• Trooping the Colour honors the monarch each year. 
• But the younger generation of royals often steal the show with their antics at Buckingham Palace.
• In 1988, Prince Harry stuck his tongue out, and Prince Louis has made a splash the past two years.

The royal family will gather at Buckingham Palace for Trooping the Colour on Saturday.

Trooping the Colour is the British sovereign's official birthday celebration, and the 2024 event marks King Charles III's second as monarch. 

The parade offers one of the few times the whole royal family gathers in public together throughout the year, so the event is always heavily photographed.

For decades, royal children have been pictured greeting the public from the balcony of Buckingham Palace during Trooping the Colour, and they're often documented in candid moments of joy and silliness as their powerful parents look on in both exasperation and laughter.  

From Prince William to Prince Louis, take a look at times royal children have stolen the show at Trooping the Colour.

At the 1984 Trooping the Colour, a blond Prince William distracted his cousins on the Buckingham Palace balcony.

In 1985, young Prince William again distracted his cousins by pointing during the parade.

Prince Harry sweetly mimicked his older brother at the 1987 Trooping the Colour.

Prince Harry was photographed sticking his tongue out at cameras while Princess Diana held him at the 1988 parade.

At the same parade, Prince William caused a stir by covering his face in apparent exasperation.

At the 1989 Trooping the Colour, Prince Harry and Prince William waved in a silly manner as they honored their grandmother.

Prince William and Prince Harry were playful with their cousins on a carriage at the 1990 Trooping the Colour.

Harry was photographed sweetly looking down at the crowds in front of Buckingham Palace at the same celebration.

Although they were a bit older, Prince William and Prince Harry still managed to cause a bit of a distraction at the 2003 Trooping the Colour by pointing and staring at the crowds.

At his first Trooping the Colour in 2015, Prince George stole the show before he even walked out onto the balcony by waving at crowds from a window.

When he did reach the balcony, photographers captured the young prince pointing at the crowds as his father and uncle did years before him.

In 2016, Princess Charlotte adorably waved at the crowds assembled for the Queen.

Both Charlotte and George appeared to get tired later the same day.

The pair both appeared stressed out by the planes flying over the palace in 2017.

Savannah Phillips playfully covered George's mouth during the 2019 Trooping the Colour while William looked on.

But later, Savannah, Charlotte, and George all grinned and clapped as they watched the parade.

In 2019, George, Charlotte, and Prince Louis all looked cutely overwhelmed by the planes flying above them.

At the same event, George looked at the sky unhappily while Charlotte covered her ears.

At the 2022 Trooping the Colour, George, Charlotte, and Louis made funny faces as they looked down at the crowds in front of the palace from a window.

The siblings were then seen sweetly interacting with their great-grandmother during the event.

But Louis really became the star of the day when he dramatically reacted to the planes flying overhead by screaming and covering his ears.

The young prince's face even turned red from the force of his yell.

Louis was photographed covering his ears again at the 2023 Trooping the Colour, though he didn't look quite as unhappy as in 2022.

Both George and Louis made silly faces as they watched the fanfare in matching blazers and ties.

Meanwhile, Charlotte shared a sweet moment with William, holding his hands over her shoulders as they stood together on the balcony.

And Louis stole the show again by pretending he was flying the overhead planes, miming revving an engine.

• Elon Musk is finally hiding "likes" on Twitter/X.
• You can still see who liked your own tweets, but you won't be able to see someone else's likes.
• Good! Likes were an embarrassing bad thing!

The move to make "likes" private on Twitter — something first announced a few weeks ago — looks to finally be going live across the platform.

Elon Musk has made a lot of bad choices about how to run Twitter — including renaming it X! —  but this one? This is good, actually.

Musk tweeted on Tuesday, responding to a post from The Verge that said likes would soon be hidden: "Important to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so!" He tweeted Wednesday: "Important change: your likes are now private."

He's right — there's no big value in having likes be public, but there IS a big downside in terms of potential for embarrassment.

Likes had been visible in two places: on a person's profile page, you had been able to see a tab of all the tweets that person liked through history. And on an individual tweet, you could see who liked it.

The former is more likely to cause some embarrassment. Let's keep in mind that most users probably don't really think about the idea of likes being public, and have no clue that their profile publicly lists all their past likes.

Consider, for a moment, Vince Neil, the singer of Motley Crüe. Neil isn't particularly active on the platform; his last tweet was from March 31, saying, "Happy Easter everyone!"

But in the last week or so, the TikTok Crüniverse (I just made that term up; that's not a thing, but honestly … you'd be surprised how much Motley Crüe content is on TikTok) has been abuzz about Neil's X account. Someone noticed that his likes tab has a few tweets of adult content.

I don't mind sharing this because I think that Vince Neil, who has made his immense sexual appetites part of his personal mythos and has also gotten a facelift as part of a VH1 reality show, is unlikely to be immensely humiliated by this.

