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☆ Harris sees opening in Vance as she considers her own pick for vice president
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Kamala Harris’ plan as a running mate was to brush past JD Vance as nothing but a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. Vance’s elevation — despite his relative lack of government experience — is giving Harris a new opportunity to go after Trump. Several people hoping to get picked as Harris’ ticket mate echoed that message as they angle for the job. Harris, 59, has the unique experience of leading a selection process only four years after going through it herself. “We’re in a position where somebody has done the job of vice president,” a Harris adviser told CNN.

Persons: CNN — Kamala Harris ’, JD Vance, Donald Trump, Harris, Vance, shouldn’t, Joe Biden, ”, Mitch Landrieu, Biden, MAGA, Trump, whacking Vance, ” Landrieu, He’s, ” Harris, —, Cedric Richmond, “, J.B . Pritzker, Pritzker, Hitler ”, Pete Buttigieg —, South Bend , Indiana —, I’m, Steven Cheung, Vance “, Kamala, Eric Holder, Sheila Nix, Barack Obama, “ Harris, James Singer, Arizona Sen, John McCain, Sarah Palin, McCain, Palin, Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump’s, ” Pritzker, ” “, Trump’s, Harry Truman, ” Buttigieg, Roosevelt, Time, ” Richmond Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Trump, Ohio Republican, Senate, NASA, Biden White, Gov, Transportation, ” Trump, Alaska Gov, Alaska —, City, Biden Locations: Ohio, United States, Louisiana, South Bend , Indiana, Massachusetts, Arizona, Alaska, Wasilla

☆ A US Navy fighter squadron scored a series of firsts fighting the Houthis from an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA US Navy fighter squadron that was recently attached to the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower scored several historic firsts while flying combat missions against the Houthis. During its deployment, the fighter squadron — nicknamed the "Gunslingers" — racked up a number of firsts, the Navy revealed this month. AdvertisementSailors observe as an F/A-18E Super Hornet lands on the flight deck of the Eisenhower in the Red Sea on March 12. Related storiesThis fighter squadron was also the first to fire AGM-88 HARM missiles from an F/A-18E in combat. AdvertisementAn F/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the Eisenhower in the Red Sea on April 9.

Persons: —, Dwight D, Eisenhower, Ike, Truman, Travis Amerine Organizations: Service, US Navy, Strike Fighter Squadron, Business, Hornet, Navy, US, VFA, AIM, 9X, EA, Eisenhower Carrier Strike Locations: Gulf, Aden, Iran, Yemen, Virginia

☆ A Fabled Washington Home, Kept Empty by a 22-Year Battle
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Elizabeth Williamson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President-elect John F. Kennedy was there for dinner the night before his inauguration. “It was a special place to grow up,” said Donald Graham, a former publisher of The Washington Post, remembering his childhood home. After she died in 2001 her estate sold the home to Mark Ein, a venture capitalist and philanthropist who owns Washington City Paper and has a stake in the city’s N.F.L. Mr. Ein, then a bachelor, had no plans to entertain in Mrs. Graham’s grand style and did not move in. But after he married Sally Stiebel in the home’s garden in 2013, the couple decided to raise their family there.

Persons: John F, Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Truman Capote, Princess Diana, ”, Donald Graham, Katharine Graham, Graham’s, Philip Graham, Mark Ein, Ein, Sally Stiebel Organizations: The Washington, Beaux, Arts, The, Washington, Citi D.C Locations: Washington, Georgetown

☆ A US Navy carrier strike group fired nearly 800 missiles and bombs during its Red Sea fight against the Houthis
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewUS Navy warships and aircraft attached to a carrier strike group that spent months battling the Houthis fired off nearly 800 munitions during their restless Middle East deployment. The Eisenhower strike group recently returned from its deployment, but another carrier, the Truman, and additional warships are replacing it. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jonathan WordThe warships launched 155 Standard surface-to-air missiles, used to intercept missiles or drones, and 135 Tomahawk missiles, used to hit targets on land, during the deployment. REUTERS/Hamad I MohammedHowever, by mid-April, the Navy revealed that the strike group had already launched some $1 billion worth of missiles. The strike group returned to the US earlier this month, following what Navy officers and leaders described as an "unprecedented" and "historic" nine-month-long deployment.

