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At the Sudzha crossing where Ukrainian troops pushed into Russia nerves are tense | Ukraine

At the Sudzha crossing where Ukrainian troops pushed into Russia nerves are tense | Ukraine

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The journey from the Ukrainian city of Sumy to the Russian border is short. In about three-quarters of an hour it is possible to arrive at a smashed-up Ukrainian border post and stare over two simple lines of fencing into Russian fields to the right. Except the territory beyond is no longer under Kremlin control. The Sudzha crossing is now 5 miles or so from the current frontline inside Russia’s Kursk oblast. For now at least, it remains very much in Ukrainian hands a full week into the border incursion; on a brief visit what could be heard were the pops of outgoing artillery, not the crumps of incoming shells. Edgy military guards, clips of rifle ammunition tucked into chest pouches, blocked further progress into Russia, a swathe of territory that Ukraine’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had no interest in permanently occupying. Instead, it said the attack was justified “to protect the lives of our people” – part of a creative attempt at self-defence, striking where the Russians are weakest. The crossing fell …

How Pro-Palestinian Students Pushed Trinity College Dublin to Divest

How Pro-Palestinian Students Pushed Trinity College Dublin to Divest

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Discontent over the war in Gaza had been building for months at Trinity College Dublin, but what had been a rumble last week suddenly became a roar. News broke that Trinity had demanded a heavy sum from the student union after protests had blocked tourist access to the Book of Kells, a major attraction for paying visitors. Trinity’s request for about $230,000 enraged students and brought a surge of media attention, and last Friday some anti-war demonstrators set up an encampment like those at American schools. Irish lawmakers worried that the university was trying to stifle independent protest, and there were offers of help from lawyers and pro-Palestinian groups. The university closed parts of its campus that day, citing security concerns. As the campus dispute became a national one, Trinity, Ireland’s oldest and most prestigious university, agreed on Monday to negotiate with pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Capping several head-spinning days, Trinity agreed first to abandon some Israeli investments, a step that nearly all U.S. colleges and universities have so far resisted, and then said on Wednesday that …

Playing for Emma Hayes’ Chelsea pushed me to be stronger for life after football | Chelsea Women

Playing for Emma Hayes’ Chelsea pushed me to be stronger for life after football | Chelsea Women

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Many will look at Emma Hayes’s 12 years as Chelsea manager and think her lasting legacy is six – potentially seven – Women’s Super League titles, five FA Cups and two League Cups but for me her impact has been felt far beyond west London. By turning Chelsea into the benchmark for others to follow, she has forced up standards throughout the women’s game. People forget that the early years were difficult for Hayes, with Chelsea narrowly avoiding relegation in her first full season, but there was always a clear plan of how to improve. Her spell managing in America at Chicago Red Stars, where I was in the squad, I think was pivotal in her career and shaped what she wanted to do at Chelsea. At the Red Stars we arguably had the most talented group of individuals but we were not the best team and I think she realised it was imperative she recruited the right characters, not just the best players. I think this resulted in a big shift in Hayes’s outlook. …

Medicare and Social Security Go-Broke Dates Are Pushed Back in a ‘Measure of Good News’

Medicare and Social Security Go-Broke Dates Are Pushed Back in a ‘Measure of Good News’

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according to the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report Monday. Still, officials warn that policy changes are needed lest the programs become unable to pay full benefits to retiring Americans. Medicare’s go-broke date for its hospital insurance trust fund was pushed back five years to 2036 in the latest report, thanks in part to higher payroll tax income and lower-than-projected expenses from last year. Medicare is the federal government’s health insurance program that covers people age 65 and older and those with severe disabilities or illnesses. It covered more than 66 million people last year, with most being 65 and older. Once the fund’s reserves become depleted, Medicare would be able to cover only 89% of costs for patients’ hospital visits, hospice care and nursing home stays or home health care that follow hospital visits. Meanwhile, Social Security’s trust funds — which cover old age and disability recipients …

How Trumpism has pushed a fringe charismatic theology into the mainstream

How Trumpism has pushed a fringe charismatic theology into the mainstream

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(RNS) — This past month, a group of self-styled American Christian prophets released an urgent word from God on YouTube about an impending Islamic uprising in the U.S. Pointing to pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, they declared that an “insurrection is forming that is like unto the communist takeover in Russia. … This is not only about bringing a Palestinian state to the Middle East but an Islamic state to North America and other nations.” The good news, according to these prophets, is that God also says, “If the church repents, I will relent. I will protect your nations.” If this God-speaking-through-prophets-and-warning-nations-about-other-religions business sounds fringy and oddball in modern Christianity, it once was. But such prophecies and these prophets are rapidly redefining mainstream American evangelical theology, practice and politics. They are affiliated with a movement called the New Apostolic Reformation, a set of leadership networks whose leaders call themselves modern-day apostles and prophets and believe they are commissioned by God to take over the world. This NAR movement runs like a golden thread through recent …

