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☆ Why Cubans are fighting for Russia in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Patrick Oppmann | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Men like Miguel, who in July traveled to Russia and soon after was on the front lines of the war with Ukraine, his mother Cecilia told CNN. After her son responded to a post on Facebook looking for Cubans to work as cooks and construction workers in Russia, Cecilia said two women reached out to him via WhatsApp. But soon Miguel told his mother that he wanted to return home. Since the war began Cuban officials had increasingly echoed Russian propaganda that NATO aggression was to blame for its invasion of Ukraine. When apprised by CNN of the conflicting statements by Cuban officials, Cecilia responded with a question.

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☆ The same family of bears won't stop wrecking trail cameras — and have been caught in the act 5 times on video
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The same family of black bears in Voyageurs National Park won't stop messing with trail cameras. The Voyageurs Wolf Project said the bears have attacked their cameras five times in the past year. The family has been caught on video messing with trail cameras at a remote beaver pond on five separate occasions over the past year. Thomas Gable, project lead at the Voyageurs Wolf Project, told Insider bears have both knocked over and actually destroyed their trail cameras. "That said, we have had many trail cameras that bears have completely destroyed by chewing on them."

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☆ California legislature passes law aiming to protect children from abusers during custody disputes
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Olivia Gentile | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

California's legislature unanimously passed Piqui's Law, named after a 5-year-old murdered by his father following a custody dispute. This week, the California legislature passed that bill, known as "Piqui's Law." In cases where fathers countered by claiming alienation, judges were even less likely to credit mothers, she found. At the July 11 hearing, Estevez, too, criticized a California family court's response to her reports of abuse. Jill Montes stands by as her daughter testifies before the California State Senate on April 25.

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — How much does an extramarital affair matter to whether Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton keeps his job? Most of the senators are Republicans and one is his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, although she will not have a vote in the verdict. She said Angela Paxton sometimes called the office with questions about her husband’s schedule and that the conversations made staff uncomfortable. Angela Paxton took notes at her desk as Cary testified about the affair that began in 2018, the year Angela was won her senate seat. “We’d be impeaching people for the next 100 years.”___Find AP’s full coverage of the impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton at: https://apnews.com/hub/ken-paxton

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☆ American man stolen as a baby in Chile meets mother at 42
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Rafael Romo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“There were three or four different accounts of a story that were just so divergent that they could not all be true,” Thyden told CNN. Another provided the name of a biological mother and her address. Chilean officials say the number of stolen babies could be in the thousands, but the country’s investigation into the controversial adoptions has languished. He’s happy to finally know his true origins but sad about what his biological mother went through. After three agonizing months, he was finally able to travel to Chile to give his biological mother the hug that had to wait for 42 years.

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☆ Serena Williams gives birth to second child
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Serena Williams accepts the Jackie Robinson Sports Award at the 54th NAACP Image Awards at the Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California, U.S., February 25, 2023. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 22 (Reuters) - Tennis great Serena Williams has given birth to her second child, a girl named Adira River Ohanian, and along with husband Alexis Ohanian welcomed the new arrival in social media posts on Tuesday. "Welcome my beautiful angel," Williams wrote in the caption of a video posted on TikTok that shows her, Ohanian and their four-year-old daughter Olympia embracing the newborn. "I'm grateful to report our house is teaming with love: a happy & healthy newborn girl and happy & healthy mama. Feeling grateful," Ohanian posted on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

Persons: Serena Williams, Jackie Robinson, Mario Anzuoni, Alexis Ohanian, Williams, Ohanian, Rory Carroll, Ken Ferris Organizations: REUTERS, Twitter, U.S, Thomson Locations: Pasadena , California, U.S, New York, Los Angeles

☆ Biden is pouring nearly $700 million into internet access for rural communities so that kids don't 'have to sit in the back of a mama's car in a McDonald's parking lot in order to do homework'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Biden administration announced nearly $700 million in funding for rural, high-speed internet projects. The funding comes from the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which pours billions into internet access. That money funds, in part, the USDA's ReConnect program, which disburses loans and grants to programs intended to get rural communities online. "For too long, rural communities haven't had access to basic resources like affordable, reliable, high-speed internet," Mitch Landrieu, senior advisor to the president and White House infrastructure coordinator, said in a press call. According to 2018 Census data on internet use, Americans living in cities were more likely to have internet access than their rural counterparts: 86% of urban households had an internet subscription, compared to 81% for rural households.

