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☆ Hundreds of Disney employees had already relocated from California to Florida before the company axed its $1 billion dollar campus in escalating feud with DeSantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Disney scrapped plans to open up a new $1 billion campus in Florida on Thursday. According to the New York Times, hundreds of Disney employees had relocated to Florida already. Disney announced the plans to scrap the $1 billion complex in an internal email on Thursday, a week before DeSantis was expected to announce a presidential run. According to the New York Times, at least 1,000 employees were set to be relocated to the campus, named Lake Nona Town Center. Disney World currently employs 75,000 people in the state, and the new campus would have brought another 2,000 jobs to Florida.

☆ A woman who threatened to bomb staffers at a Democratic campaign office for 'being on the wrong team' vomited when FBI agents approached her
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Azmi Haroun | Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Georgia woman pled guilty to threatening to bomb a local Democratic party building. Jessica Higginbotham planned to bomb the Athens Democratic Senatorial Committee Campaign building during the 2022 elections. When FBI agents confronted her about it, she vomited and lied at first, according to the DOJ. Local police and the FBI sprung into action after being alerted about the text, prosecutors said. "When she saw the agents approach her, she vomited," prosecutors said in a press release, adding that she first denied sending the message, but later admitted to it.

☆ Belarus president and Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko appears to confirm that 4 Russian military aircraft were shot down. The Kremlin has not yet acknowledged the downed aircraft.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed that the four downed Russian aircraft were "shot down." According to Reuters, Lukashenko addressed Belarusian troops on Monday at the border with Ukraine. The Belarusian leader decisively claimed that the four aircraft were shot down — but did not say by whom. "Three days after the events near us — I mean in the Bryansk region, when four aircraft were shot down, we are forced to respond," Lukashenko said, according to Reuters. The crash signified the most Russian aircraft lost in a single day since March 2022, according to the pro-Russia Telegram channel Fighterbomber.

☆ The Biden administration built a 'digital wall' by requiring asylum-seekers to use a glitchy app in the aftermath of Title 42, immigration experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Azmi Haroun | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

That's because the Biden administration is handling almost all asylum claims through a glitchy app. Friday marked the official end of Title 42, a public health measure imposed by the Trump administration in March 2020. The catch, immigration advocates said, is that the app is borderline unusable for many migrants who have reached the border. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)Advocates working at the border told Insider that on the day Title 42 expired, the app was not working. The Biden administration did not immediately return Insider's request for comment.

☆ The app designed to help asylum-seekers has inadvertently separated families as Title 42 expires, advocates say
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Azmi Haroun | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

On Friday, restrictive immigration policy Title 42 expired after being imposed in March 2020. Asylum seekers have been asked to make appointments to apply for asylum through a new app. But the slots are limited, the app is glitchy, and it is causing family separations, advocates say. Friday marked the official end of Title 42, a public health measure imposed by the Trump administration in March 2020. "It has forced families to make really hard choices when the whole group can't get the appointment together," Gonzalez told Insider.

☆ E. Jean Carroll's team wanted to dismiss a juror during the Trump sexual abuse and defamation trial who described Tim Pool's podcast as 'balanced'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

New filings from E. Jean Carroll's case against Donald Trump reveal her team sought to dismiss a juror. On April 30, Carroll's team moved to dismiss Juror No. The juror was ultimately allowed to stay on after a judge rejected the request from Carroll's team, according to Politico. Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages for the sexual abuse and defamation claims. 77 was among the nine jurors who unanimously found Trump was liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of Carroll.

☆ Tucker Carlson just moved from one mercurial media boss to another
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tucker Carlson announced Tuesday his plans to bring his prime time show to Twitter. Tucker Carlson is picking up his megaphone again, but it's unclear how much he'll poke the bear on Twitter under Elon Musk. "I'm stuck with Fox," a text from Carlson to Brett Baier reads. Meanwhile, Carlson's former boss, Rupert Murdoch, reportedly made the decision to oust him, according to the Los Angeles Times. Musk has said that Carlson would be considered a content creator and that he had no hand in Carlson's production deal.

☆ The 26 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Eliza Relman | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

At least 26 women have accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct since the 1970s. Renewed attention was brought to the allegations amid the #MeToo movement and a national conversation concerning sexual misconduct. On Tuesday, a Manhattan jury found Trump liable for the sexual abuse of columnist E. Jean Carroll. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyAt least 26 women accused President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, including assault, since the 1970s. Here are all of the allegations — in chronological order — made by 26 named women:

☆ Utah changed its state flag to honor Mormon work ethic — but it was a total flop. Now, even the state's governor admitted he 'should have known better.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Utah's new flag design is ruffling feathers, and people are already trying to replace it. Spencer Cox said that he should "have known better" that the new flag would be unpopular. Brandon Beckham, a member of Utah's Republican party central committee, told the Journal that the new design is "just a logo." "The original Utah flag has built in its ideals that are true to the founding of the state that are linked to history," Beckham told the Journal. Ryan Woods, a conservative drag performer known as Lady MAGA USA, said the change flies in the face of history.