But other people might feel very embarrassed if their likes of adult content were discovered. Musk is right: People should feel free to like stuff without embarrassment.

Musk might like us to think that empowering people to like things privately is more about the freedom to like unpopular speech without repercussion. Musk has personally offered to pay the legal bills of people fired for their tweets or likes. However, the legal cases Mush is helping with — actress Gina Carano and a former Square employee — are from people allegedly fired over posts they wrote themselves, not their likes.

I think this it's a bit of free speech LARPing to think that removing public likes is meant to protect people who like a tweet with some edgy "wrongthink" ideas. That's not what is causing huge problems in private people's lives. Let's be realistic: It's getting caught liking porn. And X is now happy to be encouraging porn consumption on the platform — just last month, they created guidelines for adult content. Nudity and porn was never banned on Twitter, but this was the first time that an unofficial policy of allowing it had been formalized.

Instagram, a platform that is far hornier than X, despite its ban on nudity, used to have a feature where you could see the stream of activity and likes from the people you followed. That was like a sting operation for the thirsty, ruining all sorts of relationships. Eventually, in 2019, Instagram killed the feature.

Liking a sexy tweet isn't a thought crime, but it's very likely to be embarrassing. Shutting down the public likes is long overdue. For once, as much as it pains me to say, Elon has it right.

• Elon Musk has a lot of legal problems.
• BI scoured the dockets to find the biggest court cases and investigations posing a threat to the billionaire.
• If Musk throws his support behind Donald Trump, he stands to gain if Trump wins the presidency.

It's not unusual for a high-profile businessman to attract a lot of lawsuits. But by any standard, Elon Musk is spending a lot of time and money on lawsuits.

Musk and his companies — especially Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly known as Twitter) — keep running into controversies, whether it's over whether the products actually work as well as they're supposed to, the billionaire's pay structure, his hiring practices, and even his firing practices.

He has also become a magnet for personal lawsuits. Musk is involved in messy litigation with Claire Boucher, AKA Grimes, the mother of three of Musk's children. He has also launched lawsuits of his own through his companies, wading into arguments about free speech on the internet. Musk often relies on Alex Spiro, his longtime personal lawyer, to fight and coordinate the lawsuits.

Business Insider has combed through court records and created a list of the most significant legal challenges on Musk's docket. Tesla shareholders are weighing some of these issues as they decide whether he should receive $44 billion worth of Tesla stock — which would be the largest pay package in history.

The lawsuits and government investigations into Musk and his companies range from discriminatory hiring practices to allegations that some of Tesla's features don't work as advertised. Some of his highest-profile battles — such as the court victories over Musk's "funding secured" tweet and "pedo guy" tweets, his losses against an anti-hate group and the SEC over a "Twitter sitter" and an anti-hate group, and his settlement with a Black Tesla employee who was the victim of racist discrimination — have been resolved, and aren't included on this list.

With his vast wealth, Musk could stand to gain from supporting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Over the past several years, Musk's politics have drifted rightward, and there were reports he was being considered for an advisory role in a second Trump administration if the former president wins the election. As the leader of the executive branch, Trump — who in his first term used the levers of the federal government for his own benefit — could seek to force agencies to drop investigations and ongoing cases against Musk and his companies.

Spiro and representatives for Elon Musk did not immediately respond to BI's requests for comment.

Lawsuits brought by Musk

Musk v. OpenAI

The issue: Musk sued OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, and co-founder Greg Brockman, alleging they perverted a promise to keep the artificial intelligence company as a nonprofit organization for the good of humankind.

What's going on: Musk was one of the earliest donors to OpenAI. He claimed Altman and Brockman assured him that its code would not be used for the profit of private companies. Since making ChatGPT public last year, OpenAI has entered into an agreement with Microsoft valued at billions of dollars, which Musk says jeopardizes its nonprofit mission.

OpenAI has struck back, calling such a promise fictitious. Musk has also developed a competing chatbot, Grok, which he calls "non-woke" and is available to users on X.

What's next: Musk and OpenAI will exchange motions over whether a judge, in San Francisco county court, should dismiss the case before it goes to trial.

Musk v. Media Matters

The issue: Musk's company X Corp. filed a lawsuit in Texas against the liberal advocacy group Media Matters in November, alleging the group launched a "blatant smear campaign" against X.

What's going on: Last year, Media Matters published a report that indicated X was placing advertising content next to pro-Nazi posts on the social media site. The nonprofit's report appeared to launch another advertising exodus from Musk's social media site.

Musk claims in his lawsuit that the group manipulated its findings and cherry-picked information. In response, Media Matters president Angelo Carusone called it "a frivolous lawsuit meant to bully X's critics into silence."

The issue has broadened into investigations from right-wing state attorneys general in Texas and Missouri, who are examining whether Media Matters broke civil laws with its reporting on Musk's social media company.

