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cnn news 2014-02-26

CARL AZUZ, cnn ANCHOR: Thank you for starting the last week of February with cnn STUDENT NEWS. I`m Carl Azuz with ten minutes of commercial free headlines for the classroom.

There`s a big question hovering over Ukraine right now. Who is in charge of the country? It doesn`t look like it`s President Viktor Yanukovych. Over the weekend, Ukraine`s parliament voted to throw him out, appointed parliament Speaker Olexander Turchinov to take on presidential duties and scheduled new elections for late May.

Yanukovych left the capital of Kiev saying he was forced out by "vandalism, crime and a coup." But he also said he was still Ukraine`s legitimate leader and didn`t plan to resign. This all happened during protests in the capital. Some Ukrainians like the president want ties with Russia, some want closer ties with the European Union. People are mourning the dozens, who`ve died in recent clashes between the two sides. We don`t know where the president is. We don`t know what will happen next in Ukraine.

Our second story today, closing ceremonies from Sochi, Russia is the 22 Olympic Winter Games officially wrapped up last night. Spectacular fireworks and large scale choreography ringed the occasion. The Paralympics start early next month. As far as the final Olympic medal count goes, Russia got the most gold medals and the most medals overall. The first time the host country has done that since 1952. Russia has 33 medals, the U.S. took home 28 medals overall, and in order with 26, 25 and 24 medals Norway, Canada and the Netherlands.

But as the athletes headed home the nations all over the worlds, medals and the Olympic experience weren`t the only things they took with them. Gus Kenworthy, a U.S. Olympic silver medalist in freestyle skiing, took home some dogs, five of them, there were thousands of strays living around Sochi in the lead up to the games. Kenworthy loves dogs. When a friend showed him a photo of four puppies and their mother who needed home, he decided to adopt them taking home a dog family to his human family in the states.

The top judicial branch of the U.S. government is about to hear a case involving the executive and legislative branches. If Congress doesn`t pass a law on a particular issue, how much authority does the White House have? That`s one questions before the Supreme Court, the other involves gun rights.

ATHENA JONES, cnn CORRESPONDENT: There`s no shortage of controversy before the court. On Monday, the justices could decide to take cases that could significantly expand gun rights. The National Rifle Association is challenging a Texas concealed carry law that bans anyone under 21 from carrying guns in public. The NRA argues that Second Amendment right of self-defense extends to responsible 18 to 20 year olds, as well. And the NRA is appealing a federal ban on selling handguns to minors saying that also violates Second Amendment rights.

JONATHAN TURLEY, PROFESSOR OF LAW, GEORGE WASHIGNTON UNIV.: After the Supreme Court recognized the individual right to have guns, the question became what type of limitations should be put on that right?

JONES: Also, on Monday the court hears the case that could test the limits of President Obama`s push to use his executive power when Congress won`t act. This time on climate change. At issue, whether the EPA went too far. When without congressional approval it limited carbon emissions from power plants, factories and other sources of greenhouse gases beyond cars and trucks.

TURLEY: On the constitutional side, this is a classic conflict between Congress and the White House. Congress has refused to give the president what he wants and now the EPA is going it alone.