Persons: Biden, Mitch Landrieu, it's, BroadBandNow, Landrieu Organizations: Biden, Service, White, Pew Research Center Locations: Wall, Silicon, haven't, Alaska, America

☆ Inside a Dementia Unit in a Federal Prison - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Katie Engelhart | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

He actually hasn’t existed for, like, over 20 years.” These men are serving life sentences at Angola prison in Louisiana. “I’m serving a life sentence for second-degree murder.” “First-degree murder.” “Second-degree murder and armed robbery.” “I’m serving a life sentence.” “A life sentence without parole.” “I was 18 when this crime happened.” “I was 17 years old.” “I was 18 at the time.” “I come here when I’m 17. It shouldn’t have happened.” In the U.S., there are more than 50,000 people serving life without parole, 70 percent of whom are Black. It’s just a life sentence.” A few states have implemented changes in the criminal justice system, including second-look reforms. But they are only a small fraction of those serving life without parole.

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☆ Cause of death determined for grandson of Robert De Niro
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The cause of death for Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, the grandson of Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro, has been determined. A woman was arrested in connection with the teen’s death. Sofia Marks was taken into custody on a charge of selling drugs to a minor, a law enforcement source told CNN later in July. Actress Drena De Niro, Robert De Niro’s daughter, wrote about the loss of her son in a post on Instagram when it happened. Drena De Niro later commented when someone asked her on social media how her son died.

Persons: Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, Oscar, Robert De Niro, Sofia Marks, Marks, Drena De Niro, Robert De Niro’s, Carlos Rodriguez, Carlos Mare, “, ” Organizations: CNN, New York, Medical, Office Locations: “

☆ Robbie Robertson, 80, Dies; Canadian Songwriter Captured American Spirit
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Jim Farber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Mr. Hawkins saw enough in Mr. Robertson to write two songs with him, which he recorded, and he later invited the teenage guitarist to join his band, the Hawks, initially on bass. The Hawks also included Levon Helm on drums; by 1961, the other future members of the Band were also in the fold. While he initially refused, he did perform with Mr. Dylan in New York and Los Angeles, bringing along Mr. At the guitarist’s insistence, Mr. Dylan wound up hiring most of the other future members of the Band for the full tour. “This album was recorded in approximately two weeks,” another close Dylan associate, Al Kooper, wrote in a review in Rolling Stone.

Persons: Hawkins, Robertson, Levon Helm, Levon, Bob Dylan, Dylan, Helm, ”, Mr, “, Al Kooper, Joan Baez Organizations: Hawks, Roulette Records, Atco, Big Pink, Billboard Locations: New York, Los Angeles, Woodstock, Stone

☆ Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Cannabis is having a senior moment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Dr. Sanjay Gupta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Over the past few decades, we have experienced one of the most significant and uneven legal evolutions ever seen in the United States. Seniors — people over the age of 65 — are now the fastest growing group of cannabis users in the United States. Since 2020, The United States has spent $4 trillion a year on health care, of which almost $580 billion was spent on pharmaceuticals alone in 2021. Sue Taylor, right, known as "Mama Sue," spoke to Dr. Sanjay Gupta for "Weed 7: A Senior Moment." As cannabis use has increased among seniors, cannabis ER-related visits have gone up, too.

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☆ Isabella Rossellini’s Mama Farm Introduces a Knitwear Collaboration
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Natalia Rachlin | Erik Morse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This summer, the culture journalist turned art adviser Fiona Mackay launched Kombi, an online gallery and retailer that specializes in South African art, design and craft and caters to the American market. “Because of geography and logistics, so much of this work hasn’t been shown stateside, and I wanted to rectify that,” says Mackay, who was raised in Cape Town and now lives in Brooklyn. Kombi, named for the Volkswagen minibuses that were ubiquitous during Mackay’s childhood, will present work from both emerging and more established makers, offering readily buyable pieces, as well as made-to-order and limited-edition works. “I hope [Kombi] becomes both a cultural and commercial exchange,” says Mackay, who also plans to initiate residencies and collaborations, creating opportunities for American artists to produce work in South Africa and vice versa. Cele plans to show the work with Kombi at an exhibition this autumn in New York.

Persons: Fiona Mackay, hasn’t, ”, Mackay, Cameron, Mpho Vackier, She’s, Kombi Organizations: Volkswagen Locations: Cape Town, Brooklyn, Johannesburg, Namibia, South Africa, Zulu, New York

☆ Why Nina Simone Was Always Ahead of Her Time
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Salamishah Tillet | More About Salamishah Tillet | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nina Simone was always ahead of her time. “They say you’re mean and evil/Don’t know what to do,” Simone sang. “And that’s the reason that he’s gone/And left you black-and-blue.”I’ve been intrigued by “Blues for Mama” since I first heard it on Simone’s 1967 album “Nina Simone Sings the Blues.” And now, thanks to Verve Records’ recent issue of the previously unreleased recording of her Newport performance — packaged as the album “You’ve Got to Learn” — we have an even earlier version of the song out in the world. “Blues for Mama” signified a new moment. Rather than accept the abuse and the negative rumors, Nina tells Mama to set the record straight: “It wasn’t you that caused his bitter fate.”