Persons: —, Dwight D, Eisenhower, Truman, Jonathan Word, Ike, Hamad, Mohammed, Adm, George Wikoff Organizations: Service, Navy, Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, Business, Eisenhower, Hornet, EA, REUTERS, 5th Fleet Locations: Iran, Gulf, Aden, Red, Yemen

☆ Answering questions you might have about Biden’s decision to suspend his reelection
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Jack Forrest | Danya Gainor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In practice, whoever the presidential nominee chooses as their running mate is typically accepted by the delegates. What happens to the money raised for Biden’s reelection? Biden’s reelection efforts had raised a total of $240 million at the end of June. Those funds are split across the DNC, allied committees and Biden’s campaign committee itself. While no US president has been pressured out of a reelection campaign due to concerns over his mental fitness, it is not unprecedented for an incumbent president to abandon his reelection campaign — but it is rare.

Persons: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, —, Biden, Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, Montana Sen, Steve Daines, Harris, ”, Sen, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Pramila, Delaware Sen, Chris Coons, Roy Cooper, Josh Shapiro, Zachary Wolf, Ethan Cohen, Biden couldn’t, Joe Manchin, CNN’s Jake Tapper, Manchin, Biden’s, he’ll, Charlie Spies, Lyndon B, Johnson, Harry S, CNN’s David Wright, Zachary B, Wolf, Fredreka Schouten, Alex Leeds Matthews Organizations: CNN, Sunday, Democratic, House, GOP, Biden, North Carolina Gov, Pennsylvania, Union, Democratic Party, DNC, Federal, Street, Democratic National Committee Locations: Montana, Washington, Delaware, Tennessee, Chicago, West Virginia, “ State

☆ Biden just made the hardest decision any politician can make
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —President Joe Biden ran for reelection to save democracy. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” Biden said in a letter he posted to X on Sunday afternoon. His struggles validated concerns of majorities of voters that he would be too old for a second term that would have ended when he is 86. But in the end, Biden could not find a way to make voters unsee the poignant picture of an 81-year-old commander in chief who appeared to have seriously declined and was stumbling in the debate. Years earlier, in March 1952, Harry S. Truman, another Democratic president, had decided not to seek his own second term.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, Donald Trump, ” Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Still Biden, Lyndon Johnson, –, Trump, Biden’s, —, he’s, plagiarizing, Obama, Hillary Clinton, he’d, Beau, Hunter, Johnson, Robert F, Kennedy, President Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, Harry S, Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Republican Dwight Eisenhower, Harris Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Biden, Trump, American, White, Overseas, NATO, —, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Republican Locations: Delaware, Chicago, Atlanta, American, Ukraine, Afghanistan, British, Milwaukee

On Saturday, hours after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump with an AR-15-style assault rifle, President Biden sounded a familiar refrain: The United States, he assured the public, settles its differences peacefully; political violence is un-American and abhorrent. “The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard-of.”Americans transfer power peacefully from one party to another most of the time, and most elections are fair and free from the taint of bloodshed. But the attack on Mr. Trump is one on a list of fairly common attempts on presidents’ lives — acts endemic to the political culture and part of an alternative tradition of political violence. This tradition contradicts a kind of mythic faith, held widely by Americans, in a political system that shuns the bullet and embraces the ballot. Presidents and former presidents are members of one of the most intimate clubs on earth, and they have almost always described political violence, especially attacks on one of their own, as unnatural exceptions to an otherwise peaceful polity.

