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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 28: A sign is posted on security fencing outside of the U.S. Capitol on February 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. Security has been heightened and fencing was erected around the U.S. Capitol ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The challenges Biden faces in his State of the Union address

As President Biden is set to make his first State of the Union speech, he and the country face pressing issues, from Russia's invasion of Ukraine to inflation and the continuing pandemic.

The State Republican Convention in Nassau County Credit: New York NOW

Republicans pick party nominees for New York's statewide offices

At least one of the designated nominees could still face a primary challenge for the official nomination in June.

Photo/File #: NPL Hitis (Water Fountains) of the Kathmandu Valley (1) Country: Nepal Site: Hitis (Water Fountains) of the Kathmandu Valley Caption: A stone carved Hiti still giving water round the clock Date: 2021-04-19 Photographer: Chiva Chaitya Provenance: Watch 2022

Sites in Beirut, Benghazi and Brownsville, Texas, make a most-endangered list

Beirut's historic city center and the traditional territory of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas are among 25 places listed by World Monument Watch as in urgent need of preservation.

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An electronic billboard along Kyiv's Victory Avenue - the route Russian tanks are expected to take - shows a message to Russian soldiers reading "Putin lost, the entire world is with Ukraine", on February 28, 2022. (Photo by Daphne ROUSSEAU / AFP) (Photo by DAPHNE ROUSSEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukrainians are removing and altering road signs to confuse and insult Russian forces

Ukrainian agencies are working to remove road signs to try to frustrate Russian soldiers, while other public signs are laced with expletives toward the invading troops.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has already changed the world as we know it

Journalist Anne Applebaum has been covering the war in Ukraine for The Atlantic. "I don't think that we will ever again smugly assume that borders in Europe can't be changed by force," she says.

Local leaders and manufacturers want to expand the workforce in Oneonta, but a lack of workforce housing poses barriers. (Jillian Forstadt/WSKG)

While Oneonta manufacturers want more workers, city lacks housing for them

Manufacturers in New York want to compete with companies overseas and localize production. They’re limited, however, by hiring challenges and a lack of workforce housing.

Russia's 40-mile convoy has stalled on its way to Kyiv, a U.S. official says

The convoy is apparently being hampered by fuel and food shortages, the official says. The news comes as Russia continues to concentrate attacks on Ukraine's largest cities: Kyiv and Kharkiv.

President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola talks during a demonstration in front of European Parliament after a special plenary session on the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 01, 2022. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP) (Photo by JOHN THYS/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine proves that Europe's way of life is worth a cost, EU Parliament head says

"This must be our 'whatever it takes' moment," European Parliament President Roberta Metsola says. Metsola says the EU will work with Ukraine toward its goal goal of joining the union.

People walk past a mosaic panel depicturing the liberation of Kyiv by Red Army in 1943 during the WWII at Kievskaya metro station in Moscow on March 1, 2022. - The decoration of the station, opened in 1953, was dedicated to the theme of friendship between the Russian and Ukrainian people in the frameworks of the USSR. Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on March 1 described Russian shelling of his country's second city of Kharkiv as a war crime and said defending Kyiv - the capital of the country - from Moscow's army was a top priority. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin's claim of fighting against Ukraine 'neo-Nazis' distorts history, scholars say

Scholars dismiss the Russian leader's claims as a "mythical use of history." For one: Ukraine overwhelmingly elected a Jewish president, and has a relatively small right-wing movement.

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