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The Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthis in Yemen said on Friday it destroyed three drones launched towards southern Saudi Arabia and a fourth over Yemen.It said the group "failed to launch two ballistic missiles" and they fell inside Yemen.Saudi Aramco, the state oil firm, said when contacted by Reuters that it would respond at the earliest opportunity.The Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a televised press conference that the group had attacked Aramco's refineries in Jeddah as well as military targets in Riyadh, Jeddah, Abha, Jizan and Najran.Sarea's statement contained inaccuracies. It mentioned the wrong name for the international airport in Jeddah and the wrong location for King Khalid base, saying it was in Riyadh when it is actually in the south of the kingdom.The Saudi-led coalition said later on Saturday it has attacked 13 targets during a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen.The operation hit weapons depots, air defense systems and drones' communication systems in Sanaa, Saada, and Marib provinces, the coalition said.Aramco's refinery in Jeddah was decommissioned in 2017 but it has a petroleum products distribution plant there that the Houthis had previously targeted in March.The Houthis have repeatedly launched cross border attacks on Saudi Arabia using drones and missiles since the coalition intervened in Yemen in March 2015 after the movement ousted the Saudi-backed government from the capital, Sanaa.Efforts led by the United Nations and the United States to engineer a ceasefire in Yemen have stalled.The conflict, seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, has been in military stalemate for years. The Houthis are pressing an offensive in Marib, the internationally recognized government's last northern stronghold, as well as in other areas in Yemen.

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Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton have outlined the strategy behind their nascent film and TV company HiddenLight Productions, revealing that they have optioned a number of books, including Jacqueline Winspears Maisie Dobbs series.

Speaking at the Royal Television Society conference in Cambridge on Wednesday, the Clintons appeared via a virtual live-link, in conversation with British historian and presenter Mary Beard.

Hillary Clinton appeared to be very much in her element while discussing her production companys goals within the content landscape, and what she and daughter Chelsea hoped to accomplish.

Its exciting because we believe passionately in bringing these stories to light, said Hillary Clinton. For too long, attention has been paid to the loudest voices in the room, but generations of tastemakers around the globe are making a difference. Today particularly, theres a hunger for people to figure out how to make sense of our world. We want to make a big contribution to that.

The Maisie Dobbs books mark HiddenLights inaugural fiction option. The series covers 16 books and follows Dobbs, a psychologist and investigator, on a series of missions that span both World Wars and the Spanish Civil War.

The company is also in the early stages of adapting PBS reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmons The Daughters of Kobani, which tells the story of the female soldiers of the Kurdish militia who are fighting to stop ISIS in Syria.

We are working closely with the Kurdish creative community to write a [film] that brings that story to life in the most authentic way possible, said Hillary Clinton.

Also on the slate is the previously announced Apple TV Plus docuseries Gutsy Women, which is based on the duos book The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience.

Set up in December 2020, the Clintons describe Hidden Light as a U.S.-U.K. outfit set up in collaboration with British producer Sam Branson thats looking for broad-appeal, cross-generational content with a mission of bringing untold stories to light.

When I was young, I watched a number of documentaries and movies with my mum and grandmother, said Chelsea Clinton, before noting that not enough current programming was accessible to multi-generational audiences.

Things are just for mature audiences or just for kids. We want to break down those silos. We want to have common conversations, she said.

Added Hillary Clinton: I think the pandemic has really brought this home for people. When everyone was at home, it was a struggle to find content that was interesting to everyone and would capture the attention of teens, kids and adults. This may have run a bit against the current of what was seen as bankable and producible over the past 10 to 20 years, but theres a growing desire and interest to have more platforms with content that can cross generations.

The former U.S. presidential candidate and Secretary of State highlighted, as well, that not only [does the] U.K. have great production expertise, but its a great jumping-off point to reach Africa and the Middle East.

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Some in Ms Harris' circle have privately suggested the recent wave of negative briefings have been a "petty" attempt to distract attention away from Mr Biden.

On top of being advised to ignore the "palace intrigue" and stay "focused" on the job at hand, her supporters are also starting to more publically call out attacks in a bid to stop her political career being tainted in the same way as Mrs Clintons.

"When you have these articles come out, it puts a lot of us in a defensive posture, because we see that a lot of people are treating Kamala Harris the same way they treated Hillary Clinton, which is attempting to end her political career in a death by a million cuts," Bakari Sellers, a former Democratic congressman who backed Ms Harris' 2020 presidential bid, told CNN.

"This is something women running for office face - these gendered attacks, because they are ascending to roles that have traditionally been held by men, defined by men," Karen Finney, a former senior aide to Mrs Clinton and who is close to the vice president, told the Telegraph.

Ms Finney gave the example of Ms Harris - the first woman, first black and Asian vice president - using her platform to address the "very real crisis of black maternal mortality".

"Some in Washington won't look at those things and recognise how important that actually is in saving lives," she said, drawing a comparison with the White House press corps' response to Mrs Clinton's initiatives as First Lady.

