Steel Bunkers, Iodine Pills, And Canned Food: Fear Of The Nuclear Apocalypse Is Back – The prepper community has grown quickly through the strife of the last few years, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has only accelerated that trend. [vice]

Russian Planes And Rockets Risk Being Grounded By Lloyd’s Of London Ban – Russian planes and rockets risk being grounded within days after its airlines and space programme were shut out of the crucial Lloyd’s of London insurance market. [tele]

Ukraine Calls Russia ‘Nuclear Terror’ As Plant Burns After Attack, Asks Europe To Intervene – Russia resorted to “nuclear terror” with an attack on Ukraine’s largest nuclear plant early Friday morning as President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow can only be stopped by “immediate European action.” [nyp]

‘Worst Is Yet To Come’ In Ukraine, Says French Official After Macron-Putin Call – Paris paints bleak picture after Macron’s one-and-a-half hour attempt to tell Putin to ‘stop telling himself stories.’ [politico]

Russia To Appeal To CAS Over FIFA And UEFA Suspensions – The Russian Football Union (RFU) will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the decisions by FIFA and UEFA to bar Russian teams from international competitions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, it said on Thursday. [reuters]

Volkswagen, IKEA And Spotify—Here’s The Growing List Of Companies Cutting Ties With Russia Over Invasion – Google said Thursday it will no longer sell online advertising in Russia through its search engine, YouTube or outside publishing partners, according to Reuters, and the apps for Russian state-run media outlets RT and Sputnik were removed from Google’s Play store Wednesday. [forbes]

Ukraine Puzzled By SA’s ‘Abstain’ Vote At UN On ‘Russian Aggression’ – The Ukrainian ambassador to SA, Liubov Abravitova, said on Thursday she believed SA abstained from voting on the UN General Assembly’s motion to reprimand Russia because it was obliged to for the support SA received from the Soviet Union during apartheid. [tlive]

Russian Businessman Offers A $1 Million Bounty For Vladimir Putin’s Arrest – A Russian entrepreneur has put a $1 million bounty on Vladimir Putin, following the Russian president’s decision to invade Ukraine last week. [fortune]

Criminal Charges Against Trump Just Became Way More Real – The House Jan. 6 committee has accused Trump for the first time of plotting a “criminal conspiracy,” a sign they’ll likely refer it to the Justice Department. [vice]

Lockdown Tobacco Ban Was Justified, Government Tells Supreme Court – Supreme Court of Appeal heard argument in the battle between British American Tobacco and the government. [tlive]

Novak Djokovic Given French Open Boost As Covid Vaccination Pass To Be Suspended – Novak Djokovic’s hopes of playing at the French Open have been given a major boost with the news France is suspending its vaccination pass this month. [sky]

Bull Rider Gets Bucked Off. His Father’s Next Move Went Viral – Footage shows 18-year-old Cody Hooks being bucked off the bull at a rodeo in Texas. His father quickly runs out to shield his son as the bull charges toward them. [cnn]

Everything We Know About The New Talented Mr Ripley TV Series  – Andrew Scott, Johnny Flynn and Dakota Fanning will be taking on the leading roles made famous by Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in the 1999 film. [vanfair]

Cara Delevingne Has Your Next Yoga Sesh Sorted – Breathe in, breathe out, and get stretching with supermodel, actress, and environmental warrior, Cara Delevingne. [here]

Wu-Tang Clan Producer Suing NYPD After Wrongfully Spending 4 Years in Rikers – Former Wu-Tang Clan producer “True Master” went to Rikers Island after being falsely accused of a rape that DNA evidence proved he didn’t commit. [vice]

Pete Davidson ‘In Talks’ To Go To Space Aboard One Of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Ships – The 28-year-old SNL star may join William Shatner and Michael Strahan as the most recent celebrities to fly to space. [people]

Purdue Pharma And Sacklers Reach $6 Billion Opioid Settlement Agreement With States – Purdue Pharma and the Sackler families reached a settlement with a group of states this week that would require the Sacklers to pay out as much as $6 billion to states, individual claimants and opioid crisis abatement, if approved by a federal bankruptcy court judge. [cnn]

Sean Penn Walks “Miles” To The Polish Border As He Films His Documentary On Ukraine – The actor described the long lines of cars he saw transporting women and children out of the country. [vanfair]

Blondie’s Debbie Harry: ‘It Wasn’t A Great Idea To Be As Reckless As I Was’ – The singer and style icon answers your questions on becoming ‘Blondie’, a lifetime cheating death – and the secret to a good cover version. [guardian]

Marilyn Manson Files Defamation Suit Against Evan Rachel Wood – Evan Rachel Wood details years-long abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her ex-fiancé, Marilyn Manson, in the new docuseries “Phoenix Rising.” The series, which debuted at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, sees Wood recount in episode one an incident where Manson, born Brian Warner, reportedly raped her on the set of the music video for his 2007 song “Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand).” [popsugar]

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