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Cracker Barrel unveils a new logo as part of wider rebrand efforts, sparking ire among some online
NEW YORK (AP) — Cracker Barrel is marching forward with an ongoing makeover. And to the dismay of some fans, the chain's new logo now ditches the barrel itself. Or rather, the drawing many have associated with Cracker Barrel over the years. The man leaning on that barrel is also gone, as are the words 'Old Country Store.' Instead, the new emblem features a simpler design with just 'Cracker Barrel' written on a gold background, which also has a semi-updated shape. 'Anchored in Cracker Barrel's signature gold and brown tones, the updated visuals will appear across menus and marketing collateral," the Tennessee-based company wrote in a Tuesday announcement. Cracker Barrel added that its logo is "now rooted even more closely to the iconic barrel shape and word mark that started it all.' According to Cracker Barrel, this latest look marks the brand's 'fifth evolution' of its logo to date. It was unveiled as part of a campaign from the company called 'All the More,' which also advertises some new fall menu items. Cracker Barrel has been working on a wider rebrand for some time. Beyond a new logo, that's included remodeling its country-style restaurants and retail stores. The company began ramping up this overhaul last year by swapping out older, more antique-filled designs with lighter paint and modern furniture. Founded in 1969, Cracker Barrel operates nearly 660 locations across the U.S. today. Those attached to the chain's previous look have been quick to express ire about both the new logo and restaurant remodels online. 'Our values haven't changed, and the heart and soul of Cracker Barrel haven't changed,' Cracker Barrel said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Thursday. The company added that the man on its former logo, known as Uncle Herschel, 'remains front and center in our restaurants and on our menu," as he represents 'The Herschel Way,' which is 'the foundation of how our 70,000 plus employees provide the country hospitality for which we are known.' Shares of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store were down 8% Thursday afternoon. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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Trump suggests Ukraine should attack Russia to win war
Donald Trump has suggested it would be 'impossible' for Ukraine to win the war without attacking Russia. The US president also criticised his predecessor, Joe Biden, for not granting Kyiv permission to 'fight back', in an ambiguous social media post. He proceeded to share a picture of himself poking Vladimir Putin in the chest, above an image of Richard Nixon doing the same to Nikita Khrushchev, a former prime minister of the Soviet Union. 'It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country. It's like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defence, but is not allowed to play offence. There is no chance of winning! It is like that with Ukraine and Russia,' Mr Trump wrote in his Truth Social website. 'Crooked and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND. How did that work out?' The president's social media musings could be interpreted as a tacit show of support for Ukraine's recent campaign of deep strikes on Russian oil refineries. Similar strikes were opposed by Mr Biden, who believed they could escalated the conflict and spike international oil prices. Mr Trump's language appears to mimic a question he reportedly asked Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president, over whether his forces had the ability to strike Moscow during a telephone call in July, according to a readout obtained by the Telegraph. 'Volodymyr, can you hit Moscow?… Can you hit St Petersburg too?' the US president asked, the FT reported at the time. Mr Zelensky reportedly said he would if handed the right Western weapons. Ukraine has received donations of a number of long-range Western missiles, including Britain's Storm Shadow and American Atacms. However, for most of the war, the weapons were restricted to only strike targets in occupied areas of Ukraine and Crimea, the peninsula illegally annexed by the Russians in 2014. Mr Zelensky and Ukrainian officials lobbied hard for Mr Biden to overturn those restrictions. The former US president eventually relented to the requests, allowing strikes in small areas of Russia, on its southern border, where it was mounting new attacks into Ukraine's Kharkiv and Sumy regions. Ukraine has been carrying out a series of successful attacks on Russian military installations and oil infrastructure, using its own Intelligence and homemade weapons. Kyiv is not publicly known to have received resupplies of Storm Shadow or Atacms missiles for months. Mr Trump's vague social media post came the same day as Associated Press published images of what it reported to be a facility storing Flamingo missiles, a Ukrainian-made weapon with a range of 3,000km. Two of the missiles were etched with the numbers '479' and '480', suggesting that many at least had been produced by Ukrainian engineers. Mr Zelensky has claimed in previous social media posts that the weapon has already been tested on the battlefield. If the cruise missile is capable of hitting a target at its touted range, Moscow would be comfortably within its limits. Ukraine, however, would likely need Western intelligence assistance to pull off such an audacious attack against the Russian capital. 