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America's national debt has now surpassed $31 trillion | CNN Business
Following a two day meeting, Federal Reserve officials are set to release their January monetary policy decision which economists predict could be an increase in interest rates.
Recession jitters and the trickling impact on Americans
CNN’s Vanessa Yurkevich speaks with Florida business owners as the US struggles to fill open jobs.
Lisa Altman
Today, he says Powell would admit the Fed underestimated inflation and that more unemployment would help combat inflation.
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Over 20 million Americans are behind on utility bills, and as energy inflation continues, many risk losing power and facing extreme weather. University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers explains what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell meant in his comments about the state of inflation and the US economy. At the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, chairman Jerome Powell addressed the central bank’s commitment to controlling inflation.
Middle class Black Americans react to economy under Biden
San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly addresses recession concerns and tells CNN’s Julia Chatterley that the Fed is committed to bringing the “economy back to a sustainable path. CNN’s Allison Morrow tells “Nightcap’s” Jon Sarlin there are signs prices are moderating, but consumers are still feeling the pain of inflation.
Inflation is cooling but prices are still painfully high
President Joe Biden signed the $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill into law. CNN Chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans breaks down what’s in the Inflation Reduction Act.
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America’s national debt has climbed north of $31 trillion for the first time, a milestone that comes at a time of historically high inflation, rising interest rates and growing economic uncertainty. The nation’s total public debt outstanding closed at $31.1 trillion on Monday, according to Treasury Department data published Tuesday. Outstanding debt has climbed nearly $8 trillion since the beginning of 2020. And it has jumped by $1 trillion in just eight months.
Now, during a period of historically high inflation and a series of steep interest rates hikes by the Federal Reserve in its battle to tame rising prices, borrowing costs are far higher. The Committee for a Responsible Fiscal Budget last month estimated that President Joe Biden’s policies could add $4.8 trillion to deficits between 2021 and 2031. “Excessive borrowing will lead to continued inflationary pressures, drive the national debt to a new record as soon as 2030 and triple federal interest payments over the next decade – or even sooner if interest rates go up faster or by more than expected,” the CRFB wrote. “Any type of debt issue is really a potential issue – I wouldn’t even say a certain issue – but a potential issue for five to 10 years down the road,” he said.
“One of the benefits of being the world’s reserve currency is everyone wants to buy your debt for cheap.
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A trustee of the transgender charity Mermaids resigned last night after it emerged that he had spoken at a conference hosted by an organisation that promotes services to paedophiles https://t.co/K24k4Do0LK
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He'd also written for gay news site 'pink news' the CEO of which is now coping big time
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Herschel Walker denies abortion claim in Georgia Senate race
Dustin Chambers | Reuters
Walker adamantly denied the claim detailed in a Daily Beast article, calling it a "flat-out lie," and vowed to sue the news outlet. "I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us," Christian Walker tweeted. In another tweet Monday night, Christian wrote, "Every family member of Herschel Walker asked him not to run for office, because we all knew his past. The woman requested anonymity because of privacy concerns, according to the outlet, which said it corroborated details of her account with a friend whom she said accompanied her to the procedure.
Last month, Walker said he supported proposed legislation by Sen. , that would ban abortion nationally after 15 weeks of pregnancy. I am a proud pro-life Christian, and I will always stand up for our unborn children," Walker said in a statement at the time. He accused Daily Beast reporter Roger Sollenberger of being a "democrat activist disguised as a reporter who has obsessively attacked my family and tried to tear me down since this race started.
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Sollenberger in June broke the news that Walker had three other children with different women besides Christian, who up to that point was his only publicly known son. One of the children was a 10-year-old boy that Walker has not played an active role in raising, the Daily Beast reported in June. Walker, who is Black, has been critical of African-American absentee fathers. Walker appeared Monday night on Fox News for an interview with Sean Hannity, who asked him about the reported $700 payment to the woman who spoke to the Daily Beast.
"I send money to a lot of people," Walker answered. Herschel Walker then tweeted, "I LOVE my son no matter what."
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Professor Jeffrey Sachs [Columbia] on Bloomberg causing chaos saying US was most likely involved in Nordstream leaks according to data & other experts 😂😂😂 “even reporters tell me …. privately of course …” and that we are on a pretty dangerous path to a nuclear conflict pic.twitter.com/U6FsC2tdp6
— detty (@0ddette) October 3, 2022
@pizzashill thoughts? Who do you think did it?
