It's Your Week: The first transgender war journalist becomes a soldier

At least 17 people killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday in a Kyiv suburb, including Ukraine's interior minister. The final death toll in a missile strike on an apartment

building in Dnipro reached at least 44 people. There was a lot of news from the Ukraine-Russia crisis this week. Let's take a step back from the headlines and take a look at one

personal story about a soldier fighting in the nearly one-year conflict.  👋 Nicole Fallert here and welcome to Your Week, our newsletter exclusively for USA

TODAY subscribers like you.  This week, we talk with Cady Stanton, a breaking news reporter at USA TODAY who focuses on the LGBTQ community. Stanton answered my

questions regarding her story about the first transgender war correspondent who turned in her reporter's notebook for a weapon to fight on Ukraine's front lines.  Start the

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