07:17 PM BST Our live coverage has ended. Here's a round-up of today's events: Sergei Lavrov said that any ideas for peace in Ukraine that depart from those set out by Russia in talks in Istanbul in 2022 are 'hopeless' Donald Trump will step back from organising peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, instead leaving Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky to organise a bilateral meeting Russia struck an American business with cruise missiles overnight in one of the largest aerial attacks of the war so far Italy arrested a Ukrainian citizen on suspicion of helping to orchestrate the underwater bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines Volodymyr Zelensky said that he will only meet with Vladimir Putin after his allies have agreed on security guarantees for Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia is attempting to avoid the 'necessity' of holding bilateral talks 07:14 PM BST Putin 'trying to avoid the necessity to meet', says Zelensky Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russia is attempting to avoid the 'necessity' of holding bilateral talks despite US-led efforts to facilitate talks between the warring countries. 'Current signals from Russia are, to be honest, indecent. They're trying to avoid the necessity to meet. They don't want to end this war,' Mr Zelensky said in his evening address. Earlier this week, an agreement seemed to have been met to hold a summit between Mr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin. However, the Kremlin has demurred, issuing vague statements which do not confirm or deny its willingness to participate. On Thursday, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov claimed that Ukraine is 'not interested' in a long-term peace deal. 'The Ukrainian regime and its representatives comment on the current situation in a very specific way, directly showing that they are not interested in a sustainable, fair, long-term settlement,' Mr Lavrov said at a news conference. 07:13 PM BST Pictured: Ukrainian firefighters battle the aftermath of a Russian attack in Kostiantynivka 07:05 PM BST Top US, European officers work on military options for Ukraine Top officers from the US and Europe held talks this week to work on military options for Ukraine's security in the event that a peace deal can be brokered with Russia. US General Dan Caine and his counterparts from the United Kingdom, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Ukraine met on Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington, a spokesperson for the US Joint Staff said in a statement. 'They developed military options to support negotiations to bring a lasting peace to Europe,' which 'will be presented to each nation's respective national security advisors for appropriate consideration in ongoing diplomatic efforts,' according to the statement. Details on the options being discussed were not provided. 07:00 PM BST Where could a Putin-Zelensky summit be held? Donald Trump had initially aimed to hold a trilateral meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin as early as Aug 22. Today, sources said that US president has decided to take a step back to allow Moscow and Kyiv to negotiate with each other directly. Yet progress appears to have stalled on the bilateral summit, even after it was reported on Monday that Putin had agreed to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart for the first time since 2019. One of the questions that remains open is where a possible summit could be held. Putin reportedly suggested Moscow, a source told AFP earlier this week, a proposal that Mr Zelensky immediately rejected. Hungary has been lobbying to host for several days now, but there are concerns that it might not be sufficiently neutral given prime minister Viktor Orban's ties with Putin and pro-Russian views. On Wednesday, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk quipped that it would be best not to hold talks in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, given that it was the location of a 1994 summit under which Kyiv surrendered its share of the Soviet nuclear arsenal in exchange for security guarantees from Russia. Mr Tusk said 'maybe I'm superstitious, but this time I would try to find another place.' Switzerland and Austria have both said that they would grant immunity to the Russian president from an International Criminal Court warrant if he attended peace negotiations there, with Mr Zelensky expressing a preference for the Austrian capital. 06:39 PM BST Zelensky says he will only meet with Putin after security guarantees agreed Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he will only meet with Vladimir Putin after his allies have agreed on security guarantees for Ukraine to deter future Russian attacks. In comments released on Thursday, Mr Zelensky said 'we want to have an understanding of the security guarantees architecture within seven to 10 days', adding 'we need to understand which country will be ready to do what at each specific moment'. In additional remarks, Mr Zelensky said that Donald Trump wants to see a bilateral meeting between Kyiv and Moscow, but that it should be held in a 'neutral' European country, ruling out a summit in the Russian capital. The Ukrainian head of state also rejected the idea of China playing a role in guaranteeing Ukraine's security, citing Beijing's alleged support for Moscow. 