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☆ It's not just GOP donors — even Trump's onetime spiritual advisor is turning on him after his 2024 announcement, calling him a 'little elementary schoolchild'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Even Trump's onetime spiritual adviser is ditching him, after he announced his 2024 presidential bid. "If Mr. Trump can't stop his little petty issues, how does he expect people to stop major issues?" Even Trump's one-time spiritual adviser has publicly slammed him, calling him childish, a day after he announced his 2024 presidential run. This was after Trump announced his 2024 presidential bid on Tuesday night at Mar-a-Lago, pledging to make America "great" and "glorious" again. Robison did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider on whether he would endorse Trump's 2024 bid.

☆ Fact Check-Confusion spreads online about 15,000 people detained in Iran
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

CONFUSION SPREADSOn social media, the picture became blurred. Other social media users cited a Nov. 10 Newsweek article titled “Iran Protesters Refuse to Back Down as 15,000 Face Execution” as their source (here), (here), (here). Posts on social media conflated this with figures by local activist agencies that over 15,000 people had been detained. As of publication, death sentences have not been handed to 15,000 detained people. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here .

☆ Evangelical pastor and longtime Trump ally says he won't endorse Trump unless he wins the GOP nomination
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Robert Jeffress is an evangelical pastor and longtime supporter of former President Donald Trump. He told Newsweek that he will not endorse Trump until the Republican Party nominates him. Jeffress said the GOP is "headed toward a civil war" and that he doesn't want to be involved. "Donald Trump was a great president, and if he becomes the GOP nominee in 2024, I will happily support him," Robert Jeffress, told Newsweek. Jeffress is the senior pastor of a 14,000-strong megachurch in Dallas, Texas, and one of Trump's most vocal evangelical supporters.

A false claim that Iran is planning to execute thousands of people has gone viral in the wake of the first death sentence for a protester tied to the ongoing demonstrations against the country’s clerical rulers over women’s rights. An image that has circulated widely on social media falsely states that 15,000 protesters have been sentenced to death. Like much viral misinformation online, the claim about the 15,000 death sentences appears to have started with a kernel of truth. Independent reporting is suppressed in Iran and it is not possible for NBC News to confirm these numbers. “The rumors of a new round of mass executions is likely fueled by memories of what happened in 1988.”

☆ Musician says he set up a fake Tesla account on Twitter to show how 'thin-skinned' Elon Musk was
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A musician says he set up a fake Tesla account to show Elon Musk was "thin-skinned." Connor Musarra told Newsweek he created a parody verified Tesla account to highlight the issues with some of Musk's decisions for Twitter. The LA-based musician told the outlet: "The goal of my fake Tesla account was to highlight how much of a thin-skinned, incompetent buffoon Elon is, but also I just wanted to make people laugh." Musarra told Newsweek that Musk had "introduced a new level of unmanageable insanity" with his new paid verification system. Musarra said in a TikTok that his parody Tesla account was active for six or seven hours.

☆ Astronauts' stunning photos from the International Space Station show Earth's triumphs and tragedies in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

"At the beginning of the war, the whole country went dark at night," German astronaut Matthias Maurer said in May, adding, "People actually only recognized Kyiv." Kyiv, Ukraine, as seen by satellite in January 2022, left, and March 2022, right. NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens/Black Marble data courtesy of Ranjay Shrestha/NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterThat's what he told German broadcaster ARD's "Morgenmagazin" program, according to a translation in Newsweek. "Then you could also see the impacts in the first days of the war. In Kyiv, you could see lightning at night," as well as the "rockets that hit," he added, according to Newsweek.

Elon Musk seems determined to remake Twitter in his own image — with some help from the men in his trusted inner circle. They are joined in Musk’s orbit by Alex Spiro, a trial attorney with a roster of celebrity clients who reportedly led the first round of Twitter layoffs. Bloomberg reported Wednesday night that Twitter is preparing to eliminate about 3,700 jobs, or roughly half its workforce. Musk's personnel decisions suggest a possible road map for the future of Twitter, one in which policies and internal rules are drawn at least in part from the views of Musk’s consiglieres. Sacks, Calacanis, Spiro and Birchall did not immediately respond to questions about the company’s future and the nature of their roles there.

