February 23, 2023: Ukraine, Putin’s nuclear arsenal, G20, Tennessee drag shows, Snowstorm, R.Kelly

February 23, 2023: Ukraine defends frontline, Putin’s nuclear arsenal, G20, Tennessee drag shows, Snowstorm, R.Kelly sentencing

1. Ukraine said its forces had repelled Russian assaults along the length of the front line on the eve of the war's anniversary, as President Vladimir Putin, empty-handed after a bloody winter offensive, talked up Russia's nuclear arsenal.

2. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stepped up calls for increased financing support to Ukraine to help it battle the year-old Russian invasion as the United States readies an additional $10 billion in economic assistance.

3. Tennessee lawmakers will debate whether to restrict drag performances in public or in front of children, one of more than a dozen bills limiting drag advanced by Republican politicians in at least 15 states in recent months.

4. A major winter storm battered the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest with high winds and heavy snow, forcing hundreds of schools to close, grounding air travel and making road travel difficult - if not impossible - in some U.S. areas.

5. A U.S. judge in Illinois is due to sentence musician R. Kelly for child pornography and coercion, deciding whether to tack more time onto a 30-year sentence from a previous case that alone would keep Kelly in prison well into his 80s.

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