Persons: Donald Trump, Biden, ”, Trump, ’, Harry Truman, Herbert Hoover, Truman, ” Ronald Reagan Organizations: Puerto Locations: United States, America

☆ What two assassination attempts in two violent elections in the 1870s warn about today
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Dana Bash | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The Civil War was over, and Black men were legally allowed to vote and helped Republicans win in 1870. Two years later, Louisiana Democrats were determined to take back the state by preventing Black men from voting through intimidation and voter suppression. On Easter Sunday morning, White supremacists stormed the building and went on a killing spree, brutally murdering some 150 Black men. Another disputed election, more political violenceAs for the gubernatorial election dispute in 1872, it happened again in 1876. And while violence should never be the answer, it has occurred more than any of us would want to admit.

Persons: William Pitt Kellogg, Charles R, Railey, “, scoundrel, ” Railey, Kellogg, David Fisher, Donald Trump, Abraham Lincoln, James A, Garfield, William McKinley, John F, Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S, Truman, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, John D, McEnery, McEnery’s, ”, wasn’t, White supremacists, Stephen Packard, Francis T, Nicholls, Packard, Ulysses S, Grant, William Weldon, Frank Hudson, Weldon, ” Packard, Jim Crow Organizations: CNN, Louisiana Gov, American, Republican, Black, Republicans, Louisiana Democrats, Blacks, The White League, Philadelphia Press Locations: Louisiana, New Orleans, Colfax, Grant Parish , Louisiana, Washington

☆ At least 4 people killed, 9 others injured in shooting at Birmingham nightclub, police say
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Paradise Afshar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —At least four people were killed and nine others were wounded in a shooting at a Birmingham, Alabama, nightclub late Saturday night, police said. Two women inside the nightclub and a man who was found on a sidewalk near the venue were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Police did not identify any suspects in the shooting and no arrests have been announced as of Sunday morning. “Detectives are working to determine what led to shots being fired and the victims being shot,” Fitzgerald said. Like CNN, the archive defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot, not including the shooter.

Persons: Truman Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, ” Fitzgerald Organizations: CNN, Birmingham, Police Locations: Birmingham , Alabama, United States

☆ Analysis: There is no direct precedent for Biden dropping out now. Here’s the history
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | Amy O Kruk | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Johnson and Truman left under pressure, handed the White House over to the other partyComparisons between Biden and any of these presidents are not perfect. Both Johnson and Truman then won the White House in their own right. Humphrey would go on to lose the White House to Richard Nixon, but Democrats kept control of the House and the Senate. Democrats lost control of the White House and the Senate in 1860, and Lincoln became the first Republican president. Reforming the civil service was a major issue of the day, and it played into Hayes’ decision, according to his letter accepting the Republican nomination in 1876.

Persons: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Harry S, Truman, Lyndon B, Johnson, Biden, Dwight Eisenhower, Hubert Humphrey, Humphrey, Richard Nixon, Roosevelt, Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, William Howard Taft, Taft, Bull Moose, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G, Harding, Herbert Hoover, curt, –, ” –, James K, Zachary Taylor, Martin Van Buren, Taylor, James Buchanan, Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln’s, seceding, He’s, Lincoln, Rutherford B, Hayes, James Garfield, Garfield Organizations: CNN, Republicans, White, Democratic, Convention, Senate, Democratic National Convention, GOP, Republican, Democrats, Whig Party, Hayes, Trump Locations: New Hampshire, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Southern

☆ Opinion | Biden Restores Honor to Thousands of L.G.B.T.Q. Service Members
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Anna Marks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

President Biden’s decision on Wednesday to pardon thousands of L.G.B.T.Q. service members who had been unfairly punished, discharged or court-martialed for their sexual orientation or gender identity was long overdue. His proclamation will restore benefits and honor to 2,000 or so service members, just atonement for the U.S. military’s long, discriminatory history against L.G.B.T.Q. service members were outed upon returning home, which inevitably led to further discrimination. Their efforts culminated in the end of the notorious “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in 2011.

