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The “woke 1” legacy is #nuanced. Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro unpack it all on this week’s Engagement Party podcast. Stream Engagement Party on CNN or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital in Tennessee, raising new questions about lethal injections. Pike's attorneys, who had warned the court she had vein issues, are now asking the governor to commute her sentence. CNN’s Meg Tirrell reports.
Also, U.S. hiring slowed down. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Letitia James, the attorney general, to investigate the original allegations and why a police report omitted crucial information.
As a special prosecutor, Ms. James has wide powers over the handling of the investigation, but legal experts say the case comes with potential obstacles.
Saudi Arabia and Yemeni government forces are planning a major counteroffensive against Iran-backed Houthis in the coming days — an effort to push them away from areas on the Red Sea coast that control the Strait of Bab al-Mandeb, two U.S. officials say. Why it matters: For the second time in recent weeks, the U.S. rebuffed Saudi pleas to join the operation and conduct airstrikes. But U.S. officials say that could change if the operation runs into problems. - The Bab al-Mandeb Strait is a vital artery for global trade and Saudi oil exports. Control over it gives the Houthis and their Iranian backer a powerful new point of leverage over the U.S., its Gulf allies and the world economy. Driving the news: In recent weeks, the Houthis took…
Eli Price isn't old enough for a drivers license, but he's competing in the NASCAR Youth series.
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The parasite was found in a wastewater tank at a processing facility and a drainage ditch, but the agency could not determine how contamination occurred.
South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired at least one projectile toward its eastern waters
A federal court in Texas has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall in the Big Bend region