The justices, former law clerks and the public gathered to remember Sandra Day O’Connor, who was the most powerful woman in the country during a critical time in American law.
A man with close ties to the Kremlin went looking for and found the remains of World War I Russian soldiers in France. Moscow hopes to use the discovery for diplomatic purposes.
The pain and loss of the war in Ukraine are felt most profoundly in small Russian villages, where a soldier’s burial produces not just grief but a yearning to find meaning in his death.
“Come hell or high water, Jimmy Carter was going to use his inner resources to be there,” the presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said of Mr. Carter’s emerging from hospice care for his wife’s memorial service.