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☆ Deloitte feels the wrath of Trump world over leaked JD Vance messages
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Trump allies are calling for the federal government to punish Deloitte after an employee at the consulting firm apparently shared his private messages with JD Vance. The Post did not reveal who corresponded with Vance, now Trump’s running mate, and leaked those communications. “Maybe it’s time for the GOP to end Deloitte’s taxpayer funded gravy train?” Trump Jr. wrote on X, noting that Deloitte receives billions of dollars in government contracts. Trump Jr. told CNN he was speaking his mind as a private citizen. Neither Trump nor Vance have publicly threatened Deloitte, and it’s worth noting that Trump Jr. has indicated he does not plan to serve in the federal government.

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More than two weeks into Ukraine’s incursion into western Russia, Ukrainian politicians have begun talking about establishing a buffer zone there. But how much farther Ukraine might try to advance into Russia, and how long it plans to stay, is unclear, U.S. officials said. After the first week of fighting, Ukraine claimed to control almost 400 square miles of Russian territory — an area roughly the size of Los Angeles. But American officials are not convinced that Ukraine intends to hold its position in Russia long term. They have not been laying minefields to slow down a counterattack, nor have they constructed barriers to slow down Russian tanks, the officials say.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky Locations: Russia, Ukraine, U.S, Los Angeles

The scenes were decidedly Russian. Flags with the country’s signature three horizontal stripes of white, blue and red. In the Russian town of Sverdlikovo, a Ukrainian soldier climbed onto another’s shoulders, broke off the wooden post anchored to a town council building and threw the Russian flag to the ground. In Daryino, a town five miles to the west, other soldiers also grabbed a Russian flag. “Just throw it away,” a Ukrainian soldier said, grinning, as another flexed his muscles.

Persons: ” Organizations: Gazprom, The New York Times Locations: Russian, Sverdlikovo, Ukrainian

☆ Ukraine’s Surprise Attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( German Lopez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ukraine’s efforts to retake territory from Russia have stalled. But the Ukrainian military has tried to get back at Moscow in other ways. Last week, Ukraine tried something new. Its own forces marched miles across the Russian border in a surprise operation. “It could give Ukraine a win, or at least make them feel good for a few days.

Persons: Eric Schmitt, ” Organizations: Ukraine Locations: Russia, Moscow, Ukraine, Russian, Kursk

☆ Israel-Hamas War and Gaza Cease-Fire Proposal: Latest Updates
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Isabel Kershner | Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Image Smoke billowing after an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. In a statement on Sunday, the group said it objected to “more rounds of negotiations” and the introduction of any new proposals or conditions. Officials in Gaza said over the weekend that dozens of people had been killed in Israel’s strike on the school compound. The authorities in Gaza do not distinguish between combatants and civilians in reporting death tolls. Israel’s political and military leaders have argued that it is essential to keep up the military pressure on Hamas, to force it to come to terms on a cease-fire deal.

Persons: Biden, Khan Younis, Bashar Taleb, Abdel Fattah el, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Tisha B’Av Organizations: Lebanese Hezbollah, ., Agence France, Getty Locations: Beirut, Tehran, Israel, Iran, Gaza, Egypt, Qatar, Thani, Cairo, Doha, Jerusalem, Aqsa

☆ U.S. and Israeli Defense Officials Speak Amid Fears of Escalation in Mideast
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Eric Schmitt | More About Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Austin has also directed the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, equipped with F-35 fighter jets, to speed to the region, joining the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and its accompanying warships already in the Gulf of Oman. A statement from the Israeli government said that Mr. Gallant had spoken to Mr. Austin about the Israeli military’s “readiness and capabilities in the face of threats posed by Iran and its regional proxies.”The Israeli defense minister also discussed “the urgency of achieving an agreement for the release of hostages and thanked the U.S. administration for its leadership and commitment to this issue,” the statement said. Hamas has not indicated whether its representatives will be at the meeting. The call between Mr. Austin and Mr. Gallant came a day after an Israeli airstrike hit a school compound in northern Gaza where displaced Palestinians were sheltering, an attack that Gazan authorities said killed dozens of people. Mr. Austin used the call to once again underscore the importance of “mitigating civilian harm” during Israeli operations in the enclave, General Ryder said.

