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A former NATO commander says that Ukraine’s big spring offensive was hampered by its lack of airpower, which allowed Russia to put mines down in areas where it thought Ukrainian forces might try to advance.Ukraine launched its spring counteroffensive in June with the goal of disrupting the frontlines in the country’s southeast. But the offensive “was unfortunately lacking in one key element, and that’s airpower,” retired Gen. James Jones told RFE/RL in an interview.That meant “the Russians had p…
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In October, reports of a great white shark’s mangled carcass washing ashore in a town in Victoria, Australia sparked suspicion. The carcass was completely disemboweled and only its head and spine remained intact, according to photos that Portland Bait and Tackle posted on Facebook. People speculated that the likely culprits were orcas, but a necropsy of the shark’s body has confirmed it. Bite marks near the shark’s disfigured belly “are quite typical of killer whales where they effectively suck…
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The latest relationship test that’s taking TikTok by storm involves a fruit.Ask your partner to peel an orange for you, it says, and their answer will determine the strength of your relationship.Known as the “orange peel theory,” the test symbolizes the small, day-to-day acts of kindness that people can do to express their love for their partners.“They do it because they know it makes both of their lives easier and promotes gross domestic happiness in the relationship,” said Max Alley, an online…
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Former President Donald Trump may no longer be on Twitter (now known as X). But that doesn’t mean his old tweets can’t come back to haunt him.The special counsel Jack Smith plans to use Trump’s tweets, some of which date as far back as 2012, to convince a jury of Trump’s peers that he engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the US and illegally overturn the 2020 election results, according to a new court filing from Smith’s office.The filing alleges that Trump’s public statements “sowed mistrust in t…
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The head of the Ron DeSantis-appointed Disney oversight board told Disney district employees that they owe more than $2 million in back taxes tied to park pass perks they had received before the new board took over, The Orlando Sentinel reported.Glen Gilzean, the district administrator, sent an email to employees on Friday informing them of the matter, the newspaper reported.It “has come to the attention of the district administration that the previous leadership chose not to inform staff about…
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A Wisconsin university chancellor got fired this week over the explicit OnlyFans account he shares with his wife.He’s since accused the school of violating his free speech rights. But experts say the First Amendment probably won’t save him.Joe Gow, the now-former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, told The New York Times that the university violated his civil rights, saying they “don’t seem to realize that the First Amendment would be critical in this situation.“Gow and his wif…
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As Vladimir Putin wages war against Ukraine, he faces a growing threat from within his borders: the angry relatives of Russian soldiers.Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and the war has only intensified in the months since. And as more Russians are sent to fight, their wives and mothers have become an increasingly powerful force of dissent, arguing that their loved ones are ill-used or deserve to return home after nearly two years of war.It’s not the first time that Russian soldiers’ rela…
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Donald Trump’s lawyers took a page out of the federal prosecutors’ playbook and included his social media posts in a new court filing.The difference? While prosecutors use Trump’s old tweets against him, his lawyers pointed to them to say that the special counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 case against Trump should be tossed out.Prosecutors last month pulled Trump’s tweets dating back to 2012 to convince a jury of Trump’s peers that he engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the US and illegally overturn…
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A coast-guard aircraft that collided with a Japan Airlines passenger jet this week wasn’t cleared for takeoff, according to an air-traffic-control transcript detailing the moments before the crash.The coast-guard plane was instructed to taxi to a point near the runway on Tuesday evening at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, Bloomberg reported, citing the transcript.But the captain of the plane said after the accident that he had “obtained permission to take off,” Japanese media reports said.Someone on the…
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Former President Donald Trump’s attorney on Tuesday argued that a president could order the assassination of his political rival and couldn’t be prosecuted for it — unless Congress impeached and convicted that commander in chief first.Trump’s lawyer made the argument in a contentious appeals-court hearing Tuesday in the special counsel Jack Smith’s election-interference case against the former president.Trump’s legal team has repeatedly argued that the ex-president has “absolute immunity” from c…
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Russia has accidentally dropped bombs on territories it controls two times in the last week, and British intelligence believes the mistakes were likely “exacerbated” by poor training and exhausted crews.The first incident occurred on Jan. 2, when a Russian warplane accidentally discharged a munition that damaged nine residential properties in Petropavlovka, in western Russia’s Voronezh Oblast,” the UK’s Ministry of Defense wrote in a Wednesday intelligence update.Not even a week later, a Russian…