☆ Russian and Ukrainian officials got into a fistfight at a conference in Turkey and had to be physically restrained
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Ukrainian and Russian officials got into a physical altercation at a conference in Turkey. The most heated incident happened after a Russian official ripped a Ukrainian flag from a holster. In one video from the conference, an apparent Russian official rips a Ukrainian flag from a holster, and the Ukrainian parliament member Oleksandr Marikovski chases him down, initiating a brief fistfight. In the video, Marikovski lands a punch on the Russian official and corners him, retrieving the flag before the two are quickly separated by security staff. An earlier video shows officials from the two camps verbally clashing and pushing each other as Russia's Ola Timofeeva speaks during the conference.

Proud Boys former leader, Enrique Tarrio, and 3 others were found guilty of seditious conspiracy on Thursday. Seditious conspiracy is when people conspire to overthrow, put down, or destroy the government. Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean, and Zachary Rehl were all found guilty of seditious conspiracy as well as charges of conspiracy to obstruct Congress. But, the prosecutors succeeded, and the four convicted Proud Boys members could face up to 20 years in prison. The jury is still split about seditious conspiracy and obstruction charges against a fifth Proud Boys member, Dominic Pezzola, according to NBC News.

Supreme Court justices are under renewed scrutiny due to recently uncovered financial dealings. That's a question that the Romans asked over 2,000 years ago," Doron Kalir, a professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and an expert in legal ethics, told Insider. But parties arguing before the Supreme Court cannot challenge justices for a lack of recusal like people can in lower courts. There is an official Code of Conduct for Federal Judges, but it applies to all federal judges except the Supreme Court justices, simply because that's what the Supreme Court decided, according to Kalir. "That's what the Supreme Court decided, and they're supreme," Kalir told Insider.

☆ No one's buying Ivana Trump's townhouse — an extravagant unit filled with leopard print and pink marble — almost 9 months after her accidental death in the apartment
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Notably, the price of Ivana Trump's former abode has not budged since being listed in November 2022. The home was listed with Douglas Elliman and features extravagant rooms tied to Ivana Trump's personality, as well as a haunting doll modeled after Ivana Trump. After Ivana Trump's highly-publicized and financially contentious divorce from Donald Trump, Ivana Trump was awarded a settlement worth $25 million and purchased the home for $2.5 million. Ivana and Donald Trump's three children, Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump, spent their teenage years in the apartment. Correction: April 25, 2023 — An earlier version of this story misstated the months since Ivana Trump's passing.

The Supreme Court ruled to uphold FDA approval of the abortion pill on Friday. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito publicly dissented, with Alito writing an opinion. The ruling did not specify how most of the justices voted, or even how many justices voted in favor. For part of his reasoning, Alito focused on the "shadow docket" itself. I thought you were against using the shadow docket and changing things in these ways,'" Lemieux said.

The Supreme Court maintained access to the abortion drug mifepristone on Friday. The court took on the issue after a federal judge in Texas issued a ruling suspending FDA approval of mifepristone. Drugs like mifepristone and misoprostol have been under heightened scrutiny from abortion opponents since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. Earlier in April, a federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, issued a ruling suspending mifepristone's FDA approval, arguing the approval itself was unlawful. Following the Supreme Court's reversal on abortion rights, Democrats heavily campaigned on the issue of abortion in the 2022 midterm elections.

☆ Mike Pompeo announces he is not running for president in 2024 after criticizing Trump last month
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is not running for president in 2024, per ABC News. Pompeo said that he would have managed the country's debt better than Trump. According to ABC News, Pompeo announced that he would not be running for president on Bret Baier's Fox News show on Friday. On March 5, Pompeo appeared on Fox News Sunday and joked that "President Pompeo" would have managed the country's debt better than Trump: "$6 trillion more in debt. Pompeo, despite his stature as a former Secretary of State and longtime GOP power player, has barely registered in polling.

☆ Bob Lee's final hours involved a concerned text from suspect's sister and an argument with suspect, court documents show
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

According to court records, Lee and the suspect argued about the suspect's sister. Lee had been out with the suspect's sister the night prior to the stabbing, per the report. Momeni and Lee had a disagreement about Momeni's sister, and his sister texted Lee the night prior to the stabbing, after they had hung out with a group. "Just wanted to make sure your doing ok Cause [I] know nima came wayyyyyy down hard on you," Momeni's sister wrote to Lee after the argument happened, according to the documents. "Thank you for being such a classy man handling it with class," she texted Lee.

