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NATO-trained units will serve as tip of spear in Ukraine’s counteroffensive

The counteroffensive will be the biggest test yet of the U.S.-led strategy of giving the Ukrainians weapons and training to fight like an American army might — but on their own.

By Isabelle Khurshudyan and Kamila Hrabchuk

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

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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.

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