| By Dan Donahue, NBC Nightly News |
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| Good Friday afternoon. President Biden is in Poland today as Ukrainian forces make gains against the Russian invaders, text messages show the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas pushed to overturn the 2020 election, and a teen fell to his death from a ride at a Florida amusement park. |
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| Here is what’s in our Nightly Rundown. |
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Biden meets with U.S. troops, aid workers in Poland |
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| President Joe Biden traveled to Poland today where he met with U.S. troops about 50 miles from the border with Ukraine, and spoke to aid workers on the front lines of the growing refugee crisis caused by brutal Russian invasion. |
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| Biden also met today with Polish President Andrzej Duda to discuss the humanitarian response to the war. |
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| The president expressed “disappointment” that he cannot see the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine firsthand, though he is expected to meet with Ukrainian refugees while he’s in Poland. |
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| On Saturday, Biden will deliver a “major address” on the state of the war, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. |
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| More than 3.7 million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began, according to the U.N. refugee agency. At least 2.2 million have escaped to neighboring Poland. |
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| Biden addresses U.S. troops stationed in Poland: 'We're at an inflection point' |
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300 killed in Russian attack on theater, Ukrainian officials say |
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| About 300 people were killed when Russian forces bombed a theater where more than 1,000 civilians had taken shelter in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol last week, local officials said today, citing eyewitnesses. |
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| The first images have now emerged from inside the destroyed theater, showing survivors covered in dust. |
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| NBC News was not able to independently confirm the death toll. |
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| Russia’s advance on the ground outside Kyiv has stalled, but its military continues to bombard cities from the air. |
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| Overnight an airstrike hit a fuel depot outside Kyiv, as Russia tries to choke off supplies to the capital. |
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| More than 1,080 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the invasion began, the U.N. said today. Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians. |
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More on the war in Ukraine: |
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- Spotify has joined the growing list of companies that are fully suspending operations inside Russia.
- Vladimir Putin invoked J.K. Rowling in a rant claiming Russia has become the victim of “cancel culture,” leading the “Harry Potter” author to fire back at him on Twitter.
- Pope Francis presided over a peace prayer for Ukraine today at St. Peter’s Basilica.
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Wife of Clarence Thomas pushed to overturn election, texts show |
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| Text messages obtained by the Jan. 6 committee show Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly encouraged then-Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to keep fighting the results of the 2020 election, a person familiar with the investigation said. |
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| The committee received 29 texts between Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist, and Meadows, as part of a trove of documents and messages Meadows turned over before he stopped cooperating with the investigation. |
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| In a Nov. 10 text, Thomas told Meadows he should encourage Former President Donald Trump not to concede. “The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History,” the message reportedly said. |
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| The Washington Post and CBS News obtained copies of the messages, which were reviewed by each news outlet and by five people who have seen the committee’s documents. |
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| Justice Thomas is not mentioned in the texts, but Democrats are now calling on him to recuse himself from any cases involving the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. |
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| Today the justice was released from a hospital in Washington, D.C., nearly a week after he was admitted with “flu-like symptoms,” according to the court. |
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Teen falls to his death on ride at Florida amusement park |
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| Tyre Sampson, who was visiting from Missouri, plummeted from the Orlando FreeFall ride, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said. |
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| The ride, standing at 430 feet, is the tallest free-standing drop tower in the world, according to ICON Park's website. |
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| The sheriff said there’s been no indication anything was wrong before Sampson suddenly fell to his death. The incident remains under investigation. |
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What else we’re watching: |
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- Sen. Joe Manchin, the centrist Democrat, announced he will support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, signaling her likely confirmation.
- The FBI says it disrupted a plot, involving a man from Maine and two teens, to bomb a Chicago mosque.
- A former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide, for giving a 74-year-old patient a fatal dose of the wrong medication in 2017.
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