President Joe Biden is expected to announce an additional $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine on Wednesday, a White House official told CNN, bringing the total to $1 billion announced in just the last week.
Continue ReadingBy Charles Riley, CNN Business The Russian state television journalist who took a dramatic stand against President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine during a live broadcast says it was “impossible to stay silent” and that she wants the world to know that many Russians are against the invasion. Marina Ovsyannikova told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Disney employees staged a walkout Tuesday in protest of the company’s response to Florida’s controversial Parental Rights in Education law, which critics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. While many employees at Disney headquarters in Burbank, California, did protest, it did not appear to be a massive showing across
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By Emiko Jozuka, Mayumi Maruyama, Karen Smith and Brandon Miller, CNN A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Japan late Wednesday night, killing at least four people and injuring over 100 others, and cutting power to millions of homes. One of the people who died was a man in his 60s who lived in the city of
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Annual drug overdose deaths have reached another record high in the United States as deaths from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids surge to unprecedented levels. An estimated 105,752 people died of drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending October 2021, according to provisional data published Wednesday by the US Centers for
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By Ivana Kottasová, Olga Voitovich, Paul P. Murphy, Antonia Mortensen, Clare Foran, Niamh Kennedy and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Ukrainians face an increasingly desperate situation on the ground as Russian forces hit the capital and fresh targets across the country, despite both nations acknowledging signs of progress in ongoing negotiations. A theater where hundreds of people
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By Kathryn Vasel The pandemic thrust the working world into a new reality in March 2020 as offices closed and millions of people were forced to learn how to do their jobs from home. Two years later, employers and workers are still adapting to a new normal and trying to figure out what the future
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to Congress for help directly Wednesday, telling US lawmakers “we need you right now” as he invoked tragedies in American history like the attack on Pearl Harbor and the September 11 terrorist attack.
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran and Ted Barrett, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to Congress for help directly Wednesday, telling US lawmakers “we need you right now” as he invoked tragedies in American history like the attack on Pearl Harbor and the September 11 terrorist attack. The historic speech given as a virtual address on comes
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By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Instagram is rolling out new tools that parents can use to help monitor and limit their kids’ usage of the photo-sharing app, months after disclosures from a Facebook whistleblower raised concerns about the platform’s impact on younger users. The tools, released Wednesday, offer parents the ability to see how much
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By Isabelle Jani-Friend, CNN The cost of natural gas was already rising fast as the world emerged from repeated Covid lockdowns and demand for energy soared. Now the war in Ukraine is pushing prices even higher. In Europe, countries are planning to dramatically slash their reliance on Russian gas, and while the US doesn’t import
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Oscar Holland, CNN Two years after promising to reexamine how it “portrays the American dream” amid the Black Lives Matter movement, Ralph Lauren is launching a collection inspired by the country’s historically Black colleges. Created in collaboration with Morehouse and Spelman Colleges in Atlanta, Georgia, the range of outerwear, knitwear, suits and dresses was based on
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The Jefferson City Police Department will team up with other law enforcement agencies beginning Wednesday, to increase DWI patrols ahead of St. Patrick’s Day.
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By Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall, who was severely injured while reporting outside Kyiv on Monday, has been evacuated from the country, Fox said. “Ben is alert and in good spirits,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said Wednesday in a memo to staffers. “He is being treated
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez and Natasha Chen, CNN Robert Peterson struggled for months to stop thinking about the day his mother and seven other people, mostly Asian women, were shot and killed last year at Atlanta-area spas. He’s found some comfort living at the Norcross, Georgia, home his mother Yong Ae Yue worked hard to own
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By David Goldman, CNN Business Russia says it has ordered the $117 million in interest payments it owes Wednesday to be sent to investors, attempting to avoid its first international default in more than a century. But it’s not out of the woods yet. That’s because the funds the country used to make the debt
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Sixty-two years ago, a school teacher looking for rocks in an Arizona desert made a horrific discovery: the burned remains of a young girl. Her identity was a mystery and investigators called her “Little Miss Nobody.” For decades, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office in Prescott, Arizona, along with the National Center
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Yes, treating yourself to snacks and ice-cold drinks at the gas station is quite satisfying — but don’t get too distracted. Police in the US are warning drivers to watch out for gas thieves as fuel prices surge to historic levels. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Yes, treating yourself to snacks and ice-cold drinks at the gas station is quite satisfying — but don’t get too distracted. Police in the US are warning drivers to watch out for gas thieves as fuel prices surge to historic levels. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to
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