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    Ukraine's President Zelenskyy fired his top general in the biggest military leadership change since start of war in 2022. The two men had reportedly been feuding for months.
  • Karla Eslinger, commissioner for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, right, listens during a meeting of the state Board of Education at St. Louis Community College-Forest Park on Tuesday. Eslinger announced her retirement at the end of the meeting.
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