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☆ After big losses in Ukraine, Putin skipped an awkward global summit and has been conspicuously quiet about the war
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Instead, his spokesman issued a statement insisting that Kherson remained Russian territory despite the Ukrainian flag hoisted above its central square. The conference was dominated by discussion of the war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy made an address to the summit, by special invitation as Ukraine is not a member, unlike Russia. Russia's next move after the loss of Kherson did soon become apparent — but not from anything Putin did in public. On Tuesday, a salvo of missiles fell on cities across Ukraine, the largest barrage in more than a month.
☆ Zelenskyy lays out 10-point peace plan for Ukraine at G20, including withdrawal of Russian troops and 'all for all' prisoner swap
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The plan includes ensuring nuclear and food safety, and an "all for all" prisoner swap. "I am convinced now is the time when the Russian destructive war must and can be stopped," he said. He also called for an "all for all" prisoner swap with Russia, saying: "Thousands of our people — military and civilians — are in Russian captivity. It marked one of the most significant setbacks for Putin in the Ukraine war so far. In his speech to the G20, Zelenskyy accused Russia of turning the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant into a radioactive bomb that can explode at any moment.
☆ Trump will 'burn everything down' if Republicans blame failure of the midterms on him, Mary Trump says
  + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Mary Trump told MSNBC that Trump will "burn everything down" if the GOP blames him for the midterms. "Donald becomes his most dangerous when he fears loss of relevance, when he fears that he is no longer the center of attention," Mary Trump told MSNBC. Mary Trump also told MSNBC that Trump could beat Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a potential contest for the Republican 2024 nomination. "Don't get me wrong, I think he's as dangerous, but I don't think he plays nationally," Mary Trump said of DeSantis. Mary Trump is a 56-year-old psychologist who has long been estranged from the former president.
☆ Liz Cheney says 2022 midterm elections were a 'rejection' of Trump and a 'victory for team normal'
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
GOP Rep. Liz Cheney is a fierce critic of former President Donald Trump. On Thursday she said the 2022 midterm elections marked a "victory for team normal," reports said. Cheney endorsed three Democrats in the midterm elections, two of whom won. "Well, I think that it was a clear victory for team normal," Cheney said. "We believe in standing up for the Constitution, and for the Republic and a real rejection of the toxicity, and the hate, and vitriol, and of Donald Trump."
☆ Wives of Russian soldiers showed up at Ukraine border and demanded to take their husbands home, report says
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Wives of Russian soldiers traveled to a military base at the Ukrainian border, The Insider reported. They said their husbands were wounded on the front and demanded they be taken out of the country. One woman said if officials don't help, she would go to the front to rescue the soldiers herself. (The Insider is a Russian news outlet and has no affiliation with Insider.) Top US general Mark Milley estimated Wednesday that more than 100,000 Russian soldiers were "killed and wounded" since Russia invaded Ukraine, Reuters reported.
☆ A furious Trump is blaming Melania for urging him to support Dr. Oz, who lost a key Senate race: NYT reporter
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Trump-backed Republican Mehmet Oz lost the race for US Senate in Pennsylvania this week. The former president was "furious" about his loss, The New York Times' Maggie Haberman tweeted. Among others, Trump blamed his wife, Melania, for encouraging him to back Oz, Haberman said. Former First Lady Melania Trump and Fox News host Sean Hannity had been pressing Trump to back Oz because they were friends with him, Axios' Jonathan Swan reported at the time. The Failing New York Times has gone crazy."
☆ Meet Maxwell Alejandro Frost, the 25-year-old gun-violence-prevention advocate backed by Bernie Sanders who will be the first Gen Z member of Congress
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
At 25, Frost is set to become the first Gen Z member of Congress. Frost, who would also be Congress' only Afro-Cuban member, beat Republican candidate Calvin Wimbish by nearly 20 points, per Decision Desk HQ. "It still hasn't fully sunken in," Frost told Insider at the time. At 25 — the minimum age to serve in the US House — Frost will be the youngest member of Congress. "You get in for one reason, and then you find out there's a lot of things that are messed up," he told Insider in May.
☆ Russia's elite fear for their safety after a Putin ally advocated punishing those who don't support the war, report says
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin has been an influential player during Russia's war in Ukraine. He said that tycoons who don't show enough support for the war should face "Stalinist repressions." Prigozhin's comments have worried Russian elites, who told Bloomberg they fear for their safety. The officials told Bloomberg they were concerned for their own safety, and that they were checking in with each other regularly to see if their family members are safe. Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told Bloomberg that Prigozhin is "behaving like a parallel government."
☆ Trump's one-time White House chief of staff says the former president 'is not doing very well' on the midterms, and that Ron DeSantis could beat him in 2024
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Ron DeSantis defeated Democrat Charlie Crist on Tuesday. Former Trump White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told CBS News that "DeSantis wins tonight." Ron DeSantis has come out on top. "Between being Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis tonight, you want to be Ron DeSantis," Mulvaney told CBS News, NBC reported. He told CNN in July that Trump is the "only mainstream Republican" who could lose the White House in 2024.
