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☆ Ukraine's 'Blackjack' hackers breached 500 Russian military sites and caused chaos, says military intelligence
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukrainian hacking group "Blackjack" successfully targeted Russian military sites. Over 500 Russian military sites had their data breached, said Ukraine intelligence. Advertisement"Blackjack," a Ukrainian group of hackers with alleged ties to the country's main spy agency, stole construction plans for over 500 Russian military sites, Newsweek reports. Ukraine's military intelligence agency confirmed the successful operation, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (GUR), on Friday. The harvested data includes detailed maps of more than 500 Russian military bases across Russian and Russian-occupied Ukraine territories.

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☆ Ukrainian Bradley crew members described the heart-stopping battle in which they overwhelmed a powerful Russian T-90M tank
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In a new interview, a Ukrainian Bradley crew recounted defeating a Russian T-90M in battle. AdvertisementA new video shows two crew members from Ukraine's 47th Mechanized Brigade describing how they overwhelmed a Russian T-90M tank using just a US-supplied Bradley fighting vehicle. A more personal and detailed interview with the crew of the Ukrainian Bradley which took on a russian T-90M. Like this Ukrainian M2 Bradley IFV obliterating a «no-analogue» russian T-90M tank. Earlier this month, it was reported that Russian soldiers are "afraid" of facing US-supplied Bradley fighting vehicles.

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☆ Fire in China school dorm kills 13 students
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The fire broke out on Friday night at Yingcai School in Yanshanpu Village, near Nanyang City in Henan province, China Central Television Station and Xinhua News Agency said. The dead were third graders at an elementary school, according to China Newsweek, a weekly magazine published by China News Service, the second largest Chinese news agency after Xinhua. A fire in a school dormitory in central China killed 13 students and injured another person, Chinese state media reported on Saturday. Yingcai is a private boarding school with a kindergarten and an elementary school, said The Paper, a Shanghai government-backed news outlet. The school gives students a break every two weeks but this was not a break weekend, The Paper said, citing several local residents.

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☆ Zelenskyy says he owes a 'big shoutout' to the makers of the Patriot, which Ukraine says has been killing Russia's supposedly unbeatable missiles
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week name-checked the surface-to-air missile system that has given Ukraine a fighting edge against Russia's purportedly invincible weapons systems in recent months. AdvertisementBut the Ukrainian president specifically heralded the American-provided Patriots as the "most powerful" weapons system "in the world today." He added that the Ukrainian battlefield has proven to be the true test for the Patriot systems in action. A military analyst told Newsweek last year that the Ukrainians have used the Patriot missile systems in ways that have even surprised the Pentagon. Zelenskyy had long been requesting the US to send the missile systems.

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☆ Russia will defeat Ukraine if the West abandons it, a former NATO commander says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewFormer NATO chief Philip Breedlove says Ukraine faces defeat in its war against Russia without the West's support. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Breedlove, who served as NATO commander from 2013 to 2016, said earlier that Russia would prevail because it "has more people and depth than Ukraine does." Related stories"If the West chooses to give Ukraine what they need to win, Ukraine will win this war. Representatives for Breedlove did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Bill O'Reilly, who supports Florida book ban laws, is outraged after his own books come under review
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bill O'Reilly is furious that two of his books were removed from a Florida school district. O'Reilly has been supportive of book ban laws in Florida. AdvertisementFormer longtime Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is outraged after Florida's book ban laws — which he has vehemently supported —have now called his own books into question for review. "When DeSantis signed the book law, I supported the theme because there was abuse going on in Florida," he told Newsweek. O'Reilly went on to say that he now thinks the wording in the book ban laws is "far too nebulous" and that Florida Gov.

