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☆ Emily Henry Is Proud to Be Called a Romance Writer
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Currently, Elise Bryant’s “It’s Elementary,” Calahan Skogman’s “Blue Graffiti” and Yangsze Choo’s “The Fox Wife.”Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). Either way, I’m laughing, crying and by the end, calling someone I love to let them know what they mean to me. Describe your ideal way to procrastinate from writing. I don’t know if it’s ideal, but I know a lot about “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” if that answers your question. I absolutely loved Tia Williams’s “A Love Song for Ricki Wilde.”What books are you embarrassed not to have read yet?

Persons: Elise Bryant’s, I’ve, “, Mhairi McFarlane, bender, Emma Straub’s “, Sherry Thomas, Tia Williams’s “, Ricki Wilde, ” Locations: Salt Lake City

Scores of people turned out Tuesday to testify well into the night on bills being considered by Nebraska lawmakers that target diversity initiatives and higher education programs, mirroring proposals by Republicans across the country. The bills before the state Legislature’s Education Committee included one that would ban diversity, equity and inclusion — known as DEI — programs and offices at state colleges and universities. Similar bills have been introduced in Republican-led legislatures across the country as the 2024 election year heats up. Already this year, Republican lawmakers have proposed about 50 bills in 20 states that would restrict DEI initiatives or require their public disclosure. Among them were several young people of color who grew up in the state or Nebraska college students who told lawmakers of the discrimination they've faced.

Persons: Sen, Dave Murman, cosigners, ”, ” Jess Lammers, Mia Perales, Ricki Barber, ” Barber, ” Sen, Loren Lippincott, —, ” Lippincott, Chris Kabourek, “, ” It's Organizations: Nebraska, Republican, Education, “, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NAACP, Big Locations: Nebraska, Holdrege, Lincoln, Iowa, Florida, North Dakota, Texas

Political Cartoons View All 1211 Images“Until we get more Black women into clinical trials, we can’t change the science. Black women are 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women and tend to be diagnosed younger. As recruiting continues, enrolling Black women and other women of color will “absolutely” continue as a priority, Pisano said. At the U.S. study sites, 21% of study participants are Black women — that's higher than a typical cancer treatment study, in which 9% of participants are Black, McCaskill-Stevens said. Her sister recently completed treatment for triple negative breast cancer, an aggressive type that affects Black women at higher rates than white women.

Persons: —, Carole Stovall, ” Stovall, ”, Ricki Fairley, Worta McCaskill, Stevens, McCaskill, there’s, Etta Pisano, Pisano, Cherie Kuzmiak, Stovall, Lucile Adams, Campbell, “, ” Pisano Organizations: Washington , D.C, National Cancer Institute, NCI, University of North, UNC, D.C, Georgetown University, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: Washington ,, Canada, South Korea, Peru, Argentina, Italy, U.S, Thailand, University of North Carolina, North Carolina, Washington

☆ ‘I’ve always made fun of the rules.’ John Waters has only ever been himself
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Marie Lodi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“I could keep all the money,” Waters once told culture website Flavorwire of the screenings. During a press preview for the exhibition, Waters revealed that one item he wished they had procured was Divine’s “cheater” — drag terminology for a prosthetic vulva with fake pubic hair. Whether it’s subverting a four-figure tub of moisturizer or Hollywood, Waters has always been true to himself. “I’ve always made fun of the rules of the world that I live in. That’s how you can have fun, by breaking some of them.”One rule Waters isn’t breaking, however, is his daily writing schedule.

Persons: CNN —, John Waters, Jenny He, Dara Jaffe, Greg Gorman, Waters, Glenn Milstead, Mink, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller, Mary Vivian Pearce, Lawrence Irvine, Prince, Puke, William S, that’s, ”, Kathleen Turner, “, ” Jaffe, Charles White, ” Waters, Marjorie Taylor Greene, That’s, he’s, —, you've, ” Chris Pizzello, thusfar, Divine, Ricki Lake, Traci Turnblad, Traci, Amber Von Tussle’s, Van Smith, Isabelle Huppert — Waters, “ I’ve, There’s Organizations: CNN, Academy Museum Foundation, Hollywood, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, NYU, Warner Bros, Burroughs, Academy Museum, Wesleyan University, Charles White / Academy Museum Foundation, New York Times, Maybelline Locations: Los Angeles, American, Lutherville , Maryland, Baltimore, Sleaze, LA, Middletown , Connecticut, Cape Cod, Waters, Hollywood, Seattle

☆ These are the best cities in the world for a healthy work-life balance, an analysis has found. Almost all are in Europe.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Europe is leading the way for healthy work-life balance, an analysis by Forbes found. Europe is leading the way for healthy work-life balance, an analysis by Forbes has found. Forbes ranked cities in Europe as some of the best in the world for work-life balance, but not US cities made the list. Belfast, Northern IrelandWork-life balance score: 57Belfast, Northern Ireland. Oslo, NorwayWork-life balance score: 63.2Karl Johans Gate street scene in Oslo, Norway with royal palace in the background.