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They’re the Green Goblin Gang — and the furious mom of one of their victims says the fiends were “complete animals,” randomly attacking her daughter on her birthday.
Newly released video captured the bizarre group of female robbers wearing full-body, neon green leotards as they punched and tossed around two 19-year-old women on a Times Square subway train about 2 a.m. Sunday. The victims were robbed of a cellphone and handbag, cops said.
“She said she was attacked by aliens, and I didn’t know what she was talking about,” the mother of one of the victims told The Post on Monday.
“Yesterday was her birthday,” said the distraught mom, who asked that she and the victims remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation. “This is how she spent her 19th birthday. I hope they get what they deserve and then some because it’s disgusting.”
The video posted on social media shows about six females dressed in green tossing around one of the teenagers and punching the other repeatedly in the face. Some of the attackers are also wearing hoods with face masks. They are still in the wind.
The mother said her daughter and a friend at first “were on the platform going home.
“They were just literally standing to get on the train. These wretched grown women came down the stairs being all loud. They went to get into the train, and one of them bumped [the friend],” the mom said.
“My daughter was like, ‘Come on’ [to her friend], and they got on the other car. Then the women came on their car through the door between the cars. They attacked my daughter.
“There was a woman with red curly hair, and she was helping [the teen]. And there was a man who took his sweatshirt off and helped the girls. He got hit. My daughter, she had like five of the girls on her at one time. [She and her friend] were both punched in the face.”
The mom raged that there were other riders who just stood by watching — and recording — the attack.
“All these men sitting there taking videos and watching, and none of them helped while a group of 10 women were beating two young girls,” she said.
The mom suggested that the state’s lax bail-reform laws, which have been blasted for creating a revolving-door justice system, jeopardize law-abiding citizens’ safety. She said the family is full of cops, including the mom’s parents, who are both former police officers in New Jersey. The mom’s brother is an active Jersey cop, as is her brother-in-law, too, she said.
“I think it’s absolutely disgusting — I think people need to be held accountable for their actions and there should be no such thing as this bail-reform nonsense,” the woman said.
The mom said her daughter is a business and international business major at a college in Florida and was back home visiting the family in Queens over the weekend when she was attacked.
“She was home from college. Now she’s getting chest X-rays and CAT scans,” the mother said. “She was supposed to be back in school this morning, but [not now] because of her injuries from being stomped in the head by 10 grown butt women.”
“She’s in excruciating pain,” the mom said.
“When she breathes, it hurts. In one video, you can see the one girl kicked her and got her foot caught in my daughter’s purse strap. My daughter is tiny. She’s 5-foot-4. That one beast.
“My daughter, thank goodness, has no marks on her face. One of them had a knife strapped to their leg. Thank got nothing else happened. [The daughter] has bruises on both of her arms and legs. One of them bit her shoulder. She has a bite mark through her clothes.”
The other teenage victim’s mom added to The Post that her daughter “was vomiting last night from the concussion, and we’re waiting to get a CAT scan of her head.
“There was a group of grown women who brutally attacked and robbed two young girls,” said the woman, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. “There were zero words exchanged. They literally attacked them and then kept coming over and over and over again.”
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Gazprom issued a statement today saying that Nord Stream 2 may still be operable. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is actually comprised of two parallel lines, one of which the Russian state gas company says appeared to be untouched.
Really makes you 
. Why would the US commit such blatant aggression against their allies but choose to spare Nord Stream 2? 
It's almost as if someone is trying to create a dispute between the US and Germany about removing sanctions on Nord Stream 2. I wonder who would want that? Is there a country where one of their primary goals in foreign policy for the last 75 years is to drive a wedge between America and its European allies?
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Russia continues taking Ls.
Half of mobilised men in Russian region sent home, commissar fired, governor says | Reuters
About half of them we returned home as they did not meet the selection criteria for entering the military service». Degtyarev said the removal of the commissar, Yuri Laiko, would not affect the mobilisation plan set by Putin. The chaotic mobilisation of men to fight in Ukraine has also prompted thousands of fighting-age men to flee from the country to avoid a draft that was billed as enlisting those with military experience and specialities but has often appeared oblivious to service records, health, student status and even age.