☆ Democrat John Fetterman wiped back tears in an emotional speech after winning key Senate race in Pennsylvania
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Democrat John Fetterman won the race for US Senate in Pennsylvania on Wednesday morning. As he thanked his supporters in a speech, Fetterman seemed stunned and wiped away tears. The projection gave Fetterman a lead that overturns a Republican-held Senate seat and marked a huge victory for Democrats. It's like 1.30 in the morning and you're still here hanging in," the Democrat said, wiping away tears. But a physician's note Fetterman released last month said he was recovering well and could carry out public office.
☆ The US is quietly asking major banks like JPMorgan and Citi to keep doing business with some Russian firms, report says
  + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
US officials asked major banks to maintain ties with Russian companies, Bloomberg reportedIts report said banks were asked to keep dealing with firms that are partly exempt from sanctions. The Russian firms included state-run gas giant Gazprom and fertilizer producer Uralkali PJSC, sources told Bloomberg. In a congressional hearing on September 21, CEOs of major US banks came under scrutiny for their dealings in Russia. Leaders of major Western banks have been condemned by Ukrainian officials, who said in July that they would pursue war-crimes charges against them. "In our logic, everybody who is financing these war criminals who are doing these terrible things in Ukraine are also committing war crimes," he added.
☆ How Sergei Shoigu went from Putin's wilderness bestie to the scapegoat for Russia's failures in Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Shoigu was born in 1955 in the remote town of Chadan in Siberia. The Soviet Union was a world power and the Cold War just beginning. A man outside the former central temple for Buddhists of Tuva, near the settlement of Chadan, in Russia's Tuva region. Ilya Naymushin/ReutersThe town is close to the Mongolian border. Shoigu's mother was Russian but born in Ukraine, while his father was Tuvan — an ethnic group that is indigenous to Siberia.
☆ Pilot whose plane crashed into a lake in Tanzania desperately tried to get out of the cockpit before he died, witness says
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A Tanzanian passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria on Sunday, killing 19 people on board. Majaliwa Jackson, the fisherman, was among the first people at the site of the Precision Air plane crash in Tanzania's Lake Victoria on Sunday. "He directed me to break the window screen," Jackson told the BBC. "He pointed out the cockpit emergency door to me," Jackson told the BBC. The plane took off from Tanzania's commercial capital of Dar es Salaam on Sunday morning and was supposed to land in Bukoba when it instead plunged into Lake Victoria, Africa's largest freshwater lake.
☆ Donald Trump Jr. harshly mocked John Fetterman's stroke, escalating GOP attacks on his health in the tight PA Senate race
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz are facing off for US Senate in Pennsylvania. Fetterman's health has become a focal point of the race after he suffered a stroke in May. Donald Trump Jr. mocked Fetterman on Sunday, saying he doesn't have "a working brain." Fetterman's health has been a major focal point during the race and many GOP figures, including Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, have mocked him for it. The Oz campaign has also repeatedly questioned Fetterman's ability to serve and insisted he provides a regular update on his health.
☆ Amber Heard is no longer on Twitter, days after her ex-boyfriend Elon Musk bought the platform
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter closed last week, prompting some celebrities to leave the platform. Heard still has her Instagram account, but hasn't posted since her defamation trial ended. Despite having a Twitter and an Instagram account, Heard had remained silent on social media ever since her courtroom showdown with ex-husband Johnny Depp earlier this year. During the trial, Heard became the subject of intense bullying and harassment online. Shortly after, Heard posted a statement on both Twitter and Instagram saying she was "disappointed" and "sad" that she had lost the case.
☆ Marjorie Taylor Greene gets rally to boo Paul Pelosi, says he should have had a gun and shot his attacker
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at a rally in Iowa on Thursday ahead of the mid-term elections. She told the crowd that Paul Pelosi "should have been a gun owner and shot his attacker." But the only crime victim you hear about from Democrats in the media is Paul Pelosi," Greene said, drawing boos from the crowd. "Paul Pelosi was brutally attacked by a drugged-out illegal alien that should have been deported," she said, adding that he "should have been a gun owner and shot his attacker." Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 3, 2022Pelosi, 82, was attacked last week by a man who broke into the couple's San Francisco home and hit him in the head with a hammer.
☆ Ukraine shares video of Russian helicopter getting blasted out of the sky, the latest in a string of takedowns
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Ukrainian forces have reported taking out multiple Russian helicopters in recent weeks. A Ukrainian official on Wednesday shared a video he said shows a strike on a Russian helicopter. Ukraine has reported taking out multiple Russian helicopters in recent weeks. "This represents over 25% of the Russian Air Force's in-service fleet of 90 KA-52s and nearly half of Russia's total helicopter losses in Ukraine," the update said. On Monday, Ukrainian forces sabotaged an airbase deep inside Russia, close to the Latvian border, planting explosives inside the military helicopters, CNN reported.
