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The Pentagon announced a new batch of weaponry and other materiel for Ukraine’s effort to fight off Russia’s invasion, amid rising obstacles in Washington to future military and financial support. https://ift.tt/1lzu3wr

The average score on the ACT dropped to a 30-year low, indicating fewer high-school seniors are ready for college, the organization behind the college admissions test said. https://ift.tt/IqRm7D8

Saturday’s attack upended fundamental assumptions about the Middle East and the new, untested rules risk turning the bloody confrontation between Israel and Hamas into a much wider war. https://ift.tt/H0gWMPD

Voting-rights advocates faced a skeptical Supreme Court in arguing that South Carolina’s Republican-controlled Legislature unconstitutionally gerrymandered Black voters out of a Charleston-area congressional district. https://ift.tt/53Jxptz

House Republicans narrowly picked Rep. Steve Scalise as their nominee for speaker, but a new band of GOP holdouts emerged, putting the party’s deep divisions back on display. https://ift.tt/2aA7l5S

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel agreed to form a national unity government that includes members of the opposition and former military leaders, a move aimed at reassuring a country reeling from the deadly attack by Hamas militants that killed 1,200 Israelis, and bracing for a possible ground assault into Gaza. https://ift.tt/mxLpVF4

Birkenstock shares declined in their stock-market debut, closing 13% below the $46 offering price in a potentially brutal blow to an IPO market that was showing signs of recovery. https://ift.tt/PRWZsrd

Disney is raising prices at its theme parks as it looks to make more money from its parks division amid softness in its linear TV business and challenges in its shift to streaming. https://ift.tt/yx5TwBp

Major U.S. stock indexes rose, with the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow industrials advancing 0.4%, 0.7% and 0.2%, respectively. https://ift.tt/sDz0O21