More civilians have been rescued from the tunnels under a besieged steel plant in Mariupol, a Ukrainian official said Friday, even as fighters holed up at the sprawling complex made their last stand to prevent Moscow’s complete takeover of the strategic port city. [snip]
“We conducted another stage of a complex operation to evacuate people from Mariupol and Azovstal. I can say that we managed to take out almost 500 civilians,” the head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Andriy Yermak, said Friday on the Telegram messaging app.
It was not clear if that figure referred entirely to new evacuations or included around 100 who were rescued over the weekend in a United Nations-assisted operation. It was also not clear how many might be left underground, but U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that the organization “must continue to do all we can to get people out of these hellscapes.”
A farmer from Boone County, Indiana, who is accused of murdering his wife won a Republican primary election this week.
Andrew Wilhoite was in March arrested over the death of Elizabeth “Nikki” Wilhoite, who according to local news reports had recently finished receiving chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.
On Tuesday, Andrew Wilhoite, from jail, secured a spot on the ballot in November’s general election for the Clinton Township Board. Three Republicans were running for three primary seats. Wilhoite received 60 votes.
Indiana State Police arrested Wilhoite for murder after the body of his wife was found in a creek near their home, Boone County Sheriff’s Office said in March.
Wilhoite reportedly told investigators he’d hit her with a flower pot during a fight. She’d reportedly filed for divorce after he had an affair.
His trial is slated to begin in August, per WTHR.
As it stands “there is no legal reason he can’t be a candidate,” Indiana election official Brad King told the Kokomo Tribune. “Under our system you are innocent until you are proven guilty. If a person is convicted of a felony, then they are no longer eligible to be a candidate and are ineligible to hold office.”
While touting his anti-abortion credentials, former Vice President Mike Pence said the country could see a "fresh start" if the Supreme Court follows through on a leaked draft opinion and overturns Roe v. Wade. [snip]
"Having been involved in the cause of the right-to-life for all of my adult life, politics is the least of my concerns, that we have a historic opportunity to restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law, and I welcome that," Pence told reporters. [snip]
"We may well be in a place where five justices of the Supreme Court are poised to overturn Roe vs. Wade and give the American people a fresh start on life by returning the question of abortion to the states and to the American people,(*)" Pence said told reporters before the speech.
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* The American people want Roe upheld 54 to 28, you repressed, sphincter-clenching asshole.