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Aaron Rodgers will no longer appear as a guest on “The Pat McAfee Show” for the rest of the NFL season, Pat McAfee said on Wednesday.McAfee applauded Rodgers as “a Hall of Famer” and a “massive piece of the NFL story whenever you go back and tell it” but said, “some of his thoughts and opinions, though, do piss off a lot of people.”“And I’m pumped that that is no longer going to be every single Wednesday of my life, which it has been for the last few weeks,” McAfee said.“There are going to be a…
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Three Republican-led congressional committees drafted a document late last year slamming President Joe Biden for his handling of the Ukraine war.Weeks after it was drafted, the GOP blocked an emergency spending bill that would have sent more US aid to Ukraine.Biden is “mishandling the worst war in Europe since World War II,” the chairmen of the House foreign affairs, armed services, and intelligence committees wrote in the document titled “Proposed Plan for Victory in Ukraine.”“His weakness fail…
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The head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service claimed Thursday that the US could meddle in Russia’s upcoming presidential election. Washington could do this, SVR chief Sergei Naryshkin baselessly claimed, by creating a “fifth column” in Russia consisting of Russians who participated in US-funded exchange programs.The term “fifth column” refers to a group of people working to undermine a nation’s interests from within.Naryshkin failed to mention that he himself participated in a US-funded pro…
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Martin Luther King Jr. is the most decorated civil rights icon in American history. But it took more than a decade after he died for the country to celebrate him with a national holiday.Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the second federal holiday of every calendar year (after New Year’s Day). The holiday marks King’s birthday, which was on January 15, 1929. Although MLK Jr. Day falls on King’s actual birthday this year, that’s not always the case.Instead, the King Holiday Bill, which sought to make…
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Russia is recruiting 30,000 new soldiers a month to make up for the ones thrown into the meat grinder in Ukraine, a top Ukrainian intelligence official said this week.That’s about 1,000 to 1,100 people a day, according to the assessment from Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy chief major general of Ukraine’s main military intelligence arm. The Institute for the Study of War said Skibitskyi’s statement is “consistent with ISW’s assessment that Russian forces are able to conduct routine operational level ro…
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As jury selection began Tuesday in E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation case against former President Donald Trump, Judge Lewis Kaplan asked the potential jurors a question: did any of them believe the 2020 election was stolen from Trump?A man in a red sweater — juror number 68 — raised his hand. He and another woman were the only two out of the roughly six dozen prospects in the New York courtroom who raised their hands.Juror 68 was also the only person among prospective jurors who said he had a…
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The judge overseeing the second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial against former President Donald Trump threatened to kick Trump out of court if he kept disparaging Carroll to his attorneys while the trial was underway.“Mr. Trump has the right to be here,” Judge Lewis Kaplan said Wednesday, adding “that right can be forfeited” if he’s disruptive and “if he disregards” court orders.“Mr. Trump, I hope I don’t have to consider excluding you from the trial,” Kaplan later said.Kaplan’s comments came a…
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Former President Donald Trump didn’t just annihilate Ron DeSantis in the 2024 election; he did it after months of steadily snapping up staffers that the Florida governor had spurned.DeSantis dropped out of the presidential race on Sunday after a devastating 30-percentage-point loss to Trump in last week’s Iowa caucuses.“Bye bye,” top Trump staffer Susie Wiles wrote on X in response to the news.DeSantis’ decision to drop out likely yielded a unique sense of schadenfreude for Wiles, who was instru…
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High-ranking Israeli military officials are increasingly concerned that if Israel has any hope of defeating Hamas, it may have to do so at the cost of the lives of remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza, The New York Times reported.The Times reported that some Israeli commanders are worried the country’s twin goals of destroying Hamas and freeing the hostages are not both feasible.Instead, The Times reported, some Israeli military officials believe that Israel may have to use diplomatic channels — a…
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Donald Trump’s lawyer made headlines last week after she violated basic courtroom rules and proper legal procedure in the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial.Judge Lewis Kaplan bench-slapped Habba at least 14 times in a single day, dinging her for ignoring his previous rulings, not knowing how to properly cross-examine a witness, and ignoring the basic rules for introducing evidence into a trial.Alina Habba’s behavior would have opened her up to potential malpractice liability in any other case, sa…
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