☆ Fact Check-CNN did not report Trump died on Nov. 1, 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A screenshot of an alleged report attributed to CNN entitled “Donald Trump dead at 76” has duped some social media users. See you in hell, my man,” one Twitter user commented. The earliest iteration of the image Reuters could identify was posted by Twitter user “@mylifeisabiglie” (here) in response to a tweet by Heidecker. Social media claims that former U.S. President Donald Trump died likely originated as satire. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here .

☆ 'We've seen how that goes': Obama rebuked Herschel Walker as 'a celebrity who wants to be a politician'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Barack Obama said Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker wants to be a celebrity politician. Obama spoke at a campaign rally Friday in support of Sen. Raphael Warnock, the incumbent facing Walker in November. "Seems to me he's a celebrity who wants to be a politician and we've seen how that goes," Obama added of Walker in an apparent nod to former President Donald Trump, who has thrown his support behind Walker. "Some of you may not remember, but Herschel Walker was a heck of a football player," Obama said, per CNN. "Herschel Walker is a hypocrite," the woman told reporters at a press conference Wednesday.

☆ A bizarre video appears to show Putin ally Kadyrov being presented with 3 Ukrainian POWs by his teenage sons
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted a video of his teenage sons presenting him with Ukrainian POWs. Kadyrov previously revealed that his three sons, aged 14-16, had been on the frontline in Ukraine. Kadyrov, a staunch supporter of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has called for the use of a "low-yield nuclear weapon." The video, which was posted on Kadyrov's Telegram channel, appears to show two of his sons, along with other Russian soldiers, bringing three Ukrainian prisoners of war to him in Grozny. Lawyers have noted that filming prisoners of war without their consent violates their rights under the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war.

☆ FBI offered former British spy behind the discredited 'pee tape' dossier up to $1m to prove Trump-Russia links, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The FBI offered a British ex-spy up to $1m to prove Trump's ties to Russia, per The Times of London. A senior FBI analyst revealed this during the trial of the Steele dossier's primary source — Igor Danchenko. Christopher Steele could not verify his allegations, and the money was not paid out. Danchenko, a Russian citizen, was sent by Steele to search for material on Trump, The Times said. The Mueller report contained passing references to some of the allegations in the dossier.

☆ Biden's comment that his son Beau 'lost his life in Iraq' caught attention. Here's why he would say that.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some publications have seized on Joe Biden's statement that his son "lost his life in Iraq." But Biden has long tied the toxic burn pits his son was exposed to during his military service to his brain cancer. "I say this as a father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the Conspicuous Service Medal, and lost his life in Iraq. He said then that he became aware of the possible link while reading, "The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America's Soldiers," by Joseph Hickman. Biden said his grandson, who was seated next to the girl, lost his father "to the same burn pits."

A man examines "Self-Portrait" by Andy Warhol during a media preview at Christie's auction house in New York, October 31, 2014. She countersued Warhol's estate for copyright infringement in 2017 after it asked a Manhattan federal court to rule that his works did not violate her rights. Copyright law sometimes allows for the fair use of copyrighted works without the creator's permission. A federal judge found Warhol's works were protected by the fair use doctrine, having transformed the "vulnerable" musician depicted in Goldsmith's work into an "iconic, larger-than-life figure." Documentary filmmakers, fan fiction writers and the estates of other major figures in the pop art movement have come out in support of Warhol.

The case centers on how courts decide when an artist makes "fair use" of another's work under copyright law. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the estate's appeal of a lower court's decision favoring Goldsmith. The Supreme Court's eventual decision could have broad or narrow implications for fair use depending on the ruling, Tushnet said. The Warhol estate told the Supreme Court the 2nd Circuit's decision "casts a cloud of legal uncertainty over an entire genre of visual art, including canonical works by Andy Warhol and countless other artists." Goldsmith's lawyers told the Supreme Court that a ruling favoring the foundation would "transform copyright law into all copying, no right."

