News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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An airstrike killed six international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver, the aid group said Tuesday, hours after it brought a new shipload of food into northern Gaza. https://t.co/EjTfIOk4mf
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 2, 2024
Sec. Blinken is urging for a "swift, thorough and impartial investigation" after seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed during an IDF attack in Gaza, according to the food-relief organization. https://t.co/qw0mijtZ9j pic.twitter.com/tzrZBrhkKa
— ABC News (@ABC) April 2, 2024
Iran vowed Tuesday to respond to a strike widely attributed to Israel that demolished Iran's consulate in Syria's capital and killed seven, including two Iranian generals. https://t.co/a1a79sXUoj
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 2, 2024
Russian missile attack in Ukraine's Dnipro injures 13, governor says https://t.co/qwPlYIHf3Q pic.twitter.com/T4q35TLyGg
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 2, 2024
Russian authorities say Ukrainian drones have attacked industrial facilities in the province of Tatarstan, in what would be Kyiv’s deepest strike inside Russian territory since the war began more than two years ago. https://t.co/AS4QrjO3Id
— ABC News (@ABC) April 2, 2024
Allies are considering giving NATO control of a U.S. group that sends weapons to Ukraine, which would maintain the flow of arms to Kyiv in case Trump is reelected. https://t.co/tIRFMyF6Tq
— POLITICO (@politico) April 2, 2024
Biden spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the phone today, their first conversation since a November summit amid global tensionshttps://t.co/zXadcOqNHj
— CNN (@CNN) April 2, 2024
First vessel uses alternate channel to bypass wreckage at the Baltimore bridge collapse site https://t.co/SzhpqZVlbo
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 2, 2024
The Biden administration required the largest freight railroads to operate their trains with at least two people on board, seeking to improve rail safety with a new mandate that immediately drew stiff industry opposition. https://t.co/FtiVQptPmi
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 2, 2024
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill Tuesday that was passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature to ban high school transgender athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender identity. https://t.co/J1DnObnNwq
— ABC News (@ABC) April 2, 2024
RFK Jr., a vocal vaccine opponent, is calling Biden a bigger threat to democracy than Trump over his administration’s work with social media platforms to curb COVID disinformation. https://t.co/UaSCDSuqQO
— Axios (@axios) April 2, 2024
Millions of people are under a weather alert as a dangerous storm system moves through parts of the Ohio Valley region and Northeast bringing heavy rain, threats of isolated tornadoes and snow. https://t.co/bzi0veZ9We
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 2, 2024
