The answer, delivered during a debate with Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton, aligned Marshall with President Donald Trump's freshly antagonistic posture toward Ukraine, which has spent more than four years defending itself against an invasion.

So far this year, claims have remained at historically low levels, never topping 230,000 in a single week.

President Donald Trump, who has often avoided depositions, filed his lawsuit against the BBC last December.

Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, one of the state's most powerful Democrats, was charged on Thursday in connection with what federal authorities alleged was a role leading a wide-ranging criminal enterprise that acquired and distributed large quantities of marijuana and laundered the proceeds.

Russia bombarded Kyiv with ballistic missiles in an hourslong nighttime barrage, while the Russian military said Thursday that its air defenses intercepted over 800 drones fired by Ukraine at Moscow and other cities.

A first known human case of Shamonda virus infection has been detected in France, the country's health authorities said on Thursday.

On Thursday, Hinson will join President Donald Trump for a rally in Sioux City, which is in Iowa's conservative northwest corner. The visit to safe territory is geared toward boosting turnout even as it ties her more tightly to an unpopular president.

This time, the exchanges focused on policy, though both candidates repeatedly returned to their central attacks.

Governments and corporations worked throughout the night to update software.