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☆ They Used to Award Olympic Medals for Art?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( John Branch | More About John Branch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

During all of the years that the Olympics gave out medals in arts, not just athletics — and if you didn’t know about that, the rest of this article may hold more surprises — the pinnacle came in Paris, 100 years ago this summer. The gold medal sculpture at the 1924 Paris Olympics was by a Greek artist named Costas Dimitriadis. His nude, arching, 7-foot “Discobole” (Discus Thrower) was for weeks displayed prominently in the Grand Palais. Two years later, before “a crowd of light-frocked women and straw-hatted men,” as The New York Times reported, the prized sculpture, cast in bronze, was planted just outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York’s Central Park.

Persons: Costas Dimitriadis, ” Organizations: Palais, New York Times, Metropolitan Museum of Art Locations: Paris, Greek, New

☆ Video: Couple discovers they accidentally shipped their cat to an Amazon facility
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( John Branch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Video: This historic Barbara Walters interview annoyed Walter Cronkite. Hear why
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( John Branch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Video: ‘Like organs of the same body’: Conservative Iranian students support pro-Palestinian US protesters
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( John Branch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Video: Legislation that could ban TikTok is now law. Here’s what happens next
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( John Branch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Watch Colin Jost roast Joe Biden and Trump at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( John Branch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Video: Watch Colin Jost tell Biden why his grandfather voted for Biden in 2020
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( John Branch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ 10 Years, 100 Stories: The Work That Defines the Upshot
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( The Upshot Staff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +20 min

Ten years ago this week, The New York Times introduced the Upshot, a section devoted to explaining “politics, policy and everyday life.” That’s a wide scope, by design. As a result, more than 5,000 articles later, the Upshot has been many things to many readers. To mark our 10th birthday, we’ve collected 100 stories that embody the Upshot. WordleBot Eden Weingart/The New York Times When Wordle first became popular, several people on the internet claimed, plausibly, that they had come up with the “best” opening word. Force of Ship Impact Was on the Scale of a Rocket Launch Erin Schaff/The New York Times We think of the Upshot as a place where back-of-the-envelope calculations can be both helpful and welcome.

Persons: ”, Nate Cohn’s, we’ve, Kevin Quealy, John Branch, John, Patrick Thomas, tut, Trump, pollsters, Obamacare, Leif Parsons, We’re, Jason Henry, Tony Luong, Jordan, ‘, Ruth Fremson, Laurel, ’ Rodrigo Corral, Alex Welsh, Paul Romer, Tim Enthoven, Barack Obama, epidemiologists, It’s, you’re, WordleBot Eden, Wordle, Lila Barth, McCabe, Tom Brady, ChatGPT, —, Erin Schaff Organizations: New York Times, Facebook, Yankees, Red, State Newspaper, ESPN, The Athletic, The Times, You’re, Voters, Trump, Mr, Times, Siena College, Walmart, The New York Times, Jordan Siemens, Health, New, Nike, Democratic, Twitter, America, Iowa, Iowa Democratic, Cancer, Hit, Biden, Insurance, Roe America, Disorders, Republican, Republican Party of, U.S, Budget, NASA, National, Traffic, Administration, Yorkers, Force Locations: It’s, Red Sox, State, America, Dakota, Ireland, Chipotle, Japan, U.S, United States, Siena, New Pennsylvania, District, Iowa, Covid, York City, New York, Pennsylvania, Roe, Tonga, Arizona, York, Holland

☆ Video: Trump isn’t indicted in Arizona fake electors case. Ex-Trump White House lawyer has theory why
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( John Branch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Video: Courtroom sketch artist describes Trump’s demeanor in court
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( John Branch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Video: Why Scaramucci says there’s ‘zero percent chance’ Trump will testify
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( John Branch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Hope for Suicide Prevention
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Ellen Barry | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For decades, friends and family members of people who had jumped pleaded for a barrier. And for decades, my colleague John Branch recently reported, officials found reasons — the cost, the aesthetics — not to build one. But something is changing in the United States, where the suicide rate has risen by about 35 percent over two decades, with deaths approaching 50,000 annually. The U.S. is a glaring exception among wealthy countries; globally, the suicide rate has been dropping steeply and steadily. Barriers are in the works on the William Howard Taft Bridge in Washington, D.C., the Penobscot Narrows Bridge in Maine and several Rhode Island bridges.

