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☆ A European leader's top aide suggested his country wouldn't have resisted if Russia had invaded it
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An aide to the Hungarian PM was criticized after suggesting Hungary wouldn't have resisted a Russian invasion. He referred back to a 1956 uprising in Budapest, which the Soviet Union brutally repressed. He said it was "irresponsible" to resist, citing the number of dead in the Ukraine war. He said this was because Hungary had tried and failed to resist the Soviet Union in 1956. Viktor Orbán is Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest ally in the European Union, a position that has put him strongly out of favor in the bloc.

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☆ Independent journalist publishes Trump campaign document hacked by Iran despite election interference concerns
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Kevin Collier | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The PDF document is a 271-page opposition research file on former President Donald Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio. But on Thursday, reporter Ken Klippenstein, who self-publishes on Substack after he left The Intercept this year, published one of the files. "If the document had been hacked by some 'anonymous' like hacker group, the news media would be all over it. Three U.S. agencies have publicly attributed the hack and the subsequent distribution of the files to Iran. As president, Trump authorized the assassination of military leader Qassem Soleimani.

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The PDF document is a 271-page opposition research file on former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio. But on Thursday, reporter Ken Klippenstein, who self-publishes on Substack after he left The Intercept this year, published one of the files. “If the document had been hacked by some ‘anonymous’ like hacker group, the news media would be all over it. As president, Trump authorized the assassination of military leader Qassem Soleimani. The Vance file appears to be the one Klippenstein hosts on his site.

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☆ Janet Yellen didn't name Trump in her big speech, but her fears of his anti-regulation stance loomed large
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewSpeaking at the US Treasury Market Conference on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen referenced her predecessors — and their mistakes — often. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. "In January 2021, I stepped into a Treasury Department whose focus on financial stability had all but disappeared," she said. "Put simply, we were without crucial tools to identify and help respond to risks to financial stability," she said. Related storiesThere's nothing indicating that a second Trump administration would bring a different attitude toward regulation than his first.

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The Summary Brett Favre revealed on Tuesday that he has Parkinson's disease. Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre’s announcement that he has Parkinson’s disease is bringing renewed attention to the potential links between collision sports and a risk of brain disease. It definitely says something.”Neurologists who treated boxing legend Muhammad Ali concluded in 2022 that his medical history supported a diagnosis of young-onset Parkinson’s disease, but they could not link the disease to head trauma. Many former football players have been found to show signs of the brain disease, which can only be diagnosed post-mortem. Crutchfield said it’s important for players to take breaks after a head trauma to avoid more serious brain injuries.

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Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre said he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's, a stunning disclosure made to Congress on Tuesday while testifying about his potential misuse of taxpayer money. Favre, appearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, has been accused of improperly using political connections to redirect public money to his alma mater and his own pocket. "Sadly, I also lost an investment in a company that I believed was developing a breakthrough concussion drug I thought would help others, and I’m sure you’ll understand why it’s too late for me because I’ve recently been diagnosed with Parkinson’s," Favre told lawmakers. Recently, the doctor, running the company pleaded guilty to taking (public) money for his own use." The Hall of Fame QB improperly received program money for speaking engagements that he never made, according to a state auditor.

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☆ German voters fend off far-right in latest state vote, early results suggest
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

“Dietmar Woidke and his Brandenburg SPD have made a furious comeback in recent weeks,” said SPD General Secretary Kevin Kuehnert. “For us in the federal SPD, this evening, if things go well, the problems that lie ahead of us will not have gotten any bigger. SPD party members and supporters react during the publication of exit polls in Potsdam. Provisional official results suggested it had gained 5.7 percentage points since the last Brandenburg election in 2019. With the Greens failing to re-enter Brandenburg state parliament, Woidke’s SPD cannot continue its coalition with the CDU and Greens.

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☆ Trump is unlikely to get a last-minute Electoral College change that would have helped him win the election
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Nebraska Republicans dominate the state's politics, including its officially non-partisan, one-house legislature. The Nebraska Examiner reported that without McDonnell, Republicans have "no path" unless a Democrat or nonpartisan lawmaker changes their mind. Nebraska and Maine are the only states that award some of their Electoral College votes by congressional district. In 2020, President Joe Biden carried the Omaha-area 2nd District and its one Electoral College vote. If she carries the Omaha-area vote, she could win by holding onto Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin — the so-called "Blue Wall" states.

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The payment was listed as a “speaking engagement.”Trump’s latest disclosure form said Melania Trump was paid by the Log Cabin Republicans for the April fundraiser. The source told CNN that Ric Grenell, former ambassador to Germany and a Trump ally, was the one who made the request on behalf of Melania Trump. One person close to Melania Trump said she has decided “my best and highest use is where I am,” adding that “she’s a priceless, timeless asset” for Donald Trump. A spokesperson for Melania Trump declined to comment in response to CNN’s questions. Melania Trump is not the only Trump family member to get paid while in the political spotlight.

