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  • More than 6 million people have fled Ukraine, and many thousands have been killed.
  • The House Jan. 6 committee held a hearing Thursday with testimony from former DOJ officials on how Donald Trump tried to use the department to spread false claims about election fraud.
  • Carlos Alcaraz and Frances Tiafoe engaged in a high-level, high-energy spectacle of a back-and-forth semifinal — no point over when it seemed to be, no ball out of reach, no angle too audacious.
  • In his return to Washington, Trump rambles about violent crime and the election he lost while his former vice president tries to present a competing vision of the future of the Republican Party.
  • Gauff surged to her first major championship by coming back to defeat Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the U.S. Open final on Saturday, delighting a raucous crowd that was loud from start to finish.
  • Later this month, the University of Scranton will host an art installation that showcases hundreds of portraits drawn in pencil. Artist Mark Loughney completed the 771 drawings of imprisoned people during his own ten-year incarceration. The Hope Horn Gallery at the University of Scranton will present Loughney’s collection, "Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration," from Friday, April 21 through May 12. There will be a panel discussion about the prison system with the artist, professors and researchers at 5 p.m. on April 21 in the Pearn Auditorium, Brennan Hall. The gallery reception will follow from 6 to 8 p.m. at the gallery in Hyland Hall. Moderator Michael Jenkins is the professor and chair of the university's Department of Criminal Justice, Cybersecurity and Sociology as well as the executive director of the Center for the Analysis and Prevention of Crime. Jenkins will speak with the following panelists:- Mark Loughney, exhibiting artist, Philadelphia; - Sean Kelley, senior vice president and director of Interpretation at the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Philadelphia; - Jasmine Heiss, project director of In Our Backyards, Vera Institute of Justice, Brooklyn, New York; - Jack Norton, assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University, University Park, Illinois; - Glynis Johns, Founder and CEO of the Black Scranton Project. Both the panel discussion and gallery reception are open to the public and free of charge. Loughney's work can be also be viewed after the opening reception during Hope Horn Gallery hours: Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. and Sunday through Friday noon to 4 p.m. For more details, contact Gallery Director Dr. Darlene Miller-Lanning at 570-941-4214 or darlene.miller-lanning@scranton.edu.
  • NPR's Noel King talks to GOP Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois, ranking member of the House Administration Committee, about reforms needed for U.S. Capitol Police following the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  • "There is very little, if any, good news about housing," says David M. Blitzer, who oversees the widely watched S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report.
  • NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with reporter Alana Casanova-Burgess about her reporting on efforts to possibly change how we categorize hurricanes as they become more powerful.
  • Authorities now say that all the missing from the collapse in Changsha had been accounted for, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
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