AMNA NAWAZ: Welcome to the "NewsHour."

Ukrainians woke today to a barrage of deadly strikes in Russia's first large-scale air attack in almost two months.

GEOFF BENNETT: Russian missiles and drones rained down on residential areas across the war-torn country.

Officials said at least 25 people were killed, including three children.

The missiles struck as Ukrainians slept miles from the wars front line.

This morning, rescue workers scrambled to search for survivors at a residential building now reduced to rubble.

It was once the home of 58-year-old Serhii Lubivskyi, who's now grappling with the immeasurable loss.

SERHII LUBIVSKYI (Uman Resident): What can I say?

I have no place to live.

My neighbors are gone.

No one is left.

An elderly woman, her daughter and two grandchildren lived on the ninth floor.

They are gone.

A man with his son lived on the eighth floor.

They are gone.

GEOFF BENNETT: The airstrike targeted the central city of Uman, around 130 miles south of Kyiv, while Ukrainian officials say another strike on nearby Dnipro killed a woman and a child.

Hours after the attacks, Russia's Defense Ministry posted a mocking message on social media, with the words "Right on target."

And for the first time in nearly two months, explosions rocked the capital, Kyiv, today, leaving debris, but no casualties.

Ukrainian officials say they shot down the incoming missiles and drones.

Meanwhile, social media footage showed a minibus ablaze in the Russian-held eastern city of Donetsk.

Moscow-appointed officials blamed Ukrainian shelling and said it killed seven civilians.

Ukraine has vowed to respond to today's Russian attacks with an iron fist.

U.S. officials expect Kyiv's counteroffensive to come as early as next week.

AMNA NAWAZ: In the day's other headlines: The U.S. began its overland evacuation of Americans trapped by the conflict in Sudan.

Some 300 U.S. citizens were bused out with armed drone escorts in the first organized U.S. effort to evacuate Americans there.

That came as explosions battered the capital, even after the army and paramilitary rebels extended their truce.

Smoke billowed in the skies above Khartoum.

More than 500 people have been killed in two weeks of clashes.

Meanwhile, supermarket shelves remain empty, as residents brace for what's to come.

TAREK AHMED (Khartoum Resident): People's minds are now 90 percent worry.

They're not thinking, except to worry about themselves and their families.

Food supplies are diminishing, and citizens will soon face a famine, or at least a crushing food crisis.

AMNA NAWAZ: Also today, Turkey said one of its evacuation planes was struck by gunfire as it was landing outside of Khartoum.

No casualties were reported.

Tunisian Coast Guards have retrieved the bodies of 41 drowned migrants.

They were recovered off the coast of the port city of Sfax.

Authorities have found more than 200 victims of migrant shipwrecks in Tunisian waters over the past 10 days.

Tunisia is struggling to contain a surge of migrants trying to reach Italy now that neighboring Libya is cracking down on departures from its shores.

Back in this country, two army helicopters collided in Alaska, killing three American soldiers and injuring a fourth.

It happened Thursday as they were returning from a training flight near Healy, northeast of Denali National Park.

It's the second military accident involving Apache helicopters in Alaska this year.

Officials are investigating what caused the crash.

Rapid snowmelt from Minnesota has caused water levels along the Upper Mississippi River to hit near-record highs.

In parts of Wisconsin and Iowa, floodwaters have inundated homes, streets and parks.

Farther south, crews built flood walls and other protective barriers.

Officials say a combination of extreme weather events is to blame.

MELISA LOGAN, Mayor of Blytheville, Arkansas: This flood is being primarily fed by the melting of a historic snowpack.

The drought of the fall of 2022 has created slack in the system and in the soil for water.

As we know, rains are coming in from the north, east, south and west.

AMNA NAWAZ: Officials in the Midwest expect the swollen Mississippi River to crest as early as Monday.

It could take up to 10 days for the water to recede.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says he has a -- quote -- "pretty good idea" who leaked his draft Dobbs opinion last May.

The landmark abortion decision overturned Roe v. Wade.

In his first extensive response, he told The Wall Street Journal the leak was meant to intimidate justices and was -- quote -- "part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft from becoming the decision of the court."

The court's own investigation failed to identify the culprit.

North Carolina's state Supreme Court today threw out a recent ruling that deemed gerrymandering unconstitutional.

The reversal is a major win for the Republican-controlled legislature, which can now redraw the states voting maps in their favor ahead of next year's elections.

The court also reinstated a ban on convicted felons voting and upheld photo I.D.

requirements for voters.

And Wall Street ended this bumpy week of trading on a higher note.

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 272 points to close at 34098, notching its best monthly gain since January.

The Nasdaq rose 84 points.

And the S&P 500 added 34.

Still to come on the "NewsHour": states become ground zero for the political battles over reproductive rights and trans care; David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart weigh in on the week's political headlines; author Judy Blume pushes back on efforts to ban her books; plus much more.