Persons: Biden’s, Allan Bérubé, Harry Truman, ”, Don’t Organizations: U.S, L.G.B.T.Q, Military

☆ The surprise election that could be a model for Democrats in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

I talked to Samuel Freedman, a Columbia Journalism School professor, about his recent book about Humphrey and the 1948 Democratic convention in Philadelphia. The book’s title, “Into the Bright Sunshine,” is taken from a line in Humphrey’s rousing speech on civil rights. In 1968, the Democratic Party was operating under old rules in which primary voters actually had relatively little direct effect on delegates. When Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats bolted from the Democratic Party in 1948, that’s the beginning of the vast majority of the White South becoming Republicans, stepping away from the Democratic Party. Show me a major Republican politician in the MAGA movement who is a fervent supporter of civil rights legislation.

Persons: Joe Biden, Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, Humphrey, uninspiring, Harry Truman, Thomas Dewey, Samuel Freedman, Freedman, Biden, Truman WOLF, Donald Trump, FREEDMAN, Truman, – Henry Wallace, Strom Thurmond, Jill Stein, Minneapolis Hubert H, Lyndon, George McGovern, FDR hadn’t, Brown, Ed, WOLF, there’s, Martin Luther King, It’s, Lyndon Johnson, Bobby Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, I’m, Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Byron Donalds, Abraham Lincoln, Adlai, Stevenson, Barry Goldwater, Nixon’s, Ronald, Reagan’s, Willie Horton, Jim Crow, MAGA, Mitt Romney’s, George Romney, William Scranton, Edward Brooke, that’s Organizations: CNN —, House, Republican, Minneapolis, Columbia Journalism School, Democratic, Democratic Party, Civil Rights Movement, RFK Jr, Democratic National Convention, Civil, Chicago, CNN, Civil Rights, Southern Democrats, South Carolina Democrat, Republicans, South, JFK, Trump, Republican Party –, LBJ, Southern, Republican Party, Michigan Gov, Pennsylvania Gov, NAACP Locations: Israel, Chicago, Vietnam, New York, Philadelphia, America, ‘, Harlem, Minneapolis, Alabama, Southern, Montgomery, ’, Florida, Lincoln, Massachusetts

☆ The Everything Guide to Partying (Without Regrets)
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( George Gurley | Carson Griffith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

And don’t ask who else is coming. Romilly Newman, chef, food stylist, social media personality Don’t bring a guest to a seated dinner. Raul Tovar/Houses & Parties Rebecca Gardner Please don’t ask people to take off their shoes when entering your apartment. Bronson van Wyck Gosh, I don’t think you can avoid certain topics in 2024. But don’t think you’re décor.

Persons: Ivy Getty, Rufus Wainwright, We've, Lang Phipps, Kate Upton, Illa Gaunt, Rebecca Gardner, William Laird, Sarah Harrelson, Jen Rubio, Jason Sean Weiss Sarah Harrelson, Alex Hitz, Ariel Arce, Larry Milstein, Eat, Maneesh, “ I’m, Wes Gordon, Lizzi Bickford, Smile, Tefi Pessoa, Daisy Prince, There’s, “, Kristy Hurt, headhunter, Kendall Werts, Don’t, Jorn Weisbrodt Rufus Wainwright, Harry Hurt III, Liz Lange, Athena Calderone, Jennifer Gilbert, Kyle Hotchkiss Carone, it’s, you’ve, you’re, ”, Krista Schlueter, The New York Times Molly Jong, Gary Jackson Bronson van, —, Laila Gohar, Susan Gutfreund, it’ll, Josh Flagg, somebody’s, Bronson van Wyck, Max Tucci, Sara Ruffin Costello, David Sedaris’s, Steven Badius, Kyle Hotchkiss, Kendall Werts “, It’s, Truman Capote, Jennifer Gilbert Don’t, Romilly Newman, Raul Tovar, don’t, Emily Post, ” They’re, Jobe, Lela Rose, ” Lizzi Bickford, Paloma Sandoval, Elsie Richter, Whitney, I’m, Zibby Owens, Molly Jong, That’s, Yana Paskova, The New York Times Harry Hurt, Elise Taylor, Francis Hauert, Doris Hauert, Jana Platina, Plum Sykes, Putin, Julie Reiner, Karsten Moran, Jennifer Gilbert I, Ken Fulk, Nobody, Giselle, Emma Gwyther, The New York Times Kendall Werts, Sedi, Nikki Haskell, Andy Warhol, Richard Weisman, Patricia Altschul, Amy Sacco, Hunter McRae, The New York Times Patricia Altschul, Dorothy Parker, Joey Wolffer Joey Wölffer, they’re, now’s, Rufus Wainwright I’m Organizations: Yorker, The New York Times, Trump, Biden, The New York, Google Locations: Converse, Uggs, Gardens, East Hampton, N.Y, New York, Gary Jackson Bronson van Wyck, we’ll, Delmonico’s, Europe, stow, someone’s, New Hampshire, Ukraine, Israel