Persons: John Branch, William Howard Taft Organizations: Washington , D.C, Universities Locations: United States, U.S, Washington ,, Penobscot, Maine, Rhode, Texas, Florida

☆ A Game, a Parade, a Shooting: The Story of America in Three Acts
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( John Branch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Three days later, the city held a massive parade and celebration where gunfire broke out, scattering panicked fans in football jerseys, killing a woman and hurting 22 others, about half of them kids. The shooting was not directly related to football, in the way that a shooting at a mall is not related to shopping. But every such shooting feels like a crime against American culture. No parcel of American public life feels completely safe. No shooting feels like a surprise, except to the people who live through it.

Organizations: Kansas City, Chiefs, Super

☆ An Olympic Champion Goes in Search of a New Identity
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( John Branch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

There is a shelf at Carissa Moore’s home in Honolulu where she keeps her journals. This year, knowing that she was going to retire from competition, she wrote a new goal: Face your fears. She is a five-time world champion and current defender of an Olympic gold medal. Now she wants to start a family with her husband, Luke Untermann. She wants to be challenged in a different way, even though the easiest thing might be to stick around.

Persons: Moore, Luke Untermann Locations: Honolulu

☆ Three American Climbers Solve the ‘Last Great Problem in the Himalayas’
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( John Branch | More About John Branch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Three American climbers lay in the dark, sharing a custom-made sleeping bag on a portable ledge dangling from a massive cliff high in the Himalayas. They were anchored to the north face of Mount Jannu, one of the world’s biggest, sheerest rock walls. “I know we still have a lot to do,” Alan Rousseau said to his two fellow climbers. “But I feel like we just did something cool.”The next day, Rousseau, Matt Cornell and Jackson Marvell — little known outside of climbing circles, for the moment — stood at Jannu’s summit. Before them were the white tips of other major peaks, including Everest and Kangchenjunga.

Persons: Jannu, ” Alan Rousseau, Rousseau, Matt Cornell, Jackson Marvell —, — Locations: Jannu’s, Everest

It was May 27, 1937, the opening day for a stunning new suspension bridge across a gap in the California coastline known as the Golden Gate. It was one of her favorite days of her childhood, a story she told until the end of her life. About 78 years later, in 2015, Madden’s 15-year-old grandson, Jesse Madden-Fong, was dropped off at his high school in San Francisco. An hour later, he was on the Golden Gate Bridge, walking alone. The family was told that Jesse had shrugged off his backpack and went over the rail.

Persons: Doris Madden, Jesse Madden, Fong, Jesse, shrugged Locations: California, San Francisco

But I also think that it’s important for me to walk the line between being a football coach while also being parent to a son diagnosed with C.T.E. Yeah, Meiko. Yeah, Meiko. He loved it.” “Yeah, Meiko. I hear you talking, and you’re walking, a little wobbly, but you’re walking.’ So there’s no physical injury.

Persons: “, ”, wasn’t, Mike, Meiko, ” “, I’m Organizations: “ Police, C.T.E, Football Locations: Maryland

“When the spring breaks the ice in the Mississippi River, I get up at 5:00 a.m. to row. The river is veiled with mist, and the water foams and whirls with driftwoods after a heavy rain. Woosh, the boat dashes like a long-legged insect, cutting the water in a straight line. Her grandmother used to sing to her: “Life is a river running to the sea, taking in every stream and every drop of rain along its way. But a neighborhood friend had an illicit copy of “The Little Mermaid.” Ping was smitten.

Persons: ”, “, Wang Ping, ” Ping Organizations: driftwoods, . Locations: Mississippi, Shanghai, East

☆ A Rubik’s Cube, Thick Socks and Giddy Anticipation: The Last Hours of the Titan
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( John Branch | Christina Goldbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The last time Christine Dawood saw her husband, Shahzada, and their son, Suleman, they were specks on the North Atlantic, bobbing on a floating platform about 400 miles from land. It was Father’s Day, June 18, and she watched from the support ship as they climbed into a 22-foot submersible craft called Titan. Divers closed them inside by tightening a ring of bolts as the craft rolled on the waves about 13,000 feet above the 111-year-old wreckage of the Titanic. Shahzada had a Nikon camera, eager to capture the view of the seafloor through Titan’s single porthole. “He was like a vibrating toddler,” said Christine, who stayed on the support ship at the surface with the couple’s daughter, Alina.

