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☆ These Air Force photos of A-10 attack planes in a whiteout snowstorm look like drawings
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewMichigan was pummeled with cold temperatures and whiteout conditions as the state's biggest storm of the season hit on Friday, with some areas reaching almost a foot of snowfall. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Aircraft parked at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, Michigan, were also caught in the storm, making for a hard-to-believe scene on the airfield. See photos of a line of A-10 Thunderbolts covered in snow, appearing almost like illustrations against the white landscape.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, Business, Aircraft, Selfridge Air National Guard Base Locations: Michigan, Harrison Township , Michigan

☆ How the A-12 went from the first US supersonic spy plane to inspiring the name of Elon Musk's child
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Testing in Area 51Entrance to Area 51 TIFOIts development was highly classified, taking place at Area 51 in Nevada and hidden away from Soviet spy satellites. Area 51 workers were provided with rosters of Soviet satellites, detailing when certain ones would fly over the Nevada test site so they could conceal the prototypes. "It was like a bus schedule, and it even told us whether it was an infrared satellite or what type it was," TD Barnes, a former hypersonic flight specialist at Area 51, told National Geographic in 2011. In addition to the sheds, workers also crafted decoy prototypes out of cardboard and other materials to cast shadows and deceive the satellites. At least one of the A-12's numerous test flights didn't go according to plan, crashing in the desert outside Area 51.

Persons: TD Barnes, Jim Freedman Organizations: Soviet, Geographic Locations: Nevada, Soviet

☆ The US and UK at last answered Houthi attacks with a carrier strike group, fighter jets, and a submarine packed with Tomahawk cruise missiles
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The US and UK launched military strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen after repeated warnings. The strikes were in retaliation to Houthi attacks on commercial shipping vessels in the Red Sea. AdvertisementThe US and UK launched strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen Thursday night. President Joe Biden said he ordered the strikes as a "defensive action" in response to "unprecedented Houthi attacks" on international shipping vessels in vital waterways. Over 100 precision-guided munitions were used on more than 60 Houthi targets in Yemen, US Air Forces Central Commander Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich said Thursday.

Persons: —, Joe Biden, Alex Grynkewich, Grynkewich Organizations: US, UK, British, Houthi, Service, US Air Forces Central, CNN, Business Locations: Yemen, Red, Iran, Suez, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Netherlands

☆ Take a look inside the US' Manned Orbiting Laboratory, a Cold War-era crewed spy satellite that never made it to space
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-11 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Manned space operationsAn illustration of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory. Then-US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara publicly unveiled the program in December 1963, and President Lyndon B. Johnson formally approved the project in August 1965. "This program will bring us new knowledge about what man is able to do in space," Johnson said at the time. It will develop technology and equipment which will help advance manned and unmanned space flights. "The system was resource-limited because it was a film system, not electronic like we have now.

Persons: Robert McNamara, Lyndon B, Johnson, Richard Truly Organizations: Manned, Laboratory, US Air Force, National Reconnaissance Office, Cuban Missile, MOL Locations: Vietnam, America, Soviet Union

☆ Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at 87 after serving as a Supreme Court Justice for 27 years. Here's a look at the trailblazer's life and career.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Rachel Premack | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020, due to complications from cancer. She was a left-leaning Associate Justice on the Supreme Court for nearly three decades and a pop culture icon. "Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice," Roberts continued. She spent decades as a trailblazer in gender equality law before she became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court — and a pop culture icon. AdvertisementAdvertisementShe was on the nation's highest court for nearly 30 years, ever since she took her oath on August 10, 1993.

Persons: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Roberts, Ginsburg, Roberts, — Organizations: Service, Supreme Court Locations: Wall, Silicon

Lara and Roger Griffiths bought their dream home … and then life fell apart. The Daily MailBefore they won a $2.76 million lottery jackpot in 2005, Lara and Roger Griffiths, of England, reportedly never argued. Then they won and bought a million-dollar barn-converted house and a Porsche, not to mention luxurious trips to Dubai, Monaco, and New York City. Shortly after, there were claims that Roger drove away in the Porsche after Lara confronted him over emails suggesting that he was interested in another woman. That ended their 14-year marriage.

