Smoke rises this week in the city of Sievierodonetsk during heavy fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Tuesday
The federal Bureau of Prisons announced in 2018 that it was moving a special unit that had been plagued with violence to a new federal prison complex in Illinois. Some hoped it would be a fresh start and a chance to improve conditions. But things only got worse. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP hide caption
Business leader turned military commander Vsevolod Kozhemyako stands at a position in Ruska Lozova, a village retaken by the Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region, May 16. Ricardo Moraes/Reuters hide caption
A look inside the Ukrainian 'billionaire's battalion' fighting Russian forces
Monday
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces new gun control legislation in Ottawa, Ontario, on Monday. Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press via AP hide caption
Friday
Firemen extinguish a fire at a gypsum manufacturing plant after shelling in the city of Bakhmut, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, on Friday. Russia pressed on with a deadly offensive to capture key points in the Donbas this week. Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A building hit by shelling is pictured in Severodonetsk, eastern Ukraine, on May 18. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Ukrainians say they're badly outgunned by Russia in the battle for the Donbas
Thursday
Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi talk during a ceremony to mark the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Solomon Islands and China at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Sept. 21, 2019. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption
Wednesday
A man walks past a damaged building after a strike in Kramatorsk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, on Wednesday. Aris Mennis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A TV screen shows a news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Lee Jin-man/AP hide caption
Tuesday
Prosecutors allege that Timothy Hale-Cusanelli is a white supremacist who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 intent on causing a second "civil war." His defense attorney contends that Hale-Cusanelli frequently makes "bombastic" statements and uses "offensive" language, but that he entered the Capitol as a result of "groupthink." Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption
Smoke and debris ascend after a strike at a factory in the city of Soledar, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, on Tuesday. At the three-month point since Russia launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine, fighting has been intensifying in the east. Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Cars pass destroyed Russian tanks from an earlier battle against Ukrainians in the village of Dmytrivka, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday. With Russian troops gone from the Kyiv region, life is returning to the city. But heavy fighting takes place daily in the east and the south of the country. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption
Three months of war: Russia underachieves, Ukraine overachieves
Monday
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy receives a standing ovation after his video address on the first day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday. Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Akasaka Palace, Monday, May 23, 2022, in Tokyo. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Saturday
Sailors are seen aboard the USS George Washington in Yokosuka, Japan, in 2011. The U.S. Navy has seen a spike in desertions, with numbers more than doubling from 2019 to 2021. Seaman Jacob D. Moore/U.S. Navy hide caption