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Chornobyl at 40
Four decades after the 1986 reactor disaster, scientists, elderly returnees and soldiers remain in a restricted Ukrainian landscape now shaped by contamination and Russia’s war
Diplomacy
The four-day state visit begins Monday as tensions over Iran, energy, immigration and tech taxes test the U.S.-UK relationship
Immigration
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told lawmakers hundreds of applicants are waiting after the administration opened the $1 million residency program in December
IEA outlook
Damage at Qatar’s Ras Laffan and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz will delay LNG supply growth by at least two years, the agency says
Ontario courts
Justice Craig Parry ruled the Crown had not proved Sloka used medical exams as a pretext for assault, ending a years-long criminal trial that drew a strong reaction from former patients and supporters
Energy and Indigenous financing
Energy Minister Tim Hodgson told MPs public money could support Indigenous equity ownership in a potential bitumen pipeline to the Pacific Coast
Virginia redistricting fight
Rep. Rich McCormick’s “Make D.C. Square Again Act” would undo the 1846 retrocession after Virginia voters approved a Democratic-backed congressional map