Persons: Lara, Roger Griffiths, Roger Organizations: Daily, Porsche, New York City . Media Locations: England, Dubai, Monaco, New York City

☆ Facing a future without affirmative action, students of color say the pressure is on them to fight for diversity: 'To be going backwards in this sort of immense way is really scary'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Yoonji Han | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Affirmative action has been used to pit Asian Americans against other communities of color, experts said. "By grouping together all Asian students, for instance, respondents are apparently uninterested in whether South Asian or East Asian students are adequately represented, so long as there is enough of one to compensate for a lack of the other," Roberts wrote. "Affirmative action provides a second chance for students of color," Stewart Kwoh, co-executive director of the Asian American Education Project, told Insider. In the face of the destabilizing effects of rolling back affirmative action, students of color are shoring up to ensure diversity at their schools. Ron DeSantis signed a bill mandating Asian American and Pacific Islander studies in schools, a move that critics condemned as using Asian American communities as a "wedge" against other communities of color.

Persons: —, John Roberts, Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Stewart Kwoh, Sarah Zhang, we're, Zhang, Muskaan Arshad, Arshad, Chip Somodevilla, Ron DeSantis, Gregg Orton, There's, Reyna Patel, Hill, I've, Shruthi Kumar, Scott Applewhite, They're, Agustin Leon, Saenz Organizations: Service, Harvard, University of North, Asian American Education, Affirmative, Coalition, UNC, Fair, US, Florida Department of Education, AP, American, Florida Gov, Pacific, National Council of Asian Pacific, NBC, Studies, Asian Locations: University of North Carolina, America, Mexican, Harvard, Washington ,, Florida

☆ Friends of American journalist Evan Gershkovich describe his life before he was arrested and put in one of Russia's most notorious prisons
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

In March, Russia arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and accused him of espionage. He's being held in Lefortovo, a prison where former inmates said they felt isolated and abandoned. His friends describe the journalist's life in college and living in New York before he was detained. Gershkovich is the first American journalist to be detained on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War. Former prisoners and those who visited the notorious Russian prison recalled harrowing experiences of isolation — a stark contrast to the life the US journalist was living in New York and Russia before his arrest.

☆ Tucker Carlson was ousted from Fox News after a decade-plus career with the network. Here are 7 other high-profile departures in recent years.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Jake Lahut | Oma Seddiq | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Fox News has seen a cascade of departures in past years, many of which amid sexual-harassment allegations. High-profile host Tucker Carlson was abruptly ousted earlier this week after more than a decade with the network. Before Carlson was dropped from the network, several prominent hosts and executives have been terminated or left the network in recent years, with sexual misconduct a recurring theme. The 2019 movie "Bombshell" and Showtime series "The Loudest Voice" both focused on the reckoning over rampant sexual misconduct that hit the network in 2016 and 2017, leading to a slew of departures. Here are eight of the most notable departures from Fox in past years:

☆ Courtroom sketches capture former President Donald Trump's arraignment after cameras, phones, and electronics were banned at the start of the proceedings
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Trump appeared in court for his arraignment on Tuesday. Three courtroom sketch artists captured scenes from inside the Manhattan courtroom where it happened. The illustrations documented what cameras couldn't after electronics were banned from the courtroom. Loading Something is loading. Trump is the first current or former US president to ever face criminal charges.

☆ Rupert Murdoch is getting married for the fifth time at 92 years old. Here's a complete timeline of his past marriages.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Anna Murdoch MannRupert Murdoch with his wife, Anna and their baby daughter, Elizabeth, at London Airport in 1968 Evening Standard/Getty ImagesShortly after his divorce from his first wife, Murdoch met his soon-to-be second bride, Anna Murdoch Mann, whose maiden name was Torv. They first met when Murdoch Mann was 18 years old when she had the opportunity to interview Murdoch while she worked for the Sydney newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, which he owned. The media mogul and Scottish-Australian novelist were married for 32 years and had three children together, Elisabeth Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, and James Murdoch. Murdoch and Torv divorced in 1999. "I thought we had a wonderful, happy marriage," she said in an interview with Australian Women's Weekly in 2001.

