BACKSTORY: Keying in on the ethos and tone of Steinbeck’s Depression-era classic “The Grapes of Wrath,” Springsteen chronicles modern-day people at the fringes of society trying to get by on the road. “The highway is alive tonight,” he says, “but nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes.”
Felipe reaches through the door of a bakery where his parents Walter and Evelyn wait to take home discarded baked goods that the shop didn’t sell in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Felipe reaches through the door of a bakery where his parents Walter and Evelyn wait to take home discarded baked goods that the shop didn’t sell in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Follow AP’s Latin America coverage atDONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian intelligence soldier doesn’t know how long his clinical death lasted after an explosive detonated beneath him.All Andrii Rubliuk remembers is overwhelming cold, darkness and fear. When he regained consciousness in his shattered body — missing both arms and his left leg — excruciating pain engulfed him, and hallucinations clouded his mind.
“It’s an experience you wouldn’t wish on anyone,” the now 38-year-old says.Leonid Lobchuk, a soldier with Ukraine’s 127th brigade who lost a leg in combat in eastern Ukraine in 2015, takes the camouflage off his self-propelled howitzer in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Leonid Lobchuk, a soldier with Ukraine’s 127th brigade who lost a leg in combat in eastern Ukraine in 2015, takes the camouflage off his self-propelled howitzer in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Two years later, Rubliuk is again dressed in military fatigues, his missing limbs replaced by prosthetics — hooks in place of fingers, one leg firmly planted on an artificial limb.Ruggerio also successfully sponsored bills to address the opioid epidemic.
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network said Ruggerio “championed efforts to improve public health and increase access to lifesaving cancer screening tests.” It inducted him into its Rhode Island Cancer Caucus in 2022.Kathleen Layton, a volunteer with the Rhode Island chapter of Moms Demand Action, said Ruggerio also would be remembered for his support for gun safety measures, including strong storage requirements and prohibitions on high capacity magazines and banning guns from schools.
“We mourn alongside the rest of Rhode Island to have lost a great leader, and we are thinking of his family during this difficult time,” she said.Ruggerio, who was anti-abortion, did not support legislation to preserve federal abortion protections in state law. But he said he was determined not to impose his personal views on other Senate members. Lawmakers passed the bill.