This morning's top headlines: Maui death toll; Mississippi officers' charges; 'Barbie' still surging

Oprah Winfrey has visited an emergency shelter on the fire-ravaged Hawaii island of Maui to highlight the plight of evacuees. Hawaii News Now reports that Winfrey said on her visit Sunday that it’s critical that aid gets to residents fast. The TV icon is also a part-time Maui resident. Winfrey warned that news crews will eventually depart from the destruction, while the world will move on. But she said that she will “be here for the long haul, doing what I can.” Winfrey spoke outside the War Memorial Gymnasium in Wailuku. She said she has delivered personal hygiene products, towels and water in recent days. Officials say 96 people were killed from the deadly wildfires that swept through Maui last week. That number is expected to rise.

Six former Mississippi law officers who tortured two Black men will plead guilty to state-level charges for the racist assault. The episode ended with one officer shooting one of the victims in the mouth. The ex-officers admitted their guilt in a connected federal civil rights case last week. Prosecutors say the corrupt officers, all of whom are white, nicknamed themselves the “Goon Squad” because of their tendency to use excessive force and cover it up. The state charges include home invasion, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to hinder prosecution and aggravated assault. The charges come after an investigation by The Associated Press linked some of the officers to at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2019

Officials say Russia launched three waves of nighttime air attacks against the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa. The Ukrainian air force said Monday it intercepted all 15 incoming Shahed drones and eight Kalibr missiles. An Odesa official says falling debris from the interceptions damaged the dormitory of an educational facility in the city, a residential building and a supermarket. Two employees of the supermarket were hospitalized. The Kremlin’s forces have pummeled Odesa in recent times, aiming at facilities that transport Ukraine’s crucial grain exports and also wrecking cherished Ukrainian historical sites.