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US and allies aim to help Ukraine bolster defenses after aid gap
The United States hopes its new deliveries of weaponry will help Ukraine rebuild defenses and refit its forces as it recovers from a gap in U.S. assistance, but it does not expect Kyiv to launch large-scale offensive operations against Russian forces in the near term, a U.S. defense official said on Thursday. The U.S. will on Friday host a virtual meeting of Ukraine international aid donors, days after Congress emerged from a half-year of deadlock to approve a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine. President Joe Biden's administration quickly announced $1 billion in artillery, air defenses and other hardware would soon be heading to Ukrainian front lines.
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Associated Press
Massive policing for Paris Olympics to include security checks for some of the capital's residents
Special anti-terrorism measures being put in place to safeguard the unprecedented opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics on the River Seine will also apply to all buildings along the route, meaning people who work and live there and their guests will be subjected to background security checks, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said Thursday. Athletes will be paraded through the heart of the French capital on 94 boats along a 6-kilometer (nearly 4-mile) stretch of the Seine, from east to west. Anyone who wants to enter the zone in the eight days before the ceremony and on July 26 itself will need to pre-register online and will “systematically” be subjected to the background security checks known in France as an “administrative investigation,” Nunez said.
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Reuters
Colombia becomes first country to restrict US beef due to bird flu in dairy cows
Colombia has restricted the import of beef and beef products coming from U.S. states where dairy cows have tested positive for avian influenza as of April 15, according the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Colombia imports a small amount of beef from the U.S. annually, according to government data and market analysts. In a notice this week on the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service website, which was last updated on April 22, the agency said the ban includes beef products derived from cattle slaughtered in Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota and Texas.
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TODAY
An American dad celebrating his birthday in Turks and Caicos may be jailed there for 12 years
An Oklahoma father faces up to 12 years in prison after he says he unintentionally brought ammunition on his vacation to Turks and Caicos.
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Associated Press
NASA astronauts arrive for Boeing's first human spaceflight
The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing’s first human spaceflight arrived at their launch site Thursday, just over a week before their scheduled liftoff. Due to blast off May 6 atop an Atlas rocket, the Starliner will fly to the International Space Station for a weeklong shakedown cruise.
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Associated Press
Putin announces plans to visit China in May
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he plans to visit China in May, in what could become the first foreign trip for the Russian leader after he extended his rule by six more years in an election that offered voters little real choice. Putin announced the plans for the visit at a congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow. Putin's inauguration is scheduled for May 7, Russian lawmakers said earlier this week.
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Associated Press
Body-cam footage shows police left an Ohio man handcuffed and facedown on a bar floor before he died
An Ohio man who was handcuffed and left facedown on the floor of a social club last week died in police custody and the officers involved have been placed on paid administrative leave. Police body-camera footage released Wednesday shows a Canton police officer responding to a report of a crash and finding Frank Tyson, a 53-year-old East Canton resident, by the bar in a nearby American Veterans, or AMVETS, post. Officer Beau Schoenegge's body-camera footage shows that after a passing motorist directed police to the bar, a woman opened the door and said: "Please get him out of here, now.”
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Reuters
Some US troops set to depart Chad, at least temporarily
The United States is planning to temporarily withdraw some of its troops from Chad, U.S. officials said on Thursday, a move that comes just days after Washington was forced to agree to remove its troops from neighboring Niger. Earlier this month Chad's air force chief ordered the U.S. to halt activities at an air base near the capital N'Djamena, according to a letter sent to the transitional government and seen by Reuters. Pentagon spokesperson Major General Patrick Ryder said a portion of the U.S. troops in Chad would reposition out of the country.
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CBS News
FCC votes to restore net neutrality. Here's what that means.
U.S. regulators are reviving a rescinded rule, laying the groundwork for for a major court fight with the broadband industry.
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AFP
New York court overturns Harvey Weinstein sex crime conviction
New York's highest court on Thursday overturned disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction on sex crime charges, a shock reversal in one of the defining cases of the #MeToo movement.Weinstein, 72, had been convicted in a New York court in 2020 of the rape and sexual assault of ex-actress Jessica Mann in 2013, and of forcibly performing oral sex on former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006.
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AFP
DR Congo accuses Apple of using 'blood minerals' from war-torn east
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo is accusing Apple of using "illegally exploited" minerals extracted from the country's embattled east in its products, lawyers representing the African country said Thursday.Macs, iPhones and other Apple products are "tainted by the blood of the Congolese people", the DRC's lawyers said.
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USA TODAY
'Rule for the ages': Takeaways from historic Supreme Court arguments in Trump immunity case
In the biggest case of the Supreme Court's year, justices knew they were weighing a history-making decision. 'We're writing a rule for the ages,' Gorsuch said.
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The Conversation
How bird flu virus fragments get into milk sold in stores, and what the spread of H5N1 in cows means for the dairy industry and milk drinkers
Five livestock experts who study infectious diseases in the dairy industry explain the risks.
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NBC News
11-year-old Nevada boy with autism kept in metal cage at home, parents charged with child abuse
A Nevada couple was arrested on Tuesday after authorities found their 11-year-old son with autism held in a metal cage, wearing only a diaper with feces smeared on the cage's floor.
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USA TODAY
Aid workers killed in Israeli strike honored at National Cathedral; Andrés demands answers
José Andrés, the celebrity chef that founded the organization, spoke at a memorial ceremony for the seven aid workers killed in an Israeli strike.
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CNN
Biden keeps needling Trump as he walks a tightrope over his rival’s trial
President Joe Biden might not be saying much about his Republican challenger’s criminal trial, but as Donald Trump sits in a Manhattan courtroom — irritated, seemingly tired and, by his own declaration, freezing cold — the president is still finding plenty to say about his rival.
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Associated Press
Syrian Kurdish officials hand over 50 women and children linked to Islamic State group to Tajikistan
The 17 women and 33 children, all citizens of Tajikistan, were handed over to a delegation headed by the Tajik ambassador to Kuwait, Zubaydullo Zubaydzoda, Syrian Kurdish officials said. After the Islamic State group declared its caliphate in large parts of Syria and Iraq in June 2014, thousands of foreigners, including hundreds from Tajikistan, came to Syria to join IS and live with their families in the so-called caliphate.
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CBS News
Venice becomes first city to charge a daily tourist fee
Visitors will have to pay five euros, a fee designed to offset some of the costs of accommodating tourists.
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Associated Press
US to pull troops from Chad and Niger as the African nations question its counterterrorism role
The United States will pull the majority of its troops from Chad and Niger as it works to restore key agreements governing what role there might be for the American military and its counterterrorism operations, two U.S. officials said. Both African countries have been integral to the U.S. military’s efforts to counter violent extremist organizations across the Sahel region, but Niger’s ruling junta ended an agreement last month that allows U.S. troops to operate in the West African country. In recent days, neighboring Chad also has questioned whether an existing agreement covered the U.S. troops operating there.
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NBC News
Why Idaho's hospitals are having pregnant patients airlifted out of state
Doctors in Idaho say the state's abortion ban is forcing patients to endure long and potentially risky transfers to other states.
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