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I left a job I'd held for 16 years to become a stay-at-home dad. I never thought I'd do this, but it's been a blessing.

I left a job I'd held for 16 years to become a stay-at-home dad. I never thought I'd do this, but it's been a blessing.

"I can always go back to work, but I'll never have this opportunity — to take care of my young children and my father — again," Zach Hefferen says.

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The ruble continued its free-fall Wednesday after Russia escalated its bombing of Ukrainian cities and Biden said Putin "has no idea what's coming."

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