Fort Pickett, an Army base in Virginia named after Confederate Gen. George Pickett, on Friday will become Fort Barfoot in honor of Col. Van Barfoot, a Native American World War II hero. It is one of nine bases set to be renamed by the end of the year. https://t.co/SLJGFFkfht

Severe thunderstorms are expected to sweep across parts of the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys on Friday, raising the risk of tornadoes, damaging winds and hail for millions of people, forecasters said.
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Hart Island, a potter’s field where New York City has long buried its unclaimed dead, will finally accept visitors this year. The move is a remarkable break with the decades-old policy of keeping the island’s burials secretive and its graves unseen.
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Sixteen young people from Montana have sued the state, arguing that its support of fossil fuels violates the state Constitution that guarantees “the right to a clean and healthful environment.”
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The Biden administration issued a report warning that the government encourages Americans to make bad decisions about living with climate change.

Why will changing that be so difficult? Listen to today’s episode of The Daily.
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Israel’s attorney general issued a sharp rebuke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning him that he had broken the law by announcing that he would become more personally involved in his government’s efforts to overhaul the judiciary. https://t.co/Dynyv7WbAC

In Opinion

"I'm leaving a world in terrible shape and terrible in all ways that I've tried to help make better during my years," said Daniel Ellsberg, the whistle-blower who leaked the Pentagon Papers, in an interview with @nytopinion.  https://t.co/VdlhnALtAU

Breaking News: King Charles postponed a visit to France because of protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension overhaul, the French presidency said. https://t.co/sSA1jZjp1U

The collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange has led prosecutors to scrutinize his brother, Gabe, who ran a pandemic-prevention group that became a lobbying force in Washington.
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The death of millions of fish in the Darling River in New South Wales, Australia, has enraged locals who rely on it for drinking and showering. It’s the latest clash over a river basin that sustains much of the country’s agriculture and many communities.
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Years of hostilities with Russia and its proxies have forced Ukraine to become skilled at treating amputees, but there are too many for its overtaxed medical workers.

Some are finding their way to this prosthetics clinic in Minnesota.
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“Bring earplugs. Not just because the songs in ‘Bad Cinderella,’ the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that opened on Thursday at the Imperial Theater, are so crushingly loud,” our critic writes. “The dialogue, too, would benefit from inaudibility.”
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Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians flocked to the Indonesian island of Bali to escape the war. But after accounts of tourists behaving badly, its governor wants to revoke Russia’s and Ukraine’s access to the country’s visa-on-arrival program.
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The International Criminal Court, which last week issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin, will open an office in Ukraine to facilitate investigations into war crimes in the midst of Russia’s invasion.
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The European Union is set to organize an international conference aimed at tracing Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, the president of the European Commission said on Thursday. https://t.co/ZApH4aEUDs

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The authorities in China raided the Beijing office of the Mintz Group, a U.S. corporate investigations firm, and detained all five of its Chinese employees, the company said.
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Efforts to ban books nearly doubled in 2022 over the previous year, according to a new report. A vast majority of the titles that were challenged were by or about LGBTQ people, or by or about people of color, the American Library Association found. https://t.co/C2sTbjwDxV

The first person to face a jury under New York state terrorism laws passed after Sept. 11 was sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison. https://t.co/VrWIM65xOl