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☆ 2 US Bradley fighting vehicles take out Russia's top T-90 battle tank on Ukraine battlefield, video shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA video shows two US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles taking out one of Russia's main battle tanks. Bradley IFV of the 47th Brigade of Ukraine engages in a battle with Russian T-90M, Avdiivka front. At the end of the video it’s visible that tank most likely received significant damage as the crew cannot… pic.twitter.com/uutTexfXf5 — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) January 12, 2024The Russian tank fires first at the fighting vehicles, and misses. AdvertisementThe two Bradley fighting vehicles spray the tank with 25mm one-pound shells. The Bradley vehicles were likely being operated by Ukraine's 47th Brigade , as it is the only brigade fighting with the US-supplied vehicles, according to Forbes.

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☆ Russia's use of North Korean missiles in Ukraine will help the US figure out how effective they really are
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia fired North Korean missiles at Ukraine on December 30, January 2 and 4, per South Korea. AdvertisementRussia's use of North Korean missiles in Ukraine will help us figure out how effective they actually are on the battlefield, military analysts said. North Korea has been testing a wide range of ballistic and cruise missiles since 2017, launching 68 missiles in 2022, according to the North Korea Missile Test Tracker maintained by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. "If Ukraine, for example, proves more successful in shooting down North Korean missiles compared to Russian ones, then we can assume that North Korean technology is not as advanced," he said. Ukraine has already started analyzing what it believes to be debris from a North Korean missile.

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☆ These are the 10 best U.S. metros to buy a house in 2024—none of them are in Florida
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A December report from real estate broker Realtor.com ranked the best U.S. cities to buy a house in 2024 based on expected price growth and sales. The annual report analyzed the country's 100 largest metropolitan areas and the final result is a list with half of the top metros in California. "These markets generally fall into two camps: affordable metros in the Midwest and Northeast, and high-priced Western metros," Hannah Jones, Realtor.com's Senior Economic Research Analyst, told Newsweek. Though affordability is still an issue for many. Realtor.com explains that while sales and prices are expected to increase from last year, they will remain below pre-pandemic levels.

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☆ Some Gen Zers can't believe a $74,000 salary is considered 'middle class'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-05 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A recent Newsweek survey indicated Gen Zers didn't consider a $74,580 salary "middle class." AdvertisementAn Orlando real-estate agent sparked a conversation on TikTok after sharing a survey that suggested Gen Zers didn't consider a $74,580 annual salary "middle class," in contrast with how older generations answered. Even still, Smith suggested $74,000 was much higher than the average Gen Zers' salary. AdvertisementCorrection: January 4, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misidentified the salary in the Newsweek survey. The figure, which applied mostly to millennials, not Gen Zers, was removed from the story.

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☆ An 8,000-year-old fort defies expectations, showing that Stone Age societies built protective structures far earlier than we thought
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-03 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The settlement dates to the Stone Age, a time researchers once considered too unsophisticated for such structures. Originally, archaeologists believed similar settlements were only about 3,000 years old, Archaeology magazine reported. The Neolithic settlement is one of the oldest known fortified structures in the world and was constructed hundreds of years earlier than most other similar structures. Researchers long considered more mobile hunter-gatherers incapable of building such sophisticated structures. "The discovery challenges stereotypes of such societies as simple and mobile, revealing their ability to create sophisticated structures," Schreiber told Newsweek .

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☆ Amazon could shake up regional sports network costs: Newsweek's Tom Rogers
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailAmazon could shake up regional sports network costs: Newsweek's Tom RogersHosted by Brian Sullivan, “Last Call” is a fast-paced, entertaining business show that explores the intersection of money, culture and policy. Tune in Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. ET on CNBC.

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☆ We're all so distracted by Prince Harry and Meghan that King Charles and Prince William's rift went unnoticed, royal author says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A new royal book claims there is a power struggle between King Charles and Prince William. Author Omid Scobie told BI that people are too distracted by Harry and Meghan to notice. Kate Middleton, Prince William, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle wear mourning clothes at Windsor Castle. AdvertisementBuckingham Palace and Kensington Palace did not respond to requests for comment regarding Scobie's book. King Charles and Prince William at a coronation rehearsal.

