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Santa Ana, California’s Second Baptist Church‘s senior pastor, Ivan Pitts, was stabbed seven times on the morning of Feb. 24, 2022, outside is home in Long Beach.

Western news outlets and social media accounts spread the story of Ukrainian soldiers on Snake Island defiantly telling off the Russian navy before being killed—the story is now confirmed "fake news."

Toyota is halting production at all 14 of its factories in Japan after a key supplier was hit by a suspected cyberattack.

As Russian forces march closer to the capital city of Kyiv, the international community is sending military aid to Ukraine. However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is calling on nations to inflect financial punishments on Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine.

Trump-admin targets were dropped as the military focused more on Marxism.

Russia's leader says Moscow seeks "demilitarization and denazification" of Ukraine, tells Ukrainian army to lay down weapons, warns of response to foreign intervention.

Vladimir Putin tells China's President Xi he's ready to hold high-level talks with Kiev.

Russia says Ukraine has been committing "genocide" on Russians in disputed Ukrainian regions.

Within the next couple of months it is likely that there will be direct US military involvement in Ukraine, with Russia now openly supporting and recognizing separatist groups in the Donbass region on the eastern edge of the country and apparently moving to aid them militarily in separation.

Biden administration imposes second effort in year to divert border agents overseas. Last year, it was for Afghanistan.