Persons: Forbes, —, Ricki, Lee Abrams, Giles, Cathedral, Edinburgh . Russell Cheyne, Sylvain Sonnet, Taylor Rains, Karl Johans, Wolfgang Kaehler, Fredrik Sandberg Organizations: Service, Forbes, Invest Northern, Auckland Skyline, Getty, Stockholm, TT, Agency, AFP Locations: Europe, Denmark, Finland, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Auckland, New Zealand, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland, Edinburgh, Scotland, Vienna, Austria, Reykjavik, Iceland, Gothenburg, Sweden, Auckland , New Zealand, . Eden, Oslo, Norway, Stockholm

☆ Apple alumni have founded buzzy startups in climate, fintech, and AI worth over $180 billion. These are the 22 most promising in Europe.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | Tasmin Lockwood | Ricki Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Insider mapped out Europe's hottest startups launched by ex-Apple staffers, according to Dealroom data. Startups that have hired ex-Apple staffers, such as chip startups Rivos and Nuvia, have been accused by the tech giant of poaching ideas and copyright infringement. From 2010 to 2015, ex-Apple staffers had registered 163 startups which cinched funding. As the tech giant widens its global footprint, with new manufacturing bases and stores in India, its roster of alumni-turned-founders is also fast expanding across continents. Here are the 22 European startups led by ex-Apple staffers that experienced the most growth in the 12 months to May 2023, according to data from Dealroom.

Persons: Evgeny Bik, Bik, Jafferjee Organizations: Apple Locations: India, Dealroom, Europe

Data published by My LendingTree breaks down the states with the highest rates of personal debt. Non-mortgage debt includes everything from personal loans to student loans, and credit. Georgia and Maryland top the list of states where people are burdened with the most personal debt. For a breakdown of debt by state, click on the below interactive map:Non-mortgage debt is any other type of debt that's not secured by real estate, such as personal loans, student loans, and credit. These are the 25 US states with the highest rates of personal debt.

Russian forces are slowly edging forward in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. A timelapse map shows how Russia has now moved forward to enclose the city on three sides. The changing map shows how Russian forces have moved forward, and now surround the city on three sides. It added that fighters with the Wagner mercenary group, which is leading Russia's fight in the city, took the Bakhmut City Administration building on April 2. US Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last month that the battle had turned into a "slaughter-fest" for Russian forces.

☆ Elon Musk's $1 million Twitter bounty
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Asia Martin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk's $1 million bounty. Twitter CEO Elon Musk has some kind of bounty out for whomever is behind the botnets that he says target certain users and suppresses the reach of their tweets. Million dollar bounty if convicted" in response to a Twitter user who claimed that botnets "silence" certain accounts. Musk and the user were referring to a thread where another user analyzed Twitter's recently open-sourced algorithm. Twitter users called attention to the difficulty in seeing direct messages that mention "gay", "queer", and "trans."

☆ The stock market and the economy are stuck on different pages - but the Fed's going to get the last word
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

It's one of my favorite books, and the idea is relevant today because "Catch-22" is a fitting characterization of what's facing stocks and economy right now. Good news isn't good news and bad news is good news. To be sure, inflation remains hot, as we saw in Friday's Personal Consumption Expenditure data — the Fed's preferred inflation gauge. Even as many top commentators are split on the outlook for the economy, markets appear stuck digesting a host of mixed signals, from strong economic data on the one hand, to fears of higher rates on the other. The billionaire Tesla chief has warned that the central bank could crush the value of the entire stock market.

An interactive map shows what happened each time the Proud Boys joined anti-LGBTQ+ protests in 2022. Most of the extremist group's activity targeted drag performances, the map shows. Insider worked with ACLED to create this map, which shows what happened at each of these protests. It's part of Insider's look at the Proud Boys' increasing war on LGBTQ+ community, and drag in particular. Sixty percent of the Proud Boys' anti-LGBTQ+ demonstrating last year happened outside drag events, mostly seen by organizers and attendees as celebrations of diversity for families and children.

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