San Francisco police arrested Nima Momeni on Thursday and charged him in the murder of Bob Lee. San Francisco police arrested a tech consultant named Nima Momeni on Thursday on a murder charge in the fatal stabbing of Cash App creator Bob Lee. Friends and acquaintances 'can't imagine it'Alex Pourshayegan, who has known Momeni since he was a teenager working in Pourshayegan's window and glass store, told Insider Momeni is a "very likeable kind of guy." Two people who hired Momeni as an IT vendor told Insider that he was competent, professional and unassuming. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said her office is planning to file a motion to detain the suspect without bail.

☆ Trump's fingers were so dry during his arraignment he needed lotion before he could be fingerprinted, according to a new report from Yahoo News
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A new report suggests that Trump needed lotion before having his fingerprints taken by authorities. A law enforcement source told Yahoo News that was the only unplanned event that delayed his arraignment. A court employee had to provide lotion because his fingers were too dry to be fingerprinted, the report, which cited a law enforcement source, claimed. The only delay in his arraignment came when he needed to moisten his fingers with lotion, because they were too dry for authorities to take his fingerprints, per the report. There were zero people saying 'I'm sorry,'" the source told Yahoo.

☆ Russia is set to pass a measure that bans people who have been drafted to the military from leaving the country
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The measure would ban people who have been drafted from leaving the country, and track summons. According to The New York Times, Russia's state Duma has passed a measure which bans those who have been drafted to the military from leaving the country, imposing electronic draft summons and other measures. In Ukraine, the army is also trying to recruit more manpower amid heavy casualties sustained in the ongoing battle with Russia in eastern Bakhmut. At the outset of the war, Ukrainian imposed martial law, banning men between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the country in case they're needed for a draft. The country also instituted mobilization rules which make that same pool of men eligible to be drafted on a whim.

☆ Leaked intelligence document shows that Egypt, a longtime US ally, secretly planned to provide Russia with 40,000 rockets and gunpowder: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Egypt negotiated a massive weapons and gunpowder sale to Russia covertly, per The Washington Post. The revelation was made public through a leaked top-secret document, which surfaced on Discord. The US has said there is no proof that Egypt sold the 40,000 rockets to Russia, per the Post. One of the files detailed conversations between high-level Egyptian officials over the sale of weapons to Russia. The top secret document, dated February 17, features discussion from Egyptian officials about how to supply their Russian counterparts with gunpowder and artillery from Egyptian factories, per the Post.

☆ Tennessee Republicans expelled two Democratic legislators who protested with anti-gun activists in the House
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Madison Hall | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Republicans in the Tennessee legislature just expelled a member for leading a gun reform protest in the House of Chambers. The Tennessee House of Representatives voted 75-25 on Thursday to expel state Rep. Justin Jones. The Tennessee House voted 75-25 on Thursday to expel Jones, with Rep. Justin Pearson also expelled after a 69-26 vote, according to CNN. Only two members of the Tennessee House have been expelled over the last 157 years. President Joe Biden addressed the Tennessee House leadership's focus on expelling the three, calling the move, "undemocratic."

☆ Bill Clinton says he feels 'terrible' for pushing a 1994 agreement with Russia that resulted in Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Azmi Haroun | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Bill Clinton expressed regret for his role in a 1994 agreement between Russia, Ukraine and the US. The agreement saw Ukraine give up nuclear weapons left over from the fall of the Soviet Union. Clinton said that if Ukraine still had the weapons, Russia would not have invaded. "I feel a personal stake because I got them [Ukraine] to agree to give up their nuclear weapons," Clinton said. "A great deal had to do with the risks of proliferation and the challenges of keeping nuclear weapons secure," Miles said.

☆ Trump said 9 words and did not smile as he was hit with a 34-count felony indictment on business fraud charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Azmi Haroun | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald Trump was criminally indicted in Manhattan on Tuesday. On Tuesday, a grand jury indicted Trump on 34 felony business fraud charges, which included allegations that Trump arranged a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, as well as other payments meant to stifle negative press ahead of the 2016 election. In court, Trump sat with his counsel and spoke as little as possible, pleading not guilty to the charges. Trump spoke only in response to questions from prosecutors, first pleading "not guilty" when asked to enter his plea. "I do," Trump answered.

☆ Mispronouncing the word 'Bruschetta' could soon cost thousands of euros in Italy, where politicians want to pass a law to penalize 'Anglomania'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Italy's government is hell-bent on passing a law that would penalize the use of non-Italian words. The proposed law would fine people who they believe are bastardizing the language. The proposed law seeks to stop "Anglomania," which "demeans and mortifies," Italian language and culture, according to the bill's text—and could even penalize Italians who mispronounce words like "Bruschetta." Pronouncing the word Bruschetta as "bru-shetta" and not "bru-sketta," for example, could cost Italians financially under the proposed law, according to CNN. Meloni's party is in support of the bill, which will be opened for parliamentary debate soon.

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