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Ukraine made three attempts to free Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant: Intel chief

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Ukraine made three attempts to free Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant: Intel chief

Ukraine has made three attempts so far to free the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), which is currently occupied by Russian forces, the head of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence agency (GUR) has said.

Kyiv’s special operations teams carried out the operations to liberate the ZNPP, with the first taking place in August 2022, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov told Ukrainian publication NV in an interview published Sunday.

The nuclear plant—Europe’s largest—has been under Russian control since early March 2022, just days after President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. It was one of the first sites to be seized by Russian forces.

Its six reactors are currently in shutdown mode, and its one remaining power line is supplying the electricity needed to prevent a reactor meltdown.

When the ZNPP was seized by Russian forces in March 2022, there was widespread concern about a potential nuclear catastrophe at the plant, which remained a target of shelling as Ukrainian and Russian forces clashed in the region. Both Ukraine and Russia have accused each other’s forces of shelling the plant.

Environmental campaign group Greenpeace warned in September that international regulators were unable to adequately monitor the ZNPP.

Newsweek has contacted Russia’s Foreign Ministry via email for comment.

In August 2022, GUR forces were forced to retreat during an attempt to create a bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnieper River that would pave the way toward the liberation of the ZNPP, Budanov said.

Special operations teams involving several hundred people tried twice more afterwards to free the nuclear plant, but failed, he said.

“But as the GUR gained experience in landing operations, so the Russians in the area became more and more prepared. And at the moment of the third landing operation, they deployed heavy military hardware, including tanks,” the intelligence head was cited as saying.

“The operation played another role: it provided practical skills for everyone—from the command staff to the fighters—how to operate on the water. This experience was very well applied and used later on. For example, during the landing in Crimea,” Budanov added, referring to Ukraine’s reported recent amphibious landing in the annexed peninsula of Crimea, where units of special operations forces attacked Russian troops.

An estimated 500 to 600 Russian troops are stationed at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in March that holding a nuclear power station “hostage” for more than a year was “surely the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of European or worldwide nuclear power.”

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Russia’s Black Sea Fleet degraded but not defeated: ISW

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Russia’s Black Sea Fleet degraded but not defeated: ISW

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been degraded but not defeated by recent Ukrainian strikes in annexed Crimea, a think tank has said.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a U.S.-based think tank, made the assessment in its latest analysis of the conflict in Ukraine on Sunday. Since June, Kyiv has conducted a campaign of strikes against Russian military infrastructure, headquarters, and logistics routes in Crimea. This is to degrade Moscow’s ability to use the Black Sea peninsula as a staging and rear area for Russian defensive operations in southern Ukraine, the ISW said.

Strikes in Crimea, which is Russia’s central logistics hub for its forces in southern Ukraine, have become routine in recent months amid Kyiv’s counteroffensive to reclaim territory occupied by Russian forces. Attacks have struck military targets in a push to weaken Moscow’s defenses and disrupt Russia from transporting equipment, weapons, and troops from mainland Russia into the peninsula.

Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s Black Sea Fleet has been targeted in a number of strikes. On September 22, Ukraine launched a missile attack on the fleet’s headquarters in Sevastopol, reportedly killing a number of top officers.

Nine days earlier, on September 13, a Ukrainian missile attack on the Sevastopol shipyard damaged a Russian submarine and cruise-missile carrier—the Rostov-on-Don—and a large vessel, the Minsk, as they underwent repairs.

“Strikes on Black Sea Fleet assets are degrading its role as a combined arms headquarters but have not defeated it as a naval force,” the ISW said.

“Ukrainian strikes generate outsized morale shocks among Russian commanders and in the Russian information space. Western provision of long-range missiles to Ukraine would amplify this ongoing, essential, and timely campaign to weaken Russia’s ability to defend southern Ukraine,” the think tank added.

Newsweek has contacted Russia’s Defense Ministry by email for comment.

Recent satellite images show that some of the largest ships of the Black Sea Fleet have repositioned from the port of Sevastopol in Crimea.

