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1 Ukraine aims drones at refinery, drone factory deep inside Russia:

Ukrainian drones attacked one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries and a drone factory in the Russian province of Tatarstan, officials said Tuesday, in what appeared to be Kyiv’s deepest strike inside Russian territory since the war began more than two years ago.

The attack on facilities near the cities of Yelabuga and Nizhnekamsk, located some 745 miles east of Ukraine, injured 12 people, Russian regional authorities said. In recent months, Russian refineries and oil terminals have become priority targets of Ukrainian drone attacks, part of stepped-up assaults on Russian territory.

2 Oklahoma court weighs issue of publicly funded charter school:

Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general, Gentner Drummond, urged the state’s highest court Tuesday to stop the creation of what would be the nation’s first publicly funded Catholic charter school. Drummond said the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board violated both the law, and state and federal constitutions when it voted 3-2 to approve the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City’s application to establish the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School.

3 Wisconsin governor asks court to revoke absentee ballot limits:

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers urged the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a 2022 ruling that banned absentee ballot drop boxes beyond the confines of election clerks’ offices in the presidential battleground state. Wisconsin’s high court was controlled by conservative justices at the time of the ruling. It has since flipped to liberal control, and the current justices agreed last month to revisit the case brought by Priorities USA and the Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Voters. Oral arguments are May 13.

4 Biden administration approves nation’s 8th largest wind

project: The Biden administration approved a new wind project off the Massachusetts coast that is large enough it will provide more electricity than the state’s former coal-fired generating station. Avangrid’s New England Wind is the eighth large offshore wind project to be greenlit in the U.S., tied for the largest ever approved. But Avangrid said the project will probably be smaller than the 129 turbines that won approval. The output of 1,900 megawatts could power up to 1 million homes and businesses in southern New England.

5 Amazon removing Just Walk Out tech from its grocery stores:

Amazon is removing Just Walk Out technology from its Amazon Fresh stores as part of an effort to revamp the grocery chain. The company’s technology lets customers pay for items without standing in line and sends receipts afterwards. Amazon says it will be replaced by smart carts allowing customers to skip the line but see their spending in real time.