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fourth anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine tomorrow.

But as Terry Schultz reports, that will depend on whether Hungary can be convinced to support it.

The public library in Richland, Washington state is thanking a patron for returning a biography of Henry Ford 64 years after the due date.

The man who returned the book says he found it in a collection given to him by a friend.

There's a second library book in the collection, which the man says he'll return once he's done reading it.

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Mexico's military says its forces killed one of the country's most powerful drug lords during an operation to capture him.

The death sparked chaos across the country as armed men set banks, businesses, and vehicles on fire.

Today, even as the situation has calmed, schools are closed and people are staying indoors.

NPR's Eder Peralta explains the significance of the cartel leader known as El Mencho.

NPR's Ader Peralta reporting.

The number of judges in the nation's immigration courts shrank by about a quarter in the last year due to firings and resignations, even when accounting for new hires, according to an NPR analysis.

The drain has led to depleted staff morale, mounting case backlogs, and a floundering due process system.

Twelve immigration courts have lost over half of their judges.

Many courts are down to skeleton crews to handle thousands of cases.

Two courts have no judges at all.

A panel of federal judges has denied an attempt to block Utah's new congressional map from being used in the midterms.

As Martha Harris of member station KUER reports, this was the latest attempt by Republicans to get rid of the map.

The stock market's dropped after President Trump said he would impose a new 15% global tariff.