06:24 PM BST Lithuania closes airspace near Belarus ahead of military drills Lithuania has closed its airspace along the border with Belarus, citing security risks linked to drones and the upcoming Russian-Belarusian military exercises, the Defence Ministry has said. The ministry said in a statement that the decision, approved by Lithuania's Ministry of Transport and Communications at the request of Lithuania's armed forces, was taken 'in view of the security situation and threats to society, including risks to civil aviation due to violations of airspace by unmanned aerial vehicles.' Officials added that the ban could be extended if drone incursions from Belarusian territory continue. The Zapad-2025 training, which will take place in mid-September with the participation of Moscow and Minsk, will focus in part on operating the intermediate-range Oreshnik missile that has been used in Russian-launched attacks on Ukraine. The drills will involve 13,000 troops and are some of the largest joint exercises held by Russia and Belarus. 05:46 PM BST Germany will pursue criminal investigation against Ukrainian citizen for Nord Stream attacks German justice minister Stefanie Hubig has confirmed that Germany will continue to support Ukraine amid Russia's invasion, but will be forced to pursue a criminal investigation into the Nord Stream pipeline attacks under rule of law. 'Politically we are firmly on Ukraine's side and will continue to be so,' said Ms Hubig when asked if the arrest would affect Berlin's ties to Kyiv. 'What is important for me is that Germany is a country of law, and crimes in our jurisdiction are fully investigated.' Earlier today, it was announced that Ukrainian citizen Serhii K had been arrested on suspicion of being part of a group of people who planted devices on the pipelines in September 2022. Nobody had ever claimed responsibility for the attacks, which were seen by both Russia and the West as an act of sabotage. 05:11 PM BST Pictured: Ukrainian emergency services work at home set ablaze by Russian strike 05:10 PM BST Vance's 'icebreaker' with Zelensky after Oval Office blowup US vice president JD Vance made a joke to break the ice with Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday after their Oval Office showdown some months ago. Speaking to Fox News, the vice president said, 'So President Zelensky walked into the Oval Office. I was chatting with him, with the President, with some of the senior Ukrainian delegation. I said, 'Mr President, so long as you behave, I won't say anything', and he just chuckled a little bit. It was a good little icebreaker.' 05:02 PM BST Ukraine's answer to Russia's drone blitz Shortly before dawn on July 9, Russia had fired 728 drones and 13 missiles into Ukraine, making it the largest Russian aerial bombardment of the war so far. The previous record had been set on July 4, and the one before that five days earlier. Russia's 'swarm' warfare, enabled by its ability to mass-produce low-cost, long-range attack drones, has exhausted and overwhelmed Ukraine's air defences, allowing targets to now be hit three times the typical rate. With its stocks of Western air defence missiles depleted and Russia's Iranian-designed Shahed-type drones flying faster, higher and with greater precision, Ukraine has become increasingly vulnerable. Volodymyr Zelensky had set a target by the end of July for Ukraine to produce 1,000 interceptor drones a month and blunt Russia's relentless drone offensive. The Ukrainian president bet big, estimating it would cost £4.4bn to ramp up production and train more pilots. 04:43 PM BST Flamingo missile storage facility spotted in Ukraine Mr Trump's vague social media post came the same day as Associated Press published images of what it reported to be a facility storing a Flamingo missiles, a Ukrainian-made weapon with a range of 3,000km. Two of the missiles were etched with the numbers '479' and '480', suggesting that many at least had been produced by Ukrainian engineers. Mr Zelensky has claimed in previous social media posts that the weapon has already been tested on the battlefield. If the cruise missile is capable of hitting a target at its touted range, Moscow would be comfortably within its limits. Ukraine, however, would likely need Western intelligence assistance to pull off such an audacious attack against the Russian capital. 04:40 PM BST Pictured: Donald Trump's provocative post on Truth Social 03:47 PM BST Lavrov: 'Coalition of the willing' undermining peace in Ukraine Russia's foreign minister has accused the Coalition of the Willing of 'undermining' efforts to secure peace in Ukraine. Sergei Lavrov said the coalition, led by the UK and France, had tried to 'shift the focus away from resolving the root causes of the conflict', a term frequently used by Moscow to reference Ukraine's ambition to join Nato. Leaders from the UK, France, Germany, Finland and Italy have all indicated their willingness to defend a future peace deal, which could involve putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. Ukraine and its European allies have been pushing for the US to support these efforts, though Washington only appears to be willing to help police the skies, rather than committing troops. Mr Lavrov also suggested that Europe was trying to 'undermine' Donald Trump's efforts to end the war and said Vladimir Putin would be willing to meet Volodymyr Zelensky. His comments come after Russia launched one of the largest aerial attacks of the war so far, targeting an American microelectronics company in western Ukraine. 