Russian frigates Admiral Essen and Admiral Makarov, three diesel submarines, five large landing ships, several small missile ships, one large landing craft, minesweepers and other small ships have been relocated from Sevastopol, the images show.

Last month, Andriy Zagorodnyuk, former Ukrainian defense minister and now an adviser to the ministry, told Newsweek that Russia’s surviving Black Sea vessels are old and outdated and therefore have issues.

“They were all built a long time ago. They have some significant issues with weapons, equipment, and so on,” Zagorodnyuk, said, adding that replacing destroyed or badly damaged vessels will take years, not months.

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Americans killed in Israel: What we know as death toll rises

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Americans killed in Israel: What we know as death toll rises

Nine American citizens have been confirmed dead in the attacks on Israel conducted by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, the U.S. State Department has confirmed to Newsweek.

“We extend our deepest condolences to the victims and to the families of all those affected,” spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement. “We continue to monitor the situation closely and remain in touch with our Israeli partners and the local authorities. We are in touch with the families and providing all appropriate consular assistance.”

Amid the violence that has engulfed the region since Saturday, there is a spiraling death toll in both Israeli and Palestinian territories as fighting between the Israeli military and Palestinian Islamist militants continues. More than 1,100 people have been confirmed killed and thousands wounded, including civilians.

The Biden administration was among those to pledge its “rock solid and unwavering” support for Israel, after a large number of rockets fired from Gaza preceded attacks by armed militants on Israeli territories near the Palestinian exclave, on Saturday morning—nearly half a century to the day from when the Yom Kippur War with Egypt and Syria began.

Early reports and video footage appeared to show militants taking citizens in Israeli territories they had infiltrated to Gaza. Hamas said they had been taken to locations across Gaza and demanded the release of all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, though analysts say they may have been taken to soften the military response by Israel on Hamas sites.

Ron Dermer, Israel’s minister for strategic affairs, confirmed American citizens were among those taken captive but gave no details about them or those who had been killed.

“Unfortunately, I can’t,” he told CNN. “We have a lot of dual citizens in Israel. I suspect there are several, but we’re still trying to sort through all of all this information after this horrific surprise attack and we’ll make sure to put that information out so that the loved ones of these people who were killed and who are held hostage, they know as quickly as possible.”

Administration officials briefed House lawmakers on Sunday evening that four U.S. citizens had been confirmed as killed, ABC and CNN reported earlier, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter.

Newsweek approached the Israeli government and the Palestinian Ministry of Health via email for comment on Monday.

Democrats Representative Dan Goldman and Senator Cory Booker said they had been in Israel when the attacks began and were forced to shelter. Goldman said in a statement he and his family had been in Tel Aviv for a Bar Mitzvah.

On Sunday, the Pentagon ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group into the Eastern Mediterranean in a show of force aimed at deterring a further escalation. NBC reported that the fleet could form part of an evacuation of American civilians from the region if deemed necessary.

Saturday’s attack saw as many as a thousand militant fighters enter Israeli territory through several different means, targeting both Israeli Defense Force (IDF) installations along the border as well as civilian settlements. At a music festival in southern Israel, at least 260 people were killed.

As soon as the assaults occurred, questions were raised of Israel’s extensive intelligence network, which seemingly did not detect preparations for the attack—which would have taken weeks, if not months, to plan.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel was at war with Hamas, before IDF soldiers began recapturing settlements that had been taken by militants and the Israeli Air Force started conducting airstrikes on Gaza.

Israeli officials said it had sent messages to civilians in the areas telling them to leave prior to the strikes, and that Hamas often chose to house military sites within civilian populations. The United Nations said around 400 people have been killed in Gaza so far.

Hamas, which controls Gaza but has an armed wing, has long called for an end to the Israeli occupation of territories beyond the borders established in 1967 and the establishment of a state of Palestine. The building of Israeli settlements on what it sees as Palestinian territory and rocket attacks from Palestinian-controlled territories have led to a bubbling of tensions in recent years.

