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A Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian missile facility early Wednesday threw up towering fireballs visible from space and thundering detonations that triggered earthquake monitors. Officials on both sides said it was the result of a large Ukrainian drone attack on Toropets, a town in the Tver region around 230 miles from the Russian capital. Russian state media has previously reported that the military was building an arsenal for storing missiles and other explosives there. Russia’s air defense systems destroyed some 54 drones launched overnight against five western Russian regions, Russian state news agencies said, citing a report from Moscow’s defense ministry. Kyiv has increasingly been hitting back with drone attacks on what it says are military targets on Russian soil.

Persons: Igor Rudenya, Rudenya, George William Herbert, Volodymyr Zelenksyy Organizations: NASA, Security Service, NBC News, Reuters, Middlebury Institute of International Studies Locations: Ukrainian, Russian, Moscow, Tver, Norwegian, Ukraine, Monterey, California, Russia, Kyiv, United States, Washington, Kremlin

☆ 'Mary & George' creator says finale is 'true to the spirit' of the story despite diverging from history
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The ending used is 'true to the spirit of how Mary and George lived their lives'Moore, who co-wrote the finale with Laura Grace, told Business Insider that for him, the ending was "true to the spirit" of Mary and George's lives — despite the fact that it diverges from history. Nicholas Galitzine as George Villiers in "Mary & George." "There is some level of dramatic license that we've taken, but for me, it feels very true to the spirit of how Mary and George lived their lives." As the series depicts, once Charles became king, George retained his powerful position in court until he himself was assassinated in 1628, at age 35. The finale of "Mary & George" is now streaming on Starz.

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☆ She arrived at JFK airport in 1971 and two men were waiting for her. Here’s how she ended up married to one of them
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

Linda arrived in New York City “in precisely the clothes I described.” At the airport, she glanced around, searching the throngs of people. Linda PorterThe dark-haired, mustachioed man “was George,” Linda soon realized. An introduction to New York CityLinda arrived in New York City excited to embark on a new chapter. Courtesy G. Porter and Dr. L. M. PorterLike Linda, George Porter was also a New York City transplant. Newly married, Linda – who took George’s name, becoming Linda Porter – returned to the US, once again landing in JFK airport.

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☆ JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon believes the term 'ultra-MAGA' is insulting to a large group of people
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon railed against the term "ultra-MAGA" at Wednesday's NYT DealBook summit. "I think you're insulting a large group of people and then we're making assumptions," he said. AdvertisementJPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon warned liberals against using the term "ultra-MAGA" to describe pro-Trump conservatives, arguing that the phrase insults a large group of Americans. "I think you're insulting a large group of people and then we're making assumptions and scapegoating … where somehow these people believe in Trump's family values and supporting the personal person. The term "ultra-MAGA," describing the most conservative adherents of Trump's Make America Great Again movement, has been popularized due to President Joe Biden's use of the phrase.

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☆ Mariners seeking crucial wins in series vs. Dodgers
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Field Level Media | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

September 14 - After taking two of three games from the Los Angeles Angels, the Seattle Mariners open a three-game home series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night. The Dodgers (88-57), who were also off Thursday, have a 13 1/2-game lead in the National League West. "I think that every September we have played good baseball except one," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said in reference to a 12-17 record in September 2017. The Dodgers got good and bad news Wednesday. I'm really looking forward to next week, just going forward and enjoying time with the team and getting into the playoffs."

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☆ Biden raised nearly as much money as all the Republican candidates combined, showing the power of the somebody-other-than-Trump vote
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Cork Gaines | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

That is nearly as much as all the Republican candidates combined despite his low approval numbers. CNNThis haul comes in the same quarter Biden made his reelection campaign official, which likely helped to boost the total. As Republican candidates start to fall out, the real question will become how many of these donors are some-other-Republican-besides-Trump voters and how many are truly anybody-but-Trump voters? But what happens if most of Trump's Republican candidates stay in for the long haul? How long the candidates stay in will likely come down to money, and Republican candidate Chris Christie defended the fundraising numbers.

