By Lauren Kent, Anna Chernova, Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN

(CNN) — Two people were killed in a long-range missile and drone strike on Russia’s Chuvashia region on Tuesday, marking a rare Ukrainian attack deep inside Russia, more than 600 miles from the border.

A further 34 people were injured in the attack, including one child, according to Russian state media RIA Novosti. The Chuvashia region declared a state of emergency following the missile and drone strike.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack was aimed at several targets, “including military-industrial complex facilities” in Chuvashia. He added in a statement on social media that Ukraine’s “long-range sanctions continue to provide an entirely just response to Russian strikes.”

In total, the Russian Ministry of Defense said it intercepted 289 drones launched by Ukraine overnight into Tuesday.

A missile alert also sounded overnight in Russia’s Khanty-Mansiysk region, about 1,200 miles from the Ukrainian border, according to the region’s governor.

It comes as Moscow prepares to host its May 9 Victory Day parade to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany – an event that has been mired in security concerns and scaled back to no longer include displays of heavy weaponry.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov previously indicated that the threat and recent success of long-range Ukrainian strikes was one motivation for additional security measures. The Kremlin has also ramped up personal security around President Vladimir Putin, according to a report from a European intelligence agency obtained by CNN.

Meanwhile in Ukraine, at least five people were killed and 37 injured in a double-tap missile strike on a gas production facility in the Poltava region. Among those killed were two rescue workers who were responding to the initial strike, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Tuesday.

In total, Russia launched 11 ballistic missiles and 154 drones at Ukraine on Monday night and early Tuesday, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Attacks targeted the regions of Poltava, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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By Ellis Kim, Lauren Fox, Manu Raju, CNN

(CNN) — Senate Republicans are looking to give the US Secret Service $1 billion to shore up security for President Donald Trump’s future White House ballroom, as part of a broader immigration enforcement package.

Two GOP-led Senate committees unveiled late Monday their roughly $70 billion package to fund US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border patrol, which they plan to pass with only Republican votes.

The Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees are aiming to spend roughly $38 billion for ICE and around $26 billion for US Customs and Border Patrol functions and upgrades, according to legislative text released by the panels. The funding would run through the end of September 2029.

The Judiciary Committee also tucked in the additional $1 billion in Secret Service funding that could go toward Trump’s ballroom project.

The text allocates the cash for “security adjustments and upgrades … to support enhancements by the United States Secret Service relating to the East Wing Modernization Project, including above-ground and below-ground security features,” later stating the funding can’t be used for “non-security elements” of the project.

The Trump administration has long said the president would rely on money from private donors rather than American taxpayers, to fund his East Wing renovation.

But in the wake of the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last month, Republicans have grown increasingly vocal about the need for a White House ballroom, with some arguing that the public should foot some of the cost to aid construction.

“Congress has rightly recognized the need for these funds. Due in part to the recent assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the proposal would provide the United States Secret Service with the resources they need to fully and completely harden the White House complex, in addition to the many other critical missions for the USSS,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement.

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham demanded last week that the Senate vote on his separate bill to authorize $400 million for the ballroom, including a national security annex underground, after the shooting, though Senate Majority Leader John Thune didn’t indicate whether he would take up the legislation.

Asked about the prospect of using taxpayer money on the project, Sen. Katie Britt, who is backing Graham’s effort, argued at the time that “we need to make sure that we have oversight and do that responsibly,” and said the ballroom will mostly be for “future presidents” since it won’t be completed until further into Trump’s term.

The attack, the Alabama Republican told CNN, “kind of showed us where we are as a nation, and it’s not a good place. I mean, we have people that, instead of taking their fight to the ballot box, are taking their fight to people with bullets, and it’s fundamentally un-American.”

The committees are expected to mark up the immigration enforcement package after senators return next week from their recess away from Washington, keeping in step with congressional Republicans’ plans to fund Trump’s border and immigration priorities through a multi-step budgetary process, known as reconciliation, which allows them to bypass a Senate filibuster.

By Holly Yan, CNN

(CNN) — Investigators are scouring heavily wooded terrain to find an armed special forces veteran suspected of trying to kill his wife, Tennessee officials said.

Craig Berry has been on the run since early Friday morning, when he shot his wife in Dover, on the northwestern fringe of Tennessee near the Kentucky border, authorities say.

“The suspect fled into the woods near the residence before deputies arrived,” the Stewart County Sheriff’s Office said.

A warrant has been issued accusing Berry of second-degree attempted murder, the sheriff’s office said. Authorities have not revealed the wife’s current condition.

The arduous manhunt is especially challenging given the suspect’s outdoors skills.

“Berry is a retired special forces veteran and has extensive training in survival tactics,” the sheriff’s office posted Monday on Facebook.

“He is an excellent swimmer and diver, and is in good physical shape. He is armed with at least one handgun and is believed to have taken extra ammunition.”

A trail camera captured an image believed to be of Berry wearing camouflage clothing, investigators said.

“We are not ruling out the possibility that he has received some outside assistance after the incident,” the sheriff’s office said. “We have no information that he is no longer in the area.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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Por Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN

Es poco después de la 1 p.m. de un día entre semana y estoy en la entrada de un restaurante sencillo y medio vacío en Seúl.

Mientras el hombre detrás del mostrador me saluda, levanto un solo dedo índice.

“¿Mesa para uno, por favor?”.

Hace una pausa y llama a un miembro del personal para que traduzca su respuesta.