Media Matters laid off several employees in May, blaming the "legal assault" that it says restricted its resources.

What's next: Media Matters filed a motion to dismiss Musk's lawsuit in March, but a judge has yet to rule.

Gina Carano v. Disney

The issues: Actress Gina Carano is suing Disney after it fired her from "The Mandalorian" after she made posts on X comparing the treatment of conservatives in America to Jews in Nazi Germany. One post also engaged in Holocaust denial, claiming that "thousands" of Jews were "rounded up," rather than millions. X is funding the lawsuit, and Musk has championed it on the platform.

What's going on: Musk has promised to support lawsuits supporting people who were fired because of their X posts, and Carano's is a test case for that project, which Musk says is meant to protect free speech.

The lawsuit, crafted by boutique conservative law firm Schaerr Jaffe, focuses on California labor laws that protect political activism outside the workplace.

Disney has filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing the company has a First Amendment right not to associate with Carano's views, which also include criticism of vaccine mandates and questioning the results of the 2020 election.

What's next: The judge overseeing the case has yet to rule on the motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

Musk v. NLRB

The issues: Musk's Tesla is fighting a decision by the National Labor Relations Board that the electric-car company CEO violated labor laws back in 2018 when he tweeted that Tesla employees could lose their stock options if they unionized.

What's going on: A three-judge panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals last year upheld the NLRB's finding that Musk's tweet unlawfully threatened Tesla employees' benefits. Musk's May 21, 2018 tweet at the center of the matter read: "Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare."

Attorneys for Tesla — which argued that Musk's tweet could not be interpreted as a threat — asked the federal appeals court to reconsider the ruling. That request was granted.

What's next: The full 5th Circuit heard oral arguments in the case earlier this year, and the 17-judge panel has yet to issue a ruling.

Government lawsuits and investigations

SEC investigation into Musk's Twitter takeover

The issues: The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Elon Musk's Twitter purchase.

What's going on: The SEC and Musk have a long history together. In October, the agency announced it had opened an investigation into his $44 billion purchase of the social media company. The SEC hasn't said specifically what it's looking into — only that the probe concerns his purchase of Twitter stock and his 2022 statements and SEC filings relating to his purchase.

What's next: In May, Musk agreed to testify in the investigation, which remains ongoing.

Tesla Autopilot investigation

The issues: Justice Department prosecutors — as well as regulators from other federal agencies — are looking into Tesla's claims of self-driving.

What's going on: Federal prosecutors are examining whether Tesla committed wire fraud or securities fraud with exaggerated claims of self-driving using the cars' "Autopilot" feature. The Securities and Exchange Commission is also looking into whether investors were misled by the claims, according to Reuters. And in a separate probe, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into reports of Tesla crashes involving the Autopilot feature.

What's next: Tesla has already issued recalls — which, in its case, just means a software update — to add more safeguards to its Autopilot feature. Tesla recalls are essentially just software updates, and the company already issued a recall on 2 million of its vehicles to add more safeguards to its Autopilot feature. The NHTSA is still looking into whether those updates were sufficient.

The company also recently settled a civil lawsuit over a crash that killed an Apple engineer while one of its cars was in Autopilot mode — one of several dozen Tesla deaths involving the feature.

Tesla steering loss investigation

The issues: The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating thousands of complaints that drivers of Tesla's Model Y and Model 3 vehicles suddenly lost steering control.

What's going on: The investigation began in 2023. Earlier this year, the agency advanced its investigation and sought more records from Tesla.

What's next: The probe's recent upgrade to the "engineering analysis" stage suggests the NHTSA may soon issue a Tesla recall.

NLRB v. SpaceX

The issues: In a complaint earlier this year, the NLRB accused Musk's SpaceX of illegally firing eight employees for criticizing Musk in an open letter.

What's going on: The former employees alleged that they were terminated in 2022 over their involvement in the open letter to SpaceX executives that called Musk's public behavior "a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us." The NLRB filed its complaint in connection with the matter earlier this year.

What's next: In response to the complaint, SpaceX sued the NLRB in federal court, alleging that the government agency's structure is unconstitutional. An appeals court handed Musk a legal win in May when it temporarily blocked the NLRB's case against the rocket company.

SpaceX Lawsuit for not hiring refugees

The issues: The Justice Department's civil rights division filed a lawsuit alleging SpaceX illegally discriminated against asylees and refugees by refusing to hire them.

What's going on: The lawsuit, filed in August, pointed to Elon Musk's own social media posts where he claimed that US law requires "at least a green card" to be hired at SpaceX for national security reasons. That simply isn't true, the Justice Department alleged.

Instead of suing in a federal district court under a Senate-confirmed judge, the Justice Department brought the lawsuit through an administrative court, where the judges are appointed by the US Attorney General. SpaceX sued in a federal district court in Texas over this arrangement, and a judge agreed with the company, ruling in November that there were constitutional problems with the arrangement.

