What Was Said During Latest Biden-Zelensky Call?

🔸Biden welcomed decisions by Visa and Mastercard to suspend operations in Russia

🔸Leaders discussed White House efforts to work with US Congress in securing ‘additional funding’ for Ukraine

🔸Debrief on latest talks between Russian and Ukrainian authorities

🏛 Utah governor says he’ll veto transgender youth sports ban

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said that he plans to veto legislation passed Friday that would ban transgender student-athletes from competing in girls sports. Without his support, Utah is unlikely to join the 11 states, all Republican-led, that have recently enacted bans on transgender girls competing in school sports leagues that correspond with their gender identity.

In vowing to veto the bill, Cox directly addressed transgender student-athletes, who he said found themselves the subject of political debate through no fault of their own. Since 2020, 11 Republican-led states have since passed laws banning transgender girls from playing in leagues corresponding with their gender identity — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.

With two-thirds majorities in both chambers, lawmakers could override a governor’s veto.

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🕹 Nintendo suspends digital sales in Russia

Gamers won't be able to make digital purchases from Nintendo's Russian eShop for now. The gaming giant has announced that the eShop in Russia has been temporarily placed in maintenance mode.

It's unclear if Nintendo itself cut off payments in the region on purpose, or if the company placed the eShop in maintenance mode because a third-party processor had removed ruble payments from its system.

Other gaming companies have taken steps to limit access to their products and services in Russia. Ukraine also asked Sony to ban all players in Russia from the PlayStation network, but the company has yet to respond.

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🌪️ Six dead and four injured in Saturday tornado

A tornado in Madison County killed six people Saturday — four adults and two children — and injured four others, Madison County Emergency Management announced at a press conference.

Several tornadoes touched down throughout the afternoon and evening across central Iowa, leaving a widespread swath of damage from Winterset to Newton.

Multiple cities in the region were affected by the storms. Homes were destroyed, cars were damaged and thousands of power outages were reported.

💻 Hackers may have obtained 190GB of sensitive data from Samsung

Some of Samsung’s confidential data has reportedly been leaked as the result of a suspected cyberattack. South American hacking group Lapsus$ uploaded a trove of data it claims came from the smartphone manufacturer.

Among other information, the collective says it obtained bootloader source code for all of Samsung’s recent devices, in addition to code related to highly-sensitive features like biometric authentication and on-device encryption. It’s unclear what, if any demands, Lapsus$ has made of Samsung. The group previously claimed that its actions were not politically motivated.

Lapsus$ is the same group that claimed responsibility for the recent NVIDIA data breach. In that incident, Lapsus$ says it obtained approximately 1TB of confidential data from the GPU designer, and demanded that NVIDIA open source its drivers and remove a cryptocurrency mining limiter from its RTX 30-series GPUs.

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⚡️ Ukrainian forces fire 7 120mm mortars at Veseloye settlement, DPR says

⚡️ Belarusian Defense Ministry dismisses reports about sending paratroopers to Ukraine

⚡️ Clashes at Zaporozhskaya NPP could have erupted over Kiev's docs on nuclear weapons, source says

⚡️ US could have helped Kiev in its work toward nuclear weapon development, source says

⚡️ Donetsk People's Republic: Fifteen civilians injured in Ukrainian shelling over past 24 hours

⚡️ US studying proposals for integration of Baltic states into NATO air defense system

⚡️ Eight more people evacuated via humanitarian corridor from Mariupol and its suburbs, DPR says

⚡️ Russian military has destroyed 2,203 targets of Ukrainian military infrastructure during special op

MORE | Russian forces destroy S-300 air defense system in Ukraine, MoD says

⚡️ LPR establishes full control over 54 settlements, People's Militia says

Ukrainian nationalists are shelling settlements from which they are retreating. The video shows the consequences of an artillery strike in the liberated settlement of Donskoye

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The Russian Defense Ministry holds a briefing on the special military op in Ukraine:

▪️ Units of the Russian Armed Forces took control of a number of settlements, advancing 11 kilometers;

▪️ As a result of a massive strike, 61 military infrastructure facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit;

▪️ The airfield of the Ukrainian Air Force in Starokonstantinovo was disabled in a long-range high-precision weapon strike;

▪️ Over the past 24 hours, fighter aircraft and air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down four Su-27 and one MiG-29 aircraft, as well as one Su-25, two Mi-8 helicopters, and six drones, including "Bayraktar TB-2";

▪️ 3 Buk M1 anti-aircraft missile systems and 3 radar stations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit by bomber and ground attack aircraft, as well as a S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was destroyed by missile forces

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⚡️ Russian MoD: Su-34 fighter-bomber destroys military facility of Ukrainian nationalists in high-precision strike

⚡️ Ukrainian military is firing BM-21 Grad rockets at north of Donetsk, DPR says