Two major back-to-back earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday, June 24. At least 1,700 people have died and more than 5,000 were injured, National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez said Monday. CNN is tracking developments, with maps and satellite imagery. The coastal state of La Guaira has been designated a “disaster zone” in the wake of the earthquakes. Twenty-nine percent of buildings in the state are thought to have been damaged, according to an analysis by Oregon State University, with coastal areas more affected.
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Ukraine said on Tuesday it hit one of Russia’s largest satellite communication centers for the second time in just over a week, as Kyiv ramps up long-range drone attacks to pressure the Kremlin to end its four-year-old war. The Dubna Satellite Communications Centre to the north of Moscow, some 500 km (310 miles) from the Ukrainian border, is used for intelligence gathering and the coordination of Russia’s armed forces fighting in Ukraine, President Volodymr Zelensky said. Russia hasn’t confirmed the Dubna communication center was struck, but the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov said a drone had hit an “administrative building” in the town with no reported casualties.
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On the streets of Moscow, disgruntled drivers wait patiently for gasoline in a long line of cars and trucks amid an acute national shortage. Many have spent the entire day, they tell CNN, driving around in search of fuel — extraordinary in the capital of one of the world’s biggest energy producers and unexpected in a city that has long been kept insulated from the effects of the Ukraine war. But now, for the first time in a conflict that is in its fifth year, the stark reality of what the Kremlin still insists on calling a “special military operation” has become impossible for ordinary Russians to comfortably ignore. In the past month, Ukraine’s unprecedented drone campaign has been extraordinary in scale and impact.
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The conservative Supreme Court dealt a significant blow to President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda Tuesday, ruling that his administration could not use an executive order to end birthright citizenship for hundreds of thousands of babies born on US soil every year. Though not unexpected, the decision is a huge loss for a president who ran for a second White House term in part on ending “birth tourism” and whose administration has been defined by a push to crackdown on illegal and legal immigration. And yet, the decision was not as fulsome a rejection of Trump’s effort as had been widely predicted. Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state bans on transgender students playing on girls sports teams, delivering another blockbuster setback to trans youth and their families in a decision that is likely to sustain similar laws in about half of the nation. In a 6-3 decision over the dissent of the court’s liberals, the conservative majority ruled that the bans enacted by West Virginia and Idaho do not violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause, and the court unanimously agreed it did not run afoul of a federal anti-discrimination law. The lawsuits were filed by Becky Pepper-Jackson, a West Virginia high school student who is transgender and who competes on her school’s track team, and Lindsay Hecox, a senior at Boise State University.
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