Ukraine said Sunday that the death toll had risen to at least 21 after a Russian missile slammed into a tower block in the city of Dnipro during a massive wave of strikes causing power outages and blackouts across the war-torn country. Ukrainian officials said more than 40 people were still missing after the Dnpiro strike, which came as Ukraine celebrated the Old New Year, a popular holiday, and as Britain became the first Western country to offer Kyiv the heavy tanks it has long sought.

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Climate change related disasters and the costs to deal with them are adding up, according to a new report from NOAA, which says the U.S. alone saw 18 different billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2022. Even more troubling, the data also found that the U.S. has experienced a billion-dollar disaster every 18 days on average between 2017 and 2021, compared to one every 82 days in the 1980s.

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Artificial intelligence and the educational system are at odds over the advent of ChatGPT, the latest in know-it-all chatbots that landed with a bang last year. The new technology has tricked some AI experts into believing it is sentient, and it has fooled more than a few educators who think they can tell the difference between a student's essay and a bot, but some universities are taking steps to guard against AI shortcuts.

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Martin Luther King Jr. is among four Americans whose birthdays are observed as national holidays. Name the others (two were presidents).

Friday's answer: Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" sold 1.4 million copies on the first day, breaking the record held by former US President Barack Obama's 2020 best-seller "A Promised Land" by a half-million.