Good morning. A recent delivery of a baby to a mom on life support shines a light on the conflict between the end of life decisions and state heartbeat laws.

I don't think the pro-life law had anything to do with whether that baby's alive.

Also today, a new federal savings and investment program for families, and Bluegrass

reimagined.

We listen to a lot of the Beach Boys, and we try to figure out how can we incorporate

the type of harmonies that they use into a bluegrass context.

And Cal Thomas says politics should remain out of the pulpit, despite what the IRS may allow.

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Up next, Mark Mellinger with today's news.

Russia is intensifying its attacks against Ukraine, launching more than 700 drones, its largest

such barrage of the war so far, along with 13 missiles. Ukrainian President Volodymyr

Zelenskyy says this latest assault targeted a town that's home to Ukrainian Army airfields

and is also near a key hub for receiving critical foreign military

aid. President Trump lamented the war's climbing death toll. Think of it, 7,000 people a week on both sides.

7,000 people, young, mostly military people, young souls are dead. Trump's also frustrated by the stalled U.S.-led U.S.-led U.S.-led

efforts to broker an end to the war.

U.S. chief of protocol Monica Crowley tells Fox business.

Vladimir Putin has continued to press the war in Ukraine, and as the president

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