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Fighters with an armored vehicle near the Ukraine-Russia border May 24. (EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Use of NATO arms for attack in Russia raises doubts about Kyiv’s controls

U.S. and Western officials have insisted that Ukraine carefully track the billions of dollars’ worth of weapons that have flowed into the country. Yet a recent raid into Russia underscores how materiel can change hands in unpredictable ways.

By Alex Horton, John Hudson, Samuel Oakford and Isobel Koshiw

Ron DeSantis (R) speaks Friday in Greenville, S.C. (Sam Wolfe for The Post)

DeSantis on the trail: Combative with critics, not yet cozy with voters

During a three-state tour for his presidential campaign, the Florida governor highlighted his family, shouted back at a heckler who interrupted his speech to call DeSantis a “fascist,” and chatted up voters — but offered limited back-and-forth.

By Hannah Knowles, Colby Itkowitz and Dylan Wells

Ingenuity on Mars, as photographed by the Perseverance rover on June 15, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS)

NASA’s Mars helicopter is somehow still flying — and playing hide-and-seek

Ingenuity, NASA’s record-breaking Mars helicopter, continues to fly two years after scientists expected it to fail.

By Daniel Wu

‘You don’t have another option’: Inside Biden and McCarthy’s deal

By Tony Romm, Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Tyler Pager, Jeff Stein and Rachel Siegel

As India train crash toll passes 280, authorities end rescue efforts

By Karishma Mehrotra, Anant Gupta, Frances Vinall and Claire Parker

Tennessee drag ban is unconstitutional, federal judge rules

By Caroline Anders

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Jamie Raskin beat cancer twice. Now he turns to his political future.

Over the past two years, the Democrat from Maryland has both mourned his son and confronted his own mortality, while serving in some of the most demanding leadership positions in Congress.

By Meagan Flynn

A baseball card depicting Gabby Street’s Washington Monument catch. (Courtesy of Mike Litterst)

Baseball’s oddest arms race once featured balls thrown from the Washington Monument

Washington Senators catcher Gabby Street was the first to catch a baseball thrown from the monument’s 505-foot observation level in 1908. His feat sparked even more daring attempts, with occasionally painful results.

By Scott Allen

Eric Fein lost many of his writing jobs to ChatGPT. (Taylor Glascock for The Post)