‘Since intelligence was shut off, we're seeing real gains from the Russians,' warns Fmr. NATO Commander
Former NATO Commander Adm. James Stavridis speaks to Bianna Golodryga about what a post-NATO future could look like for Europe.
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Newsweek
24 minutes ago
- Newsweek
NATO Scrambles Fighter Jets After Russia's Largest Air Assault on Ukraine
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. NATO countries scrambled fighter jets early on Sunday, according to the Polish military, after a Ukrainian official said Moscow had launched its largest-scale air attack on the country in more than three years. Poland's Operational Command said its fighter jets, along with other NATO aircraft, were scrambled with ground-based air defenses and reconnaissance systems put on the "highest state of readiness" after Russia launched overnight attacks on Ukrainian territory. Warsaw's military said in a later statement NATO aircraft had finished operations after the "level of threat from missile strikes by Russian aviation on Ukrainian territory" reduced. No Russian missiles or drones entered Polish airspace, the command said. Ukrainian authorities said Russia had launched 477 drones and decoys, as well as 60 missiles of various types, at Ukraine overnight. FILE - An F-16 fighter jet takes part in the NATO Air Shielding exercise near the air base in Lask, central Poland on October 12, 2022. FILE - An F-16 fighter jet takes part in the NATO Air Shielding exercise near the air base in Lask, central Poland on October 12, 2022. RADOSLAW JOZWIAK/AFP via Getty Images The attacks into Sunday were the largest airstrikes on Ukraine of more than three years of full-scale war in the country in terms of number of incoming threats, Colonel Yuriy Ignat, an official with Ukraine's air force, confirmed to Newsweek. Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine have occasionally spilled over into NATO nations like Poland and Romania, which border Ukraine. NATO members are collectively obliged to respond to attacks on alliance nations with full force. Drones and missiles entering NATO airspace have not been treated as attacks on the alliance so far, but Polish authorities have repeatedly scrambled aircraft because of Moscow's aerial attacks on Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities in the western Lviv and Volyn regions, bordering Poland, reported air alerts overnight, but no casualties. Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said overnight "a massive attack on the western regions of Ukraine is underway," targeting critical infrastructure. Updates to follow.
Boston Globe
an hour ago
- Boston Globe
As federal layoffs shake up the public sector workforce, displaced workers look to Boston
In the first quarter of 2025, the city received an all-time high of 39,111 applications, a 60 percent jump from the first quarter of 2024. The largest increase has been in budgeting, procurement, and finance positions, roles that are the closest match to many of the shuttered federal positions, said the city's chief people officer, Alex Lawrence. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'Despite the chaos and confusion playing out, [it's] a real opportunity for the state and local governments across Massachusetts to capture some of this A-plus public sector talent,' said Caitlin Lewis, executive director of Work For America. The nonprofit runs Civic Match, a job portal for state and local government jobs. Advertisement The uncertainty and instability in Washington have led many former federal employees to rethink what they're looking for in their next job. For many, this means a new perspective on making the move to a local- or state-level role, which before would have seemed like a step down from federal work. Boston's local government has been particularly visible at a national level, in part thanks to Advertisement 'People are excited about working in a local government where they see a strong leader who is willing to stand up for what she believes in,' said Lawrence. 'I think that resonates with a lot of people.' Anyone looking to move from a federal job to a public-sector role in Massachusetts, though, will likely have to contend with some of the same economic and political factors playing out on the federal level. Boston is grappling with a budget shortfall spurred by a post-COVID drop in commercial property values — clouding the long-term prospects for employment here. Meanwhile, the state government is in the midst of a The state government is in the midst of a hiring freeze instituted over what Governor Maura Healey's office has described as 'widespread economic uncertainty at the national level.' Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff But if you want to work in a government job in the US, Boston remains one of the best places to look. Lewis, of Work for America, said the Civic Match platform has seen about 20 percent of its 9,000 job seekers narrow their search to Massachusetts. Only about 2 percent of those people currently live here, she said. More than 80 percent of those looking to work in New England on the platform live outside the region. The City of Boston is one of the most active of the 200 cities Civic Match partners with, said Lewis. State and local governments often struggle to hire for some of their most crucial roles, she said. The influx of new job-seekers as a result of federal layoffs gives them a chance to fill these roles with quality, driven candidates, many of whom have decades of experience at some of the country's largest federal agencies, said Lewis. Advertisement The City of Boston has now received more applications than the number of vacant positions it has, which is not usually the case, said Lawrence. She has also seen that more people, especially those who were laid off with little notice, are open to more drastic career changes to get a paycheck coming in again. 'It is tougher and more competitive than it has been,' said Lawrence. 'We still have a few places that we have very specific challenges filling positions, but it's much less significant than it was a few years ago.' After taking a buyout from her job as a senior project manager at the Department of Homeland Security, Alexandra Tobolsky and her husband, who worked for the federal government as a contractor, are considering Massachusetts for their next personal and professional chapters. As the couple looks to become first-time homeowners in their next move from Maryland, somewhere with work opportunities for both of them, a strong, diverse community, a mix of city life and nature, and responsible leadership are all on the wish list, all factors that led them to strongly consider Boston. 