News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
This is an OPEN THREAD, folks. Chat about any of the stories listed, share links to stories that caught your eye today, and generally have a good time discussing whatever you want.
📸: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Saturday, according to the Ukrainian Embassy in London. https://t.co/GSWsoC1I76 pic.twitter.com/XBEpsuoUtV
— ABC News (@ABC) April 9, 2022
Russia taps new general to lead military operations in Ukrainehttps://t.co/vJaMO8yLSc
— Axios (@axios) April 9, 2022
Zelenskyy's voice rose in anger during his nightly address late Friday, when he said the strike on the Kramatorsk train station in eastern Ukraine amounted to another war crime for an international tribunal to consider. https://t.co/dHjpLYv2gb
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 9, 2022
Zelensky says Ukraine’s goal is to be part of the EU https://t.co/iZTZMQuweR pic.twitter.com/CaIc9ikk1b
— The Hill (@thehill) April 9, 2022
Prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels ever last month largely because of Russia's war in Ukraine, the United Nations says. https://t.co/3UJ0XTJBw6
— ABC News (@ABC) April 9, 2022
Breaking News: A major organizer of pro-Trump events after the 2020 election agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department’s expanding Jan. 6 investigation. https://t.co/61uuGpWyEM
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 8, 2022
President Macron looks set to face off against the far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen in an increasingly narrow fight for re-election, opinion polls suggest. https://t.co/JYF0Pe7dal
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 9, 2022
China’s largest city of Shanghai says it will soon begin lifting lockdown in communities that report no positive cases within 14 days after another round of COVID-19 testing. https://t.co/PZ8yOMM5QN
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 9, 2022
Cases of a contagious and potentially lethal strain of the avian flu have been rising in backyard flocks and wild birds across dozens of states in recent months, prompting zoo officials to temporarily shut down bird exhibits. https://t.co/6YRZWgwZnT
— CNN (@CNN) April 9, 2022
A Texas middle school teacher who burned a student when she put hand sanitizer on his hands and lit them on fire as part of a science experiment has resigned. https://t.co/FDLFIi8Ojb
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 9, 2022
GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn has said so many inflammatory things that even some fellow Republicans in his district are disavowing him. "I think everyone has pretty much jumped ship," one retired sheriff said.https://t.co/93O4hRb7mV
— NPR (@NPR) April 9, 2022
A SpaceX capsule carrying three paying customers and a former NASA astronaut has arrived at the International Space Station https://t.co/jGpegeZ1Yc
— CNN (@CNN) April 9, 2022
