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USA Today, – March 10, 2022
A Russian airstrike in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol hit a maternity hospital injured 17
A Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol killed three people, including a child, and left 17 people wounded on Wednesday, the latest attack against civilians as the Kremlin continues its assault on Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy tweeted that Russian troops had made a “direct strike” on the maternity hospital. He called it an “atrocity” and said: “People, children are under the wreckage.”
“How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror,” Zelenskyy tweeted. “Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity.”
The attack on the hospital complex in Mariupol drew widespread condemnation from advocates for refugees and humanitarian aid.
Al Jazeera English – March 10, 2022
Ukrainian officials say a hospital complex in the besieged southeastern port city of Mariupol has been hit by a Russian attack, injuring at least 17 people.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denounced the incident as an “atrocity” and reiterated a call for Kyiv’s allies to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
Kyiv has called for an immediate ceasefire around the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant amid fears about a loss of power to the plant’s cooling systems. Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports from Lviv in western Ukraine.
Guardian, – March 10, 2022
Zelenskiy shares footage showing destruction of 600-bed complex with children’s and maternity wards in south-eastern city as US House passes huge aid package
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned a Russian attack on a children’s hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol as evidence of “genocide” as the US moved to drastically bolster support to the war-ravaged country with a $13.6bn aid package.
The Ukrainian president shared video footage showing massive destruction at the hospital – a combined 600-bed complex with children’s and maternity wards – in the southern port city that has been under relentless bombardment for nine days.
“A children’s hospital, a maternity ward. How did they threaten the Russian Federation? What is this country, the Russian Federation, that is afraid of hospitals, maternity wards and is destroying them?” said Zelenskiy on Telegram.
March 10, 2022 – 1:00 pm (ET)
PBS NewsHour – March 10, 2022 (06:40)
Advocates are sounding the alarm about a set of measures that they say target teaching and writing related to LGBTQ issues, race and freedom of speech. Around the country, efforts to ban specific books or even whole categories of books are on the rise. Jeffrey Brown has a conversation for our arts and culture series, “CANVAS.”
Buried within the 2,700-page omnibus spending bill unveiled early Wednesday that would fund the federal government through September is something called “member-directed spending.” It might well be the single most important thing in the bill if you care about Congress actually passing legislation
See, “member-directed spending” is just a fancy name for earmarks — a system by which federal spending in a certain district or state can be appended to legislation as a sweetener for the members of Congress representing those areas.
Need an example? Drive through West Virginia and you’ll see all sorts of highways and byways named after Robert C. Byrd, the long-serving senator from the Mountain State.
Earmarks had long been part of the legislative process as a way to grease the wheel of bill-passing.
March 10, 2022 – 6:00 pm (ET)
