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Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyyon Sunday will visit the Pennsylvania ammunition factory that is producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country s fight to fend off Russian ground forces.He is expected to go to the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant to kick off a busy week in the United States shoring up support for Ukraine in the war, according to two U.S. officials and a third familiar with Zelenskyy s schedule who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details that were not yet public. He also will address the U.N. General Assembly annual gathering in New York and travel to Washington for talks on Thursday withPresident Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.The Scranton plant is one of the few facilities in the country to manufacture 155 mm artillery shells. They are used in h stanley cup owitzer systems, which are towed large guns with long barrels that can fire at various angles. Howitzers can strike targets up to 15 stanley cup miles to 20 miles 24 kilometers to 32 kilometers away and are highly valued by ground forces to take out en stanley cup emy targets from a protected distance. Ukraine has already received more than 3 million of the 155 mm shells from the U.S.With the war now well into its third year, Zelenskyy has been pushing the U.S. for permission to use longer range missile systems to fire deeper inside of Russia. So far he has not persuaded the Pentagon or White House to loosen those restrictions. The Defense Depart Pdwp Scott Pelley reflects on Walter Cronkite s legacy' t" J# T3 { e/ Y3 @# v% p" c
Sitting on a crowded subway is a lesson in sharing. Each person is allotted 17.5 inches, the width of an average seat, but for some that s simply not enough. Manspreading is when men take up too much room on the subway by spreading their legs in a wide V, Like geese traveling, actress Kelley Rae O Donnell said. O Donnell has become an anti-manspreading activist, making stopping the spread a personal mission, reports CBS News correspondent Vladimir Duthiers. I guess you would call it subway shaming It s what my friends accuse me of doing, O Donnell said. Three years ago she started taking pictures of people -- mostly men -- spreading out, and posting them on Twitter. I spend a lot of time commuting stanley cup back and forth into Manhattan from Br air max ooklyn, and there was so much of it on these crowded trains that I just starting taking pictures, O Donnell said. Mostly because they wouldn t move for people or allow other people to sit down. It s an issue that our customers notice and, for lack of a better word, can be an annoyance, Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Kevin Ortiz said.For the first time the MTA, the organization tasked with keeping the country s largest public transportation system running, is asking men to mind the gap.In a new courtesy c crocs ampaign launching this month, they re putting up posters reminding riders to be more considerate of others, including stopping the spread. If there s an opportun |
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