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The Kremlin brands comments on Ukraine by France’s Macron and Britain’s Cameron as ‘dangerous’ – Yahoo! Voices

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) Recent statements by Frances president and Britains foreign secretary about the war in Ukraine are dangerous and will deepen international tension around the conflict, the Kremlins spokesman said Friday.

French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview published Thursday, repeated an earlier comment that he doesnt exclude sending troops to Ukraine. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron, meanwhile, said during a visit to Kyiv the same day that Ukraine will be able to use British long-range weapons to strike targets inside Russia a possibility that some other NATO countries providing weapons have balked at.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov branded Macrons comment a very important and very dangerous statement. Remarks by Macron about possible direct French engagement in the conflict represent a very dangerous trend, he said.

Camerons statement about Ukraines right to use British weapons provided to strike facilities inside Russia is another very dangerous statement, Peskov told reporters.

This is a direct escalation of tensions around the Ukrainian conflict, which potentially may threaten European security, the entire European security architecture, Peskov said.

Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 significantly heightened tension between the Kremlin and NATO countries. The alliance countries have provided much of the military hardware that Kyiv is using to fight Russia, ensuring that the tension has continued to simmer. Russia, in turn, has sought help from China, Iran and North Korea, according to the U.S..

As Russia heaps battlefield pressure on depleted Ukrainian forces and appears poised to launch a major offensive, that antagonism has become sharper.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed Friday that Russian troops had captured more than 500 square kilometers (200 square miles) of territory from Ukrainian forces since the start of the year.

The Russian groups of forces continue to break through the enemys strongholds along the entire line of contact, Shoigu said at a meeting with top military brass.

It was not possible to independently verify claims about the battlefield.

Ukrainian officials have acknowledged that Russian forces have an overwhelming advantage in troops, weapons and ammunition.

Ukraines president and foreign minister pressed Cameron during his visit to accelerate the delivery of his country's promised military aid.

It is important that the weapons included in the U.K. support package announced last week arrive as soon as possible, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the social platform X.

He said armored vehicles, ammunition and missiles of various types were top of the list.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who also met with Cameron, said on X that the focus was on speeding up military aid.

That message was rammed home by the deputy chief of Ukraines military intelligence agency, Major-General Vadym Skibitsky, who said Russia is trying to exploit its current advantage in weapons and manpower and is planning a major offensive this summer.

Our problem is very simple: We have no weapons, Skibitsky was quoted as saying in an interview with The Economist published Friday.

Vital support pledged by Western allies to help Ukraine fend off the Kremlins forces has been delayed by political disagreements in the United States and a lack of manufacturing capacity in Europe. That has opened a door to advances for the bigger and better-equipped Russian army, especially along the front line in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine and its Western partners are in a race against the clock to deploy the new military aid, especially a fresh batch of U.S. support, in coming weeks and prevent Russia taking more ground.

The pressing concern at the moment is keeping the strategic eastern hilltop city of Chasiv Yar out of Russian hands. Capturing the city would offer Russia the opportunity of attacking other key cities deeper inside the Donetsk region and hitting important Ukrainian supply lines.

Chasiv Yar is being battered by Russian artillery, drones and missiles. Glide bombs have also been deployed. They are half-ton bombs fitted with wings and launched from aircraft from behind Russian lines. They demolish buildings and leave huge craters, unnerving local defenders.

Russia used a similar strategy of relentless bombardment to force Ukrainian troops out of Avdiivka in February.

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‘Bodkin’: Behind the Scenes of Michelle and Barack Obama’s First Scripted Drama Series – Entertainment Tonight

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How The Obama Sisters Have Transformed Since Leaving The White House – Women.com

It's normal for siblings to drift apart a little after leaving the parental home, but that wasn't the case for Malia Obama and Sasha Obama. In fact, even though they attended college in different states, the sisters found themselves back together in California.

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Following a few years of studying atUniversity of Michigan,Sasha ended up transferring to the University of Southern California to complete her final college year, putting her closer to her sister, who moved to LA after graduating from Harvard in 2021. In fact, they were roommates.

