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The wife of Ukraine's military intelligence chief has been hospitalized after being poisoned with heavy metals, a top Ukrainian official said Tuesday.

After almost three weeks of repeated failed attempts to reach 41 stranded construction workers stuck in a collapsed tunnel almost 300 feet underground, the rescuers finally succeeded using their bare hands and shovels to get through the last yards of rock in the Himalayas.

President Biden arrived in Georgia Tuesday morning to attend a tribute service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter, honoring a woman with whom he enjoyed a friendship of nearly half-a-century before her death this month at age 96.

 Russia has opened a criminal case against the prominent Russian American writer and journalist Masha Gessen, accusing them of spreading "false information" about the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine - part of a continuing crackdown by the Kremlin on voices critical of its war.

If only figuring out what to do with your body after you die was as simple as TV made it seem. "I'm not going to be buried in a grave," said character Frank Reynolds from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." "When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash." Unfortunately, Frank, that would almost surely incur legal action, likely a misdemeanor or felony charge for improperly disposing of human remains. But with the national median cost of a funeral with burial rising to $8,300 this year, according to the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA), it's no wonder morbid jokes like that hit home.