News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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Biden meets with Navalny’s widow and daughter https://t.co/0yMbS72N8P
— POLITICO (@politico) February 22, 2024
Breaking News: Russian authorities have declared that the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny died of natural causes but are refusing to release his remains until his mother agrees to a “secret funeral,” his mother and his spokeswoman said on Thursday. https://t.co/oUXNVQHg0G
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 22, 2024
The L.A. woman detained in Russia has been identified as 33-year-old Ksenia Karelina, an esthetician and former ballerina. She was visiting her family in Yekaterinburg. https://t.co/whRFLSIezl
— Axios (@axios) February 22, 2024
Moscow hired gunmen to murder Russian defector Maksim Kuzminov, according to Spanish intelligence services.https://t.co/G69UPinxYO
— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) February 22, 2024
"The juncture starts now and it just keeps getting worse progressively through the spring and into summer. So, this time period that we are entering is a critical time period," said a senior U.S. defense official.
— ABC News (@ABC) February 22, 2024
Read more: https://t.co/BYlt5ZwQJb pic.twitter.com/7FFrAiydaH
Three Palestinian gunmen opened fire Thursday near a busy checkpoint in the West Bank, killing one Israeli and wounding at least eight others, according to Israeli police. The police said two attackers were killed and the third was arrested. https://t.co/3t0zVG36ny
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 22, 2024
JUST IN: The judge in former Pres. Trump's civil fraud case has rejected a request from the defense for a 30-day delay of the enforcement of penalties in the case. https://t.co/N1YhUs1aRu pic.twitter.com/aAA6pJnK91
— ABC News (@ABC) February 22, 2024
New York AG says she’ll seize Donald Trump’s property if he can’t pay $454 million civil fraud debt https://t.co/VS2oEd6zAH
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 22, 2024
A federal judge is giving MyPillow founder and election denier Mike Lindell 30 days to pay a $5 million arbitration award for losing his “Prove Mike Wrong” 2020 election challenge. https://t.co/HHDk51A3gc
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 22, 2024
Alabama’s largest hospital has stopped offering IVF treatments, after the state’s Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos have the same legal protections as children.@edokeefe shares how Republicans and Democrats are reacting to the ruling. https://t.co/1lpb0GE9V4 pic.twitter.com/2tKD4JVgjz
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) February 22, 2024
AT&T restores service after hours of outage https://t.co/AiGV1JLOGi pic.twitter.com/oT8ikYyuqp
— Reuters U.S. News (@ReutersUS) February 22, 2024
This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is doubling as a coronation for former President Trump, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the GOP. https://t.co/7EbYcJVQ6Z pic.twitter.com/l5f3AWnnTz
— The Hill (@thehill) February 22, 2024