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Until the embittered end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few of a distrusting Richard Nixon. Political Cartoons View All 1273 Images“No doubt my vanity was piqued,” Kissinger later wrote of his expanding influence during Watergate. Two years later, Saigon fell to the communists, leaving a bitter taste among former U.S. allies who blamed Nixon, Kissinger and Congress for abandoning them. “The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy,” Kissinger tells Nixon. And so they did — the Quaker-born Nixon, the Jewish-born Kissinger, on the floor, Nixon in tears about the unfairness of his fate.

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☆ Inmates at one of Russia's harshest detention centers are forced to listen to Bon Jovi and AC/DC on repeat, detainee says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Detainees at Kapotnya-7 are subjected to daily blasts of Bon Jovi and AC/DC songs, an inmate said. He shared the songs featured on a playlist that those awaiting trial are made to listen to every day. AdvertisementDetainees in one of Russia's strictest pre-trial detention centers are forced to listen to songs by Bon Jovi and AC/DC on repeat every morning, according to a prisoner being held there. Newsweek was the first to report on the repetitive playlist, which detainee Grigory Melkonyants said is blasted via a loudspeaker at the Kapotnya-7 pre-trial detention center. "Grigory Melkonyants, who has spent 100 days in a pre-trial detention center, recorded which songs are played on the internal radio in the pre-trial detention center in the morning," the message said.

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Decades later, his name still provoked impassioned debate over foreign policy landmarks long past. “No doubt my vanity was piqued,” Kissinger later wrote of his expanding influence. For eight restless years — first as national security adviser, later as secretary of state, and for a time in the middle holding both titles — Kissinger ranged across the breadth of major foreign policy issues. That “incursion,” as Nixon and Kissinger called it, was blamed by some for contributing to Cambodia’s fall into the hands of Khmer Rouge insurgents who later slaughtered some 2 million Cambodians. Heinz Alfred Kissinger was born in the Bavarian city of Fuerth on May 27, 1923, the son of a schoolteacher.

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☆ Stunning video shows Antarctic killer whales appearing to use icebergs as scratching posts, possibly to exfoliate their skin
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

National Geographic said it captured the first footage of killer whales rubbing up against an iceberg. AdvertisementOrcas living in the freezing waters of Antarctica have been captured in footage rubbing up against icebergs in what could be an innovative skincare technique. AdvertisementLike humans, whales and dolphins typically shed their skin continuously, and most of them have no problem doing this in warmer waters. The study found that some antarctic killer whales make an essentially nonstop, nearly 7,000-mile migration to warmer waters that takes six to eight weeks. While the reasons whales migrate remain a mystery, the study argued the evidence suggests "deferred skin molt could be the main driver of long-distance migration for antarctic killer whales."

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He initiated the Paris talks that ultimately provided a face-saving means to get the United States out of war in Vietnam. “No doubt my vanity was piqued,” Kissinger later wrote of his expanding influence during Watergate. Kissinger called women “a diversion, a hobby.” Isaacson wrote that Hollywood executives were eager to set him up with starlets, whom Kissinger squired to premieres and showy restaurants. That “incursion,” as Nixon and Kissinger called it, was blamed by some for contributing to Cambodia’s fall into the hands of Khmer Rouge insurgents. But records from the Nixon era, released over the years, brought with them revelations that sometimes cast him in a harsh light.

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☆ The first US hostages in Gaza could be released by Hamas soon, White House says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A US hostage could be freed by Hamas soon, the White House said. AdvertisementA US hostage could soon be freed by Hamas as a truce between Israel and Gaza goes into effect, the White House said. "This first set of hostages, 50 hostages over four days, is women and children." Political tensions had been brewing in the US over the absence of US citizens in the initial group of hostages released by Hamas, Newsweek reported. AdvertisementPresident Joe Biden faced criticism on social media after the first batch of hostages released by Hamas did not include any Americans, per Newsweek.