However, the latest attack by Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants may frustrate the group’s primary aim. Netanyahu’s public statements and images of an Israeli ground force build-up near the border with Gaza have prompted speculation that Israel could be preparing for an invasion and occupation of the Gaza Strip.

Additional reporting by Ellie Cook.

Update 10/09/23, 9:00 a.m. ET: This article was updated to include comment from the U.S. State Department.

Tommy Tuberville’s military blockade is limiting how US can help Israel

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Tommy Tuberville’s military blockade is limiting how US can help Israel

GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville‘s hold on military promotions in a clash over abortion policy is reportedly undermining the U.S.’s ability to assist Israel after a surprise attack by Hamas fighters left more than 1,000 people dead and thousands wounded on both sides.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday that he has directed the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to sail to the Eastern Mediterranean. “In addition, the United States government will be rapidly providing the Israel Defense Forces with additional equipment and resources, including munitions,” Austin said. “The first security assistance will begin moving today and arriving in the coming days.”

The move “underscores the United States’ ironclad support for the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli people,” Austin added.

But the U.S. Navy in the region lacks a chief of naval operations because of Tuberville’s blockade, according to Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at Georgetown University. That “seems like something that might be useful to have with a war breaking out in the Middle East,” he wrote in a Substack post.

Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, has said he will not lift a hold on military nominations until the Pentagon rescinds its policy of paying for travel when a service member goes out of state to get an abortion or other reproductive care. The policy was put in place last year after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to an abortion.

Just days before the Hamas attack, according to Moynihan’s Substack post, GOP Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri said he would block civilian Army promotions because of concerns about housing conditions on one military base.

Moynihan also noted in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that the U.S. does not currently have an ambassador to Israel because GOP Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is a “Covid conspiracy crank.”

Paul has put a blanket hold on all State Department nominees, citing the Biden administration’s refusal to provide him with documents related to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It would be hyperbole to suggest that these actions, by themselves, had anything to do with the attack, or that they have a dramatic effect on the outcome,” Moynihan wrote on Substack.

“But they do hamper the ability of the US government to respond at this time. And they are all directly the result of the cavalier approach the Republican Party has shown to its job of governing,” he said.

Newsweek has contacted Tuberville and the Department of Defense for comment via email.

Last month, the secretaries of the Navy, Air Force and Army warned in a Washington Post op-ed that Tuberville’s efforts were “dangerous” and “putting our national security at risk.”

Three military branches—the Army, Navy and Marine Corps—have no Senate-confirmed chiefs in place, the secretaries noted in the piece. “Instead, these jobs—and dozens of others across the force—are being performed by acting officials without the full range of legal authorities necessary to make the decisions that will sustain the United States’ military edge.”

Moynihan told Newsweek that “beyond the uniformed military appointments, these blockades just make it difficult to get anyone to agree to serve in appointment positions.”

He said: “It is already an arduous process, which can take months, and involve very intensive background checks. For many people who might like to serve, why bother putting yourself through the process if the Senate is not even agreeing to review candidates?”

On X, Moynihan said that the “inability of the GOP to govern also may complicate whatever new legislation might be needed to respond in coming days.”

The House remains without a speaker after the historic removal of Kevin McCarthy last week. House Republicans are trying to choose a new leader, which could be a prolonged process.

Update 10/9/23, 10:23 a.m. ET: This story has been updated to include comments from Don Moynihan.

Donald Trump’s Israel intel leak under scrutiny after Hamas attack

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Donald Trump’s Israel intel leak under scrutiny after Hamas attack

Donald Trump’s sharing of alleged classified intelligence to Russian officials in the White House has come under scrutiny amid a large-scale attack by the Hamas Islamist military group against Israel.

In May 2017, the former president defended his actions after he was found to have discussed sensitive details about an alleged Islamic State (ISIS) plot with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office. Trump said he had an absolute right to do so. The intel was said to have been provided to the U.S. from Israel.

It was suggested at the time that the former president’s handing over sensitive information from Israel could have damaged the relationship between the two countries. It also could have raised the possibility that the details could be passed from Russia to Iran, the Gulf nation that is a fierce adversary of Israel and has long supported Hamas.

