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Dropping water levels in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine have exposed fishing nets and roots of aquatic plants along the shoreline of the Dnipro river. Dmytro Smoliyenko/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images hide caption

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Ukraine invasion — explained

Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, endangering a nuclear plant

Satellite data show water levels plummeting at the Kakhovka Reservoir. The reservoir supplies drinking water, irrigates vast tracts of farmland, and cools Europe's largest nuclear plant.

The multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes, whose Healing Project has won a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. Ray Neutron/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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An artist's 'Healing Project,' focused on incarceration and violence, wins $1 million

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The COVID-19 dashboard created by the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering is displayed during a briefing on Capitol Hill in early March 2020, when only 245 confirmed cases had been reported in the U.S. Samuel Corum/Getty Images hide caption

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As the pandemic ebbs, an influential COVID tracker shuts down

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Hayley Williams performs with Paramore during the When We Were Young music festival on Oct. 23, 2022, in Las Vegas. Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS hide caption

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'This Is Why' it was a tough road to Paramore's new album

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Dropping water levels in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine have exposed fishing nets and roots of aquatic plants along the shoreline of the Dnipro river. Dmytro Smoliyenko/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images hide caption

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Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, endangering a nuclear plant

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Super Bowl LVII is expected to set a betting record

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