Guardian [U.K.],
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Dan Sabbagh
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Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region has continued into a second day, prompting Vladimir Putin to convene a meeting with his top defence and law enforcement officials.
A report from one Russia military blogger suggested Ukrainian forces had advanced northwards, possibly as far as nine miles (15km) from the border, along a highway north of the border village of Sverdlikovo and near a major natural gas transmission hub, but this could not be verified. Official and unofficial Russian sources reported that a force of several hundred soldiers had crossed a lightly defended part of the border on Tuesday morning, in what appears to be one of the largest
NBC News,
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Tom Winter *
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Taylor Swift's Eras Tour shows in Vienna have been canceled due to what Austrian police say was a planned terrorist attack targeting the concerts.
"With confirmation from government officials of a planned terrorist attack at Ernst Happel Stadium, we have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone’s safety," Barracuda Music, an event organizer in the city, posted on Instagram Wednesday evening. Taylor Nation, an Instagram account affiliated with Swift's team, reposted the message to its story.
According to the post, all tickets will be refunded and ticket holders can visit a website to request refunds.
Red State,
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Brad Slager
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The concept in journalism of offering your platform for a diversity of voices and alternative opinions is generally a noble pursuit. But this does not mean that in that process, you need to abandon the use of common sense and subjective editorial oversight. I say this because it appears that at the New York Times, they just flung open their op-ed space to anyone with a modicum of literacy while displaying a rather imbalanced mindset.
I say this based on a recent “guest essay” that appeared in the opinion pages of the Times, written by book author Belle Boggs. Her entry is about an episode that transpired inside her home,
Red State,
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Matt Funicello
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Wednesday morning, Senator JD Vance was giving public remarks on the campaign trail when he mentioned his opponent Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and his "controversial" military service record. Vance then laid into Walz, essentially calling him a coward, and rightly so, when he mentioned Walz's decision to abandon his troops right before they deployed to Iraq in 2004. To be perfectly clear, I 100 percent agree with Vance in his remarks, though because I am not running for Vice President of the United States, I would be much more colorful in my language describing Walz and his shameful behavior. Walz is absolutely a coward and a liar, and
National Review,
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Haley Strack
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The number of abortions performed in the U.S. has increased since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, a report released Wednesday found.
In the first three months of 2024, an average of 98,990 abortions were performed per month, according to a new study by the pro-choice Society of Family Planning (SFP), compared to 84,000 per month in the two months before the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022.
Although abortions have decreased in the 14 states with abortion restrictions, they increased in states with liberal abortion access,
National Review,
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David Zimmerman
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Israel vowed to kill Hamas’s new political leader, Yahya Sinwar, after his predecessor was assassinated in a suspected Israeli operation last month.
Hamas named Sinwar, the mastermind behind the terrorist group’s October 7 massacre of Israeli citizens and one of Israel’s top targets, as its new political chief on Tuesday following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh on July 31. Haniyeh was killed by a bomb that had been hidden by Israeli operatives weeks earlier in the apartment he was staying in while visiting allies in Iran, the New York Times reported.
Red State,
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Brandon Morse
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The attempt by the Kamala Harris campaign to reach out to the new celebrities to help promote her campaign is not going well as huge streamers and influencers are turning her down, with a few even openly supporting Donald Trump.
As reported on Tuesday night by Rawsalerts, Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, a person with almost 13 million followers, said he'd been getting calls from the Secret Service and the Harris campaign, requesting they do a collaboration, but Cenat made it clear that he's not interested.
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The Hill [DC],
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Julia Mueller
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Progressives suffered a major blow in Tuesday night’s primaries as Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) became the second “squad” member to lose to a challenger this cycle.
Coming just hours after Vice President Harris announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate in a move seen as a win for the progressive wing of the party, Bush’s loss put internal party frictions over the Israel-Hamas war on full display. Along with Missouri, voters also headed to the polls in Kansas, Michigan and Washington state to set up key matchups for November.
Here are five takeaways:
Breitbart,
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Brandon Morse
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A lot of people don't realize that George Washington didn't win the Revolutionary War by being a master class tactician. His reputation as one is kind of mixed, actually. His main strength came from being able to pull his army through difficult times that would have stopped other armies cold. He outlasted his opponent until they succumbed to the problems he overcame through sheer grit and determination. Your opponent can be larger, better funded, well-connected, and technologically superior, but if you can last five minutes longer than they can, then all their advantages don't matter.
Disney, an entertainment mega-corporation, had all the money in the world,
Breitbart,
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Joel B. Pollack
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Democrats at a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday to welcome Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate chanted “Lock him up!” after she attacked former President Donald Trump.
Karris repeated a portion of the speech she delivered to Democratic campaign headquarters last month.
On that occasion, she said:
As many of you know, before I was elected as Vice President, before I was elected as United States Senator, I was the elected Attorney General as I’ve mentioned to California, and before that I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women, fraudsters
Breitbart,
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Joel B. Pollak
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) referred to a crude sex joke based on a fake meme to make fun of rival Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) during a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate.
“I can’t wait to debate the guy,” Walz said, to cheers. Then he added: “That is, if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up.”
The crowd roared with laughter.
“You see what I did there?” he said, clearly aware of the joke. The joke refers to a meme that claims Vance had sex with a couch, based on a fake citation from his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
Register (UK),
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Laura Dobberstein
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Dell has made another round of layoffs, which The Register understands have cut deep and seen even company veterans let go.
HR exit meetings kicked off on Tuesday morning, spurring a wave of LinkedIn status changes, while others found comfort venting or trading information in online forums.
Dell confirmed the layoffs to The Register.
"Through a reorganization of our go-to-market teams and an ongoing series of actions, we are becoming a leaner company. We are combining teams and prioritizing where we invest across the company. We continually evolve our business, so we're set up to deliver the best innovation, value and service to our customers and partners," Dell told The Register by email.