What's next: The case has been gummed up in the federal district court in Texas, as the Justice Department and SpaceX exchange volleys over the jurisdiction for different parts of the lawsuit. The US Supreme Court has also shown a willingness to reconsider the constitutionality of administrative law judges in different agencies, and pending decisions from the high court could continue to alter the trajectory of the SpaceX case.

Tesla racism lawsuit

The issues: The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Tesla in September, alleging Black employees at a California manufacturing facility have been subjected to racist harassment.

What's going on: The federal agency's lawsuit joined dozens of other cases from Tesla workers who've said they experienced racist abuse. One employee, Owen Diaz, won a major victory when Tesla was ordered to pay $3.2 million in a racial discrimination case.

What's next: A federal judge denied a motion to dismiss the EEOC lawsuit in March, putting it on the path for a trial.

Personal lawsuits against Musk

Tornetta v. Musk

The issues: Tesla shareholder Richard Tornetta sued Musk and Tesla in a class action lawsuit regarding Musk's compensation package, which was worth $55.8 billion at the time.

What's going on: In 2018, Tesla set up a pay plan for Musk that involved a 10-year grant of 12 tranches of stock options that would vest when Tesla hit certain targets tied to the automaker's market value and revenue. Musk was able to hit all 12 targets in 2023. With each milestone, Musk received stock equal to 1% of outstanding shares at the time of the grant.

Tornetta's lawsuit alleged that the pay package was "beyond the bounds of reasonable judgment" and claims Musk had influenced the board's approval of the plan, including through his close personal relationships with board members such as his brother Kimbal Musk.

Tesla has argued that compensation was needed to maintain Musk's attention and shareholders have benefited from the impact Musk's leadership has had on Tesla's stock, which has climbed dramatically since 2018.

The Delaware Court of Chancery struck down Musk's pay package in January. Musk is trying to regain the pay package by another route, with a Tesla shareholder vote this week.

What's next: Must is expected to use the vote to ask the Delaware Chancery Court to reconsider its decision, hoping that shareholder approval will help convince the judge that the pay package is sensible. He's also likely to continue appealing the case if he loses.

Boucher v. Musk

The issues: Claire Boucher, AKA Grimes, and Musk have each filed dueling lawsuits in a custody dispute in California and Texas, respectively.

What's going on: The Musk-Grimes custody battle began in September when the CEO sued his ex-partner to "establish the parent-child relationship" with their three kids: X Æ A-XII, Exa Dark Sideræl, and Techno Mechanicus. In his petition, the billionaire said he filed the lawsuit after he realized Grimes "was not returning to Texas with their younger children." Three-year-old X has remained with Musk.

A few weeks later, Grimes sued Musk in San Francisco court, seeking primary physical custody and joint legal custody of the pair's three children.

What's next: The case was sealed in January and remained ongoing as of April, when Business Insider was last able to view the docket. Neither side has publicly indicated that the case has been resolved.

Benjamin Brody v. Musk

The issues: California man Benjamin Brody filed a defamation lawsuit against Musk in Texas last year, alleging that the billionaire amplified a conspiracy theory that falsely affiliated the college graduate with a neo-Nazi extremist group.

What's going on: Brody's lawsuit accuses Musk of boosting the claims on his X social media site and says Brody endured "severe personal harassment and permanent damage to his reputation." Musk's "personal endorsement of the false accusation against" Brody reverberated across the internet, transforming the accusation from anonymous rumor to gospel truth for many individuals, and causing others to use Musk's endorsement to justify their desire to harass Ben Brody and his family," the lawsuit says. In a deposition, Musk said he didn't know who Brody was.

What's next: Brody's lawsuit is seeking $1 million in damages and a trial by jury. Musk's attorneys have filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

Twitter severance lawsuits

The issues: Hundreds of former Twitter employees are suing X for unpaid severance.

What's going on: When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he quickly fired thousands of employees — he claimed over 80% — and didn't pay any severance to many of them. In court filings, X claims the merger agreement that allowed Musk to control Twitter didn't require any payments and that the former employees have no standing to sue because they weren't part of the merger.

There are several different lawsuits in different districts. Litigation has stalled in most of them as a California court weighs whether to turn one of them — asking for $500 million in damages — into a class-action lawsuit. Several lawsuits also allege Musk discriminated against them because of their race, gender, or disability in choosing to fire them.

What's next: Deciding a class action certification for the California case could take years. In the meanwhile, Twitter has weighed settling some of the claims.

Agrawal v. Musk

The issues: Four former Twitter executives (ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, ex-Twitter CFO Ned Segal, ex-head of legal, policy, and trust at Twitter Vijaya Gadde, and ex-senior legal counsel at Twitter Sean Edgett) sued Musk and X in March, alleging the company failed to pay out millions of dollars in severance.

