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Brent Renaud, an award-winning filmmaker and journalist, was shot and killed Sunday when his vehicle was riddled with bullets after passing a military checkpoint in Irpin, a Ukrainian city located on the outskirts of Kyiv that had seen intense gunfire in recent days, per AP News. Renaud, 50, was in the area working on a project focused on […]
Bella Hadid is showing support for Ukraine. On Wednesday, the 25-year-old supermodel announced she would donate her 2022 fashion week earnings to Ukrainian relief efforts. The pledge came just weeks Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of the neighboring country. According to the United Nations, the conflict has resulted in more than 500 civilian […]
More than 4,300 people in Russia were detained Sunday for protesting president Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, Reuters reports. Russia’s interior ministry disclosed that of the 56 different cities where the protesters were detained, 1,700 were located in the capital of Moscow, and 750 were from the heavily-populated city of St. Petersburg. Protesters reportedly shouted chants, such as […]
Thousands of African students spread across Ukraine are trapped and fearing for their safety following Russia’s invasion of the embattled country. Korrine Sky, a 26-year-old second-year medical student in Dnipro, told Insider that she is trying to coordinate with other students in the hope of escaping the conflict. “I’m very, very afraid,” Sky said. “We’re […]
It seems that a former Miss Grand Ukraine is now taking up arms as her home country fends off an invasion from Russia. Anastasia Lenna, who won Ukraine’s 2015 Miss Grand International beauty contest, took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a photo of her strapped with a gun, which she hashtagged, “#standwithukraine” and “#handsoffukraine.” […]
President Vladimir Putin said early on Thursday that Russia has authorized a “special military operation” that will be conducted in eastern Ukraine, according to The New York Times and the Associated Press. The sound of “large booms” was reported around Kramatorsk, Ukraine at about the same time that Putin made the announcement. In a televised address, the […]
Joe Biden says he’s now convinced that Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine. “We have reason to believe the Russian forces are planning to and intend to attack Ukraine in the coming week, in the coming days,” Biden said Friday during a White House press conference. “We believe that they will target Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv, […]
The next time you want to add honey to something, you might want to think twice. According to a study conducted by Nature Communications, traces of radioactive chemicals from nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s can be found in American honey. The samples collected came from over 100 hives and soil samples all across the Eastern United States. […]
Donald Trump‘s attacks on military veterans have been well-documented over the years: He’s criticized John Allen as a “failed general,” referred to Sen. Richard Blumenthal as “a phony Vietnam con artist,” and called retired four-star general Jim Mattis “the world’s most overrated general”—just to name a few examples. On Thursday, The Atlantic published a report that laid out other alleged instances in which POTUS […]
Walmart announced Tuesday it will remove the Mississippi state flag from its stores, citing the growing debate around Confederate iconography. “We know the design of the Mississippi state flag is being discussed by various stakeholders,” Walmart said in a statement to CNN Business. “While the issue continues to be discussed, we’ve made the decision to remove the Mississippi […]