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☆ The RFK Jr.-Nuzzi relationship had reportedly become an open secret in some circles before the news broke
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Following the initial news, The Daily Beast reported that the relationship between the star reporter, 31, and the Kennedy scion, 70, had been somewhat of an open secret. Nuzzi initially denied the affair, the Daily Beast added, though that clearly didn't hold up with whatever evidence Haskell had. AdvertisementThat corroborates the original reporting on the affair from Oliver Darcy's newsletter Status, in which he said Kennedy "boasted" about the relationship. According to The Daily Beast, at least some sexts were sent.

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☆ There's a Reason Elon Musk Isn't Fighting for Speech Rights in France: Expert
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementBut an expert on corporate law told Business Insider that there's a reason the billionaire isn't taking his battle of free speech principles to, say, France. Musk has previously complied with content moderation requests from other governments, including the increasingly authoritarian nations of Turkey and India. In 2023, he indicated he would abide by the European Union's rulebook on content moderation, known as the Digital Services Act, Politico reported. Alon-Beck told BI that, in countries like France with strict laws around content moderation, Musk is no different than Durov, and she would expect he could be arrested if he continues to push the boundaries of local content moderation laws. AdvertisementRepresentatives for X, Telegram, and the Brazilian Supreme Court did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.

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☆ US likely to send Ukraine the AGM-154 glide weapon for its F-16s as part of a new $375M aid package: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The US is likely to send Ukraine AGM-154 glide munitions, Politico reported. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementThe US will likely send Ukraine an unspecified number of AGM-154 glide munitions as part of a new $375 million aid package, Politico reported, citing two US officials and a person familiar with the matter. While the contents of the package are still subject to change, the people said, it will likely also include air defense missiles, rockets, and artillery weaponry.

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☆ How reproductive rights, Greek life, and celebrity endorsements could prove key to Kamala Harris' bid for women voters
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

And it seems to be going well for the vice president so far. AdvertisementA key area closely connected to gender voting patterns — and which has helped tip elections toward the Democrats in recent years — is abortion rights. AdvertisementWomen-led political action committees (PACs) and organizations have also been rallying behind the vice president over the issue. The vice president is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the US's oldest Black sorority and part of the National Pan-Hellenic Council — more commonly known as the Divine Nine. Black women are also getting behind Harris' running mate, Tim Walz, who has established himself as a reproductive rights messenger in his own right.

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☆ US Navy's new submarines are 'in crisis' as costs balloon by $17 billion, lawmaker says
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The news comes after a major report earlier this year revealed the Navy's biggest projects, including new Virginia-class submarines, were facing severe delays of up to three years. Absent today's intervention, I have zero confidence that Navy shipbuilding will get back on track." The Navy attributed shipbuilding delays across its top programs to COVID-19's impact on the workforce and supply chain. "Somehow, the Navy continues to assert that commitments to INDOPACOM and our AUKUS partners remain on track" despite Virginia-class delays, he said. Virginia-class submarines are considered vital to the US' role in deterring and, if necessary, fighting China.

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☆ German media empire Axel Springer to split in deal with KKR
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Passers-by walk in front of the main entrance to the Axel Springer high-rise. The two sides had reached a deal in the summer to split Axel Springer, a source told Reuters on Saturday. KKR and its partner CPP Investments currently hold a 35.6% and 12.9% stake in Axel Springer, respectively, while Doepfner and Friede Springer hold 21.9% and 22.5%. Axel Springer had been preparing to float Stepstone but the planned initial public offering was shelved when war broke out in Ukraine in 2022. KKR and CPP Investments are now likely to target an IPO in the second half of 2025, according to an industry source.

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☆ Iranian hackers sent stolen Trump campaign information to Biden campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | Evan Perez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Iranian hackers sent unsolicited information they stole from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to people who were affiliated with Joe Biden’s campaign over the summer, federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday. The law enforcement statement Wednesday said that the hackers’ efforts to send information to US media outlets have continued. Law enforcement officials have previously said that those efforts also included an unsuccessful attempt to hack the Biden-Harris campaign. The Iranian hackers did breach the email account of longtime Trump ally Roger Stone to target campaign staff in June, CNN has reported. Investigators believe the suspected Iranian hackers breached Stone’s account and then used that email account to try to break into the account of a senior Trump campaign official as part of a persistent effort to access campaign networks.

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☆ New York Democrats are desperate to avoid repeat of their 2022 midterm collapse
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Gregory Krieg | Gloria Pazmino | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

New York Democrats offered a wide array of excuses for their disastrous 2022 midterms, when Republicans flipped four seats outside New York City on their way to winning a narrow US House majority. Now, less than two months out from the 2024 general election, the state party, its campaign season allies, chastened candidates and Gov. D’Esposito is one of five New York GOP freshmen facing an onslaught from Democrats determined to claw back suburban voters. “New York is the reason Democrats lost the House in 2022,” said Pamela Shifman, president of the Democracy Alliance, a liberal group spending big in New York this year. “There’s more focus than there was the last couple cycles, both from the state party, but also obviously the national committees,” the strategist said.

