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Georgia votes in Senate runoff elections; Russia faces three Ukrainian drone attacks in two days.

Tonight's Sentences was written by Jariel Arvin.

Georgia votes in crucial Senate runoff

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• Tuesday is the final day of voting in Georgia’s Senate runoff between incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker. [Vox / Li Zhou]
• The race will determine if Democrats gain an outright 51-49 majority in the Senate, giving them greater control, or if the chamber will remain evenly divided. [Associated Press / Bill Barrow and Jeff Amy]
• Neither candidate won 50 percent of the vote in the November midterms, which forced the runoffs. [FiveThirtyEight / Nathaniel Rakich]
• Warnock, a Baptist pastor, has campaigned on liberal values. In contrast, scandal-plagued former football star Walker has appealed to the state’s conservative white voters. [Guardian]
• Georgians cast a record number of early votes, which typically favor Democrats. Walker likely needs a big Republican turnout on Election Day to win. [Politico / Brittany Gibson and Natalie Allison]

Ukraine strikes back

• Russia says a Ukrainian drone struck an airfield deep within its territory on Tuesday, raising questions about the strength of Moscow’s air defenses. [NBC News / Patrick Smith]
• The explosions come a day after the Kremlin says drones launched from Ukraine hit two Russian military bases hundreds of miles from the Ukrainian border. [New York Times / Andrew E. Kramer, Michael Schwirtz, and Marc Santora]
• The Ukrainian government has not claimed responsibility for the strikes, but welcomed the message the attacks send about Russia’s strategic failures. [Reuters / Pavel Polityuk and Sergiy Chalyi]
• Following the blasts, Russia launched a barrage of missiles at the energy infrastructure in Ukraine, forcing some regions to go without power in the coming days. [BBC / Jaroslav Lukiv and Hugo Bachega]

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear oral arguments in Moore v. Harper, a high-stakes case that threatens the structure of US elections. [Vox / Ian Millhiser]

• Monday, bankrupt rental car company Hertz announced it would pay $168 million to settle disputes from customers falsely accused of auto theft. [NYT / Livia Albeck-Ripka]
• Indonesian lawmakers passed a strict criminal code that bans anyone in the country from having extramarital sex. [CNN / Masrur Jamaluddin, Heather Chen, and Angus Watson]
• The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol will make referrals recommending criminal prosecution to the Justice Department. [AP / Farnoush Amiri]

“Republicans seem to have thought they could put up Herschel Walker and confuse Black folks. We are not confused.”

[Bryce Berry, president of Georgia’s Young Democrats chapter, on the Senate runoff / Guardian]

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