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Russia may be behind a rise in jamming attacks on neighboring countries, a top general said. https://bit.ly/3ugl1P5

The West froze $300 billion in Russian central-bank assets after Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022. 👉 http://tinyurl.com/3ct99bm6

Residents of Riverbed Ranch are building their own small town from scratch. The goal? Survive if America collapses. 👉 https://t.ly/PslHN

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

Two state-owned Chinese banks are severing ties with Russian clients, Bloomberg reported.
https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-banks-sever-ties-russian-clients-xi-putin-partnership-report-2024-1?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sent-message

More than 400 Ukrainian athletes have been killed in the Russia-Ukraine war, an official has said.
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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

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

Mark Epstein said on Tuesday that his late brother was "just having a good time."
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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