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Airmen and civilians from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron place ammunition, weapons and other equipment on pallets bound for Ukraine at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Jan. 21, 2022.

Putin wanted a militarily weaker Ukraine. He got the opposite

The longer Ukraine's army fends off the Russian invasion, the more it absorbs the advantages of Western weaponry and training — exactly the transformation Vladimir Putin wanted to prevent by invading.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey, left, speaks to a GOP primary forum crowd at Five Points Washington in Washington, Ill. on April 25, 2022. From left to right: Bailey, Jesse Sullivan, Gary Rabine, Max Solomon, and Paul Schimpf. Candidate Richard Irvin did not attend.

GOP gubernatorial forum zeroes in on hot-button public health, education issues

Republican candidates seeking Illinois' governorship focused on public health mandates and the school system in one of the few debates held before June’s primary.

Delta Air Lines will start paying flight attendants for the time that passengers are boarding. That's a first for a major U.S. airline. Flight attendants in the U.S. generally don't begin getting paid until the doors close after boarding.

Delta will begin paying flight attendants for flight boarding time

Pay for flight attendants typically starts when all the passengers are seated and the plane's doors close. The change is expected to increase wages by several thousand dollars a year.

Corvette's "electrified" model will come as early as next year, followed by a fully electric version, General Motors says.

Corvette is the next big name in cars to roll out an electric

An "electrified" Corvette is coming next year, with a fully electric model to follow, GM's president says. The automaker faces heavy competition in an electric vehicle market dominated by Tesla.

Texas Appeals Court halts execution for woman found guilty of murdering her child

Melissa Lucio had faced death by lethal injection on Wednesday.

NATO defense officials meet in Germany to decide the next steps for Ukraine

The U.S. wants to weaken Russia to the point where it can't wage a war like this again. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder about what options NATO has left.

A man uses cooking oil to fry Mandazi, a type of fried bread, on a street in the low-income Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, April 20, 2022.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine heats up cooking oil prices in global squeeze

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has further fueled already high food and energy costs, hitting the poorest people hardest.

People walk in a city park around a Soviet-era monument in Kyiv, Ukraine, in June 2020.

Kyiv will dismantle a Soviet-era monument and rename streets linked to Russia

The People's Friendship Arch was gifted to Ukraine by the Soviet government in the 1980s. Kyiv's mayor says the statue underneath is being dismantled, and the arch will be renamed and repainted.

President Biden on Tuesday pardoned three people and shortened the prison terms of 75 more.

Biden takes his first actions on clemency with 3 pardons and 75 commutations

Tuesday's pardons and commutations are part of a broader White House effort to make the criminal justice system more fair – a goal Biden made part of his 2020 presidential campaign.

Fidelity will start offering bitcoin as an investment option in 401(k) accounts

Fidelity said it has signed up one employer that will add the offering to its plan later this year. The U.S. government has warned the industry to exercise extreme care when offering cryptocurrencies.

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