"It's da joos fault!" - Khamenei 
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Protests over the death of a woman in police custody were plotted by America and the Zionist regime, rather than by "ordinary Iranians," in his first comments on unrest that has swept the country since September 17
He expressed strong backing for the security forces, saying they had faced injustice during the protests
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The British government has dropped plans to cut income tax for top earners, part of a package of unfunded cuts that sparked turmoil on financial markets and sent the pound to record lows.
Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng said Monday that he would abandon plans to scrap the top 45% rate of income tax paid on earnings above 150,000 pounds ($167,000) a year.
He said "it is clear that the abolition of the 45p tax rate has become a distraction from our overriding mission to tackle the challenges facing our country."
Denmark says Nord Stream 1 pipelines stop leaking
Reducing taxes for top earners and scrapping a cap on bankers' bonuses while millions face a cost-of-living crisis driven by soaring energy bills was widely seen as politically toxic.
Truss and Kwarteng insist that their plan will deliver a growing economy and eventually bring in more tax revenue, offsetting the cost of borrowing to fund the current cuts.
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A majority of Latinx voters are dissatisfied with how President Joe Biden is handling the economy and issues of border security, according to a new Sunday poll.
While generally approving of the president overall, more than 50 percent of Latinx voters surveyed by NBC News/Telemundo gave Biden failing marks on the economy, 'border security and immigration,' and 'the cost of living.'
The poll also found that Democrats' lead over Republicans among Latinx and Latinx communities has shrunk to the smallest its ever been - with less than six weeks until the November midterm elections.
Voters across the country will head to the ballot box on November 8 to decide which party has control of Congress for the latter half of Biden's term.
Fifty-four percent of US voters polled by NBC News/Telemundo back Democrats, while 33 percent back the GOP - a 21 point lead.
That's five points down from the left's lead in 2020 - and has shrunk by half since 2012, when Democrats enjoyed a 42-point gap.
It's worth noting that the Latinx and Latinx voting bloc is by no means a monolith and is among the most politically diverse in the country.
The figures are part of an overall bleaker picture for Biden's party, which currently holds slim majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
In Sunday's poll, Republicans also come out slightly ahead on issues that appear to top most voters' minds going into the midterms.
They're more trusted by Latinx voters to handle the economy, border security and crime - though neither party cracked a 40 percent threshold of support.
Democrats, on the other hand, are favored by large margins when it comes to abortion, 'addressing the concerns of the Latinx community,' and 'protecting democracy.'
The president's perceived weaknesses are similar to those of his party - 54 percent of Latinx voters surveyed said they disapprove of how he's handling the economy, and 60 percent disapprove of the cost of living under Biden.
Fifty-one percent gave him negative feedback on immigration and the border.
Last month there were more than two million migrant encounters on the southwestern border for the fiscal year, a record high.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) commissioner Chris Magnus explained at the time, 'Failing communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba are driving a new wave of migration across the Western Hemisphere, including the recent increase in encounters at the southwest U.S. border.'
Meanwhile officials in border states like Texas and Arizona have been demanding that the Biden administration play a bigger role in easing the burden on state and local communities that are ill-equipped to deal with the population surge themselves.
It prompted even one of Biden's fellow Democrats to call him out.
Rep. Henry Cuellar, who represents part of the Texas border with Mexico, suggested on Fox News last week that Biden was ignoring his calls to do more about the border.
'I have tried and I have tried and I have tried,' Cuellar said in late September when asked if he warned the president.
'For many years I've said that we need to make sure we do the right thing at the border.'
Asked if the Biden administration was heeding his calls, Cuellar said: 'No, they're not.'
Sunday's poll was conducted September 17 through 26 and sampled 1,000 registered voters.
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Overwatch 2 is set to release very soon and more details are steadily being released including information about one of the original game’s heroes: Symmetra.
In Overwatch lore, Symmetra is a character with Autism, but it was rarely reflected in-game despite comics and other story pieces indicating that she is on the spectrum.
The sequel is hoping to remedy this by making it far more apparent and celebrating her Autism in-game through quite a few voice lines.
In a thread on Twitter, Narrative Designer Joshi Zhang delved into how they’re subtly representing Autism as she dukes it out with and against fellow members of the Overwatch roster.
OW2 is highlighting Symmetra’s Autism in combat
“I asked myself, how would her autism influence her experience on the battlefield?” Zhang explained in a series of posts.