Tracy Sefl, a former adviser to Mrs Clinton's campaign, said she believed some of the scrutiny around Ms Harris stemmed from being a "trailblazer".

"There is so much intrigue around well, could she do more? Forgetting how much she has done and is doing and that's a function of being the second person, if you will," she said.

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Peppa Pig needs no introduction. The cartoon show started off small, 17 years ago, on British TV, but transformed into a global phenomenon. Peppa Pig is watched in 180 countries and 40 languages.

The cartoon was recently sold in a $4 billion deal to U.S. toy giant Hasbro. Peppa Pig has even caught the eye of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton appeared on The Graham Norton Show in November 2019 and gushed about Peppa when she met one of the series voice actors.

Peppa also has her own theme park in Britain, with another one scheduled to open in the United States. The Peppa Pig Theme Park will open in 2022 in Winter Haven, Florida. A third theme park is planned in China.

Some American parents have claimed on social media that their toddlers developed British accents after watching the series.

Shes a very English pig, and a lot of the storylines are quite English. Why does that translate around the world? CBS News Holly Williams asked.

Were talking about very human emotions and feelings. So the dynamics resonate internationally with any family, animation director Andrea Tran said.

Peppa Pig storylines are simpler than many other childrens cartoons but a single episode can take months to craft.

We actually kind of create a flow of logic that is very easy to follow for a 4-year-old, Tran said.

The series has no conflict and doesnt feature any villains or evil characters. Nothings ever allowed to get to a point of real conflict, which is part of the simplicity of the storytelling, making sure that were not overcomplicating the stories, really, so that we can stay that pure and in the moment, Peppa Pig producer Jamie Badminton said.

Some of Peppas anthropomorphic friends are voiced by illustrious British actors. Brian Blessed is an acclaimed Shakespearian performer with a famously loud voice who plays Grampy Rabbit, a fitness-obsessed senior citizen.

It does embrace happiness. It has many levels, but it brings joy. It makes people happy, said Blessed of the show.

But even Peppa Pig has experienced controversy. One episode was pulled off screens in Australia, and some say Daddy Pig, a character in the show, had been fat-shamed in the series. There were also claims that the cartoon reinforces gender stereotypes.

But Badminton said from the very beginning the 4-year-old pig has been ahead of her time.

She was a female role model, which was actually very rare at the time. It was very much speaking to kids on their wavelength at that time in a way that other shows werent, he said.

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Jack Ciattarelli carried 51 of the 53 New Jersey municipalities that flipped from supporting Donald Trump for president in 2016 to Joe Biden in 2020, according to a New Jersey Globe analysis.

Gov. Phil Murphy only held one Trump 16 town: he won Cape May City by 57 votes. In Loch Arbour, Murphy and Ciattarelli are tied at 42 each.

Ciattarelli won all the 36 New Jersey towns where Trump outpolled Hillary Clinton but then supported Murphy in 2017 against Kim Guadagno. That includes Lakewood, where Murphy had the endorsement of the Vaad, an influential group of Orthodox Jewish leaders.

Fourteen municipalities that went for Chris Christie in 2013 and Hillary Clinton in 2016 also supported Ciattarelli: Berlin Borough, Garwood, Hasbrouck Heights, Hawthorne, Hillsdale, Lake Como, Neptune City, Nutley Phillipsburg, Somers Point, West Caldwell, Westville, Wood-Ridge and Woolwich.

Ciattarelli also won all 18 municipalities that voted for Trump twice and Murphy in 2017: Absecon, Bass River, Buena Vista, Carlstadt, Commercial, Greenwich (Cumberland), Greenwich (Gloucester) Lyndhurst, Mantua, Margate, National Park, North Arlington, Paramus, Ringwood, Saddle Brook, Washington Township (Gloucester), Winfield, and Wildwood.

The Trump-to-Biden towns Ciattarelli won: Somers Point in Atlantic; Hasbrouck Heights, Hillsdale, Ho-Ho-Kus, Mahwah, Montvale, Northvale, Ramsey, River Vale, Rochelle Park, Upper Saddle River, Waldwick and Wood-Ridge in Bergen; Chesterfield, Hainesport and Medford Township in Burlington; Berlin Borough in Camden; North Caldwell, Nutley and West Caldwell in Essex; Westville and Woolwich in Gloucester, Califon and High Bridge in Hunterdon; Jamesburg and South River in Middlesex; Highlands, Interlaken, Lake Como, Little Silver, Marlboro, Matawan, Neptune City and Shrewsbury Borough in Monmouth; Denville, Long Hill, the Mendhams, Mine Hill, Mount Olive and the Rockaways in Morris; Hawthorne in Passaic; South Toms River in Ocean; Bedminster, Bernardsville, Green Brook, Peapack-Gladstone and Warren in Somerset; Garwood in Union; and Phillipsburg in Warren.

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