Persons: Austin, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Gallant, General Ryder Locations: Gulf of Oman, Iran, U.S, United States, Gaza, East, Israel

Nearly two weeks have passed and no large-scale response has materialized, leaving Israel and the wider Middle East on edge. Iran, which backs Hamas, blamed Israel for the assassination, but Israeli leaders have not said their forces were responsible. What could an Iranian response look like? U.S. and Israeli diplomats and security officials had some advanced knowledge of its scope and intensity of Iran’s attack in April, which facilitated defensive preparations. The foreign minister of Jordan, an ally of the United States, has traveled to Tehran in recent days for meetings.

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☆ Insurers deemed mold too risky decades ago. That coverage gap still surprises homeowners
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Genna Contino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Schmitt's example may be extreme, but mold damage is not unusual. In 2022, water damage, including mold, represented 27.6% of homeowners insurance losses, according to data from Insurance Services Office, an industry group. Despite the award for the owner of the mold-damaged home later being reduced to $4 million, companies still pulled back on mold coverage. "Mold claims won't be covered if it's a result of neglect, such as pipe leaking for months resulting in water damage and mold." "You should always read your insurance policy and understand what you have, but no one's going to do that," Kochenburger said.

Persons: Brandi Schmitt, Schmitt, Brandi Schmitt's, adjuster, USAA, Read, Kamala Harris, Harris, Joseph, Ms, Ballard, Amy Bach, United, Bach, Scott Shapiro, Will Melofchik, haven't, Melofchik, Scott Holeman, Holeman, Peter Kochenburger, Kochenburger, it's, Mold, Shapiro, Mark Friedlander Organizations: Maryland, CNBC, Finance, Here’s, Democratic, Insurance Services Office, . Farmers Insurance Group, KPMG, National Council of Insurance, Insurance Information Institute, Southern University Law Center, University of Connecticut's Insurance Law Center, Insurance, South Carolina Independent Agents, Nationwide, Allstate, Federal Trade Commission, Act, State Farm Locations: Lothian , Maryland, U.S, Maryland, Texas, San Francisco, South Carolina, Lindsey , Ohio

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in a long-shot lawsuit brought by Missouri attempting to block legal proceedings in former President Donald Trump's hush money case in New York. Brandon Bell / Getty ImagesNew York Judge Juan Merchan issued an initial gag order in March ahead of Trump’s trial. Bailey took the rare step of trying to sue the state of New York before the Supreme Court, which has jurisdiction over disputes between states. It would have been highly unusual for the Supreme Court to allow a state to interfere with judicial proceedings in another state. Before the trial, Trump was fined for violating the original gag order, especially as it related to Cohen, one of the key witnesses.

Persons: WASHINGTON —, Donald, Missouri's, Andrew Bailey, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Bailey, Trump, Michael Cohen, Storm Daniels, Daniels, Donald Trump, Brandon Bell, Juan Merchan, Merchan, Letitia James, James, Cohen, Mike Parson, Eric Schmitt Organizations: Missouri, Republican, Trump, Getty, York, State, New York, Missouri Gov, Senate Locations: Missouri, New York, Charlotte , NC

☆ Pentagon Hands Over Last Base in Niger as Extremism Spreads in the Sahel
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The U.S. military turned over control of its last base in Niger to local forces on Monday, ending a yearslong counterterrorism mission in the West African country even as violent extremism remains on the rise in the region. A group of U.S. troops boarded an Air Force cargo plane and flew out of a $110 million air base in central Niger that was built with Pentagon money, among the last of 1,000 personnel that Washington had agreed to pull out by Sept. 15. A small number of troops will remain at the United States Embassy for a short time to wrap up administrative details, officials said. “The withdrawal of U.S. forces and assets from Air Base 201 in Agadez is complete,” the Pentagon’s Africa Command said in a statement, referring to the installation in central Niger. “The effective cooperation and communication between the U.S. and Nigerien armed forces ensured that this turnover was finished ahead of schedule and without complications.”

