📺 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

⚡️ Russian MoD:

▪️143,631 civilians and 341 foreign citizens were evacuated from Mariupol, as well as 1,844 servicemen of the Ukraine Armed Forces who surrendered;

▪️ The number of evacuees from Mariupol show how groundless the accusations against Russia were about creating obstacles to prevent civilians from leaving

⚡️ Macron warns Europe may face consequences of Russian gas embargo next winter

❗️ German Chancellor Scholz: Embargo on Russian gas 'unacceptable'

❗️ RT Arabic crew comes under fire in LPR

🎥 NGO Lugansk Memorial delivered humanitarian aid to a large family from Rubezhnoye whose lost their home, and whose grandmother was killed when her home was destroyed in the shelling.
Her remains are still lying under the rubble.

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