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Live updates on the situation between Russia and Ukraine: Griner has been sent to a penal colony

 More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of the neighbouring Ukraine, the two nations are engaged in a war for control of eastern and southern regions of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to reclaim all Russian-occupied territory. His soldiers launched an operation in August. However, Putin ordered in September a mobilisation of reservists, which is anticipated to call up to 300,000 additional troops. The White House condemns the transfer of Griner to a prison camp. Brittney Griner, the WNBA star jailed in Russia, has been relocated to a correctional camp, a move that White House officials have condemned. "Every minute of Brittney Griner's unlawful detention in Russia is a minute too long," said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a statement released early Wednesday morning. "While the Administration continues to fight relentlessly to achieve her release, the President has ordered the Administ...

The Campaign Headquarters of Kari Lake Receives'suspicious' Mail Containing White Powder

On Saturday, an envelope with "suspicious white powder" was sent to the campaign office of the Arizona Republican candidate for governor. CNN was told that an employee at Kari Lake's campaign headquarters in Phoenix opened an envelope that contained white power. A law enforcement source familiar with the investigation told CNN that the items found during the investigation will be tested at a lab in Arizona. The source said that no proof has been sent to the FBI lab in Quantico. Earlier on Sunday, Colton Duncan, a spokesman for Lake's campaign, sent CNN a text message saying that two envelopes were taken by police and "sent to professionals at Quantico to be looked at." Lake told reporters Sunday night that her campaign was told at first that the suspicious mail was going to be sent to Quantico for testing. "But there's a closer lab, and that's where they sent the substance, so we'll find out what it was," she said. In an email to CNN, P...

Multiple shooters wanted in Philadelphia bar attack that injured 9

 Authorities in Philadelphia said that at least 40 rounds were fired at a gathering of people who had gathered on a sidewalk outside of a club on Saturday night, causing nine people to be injured, including two who were in critical condition. The perpetrators of the attack took off in a vehicle after fleeing the mayhem that had ensued in the Kensington neighbourhood of the city, and they were still at large as of Sunday morning. Deputy Commissioner John Stanford responded, "I think it's a public safety threat," when asked at a news conference whether the gunmen posed a threat to the community. He pointed out the number of injured people as well as the round shells that were littering the pavement outside Jack's Famous Bar. On November 5, 2022, police conducted an investigation at the intersection in the Kensington neighbourhood of Philadelphia that was the location of a shooting that left nine people injured. According to Stanford, the incident took place at approxim...