One by one, each country with the money and the drive to compete started its own nuclear weapons program. Even with this kind of evidence in hand, science has reached only limited conclusions about how nuclear weapons testing affects individuals’ health. They helped create the 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, signed by 93 countries, which bans the possession, use and testing of nuclear weapons. France has acknowledged its “debt” to Polynesians over nuclear testing, and it created a commission in 2010 to evaluate nuclear testing victim compensation claims, but it has never apologized. We are still wrestling with the damage wrought by testing nuclear weapons in our past.

Persons: —, Ernest Moniz, Barack Obama, ” Mr, Moniz, Trump, Trump’s, Biden, United States ’, Republic of Kiribati —, we’re, Robert Oppenheimer’s, Oppenheimer, Ben Wyatt, King Juda, Harry Truman, Oppenheimer’s, Karina Lester, ”, Willard F, Libby, Louis, couldn’t, Merril Eisenbud, Hinamoeura, Britain —, “, it’s, John Moody, Benetick Kabua Maddison, Maddison, Benetick, It’s, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Las, Washington, United States, Marshall, Embassy, D.C, Marshalls, U.S, Navy, United, Soviet Union, Britain, Atomic Energy Commission, St, Louis University, Washington University School of Dental Medicine, Bravo, U.S . Navy, Atomic Energy, Centers for Disease Control, Polynesia —, Nuclear Weapons, ., Pacific Mart, Educational, America Locations: U.S, Japan, United States, Russia, China, Nevada, Soviet Union, — Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, Reggane, Algeria, Montebello, Australia, Republic of Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Republic, Washington, Hiroshima, New Mexico, Las Vegas, Marshall, Hawaii, Philippines, Bikini, Atoll, Soviet, Africa, Polynesia, Xinjiang, The, Britain Britain, Britain, American, Kwajalein Atoll, France, France France, Tahiti, Nagasaki, Asia, Europe, India, Pakistan, North Korea, United, Kwajalein, Hawaii , California, Washington and Oregon, Arkansas, Springdale, you’re, Rhode Island, Moscow

☆ Trump and the N-Word - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Rumors have long circulated that Donald Trump used the N-word while taping “The Apprentice.” Last week one of the show’s producers, his nondisclosure agreement having expired, recounted one instance in extensive detail. We have concrete evidence of Franklin Roosevelt using the N-word in marginalia before his presidency; Harry Truman used the word freely in his letters to his wife. As for Mr. Trump, he has denied that the N-word was even in his vocabulary. For one thing, we have already heard Mr. Trump say a great many racially dismissive things — about Mexican rapists and immigrants from “shithole countries,” among others. “I’m hiring him to run the country.” Anyway, if a videotape did emerge, his supporters would almost inevitably dismiss it as having been generated by A.I.