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☆ Harris gets pressed for policy details: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

In today’s edition, reporter Curtis Bunn brings us a dispatch from Kamala Harris' interview with members of the National Association of Black Journalists. Plus, national political reporter Ben Kamisar breaks down where third-party candidates are appearing on the ballot in key battlegrounds. Read more from Curtis →Focus returns to Springfield: Harris also ripped Trump’s repeated bashing of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, in the NABJ interview, saying he was “spewing lies grounded in tropes.”“It’s a crying shame. After having spent millions to get on state ballots, Kennedy has tried to pull back since he endorsed Trump. And there are still other third-party candidates, including some familiar faces and some new ones, whose presence on key state ballots could affect the November results.

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PHILADELPHIA — Vice President Kamala Harris will take questions from three members of the National Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday, six weeks after former President Donald Trump questioned her ethnicity and clashed with a journalist at the organization’s national convention in Chicago. But it is not an official campaign event, and it is open only to select NABJ members and 100 students from historically Black colleges and universities. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black,” Trump said, drawing gasps. “NABJ does not endorse political candidates as a journalism organization,” NABJ President Ken Lemon said in a statement last week. The interview with Vice President Harris is designed to inform the public and give our members access to help inform their reporting.

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☆ China frees American pastor who U.S. claims was wrongly jailed
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

China has freed David Lin, a U.S. pastor who had been in jail since 2006, the State Department said Sunday, marking the release of a man who Washington claims was wrongfully detained. U.S. politicians had for years urged Beijing to free Lin, who was jailed for life on charges of contract fraud. “We welcome David Lin’s release from prison in the People’s Republic of China. American pastor David Lin and his daughter Alice in 1984. Bring Our Families Home Campaign/ Alice LinLin’s daughter Alice earlier told Politico that her 68-year-old father would be arriving in San Antonio, Texas.

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☆ Harris can chart her own path with the top regulators — and Big Business hopes she's on their side
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Chris Larsen, the billionaire founder of blockchain payments company Ripple who is among the execs to endorse Harris, told Business Insider he wants her to make different appointments if she wins. "The way that they have already been interacting with business leaders is a compelling indication of where things could go in the future," Levie told Business Insider. Kovacic previously told Business Insider that Harris' relationship to economic progressives like Warren remains unclear. "It's not as though they think she will simply be an agent of Big Tech," he previously told Business Insider. "In the next four years, we'll be dealing with major policy subjects that relate to the next many decades of innovation," he told Business Insider.

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☆ Trump's debate fumble let Harris redefine the race
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Trump even muddled the most basic attack on connecting Harris to Biden, claiming at one point that Biden "hates" his own vice president. Trump, an acolyte of Roy Cohn, forgot the controversial lawyer's most famous adage to "Attack, Attack, Attack" when he needed it the most. And as he did, all night, Trump took the bait, spending the first part of his rebuttal defending the money his father gave him. Harris continues to have a slight lead in the major national polling averages, but the race remains even closer in key swing states. After reversing himself many times, Trump declared before the weekend that he would not debate Harris again.

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☆ Large supplies of military gear Britain sent to Ukraine were 'due to be scrapped or replaced' anyway, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe UK donated military equipment to Ukraine that was so old it would have been thrown away, according to a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO) published on Wednesday. For example, in March 2022, the UK donated 17,010 pairs of unused army boots that were "nearing the end of their usable life," the report said. It comes against a backdrop of criticism over Western-supplied military equipment to Ukraine. Related storiesUkraine has been receiving military aid from its allies throughout Russia's full-scale invasion, which started in February 2022 . In July, the global military alliance NATO pledged to continue supporting Ukraine with the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine, or NSATU, a new initiative to coordinate the supply of military aid and training.

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WASHINGTON — Thousands of overseas American diplomats are at risk of a sharp pay cut at the beginning of October unless Congress passes a legislative fix in the coming weeks. And a 22% reduction in their pay would be a needless and demoralizing harm. “The Department of State continues to work with Congress on the urgent need for an extension,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement. The pay snafu, first reported by Politico, is the unintended consequence of a funding structure that requires action from Congress. With the fate of their wages tied to the funding fight, American diplomats could be left in the lurch.

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☆ More countries are openly flaunting their ties with Putin. They say it's just business.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Go to newsletter preferencesSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewRussian President Vladimir Putin is having a very social year as his country continues to wage war in Ukraine. So far, Putin has met top leaders from Asian countries including China, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Russia is the BRICS chair this year, and Putin has invited Mongolia to join the group's summit in October. Russia's push for a multipolar world order resonates with countries who desire a more equitable international order.

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