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News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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BREAKING: Russia's Black Sea Fleet flagship vessel, Moskva, has sunk after losing its stability when it was towed to a port, the Russian Defense Ministry announced. https://t.co/oUPI2nKPnb
— ABC News (@ABC) April 14, 2022
For the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US is providing Kyiv with the types of high-power capabilities some Biden administration officials viewed as too much of an escalation risk a few short weeks ago. https://t.co/tIKODTQjaJ
— CNN (@CNN) April 14, 2022
The Pentagon says it will resume direct training of the Ukrainian military, which had largely stopped with the Russian invasion of Ukraine seven weeks ago. https://t.co/yUuT7LQbPP
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 13, 2022
Russia has threatened to deploy nuclear weapons to the Baltic if Sweden and Finalnd join NATO https://t.co/QyzW0XZdjY
— Axios (@axios) April 14, 2022
Departing Russian soldiers have left booby traps in the form of land mines "virtually everywhere" — inside the trunks of cars, in washing machines and even beneath the bodies of the dead. "You don't know what they've left behind," reports CBS News' @SayChrisLive pic.twitter.com/Xydvlnfyhj
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 14, 2022
BREAKING: An Ohio man who testified that he was “following presidential orders” from Donald Trump when he stormed the U.S. Capitol has been convicted of obstructing Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. https://t.co/GztWbltdDm
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 14, 2022
There is plenty of Paxlovid to go around, but “it is being underutilized,” Dr. Fauci says. Getting the drug out to the public is critical at this moment in the pandemic, according to experts. https://t.co/KfGUu20cx3
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 14, 2022
A third shot of the children's dose of Pfizer/BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine raised Omicron-fighting antibodies by 36 times in kids 5 through 11 years of age, the companies said in a news release Thursday https://t.co/jEG8K4waTy
— CNN (@CNN) April 14, 2022
NEW: Man accused of opening fire on a rush-hour subway train in Brooklyn ordered held on a permanent order of detention following his first court appearance. https://t.co/TGkpkqU8vq
— ABC News (@ABC) April 14, 2022
America has inflated away $2.7 trillion of its national debt in the 14 months since Biden took office.
— Axios (@axios) April 14, 2022
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Gov. DeSantis signed into law a ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy in Florida, calling it the most significant restriction in a generation.
— POLITICO (@politico) April 14, 2022
The law will take effect on July 1. https://t.co/FsFaJuGf3h
A lawsuit brought by four death row inmates challenging South Carolina's execution methods can move forward as the state attempts to carry out its first execution in more than a decade, a judge ruled. https://t.co/d4qgJ9FHar
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 14, 2022
Billionaire Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $41.39 billion, a regulatory filing shows https://t.co/wAiKnmDJjk
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 14, 2022