I remember being in elevator with @amanpour almost 20 years and being so genuinely star struck I couldn't speak. She blazed a trail for every woman who wanted to be a foreign reporter and is the epitome of bravery. I hope she'll launch new ventures that will keep her on our tvs.
Riveting story of one brave man by @mjluxmoore wsj.com/world/russian-defect…
Can’t get past this. “Choking during sex is now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke for women under 40.”
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This is a beautiful tribute to a man who changed the world with his red bandana.
On Welles Crowther, on the fifteenth anniversary Of 9/11 wsj.com/articles/remembering… via @WSJopinion
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Every 9/11, I reread the story of Rick Rescorla, the man who ran back in. It is tragic, haunting, patriotic and heroic. And it gets me every time. newyorker.com/magazine/2002/…
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Angelina Jolie visited boxing club in Kharkiv with her son, Knox, who joined Ukrainian soldiers for a Muay Thai training session, Ukrainian Boxing Federation shared.
Visiting Kharkiv, just 35 km from Russia, takes bravery, and I’m saying this as someone who lives here. Thank you for visiting us!
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In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸
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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was the best contribution to child literacy ever made by a celebrity. Our paths crossed once, in the 90s, backstage at a talk show, and I was completely tongue-tied and starstruck. RIP Dolly. You were a complete, irreplaceable one-off.
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Andy Burnham was handed a guitar by a Ukrainian soldier and played a Smiths song as he continued his visit to Kyiv. He said music can help “lift spirits” on the frontline and was serenaded by soldiers from the Cultural Forces group singing Oasis
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I produced this interview with @eslavin_stripes today, who spent decades at @starsandstripes before being abruptly fired for saying that he hypothetically would not run a story if it wasn’t factual just bc the Pentagon told him too.
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I produced this interview with @eslavin_stripes today, who spent decades at @starsandstripes before being abruptly fired for saying that he hypothetically would not run a story if it wasn’t factual just bc the Pentagon told him too.
vimeo.com/1220335993/47bf6b2…
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🇺🇦 Zaluzhnyi: It will be very difficult for the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Much harder than he imagines. However, Mykhailo will definitely never be ashamed again.
A man of honor has no idol, so he has nothing to lose. The only thing he has is only duty.
Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Armed Forces of Ukraine!
@heidiblake & @mega2e relentlessly reported on the Tate brothers’ criminal enterprise that preyed on women and girls. Both refused to be deterred even when law enforcement had shrugged off their many cruelties. They are both to be commended for doing their jobs with such rigor.
Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami on new charges of rape, trafficking, and child pornography. Here's my @NewYorker investigation into how they built a vast empire of sexual exploitation in plain sight. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s former Minister of Defense, in just about the craziest picture I've ever seen.
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It has been a great honor to serve the Ukrainian people as the Minister of Defense.
Here is what our team managed to achieve:
1. Disabled Starlink access for Russian forces.
2. Took over a Ministry of Defense with zero budget, took a risk, reallocated funds from payroll from the end of the year, and effectively invested them in mid-strike capabilities, fiber-optic FPVs, low-cost reconnaissance, ground robotic platforms, interceptor drones, and deep-strike drones.
3. Launched "Logistical Lockdown", this cut off enemy logistics and initiated the isolation of Crimea.
4. Continued the funding program for the Drone Line.
5. Launched a support program for modern drone-assault units that rely primarily on advanced technologies in combat.
6. Introduced a 70% advance payment policy for procurements made via e-Points on the Brave1 Market portal.
7. Fundamentally overhauled the procurement system.
8. Procured thousands of pickup trucks, buggies, and ATVs for the military for the first time—and did so through open tenders.
9. The drone interception rate rose from 83% to 91%, and the cruise missile interception rate soared from 47% to 87%.
10. Contracted Patriot PAC-2 GEM-T missiles for the first time, and submitted an application through an EU loan to purchase PAC-3 missiles.
11. Launched a baseline drone supply system for brigades and corps.
12. Launched a massive grant program for manufacturers of explosives and missiles.
13. Initiated an unpopular but vital transformation of the military.
14. Conducted three UDCG meetings, where we successfully broke through the Russian information trap claiming our defeat, restoring partners' faith in Ukraine. This secured $40 billion in support announced for this year (excluding the EU loan).
15. Launched the mechanism to utilize the EU loan for our military priorities.
16. Found a way to scale cheap missiles against jet-powered Shaheds and signed a record-breaking contract.
17. Our domestic ballistics. We radically revised the technical specifications, maximized accuracy, and reduced the cost by 30%.
18. Signed a contract to procure Gripen fighter jets.
19. Collaborated with the military to plan and execute Operation Auchan, which halted the enemy's mechanized offensive for six months.
20. Opened up exports under the Drone Deal program to attract investment and scale up domestic defense-industrial complex (OPK) production.
21. Launched the Trophy Lab, providing partners with the opportunity to study captured Russian military technologies.
22. Launched the Defense AI Center A1 to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence on the battlefield.
Thank you to my entire team for their relentless 24/7 service. A special thank you to my family for their patience.
Thank you all for your support!
I will continue to work toward the mission I originally brought to the Ministry of Defense: defeating the enemy through asymmetry, the speed of innovation, and the power of organization.
To be continued.
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Jennifer Hudson performing “Hallelujah” and “I Will Always Love You” at @CliveDavis’s funeral this morning. Such an emotional and fitting tribute to the music icon!