New York Attorney General Letitia James makes a statement about the probe finding Governor Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, broke laws pscp.tv/w/c9gBwXR3LTE2…
‘The investigation found that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed current and former New York State employees by engaging in unwelcome and non-consensual touching and making numerous offensive comments,’ New York Attorney General Letitia James said reut.rs/3jnc0dJ
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo denied the findings of a five-month investigation by the state's attorney general that found he sexually harassed multiple women in violation of U.S. and state law and created a 'climate of fear' in his office reut.rs/3jh2bhf
Politicians and former aides responded to the news of the New York attorney general's finding that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and violated federal and state laws reut.rs/3loDmmk
Here are six takeaways from an investigation launched by New York Attorney General Letitia James that concluded Governor Andrew Cuomo broke federal and state laws by sexually harassing women who worked for him reut.rs/3ypq0d0
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, both New York Democrats, called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign after an investigation found he sexually harassed multiple women in violation of U.S. and state law reut.rs/3lw1EuC
The latest on the Andrew Cuomo sexual harassment investigation 👇 reut.rs/3xlKjae
President Biden says New York Governor Cuomo should resign after investigators say he sexually harassed 11 women reut.rs/3zYGXvs
For her investigation of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, state Attorney General Letitia James tapped a former top federal prosecutor at one of Manhattan’s white-shoe law firms and a lawyer known for working on employment and discrimination cases reut.rs/3Cf3R3J
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US President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to make Greenland a part of the United States and does not rule out using military or economic power to get Denmark to hand over the island. Why does Trump want Greenland and could he get it? 1/8 reut.rs/3WyEMN1
Greenland, part of NATO through the membership of Denmark, has strategic significance for the US military and for its ballistic missile early-warning system since the shortest route from Europe to North America runs via the Arctic island 2/8
The US, which has a presence at the Pituffik air base in Greenland's northwest, has expressed an interest in expanding its activities and placing radars to monitor the waters between the island, Iceland and Britain, which are a gateway for Russian navy vessels and submarines 3/8
In Kenya, morgue logbooks record the cause of death reported by police when they bring in bodies. @reuters spoke to police officers who said that Kenyan police at times mischaracterize deaths caused by officers in morgue logs to cover their tracks 1/8 reut.rs/3BSveFn
Thousands of young Kenyans took to the streets in nationwide protests against tax hikes and political corruption, starting in late June. Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has said 42 people were killed during a police response that rights groups say involved firing live rounds 2/8
Some prominent rights groups have accused Kenyan authorities of a cover-up of dozens of alleged police killings, unexplained abductions and illegal detentions related to the protests, which became known popularly as the Gen-Z protests because of their youthful demographic 3/8
Russia said it had detained a citizen of Uzbekistan who had confessed to planting and detonating a bomb that killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov in Moscow a day earlier on the instructions of Ukraine's security service 1/9 reut.rs/41Yg643
Kirillov, who was chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside his apartment building along with his assistant when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter went off 2/9reut.rs/3ZJSX2s
Ukraine's SBU intelligence service, which accused Kirillov of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops, something Moscow denies, took responsibility for the killing 3/9
Firefighters in Malibu, California, are making some progress in containing a raging wildfire, but it continues to threaten several structures and force residents to flee 1/6
The Franklin Fire is burning in the steep, rugged terrain northwest of Los Angeles 2/6 reut.rs/4ffSWsO
No deaths or injuries from the wildfire have been reported. Officials say the cause remains unknown. Anthony Marrone, Los Angeles County Fire Chief gave an update ⬇️ 3/6
Syrians awakened to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, following 13 years of civil war and more than 50 years of his family's brutal rule 1/10 reut.rs/4iojhYr
The lightning advance of a militia alliance spearheaded by Hayat al-Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former al-Qaeda affiliate, marked one of the biggest turning points for the Middle East in generation 2/10
Moscow gave asylum to Assad and his family, Russian media reported and Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's ambassador to international organizations in Vienna, said on his Telegram channel 3/10
Russian presidential aircraft and funds were used in a program that took children from occupied Ukrainian territories, stripped them of Ukrainian identity and placed them with Russian families, according to a report by Yale's School of Public Health 1/6reut.rs/3CR1mcs
The US State Department-backed research identified 314 Ukrainian children taken to Russia in the early months of the war in Ukraine as part of what it says was a systematic, Kremlin-funded program to 'Russify' them 2/6
In March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his child rights' commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, for the alleged war crime of deportation of Ukrainian children 3/6reut.rs/3B1oKUi