On Saturday, Hamas, designated a terrorist group by the U.S. and the European Union, launched a large-scale attack against Israel, resulting in the deadliest day of violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict for decades. More than 700 people have been killed in Israel, and a further 400 in Gaza, since the incursion by Hamas, according to the Associated Press.

On social media, a number of people believe that Trump’s handing over of Israeli information may have resulted in Iran assisting the Palestinian group.

Thom Hartmann, author and political commentator, posted on X, formerly Twitter, while sharing a 2017 article from The Washington Post: “Hamas apparently knew how to get around Israel’s Iron Dome defenses. They probably learned this from Iran. Iran almost certainly got the information from Russia. And who gave it to Russia? Sure looks like it was Donald Trump, at the request of Putin.”

Allison Gill, who tweets using the account for the Mueller, She Wrote podcast, added: “Don’t forget: Trump gave Israeli intelligence to Russians in the Oval Office 6 years ago. Putin armed Iran in exchange for drones to attack Ukraine.”

While sharing a link of its own reporting of Trump’s handing over of sensitive materials, the Meidas Touch X account posted: “FLASHBACK: Trump shared classified intelligence from Israel with Russia—and admitted to it. Israeli intelligence feared it would end up in the hands of Iran.”

“This isn’t hard to follow,” added musician and author Mikel Jollett. “Trump gave military intel to the Russians. The Russians, who are extremely close allies with Iran, gave it to Iran. Iran gave that information to Hamas. Hamas used it to attack Israel. This is why intel security matters. Republicans DO NOT CARE.”

Newsweek has contacted Trump’s office for comment via email.

In an interview with CNN, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. has not found any evidence to suggest Iran is also behind the attacks.

“We have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack, but there is certainly a long relationship,” Blinken added.

In 2017, Trump defended sharing sensitive intel with Russia at the White House (WH), saying it was necessary for security reasons.

“As president, I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled WH meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety,” Trump wrote. “Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against Isis and terrorism.”

Trump is due to go on trial in May 2024 accused of retaining classified documents after he left the White House in January 2021, and then obstructing the federal attempt to retrieve them from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Springs, Florida. The former president has pleaded not guilty to 40 charges as part of the criminal case and has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

Joe Biden sparks MAGA outrage after disappearing from public view

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Joe Biden sparks MAGA outrage after disappearing from public view

President Joe Biden is on the receiving end of Republicans‘ ire because of a press “lid” on his Monday appearances following Hamas’ massive attack on Israel over the weekend.

The Biden administration is being closely scrutinized for its response to the crisis in the Middle East as intense fighting continues. At least 700 people have been killed in Israel since Saturday, according to the Associated Press, in addition to 400 deaths in Gaza, plus countless numbers of wounded and injured.

Conservatives maligned Biden after the White House threw a Sunday party for staffers and their families the day after Hamas, which is designated a terrorist organization by the United States and European Union, unleashed its assault on Israel. In addition to missile attacks from Gaza and fighters sent into Israeli territory, Hamas has reportedly captured Israeli hostages, including children and the elderly. American hostages have been taken as well, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

On Monday, Fox News‘ John Roberts wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that the White House called a lid for Biden at 11:46 a.m. despite “war raging in Israel.” A lid means the White House has told journalists that the president’s public availability will be limited or nonexistent for the day.

“A lid does *not* mean the President has stopped working, as is implied in the *Fox* tweet below,” wrote Andrew Bates, a White House deputy press secretary and senior communications adviser, in response on X. “On the contrary, he’s working to support Israel all day.”

Bates said that Biden met with numerous U.S. officials on Monday morning, including Blinken, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, deputy national security adviser Jon Finer, homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall and White House chief of staff Jeff Zients.

Biden was expected to speak with several close U.S. allies this afternoon, Bates added. Newsweek reached out to the White House via email for further comment.

Not speaking directly to the American people or taking questions from reporters has drawn the consternation of Donald Trump supporters and other Republicans.