In order to showcase this, Zhang revealed how Symmetra will comment on sensations that please or bother her such as being mesmerized by hard light – a key component of her gameplay.
One clip the dev highlighted is when she gets a kill on the music-based hero Lucio, she will remark: “finally, I can hear myself think.”
According to the dev, there are plenty of other voice lines that indicate her perspective on things. Surely, there will be a lot to discover when the game is out, and everyone with a proper phone plan can check it out.
“At the end of the day, I hope that neurodivergent members of the OW community feel like they are seen. Autism is not a weakness; it’s a strength to be celebrated by all,” Zhang concluded.
It’s not yet clear what Blizzard has planned for Symmetra once Overwatch 2’s PvE story content is added later on in 2023, but seeing how they’re doing so much to showcase her Autism in PvP, it’s likely that there is much more to come.
Overwatch 2 is set to release October 4 on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch consoles with a mobile port still rumored for the future.
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Swiss landlords fear lawsuits for turning down heating - SWI swissinfo.ch
The Swiss Real Estate Association, which represents landlords, warns that turning down the heating in rented accommodation could result in a legal backlash. The Swiss Tenants’ Association has written to government to say a 19 degree target is unreasonable for elderly or vulnerable people. Some 57% of Swiss households are rented by their occupants, which is one of the highest rental rates in Europe.
Borders of Russian-annexed occupied territories are announced 
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Borders of Russian-annexed occupied territories are announced | Ukrainska Pravda
According to the agreements submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the borders of the so-called DPR and LPR and Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts, which the Russian Federation has supposedly taken over, will be defined as the borders that existed "on the day of their formation and admission as part of Russia".
Quote from the "document": "The borders of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic shall be defined as the borders of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic that existed on the day of its formation and the day of its admission to the Russian Federation and formation as a new subject within the Russian Federation.
Details: The agreements with the so-called LPR and Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts contain the same wording.
What is meant by such wording is currently not clear.
Volodymyr Rohov, the representative of the occupation administration of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, commenting on this definition in the "agreement", noted that "Zaporizhzhia Oblast as an administrative unit in the territory of the Ukrainian SSR was separated on 10 January 1939 from the southeastern part of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast with the administrative centre in the city of Zaporizhzhia.
It remains to liberate the quarter of the oblast that is temporarily occupied by the Anglo-Saxons," he said.
Interfax reported that draft laws on the ratification of the agreements were submitted to the State Duma for ratification on Sunday.
At the same time, according to the "agreements", the borders of the so-called DPR, LPR, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts bordering the territory of a "foreign state" are the state borders of the Russian Federation.
The "agreements" specify that the state language in the captured and annexed territories shall be Russian. That said, the Russian Federation supposedly guarantees all peoples living on the territory of the "new subjects" the right to preserve their native language and create conditions for its study and development.
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‘Where did they disappear to?’: Russian MP says 1.5 mln military uniforms are missing
Russia’s MP for Zabaykalsky region lieutenant general Andrey Gurulev has said that 1.5 million sets of military uniform had gone missing, reports local outlet Tayga.info.
According to Gurulev, personnel reception points need to be «equipped now for the future», so they can «easily» accept people.
In the text of the decree, the mobilisation is called «partial», however, no specifications are established. «According to this text, anyone could be drafted, except for employees of defence enterprises that get an exemption for the period of their work,» political scientist Ekaterina Shulman noted at the time.
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The US is willing to support Ukraine's finances with $1.5 billion a month in aid throughout the war against Russia and is pushing its European allies to commit to similar amounts, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Biden administration, which signed off last week on $4.5 billion in grants to cover the rest of the year, has held conversations with European Union officials --- including in recent days -- and has pressed Europe to do more, the people said, asking not to be identified because the discussions are private.
With the EU haggling internally over the delivery of previous pledges, allies have been discussing a more regular mechanism to help keep Ukraine's economy afloat as the war drags on, one of the people said. Officials have been warned that there would be growing demands in Congress, whose approval is required for longer-term support, for more burden sharing among allies, another person said.
The International Monetary Fund has previously said Ukraine needs about $5 billion every month to cover essential services and keep its economy going. The country received about $2 billion in aid last month, down from $4.7 billion in August, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said.
Bloomberg reported in July that a number of allies had privately criticized the bloc for not delivering on its commitments of nearly 9 billion euros ($8.8 billion) and called on it at the time to do so urgently.
