March 25, 2022: Ukraine, North Korea ICBM, Energy, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Clarence Thomas wife

March 25, 2022: Ukrainian forces, Kyiv North Korea ICBM, EU energy crunch, Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas

1. Ukrainian troops are recapturing towns east of Kyiv and Russian forces who had been trying to seize the capital are falling back on overextended supply lines, Britain said on Friday, one of the strongest indications yet of a shift in momentum in the war.

2. North Korea's latest launch was a big, new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), state media reported on Friday, in a test leader Kim Jong Un said was designed to demonstrate the might of its nuclear force and deter any U.S. military moves.

3. European Union leaders backed plans to buy gas jointly and won a pledge from the United States to supply them with more LNG, both steps aimed at helping the bloc face an energy crunch heightened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

4. Virginia Thomas, the wife of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, urged former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to work to overturn the results of the 2020 election in a series of text messages, the Washington Post and CBS News reported.

5. Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, moved closer to securing Senate confirmation in the next two weeks, while experts from the nation's leading lawyers' group dismissed Republican claims that she was "soft on crime" including child pornography.

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