☆ 100 drafted Russian soldiers went on strike, refusing to fight in Ukraine after not getting paid, report says
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Russia is struggling to pay promised compensation for mobilized soldiers, leading to protests. More than 100 went on strike in a training center in Ulyanovsk, The Insider reported. The soldiers said they refused to go to the front until they are paid what they were promised. (The Insider is a Russian news outlet and has no affiliation with Insider.) In June, officials also raised salaries for contract soldiers to around 247,700 rubles ($4,000) a month, complete with bonuses for destroying planes and tanks, BBC Russia reported.
☆ Russia abandoned its plan to block food exports leaving Ukraine after ships ignored Putin and kept sailing anyway
  + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Russia pulled out of its grain export deal with Ukraine over the weekend. The grain export deal, brokered by Turkey and the UN, is vital to the global food supply. But despite the country's withdrawal, a UN official said Tuesday that they would press ahead with their plans to let authorized ships leave Ukraine. The World Food Programme warned earlier this year that Russia's invasion could result in a "hunger catastrophe" if such a food export deal was not struck. The head of the European Council in June also accused Russia's troops of burning Ukrainian fields and stealing wheat, compounding food shortages.
☆ Kyiv is putting up more than 1,000 heating points around the city as Russia targets Ukraine's power and water
  + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Ukraine is facing a shortage of electricity, water, and heat as Russia targets its energy infrastructure. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that more than 1,000 heating points will be set up in the city. The stations have generators and water supplies, he said. "The worst one is where there will be no electric power, water, or district heating at all," he added. Targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure has become a new focus of Russia's invasion in the last few weeks.
☆ Former Proud Boys member was hired to work at Miami polling station until it surfaced he is awaiting trial for Jan. 6, report says
  + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Two other former members were hired, and are still in the roles, the Miami Herald reported. A former member of the far-right Proud Boys group was scheduled to work at a Miami polling station until officials learned he is awaiting trial over the Capitol riot, the Miami Herald reported on Monday. Former Proud Boys member Gabriel Garcia in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to the Department of Justice. Multiple Proud Boys members were at the Capitol riot, and several of them have been charged over it. He voluntarily testified to the House committee investigating the riot about the role the Proud Boys played in the event, the Times reported.
☆ 2 major Russia businessmen renounced their citizenship, condemning Putin's invasion of Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky and tycoon Oleg Tinkov renounced their Russian citizenship. "I hate Putin's Russia, but love all Russians, who are clearly against this crazy war!" In the later post, Tinkov blamed "Kremlin trolls" for that first post having "mysteriously disappeared." Storonsky also criticized the conflict in a company blog post earlier this year, highlighting his Ukrainian family connections. "I hope more prominent Russian businessmen will follow me, so it weakens Putin's regime and his economy," he wrote.
☆ Biden snapped at Zelenskyy in a June phone call when he asked for more aid, report says, in a fleeting moment of conflict between the two leaders
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Biden and Zelenskyy had a tense phone conversation in June, NBC News reported. The leaders were discussing a US military aid package when Zelenskyy suggested he needed more help. The two leaders had the tense phone conversation on June 15, almost four months after Russia first launched its invasion of Ukraine. A source familiar with the conversation told NBC that the exchange wasn't heated or angry, but Biden was direct with Zelenskyy. Administration officials told NBC that the two leaders' relationship has only improved since the call.
☆ Elon Musk says he'll be 'digging' into shadowbans on his first day at Twitter as conservatives urge him to overturn their previous punishments
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that he will be "digging" into shadowbans as he takes over Twitter. Right-wing politicians and pundits have started calling on Musk to make changes to Twitter. "As of now, I'm still Shadowbanned, ghost banned, search banned, and Twitter removed 1200 followers today - as usual," Catturd, whose identity is not known, posted on Friday. Conservative commentators Piers Morgan and Ben Shaprio have both asked Musk to restore controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson's account. Even the editor-in-chief of the pro-war, Kremlin-funded Russia Today channel asked Musk for help.
☆ Elon Musk says he'll be 'digging' into shadow bans on his first day at Twitter as conservatives urge him to overturn their previous punishments
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that he will be "digging" into shadowbans as he takes over Twitter. Right-wing politicians and pundits have started calling on Musk to make changes to Twitter. "As of now, I'm still Shadowbanned, ghost banned, search banned, and Twitter removed 1200 followers today - as usual," Catturd, whose identity is not known, posted on Friday. Conservative commentators Piers Morgan and Ben Shaprio have both asked Musk to restore controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson's account. Even the editor-in-chief of the pro-war, Kremlin-funded Russia Today channel asked Musk for help.
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