Puzzle solutions for Friday, June 24, 2022

Yahoo Finance
Wall Street is anxious over Netflix’s decision to stop sharing subscriber numbers
Netflix will stop reporting subscriber numbers next year. Here's why that's spooking Wall Street investors.
16m ago
AFP
China says AUKUS risks nuclear proliferation in Pacific
China's foreign minister on Saturday accused Western powers in the AUKUS security pact of provoking division and risking nuclear proliferation in the South Pacific.AUKUS also "raises serious nuclear proliferation risks", the Chinese foreign minister told reporters after meeting with his Papua New Guinea counterpart Justin Tkatchenko.
20m ago
AFP
Civilians killed as Ukraine, Russia trade strikes
Ukraine launched a wave of drones at Russia in the early hours of Saturday, setting a fuel depot ablaze, officials said, as both sides accused each other of deadly attacks on civilians.Ukraine has in recent months pleaded for more air defences from its Western allies as it struggles to fend off a surge in deadly attacks on civilian infrastructure.
27m ago
NBC News
Tall flowers, dead shrubs, ephemeral lake: Death Valley has become a picture of climate whiplash
Death Valley has ping ponged between severe drought and record rainfall, giving rise to extra-tall wildflowers, an ephemeral lake and dead bushes.
38m ago
CNN
Takeaways from the final day of jury selection in Trump’s historic hush money trial
The historic first criminal trial of a former US president begins with opening statements on Monday.
46m ago
CNN
As hush money trial begins, Trump hits the trail in North Carolina
Donald Trump, largely confined to a Manhattan courtroom for most of the past week, will reemerge on the campaign circuit Saturday in North Carolina, where the stakes of the Republican’s trial-to-trail presidential campaign are especially high.
49m ago
Politico
The Greatest Book a Politician Ever Wrote
The late Bob Graham’s book is everything politics should be.
50m ago
Politico
Trump has a rocky relationship with Black voters. He's trying to change it.
Three officials with his campaign outlined the former president’s strategy.
50m ago
NBC News
Biden's 50-year journey as a skeptic of Roe v. Wade to its ultimate protector
Abortion is at the center of President Joe Biden's re-election campaign — an improbability for a politician who long expressed his personal discomfort with the practice.
50m ago
AFP
Deadly blast at Iraq army base amid Israel-Iran tensions
One person was killed and eight wounded in an overnight explosion at an Iraqi military base housing a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups, officials said Saturday.The Iraqi security forces' media unit said "an explosion and a fire" hit the Kalsu base in the early hours of Saturday, leaving one person dead and eight wounded.
56m ago
CNN
Member of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units killed in blast at base, Iraqi army says
The Iraqi army said on Saturday that a command post at Kalsu military base, south of the capital Baghdad, had been hit by an explosion overnight, killing one member of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and injuring eight other people.
1h ago
CNN
They’d never traveled with their kids before. Here’s what happened when they took them around the world for a year
Margaret Bensfield Sullivan and her husband had seen the point of traveling their children. Then they went traveling for a year and found it had unexpected perks.
1h ago
TODAY
Teacher accused of encouraging students to beat up 7-year-old with disabilities
A mother is suing Indianapolis Public Schools, as well as some of its staff members, claiming that her 7-year-old son was recorded as he was attacked by another student.
2h ago
Reuters
US House to vote on long-awaited $95 billion Ukraine, Israel aid package
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday is set to vote on, and expected to pass, a $95 billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, over bitter objections from party hardliners. More than two months have passed since the Democratic-majority Senate passed a similar measure and U.S. leaders from Democratic President Joe Biden to top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell have been urging embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson to bring it up for a vote. Johnson this week chose to ignore ouster threats by hardline members of his fractious 218-213 majority and push forward the measure that includes some $60.84 billion for Ukraine as it struggles to fight off a two-year Russian invasion.
2h ago
USA TODAY
Share of US Catholics backing legal abortion rises as adherents remain at odds with church
A growing majority of US Catholics favor legal abortion, a Pew study found. Meanwhile, Hispanics are growing as a segment of the Catholic population.
2h ago
Reuters
Russia's Kurgan orders evacuation in some districts as floodwaters rise
Authorities in the region of Kurgan in Russia's Urals mountains ordered an evacuation from several districts on Saturday due to rising river levels, after large snowfalls melted and heavy rain fell on ground already waterlogged before winter. Russia's Urals region and northern Kazakhstan often suffer flooding at this time of year but are seeing the worst in memory this year and authorities in Kurgan said the level of the Tobol river had already exceeded the highest level since 1994.
2h ago
CNN
6 surprises from a major news week
It was a week of unexpected developments in an unpredictable but consequential election year.
2h ago
Reuters
UK minister writes to London police over 'openly Jewish' comment
British interior minister James Cleverly has written to London's Metropolitan Police after an officer stopped a man who was wearing a traditional kippah cap from crossing a road during a pro-Palestinian march on the grounds he was "openly Jewish". The charity Campaign Against Antisemitism released a video late on Thursday which showed a police officer preventing Gideon Falter, its chief executive, from crossing a road in the capital because of the protest on April 13. The officer was videoed telling Falter he feared his presence could prompt a "reaction" because he was "quite openly Jewish".
2h ago
AFP
Hamas leader Haniyeh to hold Turkey talks
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh will meet Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday with Middle East tensions at a high after Israel's reported attack on Iran and Gaza bracing for a new Israeli offensive.According to press reports, that have never been denied, Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders were in Istanbul when the attacks were launched.
2h ago
AFP
Alone but unbroken: survivor returns to Hamas-attacked kibbutz
No one is around to harvest the fruits weighing down the loquat branches of Kfar Aza."Today I'm in Kfar Aza, but tomorrow, I don't know.
2h ago

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