CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled harsh new sanctions on Russia meant to punish the country for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, calling out Russian President Vladimir Putin for his aggression even as he acknowledged it would take time for the new measures to alter Putin’s behavior. “Putin is
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By Tierney Sneed, Ariane de Vogue and Katelyn Polantz, CNN With only a few days left in February, court watchers are trying to read tea leaves as to the identity of President Joe Biden’s pick for the Supreme Court before his end-of-the-month deadline — and a federal court on Thursday increased the buzz around DC
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By MICHAEL CASEY and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has concluded that more than 80% of the billions of dollars in federal rental assistance during the pandemic went to low-income tenants. Treasury also finds that the largest percentage of tenants receiving pandemic aid were Black households and that many
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Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — Tras meses de tensión y escalada entre Rusia y Ucrania, con más de 150.000 soldados dotados de vehículos blindados desplegados en la frontera y reportes de intercambios de fuego entre ucranianos y rebeldes prorrusos en la región de Donbás, Moscú finalmente invadió: anunció el 24 de febrero el inicio de
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, rechazó las acusaciones de Rusia de que los ucranianos son neonazis y odian la cultura rusa. “Se dice que somos nazis. ¿Cómo puede apoyar el nazismo una nación que entregó 8 millones de vidas para combatirlo? ¿Cómo puedo ser un nazi? Que se lo digan a
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By Sonia Moghe and Amir Vera, CNN One of the seated jurors in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial may have lied on a jury questionnaire form, according to a newly unsealed copy of the form. Jurors were explicitly asked on jury questionnaire forms if they had been sexually abused and, if so, would it impact
Continue Reading CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled harsh new sanctions on Russia meant to punish the country for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, calling out Russian President Vladimir Putin for his aggression even as he acknowledged it would take time for the new measures to alter Putin’s behavior. “Putin is the
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Attorney Jo Anne Bernal said her office will not follow recent directives by state leaders calling on Texas agencies to investigate gender-affirming care for transgender children as child abuse. A new order issued by Gov. Greg Abbott calls for criminal penalties against those who aid minors in their gender
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN Researchers have used genetics to create the largest human family tree ever made, allowing individuals to find out who their distant ancestors were and where they lived, as well as exactly how they are related to everyone alive today. The research, carried out by scientists from the University of Oxford’s Big
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina State has reached a new contract agreement with football coach Dave Doeren that runs through 2026 and pays $5 million per year. The school also announced new deals for all 10 assistant coaches. It follows the Wolfpack’s 9-3 season, marking the fourth time in five seasons the program won
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EL PASO, Texas – Drivers in El Paso are paying the most on average in the state for a regular gallon of unleaded gas, according to AAA Texas Weekend Gas Watch. The average gas price in Texas is $3.21, but here in El Paso, the average sits at $3.43, which is down from two weeks
Continue Reading By Aaron Cooper and Ray Sanchez, CNN Brett Hankison, the only officer charged in connection with the botched 2020 raid that left Breonna Taylor dead in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment, said he opened fire because colleagues were “sitting ducks” being “sprayed with bullets” from an AR-15 rifle. Hankison is facing charges because, during the narcotics
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EL PASO, Texas – Former President of Mexico is attending the U.S. Mexico border summit at the Paso Del Norte Hotel. The event also includes a first-time visit from former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNNL) — Las tropas rusas atacan Ucrania y ha habido bombardeos en varias ciudades. Las zonas residenciales de todo el país han sido atacadas por las fuerzas rusas que han enviado a más de un millón de refugiados de Ucrania a los países vecinos. La avalancha de personas que intentan irse ha provocado
Continue Reading CNNEE Kyiv y Lviv, Ucrania (CNN) — Las fuerzas rusas tomaron el control de la planta de energía de Chernobyl en el norte de Ucrania, el sitio del peor desastre nuclear del mundo, y están reteniendo al personal como rehenes, según funcionarios ucranianos. Las tropas invadieron la planta el primer día de la invasión de
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Francesca Street and Marnie Hunter, CNN Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spurred travel interruptions across the globe. The European Union closed all airspace across its 27 countries to Russian airplanes on Sunday following a steady stream of announcements of airspace closures from member countries over the weekend. In response to the EU ban, the Russian
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Friday, Feb. 25, will mark one year since Las Cruces Public Schools lost its leader and superintendent, Dr. Karen Trujillo. In a year, LCPS has mourned her death while welcoming new leaders, two new members to the Board of Education, and a full re-entry to the classroom after Trujillo navigated
Continue Reading By Gul Tuysuz and Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Russian forces have seized control of the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, and are holding staff hostage, according to Ukrainian officials. Troops overran the plant on the first day of Russia’s multi-pronged invasion of Ukraine, a spokesperson for the
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business It’s a nightmare no parent ever wants to endure. Families all over the country are in a race against the clock to find a critical source of food they desperately need to keep their children fed — baby formula. For months, stores nationwide have struggled to stock enough baby formula.
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Gas prices were rising rapidly even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but with the current shock to the oil market, $4 a gallon gas is now likely to be widespread across the country in a matter of weeks — if not sooner. The average price of a gallon of regular
Continue Reading CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports from a Kharkiv, Ukraine, subway station where citizens have fled amid explosions.
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN It was not the wedding day they envisaged, but as Russia attacked their country Thursday Yaryna Arieva and her partner Sviatoslav Fursin rushed to tie the knot with the sound of air raid sirens ringing in their ears. “That was very scary,” Arieva, who married her partner at Kyiv’s St Michael’s
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Another negotiating session produced only minor movement and no proposals on big-money issues, leaving Major League Baseball four days from management’s Monday night deadline for a deal to salvage opening day and a 162-game season. Both sides appeared to be in a you-make-the-next-move staredown on
Continue Reading By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Pekka Rinne can’t wait to bring his young son back to Nashville in a few years and share stories from his playing days. The highlight will be pointing to his No. 35 hanging in the rafters. Rinne said it gives him goosebumps to even
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By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Pekka Rinne can’t wait to bring his young son back to Nashville in a few years and share stories from his playing days. The highlight will be pointing to his No. 35 hanging in the rafters. Rinne said it gives him goosebumps to even
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EL PASO, Texas – In a complaint sent to ABC-7, a viewer shared that the Ysleta Independent School District is planning on closing Mesa Vista ES, and selling the land to be used for other purposes. After talking with the Ysleta Independent School District Superintendent- they won’t have to worry about that for a few
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A White House official tells reporters that Biden will deliver remarks this morning “announcing the further consequences the United States and our Allies and partners will impose on Russia for its unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine.”
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By Marysabel Huston-Crespo, CNN Sebastian Yatra, the singer who brought legions of moviegoers to tears in Disney’s “Encanto” with his rendition of “Dos Oruguitas,” wants everyone to know they’re not alone in their emotional reaction to the film. “I cried at the beginning of the movie,” Yatra told CNN en Español. “To watch a Disney
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CNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business The bombs in the Ukrainian capital went off as CNN was broadcasting live on-air. “There are big explosions taking place in Kyiv right now,” Matthew Chance, a senior international correspondent for the network, said as he broadcast from a rooftop shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the Russian
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business The bombs in the Ukrainian capital went off as CNN was broadcasting live on-air. “There are big explosions taking place in Kyiv right now,” Matthew Chance, a senior international correspondent for the network, said as he broadcast from a rooftop shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the Russian invasion
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