03:44 PM BST Ukrainian forces reclaim most of Tovste Ukrainian forces have retaken most of the village of Tovste in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine's Dnipro Group of Forces said on Thursday. A statement on Telegram from the operational and strategic group of forces said: 'Our soldiers tirelessly destroy the enemy from the air and on the ground, driving them out of Ukrainian territory step by step. This achievement was made possible by the bravery and professionalism of infantry units, UAV pilots, and artillery crews.' Tovste is a frontline village southwest of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk and near to the occupied town of Vuhledar. Credit: Courtesy of 5th Separate Mechanized Brigade via Reuters 03:31 PM BST Rubio to host Ukraine security talks with Europe US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host a conference call on Thursday with the national security advisers of European countries expected to play a role in future security guarantees for Ukraine, a senior US official said. One of Kyiv's conditions for signing any peace deal is getting Western-backed military assurances to deter Russia from mounting another invasion in the coming years. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that making security arrangements for Ukraine without Moscow's involvement was pointless. 02:36 PM BST Russian fuel prices at near-record highs Russian fuel prices have surged after a slew of Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries, stock exchange data showed on Thursday. Ukraine routinely targets Russian refineries and oil depots in a bid to cut off Moscow's funds for its war machine, and the country claims to have hit and damaged three refineries in enemy territory this month. In an attempt to tame prices, Russia introduced a total ban on fuel exports last month, but it appears to have done little to mitigate the effects of the attacks. Ukrainian strikes have also disrupted air and railway travel, further contributing to the surge. 02:01 PM BST Trump claimed peace was closer than ever. Then Lavrov threw a hand grenade Donald Trump would like to have you believe that he has never been closer to settling the war in Ukraine. A high-stakes meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska was said to have ushered in a series of concessions from Moscow, which meant a peace deal was at his fingertips. An apparent compromise on security guarantees for Kyiv was leapt on by the European leaders who accompanied Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House as a real success. But with Mr Trump scrambling to bring the two warring leaders together, Russia appears to be rowing back against any suggestion that it was prepared to drop its maximalist position to deliver peace. On Wednesday, as European military leaders met to discuss how to secure a ceasefire, Russia's veteran foreign minister hurled a metaphorical hand grenade into the mix. Sergei Lavrov suggested Russia would agree only to security guarantees over which it and China have a veto. He said a document drawn up during initial peace talks in the spring of 2022 would serve as a 'very good example' for a potential blueprint. 01:37 PM BST Pictured: Emergency services work at the scene of Russian airstrikes 01:30 PM BST Belarus looking at arming missiles with nuclear warheads, Minsk says Belarus is looking at how to increase domestic production of missiles, including exploring how to equip them with nuclear warheads, a senior Belarusian security official said on Thursday. Belarus, which is a close ally of Russia, does not possess its own nuclear weapons but holds Russian tactical ones which remain under Moscow's control. Alexander Volfovich, who heads the country's State Security Council, told reporters that Minsk is exploring how to arm its Polonez rocket artillery system with nuclear warheads. 'Today, it is a state-of-the art system,' said Mr Volfovich, according to the Belta state news agency. 'Questions are already being raised about equipping these missiles with nuclear warheads.' Volfovich also claimed that Belarus is exploring how to integrate the technology of the Oreshnik, a Russian-made, intermediate-range hypersonic missile, to create a 'joint missile'. Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, who has led the country for more than three decades, also said on Thursday that 'military threats' from its Western neighbours are compelling Minsk to develop its defensive capacities. 'The dynamics of military threats and the substantial increase in military spending by our Western neighbours force us to constantly devote the closest attention to the issue of the defence capability of Belarus, Russia and our alliance,' state media quoted Lukashenko as saying. 01:17 PM BST Watch: Ukraine hits Russian patrol boat with drone-guided laser Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) says it destroyed a Russian patrol boat in the Black Sea on Wednesday with a drone-guided laser. The attack was reportedly carried out with a missile guided by a laser designator operated from a drone, according to HUR. The boat was located near the occupied town of Zaliznyi Port in the Kherson region. Five crew members were killed. Credit: @DI_Ukraine / Instagram 01:03 PM BST Italy arrests Ukrainian man over Nord Stream pipeline bombings Italy has arrested a Ukrainian citizen on suspicion of helping to orchestrate the underwater bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines, the German prosecutor has said. The suspect, who was identified only as Serhii K under German privacy laws, is the first person known to be arrested in connection with the blasts. Both Russia and the West have seen the explosions, which seriously damaged three pipelines carrying gas from Russia to Europe, as an act of sabotage, and nobody has taken responsibility for the attacks. The suspect acted as part of a group of individuals who planted devices on the pipelines near the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm in September 2022. Ukraine previously denied involvement. 