☆ Here's what William Shatner would have seen on his trip to space aboard Blue Origin as his new book says it 'felt like a funeral'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

William Shatner became the oldest person to journey to space when he flew on Blue Origin in October 2021. The 11-minute flight reached 66 miles above Earth, where Shatner may have seen deserts, mountains, and water. The Star Trek actor described space as dreadful "ominous blackness," but was wowed by Earth's beauty. ReutersBefore the journey, Shatner expressed excitement about finally seeing space with his own eyes, describing the opportunity as "a miracle." Bettmann/Getty ImagesIn the film, Gagarin said he could see forests, and described Earth as "visible and distinct," but many areas were "covered with cumulus clouds."

☆ Nikki Finke, veteran Hollywood journalist, has died
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN Business —Nikki Finke, the sharp-tongue Hollywood journalist famous for her seemingly non-stop scoops, has died. “She posted firsthand accounts of how she saw the entertainment business and was unfazed about dressing down its biggest players,” Deadline wrote. In 2002, she joined LA Weekly and wrote its “Deadline Hollywood” column. In 2006, she started “Deadline Hollywood Daily,” which helped usher in an era of fast-paced blogging. “At her best, Nikki Finke embodied the spirit of journalism, and was never afraid to tell the hard truths with an incisive style and an enigmatic spark.

Flash-forward to today, at the peak of the midterm elections’ race, and the political landscape around reproductive freedom and abortion rights has massively shifted. The Supreme Court’s stunning decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June swept away abortion rights, allowing the GOP to start making good on the draconian abortion measures they’ve long been cheerleading. And those voters are increasingly in the abortion rights camp. According to Gallup, women support abortion rights by a nearly 30-point margin. President Bill Clinton preferred to discuss abortion as “safe, legal and rare,” a catchphrase that many Democrats adopted later.

☆ Liz Cheney says if Trump wins a 2024 presidential nomination she 'won't be a Republican'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Liz Cheney said she'll do "everything I can" to ensure Trump is not a 2024 presidential nominee. Speaking at Texas Tribune Fest, she said if Trump is the GOP candidate, she "won't be a Republican." Cheney, a second-generation Republican leader, has historically voted conservatively, following the political legacy of her father, Dick Cheney, who served as vice president under Republican President George W. Bush. Newsweek reported Cheney voted with Trump 93% of the time while in office, but the two have publicly feuded over her refusal to endorse him personally. "Knowing what I know now, I would not have voted for Donald Trump," Cheney said during the interview.

☆ Russian man says he would break his leg or go to prison to avoid Putin's order to fight in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Many Russians are desperately trying to get out of being drafted for the war in Ukraine. One man told the BBC that he would break his arm or leg "to avoid this whole thing." "I will break my arm, my leg, I will go to prison, anything to avoid this whole thing," said the man, who was not named, in an article published Thursday. Hours after Putin's announcement, the most-searched term on Google in Russia was "how to break an arm at home," according to Newsweek. Putin's move came after Russian troops were forced into retreat from large areas of Ukraine.

☆ Delaware prepares for potential arrival of migrants after DeSantis chartered flights to Martha's Vineyard
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. A Texas sheriff announced on Monday that he is opening a criminal investigation into the transport of migrants to Martha's Vineyard, saying they were "lured" with "promises of a better life." DeSantis had suggested in November that he could send migrants to Biden's home state of Delaware. Newsweek reportered on Tuesday that the same aircraft that flew migrants to Martha's Vineyard is bound for Delaware Coastal Airport in Sussex County, Delaware, "though there is no evidence at this time that migrants will be on board." Last week, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas tweeted "Rehoboth Beach, Delaware next" and tagged Abbott and DeSantis.

☆ Peter Thiel's fellowship program has birthed power players worth more than $220 billion collectively, including design software firm Figma that Adobe said it was acquiring for $20 billion
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Katie Canales | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Peter Thiel's fellowship program has been doling out $100,000 checks to young entrepreneurs for 11 years now. Adobe plans to acquire the design software firm Figma in a deal worth about $20 billion, the company announced Thursday. Figma was founded in 2012 by Dylan Field with the help of Peter Theil's fellowship program. The famed Silicon Valley investor and former Trump adviser founded his Thiel Fellowship program through his foundation for students aged 22 or younger. Here are some of the projects that have come out of Thiel's fellowship.

