‼️ US in contact with Ukraine on collecting alleged evidence of possible war crimes, Garland says

💊 Biden drug control plan stresses harm reduction, treatment

President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress as the US overdose death toll hit a new record of nearly 107,000 during the past 12 months. The American Medical Association has advocated for naloxone to be made available over the counter. The first physician to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Dr. Rahul Gupta, will oversee the strategy, which also includes:

🔹 Targeting the financial activities of transnational criminal organizations that manufacture and traffic illicit drugs in the United States.
🔹 Reducing the supply of illicit drugs smuggled across US borders.
🔹 Improving data systems and research that guide drug policy.
🔹 Making sure the people most in danger of overdose can get evidence-based treatments, including people experiencing homelessness and those in prison or jail.

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🇨🇺 More Cubans immigrating to the US by crossing from Mexico

US border authorities encountered Cubans almost 32,400 times in March, that was roughly double the number in February, and five times the number in October. US Customs and Border Protection stopped Cubans more than 79,800 times from October through March, more than double all of 2021, and five times more than all of 2020.

The increase coincided with Nicaragua’s decision starting in November to stop requiring visas for Cubans to promote tourism after other countries, such as Panama and the Dominican Republic.

Jorge Duany, director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University, and other experts estimate the number of Cubans leaving could exceed other mass migrations from the island, including the Mariel boatlift of 1980, when more than 124,700 Cubans came to the U.S.

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📺 CNN Plus is shutting down only a month after it launched

The news network’s dedicated streaming service, is shutting down before even turning a month old. Chris Licht, the new CEO of CNN, delivered the news to his new team at an all-hands meeting on Thursday, and the service will shut down entirely on April 30th.

CNN Plus didn’t offer a streaming version of the linear channel and instead tried to build a different, more personalized version of the news report. The company was also attempting to figure out how to bring news content to a more on-demand audience and make the news a more interactive process.

It has been widely reported that CNN planned to spend about $1 billion on CNN Plus over a few years and had already poured at least $100 million (and as much as $300 million) into the service. Executives were reportedly frustrated that CNN Plus launched at all, especially as Warner Bros.

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🚫 OnlyFans has ‘temporarily paused’ Russian creators

The subnoscription-based platform popularized by sex workers had previously allowed Russian creators to stay and continue to get paid despite economic sanctions.

In a statement to Motherboard, the company says it had “explored several options to continue providing our services to creators but a further tightening of payment restrictions to and from Russia” prevented it from serving those accounts.

The latest change to OnlyFans’ policy is another example of creators left with little recourse as companies cease operations in Russia.

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❗️ Mass clashes hit Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, reports say

Joe Biden forgot how to pronounce the name of a member of the House of Representatives, Earl Blumenauer, during a speech in Oregon. Was he confused? Of course not, as he swiftly turned his gaffe into a joke about his own name, noting that he knows people call him Beedn.

🧐 Does he know that some also call him Gaffe Machine?…

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❗️ FSB: Ukrainian operatives planned car bomb attack on Russian humanitarian convoy

Russian MoD video: Motor convoy of Russian armed forces in the areas of the Kharkov region that were liberated from Ukrainian neo-Nazis

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⚡️ There is 'resistance and concern' among EU members over the idea of imposing an embargo on oil supplies from Russia, French Finance minister says

❗️ Ukrainian An-26 military aircraft crashes in country's east

📌 The latest on the Ukraine operation from the Russian Defence Ministry:

▪️ The Russian Army eliminated up to a battalion of Ukrainian troops and military equipment near Miliorativnoe railway station in the Dnepropetrovsk region in Ukraine using Kalibr missiles;

▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed up to 80 Ukrainian nationalists, 23 units of military equipment, one S-300 air defence system;

▪️ Missile forces and artillery hit 1,285 Ukrainian military targets;

▪️ DPR forces destroyed 59 Ukrainian nationalists in the past 24 hours

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The Russian Defence Ministry shared footage of the launch of "Kalibr" from the frigate of the Black Sea Fleet at Ukraine's military facilities on the land

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❗️ Kremlin slams US statement about situation in Mariupol

📹 A refugee from Kharkov region thanks Russian military for evacuating her to Russia

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📹 Russia's Defence Ministry has also shared a video of an abandoned Ukrainian fortified area.

As Ukrainian nationalists were retreating, they left dead bodies and large quantities of equipment and weapons, including foreign ones, behind

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📹 Larisa, a resident from the central district of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, explains how Azov battalion forces fired on a residential area.

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⚡️ Russian MoD: Moscow ready to announce ceasefire at any moment to evacuate civilians from Azovstal