Frank Stella, Artist Who Pushed Abstraction to Its Limits, Dies at 87

Frank Stella, Artist Who Pushed Abstraction to Its Limits, Dies at 87

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Frank Stella, an artist who brought abstraction into brave new directions, defining an era with his “Black Paintings” of the 1950s, died on Saturday at 87. The New York Times reported that he had been battling lymphoma. Stella was among the many artists who responded to the growth of Abstract Expressionism in the postwar years. His spare paintings, made as a riposte to that movement, were particularly challenging, since they contained no color at all and were not intended to provide visual stimulation in any way. As he famously told the Minimalist sculptor Donald Judd, speaking of his own work, “What you see is what you see.” Related Articles He would come to redefine painting over and over again during the 1950s and ’60s. In a subversive move, with his work having approached a zero-degree form of abstraction, his paintings turned maximal, enlisting eye-popping combinations of colors arrayed in dazzling patterns. He also produced shaped canvases that broke the medium from its rectangular confines and moved it into the realm of sculpture. In the decades …

Police Regain Full Control Of UCLA As Marxist Protesters Pushed Off Campus

Police Regain Full Control Of UCLA As Marxist Protesters Pushed Off Campus

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Update (1003ET): Within hours of the Los Angeles Police Department, California Highway Patrol, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office starting to clear an encampment erected by anti-Israel protesters (Marxist) at UCLA, the news is spreading on X that police have gained complete control of the courtyard.  “A few hundred protestors have been pushed out of the last section of the encampment as CHP gains FULL CONTROL of the area,” independent journalist Anthony Cabass wrote on X.  He said, “The encampment is being completely disassembled and mass arrests made of those that chose to stay behind. The UCLA Encampment is no more.”  UCLA ????: Few hundred protestors have been pushed out of the last section of the encampment as CHP gains FULL CONTROL of the area. The encampment is being completely disassembled and mass arrests made of those that chose to stay behind. The UCLA Encampment is no more. It’s 0528. pic.twitter.com/LP39GD2qcC — Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 2, 2024 Law and order has been restored.  UCLA ????: It’s 0544 , the encampment is now in complete police control. Handful …

Orlando Bloom explains why he’s ‘getting pushed aside’ by 13-year-old son Flynn: ‘I miss him’

Orlando Bloom explains why he’s ‘getting pushed aside’ by 13-year-old son Flynn: ‘I miss him’

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Orlando Bloom’s firstborn son, Flynn, is officially a teenager already, and he is having to get used to their ever-changing relationship. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor, 47, shares the 13-year-old with ex-wife Miranda Kerr, who he was married to from 2010 to 2013. He also shares daughter Daisy Dove, three, with fiancée Katy Perry, who he has been with since 2016. The former Victoria Secret model, 41, tied the knot with Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel in 2017, and the two have since welcomed three sons, Hart, five, Myles, four, and Pierre, born earlier this year. You may also likeTHROWBACK: Orlando Bloom supported by son Flynn during Hollywood Star ceremony Orlando, speaking with Jay Shetty on his podcast On Purpose while promoting his new Peacock series Orlando Bloom: To The Edge, opened up about how he handles co-parenting with Miranda, and his evolving relationship with Flynn. After the father-of-two, who practices Buddhism, was asked how he has introduced his philosophies to his children, he first said: “Flynn’s mother has a beautiful faith in life, I think, …

Migrant deaths: Are we seeing new form of crime after rival group pushed their way on to boat? | World News

Migrant deaths: Are we seeing new form of crime after rival group pushed their way on to boat? | World News

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Plenty of people have died on small boats trying to cross the Channel. But this was different. The people who perished in the waters off Wimereux died not just because of the greed of people smugglers, or the inadequacy of their boat. This is a story about violence. What really killed these people was a hijacking, and by the increasingly dangerous and volatile atmosphere that lingers over the lives of migrants in northern France who are trying to get to Britain. Often we have heard stories of feuds and of weapons being used between rival groups in camps. Now, it seems that a sense of violent rivalry has spread to the beaches. We have been told extraordinary details of what happened in the moments before three men, a woman and a young girl died in the cold, dark waters within sight of the promenade. There were, so we’re told, around 50 people who had paid for a place on board the boat and, as is normal with these crossings, helped to carry it down the …