Persons: Christine Dawood, Shahzada, Suleman, ”, Christine, Alina Organizations: Divers, Nikon

☆ LIV Golf’s al-Rumayyan and the PGA Tour’s Monahan Make Strange Bedfellows
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( John Branch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After more than a year of high-stakes jockeying and long-distance accusations, Jay Monahan and Yasir al-Rumayyan finally met in May, an arranged blind date in some Venice cafe or hotel. The 53-year-olds in charge could not be more different: Monahan, the American commissioner of the PGA Tour since 2017, and al-Rumayyan, the trusted confidant of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and overseer of his country’s massive Public Investment Fund. It is that fund, claiming to be worth somewhere close to $700 billion, that bought its way into golf last Tuesday. It ended a sniping, court-complicated fight between the PGA’s American and European tours and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour. It instantly solved the PGA Tour’s financial struggles.

Persons: Jay Monahan, Yasir al, Rumayyan, bedfellows, Monahan, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, LIV Organizations: PGA, Saudi Arabia’s Crown, Public Investment Fund Locations: Venice, Saudi

☆ Roboți în ipostaze de dansatori sau personaje din poveste. Au fost desemnați învingătorii cluburilor de robotică din Moldova
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-08 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Roboți în ipostaze de dansatori sau personaje din poveste. Au fost desemnați învingătorii cluburilor de robotică din MoldovaCirca 100 de copii, bibliotecari și antrenori, care reprezintă cluburile de robotică din 12 biblioteci publice din Republica Moldova au participat în perioada 5-6 decembrie, la cea de-a IV-a ediție a competiției „Robo Liga Bibliotecarilor”. Potrivit unui comunicat al Ministerului Educației, Culturii și Cercetării, învingătorii celei de a IV-a ediție a competiției „Robo Liga Bibliotecarilor”, sunt:# premiul Mare – Clubul de robotică „Just Do It”, Biblioteca Raională „Mihai Eminescu” r-nul Rezina;# premiul „Cel mai bun club la proba „Robotul – personaj de poveste” – Clubul de robotică „Robo-Crushers”, Biblioteca Orășenească „Petre Ștefănucă” r-nul Ialoveni;# premiul „Cel mai bun club la proba „Roboții dansatori” – Clubul de robotică „John Branch”, Biblioteca Națională pentru Copii „Ion Creangă”;# premiul „Cel mai bun club la proba „Proiect inovativ” – Clubul de robotică „Robodropia”, Biblioteca pentru Copii r-nul Drochia;# premiul special „Cea mai fidelă redare a personajului de poveste” – Clubul de robotică „StarLego”, Biblioteca pentru Copii „Grigore Vieru” r-nul Cahul;# premiul special „Cel mai amuzant robot personaj de poveste” – Clubul de robotică „Funtastic”, Biblioteca Publică Izbiște, r-nul Criuleni;# premiul special „Cel mai expresiv robot dansator” – Clubul de robotică „Robo K1”, Biblioteca pentru Copii „Ion Creangă”, r-nul Orhei;# premiul special „Cea mai originală construcție a robotului personaj de poveste” – Clubul de robotică „Meteor”, Biblioteca Raională „Dimitrie Cantemir”, r-nul Ungheni;# premiul special „Cea mai originală construcție a robotului dansator” – Clubul de robotică „Skynet”, Biblioteca Raională „Ion Ungureanu”, r-nul Căușeni;# premiul special „Cel mai artistic robot” – Clubul de robotică „Fighter Robot”, Biblioteca Publică Râșcova, r-nul Criuleni;# premiul special „Cel mai fezabil proiect inovativ” – Clubul de robotică „Telerobox”, Biblioteca Raională „Vasile Alecsandri” Telenești;# premiul special „Cel mai bun spirit de echipă” – Clubul de robotică „Robo Warriors”, Filiala Transilvania, Biblioteca Municipală „B. P. Hasdeu”, mun. Cea de-a IV-a ediție a competiției „Robo Liga Bibliotecarilor” a fost organizată de Biblioteca Națională pentru Copii „Ion Creangă” și Secția Națională IBBY, cu susținerea Ministerului Educației, Culturii și Cercetării.

Persons: Mihai Eminescu, John, Ion Creangă, Grigore Vieru, Dimitrie Cantemir, Ion Ungureanu, Vasile Alecsandri, . P . Hasdeu, . Organizations: Ministerului Educației, Culturii, Cercetării, Biblioteca Națională, Filiala, Biblioteca Locations: Moldova, Republica Moldova, Rezina, Ialoveni, Drochia, Cahul, Criuleni, Orhei, Ungheni, Căușeni, Telenești, Filiala Transilvania, . Chișinău

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