☆ NASA chief says everyone 'poo-pooed' Elon Musk's SpaceX when it was pitted against Boeing but it's had more successful launches
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

NASA's Bill Nelson told Newsweek that critics "poo-pooed" SpaceX when it was bidding for the agency's crew programs. NASA has awarded SpaceX 14 missions and Boeing six missions. "When there was the beginning of the space cargo and crew [programs], the two serious bidders were SpaceX and Boeing, and everybody poo-pooed SpaceX and said, 'Oh, Boeing is a legacy company,'" Nelson told Newsweek. Nelson's comments follow the second launch attempt for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) being delayed in early September because of a liquid hydrogen leak. Although NASA has contracted SpaceX for 14 missions, the agency has previously said that the company's plan to send another 30,000 Starlink satellites into orbit could create "substantial congestion."

☆ Un bărbat a devenit milionar din cauza unei erori bancare. În final, a ajuns în închisoare
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-02 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Suma a ajuns în contul său ca urmare a unei erori tehnice apărute în timpul actualizării aplicației mobile a băncii sale. Astfel, în zilele de 31 mai și 1 iunie, el a făcut 220 de tranzacții și nu toate au fost mici. Între multe mărunțișuri, Yurkov și-a cumpărat patru apartamente, un BMW, un Mercedes și un iPhone. Ulterior, în timpul anchetei, Yurkov a spus că s-a simțit ca „în filme”: „Am cumpărat tot ce îmi doream. Yurkov a fost reclamat la poliție și acuzat de furt, fiind acum condamnat la 6 ani de închisoare.

Persons: Yurkov Organizations: BMW, Mercedes Locations: Roman, Tula, Rusia

☆ Jill Biden apare pe coperta revistei Vogue, după ce Melania Trump a fost ignorată de publicaţie
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-01 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +3 min

Sursa foto: newsweek.comJill Biden apare pe coperta revistei Vogue, după ce Melania Trump a fost ignorată de publicaţieJill Biden apare pe coperta ediţiei de august a revistei Vogue, cu titlul „O primă doamnă pentru noi toţi”, după ce Melania Trump a fost ignorată de publicaţie, spre nemulţumirea ei şi a fostului preşedinte Donald Trump. Preşedintele de la acel moment a spus că prima doamnă a fost „cea mai grozavă din toate timpurile”. A fost considerat că a reprezentat un răspuns la jacheta cu mesajul „I really don’t care, do u?” pe care Melania Trump a purtat-o în 2018, într-o vizită în Texas, unde a întâlnit copiii migranţilor separaţi de părinţi. În timpul alegerilor din noiembrie, Jill Biden a purtat cizme Stuart Weitzman pe care scria „Vote”. Pentru fotografia folosită pe copertă, Biden a purtat o rochie înflorată semnată Oscar de la Renta.

Persons: Jill Biden, Melania Trump, preşedinte Donald Trump, Trump, Ea, Joe, Donald Trump, Annie Leibovitz, Zadig, Voltaire, părinţi, Biden, Stuart, Vogue, vicepreşedinta Kamala Harris . Locations: preşedinte, Americii, Cornwall, Texas, America

☆ 50 de miliarde de dolari au ajuns din greșeală în contul unei familii: „Nu am văzut niciodată atât de multe zerouri”
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-28 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: foto simbol50 de miliarde de dolari au ajuns din greșeală în contul unei familii: „Nu am văzut niciodată atât de multe zerouri”Un cuplu din Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a fost șocat când a descoperit în cont 50 de miliarde de dolari, bani care au fost virați din greșeală. James a sunat imediat la bancă pentru a anunța incidentul și a încerca să afle cum a fost posibil să se întâmple una ca asta, relatează Newsweek. „A fost o nebunie doar să văd cum arată, pentru că nu am văzut niciodată atât de multe zerouri”, a spus el. Suma a dispărut din contul lui James după câteva zile, dar între timp el a făcut o captură foto cu suma pe care o va păstra ca amintire, scrie digi24.ro. Femeia a refuzat să înapoieze banii și în final a fost arestată.

Persons: Darren James, James, Newsweek, Charles Schwab Corporation, Kelyn Organizations: Baton Rouge, Banca Locations: Baton, Louisiana

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