“You’ve got to be s******* me?!?” wrote Donald Trump Jr. on X. “It’s Monday at noon. Our greatest ally in the Middle East is at war, women and children are being slaughtered and raped in the streets, and our imbecile president is checking out before lunch?”

Georgia GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said a Donald Trump presidency would have had a stronger response to the crisis.

“We have Americans held hostage by Hamas and Joe Biden is taking the day off,” Greene posted on X. “President Trump would never do this. He would not stop working until he got our people back. None of this would have ever happened in the first place if he were in the White House.”

Florida GOP Representative Byron Donalds, another Trump supporter, also condemned Biden’s response. “Americans are being killed/held hostage by radical Islamic terrorists in Gaza..& where’s Biden?” Donalds wrote on X.

He said Biden “began making calls eight hours late” on Saturday and spoke for less than three minutes without answering any questions the same day. He then questioned the White House party on Sunday and Monday’s press lid.

“This is the ‘Basement Presidency’ in action,” Donalds wrote.

Unsuccessful GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake of Arizona also attacked Biden and his administration.

“There is an international crisis. The border is out of control. Americans are struggling with inflation. @JoeBiden left work before noon. He is unfit for the job,” Lake wrote on X.

“Biden calls a lid before noon. No one in the admin can speak to the number of American hostages. State Dept. deleting tweets. What a terrifying embarrassment,” wrote Dana Loesch, a conservative radio host and former spokesperson for the National Rifle Association, on X.

Trump, who was campaigning in New Hampshire on Monday, said that what is happening in both Israel and Ukraine would have never happened under his watch.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is seeking the GOP’s nomination for president, did not mention the press lid but said Monday that any money Biden has made available to Iran must be frozen and that all types of foreign aid to Hamas should be cut off. He also said the U.S.-Mexico border should be “immediately shut down” to protect Americans.

Some conservative politicians, like Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, have suggested that the Biden administration’s approval of $235 million in aid to Palestinians in April 2021 helped Hamas conduct its attacks on Saturday.

That deal included $150 million in humanitarian assistance for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and $75 million in economic and development assistance in the West Bank and Gaza.

But the administration’s National Security Council dismissed that notion and said that $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds that were freed up in exchange for the release of five American detainees were not used by Iran, a Hamas ally, to support its attack on Israel.

Mary Trump accuses Donald of giving Putin Israel security secrets: "Maniac"

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Mary Trump accuses Donald of giving Putin Israel security secrets: "Maniac"

Donald Trump’s estranged niece, Mary Trump, accused the former president of possibly giving Israeli security secrets to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday.

“This f****** maniac likely gave Putin (who gave Iran, who gave Hamas) Israel’s national security secrets…,” Mary Trump wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Plus, he divulged highly classified information about our nuclear subs to an Australian cardboard guy. Why is he still allowed to roam free?”

The post from Mary Trump also included a screenshot of a post from Donald Trump on TruthSocial where he responded to the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas militants saying, “The same people that raided Israel are pouring into our once beautiful USA, through our TOTALLY OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, at Record Numbers. Are they planning an attack within our Country? Crooked Joe Biden and his BOSS, Barack Hussein Obama, did this to us!”

Over the weekend, Hamas militants launched an attack on Israel, and fighting between the militants and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has continued since.

“We will take strong revenge for the black day they gave the people of Israel. We will operate everywhere and with all of our force. This war will take time and it will be difficult but we will win,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said over the weekend, adding that Israel is “at war.”

According to the Associated Press, roughly 900 individuals in Israel have been killed amid the ongoing fighting, including 73 IDF soldiers. The Associated Press also reported that 493 people have been killed in Gaza, and Israel has claimed that hundreds of Hamas militants have also been killed.

Abu Obeida, a Hamas spokesperson, said on Monday that the militant group was planning to kill Israeli civilians being held hostage if Israel attacks civilian targets in Gaza, the Associated Press reported.

“This war crime will not be forgiven,” Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said in response, according to the Associated Press.

