The attack is the the latest in a series of Russian strikes targeting vital infrastructure across Ukraine that began in October, causing widespread blackouts and power rationing.
Revelations surface that the now-embattled George Santos lied about his heritage as well as education and professional pedigree as he campaigned for office.
"Let us remember him. He is very sick, asking the Lord to console and sustain him in this witness of love for the Church, until the end," the incumbent pope said.
Aliaksandra Herasimenia is sentenced in absentia to 12 years behind bars for calling for sanctions against Belarus due to the 2020 presidential election widely regarded as fraudulent.
President Joe Biden issues a federal emergency declaration for the state of New York. At least 60 lives have been lost in weather-related incidents nationwide.
The congressman-elect previously claimed to be the grandson of Holocaust survivors, but reports exposed his grandparents did not flee Europe, but rather came from Brazil.
"A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down at low altitude while approaching the Engels military airfield in the Saratov region," news agencies reported the Russian Defense Ministry as saying.
The family presents a united front against the backdrop of Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle's Netflix documentary series criticizing the royal family.
Cars are overturned and burned, shop windows are damaged and small fires set alight near Republic Square, a traditional venue for demonstrations where Kurds earlier held a peaceful protest.
Storm knocks out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, leaving millions of Americans on edge about the possibility of Christmas Eve blackouts.
