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☆ 5 symbolic moments you may have missed from Zelenskyy's White House visit and historic address to Congress, from his green sweatshirt to quoting FDR
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave a historic address to Congress on Wednesday. Zelenskyy made multiple comparisons to World War II and American history during the speech. There were also a few symbolic aspects to Zelenskyy's visit, as well as similarities to historic events. Pelosi also gifted Zelenskyy with a flag — an American flag that flew over the Capitol on Wednesday — in honor of his visit. Comparison to the Battle of the Bulge and Battle of SaratogaZelenskyy again made a comparison to America's role in World War II, invoking the Battle of the Bulge.

[1/2] U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy walk down the Colonnade to the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 21, 2022. The planning for Zelenskiy's speech began in October, according to a Pelosi aide, when she met with Ruslan Stefanchuk, chairman of Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. Zelenskiy, Fried said, "didn’t go to Berlin, Brussels, London or Paris" for his first trip abroad since the start of the war. The optics of Zelenskiy receiving a hero's welcome as a defender of democracy carries a message far deeper than military aid. In a Senate speech he described Zelenskiy as "a leader who is fighting for his life, fighting for his country's survival and fighting to preserve the very idea of democracy."

☆ George Santos responds to report that accused him of misrepresenting credentials on campaign trail
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Zoë Richards | Zoë Richards Is The Evening Politics Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Santos, 34, was elected to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional District, beating Democrat Robert Zimmerman last month. Representatives for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs told NBC New York they had no record of his employment. In a statement Monday, Santos’ lawyer, Joseph Murray, dismissed the story, insisting that Santos was being smeared by "enemies" at the paper, and suggesting that Santos, posed a threat to Democrats. "It is no surprise that Congressman-elect Santos has enemies at the New York Times who are attempting to smear his good name with these defamatory allegations. The upset means Santos will succeed Democrat Tom Suozzi, who lost a primary bid for governor this year.

☆ Incoming GOP congressman George Santos appears to have lied about his job history, educational background, and even possibly his home address. But House Republicans have no incentive to stop him from
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A recent New York Times report details how Representative-elect George Santos misrepresented his past. The avenues the GOP can take to address Santos are few and unlikely. Santos' attorney, Joseph Murray, responded to the New York Times' allegations by attacking the publication and using a misattributed Winston Churchill quote. Schaub also noted that Republicans in Congress could deny Santos committee assignments, an action that could affect Santos' future reelection chances. "According to the New York Times story, none of those were verifiable.

☆ King Charles III banknote images revealed for first time
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Lauren Kent | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

London CNN Business —The first images of banknotes featuring Britain’s King Charles III were unveiled on Tuesday by the Bank of England. Charles’ portrait will appear on English notes of £5, £10, £20 and £50. Image of King Charles III on the English £50 note. “This is a significant moment, as The King is only the second monarch to feature on our banknotes,” Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said ahead of the release. Earlier this month, the first coins bearing the official effigy of King Charles III entered circulation.

☆ Incoming GOP congressman accused of lying about his employment history and where he went to college defends himself with a false Winston Churchill quote
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Charles R. Davis | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Long Island Republican George Santos has been accused of fabricating his biography. In a statement Monday night, Santos's attorney quoted Winston Churchill. The statement posted on George Santos' Twitter account attributes a Victor Hugo quote to Winston Churchill. It goes on to quote the former Conservative UK prime minister who led Britain during World War II: "As Winston Churchill famously stated, 'You have enemies? As a representative for the International Churchill Society told the fact-checking website: "Churchill never said it."

☆ Police officers to receive Congressional Gold Medals for Jan. 6
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

To recognize the hundreds of officers who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the medals will be placed in four locations — at U.S. Capitol Police headquarters, the Metropolitan Police Department, the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution. Awarding the medals will be among House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s last ceremonial acts as she prepares to step down from leadership. Officers suffered physical wounds, including brain injuries and other lifelong effects, and many struggled to work afterward because they were so traumatized. Two police officers died by suicide in the days that immediately followed, and a third officer, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, collapsed and later died after one of the rioters sprayed him with a chemical. The Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor Congress can bestow, has been handed out by the legislative branch since 1776.