What's going on: After Musk took over Twitter in 2023, he terminated the four executives within minutes.

The executives were set to receive golden parachutes, but claim Musk and X have not paid them out. The group says X collectively owes them $128 million in severance.

Musk has said he fired the executives for cause and does not owe them anything. In August, Agrawal, Segal, and Gadde separately sued Twitter for over $1 million, alleging the social media company hadn't paid the legal fees they accrued during their time at Twitter.

What's next: The lawsuits are all in various stages, with judges having yet to rule on motions to dismiss them.

• Hunter Biden's conviction disrupts Trump's claims of a rigged justice system favoring the Bidens.
• Now, the Trump campaign is changing its attack strategy.
• Trump's campaign had hoped an acquittal would support his narrative of political persecution.

Hunter Biden can now be called a convicted felon — just like Donald Trump.

But that throws a wrench into the Trump campaign's messaging that the justice system is rigged against him in favor of the Biden family.

Insiders within the Trump campaign had talked about how a Hunter Biden acquittal would help Trump raise millions of dollars because it would help prove his narrative that he's a victim of political persecution, The New York Times reported, citing a person with knowledge of the campaign.

But the guilty verdict against Hunter Biden has raised an uncomfortable question: if the justice system is rigged by Joe Biden against Trump, why would the system also convict the president's son?

The decision has thrown "a bit of sand in the gears" of those echoing Trump's lines of attack, a GOP strategist told Politico.

Now, his campaign is shifting its strategy to avoid attacking Hunter Biden's conviction on Tuesday of three felony counts related to obtaining a gun while addicted to drugs.

Instead, the campaign is painting the conviction as a distraction from what it says are greater crimes.

"This trial has been nothing more than a distraction from the real crimes of the Biden Crime Family, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars from China, Russia and Ukraine," Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign's national press secretary, said in a statement.

"Crooked Joe Biden's reign over the Biden Family Criminal Empire is all coming to an end on November 5, and never again will a Biden sell government access for personal profit," Leavitt added.

Biden has not been charged in either Hunter Biden's gun case or a separate tax case set to go to trial this fall.

Trump himself said in a private meeting last year that Republicans shouldn't "go overboard" attacking the president's son, because it could backfire against him by making the president seem like a sympathetic father, The Times reported, citing a person who was present at the meeting.

The Times noted that references to Hunter have quietly been scaled back in Trump's campaign speeches.

Biden, meanwhile, vowed not to pardon his son and said he'd respect the jury's verdict.

• Denmark's food safety agency has nixed three varieties of instant ramen.
• Their capsaicin content could be harmful to kids, the agency said.
• Ramen brand Samyang said it's the first time its products have been recalled for being too spicy.

These Korean-made ramen packets are too hot to handle — literally, if you ask the Danish.

The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (DVFA), the nation's food safety agency, announced it was recalling three varieties of instant ramen, saying the noodles are so spicy that they could harm young children and some adults.

In its note about the recall, the DVFA claimed that kids were filming themselves eating super-spicy food for social media challenges.

Several children in Germany were hospitalized after attempting to eat spicy chips, it noted.

DVFA said a customer alerted them to the noodles, which it then assessed through its DTU National Food Institute to determine if they were harmful.

The DVFA said capsaicin content in the noodles could cause burning, nausea, vomiting, and high blood pressure.

The three recalls involve Korean maker Samyang.

The packets consumers should discard or return include: Samyang Buldak 3x Spicy & Hot Chicken, Samyang Buldak 2x Spicy & Hot Chicken, and Samyang Buldak Hot Chicken Stew.

Samyang did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, but insisted in a statement to the BBC that the food quality wasn't the issue.

"We understand that the Danish food authority recalled the products, not because of a problem in their quality but because they were too spicy," Samyang told BBC in a statement, adding that "this is the first time they have been recalled for the above reason."

The company added it's looking into local regulations, the BBC reported.

• The US has agreed to send a second Patriot system to Ukraine, according to reports.
• Ukraine has been given a handful of the missile systems from its allies, but says it needs more.
• Patriots help stop Russian attacks, but Ukraine's allies are reluctant to reduce their own arsenals.

A second US Patriot system is headed for Ukraine following appeals for further air defenses, according to reports.

The MIM-104 Patriot missile system has been hailed as a major success in Ukraine, shooting down Russian missiles and aircraft as Ukraine fights back against Russia's invasion.

But Ukraine says it does not have enough of them, or enough air defense systems in general.

Ukraine currently has at least three, and possibly five, Patriots, supplied by the Netherlands, Germany, and the US.

Their exact number and deployment has not been disclosed.

But US President Joe Biden approved the transfer of a second battery from the US last week, unnamed senior military and administration officials told The New York Times.

The system is to be relocated from Poland, where it has been protecting US troops in training who are due to return home, officials told the outlet.

