboldt County hit by the deadly 6.4 magnitude earthquake that injured at least seventeen, destroyed or damaged dozens of homes and buildings, and resulted in two deaths due to medical emergencies in the aftermath.
Image: A Ukrainian soldier stands near an apartment ruined from Russian shelling in Borodyanka, Ukraine, Wednesday, Apr. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) via Flickr
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