EU Summit
EU leaders are expected to discuss Kyiv's financial requirements, which the draft budget for 2023 has placed at $38 billion, at a summit in the Czech Republic this week.
Diplomats preparing the leaders' meeting were told last week that expected funding levels from European nations would be on a similar scale to the monthly $1.5 billion the US was willing to provide, one of the people said. The funding was critical to covering essentials such as basic public expenditure, schools, hospitals and Ukraine's electrical network, the person said.
A number of senior EU officials have been extremely frustrated by the slow pace of the bloc's decision-making over financial support for Kyiv, as well as lack of urgency among some national governments toward the debate, especially as winter approaches.
Amid disagreement among member nations over the details of the 9 billion euro-package, the bloc paid out 1 billion euros last summer, while another 5 billion euros have been approved but not yet delivered to Kyiv. The outstanding 3 billion euros remain stuck over issues including whether the aid should be in the form of grants or loans, and how to structure guarantees.
The EU has also supported Ukraine with 1.2 billion euros in loans in the first half of the year, as well as billions more to pay for weapons deliveries and longer-term reforms. The block is also aiming to shepherd conversations around Ukraine's post-war reconstruction but officials admonish that Kyiv's immediate needs are far more pressing, two of the people said.
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Putin Has Left the World No Other Option But Regime Change
Vladimir Putin must go. His demented Kremlin speech Friday, during a ceremony in which he feebly asserted Russia was annexing portions of Ukraine, made the strongest case for the necessity of regime change in Moscow that any world leader has yet to make. But it has been clear the Russian dictator must be removed from office for a long time now. It has been clear because Putin’s actions and rhetoric demonstrate day in and day out that Ukraine can never be secure as long as he remains in office.
It has been clear because none of Russia’s neighbors can be secure with a megalomaniacal lunatic next door who speaks of Russian empire and constantly threatens to rewrite the borders of sovereign states. It has been clear because the world can’t be stable as long as the man who controls the planet’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons is one whose power is unchecked at home, who shows such contempt for both international law and human decency, and whose ambitions are so untethered to reality. Justice also requires that Putin leave office. He is a serial war criminal, one of the worst the world has seen in the modern era.
No one could listen to Putin’s rambling Friday rant and draw any conclusion other than the fact that the longer Putin remains in office, the greater the damage that he will do. Russian President Vladimir Putin with Ukrainian regional separatist leaders attends the annexation ceremony of four Ukrainian regions at the Grand Kremlin Palace, September 30, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. If the absurd spectacle of a “signing ceremony” asserting Russian control of Ukrainian territory featuring Kremlin stooges and nationalistic chants did not chill observers to the bone, then Putin’s belligerent language condemning “the enemy” in the West and his intimations that he might be within his rights to use nuclear weapons certainly should. He mocked international law.
” He called on Ukraine to negotiate but said that the fate of “Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson” was not on the table, that they would be parts of Russia “forever. When President Joe Biden said of Putin in May, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” it was followed by a swift “clarification” from the White House that the president “was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change. They instead are expressions of common sense, acknowledgements of reality that diplomats may wish were unspoken, that cannot be the “official” policy of the U. Indeed with every respectful, restrained response to Putin’s aggression or abuses, we have only seen an escalation of his offenses. The “measured” responses to his aggression of the Bush or the Obama years did not work.
Nor did the slavering obsequiousness of former President Donald Trump. Indeed, the ostpolitik of Angela Merkel and the vacillations of French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders have actually aided and empowered Putin. Because that was the response to Biden’s moment of public honesty and realism on this issue. Many others, including some well-respected foreign policy experts, suggested we should not “corner” Putin with a public stance demanding his removal.
They argue that there are no good alternatives to Putin, and so getting rid of him might produce an even worse outcome, whether that is the chaos associated with a leadership void or a more dangerous leader. But go back and listen to his Friday speech. “...tiptoeing around the threat posed by Putin, hoping that accommodating him would lead to moderation in his behavior certainly has not worked. Next, acknowledging that Putin must go is not the same as making regime change a matter of public policy.
