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Ketanji Brown Jackson's shattering of a racial glass ceiling, in a week also marked by the naked ambition of the Republicans who smeared her, the delusional demagoguery of an ex-President and a touch of the bizarre, reflected an historic and extreme Washington age.

Drones are playing a key role in Ukraine's counter offensives against Russia's invasion. One is proving so effective that Ukrainian forces are singing its praises, literally. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh has the exclusive report.

Legendary rock band Pink Floyd is releasing a new single "Hey Hey Rise Up" on Friday in support of the people of Ukraine, the band said in a statement on Thursday.

Brandeis University professor Anita Hill said Thursday that Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the US Supreme Court marked an "important cultural moment" for the court and the country.

Germany's foreign intelligence service told a parliamentary committee Wednesday that it has intercepted radio communications where Russian soldiers talked about shooting soldiers and civilians in Ukraine, a source with knowledge of the meeting said.

The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday in a historic vote that paves the way for her to become the first Black woman to serve on the highest court in the nation.

Iryna Filkina had big plans for the year. She was turning 53 in April and planned to start focusing on herself after spending the past three decades working tirelessly and raising her two daughters between the towns of Bucha and Irpin, in the suburbs of Ukraine's capital Kyiv.

CNN's Jake Tapper talks to Ukrainian Parliament member Oleksandr Merezhko about his recent trip to Bucha, Ukraine, where a mass grave of civilians was discovered.

CNN's Jake Tapper visits a hospital in Ukraine dealing with the influx of civilians wounded during the war with Russia.

CNN has geolocated a recent video that appears to show the execution of a Russian prisoner by Ukrainian forces following recent fighting in the Kyiv region.

Ukrainians fleeing the war tell CNN's Katie Polglase that what they thought would be a passage to safety turned into a harrowing experience as they were forcibly deported to Russia.

Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled that a decision to block a vote of no-confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan was unconstitutional.

As Russia's war in Ukraine enters a pivotal new phase, fighting is intensifying in the east of the country and officials have warned of a battle that "will remind you of the Second World War."

CNN's Ivan Watson is aboard a train traveling from eastern Ukraine that is carrying evacuated Ukrainians. One civilian describes what life was like under Russian occupation in her town.

A Turkish court ruled Thursday that the trial in absentia of 26 suspects accused of murdering Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi can be transferred to Saudi Arabia, in a move that could effectively end the case.

Russia's lies may be catching up with it faster than it ever imagined.

The UK government has claimed up to 60% of what it calls "ill-gotten" Russian gains and foreign reserves have been frozen and that there will soon be nowhere left for such money to hide. But as Nina dos Santos reports, sanctions on the super rich have yet to sway public allegiances, perhaps why the US has now announced the first criminal charges against a Russian oligarch and extended sanctions to Putin's two eldest daughters. CNN's Nina dos Santos reports.

The US announced new sanctions Wednesday on Russia's largest financial institutions and number of individuals tied to the Kremlin, including Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters, as it looks to increase economic pressure on Russia and Putin himself following horrific images from the Ukrainian city of Bucha.

Ukrainian authorities released new drone video showing abandoned Russian military positions in a highly radioactively contaminated area of the Exclusion Zone near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Erin Burnett and Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova discuss.

CNN's Frederik Pleitgen shows how the use of drones is helping Ukrainian citizens fight the Russian invasion.

China and Russia are bent on changing the "rules-based current global order," according to America's top general.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Wednesday about the economic shock waves set off by the war in Ukraine, including disruptions to the global flow of food and energy.

Russia was furious about blatant violations and contravention of norms and rules. But Moscow's UN ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, was not fixated on sickening atrocities blamed on Russian troops in Ukraine. Instead, he was fuming about supposed infringements of protocol on calling meetings.

The US Justice Department is charging Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev with sanctions violations, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday, the first criminal charges against an oligarch since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Shocking images showing the bodies of civilians scattered across the streets of Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, have sparked global horror in recent days and raised the urgency of ongoing investigations into alleged Russian war crimes. But a starkly different narrative is playing out on China's state-run media.

Oksana Kostychenko walks down a narrow pathway, leading to her back garden in Borodianka. The flower beds on one side are surprisingly well arranged, contrasting with the wanton destruction all around.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has not necessarily given up on trying to capture the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv, even as Russia has shifted its focus in recent days to southern and eastern Ukraine, according to US and Western officials.

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Australia will spend $2.6 billion (3.5 billion Australian dollars) to upgrade its defensive missiles as the security environment in the Asia-Pacific region becomes more challenging due to China's assertiveness, the country's defense minister said Tuesday.

An additional 42 genes connected to the development of Alzheimer's disease have been uncovered in the largest study of genetic risk for Alzheimer's to date.