'We're looking for where can we build a good life for ourselves, especially not knowing what the next few years are going to hold on multiple levels, and where can we find somewhere that we can still enjoy our lives and feel confident in state and local government looking out for our best interests,' said Tobolsky. Advertisement Boston's cost of living is often cited as a reason that people move away from — rather than into — the region, but Washington is one of the few cities that stacks up relatively well. Someone making $100,000 in the Capitol region would need to make roughly $102,000 to have a similar standard of living here, according to the personal finance website People who spoke to the Globe about their job search also cited the rapid changes in the work culture of official Washington amid the Trump administration's recent moves to downsize the government as a reason they were ready to relocate to more liberal-minded Massachusetts. Tobolsky described daily uncertainty at work: After taking a buyout from her job as a senior project manager at the Department of Homeland Security, Alexandra Tobolsky and her husband, who also worked for the federal government as a contractor, are considering Massachusetts for their next personal and professional chapters. VALERIE PLESCH/NYT 'All of it just felt very hard to process, while continuing to do good work,' said Tobolsky. With jobs frozen at the state level, the Healey administration is adjusting its tack on attracting workers. The state launched a website in March to promote opportunities in Massachusetts for federal workers, including more than 160,000 job postings in the private sector and in local government. Massachusetts officials also began hosting weekly virtual information sessions in April to share unemployment and hiring resources with laid-off federal workers. 'We encourage people from across the country and the world, including those who have been laid off by President Trump, to explore the incredible employment opportunities offered by our businesses and to consider moving to and building your future here in Massachusetts,' a spokesperson for the state's Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development said in a statement. Advertisement Before being laid off, Maura Miller loved her job at the United States Agency for International Development, where she worked for a decade based in Alexandria, Va. Now, she is searching somewhere new to take her skills to and leave federal uncertainty behind. 'If we're able to move, it would be to Massachusetts,' Miller said. Miller, who emphasized she was speaking only for herself, said she believes in the elected leadership in Massachusetts and would like to be a part of the work being done here, including in housing and education. 'I don't want to move somewhere that's then going to have to make cuts that I would be impacted by again immediately,' she said. 'But my passion for public service has not changed.' Maren Halpin can be reached at
The Hill
an hour ago
- The Hill
Five biggest f-bombs in political history
President Trump made waves this week when he used the f-word while updating reporters on efforts to settle Iran's military conflict with Israel. 'We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f‑‑‑ they're doing,' Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for a NATO summit on Monday as the Middle East rivals appeared to waffle on their temporary truce after the U.S. bombed Iran's key nuclear sites over the weekend. Trump isn't the first president to use the expletive, and former President Nixon left Americans wondering what words were uttered in the White House with the release of transcripts with the phrase '[EXPLETIVE DELETED]' throughout in 1974. The Hill reported in April that Democrats have been embracing the f-word more as they campaigned against Trump's policies, prompting a National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesperson to accuse Democrats of being 'obsessed with saying 'f‑‑‑ing' and 'a‑‑' as the strategy to win back the voters that rejected them in 2024.' The Hill and GovPredict found in 2019 that the use of curse words from lawmakers on the social media site then-called Twitter dramatically increased in the first year of Trump's first term. Here are five of the most explosive f-bombs in recent politics: Trump's use of the f-word to describe Iran and Israel's attitudes toward their long-standing conflict and latest military strikes against each other was the first time that a president used the word intentionally on live television, though Trump said the word in a hot mic moment before addressing the nation about the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Jon Krosnick, a social psychologist at Stanford University who studies political communication and behaviors, told The Hill that Trump's use in the context of the Middle East conflict was 'very interesting and very revealing.' 'It was one sentence, but it was an important sentence,' Krosnick said. 'It was not carefully scripted — it was just something that came out.' 'This communicated that he's basically exasperated with the situation, but also that he is feeling confident that he can communicate in that way,' he added. Former President Biden, while he was vice president, was caught on a hot mic describing the Affordable Care Act as a 'big f—ing deal' during then-President Obama's signing ceremony for the legislation that's commonly known as Obamacare. The two joked about the f-word slip a decade later when then-President Biden invited Obama to the White House for an executive order signing event in 2022. 'Now, I'm gonna sign an executive order, and, Barack, let me remind you: It's a hot mic,' Biden said, eliciting laughs and applause from the crowd. Obama, when it was his turn to speak, joked that he was quoting a 'famous American' in describing the Biden's order as a 'pretty big deal.' During a photo-op on the Senate floor in 2004, then-Vice President Dick Cheney (R) reportedly told Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to 'go f— himself.' The New York Times reported at the time that Leahy said he was 'kind of shocked to hear that kind of language on the floor.' Trump made a rare trek to Capitol Hill to pressure Republicans to pass his agenda-setting 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' in March, but word quickly spread that he warned members not to 'f‑‑‑ with Medicaid.' Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.) said after the president's closed-door meeting with House Republicans that the members took his use of profanity lightheartedly. Trump described the gathering as 'a meeting of love.' 'That was love in that room. There was no shouting,' the president said. Then-President Kennedy reportedly told a general in 1963 that the Air Force spending thousands on first lady Jackie Kennedy's maternity suite at Otis Air Force Base was 'a f— up.' Then-President Lyndon Johnson (D) reportedly used the f-word in a warning to then-Greek ambassador to the U.S. Alexander Matsas in 1964. 'Fuck your parliament and your constitution,' Johnson reportedly told Matas, as quoted in a 1977 biography.