Persons: Nina Simone, Abbey Lincoln, ”, Simone, “, Mama, ” Simone, he’s, I’ve, “ Blues, Mama ”, Nina Organizations: Mama, Newport Jazz Festival, Verve Records Locations: Newport

☆ Ed Sheeran, Lana Del Rey and more celebs are popping up in surprising spaces
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

So why are stars with the means to hide away suddenly out and about in unexpected public places? Something to sip on…David Letterman visits a Hy-Vee store in Iowa on Friday, July 21, 2023. From Hy-VeeDavid Letterman could totally have been forgiven for visiting Des Moines, Iowa, recently and staying in his hotel room. Instead, the former late-night host was bagging groceries at a Hy-Vee grocery store and using his famous voice on the store’s PA system. “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan has recruited some heavy hitters for his action thriller series “Special Ops: Lioness,” about a special forces unit led by a tougher-than-nails CIA operative named Joe played by Zoe Saldaña.

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Just a week after performing at the historically Black Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., supporting James Meredith’s March Against Fear, Nina Simone was on fire as she strode onstage to play for a very different audience at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 2, 1966. Her interactions with the bourgeois New Englanders at Newport were hardly warm: In the middle of an acid-rinsed version of “Blues for Mama,” she dismisses them — “I guess you ain’t ready for that” — and later she hushes them: “Shut up, shut up.” But she pours every ounce of vitriol she’s got into the performance, especially on “Mississippi Goddam.” She’d first released the song in 1964, and two years later it felt as topical as ever. Meredith had just been shot while marching across Mississippi, and unrest was overtaking redlined Black neighborhoods across the country. At Newport, she amends one of the verses to address the oppression of Los Angeles’s Black community: “Alabama’s got me so upset/And Watts has made me lose my rest/Everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn!” The entire Newport performance is now available for the first time as an album titled “You’ve Got to Learn.” It’s spellbinding, heartbreaking stuff, reminding us just how much Simone would still be lamenting today. GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO

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☆ Casey DeSantis said she and Ron DeSantis didn't tell their young children when she was diagnosed with breast cancer: 'To this day, they still don't know'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In a "Fox & Friends" interview, Casey DeSantis spoke about her 2021 breast cancer diagnosis. Casey, who is in remission, said that she and Ron didn't tell their children that she had cancer. The DeSantis' children were aged 4, 3, and 1 at the time. Ron DeSantis, his wife Casey DeSantis, and their children walk on stage to celebrate his reelection on November 8, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. Watch the full "Fox & Friends" interview here:

Persons: Casey DeSantis, Casey, Ron didn't, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, — Madison, Mamie —, Octavio Jones, — Organizations: Fox, Service, Florida Gov, Fox &, Casey DeSantis Cancer Research Program, Cancer Locations: Wall, Silicon, Florida, Mason, Tampa , Florida

☆ ‘Earth Mama’ Review: A Mother Dreams Inside a Brutal System
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Manohla Dargis | More About Manohla Dargis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Leaf eases you into the movie, which centers on Gia (a lovely Tia Nomore), a pregnant single mother in recovery with two kids in foster care. In tight, precise scenes, Leaf sketches in Gia’s life, its uncertain horizons and crushing limitations. Mostly, Gia struggles to get her kids back, a time-consuming process that involves a reunification program in which she’s constantly monitored. The program’s demands mean that she can’t work more hours, but because she can’t work more, she’s behind in child-support payments, which in turn earns her a scolding from her case worker. If the system seems rigged for Gia to fail, it’s because, Leaf suggests, it is.

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☆ Tubi Is Rewriting the Rules of Black Indie Movies (for Free)
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Nicolas Rapold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Over the past few years, Tubi has quietly amassed a thriving collection of Black-led independent movies. “Cinnamon” is the first Tubi premiere under the banner Black Noir Cinema, an initiative led by Village Roadshow Pictures. It’s a nifty standard-bearer: a gas station attendant and aspiring singer, Jodi (Hailey Kilgore), and a pickpocket, Eddie (David Iacono), team up for an inside job. The robbery becomes a self-own when someone from a local crime family — led by Pam Grier — gets killed in the process. They lean hard on the gas station owner, Wally (Damon Wayans), and then zero in on Jodi and Eddie.

