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Confirmation hearings opened Monday for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court. She's the first Black woman nominated for the nation's highest court.

A church in the town of Nicholasville, Ky., held a fundraiser for humanitarian relief for Ukraine over the weekend. It raised $145,000.

Russian forces have shown few signs of advancing but are still actively destroying Ukraine. In the southern city of Mariupol, bombs targeted a school which was sheltering about 400 displaced people.

Speaking to students Friday at Normal West High School, a veteran soldier and a Peace Corps volunteer both described Ukraine as a lovely country with a gently rolling landscape similar to central Illinois.

The first appearance in the NCAA Tournament in 14 years for the Illinois State women's basketball team was a short one. The Redbirds lost their opening round game, 98-58, at No. 2-seed Iowa before a sellout crowd at Carver Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.

Russian Cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station wearing blue and yellow - the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

His long-awaited reform program includes new institutional weight to efforts tight clerical sex abuse. He also envisages more decision-making roles for lay members of the Catholic Church.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine entered its second month, the U.N. says more than 3.7 million people have fled to neighboring countries and another 6.4 million have been displaced within the country.