That said, certain sanctions imposed on Russia should remain in place until Russia changes key policies and positions that are indelibly associated with Putin, which in effect will mean until Putin is gone. Certain defensive postures of the west should remain in place until the threat from Russia has abated. We can do more than we currently are to help covertly support Russia’s opposition, especially those whose values align with ours. Perhaps most importantly, we can ensure that any sort of lasting Russian victory in Ukraine is not an option and that Putin’s terms will never be met, his aggression never rewarded.
With such policies, we can actively encourage the people of Russia to recognize that their country will not have a future as long as Putin remains in power. Putin is assisting on this front. Protests in Russia are already growing bolder. Celebrities and business leaders are speaking out more clearly.
Accepting the reality that Putin must go is just common sense at this point. Recognizing that reality, we should embrace policies that encourage the conditions that will make it come to pass. Putin, with speeches like Friday’s and self-inflicted catastrophes like Ukraine, is already doing that far more persuasively than we could hope to do.
: US would know if Russia preparing nuclear strike on Ukraine, experts say
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US would know if Russia preparing nuclear strike on Ukraine, experts say | The Times of Israel
Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised the possibility of using nuclear weapons if Russia's “territorial integrity” or existence is threatened. Moscow's declaration Friday that it was annexing four partly-occupied regions of Ukraine potentially meant Russia could consider responding to attacks on the claimed territory with a nuclear strike. Should such an escalation materialize, it would probably be in the form of a smaller tactical nuclear weapon, likely launched on a short-range Iskander ballistic missile, according to experts.
Where are the bombs?
They can even be watched closely by commercial satellites, as shown by the widespread, regularly updated imagery of activities at North Korean nuclear facilities. Podvig says Russia has deployed its strategic or long-range nuclear warheads in the field, on missiles, bombers and submarines. But its non-strategic or tactical nuclear weapons, which number as many as 2,000, are stored and not installed on delivery vehicles like the Iskander, according to Podvig. “There are no Iskanders roaming around with nuclear-armed warheads.
These weapons are in storage,” he said.
How would we know?
“I'm confident the United States would see any Russian preparations for using nuclear weapons,” said Mark Cancian, a former official in the US defense and energy departments who worked on nuclear weapons issues. “The weapons need to come out of storage, the units involved need to be alerted, and the Russians might also alert their strategic nuclear forces,” Cancian, now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, told AFP. He said evidence would also come from likely visible preparations for Russia's ground forces, issuing them protective equipment and instructions on how to act in a nuclear environment. Podvig said Moscow, like Washington, has for decades embraced the need for disciplined management of its nuclear warheads, and that system is fairly strong and visible.
“Nuclear weapons need a certain structure, people who are trained, and the maintenance.
Warning the world
Such alarm could go global if people expected an escalation to transcontinental nuclear war. In this photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Jan. 25, 2022, the Russian army's Iskander missile launchers and support vehicles prepare to deploy for drills in Russia. The United States would almost certainly warn allies and other powers, including crucially China and India, hoping they would pressure Moscow to pull back or face international isolation.
But Washington would likely see issuing public warnings as useful in adding to pressure on Russia, according to Podvig.
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Ukraine Forces Retake Lyman, a Strategic City, as Russians Retreat - The New York Times
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Russia’s withdrawal from the city comes one day after Moscow illegally annexed the surrounding region. Russian troops withdrew from Lyman, a city in eastern Ukraine, one day after President Vladimir Putin illegally annexed four regions in the country. The Russian retreat quickly spawned withering criticism among powerful allies of Mr. Putin, who blamed Russia’s military leaders for the recent losses, calling them incompetent. It was a striking display of internal dissent after Mr. Putin made a show of force in Moscow on Friday, delivering a menacing speech in which he announced the annexation of the swaths of Ukrainian territory, and positioned the war as an existential battle between Russia and Western elites.
Lyman sits on the banks of the meandering Siversky Donets River, which has served as a natural division between Russian and Ukrainian front lines since Russian forces captured the city in May. Retaking it offers Ukrainian forces a strategic foothold for further advances into the Donbas region that has long been the focus of Mr. Putin’s aims. Lyman’s capture also puts additional pressure on the Kremlin, which has been facing blowback at home over the conscription of hundreds of thousands of men to fight in Ukraine. The Russian government said on Saturday that its troops were withdrawing from the city after a Ukrainian offensive.
The army “will always have the decisive vote in today’s and any future ‘referendums,’” Ukraine’s Defense Ministry wrote in a tweet, in a pointed reference to Russia’s sham vote for annexation in the Ukrainian territory. Hours later, Russia’s Ministry of Defense announced it was withdrawing its troops from the city.
