News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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As defense leaders from more than 40 countries meet at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Tuesday to synchronize efforts to provide military aid to Ukraine, Berlin has been still struggling to synchronize the position of its own government.https://t.co/ubunxnvL5K
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 26, 2022
Putin agrees to UN, Red Cross help to evacuate civilians from Mariupol steel plant -U.N. https://t.co/j3PcSVJeCJ pic.twitter.com/HoTQOmG83l
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 26, 2022
The longer Ukraine's army fends off the invading Russians, the more it absorbs the advantages of Western weaponry and training — exactly the transformation Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin wanted to prevent by invading in the first place. https://t.co/YYchLZyOji
— ABC News (@ABC) April 26, 2022
Three Russian pilots suspected of bombing civilian buildings in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions are among at least seven Russian military personnel that Kyiv is preparing war charges against, the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office told Reuters https://t.co/FhWhmusFkq
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 26, 2022
Vice Pres. Kamala Harris, who received her second booster shot on April 1, doesn't have any symptoms. https://t.co/RKLjqc4SY3 pic.twitter.com/JABaAHM5n9
— ABC News (@ABC) April 26, 2022
"We have a very, very contagious variant out there. It is going to be hard to ensure that no one gets COVID in America. That's not even a policy goal," Dr. Ashish Jha, WH coordinator of the COVID-19 response says on Vice President Kamala Harris testing positive for the virus. pic.twitter.com/PyEaGsvTak
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 26, 2022
The Biden administration has secured the purchase of 20 million treatment courses of Paxlovid, Pfizer's antiviral Covid-19 pill, a senior administration official told CNN.https://t.co/3IVJjqisoq
— CNN (@CNN) April 26, 2022
North Korea will speed up development of its nuclear arsenal, leader Kim Jong Un says, while overseeing a huge military parade that displayed intercontinental ballistic missiles, state media reports. https://t.co/Qznnatl1II
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 26, 2022
The 20-page memo issued by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is the most detailed plan the Biden administration has publicly released to outline the government's preparations ahead of the May 23 termination of Title 42. https://t.co/lxErLRTBPS
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 26, 2022
A Florida activist is asking state school districts to ban the Bible — saying it's not an age-appropriate book for kids and contains references to rape, bestiality and infanticide.https://t.co/8rfgr2CVPC
— NPR (@NPR) April 26, 2022
President Biden announced that he is pardoning three individuals and issuing 75 commutations, making the first use of his clemency powers in his administration. https://t.co/YqQqNjGasB
— Axios (@axios) April 26, 2022
Coming up with $44 billion to buy Twitter was the easy part for Elon Musk.
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 26, 2022
Next comes the real challenge for the world’s richest person: fulfilling his promise to make Twitter “better than ever” as a lightly regulated haven for free speech. https://t.co/CLECBcUNBr