☆ Kanye Twitter post of a swastika after Alex Jones appearance is scary. But Jews have survived worse.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Adam Zimmerman | Adam Zimmerman Is A Communications | Public Relations Consultant In Maryland. He Teaches A Seventh-Grade Holocaust Class | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Antisemitic incidents are now so rampant that we have had to postpone planned lessons on the history of the Holocaust to focus on the present. Adolf Hitler and his Nazis took many things from my grandmother: her parents, most of her siblings, many friends and her childhood. “I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis,” Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, proclaimed Thursday on right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ show, perhaps emboldened by his dinner with Trump and Fuentes. “I see good things about Hitler, also.” He then took to Twitter and posted a swastika before being banned from the platform on Friday. True, antisemitism dates back thousands of years.

☆ Academy Award winner Gary Oldman teases the end of his movie career: 'I don't want to be active when I'm 80'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Gary Oldman has been starring in films for the past 40 years, but he doesn't anticipate working for too much longer. In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, the 64-year-old actor said that he is looking forward to pursuing other interests beyond performing. "I've had an enviable career, but careers wane," Oldman said. "When you're young, you think you're going to get 'round to doing all of them—read that book—then the years go by," he said. Sign up now: Get smarter about your money and career with our weekly newsletter

☆ Britain’s Decline From Winston Churchill to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Walter Russell Mead | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Walter Russell Mead is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York. He is also a member of Aspen Institute Italy and board member of Aspenia. Before joining Hudson, Mr. Mead was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations as the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy. He has authored numerous books, including the widely-recognized Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004). Mr. Mead’s next book is entitled The Arc of A Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Future of the Jewish People.

☆ Watch: The Fast Rise of Rishi Sunak, Britain’s New Prime Minister
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Watch: A Timeline of Liz Truss’s 45 Days as U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss became the shortest-serving U.K. prime minister and the first since Winston Churchill to serve two monarchs when she resigned after just 45 days in power. WSJ’s David Luhnow explains how her premiership came crashing down. Photo illustration: Adele Morgan

☆ Rishi Sunak: U.K. Faces a ‘Profound Economic Challenge’
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Watch: China’s Ex-Leader Hu Jintao Escorted Out of Party Congress
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ernaux, the first French woman to win the literature prize, said winning the award was "immense". "It's a long path that she makes in her life," Swedish Academy member Anders Olsson told Reuters. "I did not imagine at the time that 22 years later, the right to abortion would be challenged," Ernaux told reporters in Paris. 1/7 French novelist Annie Ernaux talks to the media after being announced as the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, in Cergy-Pontoise, France October 6, 2022. "I always said that I did not want to get the Nobel prize," she told reporters at her French publisher Gallimard's office.

☆ About 250,000 attended Queen Elizabeth's lying-in-state, UK minister says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's funeral procession makes its way down the Long Walk towards Windsor Castle, September 19, 2022. SSgt Dek Traylor/Pool via REUTERSLONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Some 250,000 mourners filed past Queen Elizabeth's coffin at Westminster Hall in London during her lying-in-state, Britain's culture minister Michelle Donelan said on Tuesday. Britain's last lying-in-state was held for war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill who died in 1965. About 321,360 people filed past his coffin at Westminster Hall, according to a House of Commons note. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Sachin Ravikumar, editing by Elizabeth PiperOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Liz Truss and King Charles III could be the end of the 'United' Kingdom
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Peter Mcloughlin | World Politics Review | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

King Charles III and Prime Minister Liz Truss now lead a United Kingdom with profound divisions. However, when this ends with the late queen's funeral Monday, the new heads of state and government, King Charles III and Liz Truss, will be left leading a United Kingdom that is profoundly divided. However, the EU, the Irish government and most nationalists in Northern Ireland oppose any unilateral changes to the treaty. Nationalists, who are growing in numbers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, might see this as the moment to unravel the union. Peter McLoughlin is a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, where he focuses on contemporary political history in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

☆ The Queen Is Everywhere. What Will the Royal Makeover Cost?
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Isabella Simonetti | Rebecca Lieberman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Since her death this month, Queen Elizabeth’s face has been all over nonstop news coverage. There are around 115,500 mailboxes throughout Britain and 61.4 percent of those, which date to the reign of Queen Victoria, bear Queen Elizabeth’s royal cypher, according to the Royal Mail Group. All mailboxes and those already in production with Queen Elizabeth’s initials will remain intact, the service’s website says. Its designs include Queen Elizabeth, an orange and white corgi, Big Ben, and now, King Charles and Camilla, queen consort. So far this month, however, it has sold 60 Queen Elizabeth ornaments and eight of King Charles.