Michelle Obama told People in 2022 the two had moved in together, revealing her reaction was, "Okay, well that's interesting that you guys are going to try living together. We'll see how it goes." But, jokes aside, Michelle admitted that she was happy to see her children getting along so well. She told Peoplethat same month that she'd been over to see her girls' place, which she described as a pleasant visit that included sipping on martinis. "To see them in that place where they're one another's support systems and they've got each other's backs, is just it's the thing that a mother would want," the former First Lady gushed.

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Nielsen’s Input on ACA Recognized in Obama Presidency Oral History – Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical … – Jacobs School of Medicine and…

Growing up in Elkins, West Virginia, (current population 6,800), Nancy H. Nielsen, MD 76, PhD, could not have fathomed that she would one day not only meet the president of the United States, but work with his administration to completely transform health care in America.

Now her work and that of many others on the Affordable Care Act, from advocacy to implementation, has been documented for posterity in the Obama Presidency Oral History.

Nielsen, senior associate dean for health policy in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is one of the extraordinary people from all walks of life invited to participate in the Obama Presidency Oral History project. Compiled by Columbia University, the history is based on more than 1,000 hours of interviews with hundreds of people.

Just being invited to do the interview was an incredible honor, Nielsen says. It also gave her a chance to review how she came to take part in one of the most significant health care reforms the U.S. has ever seen.

In 1973, with a doctoral degree in microbiology and a faculty position at the Jacobs School, Nielsen was accepted to the UB medical school. She was a nontraditional student, since she already had a faculty position and was also raising five small children. She was one of just 30 women in her class of 135.

After graduating and serving as the first woman chief resident in internal medicine at Buffalo General, Nielsen was board-certified as an internist. In addition to running a busy private practice, she was drawn to the policy side of medicine. She served as president of the Erie County Medical Society, became involved with the state medical society and started working at the national level.

She served four consecutive terms as speaker of the American Medical Association House of Delegates and in 2008 was elected AMA president, a term that coincided with the intensifying national health care debate.

While Nielsen was president-elect, the AMA launched its Voice for the Uninsured campaign, advocating for health care reforms that would extend health insurance coverage to Americans who didnt have it.

In preparing for the campaign, the AMA media relations staff asked if Nielsen had any patients who were uninsured.

Nancy H. Nielsen, MD 76, PhD, with her extended family after receiving the Jacobs Schools Distinguished Alumni Award in the fall 2023.

Thats when Nielsen revealed she had also been uninsured. During graduate school, I delivered two babies when I was uninsured, she says, and that became the cause of my life: to make sure all Americans got health insurance.

She recalls that at the time the Affordable Care Act was passed, 19% of the U.S. population had no health insurance.

It really was a national scandal, to tell you the truth, and there were places where it was even worse than that, she says. There is nothing good about being uninsured. That was the whole point of the Voice for the Uninsured. They didnt have a voice. So we became that voice.

Once implemented, the Affordable Care Act cut the uninsured rate in the U.S. to 9% from 19%. It would have cut it even more, Nielsen explains, but the Supreme Court intervened and said the expansion of Medicaid, which was supposed to insure millions, was a states rights issue.

Since then, more states have come on board. Nielsen says its now down to about 10 states that havent expanded Medicaid, about half of which are considering it or are about to expand.

Nielsen, then president of the American Medical Association, welcomed President Barack Obama to the AMA House of Delegates annual meeting in Chicago on June 15, 2009. Photo courtesy of the American Medical Association

A few months after Nielsen finished her term as immediate past president of the AMA, she got a call from the White House. She was asked to come work at the newly established Center for Innovation in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Department of Health and Human Services.

It was a brand-new part of HHS, and they said they needed me to come to bring the physician voice, as they were implementing this new part of the government, Nielsen says.

As senior adviser for stakeholder engagement, she would be on loan from UB to the federal government, a stint that would last two years. Her role was to interact with, and share the concerns of, clinicians throughout the health care system.

The Innovation Center is unique in government, Nielsen notes. It was enshrined in the ACA law, so that instead of making a big policy change and then having unintended consequences, the Innovation Center would do pilots and actually evaluate whether the care was improved and whether there were savings. That was the purpose. There was no place else in government where there was the flexibility to try something to see if it worked.

