Brian Mann

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Kyiv holds funeral for 'Juice,' one of Ukraine's ace fighter pilots

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Andriy Pilshchykov, known by his call-sign "Juice" became an icon in Ukraine helping deny Russia air superiority in the early days of the war. He was given a hero's funeral Tuesday in Kyiv.

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As war losses mount, Ukraine honors a veteran jet fighter pilot who died in collision

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Andrii Pilshchykov, known as "Juice," died in a training flight Friday. He was a veteran of early combat missions during Russia's invasion and later advocated for Western countries to donate F-16s.

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Russia pushes back on Ukraine's offensive, forcing many elderly people to flee

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Russian forces are mounting an offensive east of Kharkiv, which is triggering a new wave of displaced persons — many of them elderly and alone.

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Zelenskyy denies any role in the plane crash that killed Wagner Group chief Prigozhin

Saturday, August 26, 2023

In Ukraine, news of the apparent death of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash is being greeted with satisfaction and gallows humor.

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The GOP candidates' differing takes on the war in Ukraine

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Last night, eight of the Republican candidates running for president took the debate stage for the first time. They had one major point of disagreement: Russia's war on Ukraine.

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Despite dangers and hardship of war, Ukrainians enjoy Black Sea beaches this summer

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

This summer Ukrainians are thumbing their noses at Putin by sunbathing and swimming on Black Sea beaches that have reopened despite the dangers of war.

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Ukraine and Bulgaria say commercial vessels are defying Russia in the Black Sea

Monday, August 21, 2023

Ukraine and Bulgaria sounded a defiant tone on the future of grain and other shipments on the Black Sea. They say Russia's effort to strangle Ukraine with an embargo and missile strikes isn't working.

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Russian missile kills 7 and injures 90 in northern Ukrainian city amid local holiday

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Many residents had just finished a morning of festivities and were leaving church in Chernihiv, north of Kyiv, when a Russian missile struck the city's center, heavily damaging a theater building.

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Rural voters shaping the GOP presidential primary turn against U.S. aid to Ukraine

Friday, August 18, 2023

Populist politicians and right-wing media have convinced many voters that U.S. aid for Ukraine is a waste of money. Domestic problems should take precedent, they say.

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In divided America, one rural area in northern N.Y. struggles to find common ground

Friday, August 18, 2023

New York's Adirondack Park used to be a political powder keg. Now factions are working to find common ground, while tackling some big problems.

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A politically divided rural area of New York has united to preserve its wilderness

Thursday, August 17, 2023

In New York's Adirondack Mountains a bipartisan group has reduced political polarization and boosted civility while helping preserve hundreds of thousands of acres of wilderness.

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Supreme Court temporarily blocks $6 billion Purdue Pharma-Sackler bankruptcy

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Supreme Court's decision to review the controversial bankruptcy deal involving the maker of Oxycontin means the settlement will remain on hold at least through December.

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Only 1 in 5 people with opioid addiction get the medications to treat it, study finds

Monday, August 07, 2023

Overdose deaths from fentanyl and other opioids have surged but medications that could save thousands of lives "are sitting on the shelf unused," according to new research.

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For hard-core Trump supporters latest indictment doesn't raise doubts

Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Republican primary voters in upstate New York are angry over the latest Trump indictment, but some say they're weary of his drama.

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Drugmaker Mallinckrodt aims to avoid paying an opioid settlement to victims

Thursday, July 27, 2023

The drugmaker Mallinckrodt is working to avoid payments to people who have struggled with addiction to opioids, as originally reported by the Wall Street Journal.

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Remembering Funny Cide, a gutsy longshot of a horse who nearly won the Triple Crown

Friday, July 21, 2023

Funny Cide was an unknown racehorse from New York state in 2003 when he came out of nowhere to win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. He died this week at the age of 23.

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Come along on a trail run in the wild tallgrass prairie of Kansas

Monday, July 17, 2023

The tallgrass prairie is an astonishing place to run, with rolling hills, bison herds, wildflowers and birds. We take a sunrise run in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas.

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Trail running through the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas

Friday, July 14, 2023

The tallgrass prairie is an astonishing place to run — rolling hills, bison herds, wildflowers and birds moving along the creeks. We take a run in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas.

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As climate change looms, New York bets big on winter sports tourism

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Officials in New York are on track to spend $1 billion taxpayer dollars refurbishing 40-year-old Winter Olympic sports and tourism sites near Lake Placid. Critics doubt it will pay off.

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Critics have doubts about New York's huge winter sports tourism investment

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The state is on track to spend a billion dollars refurbishing 40-year-old Winter Olympic sports and tourism sites near Lake Placid. Critics ask why? (Story aired on ATC on July 10, 2023.)

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