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☆ No Labels May Re-Elect Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( William A. Galston | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Wonder Land: A beside-the-point president is the best thing that has ever happened to the progressive centralization project. But its success in 2024 depends on whether Republicans back Trump or not. Images: Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock/AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyGeorge Will is the latest commentator to view with equanimity the prospect of a No Labels-led bipartisan presidential campaign. In 2010 I helped start No Labels to foster bipartisan solutions to our country’s most important problems. Last month, after more than a decade, I felt compelled to resign in disagreement over its decision to launch a bipartisan presidential campaign.

☆ Tucker Carlson is gone but Fox News' politics remain the same
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Fox News had plenty of reasons to get rid of Tucker Carlson. CNN’s Allison Morrow notes that Fox will need a Carlson upgrade of some kind because upstart conservative networks want into the same space. ET hour on Fox, and if it is any indication, there won’t be much new in the politics that are pushed on Fox’s viewers. On-screen, the words were “Biden’s Legacy: Crime in the Cities.”Related: Here’s a CNN Fact Check on the crime in Manhattan, which far below record levels. Biden legacy 2After declaring crime to be Biden’s legacy, Kilmeade transitioned.

☆ North Korea unveils new nuclear warheads as Kim orders more weapons-grade materials
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Hyonhee Shin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

SEOUL, March 28 (Reuters) - North Korea unveiled new, smaller nuclear warheads as leader Kim Jong Un called for scaling up the production of weapons-grade nuclear material to expand the country's arsenal, state media KCNA said on Tuesday. KCNA released photos of the warheads, dubbed Hwasan-31, during Kim's visit to the Nuclear Weapons Institute, where he inspected new tactical nuclear weapons and technology for mounting warheads on ballistic missiles, as well as nuclear counterattack operation plans. Kim ordered the production of weapons-grade materials in a "far-sighted way" to boost its nuclear arsenal "exponentially" and produce powerful weapons, KCNA said. "The frantic war drills in the puppet region are not just military drills but nuclear war drills for a preemptive strike ... pursuant to the U.S. political and military option to escalate confrontation with the DPRK and finally lead to a war," it said. DPRK is an abbreviation for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

☆ Analysis: How North Korea could use a Pacific 'firing range' to perfect its missiles
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Josh Smith | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) on Monday, after firing a massive Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Saturday. So far North Korea has fired three variants of the Hwasong-12 intermediate range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean. "As soon as it is out of range, or if it crosses below the horizon, North Korea will be blind." Schiller said he is not aware of any tracking vessels that North Korea positions along the flight path, and for now it doesn't have data relay satellites. If those two conditions are met, then North Korea will have fully demonstrated its deterrence capability against the United States, he said.

☆ Fed policymakers call for further rate hikes to beat inflation
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Howard Schneider | Lindsay Dunsmuir | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

(Reuters) -Federal Reserve policymakers on Wednesday signaled they will push on with more interest rate hikes, with several supporting a top policy rate of at least 5% even as inflation shows signs of having peaked and economic activity is slowing. REUTERS/Jason Reed“I just think we need to keep going, and we’ll discuss at the meeting how much to do,” Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester said in an interview with the Associated Press. The remarks appeared to reflect a widely shared view among her fellow policymakers, most of whom as of December had penciled in a 5.00%-5.25% policy rate in coming months. Mester said that for her part she expects the Fed’s policy rate to need to go “a bit higher” than that, and stay there for some time to further slow inflation. Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan also supports a slower rate hike pace ahead because of the uncertain outlook and the need to be flexible.

☆ Desperate flight, then misery in a camp for Nigerians displaced by floods
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Seun Sanni | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"They ate like people who need more, so like a father that I am I cannot go and join them," he said. NOT ENOUGH FOODThe camp in the school building in the village of Ogbogu now shelters about 600 displaced people whose homes are under water. People are so desperate they are cooking with chaff that would normally be thrown away after grinding cassava to make garri, a staple food. He and those who remained were sleeping outdoors as there was no space in any of the makeshift camps that had sprung up, he said. "Even when this is over, I know that there is no money now that I can use to buy something to eat.

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