🧞 Gilbert Gottfried, Comedian and ‘Aladdin’ Star, Dies at 67

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried has died at age 67, at 2:35 p.m. ET on Tuesday from recurrent ventricular tachycardia due to myotonic dystrophy type II.

Gottfried, known for having one of the most iconic voices in Hollywood, performed stand-up comedy for over 50 years, ultimately becoming known as "the comedian's comedian."

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📹 Preliminary Findings Indicate Camera Systems at Subway Station Were Experiencing Malfunction. LIVE UPDATES

⚡️ Chechnya's Kadyrov: More than 1,000 Ukrainian marines have surrendered in Mariupol

✍️ New Mexico boosts its free college program

Many states have for years offered free tuition programs for four-year degrees to residents, but the programs had restrictions, limiting participation to recent high school graduates and requiring that they attend school full-time.

Supporters of those restrictions say they incentivize students to finish their degree and narrow the number of students who participate. Since 2020, the program has been used by 10,000 state residents pursuing associate’s degree programs, including nursing.

New Mexico’s governor and legislature hope the expanded Opportunity Scholarship program will be enough to reverse the state’s dismal education outcomes. Only Mississippi has a lower percentage of four-year-degree holders, at 23%.

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‼️ NY Police Identify person of interest in subway shooting, issue $50,000 reward

💊 Appeals court: J&J must pay $302M in pelvic mesh case

A California appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that Johnson & Johnson must pay penalties to the state for deceptively marketing pelvic mesh implants for women, but reduced the amount by $42 million to $302 million.

Many women have sued the New Jersey-based company, alleging that the mesh caused severe pain, bleeding, infections, discomfort during intercourse and the need for removal surgery.

Johnson & Johnson, the world’s biggest maker of health care products, is contesting other lawsuits over drug side effects, its role in the US opioid epidemic, and allegations its baby powder caused cancer in some users.

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💀 Overdoses pushed US to highest death total ever

The CDC does not yet have a tally for 2021 overdose deaths, but provisional data through October suggests the nation is on track to see at least 105,000 overdose deaths in 2021 — up from 93,000 the year before.

New research released Tuesday showed a particularly large jump in overdose deaths among 14- to 18-year-olds. Experts attributed the spike to fentanyl, a highly lethal drug that has been cut into heroin for several years. More recently, it’s also been pressed into counterfeit pills resembling prenoscription drugs that teens sometimes abuse.

One study looked at death data in the US and 19 other high-income countries. The US fared the worst.

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⚡️ Residents of Mariupol do not confirm reports about use of chemical substances in city

‼️ US tried to avoid exposing sources in revealing Russian moves - intelligence chief

🚫 Oklahoma governor signs bill to make abortion illegal

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law on Tuesday that makes it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, as part of an aggressive push in Republican-led states across the country to scale back abortion rights.

The bill, which takes effect 90 days after the legislature adjourns next month, makes an exception only for an abortion performed to save the life of the mother.

Abortion rights advocates say the bill is clearly unconstitutional, and similar laws approved recently in Arkansas and Alabama have been blocked by federal courts.

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⛽️ Biden is allowing more ethanol in gasoline

The Biden administration says it will suspend a federal rule that bars higher levels of ethanol in gasoline during the summer. The move, which President Joe Biden was set to announce during a Tuesday visit to Iowa, is intended to tamp down prices at the pump that have spiked during Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. Iowa is a key producer of the corn-based fuel additive.

A look at how that the decision to authorize year-round use of so-called E15 will impact gas supplies, prices and the environment. Senior Biden administration officials said the move will save drivers an average of 10 cents per gallon at 2,300 gas stations that sell E15.

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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has published footage of the assault on the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, where Ukrainian militants are hiding

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🇨🇳 Just one country on the brain? Joe Biden has accidentally recalled China again

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🦅 Biden gets pooped on by bird: It appears that the creature didn't like the president's speech on inflation in the US

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❗️The presidents of Poland and the Baltic countries are heading to Kiev for a visit - Duda's office

❗️Israel Defence Forces conduct counter-terror operation in West Bank

💬Russian Foreign Ministry: Threat of chemical terrorism by Ukrainian neo-Nazis very real

❗The Russian Embassy in the United States on US State Department claims about the possibility of Moscow using chemical weapons in Ukraine:

"We call on Washington to stop spreading disinformation. Instead, colleagues should intensify the process of [the] chemical demilitarisation of their country. The United States remains the only state party to the Chemical Weapons Convention that has not fulfilled the international commitments it made. The American arsenal of weapons of this type poses a real threat to humanity".