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☆ Fact Check-Video of Biden loudly ‘sniffing’ a baby is digitally edited
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video of U.S. President Joe Biden interacting with a mother and her baby has been digitally altered to add loud sniffing sounds. No such sound can be heard in the original clip. The clip has been taken from a longer video showing Biden interacting with a mother and her baby. The original video, recorded by the baby’s mother, was shared on TikTok on June 9, 2023. Sound of sniffing has been added to video of Biden interacting with a mother and baby.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, “, Read Organizations: Reuters Locations: TikTok, North Carolina

☆ Jamie MoCrazy: She nearly died in a skiing accident - now, she wants to help others who have suffered traumatic brain injuries
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Aimee Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

She went into a natural coma, was intubated on the mountain and a battle began to save her life. It was the beginning what the former skier calls the second version of herself, “Jamie 2.0.” Recovery was slow, often painful. MoCrazy had been intubated for such a lengthy period that it took two months for her to re-learn to swallow. Her mom forced her to learn algebra again, the argument being that her brain had to relearn its critical thinking skills. “And the fact that I am a White, privileged, accomplished athlete with finances made a huge difference in my recovery.

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☆ Drena De Niro says fentanyl killed her son
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Drena De Niro has shared the cause of death for her 19-year-old son. Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, the grandson of Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro, recently died after ingesting fentanyl, his mother wrote on social media. “It is with immeasurable shock and sadness that we say goodbye to our beloved son Leo,” Drena De Niro posted Monday in a statement on her verified social media. “Someone sold him fentanyl laced pills that they knew were laced yet still sold them to him so for all these people still f**king around selling and buying this sh*t, my son is gone forever,” De Niro wrote in response. “I’m deeply distressed by the passing of my beloved grandson Leo,” Robert De Niro said in a statement to CNN.

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☆ Robert De Niro’s grandson Leandro dead at 19
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, the grandson of Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro, has died, his mother announced on social media. Actress Drena De Niro, Robert De Niro’s daughter, wrote about the loss of her son in a post on Instagram on Sunday. Leandro De Niro Rodriguez was also an actor. He appeared, along with his mother, in the 2018 film “A Star Is Born,” starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. CNN has reached out to representatives for Robert and Drena De Niro for comment.

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☆ A Fatal Shooting and a Hijab Ban: Two Faces of France’s Racial Divisions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Catherine Porter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mama Diakité is a French citizen, raised in the suburbs of Paris by two immigrant parents, not far from where a 17-year-old boy was shot by the police during a traffic stop last week. As cars burned and barricades went up in her neighborhood over the shooting, she got word from the country’s top administrative court that she could not play the most popular sport in France — soccer — while wearing her hijab. On Thursday, the Conseil d’Etat upheld the French Football Federation’s ban on wearing any obvious religious symbols, in keeping with the country’s bedrock principle of laïcité, or secularism. The decision inspired a storm of feelings in Ms. Diakité — shock, anger, disappointment. One involved a fatal traffic stop that French officials have condemned; the other involved a charged debate on the visibility of Islam in French society.

Persons: Diakité, “, ” Organizations: French Football Locations: French, Paris, France

☆ ‘The Impossible Became Possible’: The Women Celebrating a Year Without Roe
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Ruth Graham | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Who’s here with me to let loose?” she asked the crowd, leading several hundred women in the wave. “We pro-lifers, we have life on our side!” She was wearing a small gold necklace reading “mama,” a gift from her son. The ruling last summer in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization eliminated the national right to abortion and sent the issue back to the states. It also radically scrambled the landscape of abortion in the United States, shuttering some clinics, prompting others to open, and setting up new battles over abortion pills, miscarriage care and contraception. Legal abortions declined more than six percent in the first six months after the ruling.

Persons: Bethany Bomberger, Roe, Wade, ” Ms, Bomberger, Louis, “ Organizations: Women’s, Jackson, Health Organization Locations: St, Dobbs v, United States

☆ Opinion: This TV mom changed everything
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Opinion Raakhee Mirchandani | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Raakhee Mirchandani Kim Lorraine PhotographyI never searched for either of us on TV. I’m grateful NHIE gave Indian moms — Brown moms, Desi moms, South Asian moms — the crown we deserve. (L to R) Poorna Jagannathan as Nalini Vishwakumar, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Devi in episode 410 of "Never Have I Ever." But now, among the cohort of timeless TV mothers, there’s Devi’s mom — and let me tell you: Nalini, as realized by the inimitable Jagannathan, certainly has got it going on. (And anyone with a Brown mom knows the eyes; one look is all it takes.)

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