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☆ Video shows Ted Cruz getting hit with a White Claw can and booed at during a Houston Astros victory parade
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Police said a man threw a White Claw can at Sen. Ted Cruz during the Houston Astros parade Monday. Cruz was on a parade float celebrating the team's World Series win when he was struck by the can. "As always I'm thankful for the Houston Police and Capitol Police for their quick action," Cruz said in a statement to Insider. "I'm also thankful that the clown who threw his White Claw had a noodle for an arm." Editor's note: November 7, 2022: This story has been updated to reflect with a statement from Sen. Cruz, who said that he was struck by a White Claw can, not a beer can.

☆ Meet Yevgeny Prigozhin, 'Putin's chef' and founder of the brutal Wagner group who admitted that Russia was meddling in the US midterms
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Lloyd Lee | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Yevgeny Prigozhin was reported to have shared with Vladimir Putin his misgivings about the war in Ukraine, according to The Washington Post. Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin is shown prior to a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that the confidant was Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, a Russian businessman, restaurateur, and longtime ally of Putin. Prigozhin denied the report to The Post and said that he "did not criticize the management of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the conflict in Ukraine." When the Chechen Republic's head, Ramazan Kadyrov, called out a Russian commander and senior officers after Russia was forced out of Lyman in Ukraine, Prigozhin echoed those critiques, according to BBC.

☆ 6 notable times Trump wielded his infamous Sharpie, from bold trademark signatures on presidential documents to his 'SharpieGate' alteration of a map of Hurricane Dorian
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald Trump has been known to use a Sharpie as his writing utensil of choice — wielding it on presidential documents and fan autographs alike. Then-U.S. President Donald Trump displays his signature after signing the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul plan in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., December 22, 2017. Trump loved to use a Sharpie so much he even reached out to the stationary company to design a custom pen for him to sign documents, emblazoned with his mountain-peak-like signature. "I was signing documents with a very expensive pen and it didn't write well," Trump said, referring to the government pen. He added: "And then I started using just a Sharpie, and I said to myself, 'Well wait a minute, this much writes much better and this cost almost nothing.'"

☆ Tragedy struck around the globe. Mass casualty events in South Korea, India, and Somalia left nearly 400 dead this past weekend.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

In Seoul, South Korea, more than 150 people were killed in a crowd crush during Halloween festivities on Saturday. A woman pays tribute for the victims of the Halloween celebration stampede, on the street near the scene on October 31, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. The tragedy marks one of the worst to happen in South Korea since the Sewol ferry sank off the country's southwestern coast in 2014, taking the lives of 250 South Korean students. South Korean officials said state authorities had no safety plans in place to deal with the mass crowds that gathered during Halloween weekend. "There have been no safety management guidelines or manuals for events without an organizer," said Kim Seong-ho, head of the disaster and safety management headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, local newspaper The Hankyoreh reported.

Americans took notice of the expedited presidential aging process known to plague commanders-in-chief. Over the last 50 years, signs of aging have grown more noticeable as presidents are constantly photographed. "I had no gray hair 15 years ago." Indeed, despite his close-cut hairstyle, it was impossible not to notice the trademark presidential graying, as the president's short black hair became more of a salt-and-pepper color. Though some dermatologists maintain presidents are victims of an expedited presidential aging process, appearing to age faster because of the stress of the office, others say it's more attributable to natural aging than stress.

☆ Nancy Pelosi's husband is expected to make 'full recovery' following successful surgery to repair a skull fracture after he was attacked in their San Francisco home
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Nancy Pelosi's husband is expected to make a full recovery after he was attacked during a home invasion. Early Friday morning, an attacker broke into the Pelosis' California home and assaulted Paul Pelosi with a hammer. Paul Pelosi underwent a successful surgery to repair a skull fracture he sustained in the violent assault. Paul Pelosi was hospitalized at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital with blunt-force trauma to his head and body. Nancy Pelosi's office released a statement about Paul Pelosi's condition later Friday afternoon, saying he underwent a successful surgery to repair a skull fracture and was also treated for "serious injuries to his right arm and hands," per the release.

☆ Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin flippantly addressed the violent attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, saying it succeeded in getting her 'back to be with him in California'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Glenn Youngkin made light of a violent break-in to Nancy Pelosi's home. Early Friday morning, an attacker broke into her home and violently assaulted her husband Paul. "We're gonna send her back to be with him in California," Youngkin said. Glenn Youngkin made light of the violent assault on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, who was attacked in an early-morning break-in at their California home on Friday. "There's no room for violence anywhere, but we're gonna send her [Nancy Pelosi] back to be with him in California," Youngkin said.

☆ How 31-year-old Hope Hicks became the youngest White House communications director in history and a top executive at Fox before returning to counsel Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Rebecca Harrington | Ellen Cranley | Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Hicks resigned from the White House on January 12, 2021, but told people it was a previously planned departure. She was one of the few White House aides who broke with the former president and told him he lost the 2020 election. Hope Hicks was the youngest White House communications director in history. In her time at the White House, Hicks became ensnared in two high-profile White House controversies: the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and her role in crafting the White House's response to abuse allegations against staff secretary Rob Porter. She later rejoined the Trump White House as a counselor to the president, reporting to senior adviser and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

☆ Clarence Thomas temporarily shielded Lindsey Graham from testifying before a Georgia grand jury investigating attempts to overturn the 2020 election
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Justice Thomas briefly froze an order calling on Sen. Lindsey Graham to testify in a Georgia 2020 election probe. Last week, Graham filed an emergency application to block his testimony before an Atlanta grand jury. Graham was one of the lawmakers who asked the state's top election official to question absentee ballots, per a WaPo report. But last week's appeal to the Supreme Court wasn't Graham's first attempt to avoid testifying before the Atlanta grand jury. In a 23-page order filed in September, a federal judge rejected Graham's immunity claim, saying she was "unpersuaded by the breadth of Senator Graham's argument."

