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CNN Investigates: How Israeli Military Actions Led to Gaza’s Famine | CNN From aid blockades to attacks, CNN’s Katie Polglase deconstructs how parts of Israel’s military campaign led to famine in Gaza and puts these findings to an Israeli military spokesperson who maintains...

Our film deconstructing how Israeli military actions led to famine in Gaza. I interviewed the IDF for this piece who continue to deny there is famine, even now.

Excellent team: Barbara Arvanitidis, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Mark Baron, Alex Platt, Thomas Bordeaux

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Make Alberta Great Again: In this Canadian province, separatists see Trump as an ally | CNN It’s a Monday night in June and hundreds have braved the haze of Canadian wildfires to gather in a cavernous sports facility in the city of Red Deer, Alberta.

I went to Alberta for @cnn.com to report on the long-shot secession movement there:

www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/a...

Hi there, I’m a reporter with CNN in Atlanta! I’d love to speak with you about this petition if you have a moment today - you can email me at max.saltman@cnn.com. Thanks so much!

Brazil’s unexpected entry into the war completely reversed the meaning of the saying - now “a cobra vai fumar” means something will absolutely happen.

“A cobra vai fumar” is Portuguese for “the snake will smoke” - akin to saying “when pigs fly” or “when hell freezes over.” Brazilians doubted they’d enter the war at all, and when they finally did, the expeditionary force chose the idiom as their symbol.

The main reason I wanted to write about this was to nod to Brazil’s history as an Allied power during the war, though there’s one detail I wasn’t able to cram into the piece - it’s the logo of Brazil’s expeditionary force during the war: the smoking snake.

Vital de Oliveira: Brazilian navy confirms location of World War II shipwreck | CNN After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy th...

I got to write about a WWII shipwreck for CNNI yesterday:

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