Persons: “ Organizations: U.S, Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, United States Embassy, Air Base, Pentagon’s Africa Command, Nigerien Locations: Niger, West, U.S, Agadez

☆ How the 9/11 Plea Deal Came Undone
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Carol Rosenberg | Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In the space of three days last week, the Sept. 11 case was rocked by two decisions that stunned victims’ families and jolted a political debate. First, a Pentagon official authorized a plea agreement meant to resolve the case with lifetime sentences. Then, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III abruptly canceled the deal, reviving the possibility that the man accused of planning the attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and two accused accomplices could someday face a death penalty trial. Suddenly, a case that had mostly drifted from public consciousness in 12 years of pretrial proceedings was back in the spotlight and no closer to the trial that some relatives of the nearly 3,000 victims had been aching for at Guantánamo Bay. This account of those fateful three days is based on interviews and conversations with Pentagon officials, Sept. 11 family members and parties to the case.

Persons: Lloyd J, Austin III, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Organizations: Pentagon Locations: Guantánamo

Some American warships already in the Mediterranean will move closer to the coast of Israel, according to a senior Pentagon official. The killing of the Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in an explosion at a military-run guesthouse in Tehran on Wednesday, was a stunning breach of security in the Iranian capital. Iran arrested more than two dozen people, including senior intelligence officers, in response. The country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly for the killing, according to Iranian officials. “We will be bolstering our force protection in the region,” she said.

Persons: Lloyd J, Austin III, Ismail Haniyeh, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Sabrina Singh, Austin, Yoav Gallant, Austin “, ”, “, Mr, Haniyeh Organizations: . Defense, American, Pentagon Locations: Israel, Iran, Tehran, Qatar, Gaza, United States, Yemen, Iraq

☆ U.S. Poised to Send More Combat Aircraft to Middle East, Officials Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Eric Schmitt | More About Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The United States is preparing to send additional combat aircraft to the Middle East in response to threats from Iran and its proxies in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen to attack Israel in the coming days to avenge the death of Ismail Haniyeh this week, American officials said on Friday. How many planes to send is still being worked out, as are final approvals from senior officials including Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III. Officials said they were seeking to calibrate the American response to send enough of the right types of aircraft as quickly as possible to help defend Israel without appearing to escalate the conflict. Iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles against Israel in a major attack in April, but only a handful got through, causing only slight damage. U.S. Air Force jets based in Jordan and in Saudi Arabia coordinated with French, Jordanian and British Air Force fighters to shoot down more than 80 drones.

Persons: Israel, Ismail Haniyeh, Lloyd J, Austin III Organizations: U.S, Defense, U.S . Air Force, French, British Air Force Locations: States, Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Israel, U.S, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Jordanian

☆ As F-16s Arrive, Ukraine Still Faces Steep Challenges in the Skies
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Marc Santora | Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The surveillance drone appeared high above the Ukrainian air base without warning in early July. Minutes after it relayed targeting data back to a Russian base, a barrage of ballistic missiles struck the airfield, Ukrainian officials said, recounting the episode. “Now they’re hitting the air base with the rockets all the time,” Ms. Minenko said. Russia has been saturating the skies over Ukraine with surveillance drones, exploiting gaps in air-defense systems, to launch increasingly sophisticated attacks on Ukrainian positions. Ukraine’s strategy was to counter Russia in the air war with the aid of long-coveted F-16 fighter jets from the West that it says it will deploy this summer.

Persons: ”, Valeria Minenko, ” Ms, Minenko Locations: Russian, Myrhorod, Ukraine, Russia

☆ A Mysterious Plot Prompts a Rare Call From Russia to the Pentagon
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III received an unusual request from an unlikely caller: His Russian counterpart wanted to talk. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Mr. Austin had spoken by phone with Russia’s defense minister only five other times, almost always at the Pentagon’s initiative and often in an effort to avoid miscalculations that could escalate the conflict. In fact, Mr. Austin had reached out to Russia’s new defense minister, Andrei Belousov, just a couple of weeks earlier, on June 25, in an effort to keep the “lines of communication open,” the Pentagon said. It was the first phone call between the two men since Mr. Belousov, an economist, replaced Sergei K. Shoigu, Russia’s long-running defense minister, in a Kremlin shake-up in May. Was the Pentagon aware of the plot, Mr. Belousov asked Mr. Austin, and its potential to ratchet up tensions between Moscow and Washington?

