It's Day 99 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒.
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, civilians trapped in besieged or destroyed cities and towns in Ukraine are suffering from electricity outages, food shortages and other vital services. Thousands are hoping to find relief through safe exits today agreed upon by Ukraine and Russia. 35,000 people already have been able to flee through these safe corridors. But, a Russian airstrike on a Mariupol maternity hospital that killed three and wounded 17 others drew outrage. Among the wounded included women that were pregnant and children buried in the rubble. Meanwhile, colleges across the U.S are pulling students from study abroad programs in Russia, and ending research partnerships and cutting financial ties to condemn the invasion. At the same time, colleges have promised to support Russian students in their campuses, opposing calls from so in Congress to remove them from the country. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🤰🏽👨🏽🎓
Locally, the first licences to sell recreational marijuana in New York will go to people who were casualties of the war on drugs. We're remembering Charles Edward Entenmann, who helped then his family's New York-based bakery into a national brand. He's died at the age of 92. He's a grandson of William Entenmann, a German immigrant who founded a bakery in Brooklyn in 1898. You may have heard of it.
In Chicago, Jussie Smollett is scheduled to return to court to learn if a judge will order him locked up for his conviction if lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that he orchestrated, or allow him to remain free. And Naia Okami works as an online investigator, but spiritually, identifies as a wolf. While she acknowledges that her body is in fact human, she told the UK daytime show "This Morning" that she psychologically believes that she's a British Columbian wolf. 👩🏽🇬🇧