12:54 PM BST Hungary repeats offer to host peace talks Peter Szijjarto, the Hungarian foreign minister, has reaffirmed Hungary's offer to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Speaking in a daily podcast broadcast on Facebook, Mr Szijjarto said: 'If we are needed, we are ready to provide appropriately fair and safe conditions for such peace negotiations. We are pleased if we can contribute to the success of peace efforts.' On Tuesday, it was reported that the US secret service was preparing to hold the summit in the central European nation whose prime minister, Viktor Orban, boasts strong ties with Donald Trump. Vladimir Putin supposedly pushed for Moscow as a venue, while French president Emmanuel Macron suggested Geneva. 12:26 PM BST France condemns Russian strikes France has condemned Russia's overnight strikes in Ukraine as showing Moscow's 'lack of will to seriously engage in peace talks', describing the strikes as the 'most massive attack in a month'. 'While Russia says it is ready to negotiate, it is continuing its deadly attacks on Ukrainian territory, launching 574 drones and 40 missiles at residential areas,' said a foreign ministry statement. These strikes 'once again show the need to end the killings and to maintain and step up pressure on Russia,' it added, reaffirming support for 'President Trump's initiative for a just and lasting peace'. 12:11 PM BST Russia bombs US factory in Ukraine Russia struck an American business with cruise missiles overnight in one of the largest aerial attacks of the war so far, Ukraine has said. The Ukrainian air force said some 574 drones and 40 missiles were fired overnight, primarily targeting western regions of the country – far from the battlefield's front line in the east and south of the country. The strikes killed one person and injured 15 more and struck a 'major American electronics manufacturer', according to Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine's foreign minister. It was Russia's third-largest aerial attack this year in terms of the number of drones fired and eighth-largest in terms of missiles. It came days after Vladimir Putin travelled to Alaska to meet US president Donald Trump to lay out his terms for peace, which includes Ukraine withdrawing from the entire Donetsk region, despite not being under Russian military control. 11:56 AM BST Trump to 'step back' from Ukraine peace talks Donald Trump will step back from organising peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, instead leaving Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky to organise a bilateral meeting, according to a report. The US president told advisers that he would only host a trilateral meeting with both leaders once they had met first, sources told The Guardian. Mr Trump will not be involved in the effort to arrange a meeting between the two, the newspaper added. It follows a frantic week of diplomacy during which Putin travelled to Alaska for talks with the US president, which was followed by a meeting of Mr Zelensky and European leaders in Washington on Monday. 11:46 AM BST Lavrov lays out template for peace Sergei Lavrov has said that any ideas for peace in Ukraine that depart from those set out by Russia in talks in Istanbul in 2022 are 'hopeless'. Russia and Ukraine held peace talks between Feb and April 2022 - at the start of the war - during which Moscow proposed banning Western nations from providing assistance to Ukraine in the event of another attack. He repeated that position on Thursday, saying European troops in Ukraine would be 'absolutely unacceptable'. 'As the West's discussions with the Ukrainian side show, all these plans are connected, in essence, with providing guarantees through foreign military intervention in some part of Ukrainian territory,' he said. 'And I very much hope that those who are hatching such plans, either they are simply trying to attract attention to themselves, or I hope that they understand that this will be absolutely unacceptable for the Russian Federation and for all sensible political forces in Europe.' Instead, Russia is keen to ensure China, one of Moscow's main allies, plays a role in enforcing security guarantees, but this has been dismissed by Mr Zelensky. 'First, China did not help us stop this war from the start. Second, China assisted Russia by opening its drone market... We do not need guarantors who do not help Ukraine and did not help Ukraine at the time when we really needed it.' 11:40 AM BST Putin ready to meet Zelensky, says Lavrov Vladimir Putin is ready to meet with Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia's foreign minister has said, but warned 'issues of legitimacy' would need to be resolved before a peace deal is signed. Russia has repeatedly sought to undermine the Ukrainian president's legitimacy by highlighting that Mr Zelensky's term was due to end last year. However, elections cannot be held under martial law, as per the Ukrainian constitution. 'Putin has repeatedly said he is ready to meet [Zelensky],' Mr Lavrov said, adding: 'I remind you of the Zelensky decree on 'no talks with Putin.'' 11:37 AM BST Welcome to our live coverage Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. We'll bring you the latest news and analysis throughout the day. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
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US SEC names Margaret Ryan as director of enforcement division
(Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday named Margaret Ryan as the director of the agency's enforcement division. Acting enforcement director Sam Waldon will return to his previous role as chief counsel for the division, the SEC said in a statement.