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☆ ‘Rust’ Killing Forces Hollywood to Make Choices on Guns
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Julia Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The fatal “Rust” shooting offered a vivid reminder that many of the guns used on film sets are real. Sometimes they are loaded with blanks — cartridges with gunpowder but no projectiles — that produce a loud bang and a flash when fired. But while live ammunition is almost always banned on sets, real guns can of course also be loaded with real bullets, which is what happened in 2021 on the day Ms. Hutchins was killed. But since “Rust,” many armorers, who are responsible for firearms safety on sets, have seen opportunities dwindle, several said in interviews. And demand has increased for alternatives to real guns.

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☆ Fmr. NBC Cable President Tom Rogers on Netflix Cup, streaming competition for live sports
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFmr. NBC Cable President Tom Rogers on Netflix Cup, streaming competition for live sportsTom Rogers, Newsweek editor-at-large and Oorbit Gaming and Entertainment executive chairman, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss Netflix's debut in live sports with the 'Netflix Cup', the broader trend among streaming services to expand into live sports, and more.

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☆ A Life of Milton Friedman Seeks the Nuance in His Free-Market Gospel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Jennifer Szalai | More About Jennifer Szalai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

MILTON FRIEDMAN: The Last Conservative, by Jennifer BurnsIn writing her new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, known throughout his long life for his cheerful endorsement of deregulation and free markets, Jennifer Burns certainly had her work cut out for her. “As he increasingly came to symbolize a political movement,” she writes, “the nuance and complexity of his ideas was lost.”But even Burns has to admit that this attention to “nuance and complexity” was something that Friedman did a lot to discourage. The principles underlying such intricate cooperation were “really very simple,” he said. At the University of Chicago, where Friedman spent most of his teaching life, he edged out the leftist scholars clustered in the Cowles Commission for Economic Research, shrewdly getting the Rockefeller Foundation to pull its funding from the commission and finance Friedman’s workshop instead. Charismatic in the classroom, Friedman didn’t just teach students; he created converts.

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☆ HIMARS strike by Ukraine targets Russian drone pilots at training school in Donetsk, say reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A HIMARS attack targeted a Russian drone training school in occupied Donetsk, say reportsActing head of the Donetsk People's Republic said six people were killed and 11 injuried in the attack. AdvertisementAdvertisementRussian officials say a Ukrainian missile attack on Ukraine's occupied eastern Donetsk region targeted a Russian drone pilot training center, Newsweek reports. Acting head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said a Ukrainian HIMARS attack resulted in six deaths and 11 injuries. AdvertisementAdvertisementEarlier this year, a HIMARS attack on five Russian units gathered on a beach resulted in 200 casualties and destroyed equipment. "A lot of people want to become drone pilots because they think the work is further back and safer," one front-line commander told the outlet.

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☆ Opinion: Trump testifies in court. Nothing has prepared him for this moment.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Monica Sarkar | Dennis Aftergut | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

On the issue of intent, in last week’s testimony, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump both attempted to shift the blame onto their accountants. First, the judge has already rejected a key route Trump tried to avoid an admission that he intended to defraud the victims. He fined Trump’s lawyers for doing just that. Again, the attorney general wins whether Trump denies it, or whether he doubles down on what the judge has called Trump’s “fantasy world” financial claims. If the past is prologue, Trump likely will continue to deny liability: Blowing smoke is simply in the nature of a narcissist.

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☆ Speaker Mike Johnson's 'adopted' Black son said he would 'probably be in prison' if not for him
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

House Speaker Mike Johnson's "adopted" Black son has spoken publicly about him for the first time. Michael Tirrell James told DailyMail.com he would "probably be in prison" if it wasn't for Johnson. AdvertisementAdvertisementRepublican House Speaker Mike Johnson's "adopted" Black son has spoken publicly about him for the first time, following reports questioning why he has stayed out of the spotlight. I would probably be in prison, or I might not have made it at all," James told the outlet. "I always felt loved like I was a part of their family," James told DailyMail.com.

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