☆ Photos show the horrors of Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp, 78 years after its liberation
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Natalie Colarossi | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

It has been 78 years since the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration complex. First established in 1940, Auschwitz had a concentration camp, large gas chambers, and crematoria. More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly one million Jews. In just five years, over one million people were murdered at Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp. The terror of Auschwitz finally subsided on January 27, 1945, when the Soviet Army liberated the remaining 7,000 prisoners from the camps.

☆ Side-by-side photos of Bolsonaro supporters storming Brazil's Congress demonstrates a stunning parallel to Trump supporters descending upon the Capitol on January 6
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Though the riots at Brazil's capital buildings mirrored the events at the US Capitol two years prior, the January 6 riots perhaps served as the muse for one pro-Bolsonaro protester, Julio Monteiro, during a right-wing rally in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in September of last year. A man takes part in a demonstration in support of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September 7, 2021, on Brazil's Independence Day. MIGUEL SCHINCARIOL/AFP via Getty Images

☆ Behind-the-scenes C-SPAN footage from the House chamber shows chaos and frustration after nearly a dozen failed attempts to elect a Speaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Lauren Frias | Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was seen speaking with GOP Rep.-elect Paul Gosar, who once stirred controversy for sharing a violent edited anime video of him slaying her. The edited anime, "Attack of Titan," has been co-opted by alt-right factions when discussing white supremacist narratives. Source: Insider

☆ The ambitious career of Kevin McCarthy, GOP hopeful for Speaker of the House
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, is the GOP nominee for Speaker of the House. But the GOP House leader's bid for Speaker hangs in the balance as he scrambled for support to lock down the role. Democratic nominee for Speaker Hakeem Jeffries didn't lose a single Democratic vote in the House, getting 203 votes, but also failing to meet the 218-vote threshold to become Speaker. The last time a speaker election has gone to multiple votes was in 1923 when a Speaker of the House was elected after nine ballots. Just hours before the vote, McCarthy delivered an impassioned speech to his party in a last-minute attempt to secure support to cement the role.

☆ Hope Hicks was once one of Trump's closest confidantes. Less than 2 years later, she testified that her former boss told her that no one would care about his legacy if he lost the 2020 election.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Rebecca Harrington | Ellen Cranley | Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hope Hicks, 34, was one of President Donald Trump's most trusted advisers. Hicks resigned from the White House on January 12, 2021, but told people it was a planned departure. She was one of the few White House aides who told Trump he lost the 2020 election. Before testifying in the investigation launched against her former boss' involvement in the Capitol riots, Hicks was the youngest White House communications director in history. She later rejoined the Trump White House as a counselor to the president, reporting to senior adviser and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

☆ The 4 landmark Supreme Court rulings that changed marriage in the US
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Loving v. Virginia (1967)The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a Virginia law banning marriage between African Americans and Caucasians was unconstitutional, thus nullifying similar statutes in 15 other states. They later returned to their home in Caroline County, Virginia, where interracial marriage is illegal due to the state's Racial Integrity Act of 1924. In October 1958, Loving and Jeter were charged with violating Virginia's law against interracial marriage. Loving wrote to then-US Attorney General Robert Kennedy for help, who referred them to the ACLU, which represented them in the landmark Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia, in 1967. In a unanimous decision, the nation's highest court ruled that state bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional.

☆ A bombing suspect in the 1988 explosion aboard Pan Am Flight 103 has been taken into US custody. Here's what has happened in the decades since the deadly attack.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

The day after the bombing, then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited Lockerbie to meet with residents impacted by the tragedy. "The damage to this town is worse in daylight than we could possibly have seen at night," Thatcher said at the time. "The destruction of the houses near the road and the crater and the amount of metal and debris all around, and the many houses that must have been affected is far worse than I thought, and one had no idea until one came here." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher talks to local residents in the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, shortly after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, December 1988. Tom Stoddart Archive/Getty ImagesSource: ITN

☆ It's been a decade since the Sandy Hook shooting. Here are the names and pictures of the 27 victims, including 20 children, who were murdered that day.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Michal Kranz | Rebecca Harrington | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Twenty children and six staff members were killed in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. It was the deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school in US history. The 20-year-old gunman also killed his mother that day and shot himself after the massacre. "Sad for the searing loss, that hurts like hell every Dec 14th for those parents, my friends. Here are all 27 people killed in the deadliest elementary school shooting in US history.

