News Wrap: Apartment building partially collapses in Davenport, Iowa

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• Amna Nawaz:

  In the day's other headlines: Officials say there are no known fatalities or people still trapped in an apartment building that partially collapsed in Davenport, Iowa, yesterday.

  A section of the six-story brick structure crumbled in the late afternoon. Responders were able to rescue eight people. They're preparing to shift to a recovery operation soon.

• Mike Carlsten, Davenport, Iowa, Fire Chief:

  At this time, the building is structurally unsound, is posing a risk to responders. And we are actively working for the best course of action for the building.

• Amna Nawaz:

  The cause of the collapse is still under investigation. Authorities say the building was under repair and that they found gas and water leaking inside.

  In Ukraine, Russian ballistic and cruise missiles targeted Kyiv's city center today in a rare daytime attack. Ukraine's military said it shot down all of them. It was Russia's 16th air assault on the capital this month and came hours after it rattled Kyiv overnight with dozens of drone strikes and cruise missiles.

• Oksana Kudrashova, Kyiv Resident (through translator):

  It is not the first sleepless night. If it's very noisy, we spend the night in the hallway. But this does not change our lives. We continue to live. We go on with our lives and keep on enjoying them. The Russians want to inflict as much damage as possible, scaring the civilian population.

• Amna Nawaz:

  Russia has stepped up attacks over the last month, as Ukraine prepares to launch its own counteroffensive to take back territory seized by Russian forces.

  Warring factions in Sudan agreed to extend their shaky cease-fire for another five days. Heavy clashes between Sudan's military and rival paramilitary forces broke out in Khartoum hours before the truce was set to expire. Nearly 1.4 million people have been displaced since the fighting broke out in mid-April. The U.N. is warning of a rising food emergency for those who remain.

  And Uganda's president has signed one of the world's most restrictive anti-LGBTQ bills into law. It calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of homosexuality, and it mandates the death penalty for those who have same-sex relations with people infected with HIV or with minors.

  President Biden issued a statement saying — quote — "This shameful act is the latest development in an alarming trend of human rights abuses and corruption in Uganda."

  Still to come on the "NewsHour": the state-level battles in America over LGBTQ rights; medical clinics struggle to care for an influx of migrants to El Paso; Native American fashion aims to reclaim its culture with authentic designs; and, on this Memorial Day, a m

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