Persons: Donald Trump, ”, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Trump, “, “ I’m Organizations: Mr, Indianapolis Star, Democratic Locations: “

☆ Why Israel-Hezbollah tensions risk boiling over now
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Nadeen Ebrahim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

In Lebanon, Hezbollah is officially considered a “resistance” group tasked with confronting Israel, which Beirut classifies as an enemy state. Since then, the two sides have traded fire sporadically, but tensions boiled over in 2006 when Israel went to war in southern Lebanon after Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. More than 1,000 Lebanese were killed in that conflict, mostly civilians, as well as 49 Israeli civilians and 121 soldiers. The military capability of the Lebanese group has grown since 2006, when it relied largely on inaccurate Soviet-era Katyusha rockets. Hezbollah has fired 35 kilometers into Israel, while Israel has targeted areas of Lebanon more than 120 kilometers north.

Persons: CNN —, Israel, Rina Castelnuovo, Hassan Nasrallah, Heiko Wimmen, ”, Ramot Naftali, Peter Lerner, ” Amal Saad, ” Saad, Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Ronni, Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, Benjamin Netanyahu, Amir Cohen, ” Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s, Al, ” Qassem, Jack Guez, Itamar Ben Gvir, Yair Lapid, ” Lapid, Matthew Miller, Biden, “, ” Shaked, Iran – Organizations: CNN, Hezbollah, Lebanese, Crisis, Wednesday, Israel Defense Forces, Cardiff University, Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, Holocaust, Reuters, Crisis Group, Getty, Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, National, State Department Locations: CNN — Israel, Lebanese Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Beirut, Palestinian, Gaza, Iraq, Syria, Brussels, Israeli, Cross, Jerusalem, Kiryat Shmona, Lebanese, Al Jazeera, AFP, United States, Iran

☆ Opinion: This deal can end the war in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Peter Bergen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —It’s taken more than half a year, but, finally, President Joe Biden has publicly unveiled an Israeli plan that could end the bloodshed in Gaza. But getting the two sides to actually agree to — and implement — the peace plan is far from a certainty. As the Gaza war continues, Israel’s dreams of normalization with the Arab world will steadily erode. Support for the Gaza war among Americans has dropped from 50% at the beginning of the war in November to 36% in March, according to Gallup. Evan Vucci/APNetanyahu also keeps fighting the Gaza war with no real plan for the “day after,” in short, without a strategy.

Persons: Peter Bergen, ”, Osama bin Laden, CNN — It’s, Joe Biden, Yahya Sinwar, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Biden, Chuck Schumer, Schumer, “, ” Schumer, Harry Truman, Donald, Evan Vucci, Sun Tzu, Max, Tacitus, Israel’s, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Maya Alleruzzo, — Organizations: New, Arizona State University, Apple, Spotify, CNN, Hamas, Politico, Gaza Health Ministry, Gallup, US, Democrat, Israel, American, White, Biden, Israeli, Twitter, Facebook, UN Locations: New America, Gaza, United States, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Japan, Palestinian, Michigan, Israel, Washington, Tel Aviv, United, Qatar, Egypt

☆ The US secretly sent communist-friendly Coca-Cola to a Soviet general in a bid to maintain good ties across the Iron Curtain
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewAs World War II ended and the Iron Curtain fell over Eastern Europe, relations deteriorated between the Soviet Union and its Western allies. Zhukov had developed an intense liking for Coca-Cola, a drink now illegal in the Soviet Union. PH/Sherman Montrose ACMECoca-Cola's steadfast support for the Allied war effort helped make it both distinctly American and recognizable worldwide. CORBIS/Corbis via Getty ImagesAt Zhukov's request, the new beverage wasn't put in the usual Coke bottles but instead in unmarked, straight-edged bottles. Its rival Pepsi eventually gained a virtual monopoly in the Soviet Union, which the Soviets maintained — once trading several warships for $3 billion worth of Pepsi — until 1985.

