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Russia may be behind a rise in jamming attacks on neighboring countries, a top general said. https://bit.ly/3ugl1P5
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Residents of Riverbed Ranch are building their own small town from scratch. The goal? Survive if America collapses. 👉 https://t.ly/PslHN
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Two state-owned Chinese banks are severing ties with Russian clients, Bloomberg reported.
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Two Navy SEALs went missing during an operation off the coast of Somalia last week. They were reportedly searching for suspected Iranian weapons on a Yemen-bound boat. 👉 https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-seals-lost-at-sea-reportedly-looking-for-iranian-weapons-2024-1?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sent-message
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Mark Epstein said on Tuesday that his late brother was "just having a good time."
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The latest batch of newly unsealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein's prolific sex trafficking scheme includes a highly-anticipated 2016 deposition from Virginia Roberts Giuffre. 👉 https://www.businessinsider.com/epstein-accuser-detailed-sex-with-alan-dershowitz-in-unsealed-document-2024-1?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sent-message
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Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned after conservative activists revealed she had plagiarized some passages in her academic work.
Hedge fund manager and prominent Harvard donor Bill Ackman helped lead the charge against Gay, seizing on the revelations to underscore his calls for her removal following what he perceived as her mishandling of large protests against Israel's bombardment of Gaza on Harvard's campus.
An analysis by Business Insider found a similar pattern of plagiarism by Ackman's wife Neri Oxman, who became a tenured professor at MIT in 2017. Read more
The internet has blurred boundaries between people's professional and personal lives for years.
"The design of LinkedIn helps to maintain its focus on the professional, but any platform with a direct-messaging option is likely to also be used to pursue sex and dating," Dustin Kidd, a professor of sociology at Temple University, told Business Insider. Read more
The chaotic and abrupt withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan and subsequent Taliban takeover caused massive upheaval in the country.
The Female Tactical Platoon was formed by the army of Afghanistan to better communicate with women and children during missions.
Leading this unit was Mahnaz Akbari. Read more
The 'My Unorthodox Life' star and activists are fighting to change coercive-control laws to save 'chained women' trapped in marriages.
These women, also called agunot, bear the label because their husbands refuse to grant them a divorce under Jewish law.
Their existence was no secret to the other residents of the Hasidic enclave of New York, Haart said. In fact, if anything they were an "absolute constant." Read more.
The public uproar spearheaded by some of the biggest names in business has ended with Harvard President Claudine Gay resigning from her role after weeks of blowback and plagiarism allegations.
Gay announced Tuesday in a letter that she was stepping down, and reactions have poured in on social media from both her supporters and critics.
Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary and Harvard president emeritus recently named to OpenAI's interim board, applauded Gay's decision to step down. Read more.
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GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she'd pardon Donald Trump if she wins in 2024.
"I would pardon Trump if he is found guilty," Haley said at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Thursday, per NBC News.
Haley added that pardoning Trump would allow the country to break clean from the embattled former president. Read more.
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An online petition calling on the Ukrainian government to legalize same-sex marriage and give same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples passed the 25,000 signatures required to trigger a presidential review.
But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy struck it down, saying that "the constitution of Ukraine may not be amended in the event of martial law or a state of emergency."
Ukrainian LGBTQ+ soldiers told Business Insider about their experiences on the front lines and fighting for equality. Read more
Families of Ukrainian prisoners of war held in Russia have staged protests in several cities urging the government to work on their release. According to a new report, Russia may be purposefully using the POWs to foment distrust of Kyiv.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have been taken as prisoners of war. Some 4,000 are still being held months after they were taken. Read more
Victor Muller was a popular student at the highly regarded Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. One student said he was the last person they would ever suspect of being a spy.
But in March, Muller's true identity was revealed. Prosecutors in the Netherlands said that Muller was, in reality, Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov, a Russian military operative.
Not long after, four individuals with Bulgarian identities were arrested in the UK. British prosecutors said they were in fact Russian intelligence agents, living under false identities to gather information on key parts of the UK infrastructure. Read more.