☆ Liz Cheney resurfaced Paul Gosar's deleted tweet supporting Donald Trump's call to terminate the US Constitution: 'Time to condemn Trump yet?'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

On Saturday, Trump suggested terminating rules in the Constitution that led to disputed voter fraud in the 2020 election. Rep. Liz Cheney resurfaced Gosar's tweet, calling on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to condemn the former president. Following backlash from GOP senators on his call to terminate the US Constitution, Trump attempted to walk back his remarks on Monday. This is simply more DISINFORMATION & LIES," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This week Trump said we should terminate all rules, regulations etc 'even those in the Constitution' to overturn the election.

☆ Political experts don't think the Trump Org's felony status is enough to kill Donald Trump's chances in 2024: 'At some point, the Republican party has to decide how much they're willing to overlook'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But experts don't think the conviction is enough to tamp down his chances in the 2024 election. "But at some point, the Republican party has to decide how much they're willing to overlook before they just cut him loose," Crouse said. "That's not really a logical analysis, that's more a poetic analysis, but I think it does have symbolic significance in that sense." "Even though [Trump] wasn't a defendant, it's at his feet, and it can be portrayed that way by his enemies both inside the Republican party and outside the Republican party," O'Brien added. "And I think that's going to weaken his candidacy" in 2024, especially as his hold on the GOP is challenged by a potential presidential hopeful: Florida Gov.

☆ A House committee obtained 6 years worth of Donald Trump's federal income tax returns from the IRS
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The House Ways and Committee obtained Donald Trump's federal tax returns after a yearslong legal battle. The Democrat-led panel initially requested his federal income tax returns in 2019 when Trump was still president. The move came just a week after the Supreme Court rejected Trump's request to block the panel from receiving the records. The move comes just over a week after the Supreme Court dismissed Trump's emergency request to block House Democrats from receiving the former president's closely guarded financial records. "Treasury has complied with last week's court decision," a spokesperson for the Treasury Department told NBC News.

☆ Mike Pence said Donald Trump was 'wrong' for hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago, saying he 'should apologize without qualification'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mike Pence said Donald Trump was "wrong" for hosting Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago and should apologize. Trump met with Kanye West last week, who "unexpectedly" arrived with Fuentes, a known white supremacist. Trump continued, claiming that he did not know Nick Fuentes at the time of the dinner. "President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an anti-Semite, and a Holocaust denier a seat at the table," Pence said in an interview with NewsNation that aired Monday. "If it was any other party, breaking bread with Nick Fuentes would be instantly disqualifying for Trump," Democratic National Committee spokesperson Ammar Moussa said, per a report by Politico.

☆ 6 memorable times Trump wielded his trademark Sharpie
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald Trump has been known to use a Sharpie as his writing utensil of choice — wielding it on presidential documents and fan autographs alike. Then-U.S. President Donald Trump displays his signature after signing the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul plan in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., December 22, 2017. Trump loved to use a Sharpie so much he even reached out to the stationary company to design a custom pen for him to sign documents, emblazoned with his mountain-peak-like signature. "I was signing documents with a very expensive pen and it didn't write well," Trump said, referring to the government pen. He added: "And then I started using just a Sharpie, and I said to myself, 'Well wait a minute, this much writes much better and this cost almost nothing.'"

☆ Elon Musk said he'd love to see 'ads for gizmos' on Twitter because otherwise he has to have his assistant find the gizmo he sees online and buy it for him
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk said he'd love to see "ads for gizmos" on Twitter because he'd "buy them all in a click." In his first meeting with Twitter employees, he addressed the platform's advertising strategy going forward. If I saw ads for gizmos, I love gizmos, of course, I'd buy them all in a click," he said. "Even if they're not that great, I'll still buy gizmos. I'll see content for gizmos but not an ad or an ability to actually buy the gizmo."

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