Two unnamed officials confirmed the matter to the Associated Press.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in April that Ukraine needs 25 Patriot systems, with between six and eight batteries each, to protect its skies.

Patriots are expensive, and it takes a long time to produce new ones, meaning many of Ukraine's allies have been reluctant to part with ones from their own arsenals.

But Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said in April that his team had identified more than 100 Patriot air-defense systems that its allies could spare, and said he couldn't understand why its allies were not willing to give Ukraine at least one of their existing systems.

While expressing gratitude for US aid, Kuleba said: "Do you sincerely believe that the whole US Army does not have one spare battery of Patriots that is not on combat duty and that cannot be given to Ukraine? I don't."

Patriots have performed so well in Ukraine that it has dispelled doubts about the effectiveness of the weapons system, which lingered before Russia's full-scale invasion, experts previously told Business Insider.

Germany said in April that it would send Ukraine another Patriot battery, and Ukraine is also set to get more Patriot missiles from other countries.

Germany's defense minister said on Tuesday that 32 Patriot missiles had been delivered to Ukraine from its European allies, and that 68 more would be delivered soon.

He announced the delivery "after I saw how critical Ukraine's air defense is for its survival," he said.

News of further Patriot support comes as Russia continues its attacks across Ukraine.

Kuleba said in May that Ukraine urgently needed two Patriot batteries to help protect the Kharkiv region in the northeast of the country, the Times reported.

The additional defenses come after Ukraine started to run critically low on air defenses and other weaponry, after Republicans stalled further US aid to the country for six months, before finally agreeing to resume it in April.

• Lithuania was named the happiest place in the world for children and people under 30.
• I grew up in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, a walkable city with a vibrant culture and nightlife.
• I think Lithuania is a place where the young can truly thrive, and I miss living there. 

Although often overlooked in favor of its larger European neighbors, Lithuania has emerged as a top destination for young people seeking a higher quality of life.

The Baltic gem is truly Europe's biggest hidden treasure, and the secret might be out: The World Happiness Report 2024 just dubbed it the happiest place in the world for children and people under 30.

As someone who was born and raised in Lithuania's capital city, Vilnius, I can attest to the country's unique appeal and why it stands out as an ideal place for the younger generation.

For starters, Lithuania offers free university education to a large portion of its population — by comparison, a university education can leave graduates in six figures of debt in places like the US.

Plus, Lithuania has some of the cheapest rent in Europe.

Although I moved out of Vilnius 10 years ago to pursue career opportunities in London, I visit home often. My most recent visit to Lithuania lasted nearly a month and only reaffirmed my love for the country and its capital.

The walkable capital city is filled with beauty and culture

Vilnius is not only beautiful but also incredibly walkable and easy to navigate. It's so compact that you can easily get around on foot or by bike, which can be rented for just a few euros.

As you wander through the streets, you'll discover a diverse array of art, culture, and nature, with numerous historic monuments in the heart of the city.

One standout is Gediminas' Castle Tower, a historic fortress on top of the hill in the middle of the old town. From its vantage point, you can take in a breathtaking, panoramic skyline view of red roofs stretching as far as the eye can see. We're really proud of our red roofs in the old town — and even have a song about it!

Streets are lined with local shops selling unique souvenirs, adding to the city's charming and inviting atmosphere.

People here are proud of their culture, and I often see local grandmas selling handmade amber jewelry. Many locals believe amber has healing powers, and it's popular to wear it around here.

The culture is rich, too. During my last visit, I stumbled upon a street festival where local bands and musicians performed live music around the city.

It also has great food and nightlife

Vilnius's culinary scene is vibrant, with a wide variety of dining options, from traditional Lithuanian dishes to international cuisine.

Local favorites like cepelinai (potato dumplings) and šaltibarščiai (cold beetroot soup) are not to be missed.

Lithuania's nightlife scene is also diverse, catering to a wide range of tastes and preferences. Whether you're into techno clubs or laid-back jazz bars, there's always something happening in the city after dark.

The bars, clubs, and social venues in Vilnius are always buzzing with energy.

In the summer, numerous outdoor spaces are created to host all sorts of events, further adding to the area's lively atmosphere. I miss these spaces a lot and have yet to find something like this in London, even though it's a major city.

Lithuania offers a unique and enriching experience that's hard to find elsewhere

As someone who has seen both the fast-paced life of London and the charming tranquility of Vilnius, I can confidently say that Lithuania is a place where the young can truly thrive.

I love its wonderful sense of community and frequently find myself longing for the charm and tranquility of my homeland — especially when flights from London to Vilnius sometimes get as cheap as a few pounds.

• A woman was said to have accused Elon Musk of asking her to have his babies while she reported to him.
• Sources told The Wall Street Journal that the SpaceX employee declined and was denied a raise.
• Musk shares twins with a Neuralink exec, and a SpaceX flight attendant once accused him of sexual misconduct.

