Tuesday, October 11, 2022 |
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022 |
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Good Tuesday afternoon. Russia has launched a wave of attacks across Ukraine for a second day, murder charges have been dropped against “Serial” podcast subject Adnan Syed, and police say they’ve seized new evidence in the search for a missing Georgia toddler. Here is what’s in our Nightly Rundown. |
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Ukraine asks allies for more weapons as Russia launches new attacks |
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked the U.S. and other members of the Group of 7 today for more air defense systems, as Russia launched a new wave of attacks across the country. Zelenskyy said when Ukraine “receives a sufficient number of modern and effective air defense systems, the key element of Russian terror — missile strikes — will cease to work,” during an emergency virtual meeting today. The G7 said in a statement that it pledged its “undeterred and steadfast” support to Zelenskyy, and warned of “severe consequences” if Russia were to use chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. The virtual meeting came as Russia bombarded Ukraine with missile strikes for a second day, hitting civilian targets and critical infrastructure, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukrainian authorities said sites were targeted in 12 regions Monday, including the capital Kyiv, killing at least 19 people and injuring 105. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the strikes were made in retaliation for the explosion that damaged a critical bridge connecting Russia to the annexed Crimean Peninsula. |
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Prosecutors drop charges against “Serial” podcast subject |
Baltimore prosecutors have dropped charges against Adnan Syed in the murder of his ex-girlfriend, years after the popular podcast “Serial” brought national attention to his case. The decision came after testing “excluded Mr. Syed from the DNA recovered from the evidence,” the Maryland Office of the Public Defender said in a statement. Syed was sentenced to life behind bars for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, whose body was found buried in Baltimore’s Leakin Park. He has maintained his innocence over the last two decades, and last month he was released from prison after a judge vacated his conviction. “The DNA results confirmed what we have already known and what underlies all of the current proceedings: that Adnan is innocent and lost 23 years of his life serving time for a crime he did not commit,” an attorney for Syed said today in a statement. An attorney for Hae Min Lee’s family said in a statement that they received no advanced notice that the charges against Syed were being dropped. “All this family ever wanted was answers and a voice. Today’s actions robbed them of both,” the statement said. |
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Dozens hospitalized after carbon monoxide leak at Pennsylvania day care |
More than two dozen people, most of them young children, were transported to hospitals in eastern Pennsylvania today, after an apparent carbon monoxide leak at a day care center, officials said. Firefighters responded to the Happy Smiles Learning Center in Allentown, after receiving a report about an unconscious child, fire officials said. They immediately detected carbon monoxide in the air and evacuated 25 children and eight staffers, according to a fire department spokesman. Twenty-seven patients were rushed to four hospitals. All of them were stable and none were listed in serious condition, the spokesman said. There were no carbon monoxide monitors in the building, officials said.
Jesenia Gautreaux, the owner and director of the day care, said she was already in the process of having detectors installed before today’s incident.
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DOJ faces deadline in Mar-a-Lago documents battle |
The Justice Department has until 5 p.m. ET to respond to an appeal by former President Donald Trump’s legal team asking the Supreme Court to intervene in the battle over the classified documents the FBI seized from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home in August. Trump’s lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to allow the special master appointed in the case, Judge Ray Dearie, to review about 100 documents marked as classified, after an appeals court ruled the DOJ did not have to have to submit them to Dearie for his independent review. NBC News has also reported that Christina Bobb, the attorney who signed a letter certifying that all the sensitive records that were in Trump’s possession had been returned to the government, spoke to federal investigators Friday, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Bobb told investigators that another Trump attorney drafted the letter and told her to sign it, according to the sources. |
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