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Thirty Years Ago This Week: Notorious political strategist James Carville landed in Denver and soon after took to the podium at the annual Colorado Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, in large part to help bolster Gov. Roy Romer’s re-election campaign. He held no punches in disparaging Romer’s challenger, Colorado Republican Party Chairman Bruce Benson, saying; “We’re not going to let a political hack spend $5 million and take this governorship away from the school children of Colorado.”

Voters will go to the polls in November to elect the 119th Congress and decide whether the 45th or 46th president deserves a second term, but there will be ballot initiatives in various states alongside the candidates. Abortion is expected to be on the ballot in several states, including the pivotal swing states of Arizona […]

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Russia has launched a barrage of missiles against Ukraine directed at energy facilities. The energy minister said facilities in Dnipropetrovsk in the south of the country and Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv in the west had been attacked. A psychiatric hospital was damaged and one person was wounded after Russia launched a missile attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv. Meanwhile, Russia said its air defense systems had intercepted more than 60 drones over the southern Krasnodar region. The regional governor said that Ukrainian forces targeted an oil refinery and infrastructure facilities but that there were no casualties or serious damage.

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Student anti-war protesters at U.S. universities are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, while several school faculties have condemned university presidents for calling law enforcement. As Columbia University continues tenuous negotiations with the pro-Palestinian student encampment, the University’s senate criticized the schools' president on Friday after more than 100 protesters were arrested last week. School faculties at universities in California, Georgia, and Texas initiated or passed votes of no confidence in their leadership. They are largely symbolic rebukes, without the power remove their presidents. But the tensions pile pressure on school officials, who are already scrambling to resolve the protests as May graduation ceremonies near.