She assumed additional responsibilities working with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, advising on policy and sometimes attending events when the secretary could not.

It was just an extraordinarily exciting time and I loved it, Nielsen remembers.

She admits that working in Washington was seductive, but she always intended to return to UB.

I owe my career to UB, she says simply. I always wanted to be a physician. I didnt have money. After my fifth child was born, I finally applied. I was 29 when I started medical school and my fifth child was 2 months old.

So UB gave me a chance. I was lucky that the admissions committee let me in, and I will never forget it. My whole career has been here and Ive just been very fortunate. I owe it all to UB.

Now shes passing her passion for policy on to the next generation of physicians. Nielsen was recently asked to be faculty adviser to a group of Jacobs School students who want to develop a policy elective.

Why is policy important? she asks. Policy is the road map that we use to get to the society we want. For me, it meant getting affordable health insurance for every American. I tell the students, Your cause will be different. My role here is to help the students change the world, whatever that means to them.

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Why NCIS: Hawaii Season 4 & CSI: Vegas Season 4 Were Cancelled Explained By CBS Boss – Screen Rant

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CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach discusses the network's decision to cancel its shows NCIS: Hawai'i and CSI: Vegas. Both shows are spinoffs of already successful franchises, with Vegas serving as the fifth show in the CSI franchise as a revival of the original, and Hawai'i being the fourth spinoff of the NCIS franchise. The shows were both putting up decent numbers for the network, but CBS made the unexpected decision to cancel them.

According to reports from The Wrap, Reisenbach confirmed that neither show will be returning for a fourth season, while CEO George Cheeks cited the overall performance of both, as well as finances, as the principal reasons for them being canceled. This is also why they cannot transition into Paramount+ originals. The news comes despite CBS reporting that it will end the 2023-24 season as the most watched broadcast network in primetime for a staggering 16th season. Read Reisenbach and Cheeks' comments below:

Reisenbach: It is incumbent on us to always keep the schedule fresh [and] keep momentum going. We had to make some really tough choices this year, everything came back really strong.

Cheeks: Budgets are challenged, so we dont have an unlimited amount of slots on Paramount+.

The success and existing legacy of the franchise makes CSI: Vegas' surprising season 4 cancellation all the more shocking, while NCIS: Hawai'i's cancellation leaves a frustrating unfinished storyline for audiences. Reisenbach's explanation for the decision rings somewhat hollow, especially considering the fact that the viewing figures for both shows were pretty strong. It is more likely the network felt a need to clear the roster to give upcoming shows a chance.

CBS has several high-profile newcomers on the way, including a Matlock reboot and another NCIS offshoot, the Gibbs prequel Origins.

Audiences hoping for some kind of change of decision should not hold their breaths, as the network ruled out the possibility of a SWAT-style reversal, where a cancelled show is instead revived due to viewer outcry. This could be a move by CBS to try to reinvent itself from a position of strength, clearing the slate for the 2024-25 season, which so far seems to be grounded in IP the network strongly believes in.

As for the NCIS and CSI franchises, they face two different futures following the cancelations of Hawai'i and Vegas. CSI has no ongoing spinoff shows, but The Wrap's report reveals there is one in "active development." Meanwhile, NCIS as a franchise is still going strong, with the original series currently in season 21, NCIS: Sydney recently renewed for a season 2, and two other spinoffs set to begin production in the coming months. CBS will be hoping the new broadcast season is as successful as the last, despite the cancelations it has made.

Source: The Wrap

NCIS: Hawaii is the fourth spin-off of the police procedural series NCIS. It follows a team of Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents as they investigate a wide variety of difficult and shocking crimes. Vanessa Lachey stars as Jane Tennant alongside Alex Tarrant as Kai Holman, Noah Mills as Jesse Boone, Tori Anderson as Kate Whistler, Yasmine Al-Bustami as Lucy Tara, and Jason Antoon as Ernie Malik.

CSI: Vegas is a mystery crime-drama television series created by Jason Tracey and is a spin-off of the core Crime Scene Investigation franchise. Viewers follow Maxine Roby and her team of investigators as they employ their latest and greatest scientific tools in the fight against crime.

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