☆ What happened to Lara Logan? How the journalist went from respected war correspondent to right-wing radical
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Ashley Collman | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

It was around this time that Logan first started overtly expressing her political views, including criticizing a fellow reporter whose profile of a general resulted in that official's firing, New York Magazine reported. In an appearance on CNN's Reliable Sources, Logan speculated that Hastings published comments McChrystal made off the record, and therefore not meant for publishing. But Hastings told CNN during the same show that no ground rules were laid out for the story and he assumed his talks with McChrystal were on the record. "Michael Hastings has never served his country the way Commander McChrystal has," Logan said. Source: New York Magazine

☆ Jan. 6 committee formally subpoenas Trump and says it has 'overwhelming evidence' that he 'orchestrated and oversaw' efforts to overturn the 2020 election
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Sonam Sheth | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Jan. 6 committee formally subpoenaed former President Trump for documents and testimony. The committee laid out in detail Trump's multi-pronged effort to subvert the election results. Trump has until November 4 to produce the relevant documents and was called to testify on November 14. In a letter to Trump, the committee said it has assembled "overwhelming evidence" that he personally "orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transition of power." The panel then laid out in detail Trump's attempts to remain in power despite losing the election to Joe Biden.

☆ The US is at a 'greater risk' of civil conflict now than during the Great Depression, according to a presidential historian
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Historian Jon Meacham said the US may soon experience a period of civil chaos. While he doesn't believe there will be armies, he does think "we are going to see it with violence." The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, who has an upcoming book about Abraham Lincoln, spoke about how Lincoln set an example by putting democracy ahead of politics. "I do not believe we're going to see the massing of great armies in the way we did in the 19th century. "The work we are about is more important than the will and the whim of a single man, or a single party or a single interest.'"

☆ A federal appeals court allowed investigators to resume review of classified records seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Lauren Frias | C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A federal appeals court granted the DOJ's request to resume a review of classified materials seized from Mar-a-Lago. The ruling overturned Judge Aileen Cannon's decision that paused the review until a special master review. The decision appeared to embrace the DOJ's claims that a further delay in the review would hurt national security. "It is self-evident that the public has a strong interest in ensuring that the storage of the classified records did not result in 'exceptionally grave damage to the national security,'" the 11th Circuit judges wrote. The 11th Circuit panel included two Trump appointees — Judges Andrew Brasher and Britt Grant — along with Judge Robin Rosenbaum, an Obama appointee.

☆ A Massachusetts state lawmaker representing Martha's Vineyard is seeking a federal human trafficking probe after DeSantis relocated migrants to the island
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ron DeSantis chartered two planes to send 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard. A Massachusetts state lawmaker called on the DOJ to launch a human trafficking probe into the relocation. The move comes after lawyers representing the migrants said they want a criminal investigation into DeSantis. The move from the Massachusetts state legislator comes after lawyers representing the migrants said they want a criminal investigation into DeSantis over the "stunt" in letters to Rollins and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. Texas authorities opened a criminal probe into DeSantis' operation, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar announced Monday, saying the migrants were victims of a crime after being "lured under false pretenses."

☆ Here's a look at the British monarchy's full family tree for the past 100 years — from King George V to well-known royals like Princes William and Harry
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-08 | by ( Shayanne Gal | Áine Cain | Taylor Borden | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Here's a look at the entire tree of families that are descended from King George V — the UK's first Windsor king. The royal family tree of Britain's monarchy is quite a thing to behold. King George V, the first monarch from Britain's House of Windsor, and his wife Mary of Teck had six children. As a result, well-known royals like Prince George of Cambridge and his younger siblings Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have tons and tons of less-famous cousins. Here's an in-depth look at the British royal family tree, beginning with the family that started it all.

Fox News has seen a cascade of departures in past years, many of which amid sexual-harassment allegations. Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly are among the most notable ousters after being accused of sexual harassment. Loading Something is loading. President Trump continues to live tweet the network's shows since taking office, and has recently been waxing about the good old days under the late CEO Roger Ailes. Here are seven of the most notable departures from Fox over the past four years:

☆ Here is Donald Trump's family tree — from his father who founded the family company to his 16-year-old son Barron
▼ + stars: | 2018-10-03 | by ( Skye Gould | Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

After making a name for themselves in the real-estate world, the Trump family made waves in the political sphere. Donald Trump had a checkered tenure in the White House, where his three eldest children served as his advisors. Here is his full family tree, from Fred Trump who built the family business to Trump's 16-year-old son Barron. Donald Trump has claimed he's worth more than $10 billion, though independent estimates put it at more like $3 billion. The graphic below depicts Trump's wide-ranging family, which includes five children from three wives.

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