Persons: —, Georgy Zhukov, Zhukov, Truman, Robert Woodruff, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Bong, Henry, Hap, Arnold, Coke, Eisenhower, Getty Images Zhukov, Mark W, Clark, Harry Truman, James Farley, It's Organizations: Service, Soviet Union, Business, Sherman, Sherman Montrose ACME, US, US Army, Army Air Forces, Allied, Keystone, Getty Images, Cola Export Corporation, Getty, Cola, Pepsi Locations: Eastern Europe, Soviet, Soviet Union, Cassino, Italy, Sherman Montrose, North Africa, Coke, Montgomery, Frankfurt, Germany, France, American, Austria, Dehradun, India, Vienna, East

☆ Why did early presidents not campaign? It’s all modern presidents seem to do
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

I talked to Brendan Doherty, a professor of political science at the United States Naval Academy and author of the books, “The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign” and “Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash,” about why early presidents stayed off the trail and how this became the permanent campaign. Our conversation, conducted by email, is below:WOLF: Why didn’t early presidents personally campaign? DOHERTY: In the early decades of the republic, presidential candidates adhered to the norm that they should not actively campaign for office. DOHERTY: While early presidential candidates didn’t actively campaign, their supporters got the word out on their behalf. DOHERTY: Modern presidents campaign for themselves and for their fellow party members throughout their term in office.

Persons: Donald Trump, he’d, ”, Trump, “, Joe Biden, —, Brendan Doherty, DOHERTY, WOLF, didn’t, Andrew Johnson, Johnson, William Jennings Bryan, Republican William McKinley, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Harry S, George Skadding, John F, Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Herbert Hoover, Reagan, hadn’t, it’s Organizations: CNN, “, United States Naval Academy, Newspapers, Democratic, Republican, Truman, Catholic, White, Wisconsin and, Ronald, Electoral, Technological Locations: York, Pennsylvania , Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, New Jersey, Wisconsin and West Virginia, Fairfield , Connecticut

☆ Russia's jamming of American weapons in Ukraine is showing the US what it needs to be ready for in a future fight
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Chris Panella | Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Russia's electronic warfare has repeatedly foiled American precision weapons in Ukraine. Those could include different weapons, specific countermeasures, and the targeting of enemy jamming systems. Any fixes developed to effectively counter the challenge posed by electronic warfare won't just benefit Ukraine. Electronic warfare is a broad term that includes a variety of inexpensive options. Felicia JagdattEfforts to adapt precision weapons to the threat is just one facet of a multi-layered solution, Withington said.

Persons: —, Antonio Aguto, They'll, Mark Cancian, Denis Abramov, Thomas Withington, That's, JDAMs, Withington, Daniel Patt, Harry S, Cancian, it's, Doug Bush, that's, Bush, Felicia Jagdatt Organizations: Service, Systems, Attack Munitions, Security, Marine, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Business, DoD, Russian Defense Ministry, Royal United Services Institute, Getty, Hudson Institute, Truman, US, Intelligence, US Air Force, Army, US Army Locations: Ukraine, Moscow, Russian, Russia, China, Withington, Bliss, Texas

☆ Biden faces widening partisan split over Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

CNN —President Joe Biden is facing more critical moments this week that will test his fraught relationship with his base over Israel’s war in Gaza and potentially widen the partisan split about the Jewish state that has been building for years. Against this backdrop, partisan polarization about Israel among American voters was already widening years before the brutal Hamas attack last October and the devastating Israeli response it triggered. An array of polls this spring show how the war in Gaza has hardened this partisan split. Nearly half of Democrats, but only a little over one-fifth of Republicans in the CBS poll, said the US should pressure Israel to stop the fighting. “Biden has a Democratic caucus that is putting a lot of faith in this process,” she said.

