President Joe Biden and his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, watch from the Roosevelt Room of the White House as the U.S. Senate votes on her confirmation Thursday in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
ACROSS AMERICA — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's pick for the Supreme Court, was confirmed Thursday by the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. When she is sworn in this summer, Jackson will become the first African American woman on the Supreme Court.
Another damaging storm ripped through the South, destroying homes in its wake. The United States is still struggling to find relief from rising gas prices. And some Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of their country are seeking asylum at the U.S. border at Tijuana, Mexico.
And in sports, the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team took home the NCAA championship title on Monday night. In addition, Major League Baseball season started this week; and Tiger Woods returned to the Masters looking for his sixth green jacket.
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North Carolina guard Caleb Love (right) reacts to the loss as Kansas' Jalen Wilson (10) celebrates following the Jayhawks' championship game victory in the NCAA Tournament on Monday in New Orleans. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)Destruction is seen at a house in Pembroke, Ga., 30 miles from Savannah, after a storm passed through the city Tuesday. (AP Photo/Lewis Levine)Tiger Woods acknowledges applause on the 18th green after finishing the first round at the Masters golf tournament on Thursday in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)NASA's Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard sits atop a mobile launcher Thursday at Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)A bicyclist rides past a price board at a gas station in San Francisco on Monday. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)Volunteer Zank Bennett of the United States wears a Ukrainian flag in his hat as he helps Ukrainians arriving Monday in Tijuana, Mexico, as they look for a way to apply for asylum in the United States. A loose coalition of volunteers, largely from Slavic churches in the western United States, is guiding hundreds of refugees daily from the airport in the Mexican border city of Tijuana to hotels, churches and shelters, where they wait two to four days for U.S. officials to admit them on the grounds of humanitarian parole. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Jon Batiste poses Sunday in the press room at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Batiste won awards for best American roots performance for "Cry," best American roots song for "Cry," best music video for "Freedom," best score soundtrack for visual media for "Soul," and album of the year for "We Are." (AP Photo/John Locher)Kansas City Royals' Bobby Witt Jr. is doused with ice by Nicky Lopez (left) and Whit Merrifield (behind) after they beat the Cleveland Guardians in a baseball game Thursday in Kansas City. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)A silhouetted man walks dogs as the sun setting behind the Rocky Mountains turns the sky red and colors the surface of Smith Lake in Washington Park on Sunday in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