Elon Musk was said to have asked a SpaceX employee who reported to him to have his babies.

The Wall Street Journal cited unnamed sources familiar with the matter as saying that the employee left the company in 2013 and then accused Musk of having asked her more than once to have his babies.

The Journal said that the woman declined the offer and that her working relationship with Musk ultimately deteriorated, with sources saying Musk also denied her a raise.

The SpaceX employee received an exit package valued above $1 million when she left the company, the Journal said, citing a person familiar with the agreement.

Elon Musk and Tesla did not immediately respond to requests for comment made outside normal working hours.

Musk is a well-known advocate of the pronatalist movement. Pronatalists fear that falling birth rates will lead to the collapse of global civilization. The billionaire has 10 known children and has previously said he is doing his best to help the underpopulation crisis.

The Tesla CEO has also had children with another one of his employees, the executive Shivon Zilis of Neuralink.

Business Insider previously reported that Musk had twins with Zilis in 2021, and she told the Musk biographer Walter Isaacson that the SpaceX founder had encouraged her to have children and offered to be a sperm donor.

The Journal story also reported claims that Musk had a brief relationship with a former SpaceX summer intern and that he had a sexual relationship with another employee in 2014.

It is not the first time SpaceX and Musk have come under scrutiny over the treatment of female employees.

Seven former employees accused SpaceX executives of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for raising concerns, according to civil-rights complaints reported by Bloomberg earlier this year, and in 2021, another former SpaceX engineer published an essay accusing the company of fostering an environment "rife with sexism."

BI also previously reported that SpaceX paid a flight attendant $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim against Musk in 2018.

The cabin crew member, who worked on one of the company's private jets, accused Musk of exposing himself to her and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage, according to interviews and documents obtained by BI.

Musk denied the claims, calling them "utterly untrue," and later joked about them on Twitter in a response to the YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley.

• Three HENRYs who made over $100,000 last year explain why they feel far from "rich."
• Even for six-figure earners, homeownership can feel too expensive.
• Americans say they'd need to make $483,000 a year to feel rich, per a 2023 Bankrate survey. 

Madelyn Driver, a 30-year-old who made over $100,000 last year working in the tech industry, said she used to dream about a six-figure income.

"I remember thinking that earning $100,000 felt like an unimaginable milestone," she told BI via email. "Now, my husband and I both exceed that number. Yet, we hardly feel rich."

The couple's recent house-hunting experience is a big reason.

While currently based in Pennsylvania, Driver and her husband both work remotely, which allows them to broaden their home search across the US. However, Driver said they've still faced significant affordability challenges.

"We're finding that even in a vast country like the US, housing options that align with our desires for green spaces, a somewhat metropolitan vibe, and cultural vibrancy are surprisingly out of budget," she said. In addition to high home prices, elevated mortgage rates have propelled the cost of homeownership to record-high unaffordability levels.

Driver is among a group of Americans with six-figure incomes who are struggling to meet some of their financial goals. These people are sometimes called HENRYs — or high earners, not rich yet. In recent years, as the rising costs of housing, food, and childcare have weighed on people's finances, a $100,000-a-year salary hasn't gone as far as it used to. Americans say they'd need to earn $233,000 a year to feel financially secure and $483,000 to feel rich, according to a Bankrate survey conducted in June 2023.

For Driver, getting rich isn't only about boosting one's income — it's about reducing one's expenses.

"If expenses — especially housing costs — were more reasonable, I'd feel much more financially secure and rich," she said.

To be sure, reaching a six-figure income could still be life-changing for many lower-income Americans. And across pay levels, wages have generally been growing faster than inflation in recent months, which could help make some HENRYs feel a bit richer.

Business Insider asked Driver and two other HENRYs about their financial challenges — and what changes to their incomes and expenses would be necessary for them to feel rich. BI has verified their earnings.

You might have to leave your state to feel rich

Christopher Stroup, a 33-year-old financial advisor based in Santa Monica, California, made roughly $130,000 last year.

However, he said he's still paying off his student debt and working toward his savings goals for a down payment on a home, starting a family, and retirement. That's why he feels far from rich.

"I wouldn't consider myself rich yet because I haven't achieved any of those goals," he told BI via email. "Versus the traditional arc of life, I feel behind financially."

Stroup estimated he'd need an annual income of between $250,000 and $300,000 to feel like his finances were "rather stable." This would allow him to make significant progress toward his savings goals and have enough money left over to "enjoy life," he said.

To feel "rich," he guessed that he'd need an annual income of about $400,000 to $500,000 a year — more than triple his 2023 earnings. At this income level, he estimated that he'd be able to meet his savings goals, enjoy life, and have some extra money left over.

If he can't boost his income to his desired level, Stroup said there's another thing that might help him feel rich: moving to an area with lower housing costs. Business Insider has interviewed several Americans who have moved to different states in recent years in search of lower rents or mortgage payments.