Persons: Lloyd J, Austin III, Austin, Andrei Belousov, Belousov, Sergei K Organizations: Russian, Mr, Pentagon Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, Washington

☆ ‘Coup’ and ‘Cover-Up’: How the G.O.P. Is Reacting to the Harris Candidacy
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Karen Yourish | Lazaro Gamio | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Recent polling suggests nearly 9 in 10 Americans believe Mr. Biden’s decision to step aside was the right one. 65 called Mr. Biden’s withdrawal a coup or said it amounted to election interference. These statements have tended to argue that Mr. Biden’s decision to end his candidacy was not his own, was not democratic or both. Some of this language began to bubble up among Republicans even before Mr. Biden announced that he would drop out. One common line of attack, positing that Ms. Harris failed as a “border czar,” is misleading.

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☆ What to know about the 25th Amendment and Joe Biden as Republicans allege a ‘cover-up’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Even before Biden dropped out of the race, Rep. Chip Roy, the Texas Republican, filed a resolution in June after the president’s disastrous debate performance, calling on the 25th Amendment to be used against Biden. After Biden withdrew from the race, Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Republican, wrote letters to Harris and the Cabinet officials in the Biden administration, asking them to remove Biden from office. To forcibly wrest power from a sitting president, the vice president would have to be on board, according to the text of the amendment. Why do we have the 25th Amendment? That was before the 25th Amendment, so there was no constitutional rule.

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☆ Warning signs blinking over swimmers’ anger at alleged Chinese doping scandal ahead of Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Eleven of those Chinese swimmers are due to compete again in Paris, and many of their rivals are preparing to go against them with a sense of bitter resignation. Rob Koehler, director of international sports advocacy group Global Athlete, told CNN that they are already anticipating the worst. In a statement, WADA stood by its previous decision-making and said an independent prosecutor had confirmed that its conclusions were reasonable. He said athletes feel as though World Aquatics and the World Anti-Doping Agency have failed them and that nobody outside of the sport is paying attention. While none of those swimmers want to publicly comment on the situation ahead of the Games, Koehler believes that they will publicly protest if any one of the 11 Chinese athletes win a medal.

Persons: Rob Koehler, ”, “, ” CHINADA, Witold Bańka, WADA, “ WADA, Travis Tygart, Michal Phelps, Allison Schmitt, Koehler, Australia’s Mack Horton, Sun Yang, “ CHINADA, ” Koehler Organizations: CNN, Olympic, New York Times, Tokyo Olympics, Global, Tokyo, Doping Agency, CHINADA, ” CNN, Agency, US Justice Department, Games, Aquatics, International Olympic, Service Locations: Paris, United States, American, China

Israeli fighter jets bombed sites in Yemen affiliated with the Iran-backed Houthi militia on Saturday in retaliation for a deadly drone attack in Tel Aviv a day earlier, the Israeli military said. The Israeli airstrikes targeted gas and oil depots and a power station in the area of Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeidah, two regional officials said. The port is controlled by the Houthis and contains oil export facilities, but also serves as a vital conduit for civilian goods and humanitarian aid to impoverished Yemen. An Israeli military statement said that fighter jets struck targets near the port “in response to the hundreds of attacks” by the Houthis in recent months. The military said it was not tightening its emergency civil defense regulations after the attack, indicating Israeli officials might not expect a more serious escalation.

Persons: Israel, Nasruddin Amer, ”, “ Locations: Yemen, Iran, Tel Aviv, Hodeidah, Israeli, Gaza

TuesdaySeveral Senate candidates and House leaders joined Mr. Trump in the box over the course of Tuesday night. Eric Trump Donald J. Trump Senator J.D. Mr. Trump responded with applause, flanked by Mr. Vance and Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the House majority leader. Walt Nauta, Trump’s valet Vanessa Trump Massad Boulos Ronan Anthony Villency Linda McMahon, business executive Kimberly Guilfoyle Kai Trump Eric Trump Lara Trump Michael Boulos Issac Perlmutter Laura Perlmutter Donald Trump Jr. Usha Vance Donald J. Trump Gov. Vance, Ohio Melania Trump Eric Trump Donald Trump Jr. Photo by Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

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☆ The Nazi Jurist Who Haunts Our Broken Politics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Jennifer Szalai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was a curious line, not just for what it said, but also because of who was saying it. And the goal here is to get back in power.”Vance was referring to the political theorist and Nazi jurist who provided much of the intellectual ballast for the Third Reich. Schmitt despised liberalism. That, at least, is what I think Vance was saying. “I think that challenging elections and questioning the legitimacy of elections is actually part of the democratic process,” Vance said.