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The West froze $300 billion in Russian central-bank assets after Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022. 👉 http://tinyurl.com/3ct99bm6
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the need for more US funding at Davos this week. Zelenskyy addressed skeptical American voters in response to our question. 👉 https://t.ly/i4x-Q
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More than 400 Ukrainian athletes have been killed in the Russia-Ukraine war, an official has said.
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Russia has condemned Western airstrikes in Yemen targeting Houthi militants. But analysts say Russia is providing Iran's allies with cover to prolong the conflict. 👉 https://t.ly/tiJ0r
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A group of almost 40 Russian soldiers abandoned their positions and tried to flee to Russian-occupied Crimea, a Ukrainian military official said. 👉https://t.ly/T4Ffv
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The average number of Russian casualties in Ukraine each day had risen by almost 300 during last year, the UK Ministry of Defence says, citing data from the Ukrainian defense ministry. 👉https://t.ly/prPuA
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Stephen Hawking's name came up in the newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents.
In 2015, Epstein offered to pay people to disprove an allegation that Hawking was in an "underage orgy."
But the documents don't actually have any allegations against Hawking. Read more
Electric vehicles were supposed to be inevitable.
It would not only give the government a highly visible way to show it's fighting the climate crisis but boost the economy through new jobs and investment.
But the electric-vehicle takeover has now hit some serious roadblocks. Read more
A New York judge just unsealed the names of 170 associates of Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday.
But the pedophile's network was much bigger, with at least 1,731 names in his two black books.
Business Insider compiled full databases of these names, and 2,618 trips made by Epstein's private jets. Read more
A federal judge in New York is set to unseal the identities of more than 170 associates of Jeffrey Epstein as part of a long-running lawsuit between one of his accusers and his sex-trafficking partner Ghislaine Maxwell.
Former President Bill Clinton is perhaps the biggest name expected to be disclosed in the documents.
The documents also bring fresh scrutiny to Prince Andrew, a longtime friend of Epstein who said he cut ties with him in 2010. Read more.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the woman who conspired with her then-boyfriend to have her mother killed, was released early from prison on Thursday, and picked up by her recently-wed husband.
Blanchard, 32, married Ryan Scott Anderson last year while she was serving a 10-year sentence at the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri.
She was granted parole after serving eight years for her role in the death of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard, who prosecutors also acknowledged was abusive. Read more.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has fought fiercely to keep Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim region in the North Caucasus, firmly under Moscow's thumb.
Chechnya sought to break away from the Russian Federation, but after two brutal wars it was subjugated by Vladimir Putin under the Kadyrov family.
In this comic, you will hear about the rise of the Kadyrovs, what it is like to endure your country being taken over by thugs and killers, and how to survive in a brutal authoritarian regime. Read more.
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In June, the world's attention was rapt, as a submersible that escorted wealthy customers to see the sunken Titanic disappeared with five souls on board.
In the Mediterranean, a different horror was unfolding — a fishing trawler converted to transport migrants out of Libya capsized off the coast of Greece, claiming hundreds of lives.
Business Insider interviewed survivors of the sinking of the Adriana, and after several interviews adapted the experiences into this comic. Read more
South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun was found dead inside a car, police announced Wednesday, according to multiple reports.
Lee, who played the wealthy patriarch Park Dong-ik in the Oscar-winning movie "Parasite”, was 48 years old.
Yonhap News Agency, citing police, said that Lee was found at a park with a charcoal briquette in his passenger seat. Police also told the agency that his wife had reported that he walked out of his home after leaving what appeared to be a suicide note. Read more.
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The Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas, which is about 1,187 feet long and took its maiden voyage in 2010, cost about $1.4 billion to make, according to Statista.
That's why cruise ships are rarely outright abandoned if they're ever decommissioned or retired due to the ship's age or, in some cases, catastrophic disasters.
Oftentimes, these vessels are taken to scrapyards to be dismantled for their valuable parts such as the metal. Materials from a single ship can bring in around $4 million, Business Insider reported in 2021. Read more.