September 23, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
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Los Angeles school district will distribute overdose reversal drug to every K-12 school after student death, officials say
By Taylor Romine and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District will soon be equipped with doses of naloxone, a drug used to temporarily reverse the effects of opioid drug overdoses, Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho announced Thursday. The district’s announcement comes after Los Angeles police reported multiple overdoses among local high
Continue Reading Hot mic catches South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol swearing about US lawmakers
By Heather Chen, Yoonjung Seo and Gawon Bae, CNN A criticism used on US lawmakers by the President of South Korea has gone viral on social media — after a hot mic picked him up using an expletive. Yoon Suk Yeol appears to have made the remark after meeting US President Joe Biden at a
Continue Reading Vladimir Putin grants former NSA contractor Edward Snowden Russian citizenship
By Rob Picheta, Uliana Pavlova and Chris Liakos CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted former NSA contractor Edward Snowden Russian citizenship, according to an official decree published on the Russian government portal Monday. Snowden is accused of espionage and theft of government property in the US for leaking troves of information on American intelligence
Continue Reading How Giorgia Meloni and her far-right party became a driving force in Italian politics
By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN When Giorgia Meloni first burst onto the political scene in 2006 as the youngest ever vice-president of the National Alliance party, she sealed her fate as a far-right politician. The National Alliance, formerly the Italian Social Movement, was unapologetically neo-fascist, formed by supporters of Benito Mussolini. Meloni herself openly admired
Continue Reading Former official pleads guilty in welfare fraud scheme where money was funneled to prominent Mississippians including Brett Favre
By Melissa Alonso and Dianne Gallagher, CNN A former top state official in Mississippi pleaded guilty Thursday to state and federal charges in connection to an embezzlement scheme that auditors say misused millions of welfare dollars, including funneling funds into projects linked to prominent Mississippians like former NFL star Brett Favre. Officials from the US
Continue Reading Former official pleads guilty in welfare fraud scheme where money was funneled to prominent Mississippians including Brett Favre
By Melissa Alonso and Dianne Gallagher, CNN A former top state official in Mississippi pleaded guilty Thursday to state and federal charges in connection to an embezzlement scheme that auditors say misused millions of welfare dollars, including funneling funds into projects linked to prominent Mississippians like former NFL star Brett Favre. Officials from the US
Continue Reading The man who recruited migrants for flights to Martha’s Vineyard says he feels betrayed
By Maria Santana, CNN The migrant says he had been living on the streets of San Antonio for nearly a month when he met a woman named “Perla” who made a compelling offer. She offered him clothes, food and money, he told CNN, and in exchange, he would go out and find other migrants to
Continue Reading Traffic jams and desperation at the border as Russians flee Putin’s ‘partial mobilization’
By Ivan Watson, Masho Lomashvili, Simone McCarthy, Tim Lister and Uliana Pavlova, CNN Vladimir Putin’s “partial mobilization” of citizens for his war in Ukraine has already set in motion sweeping changes for many Russians, as drafted men bid their families emotional goodbyes, while others attempt to flee, scrambling to make it across land border crossings
Continue Reading More than 2 months after getting shot in Highland Park, 8-year-old Cooper Roberts is back home with a ‘new normal’ ahead
By Adrienne Broaddus and Christina Maxouris, CNN Roughly two and a half months after getting shot in the Highland Park, Illinois, Fourth of July attack and after multiple surgeries and weeks of rehabilitation, 8-year-old Cooper Roberts is back home — and the road to his “new normal” begins. “There was a time, not all that
Continue Reading Iceland arrests four suspected of terror plot in ‘unprecedented’ operation
CNN’s Amy Cassidy and Jorge Engels Icelandic police say they have arrested four men for alleged “preparations for terrorist acts” — an unprecedented situation for the tiny country. The four Icelandic men, all in their 30s, were detained “in connection with an investigation into planned preparations for terrorist acts,” said Gunnar Hörður Garðarsson, Iceland’s National
Continue Reading LGBTQ club offers Yeshiva University a compromise after school put all student club activities on hold following Supreme Court ruling
By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN New York’s Yeshiva University and an LGBTQ student club reached a compromise after the university lost a bid to have the US Supreme Court block a court order that requires the school to recognize that club. The pride group extended the compromise after the school said it would put all undergraduate
Continue Reading San Diego apologizes for supporting Japanese incarceration during World War II
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN The San Diego City Council is apologizing for supporting the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Councilmembers on Tuesday rescinded a resolution from January 27, 1942 that urged the FBI to remove Japanese Americans and other “enemy aliens” from the community. The original resolution came days after President Franklin
Continue Reading Lebanese banks to shut indefinitely after flurry of holdups
By Mia Alberti, Allegra Goodwin, Tamara Qiblawi and Jack Bantock, CNN Lebanon’s banks are to remain closed indefinitely due to ongoing “risks” to employees and customers, the Association of Lebanese banks announced Wednesday. The shutdowns follow a series of holdups across the country over the past month, with at least five separate banks held up
Continue Reading Fetuses smile for carrots but grimace over kale, study suggests
By Amarachi Orie, CNN While it is known that some children are not huge fans of greens, a new study suggests that such dietary preferences could come about before they’re even born. Fetuses create more of a “laughter-face” in the womb when exposed to the flavor of carrots consumed by their mother and create more
Continue Reading A United Airlines flight made an emergency landing at New Jersey’s Newark airport after circling over the Atlantic
By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating what happened with a United Airlines flight that prompted an emergency landing early Thursday. Sparks flew off the plane as it climbed after takeoff, according to a video posted online that purports to show the flight. United Airlines Flight 149 departed Newark
Continue Reading Tearful scenes and protest as mobilization gets underway in Russia
By Simone McCarthy, Matthew Chance, Tim Lister, Anna Chernova and Mick Krever, CNN As the first phase of Russia’s new “partial mobilization” got underway on Thursday, videos appeared on social media purporting to show newly mobilized men preparing to be deployed. In the city of Neryungi — six time zones east of Ukraine — a
Continue Reading One-year-old dies as 11 more suspected Ebola cases identified in Uganda
By David McKenzie and Allegra Goodwin, CNN Uganda’s Ministry of Health reported another 11 suspected cases of Ebola identified in the country’s Mubende district as of Tuesday. Of these, the ministry recorded one probable Ebola-related death, a one-year-old, it said in a statement released Tuesday night. Samples for the one-year-old and the 10 suspected cases
Continue Reading World Bank chief Malpass tells CNN ‘I’m not a denier’ after dodging questions on climate
By Angela Dewan, Jessie Yeung, Caitlin Hu and Ella Nilsen, CNN World Bank President David Malpass told CNN on Thursday that he agrees climate change is caused by humans burning fossil fuels and that he is “not a denier,” after his repeated refusal to say the same things at an earlier discussion, which have prompted
Continue Reading Iran protests rage as Mahsa Amini’s father says authorities lied about her death
By Jessie Yeung, Jomana Karadsheh, Ramin Mostaghim and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN The father of an Iranian woman who died in police custody last week has accused authorities of lying about her death, as protests rage nationwide despite the government’s attempt to curb dissent with an internet blackout. Amjad Amini, whose daughter Mahsa died after being
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