welcome to all of our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton here ahead on cnn newsroom. we put the citizens of america first. we didn t do it by taking the easy way. u.s. house speaker kevin mccarthy taking a victory lap after the house passes a bill to raise the debt ceiling but it s liz leadership now in jeopardy. plus one of our show s most decorated soldiers loses a defamation case against several newspapers. we will go live to sydney for the latest. no letup and russian airstrikes on kyiv. there s been a another overnight missile attack on ukraine capitol. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with paula newton. so it hasn t been easy but the hard-fought deals to suspend the u.s. debt ceiling and not a catastrophic default is now headed to the senate this bite weeks of handling and hanging, it clear the house. but you know it was a comfortable bipartisan margin? more than 300 voting yay at 117 nays. conservativ
danny masterson on two of the three vote counts he faced. the jury was unable to reach a verdict on the third. this was the second trial on the third charge. masterson is facing a possible sentence of up to 30 years to life in state prison. a new york appeals court has ruled oxycontin maker purdue pharma can protect the billionaire sackler family, which owns the company, from lawsuits over their roles in the business. now, the immunity is part of a six billion dollar settlement, which clears the way for purdue pharma s bankruptcy deal. the company calls the ruling a victory. for many victims of america s opioid echoed epidemic are not celebrating. cnn s brian gingrass has the story. drugs like oxycontin made one american family very rich, and helped fuel the opioid crisis, killing many of those who became addicted. i lost my niece a couple years ago to an overdose. i lost a brother.
El Sur Street Food owners Luis Vasquez and Darren Strayhorn, who have been serving authentic Honduran and other Latin American food out of a food trailer, are moving into the former Esters in Little Rock's South Main neighborhood. Target to open is sometime this summer.