Since the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants began over the weekend, Trump has commented several times, including one post where he said, “THE HORRIBLE ATTACK ON ISRAEL, MUCH LIKE THE ATTACK ON UKRAINE, WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED IF I WERE PRESIDENT – ZERO CHANCE!”

In another statement, Trump said, “These Hamas attacks are a disgrace and Israel has every right to defend itself with overwhelming force. Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden Administration. We brought so much peace to the Middle East through the Abraham Accords, only to see Biden whittle it away at a far more rapid pace than anyone thought possible. Here we go again.”

Newsweek has been unable to independently verify the claims made by Mary Trump against her uncle.

Newsweek reached out to Trump’s spokesperson via email for comment.

Economics Nobel Winner Highlighted "Motherhood Penalty" For Women

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Economics Nobel Winner Highlighted "Motherhood Penalty" For Women

The Nobel Committee awarded its prize for economics to Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin, making her the third woman to have won the award, “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”

Goldin’s work chronicled the gap between women and men in the workplace just as they have gained rights over the past century that should put them on the same level as their male counterparts at work. Parenthood and inflexible work patterns hurt women’s earnings while barely affecting fathers at the same level of education.

“Claudia Goldin has trawled the archives and collected over 200 years of data from the US, allowing her to demonstrate how and why gender differences in earnings and employment rates have changed over time,” the Nobel Committee noted in its citation announcing the award.

“Much of the gender gap in earnings could be explained by differences in education and occupational choices. However, Goldin has shown that the bulk of this earnings difference is now between and women in the same occupation, and that it largely arises with the birth of the first child,” it added.

In one study, Goldin and her collaborators found that the responsibility of caring for children tends to fall to mothers and impacts their ability to fully catch up to their male colleagues at work when it comes to their earnings.

“We find that hours of paid work initially plummet with motherhood…but increase as the youngest child begins school and eventually graduates secondary school,” they wrote. “Mothers increase their work time as the children grow up, but they are still behind fathers.”

The years of raising children hurt women while men actually earn a premium. Men out-earn their female counterparts without children, Goldin’s research found.

“For men, having the children and a wife who is the caregiver is related to their earnings boost,” Goldin and her colleagues wrote. “Put simply: the motherhood penalty becomes very small as the children grow up, but the fatherhood advantage remains large and increases with age, especially among college graduates.”

The lack of universal childcare in the U.S. hurts women and in turn damages the country’s economy, as research by Oxford Economics illustrated last week. More women joining the labor force could substantially add to U.S. economic growth and mitigate against a recession.

“By far the overwhelming factor depressing labor force participation for women relative to men is that women are far more likely to drop out due to family responsibilities,” Oxford Economics wrote.

Golding told The New York Times that the residue of history in the way parental responsibilities are shared in the home shaped the way men and women are able to earn throughout their lifetimes.

“We’re never going to have gender equality until we also have couple equity,” she said.

At a press conference after learning of her win, she told reporters that her work was about representing women in economics.

“I have worked very hard to try to change the representation of women in economics,” Goldin said, according to The Wall Street Journal. “Economics is about people. It’s about inequality. It’s about the female labor force. It’s about health. It’s about well being.”

The Nobel Committee lauded her focus on women and their place in the labor market.

“Understanding women’s role in the labour is important for society. Thanks to Claudia Goldin’s groundbreaking research we now know much more about the underlying factors and which barriers may need to be addressed in the future,” Jakob Svensson, chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences, said in a statement.

Shani Louk Instagram honored Israelis killed by militants before capture

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Shani Louk Instagram honored Israelis killed by militants before capture

Shani Louk, the young German-Israeli woman who appeared in graphic footage of Hamas’ attack on a southern Israeli music festival on Saturday, honored Israelis killed by militants in an Instagram post years before the assault.

Hamas fired thousands of rockets at Israel, while dozens of fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border by air, land and sea in areas near the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, marking the latest escalation in the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a televised address on Saturday that his country was now at war. Israel has since launched its own attacks against Hamas.

