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Hello from the Heartland. My name is Jenna and this is Smarter News, news when it matters and why it matters.

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Hi, guys. Hope you're having a great day, wherever you are. We're at the end of another really long week, another really long week of news.

And when I started Smarter News, the whole mission of Smarter News was and continues to be quick, concise, nonpartisan information.

But let's face it, a lot of our coverage recently hasn't been so quick and concise.

And that's in part because we're covering a historic event, Russia's war on Ukraine.

And sometimes you get these topics that demand a little bit more time invested to understand the different

facets of this story. So we've done that, but I don't want to forget the other news that's out there.

And I don't want to forget the mission of smarter news. So today, what I decided to do is gather

a few of the big stories that I really wanted to cover for this week for you. And I put them together in a little

bit of a show just so that I could give you a headline, a little context and why it matters.

Any number of these topics that are really on the sidelines of this larger story that we're

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