📌 Airstrikes In Ukraine, Pythagoras’ Theorem, Flood

The strike caused severe damage at three Soviet-era thermal power plants, Kyiv officials said. The Ukraine airforce said it shot down 39 of 55 missiles and 20 out of 21 attack drones used in the attack.

Some 350 rescuers were racing to minimize the damage caused to multiple energy facilities, 30 homes, public transport vehicles, cars and a fire station.

Power generation and transmission facilities in the Poltava, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Vinnytsia regions were targeted.

The attacks have already forced authorities to impose rolling blackouts, but their full impact will likely be felt later when energy consumption peaks at the height of summer and in winter.

If successful, the defense of mental illness would not make Skibicki criminally responsible for killing four indigenous women in the city of Winnipeg in western Canada.

The partial remains of one victim were found in a garbage bin and at a city-run landfill. The remains of two others were found at another landfill outside of the city.

Jurors were selected and set to hear evidence. That changed Monday when the defense told the court Skibicki doesn’t contest the killings and is pursuing a not criminally responsible defense.

The Crown then agreed to a long-standing defense bid to have the case heard by a judge alone. Both sides agreed the complexity of the defense is better suited to a judge than a jury.

The trial, which starts today, follows a national day of awareness for missing and murdered indigenous women and girls known as “Red Dress Day.”

The state's civil defense agency said the death toll had risen to 90, with another four deaths being investigated, while 131 people were still unaccounted for and 155,000 were homeless.

The flooding has hampered rescue efforts, with dozens still waiting to be evacuated from stricken homes. Rain is forecast to let up on Thursday but then continue through the weekend.

Climate experts attributed the extreme rainfall to the confluence of a heatwave caused by El Niño, a cold front with rain and gales coming from the Antarctic, and unusual warmth in the Atlantic.

The 2,000-year-old theorem established that the sum of the squares of a right triangle’s two shorter sides equals the square of the hypotenuse, summarized as a2 + b2 = c2.

Johnson and Jackson used trigonometry—which mathematicians for generations thought was impossible. They spent almost all their free time working on the proof for two months.

Humankind waited millennia for the proof, but it took only minutes for their feat to go global. They received praise from former First Lady Michelle Obama and the keys to New Orleans.

Jackson is attending New Orleans’ Xavier University and enrolled in its pharmacy department. Johnson is an environmental engineering student at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Daniels testified for hours about how she met Trump at a Lake Tahoe celebrity golf tournament and the events leading up to her ending up in bed with him.

Trump's defense lawyer Todd Blanche sought a mistrial after her at-times lurid testimony. But New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, while saying some of her account "may have been better left unsaid," denied the request.

Daniels’ testimony was a pivotal point in New York prosecutors’ 34-count indictment accusing Trump of falsifying business records at his Trump Organization real estate conglomerate.

A $130,000 reimbursement was allegedly made to his former lawyer Michael Cohen for paying the sum to Daniels to silence her claim of sex with Trump before the 2016 presidential election.

Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential candidate, has denied Daniels’ claim of an affair and all 34 charges. He could be placed on probation or face up to four years in prison if convicted. The trial continues on Thursday.

But the question is whether GM can return to sustained profitability amid tensions between the US and China, changing consumer sentiment and more domestic competition.

GM’s market share in China, including its joint ventures, has plummeted from roughly 15% as recently as 2015 to 8.6% last year—the first time it has dropped below 9% since 2003.

GM revealed several vehicles last week in China, including plug-in hybrid versions of its Buick GL8 minivan, a bestseller in China, and the Chevrolet Equinox crossover.

While the challenges aren’t unique to GM, the company has the most to lose after several restructurings and exits from other markets in a bid to become more profitable.

Mark Fulthorpe at S&P Global Mobility said GM has too much equity in its China operations to give them up. “They’ll try and consolidate what they’ve got. There’s still a bit to play for.”

The recipient was the late Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, a political ally claims.

Berlusconi was so shocked by the incident that he stepped behind a tree and vomited. The bizarre and bloody vignette was recounted by Fabrizio Cicchitto, a former senator and a member of Berlusconi’s center-right Forza Italia party.

He said Berlusconi was on a hunting trip with Putin in 2013 in the Russian countryside. The pair were staying at one of the Russian leader’s dachas.

The Italian leader boasted of his relationship with Putin, which lasted about 20 years. Berlusconi contended Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was intended simply to install “decent people” in Kyiv.