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterPin-drop silence fell over London's Hyde Park nearby as thousands of people, who for hours had picnicked and chatted, went quiet the second the queen's coffin appeared on screens erected for the occasion. Inside the abbey, lines of scripture were set to music that has been used at every state funeral since the early 18th century. Among those walking behind the casket was the queen's great-grandson and future king, nine-year-old Prince George. Those who had camped out in nearby streets were watching the service on smartphones, while hush descended along the Mall, one of London's grand ceremonial boulevards, as the funeral service was relayed live through loudspeakers. 1/35 The funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey.

Inside the abbey, lines of scripture were set to music that has been used at every state funeral since the early 18th century. Those who had camped out in nearby streets were watching the service on smartphones, while hush descended along the Mall, one of London's grand ceremonial boulevards, as the funeral service was relayed live through loudspeakers. 1/35 The funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey. The 40th sovereign in a line that traces its lineage back to 1066, Elizabeth came to the throne in 1952, Britain's first post-imperial monarch. "Queen Elizabeth II was without any shadow of a doubt the best known figure in the world, the most photographed person in history, the most recognisable person," historian Anthony Seldon told Reuters.

☆ Factbox: Plans for Queen Elizabeth's state funeral on Monday
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Jeff J Mitchell/Pool via REUTERSLONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - World leaders will join Britain's royal family, its political elite and members of the military, judiciary and charitable organisations at the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth on Monday. - The State Gun Carriage is a field gun carriage that has previously been used for the funerals of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI, Winston Churchill, and Lord Louis Mountbatten. - The coffin will be followed by King Charles and members of the royal family. The King's Guard in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace will give a royal salute as the coffin passes Queen Victoria Memorial. - The royal family will travel to Windsor by car.

☆ Queen Elizabeth led the UK for 70 years. Here are the most important lessons on leadership from her reign.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-14 | by ( Rachel Durose | Shana Lebowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8, was the longest-ruling monarch in British history. Queen Elizabeth II didn't build such a devoted following by merely wearing a crown. Here are the most meaningful leadership lessons from Queen Elizabeth II's reign. To counteract this declining public image, Queen Elizabeth II led the United Kingdom by putting her people above all else, McGovern said. Queen Elizabeth II making her first Christmas broadcast to the nation from Sandringham House in Norfolk, England on December 25, 1952.

☆ 6 times Queen Elizabeth II showed strength and empathy during her reign
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-09 | by ( Marguerite Ward | Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted a review of her 70-year reign. Though imperfect, she showed strength and empathy through her domestic and international leadership. The death of Queen Elizabeth II at 96 on Thursday wasn't a surprise, yet it still came as a shock. Known for her unwavering dedication to the throne, the Queen was an imperfect leader and one whose legacy is complicated by racism and the UK's stain of colonization. Here are six times the Queen was credited with showing courage and empathy as a leader.

☆ Factbox: Queen Elizabeth's reign in numbers
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Tributes are left in Green Park, following the death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, in London, Britain September 17, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File PhotoRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterLONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Following is a summary of the late British Queen Elizabeth's life in numbers:* Queen Elizabeth II was the 40th monarch in England since Norman King William the Conqueror obtained the crown. Her reign of 70 years, 7 months and 2 days was the longest in the history of what became the United Kingdom. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register* She had 15 prime ministers, starting with Winston Churchill through to Liz Truss. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Frances Kerry and Alex RichardsonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ The UK has a new prime minister — meet Liz Truss, the tax-cutting Brexit convert taking over from Boris Johnson
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-05 | by ( Bethany Dawson | Catherine Neilan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Liz Truss has been named the new prime minister of the UK in the wake of Boris Johnson quitting. The victory also makes her the new prime minister, due to take over Tuesday. An ally of Johnson, Truss has often been described as the continuity candidate — but who is she, and what can we expect from her premiership? While Truss has been named as the Conservative Party leader, she must wait another day before officially becoming prime minister. Truss is set to become prime minister Tuesday after traveling to meet the Queen at Balmoral in Scotland.

☆ Tabloul pictat de fostul prim-ministru britanic Winston Churchill a fost vândut pentru suma de 1 milion 845 mii de dolari
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-24 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: 1 min

Tabloul pictat de fostul prim-ministru britanic Winston Churchill a fost vândut pentru suma de 1 milion 845 mii de dolari. Licitația a avut loc miercuri, la New York. Pe pagina oficială a casei de licitații se menţionează că valoarea estimată a lotului a variat între 1,5 milioane și 2 milioane de dolari. Numele noului proprietar nu a fost divulgat. Winston Churchill a devenit pasionat de artă la vârsta de peste 40 de ani și a reușit să picteze peste 500 de opere.

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