"I rent a 450-square-foot alcove studio in Santa Monica for $1,650 a month," Stroup said. "My sister, who lives in Cincinnati, rents a 1,600-square-foot home with three bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, and a full backyard for $1,800."

A high income can come with "lifestyle inflation"

It's not just high-earning Americans who say they feel far from rich.

Abid Salahi, a 25-year-old software engineer based in Vancouver, Canada, made over $100,000 last year. However, his journey to a six-figure income came with some downsides, he told BI via email.

For example, while going to college helped him become a software engineer, he took out a significant level of student debt. He said he has about $30,000 remaining, and that his debt payments are an extra monthly expense he has to account for during the yearslong repayment process.

Salahi said a high income can also come with another challenge: "lifestyle inflation." Commonly referred to as "lifestyle creep," this refers to the practice of increasing one's spending as one's income rises — and therefore not increasing one's level of savings much.

"Without proper management, increased spending can absorb the extra income, leaving you with the same amount of savings as if you were earning a lower salary," Salahi said.

Due to the high costs of housing and other living expenses in his area, Salahi estimated that he'd need to earn about $200,000 to $300,000 to start feeling rich.

"I think feeling truly rich would mean you don't have to look at the prices when you go to a restaurant, grocery store, or travel destination," he said. "You also have a substantial amount of savings and investments that can cover you in cases of emergency."

Are you making over $100,000 a year? Are you willing to share your story and the impact this income has had on your life? If so, contact this reporter at jzinkula@businessinsider.com.

• New claims about Elon Musk and his interactions with female SpaceX employees just dropped.
• The Wall Street Journal published an extensive piece about Musk and his conduct.
• This comes at an awkward time for Musk as Tesla investors vote on his $55 billion pay package.

Elon Musk has been doing his best to promote his sprawling business empire as Tesla shareholders prepare to vote Thursday on a $55 billion pay package.

But Musk just got hit with some awkward press — this time, with a new report examining Musk's interactions with several female employees at his rocket company, SpaceX.

The Wall Street Journal said its report was based on interviews with former SpaceX employees and people familiar with the matter as well as documents.

It cited one woman as having told friends that she kissed Musk soon after meeting him in the early 2010s when she was a SpaceX intern and eventually had sex with him. She became a full-time SpaceX employee years after her internship, the report said.

"Nothing that Elon Musk did towards me during either of my periods of employment at SpaceX was predatory or wrongful in any way," the woman told the newspaper via lawyers acting for her and Musk.

Musk did not respond to requests for comment from the Journal.

Representatives for Musk and SpaceX did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider, sent outside normal working hours.

SpaceX's chief operating officer, Gwynne Shotwell, said in a statement to the Journal: "The untruths, mischaracterizations, and revisionist history in your email paint a completely misleading narrative."

Musk, a flight attendant, and a horse

The Journal also mentioned a BI story from May 2022 about an incident in which Musk was accused of exposing himself to a flight attendant on SpaceX's corporate jet.

BI learned that the aerospace firm paid the flight attendant $250,000 in 2018 to settle a sexual-misconduct claim against its billionaire founder.

When BI approached Musk for comment in 2022, he initially asked for more time to respond, saying that there was "a lot more to this story." But Musk did not reply even after BI extended the deadline and reiterated its request.

'Muskonomy'

In addition to Musk's huge compensation package, Tesla shareholders on Thursday are set to vote on a proposal to incorporate the EV giant in Texas.

Musk has tried to woo shareholders by campaigning on X and offered personal guided tours of a factory in Texas.

The mercurial billionaire has also sought to turn what is often seen as a disadvantage — running half a dozen companies concurrently — into an advantage.

Musk spent the weekend touting the benefits of having Tesla as a part of his constellation of businesses, which some have referred to as the "Muskonomy." He also promised multiple windfalls to Tesla shareholders if they stick with him.

"I've mentioned something like this before, but, if any of my companies goes public, we will prioritize other longtime shareholders of my other companies, including Tesla," Musk said on Saturday. "Loyalty deserves loyalty."

Shareholders, however, seem to be split on giving Musk the support he's seeking.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund, a top-10 Tesla shareholder, said last week in comments first reported by The Financial Times that it would not vote for the pay package.

The oil fund did not support the package when it was first conceived in 2018.

Another large Tesla shareholder, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, shared similar sentiments last month after its CEO, Marcie Frost, told CNBC that the pension fund would vote against Musk's pay.

On the other hand, Baillie Gifford, an institutional investor that's backed Tesla for more than a decade, is set to vote in favor of Musk's compensation plan, Bloomberg reported.

An insider told the outlet that the Scotland-based asset manager, which was once Tesla's biggest shareholder after Musk, thought the pay package could be justified given the ambitious targets tied to it.