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ImageCrossing a destroyed bridge in Kupiansk, a city recently reclaimed by Ukrainian forces, on Friday. Ukrainian officials have consistently said they will disregard Russia’s territorial claims and press ahead with counteroffensives in eastern Ukraine and around the southern port city of Kherson. The Pentagon’s top official on Saturday praised the Ukrainian military’s breakthrough in Lyman as a major success. “Absolutely, it’s significant,” said Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III.
Lyman sits astride the supply lines of the Russians, and they’ve used those routes to push men and materiel down to the south and to the west. The fury over the retreat from powerful allies of Mr. Putin added to the chorus of pro-war Russian bloggers criticizing the government’s military leadership.
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Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, wrote on the Telegram messaging app that Russia’s top military brass had “covered for” an “incompetent” general who should now be “sent to the front to wash his shame off with blood. Valery Gerasimov, the head of the Russian General Staff, that the forces on the Lyman front had been left without sufficient communications and ammunition supplies. “Send all these pieces of garbage barefoot with machine guns straight to the front,” Mr. Prigozhin said, in an apparent reference to Russia’s military leaders. ImageMedical staff treating a Ukrainian soldier and a civilian injured by artillery fire at a military field hospital in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Saturday.
Yet, even as Russian forces were losing a battle on the ground, they were unleashing a salvo of rocket, drone and missile strikes from the air. The most lethal strike landed on Friday in Zaporizhzhia, one of four Ukrainian areas that the Kremlin claimed in its trumped-up annexation. The attack sprayed shrapnel into a line of about 200 civilian cars and minivans packed with luggage and passengers, waiting at a checkpoint and bus stop to cross into Russian-occupied territory to visit relatives or ferry medicine and other humanitarian supplies across the frontline. ImageThe crater left by a Russian missile strike on a civilian convoy in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Friday.
“There was just peaceful population, there are absolutely no military bases or soldiers. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine condemned the strike also, as did Bridget Brink, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Also on Friday, rockets and Iranian-made kamikaze drones that Russia’s military recently acquired hit residential neighborhoods in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, killing at least three people and wounding 19, the regional governor said.
A missile strike on a bus parking lot in the city of Dnipro also killed one person and ignited a fire that burned 52 buses. On Saturday, Ukrainian officials revealed that another Russian massacre of Ukrainian civilians had taken place the previous week, when Russian soldiers fired at close range at a convoy heading toward the recently liberated city of Kupiansk in Kharkiv Province. At least 24 people were killed, including 13 children and a pregnant woman, said Vasyl Maliuk, the acting head of the security service of Ukraine. Ukraine’s recapture of Lyman put the battle for the Donbas region into a new phase, leaving Russia’s control of the area uncertain as the Ukrainians are now positioned to claw back territory before winter sets in.
ImageDistributing aid to civilians in the recently liberated city of Izium, in the eastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine, on Saturday. In recent days and weeks, Ukrainian forces also closed in from the south and west. The next target, if the Ukrainian military continues its advance, would likely be Svatove, a city northeast of Lyman where Russians have retrenched after their defeat in the northeast, according to analysts. Ukraine’s slow-moving offensive in the south, toward the port city of Kherson, has largely been overshadowed by events in the east.
But fighting there remains fierce, as better-trained Russian forces have put up staunch resistance against advancing Ukrainian troops. ImageUkrainian soldiers in Bakhmut on Saturday. Matthew Mpoke Bigg contributed reporting from London, Valerie Hopkins from Berlin and Michael Schwirtz from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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National Archives says it is still missing some Trump administration records | The Hill
National Archives says it is still missing some Trump administration records
The National Archives and Records Administration said on Friday that it is still missing some records from the Trump administration. The National Archives does not have some messages that members of the Trump administration sent and received in unofficial accounts while conducting official business for the president, Wall said. While the Archives has been able to recover these types of records from some former Trump officials, Wall said they are still missing messages from others who have not yet handed them over.
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Wall did not provide an update in Friday’s letter about the records held by former President Trump himself, instead referring the committee to the Justice Department’s investigation. The National Archives, with the help of the Justice Department and FBI, has recovered hundreds of presidential records from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence over the last year, including dozens of classified documents.
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