Persons: Joe Biden, Long, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, “, ”, Aaron David Miller, Biden, Harry Truman, Lyndon B, Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W, Bush, Reagan, George W, Donald Trump, Clinton, Barack Obama, Republicans —, Obama, Israel, Biden —, Gallup, Trump, That’s, Chuck Schumer, Mike Johnson, Biden’s, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Waleed Shahid, Shahid, David, it’s Goliath, David ”, Miller, “ Biden, ’ ”, Ben Rhodes, ” Biden, “ We’re, Saudi Arabia — “, Mark Mellman, Schumer, Sen, Bernie Sanders, Israel’s, Chris Murphy of, Chris Van Hollen, Chris Coons, Tim Kaine, Virginia, Van Hollen, Amanda Klasing, — Organizations: CNN, Israel, Republican, Democratic, Gallup Organization, Carnegie Endowment, International Peace, Holocaust Memorial, GOP, Whites, Republican Party, Republicans, Gallup, Trump, Chicago Council, Global Affairs, Quinnipiac University, CBS, Liberal, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, National Security Council, Amnesty International, Amnesty Locations: Gaza, Israel, United States, Iran, Quinnipiac, Washington, New York, Missouri, Yom Kippur, Saudi Arabia, Sens, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware, Rafah

☆ Maybe Kristi Noem doesn't want to be Trump's vice president
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Kristi Noem keeps hurting her chances to become Donald Trump's running mate. Kristi Noem has campaigned so badly to be former President Donald Trump's vice president that even some of the most controversial Trumpworld figures are turned off. If Noem truly wants to be vice president, this has been one of the worst efforts to obtain the job. AdvertisementIt's a difficult balance trying to become vice president. At worst, a potential vice president could lose all the leverage to shape the role in a way that would benefit him or her the most.

Persons: Kristi Noem, Donald Trump's, Noem, —, I've, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump Jr, Bannon, Trump, Tim Walz, Nicole Malliotakis, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Harry Truman, FDR, Sen, JD Vance, Trump . Sen, Marco Rubio, Doug Burgum, Tim Scott of, George Costanza, Saul Goodman, Saul, Biden, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Karen Bass, Susan Rice, Gretchen Whitmer, Elizabeth Warren Organizations: South Dakota Gov, Service, White, Trump Jr, Cricket, The Guardian, Minnesota Gov, GOP, New, New York Republican, Politico, Gov, Ohio Republican, Trump ., Trump, Trump . North Dakota Gov, Wall Street, Los Angeles Mayor, New York Times, Michigan Gov Locations: New York, Texas, Ohio, Trump ., Tim Scott of South Carolina, Los Angeles, Biden's White

☆ Opinion: Kristi Noem might have underestimated the decency of dog lovers
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Dean Obeidallah | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Not surprisingly, the report about Noem killing the dog has led to a furor in the media and on the internet. That, however, apparently was not how Noem viewed Cricket, writing in the book that she “hated” the rambunctious puppy. That, Noem wrote, was the last straw. Of course, President Joe Biden also has a pet dog — although Commander has not been the best-behaved dog at times. The book is filled with many honest stories of my life, good and bad days, challenges, painful decisions, and lessons learned,” Noem wrote.

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☆ Ryan Garcia: Boxer was three pounds overweight for major fight. It went ahead and he shocked the world
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Jonny Velasquez | Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Ahead of the fight, Garcia missed the weight limit for the bout, which ended his chances of competing for a world title on April 20. “In the ring, I’m gonna beat your a**,” Garcia posted on Instagram ahead of the fight. I bet you hoped it was some kind of mental health issues.”Many speculated that Ryan was going through a mental health crisis, including boxing promoter Eddie Hearn. Garcia hasn’t shied away from talking about his struggles with mental health. During the press conference for the fight, Haney asked Garcia to pay him $500,000 per pound if he missed weight.

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☆ Oh look at that! Now Google is using AI to answer search queries.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementThe upshot: For now, Google is testing out self-generated "AI overviews" for some regular search queries where it thinks the answer might be complex (but answerable). A Google rep told me the AI answers have been deployed in a "very limited percentage of search traffic" in the US and the UK. Screenshot/GoogleBecause I am A Responsible Journalist, I also asked Google how Google Magi, which powers these results, does or doesn't interact with the tech powering Google Gemini, its much-maligned "woke AI" chatbot. Right now, Google tries to keep you on Google by surfacing text from a site that purports to answer your query. AdvertisementOn the one hand, maybe Google becomes even more valuable because you're no longer even pretending it's a "search engine" — it's just an answer machine.

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