The Tribe of Nova music festival in southern Israel was one of the first places targeted by Hamas, with graphic videos spreading online showing militants attack festivalgoers, including Louk. Authorities removed roughly 260 bodies from the site following the attack.

Graphic footage circulating on social media showed a nearly naked woman lying face-down in the bed of a pickup truck with four militants, apparently being paraded through the streets. Family members have since identified that woman as Louk.

It remains unknown whether she was killed in the attack, and her family has said they hope she is alive. Newsweek did not link to the footage due to its extremely graphic nature.

An Instagram post made by Louk honoring Israelis who were killed in conflict made its rounds on social media Monday afternoon. The post, dated May 10, 2016, shows Israeli soldiers along with the country’s flag.

“We shall remember our children, the brave and loyal soldiers, the state security employees who fought for our country, we shall remember the [ones] who got murdered by terror organizations … We will remember and not forget,” she wrote in the caption of the post.

Newsweek reached out to the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry for comment via email on Monday.

Louk’s family has held out hope that she is still alive. Her mother, Ricarda Louk, told CNN late Saturday, “I hope that she is still alive somewhere.”

Louk’s aunt, Orly Louk, told German newspaper Der Spiegel that her niece had grown up in Israel, but was a globetrotter who never stayed in one place for too long. She added that her niece was a pacifist who refused to take up mandatory Israeli military service.

According to the Associated Press (AP), about 900 people have been killed in Israel and around 680 were killed in Gaza as of Monday afternoon, while thousands of others suffered injuries.

Hamas has said they are holding captive more than 130 soldiers and civilians taken from Israel, and on Monday afternoon warned that it would kill an Israeli hostage every time Israel bombed civilian targets in the Gaza Strip without warning, AP reported.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen cautioned Hamas against harming hostages, reiterating Israel’s commitment to rescuing them, according to AP.

“We demand Hamas not to harm any of the hostages, Cohen said. “This war crime will not be forgiven.”

Florida man accused of making ‘devil’ threat to deputies

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Florida man accused of making ‘devil’ threat to deputies

A Florida man accused of stalking deputies was arrested on Sunday for threatening to “help the devil kill” a three-man helicopter flight crew.

Robert Moni, who lives in Volusia County in DeLand, Florida, was charged with three counts of aggravated stalking and is being held in the Volusia County Branch Jail without bail, according to arrest reports. This marks Moni’s second arrest after he was previously charged with making a false report of a bomb, arson or weapon of mass destruction after threatening to shoot down a Volusia County Sheriff’s Office helicopter in 2018.

On Saturday, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, deputies were called to the DeLand Municipal Airport where the Volusia sheriff’s helicopter hangar is located as the sheriff’s helicopter crew reported Moni was near the hangar harassing and threatening them.

The 59-year-old, who lives near the airport hangar, had started walking toward the building when a helicopter crewman approached him. The man reported that he could hear Moni screaming that the crewmen “were all bad people,” “sinners,” and that “the devil is going to kill you, and I am going to help,” a report detailed.

Moni was also seen holding a sign and yelling obscenities at Air One, which is the name of the sheriff’s office helicopter, and its crew, the report states.

According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, deputies have also written in their report that Moni hates the sheriff’s office and Sheriff Mike Chitwood.

This follows Moni’s previous arrest in 2018 after Moni called an employee of an Orlando television station saying he was going to shoot down Air One if it didn’t stop flying over his house, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Detectives have said Moni had a history of reporting conspiracy theories regarding the sheriff’s office; in 2018, a Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant previously said Moni had complained that former Sheriff Ben Johnson, high-level FBI personnel, and drug dealers were conspiring to ruin his life.

According to the lieutenant, Moni said that helicopters had been hovering over his house, “spying on him,” and he wasn’t “going to stand for it.” He said he “would point a laser” at them, or “shoot them down, if necessary,” according to the report. Moni was then charged in 2018 for the threats.

Court records also show that in September 2018, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, who said Moni was a danger to himself or to others, asked a court to grant a Risk Protection Order asking that Moni surrender any firearms and ammunition he had.

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