“No una persona”, dice el otro hombre con tono seco, mientras ambos niegan con la cabeza al unísono y señalan la salida.

La fragancia del estofado de kimchi y la carne a la parrilla se desvanece cuando las puertas se cierran detrás de mí, pero permanece la sensación del juicio hacia mí.

Aunque no me sorprendió. Ese fue el segundo restaurante que me rechazó ese día, dejándome avergonzada y confundida por “cometer el crimen” de viajar sola.

Mi experiencia en Seúl no fue inusual.

Comer solo ha sido objeto de escrutinio en la capital surcoreana. A finales del año pasado, un restaurante de fideos en particular provocó el enojo de los clientes que comen solos después de que, según reportes, colocara un cartel en el que decía que las personas solteras debían pedir para dos o llevar a un amigo o cónyuge.

En letras grandes, el cartel decía: “No servimos soledad”.

Muchas personas se sintieron ofendidas y algunas incluso calificaron la situación como discriminación. Después de todo, los hogares unipersonales representaron más del 36 % de todas las viviendas en Corea del Sur en 2024, una cifra récord.

“En algunos lugares esperé por un acompañante y algunos coreanos aceptaron compartir mesa conmigo. No es la mejor opción, pero es mejor que nada”, comentó un viajero en una publicación de Instagram sobre la postura del restaurante de fideos frente a los clientes que comen solos.

En mi caso, trabajar como escritora de viajes y gastronomía implica explorar nuevas ciudades y restaurantes sola como parte del trabajo.

He tenido la fortuna de comer sola en muchos lugares y en restaurantes de todos los precios, incluidos algunos en Corea del Sur, sin ningún problema. Pero mi experiencia reciente pone de relieve un estigma de larga data que afecta a clientes no solo en Seúl, sino en todo el mundo.

En 2023, algunos restaurantes de Barcelona generaron indignación al negarse a atender a personas que cenaban solas y visitaban la ciudad, con la esperanza de reservar sus mesas para posibles grupos de clientes.

A finales del año pasado, un restaurante turco en Liverpool fue noticia después de rechazar a una mujer y asegurar que no atienden mesas de una sola persona durante los periodos de mayor actividad.

No es de extrañar que el miedo a comer solo sea tan real que incluso tenga nombre: solomangarefobia.

Gloria Chung Wing Han, escritora y estilista de gastronomía y viajes radicada en Hong Kong, que pasa tres meses al año viajando y come sola alrededor del 40 % del tiempo, asegura que la presión de hacer las cosas por cuenta propia suele venir desde dentro.

Para ella, comer sola en un animado bistró europeo puede sentirse más aislante que sentarse sola a disfrutar un menú degustación de 12 platos en un restaurante de alta cocina.

Y asegura que mi experiencia en Seúl podría haberse evitado, aunque hay algunos matices que los clientes deben tener en cuenta si no quieren ser rechazados.

“En Corea del Sur, comer solo es sorprendentemente fácil pese a la cultura de compartir”, dice Gloria Chung Wing Han.

Algunas de las dificultades que enfrentan los viajeros solitarios tienen origen en las costumbres de comida comunitaria del país: muchas experiencias, desde la barbacoa coreana hasta las comidas servidas en grandes ollas para estofar, así como el banchan (pequeños acompañamientos coreanos), están diseñadas para c

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN

(CNN) — The Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections in Georgia wants to block the Justice Department from gaining access to the personal information of thousands of 2020 election workers.

In a motion filed on Monday, the board requested that DOJ’s April 20 subpoena of election workers’ names, addresses and phone numbers be “quashed,” arguing that this is the department’s “latest effort to target and harass (President Donald Trump)’s perceived political enemies.”

It went on to say that the subpoena threatens the First Amendment rights of election workers “and will chill their participation in elections,” adding that it also “unreasonably interferes with Georgia’s sovereign authority to administer elections.”

Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chair Robb Pitts said in a statement provided to CNN that the subpoena is an act of “outrageous federal overreach.”

CNN has reached out to the Department of Justice for comment.

The board’s motion comes after the FBI opened a criminal investigation into what the Justice Department has described as irregularities in how Fulton County, which is home to Atlanta, carried out the 2020 election. Trump has falsely claimed the election was rigged in Georgia.

As part of the investigation, the agency searched the Fulton County elections office in January and seized election materials, which the county has filed a lawsuit to retrieve. That search was based on a warrant application that leaned on previously debunked theories of election fraud.

In the 2020 election, Joe Biden defeated Trump in part by winning the state of Georgia, which Trump had won four years earlier. In Fulton County, Biden won with over 70% of the vote.

After his loss, Trump claimed the election was rigged in the state and demanded that local election officials “find” votes to overturn the results, setting up a clash with the state’s top election official, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Raffensperger is currently running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in the state against a Trump-backed candidate.

Monday’s motion raised doubts that a grand jury was even seeking the election worker information sought by the subpoena. The county noted in the filing that DOJ was requesting to have the records submitted to a prosecutor working in the office of an out-of-district US attorney rather than a grand jury.

That US attorney, Dan Bishop, in the middle district of North Carolina, was recently selected by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead election-related investigations nationwide.

“[T]here is no indication from the face of the Subpoena that the grand jury is even aware of this investigation, that the records will be returned to the grand jury, or that the grand jury would knowingly participate in a politicized abuse of its subpoena process given, among other things, tha