Anchors & Reporters
Atia Abawi
Atia Abawi is an international correspondent for CNN, based at the network s operation in Kabul, Afghanistan. Appointed to this position in October 2008, Abawi has been with CNN since 2004.
Abawi began her career at CNN in the Media Operations department, but she quickly moved over to the International Desk, where she served in various capacities including Researcher, Assignment Editor and Producer for the Atlanta, Baghdad, Amman, Los Angeles and Islamabad bureaus.
Abawi also reported on air for CNN Newsource in Washington D.C., providing breaking news coverage and reports from the nation s capital for approximately 800 CNN Newsource partner stations.
Lake Region Library
DEVILS LAKE-The Lake Region Public Library will be reading I Am Malala for their February read with book discussion on March 3 via Zoom. For our March Book club we will be reading Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Please see library staff for books and details. Also new book displays honoring Black History Month, All You Need is Love and a Good Book, and Love Gone Wrong.
Dark Sky by C.J. Box (Adult Fiction). The governor of Wyoming gives Joe the thankless assignment of taking a tech baron on an elk hunting trip. Unbeknownst to them, as they trek further into the wilderness, a manhunter is hot on their heels. Finding himself without a weapon, a horse, or a way to communicate, Joe must rely on his wits and his knowledge of the outdoors to protect himself and his charge. Meanwhile, when Joe s closest friend Nate Romanowski and his own daughter Sheridan learn of the threat to his life, they follow him into the woods to try and rescue him before it s
Candle-Making, a Virtual Art Tour, and Classical Music in Cinema: Things to Do in Washington, January 7-10
I hope you’re all safe and well. I’ll keep today’s note brief.
Washingtonian photographer Evy Mages covered the chaos on Capitol Hill yesterday. See more of her photos here.
Here’s what you should check out this weekend:
Books: The new kids book series
She Persisted, written by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Lesa Cline-Ransome, and Atia Abawi, highlights powerful women in history, including Harriet Tubman and Claudette Colvin. The authors will speak with Chelsea Clinton in a Politics and Prose virtual Q&A event moderated by Deborah D. Taylor. Thursday 1/7 at 6 PM; Free, sign up here.
then escorted out. they were close to doing something and then [ shouting ] cnn national correspondent atia abawi is live in south carolina. do we know what the root cause of it was? reporter: there were many protests, four protests interrupting donald trump s rally today. at least nine people were escorted out. many of those protesters were unhappy with trump s proposal to ban all muslims coming into the u.s. temporarily. many speaking out vocally about that, some holding signs that said stop islamophobia. one of the trump s supporters mentioned to the crowd they likely would get protestors
many times there were rowdier and more vocal protestors, one held up a sign saying refugees welcome. certainly a lot of feelings about his controversial proposal to ban muslims coming into the u.s. donald trump it seems at this point is very used to protestors coming to his rally. he made note of some of the protestors, saying this is a beautiful thing that can happen in this country. he said more people, more conservatives, he said, should have been protesting the last seven years of the obama administration. fred? thank you so much, atia abawi. don t miss the debate tuesday night, 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. eastern time. also cnn will announce the debate lineup tomorrow morning on cnn s state of the union