News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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President Biden announced more than 500 new sanctions on Russia over its war in Ukraine and the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny last week in prison. https://t.co/sCCfpcMSJF pic.twitter.com/PKk3GcMfMg
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) February 23, 2024
Russian authorities have threatened to bury Alexey Navalny at the Arctic prison colony where he died if his family does not agree to a closed funeral, the opposition leader's team said Friday. https://t.co/EBLf4aRYGk
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 23, 2024
Hungary and Sweden agree on defense deal ahead of final vote on Sweden's NATO accession https://t.co/fsfeVmwMuk
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 23, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is planning a new ground assault in Gaza, has presented a plan for what comes after the war, which includes Israel maintaining security control over Palestinian territories. @HollyMAWilliams reports. https://t.co/uwOzVt0Oct pic.twitter.com/1dmj7GUr3g
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) February 23, 2024
Israel plans to build 3,300 new settlement homes. It says it's a response to a Palestinian attack https://t.co/rmpHWZmXcj
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 23, 2024
Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant charged with lying to the FBI about President Biden and his son Hunter Biden in statements that were at the "heart" of House Republicans' ongoing impeachment inquiry, has been re-arrested by federal authorities. https://t.co/mCg5SWb3Z0
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 23, 2024
BREAKING: Alabama's AG does not intend to prosecute in vitro fertilization providers or families in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that embryos should be considered children — a decision that has thrown the whole process into chaos. https://t.co/DiCf06d673 pic.twitter.com/OGTtauV2H8
— ABC News (@ABC) February 23, 2024
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is urging candidates to strongly oppose the Alabama Supreme Court ruling restricting access to fertility treatments, Axios has learned.https://t.co/kBSYPMl9ZX
— Axios (@axios) February 23, 2024
Democrats warn Johnson not to cave to Freedom Caucus spending demands https://t.co/nABz6pfMJr pic.twitter.com/IkdAoYoUqO
— The Hill (@thehill) February 23, 2024
A fire engulfed an apartment block in the Spanish city of Valencia on Thursday, killing four people and leaving 14 others missing, authorities said.
— ABC News (@ABC) February 23, 2024
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A British-born woman who traveled to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State lost her latest appeal over the removal of her citizenship. She left London in 2015, aged 15, and traveled with two school friends to Syria, where she married an IS fighter https://t.co/FqthbGEhay pic.twitter.com/fGiVQBmZxU
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 23, 2024
BREAKING: Lunar lander Odysseus touches down on the moon, the first American spacecraft to accomplish the feat since 1972. https://t.co/p840utWh7X pic.twitter.com/PAuX5nMVhI
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 22, 2024
