📌 Attacks Deep Into Russia OK, New Orleans, More

President Joe Biden's administration has allowed Ukraine to use US weapons to strike deep into Russia, US officials said Sunday.

The decision significantly reverses Washington's policy in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Ukraine plans to conduct its first long-range attacks in the coming days, the sources said, without revealing details due to operational security concerns.

A US official said the change comes mainly in response to Russia's deployment of North Korean ground troops to supplement its own forces. This development has caused alarm in Washington and Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said: “Today, many in the media are saying that we have received permission to take appropriate actions. But strikes are not made with words. Such things are not announced.”

The White House and US State Department declined to comment. There was no immediate response from the Kremlin, which has warned that it would see a move to loosen the limits on Ukraine's use of US weapons as a major escalation.

Two people were killed and 10 others injured in two separate shootings during a New Orleans second-line parade.

The shootings occurred 45 minutes apart, with the first incident involving shots fired from a car into the crowd. Nine people were injured in the first shooting and taken to hospitals, all of whom are alive.

The second shooting happened on a bridge, where three people were struck by gunfire; two were killed, and one is in critical condition.

Police confirmed that two weapons were used in the shootings but have not provided further details. They are unsure whether the shootings are related due to the time gap and are seeking public assistance for information.

Second-line parades are community-driven events, often associated with celebrations or funerals, and typically draw large crowds.

The family of Malcolm X has filed a $100 million lawsuit against multiple agencies over the civil rights icon’s 1965 assassination.

Malcolm X was shot while delivering a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York City, in front of his wife and children by three gunmen using a sawed-off shotgun and semi-automatic pistol. He later died from his injuries at a local hospital.

Thomas Hagan, also known by the name Talmadge Hayer, was tackled by the crowd while trying to flee the scene and was arrested. He later admitted to being involved in the assassination and was one of only three suspects who confessed to the crime.

The other two suspects arrested shortly after the assassination were Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam, who denied involvement. All three were convicted of first-degree murder in March 1966 and sentenced to life in prison.

Aziz and Islam were exonerated in 2021 after a new investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, which was aided in its decision by new evidence and declassified documents showing that authorities withheld evidence that could have proven their innocence.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump alleges that the FBI, under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover, and other government agencies and the NYPD, were aware of serious and credible threats to Malcolm X's life and allowed the assassination to take place.

“Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music” makes Yale’s 2025 curriculum.

Professor Daphne Brooks, who teaches African American Studies and music, said in the wake of Beyoncé’s involvement in the 2024 election and the events that preceded it, now is the perfect time to delve into her impact on American culture.

“The breakthroughs and innovations she’s executed and the way she’s interwoven history and politics and really granular engagements with black cultural life into her performance aesthetics and her utilization of her voice as a portal to think about history and politics — there’s just no one like her.”

The class will focus on Beyoncé’s 2013 self-titled album through her latest work, “Cowboy Carter,” and its impacts and influences. “2013 was such a watershed moment in which she articulated her beliefs in black feminism,” Brooks said.

Students will also participate in screenings of the star’s visual albums and study the literary works of Hortense Spillers, the Combahee River Collective, Cedric Robinson and Karl Hagstrom Miller.

Research confirms that volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon billions of years ago, just like on the visible side.

Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 (pictured), the first spacecraft to return with rocks and dirt from the little-explored far side. Two teams found fragments of volcanic rock about 2.8 billion years old. One piece was even more ancient, dating back to 4.2 billion years.

Scientists know there were active volcanoes on the near side, the part of the moon seen from Earth, dating back to a similar time frame.

Craters pockmark the moon’s far side, which has fewer of the near side’s flat, dark plains carved by lava flows. Why the two halves are so different remains a mystery, said study co-author Qiu-Li Li from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Li said the new findings reveal over 1 billion years of volcanic eruptions on the lunar far side. Future research will determine how the activity lasted so long.

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is running for re-election as mayor of Davao City to strengthen his political dynasty.

Duterte's return to politics aims to bolster his family's position against the rival Marcos political dynasty. The Marcos-Duterte alliance, formed during the 2022 elections, is disintegrating due to internal conflicts and public disputes.

The political feud between the Marcos and Duterte families is rooted in differing visions for the Philippines' geopolitical stance, particularly regarding relations with the US and China.

Duterte's anti-crime crackdown during his presidency led to over 6,000 deaths in a controversial war on drugs, prompting investigations by the ICC and Philippine lawmakers.

Duterte admitted to hiring a ‘death squad’ of gangsters during his tenure as mayor of Davao City but denied ordering extrajudicial killings as president.

Pastor Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, a close supporter of Duterte, was arrested for alleged sex trafficking, adding to the controversies surrounding Duterte's political comeback.

A man was arrested in Peru after his bulging clothes gave him — and the hundreds of tarantulas strapped to his body — away.

Security officials at Lima’s Jorge Chavez International Airport stopped the alleged smuggler, a 28-year-old South Korean man, because his stomach appeared abnormally swollen while passing through security.

The man, not identified, was asked to lift his shirt, revealing two belts adorned with camouflaged bags and packages containing tarantulas and other bugs.

Specialists later tallied the concealed critters, counting 35 adult tarantulas, 285 juvenile tarantulas, 110 centipedes and nine bullet ants. The adult tarantulas were described as human hand-sized, each taking up a large plastic container.

All of the creatures are native to the Peruvian Amazon, and the tarantulas, specifically, are on Peru’s list of endangered species. The bugs are part of a global trade in which wildlife is smuggled and sold for high prices, generating millions of dollars.