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Ukraine scrambles to restore services In its campaign to batter Ukraine’s civilians by cutting off their power and running water, Russia subjected the country to a wave of devastating missile strikes this week, taking all of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants offline for the first time. Engineers and emergency crews worked desperately yesterday to restore services […]
MR TEK: Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today’s call. Our call this morning is on the record and embargoed until its conclusion. We are joined, of course, today by Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack. And we’re looking forward to taking a few of your questions, but first I’d like to turn it over […]
Iran’s deadly crackdown on youth protesters Hundreds of minors in Iran have been beaten and detained for joining the protests calling for social freedom and political change that have convulsed the country for the past two months, and at least 50 have died in the crackdown, according to Iranian lawyers and rights activists. Iranian officials […]
November 3, 2022 Nearly 100 Black mothers are receiving basic income thanks to a new County program known as the Multnomah Mothers’ Trust Project. On Tuesday, Nov. 1, project leaders briefed the Board of Commissioners on the impact from the program’s first year. The program serves approximately 100 Black female-headed households with children currently receiving […]
The Secretary-General arrived today in Algiers, where he was received at the airport by Ramtane Lamamra, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.  The UN Secretariat at the Joint Coordination Centre reports that the Ukrainian, Turkish and United Nations delegations agreed not to plan any movement of vessels in the Black Sea Grain Initiative for […]
SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIAL: Thanks very much for joining us. Today’s background briefers will include [REDACTED] and me, [REDACTED]. For attribution, please refer to [REDACTED] as “a senior defense official,” and to me as “a senior military official”. And with that, I will turn it over to the senior defense official for opening remarks, and then […]
SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIAL: OK, thanks. All right, well thanks very much for joining us. This is [Senior Military Official], I will be your briefer today. Of note, our advisory indicated a senior defense official, but it will be me. As a reminder, our briefing will be on background with attribution to a senior military official. […]
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:01 P.M. EDT     MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Good afternoon, everybody. Happy Friday. Q   Happy Friday. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Okay. So, today was a historic day for the country. We should all be proud of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and her historic investiture to the United States Supreme Court. More than 100 justices have served […]
Good morning from Parliament Square, where thousands of people have already gathered for Britain’s first state funeral since the death of Winston Churchill. It’s a little chilly, but the skies are clear, and the crowd is in good spirits which occasionally dissolve into quiet displays of mourning – for the Queen, for an era, for […]
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:29 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Good afternoon, everybody. Happy Friday. Settling in? (Laughs.) Come on in, team. Q   Plenty of chairs over here. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I know. All right. It’s been a busy week here at the White House. On Monday, the President delivered remarks about our country’s efforts to […]