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Wednesday, Mar 23

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Amazon was dropped as a sponsor by Seattle’s Pride parade, due to the company’s donations to anti-LGBTQ legislators and for allowing opposition fundraising via AmazonSmile

Seattle Pride said it would "part ways" with Amazon for Pride 2022, citing political donations and anti-LGBTQ groups that used AmazonSmile.

Elizabeth Holmes’ ex, Ramesh Balwani, pointed the finger back at her in his fraud trial, while prosecutors say they were ‘partners in everything, including their crimes’

Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani's team deflected blame to Elizabeth Holmes, while the prosecution called them "partners in everything, including their crimes."

‘This Is Us’ star Hannah Zeile says advice from Sterling K. Brown helped her realize how ‘spoiled’ she is by her time on the NBC drama

"Everyone just actually gets along, actually loves each other," Zeile told Insider of the "This Is Us" cast.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tests positive for COVID-19

The former secretary of state said her husband, former President Bill Clinton, tested negative and is feeling fine.

‘Godfather’ star James Caan recalls the unique way he loosened up the actor who played Corleone family enforcer Luca Brasi before his big scene

The actor told The New York Post how he got the cast to laugh while shooting the scene where Luca Brasi meets Don Corleone.

Rudy Giuliani ‘completely absorbed the lesson of Russian disinformation’ while working for Trump, Marie Yovanovitch says

Giuliani had learned that "the allegation can be just as damaging as the action, and it's easier, quicker, and cheaper to deploy," Yovanovitch wrote.

Mitt Romney says GOP attacks on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sentencing record for child pornography cases are ‘off course’

"I did my duty to hold the defendants accountable," Jackson said in response to questions about her sentencing on child pornography cases.

National security advisor Jake Sullivan says Russia has ‘manifestly failed’ to achieve its 3 main goals in invading Ukraine

Joe Biden's national security advisor spoke ahead of the president's trip to Europe on Wednesday to map out the next steps for dealing with Russia.

The US Navy says its new carrier only needed a fraction of the repairs required the last time a flattop did ‘shock trials’ 34 years ago

Those trials and other developments aboard USS Gerald R. Ford indicate that the carrier is finally ready to deploy with the fleet.

Smartmatic is re-starting a backup defamation lawsuit it filed against Sidney Powell after a New York judge dismissed its case

The election technology company filed a backup lawsuit in Washington, DC, that it's moving forward with.

Florida Senate candidate Val Demings slams GOP criticism of historic Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson: ‘I’m familiar with the attacks’

Demings, a US representative and former police chief, is running to unseat GOP Sen. Marco Rubio who doesn't appear supportive of Biden's nominee.

Project Veritas says the DOJ secretly accessed its emails as part of its probe into how it got Joe Biden’s daughter’s diary

Project Veritas has been fighting search warrants issued by the Justice Department in its investigation into the theft.

Sen. Ted Cruz presses SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on critical race theory and asks if she agrees with teaching that ‘babies are racist’

Cruz spent part of Tuesday's confirmation hearing presenting a stack of books that he said are teaching critical race theory to kids.

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A Ukrainian mother saved her baby’s life by shielding the child from an explosion in Kyiv

Photos from the aftermath of the attack show 27-year-old Olga holding her baby at the hospital with her head bandaged and her face covered in cuts.

Republican Sen. Mike Braun suggests the Supreme Court shouldn’t have legalized interracial marriage before backtracking

Braun later released a statement saying there's "no question that the Constitution prohibits discrimination of any kind based on race."

Sarah Michelle Gellar says she and her ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ costars were ‘pitted against’ each other

"There are times where I wish I could have done things differently, but I didn't know how to handle the stress that I was under," Gellar said.

Marie Yovanovitch says she couldn’t bring herself to release a statement pledging loyalty to Trump because she wanted to keep her ‘integrity intact’

"When I tried the loyalty pledge on for size, I couldn't make it fit — not if I wanted to keep my integrity intact," Marie Yovanovitch wrote.

Anne Hathaway embarrassed Kelly Clarkson by nailing ‘Since U Been Gone’ before the singer even recognized it

In a segment on "The Kelly Clarkson Show," Anne Hathaway correctly identified Kelly Clarkson's song "Since U Been Gone" before Clarkson herself.

4 anti-abortion bills to watch right now — with no exception for rape, incest, or ectopic pregnancies, and cash rewards for citizens who sue abortion providers

State lawmakers are proposing near-total abortion bans. This summer, SCOTUS will decide the fate of Roe v. Wade, which makes abortion federally legal.

With little to pin on Ketanji Brown Jackson, GOP questioning veers from personal grudges to scaring conservatives about liberal justices imposing their views on ‘ordinary Americans’

On the second day of confirmation hearings, there didn't seem to be a clear, coordinated strategy among Republicans that could torpedo or slow down Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation.

Republicans are attacking a dark money group’s support for Ketanji Brown Jackson despite blocking Democratic-led bills to disclose donors at least 10 times since 2010

McConnell once said dark money is a "problem that doesn't exist," comparing donor disclosure to the "creation of a modern day Nixonian enemies list."

‘Bridgerton’ star Charithra Chandran said it ‘hurts’ when friends told her she only got the role because she’s ‘brown’

Chandran told The Telegraph that people have even assumed her success "is due to a diversity quota."

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A chocolate-chip cookie recipe I created in elementary school won the bake sale. I made them as an adult and they’re still a huge hit with family and friends.

A sweet and salty twist on the classic chocolate-chip cookie helped Insider's reporter reconnect with her younger self.

Marjorie Taylor Greene questions whether US funding for Ukraine will fall ‘into the hands of Nazis’

Greene's words come as other far-right figures express sympathy for some of the Kremlin's talking points.

A timeline of Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa’s relationship, from moving in together a week after their first date to starting IVF

Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa met in 2019. They moved in together weeks later, got married in October 2021, and now they're trying to have a baby.

Margot Robbie says she didn’t recognize Sebastian Stan ‘at all’ during their chemistry read for ‘I, Tonya’

The two stars reflected on playing love interests Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly in the 2017 movie in a new conversation for L'Officiel.

Ukraine has destroyed nearly 10% of Russia’s tanks, making experts ask: Are tanks over?

Advances in drones and light weapons have rendered Russian tanks ineffective, a development that could have implications for tanks beyond Ukraine.

Nasdaq jumps 2% as stocks stage a rebound following Powell’s outlook for bigger rate hikes

Consumer discretionary stocks led the S&P 500's advance and Nike was a winner on the Dow.

Wolf Van Halen seems relieved that Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott changed their newborn son’s name

The couple previously said their second child's name was Wolf, but changed their minds because they "didn't feel like it was him."

US suggests Russian forces are devastating Mariupol because Putin is angry that Ukrainians are resisting

State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Ukraine's resistance to Russian troop advancement may have surprised the Kremlin.