Persons: Ross Douthat, Vance, Donald Trump’s, Carl Schmitt — there’s, there’s, ” Vance, Third Reich, Schmitt, thrall, Trump, “, ‘ He’s Organizations: New York, Republican, Third, Capitol Locations: Ohio

☆ NATO’s Pledges to Ukraine Fall Short for a Counteroffensive This Year
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Lara Jakes | Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Despite billions of dollars in additional weapons and security assistance that NATO announced this week, allied officials said Ukraine would not be ready to launch a dramatic counteroffensive or retake large swaths of territory from Russia until next year. Donations of missiles, combat vehicles, ammunition and air defenses from the United States and European countries will take weeks, if not months, to reach the front lines. Some of the newly committed weapons have not yet been bought or built. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said long-anticipated F-16s fighter jets would be delivered to Ukraine this summer. “This is a huge disappointment for me personally, because Ukrainians are expecting that those goods will come, this military equipment will reach Ukraine, but it’s not happening.”

Persons: Antony J, Blinken, “, Gitanas Nauseda, ” Organizations: NATO Locations: Ukraine, Russia, United States, Washington, Lithuania

☆ Pentagon to Dismantle Temporary Pier Built for Gaza Aid Operation
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Biden administration will soon permanently shut down the star-crossed $230 million temporary pier that the U.S. military built to rush humanitarian aid to Gaza, American officials said on Thursday. “I do anticipate that in relatively short order, we will wind down pier operations,” Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, told reporters. On Wednesday, personnel from the military’s Central Command attempted and failed to reattach the makeshift pier to the beach in Gaza after rough seas forced operators to remove the structure several days ago to avoid damage, the Pentagon said. In a statement, Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said the latest effort to re-anchor the pier failed because of “technical and weather-related issues,” recurring problems that The New York Times identified last month when it reported that military officials had warned aid organizations that the project could be dismantled as early as July.

Persons: Biden, “, ” Jake Sullivan, Patrick S, Ryder Organizations: ., military’s Central Command, Pentagon, New York Times Locations: Gaza

☆ U.S. Officials Say Russia Is Unlikely to Take Much More Ukrainian Territory
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Julian E. Barnes | Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Russia is unlikely to make significant territorial gains in Ukraine in the coming months as its poorly trained forces struggle to break through Ukrainian defenses that are now reinforced with Western munitions, U.S. officials say. Through the spring and early summer, Russian troops tried to take territory outside the city of Kharkiv and renew a push in eastern Ukraine, to capitalize on their seizure of Avdiivka. Russia has suffered thousands of casualties in the drive while gaining little new territory. Russia’s problems represent a significant change in the dynamic of the war, which had favored Moscow in recent months. Russian forces continue to inflict pain, but their incremental advances have been slowed by the Ukrainians’ hardened lines.

Organizations: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Kharkiv, Avdiivka, Moscow, Russian, Washington

On Today’s Episode:U.S. Officials Say Russia Is Unlikely to Take Much More Ukrainian Territory, by Julian E. Barnes and Eric SchmittBiden Says He Is ‘Firmly Committed’ to Staying in the Race, by Michael D. ShearParkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Months, by Emily Baumgaertner and Peter BakerFollowing Trump’s Lead, Republicans Adopt Platform That Softens Stance on Abortion, by Maggie Haberman, Shane Goldmacher and Jonathan Swan

Persons: Julian E, Barnes, Eric Schmitt Biden, ‘, ’, Michael D, Emily Baumgaertner, Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, Shane Goldmacher, Jonathan Swan Organizations: Officials Locations: Ukrainian Territory

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