NEW >> Today, @VP will travel to Nashville, TN. There she will meet with state lawmakers as well as young leaders who continue to demand action on common sense gun reform.
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Today was a devastating day as we watched beloved non-unit coworkers with decades of experience be escorted from the building in a hamfisted start to layoffs. NPR had months to prepare and still managed to botch it.
.@NWSNewYorkNY has issued a Special Weather Statement for Manhattan: A strong thunderstorm will impact this region with winds in excess of 40 mph. Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects.
I am heartbroken to share this..the @NewsHour’s beloved long-time Friday night analyst Mark Shields, who for decades wowed us with his encyclopedic knowledge of American politics, his sense of humor and mainly his big heart, has passed away at 85, with his wife Anne at his side.
HELSINKI, April 8 (Reuters) - Finnish government websites suffered hacking attacks on Friday, the government said, at the same time as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was giving a video address to Finland's parliament.
⚡️ Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba demands new 'devastating' sanctions from G7 countries over the Bucha massacre.
Kuleba is calling for oil, gas, and coal embargo, closed ports for Russian vessels and goods, and disconnection of all Russian banks from SWIFT system.
Press Release: In response to our decisive victory, ALU Pres. Chris Smalls (@Shut_downAmazon) demands immediate bargaining & Amazon cease/desist any changes to work policies.
JFK8 workers denounce any attempt by @Amazon to delay our hard won right to bargain collectively. #ALU
Every day hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians wake up in fear of being bombed by🇷🇺jets.Meanwhile Europe is playing roulette: 1st it announces tougher sanctions,a day later it says let’s not to go over the top.Putin has set🇺🇦ablaze;Europe wonders if it has enough fire extinguisher
⚡️Ukrainian photographer Maks Levin found dead in Kyiv Oblast.
Levin went missing on March 13 when he traveled to Kyiv Oblast's Vyshgorod district to document hostilities there. Levin worked with Reuters, BBC, and AP. He left behind 4 children and his wife.
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Dear radio friends — some advice for good living. We all have COVID 19 feelings when it comes to using studio microphones. This is normal.
Do NOT, however, unload a spray can of Lysol on your mic! The only thing you accomplish is destroying a perfectly good mic.
Thank you.
Rivne mayor Oleksandr Tretyak's message to Russian soldiers:
"Guys, go back home. Go back to your mothers and your families. Putin is a liar," he said.
NEW: Ukrainian officials alleging two Russian fighters took off in Belarus, crossed into Ukrainian airspace and doubled back, then engaged in three air strikes on a town on the Belarus side of border
Just spoke to mayor of Rivne, who calls it “provocation”… more tk
Ukraine is fighting tenaciously against a Russian invasion - If the world does not stand with Ukraine now, Russians will keep moving across Europe until they are stopped. If the Russians are foolish enough to attack a nuclear power plant, they are foolish enough to do anything.
Just finished a call with Pres. Zelenskyy of Ukraine - He wants the world to stop buying Russian products (like oil and gas), stop selling to Russian consumers and for the world to provide help / equipment / supplies to Ukraine so they can defend their country 1/
NEW: Ukraine's @ZelenskyyUa on call with US senators asked for no fly zone, lethal aid, ban on Russian oil, I'm told. Also wants Visa and Mastercard use suspended in Russia, and more US businesses to leave.
Thousands of Serbs waving Russian flags and carrying pictures of President Vladimir Putin marched through Belgrade to the Russian embassy in a rare show of public support for Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine https://t.co/xBSxzelwX5