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☆ Federal prosecutors are examining financial transactions at Block, owner of Cash App and Square
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Gretchen Morgenson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

Cash App, introduced in 2013, allows users to send and receive money instantaneously among themselves and to buy stocks and Bitcoin. As of December, Cash App had 56 million active transacting accounts and $248 billion in inflows during the previous four quarters, the company said. (Merchants are considered customers at Square, while users are considered customers at Cash App.) Cash App is not a bank, but it uses external banking partners to conduct various services. On March 29, Sutton Bank settled a consent order with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. that echoed the whistleblowers' allegations.

Persons: Jack Dorsey, Block, Venezuela —, Edward Siedle, Prosecutors, Cash, OFAC, Lawrence Summers, Sharon Rothstein, Summers, Rothstein, Lord Paul Deighton, Goldman Sachs, Deighton, Dorsey, Banks, Sutton, James Booker Organizations: Twitter, Southern, of, NBC, NBC News, Securities and Exchange Commission, Block, Foreign Assets Control, U.S . Treasury, Cash, OFAC, Goldman, Financial Market, Bank of Lithuania, Payments Lithuania UAB, PayPal, Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, Sutton Bank, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, FDIC Locations: of New York, Cuba, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Ohio, Sutton

☆ ‘Boardwalk Empire’ actor Michael Stuhlbarg hit with rock in Central Park, chased his alleged attacker
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Nic Anderson | Mark Morales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Actor Michael Stuhlbarg, known for the movie “Call Me by Your Name” and TV’s “Boardwalk Empire,” was hit in the back of the neck with a rock Sunday night while in New York, according to police. “The victim chased the 27-year-old male to the front of 9 East 91st Street where uniformed officers took the 27-year-old male into custody without further incident. A law enforcement official confirmed Stuhlbarg was the victim hit with a rock to CNN on Monday. CNN has reached out to representatives for Stuhlbarg. The suspect, Xavier Israel, who was arraigned Monday, is facing an assault charge according to court records.

Persons: Michael Stuhlbarg, ”, “, Stuhlbarg, Arnold Rothstein, Xavier Israel Organizations: CNN, Police, New York City Police Department, Monday, Stuhlbarg, Amazon, HBO, Warner Bros . Locations: New York, Central

☆ Companies are required to disclose their climate impact, SEC says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Allie Kelly | Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Under the disclosure, public companies will have to release their greenhouse gas emissions, environmental risk impacts, and risk management strategies. Climate disclosure will create a standardized way for companies to report environmental impactPreviously, companies only disclosed their climate impact information on a voluntary basis. Bryan McGannon, managing director of the nonprofit sustainable investment forum US SIF, said the climate disclosure is "a really good first step" toward increasing transparency. The SEC might also be facing litigation from corporate America, which hopes to challenge the new climate disclosure in court, McGannon said. Some companies might be concerned about the potentially high costs of gathering data and complying with the disclosure, SEC officials said.

Persons: Gary Gensler, Steven Rothstein, Rothstein, Bryan McGannon, McGannon, Gavin Newsom Organizations: Service, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Business, Economic, SEC, BI, Ceres Accelerator, Sustainable Capital, US, CNBC, Clean Energy, Jobs Locations: America, California, Michigan

☆ New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

When we account for how few poor students take the test, by looking at all students, a new and greater disparity emerges. It’s a reflection of an inequality in American education that starts long before high school. New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American EducationNew data shows, for the first time at this level of detail, how much students’ standardized test scores rise with their parents' incomes — and how disparities start years before students sit for tests. And in the last five decades, as the country has become more unequal by income, the gap in children’s academic achievement, as measured by test scores throughout schooling, has widened. Parenting in places with less income inequality and more public investment in families is more playful and relaxed, research shows.

Persons: ”, Sean Reardon, Reardon, “, —, John N, Friedman, Brown, Raj Chetty, David J . Deming, Deming, Ann Owens, Owens, Rich, Chetty, “ It’s, Nate G, Hilger, Drew Angerer, Robert Putnam, “ ‘, you’re, “ They’ve, they’ve, Jesse Rothstein Organizations: ACT, of American Education, Opportunity, Harvard, Stanford Graduate School of Education, Chetty, University of Southern, Research, The New York Times, University of California Locations: University of Southern California, Berkeley

☆ Request for Gag Order on Trump Raises Free Speech Dilemma
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Charlie Savage | More About Charlie Savage | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The request by prosecutors that a judge impose a gag order on former President Donald J. Trump in the federal election-subversion case presents a thorny conflict between the scope of his First Amendment rights and fears that he could — intentionally or not — spur his supporters to violence. There is little precedent for how the judge overseeing the case, Tanya S. Chutkan, should think about how to weigh strong constitutional protections for political speech against ensuring the functioning of the judicial process and the safety of the people participating in it. It is one more example of the challenges of seeking to hold to account a norm-shattering former president who is being prosecuted in two federal cases — and two state cases — as he makes another bid for the White House with a message that his opponents have weaponized the criminal justice system against him. “Everything about these cases is making new law because there are so many gaps in the law,” said Paul F. Rothstein, a law professor at Georgetown University and a criminal procedure specialist. “The system is held together by people doing the right thing according to tradition, and Trump doesn’t — he jumps into every gap.”

Persons: Donald J, Trump, —, Tanya S, ”, Paul F, Rothstein Organizations: White, Georgetown University, Trump

☆ Explore How Income Influences Attendance at 139 Top Colleges
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Aatish Bhatia | Claire Cain Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Explore How Income Influences Attendance at 139 Top CollegesAt many selective private colleges, being very rich is a door to entry — students with parents earning in the top 1 percent attend at much higher rates than other similarly qualified students, new data shows. The data is available for 139 colleges, including the top private colleges according to Barron’s and many of the top public and private colleges in U.S. News & World Report. The researchers also had access to internal admissions data for several of the most elite private colleges. In much of the next tier of elite private colleges, rich students have a similar advantage. Even though college attendance rises with parental income, when it comes to educating the majority of America’s four-year college students, public universities play a vital role — regardless of how much their parents make.

Persons: Raj Chetty, Deming, Friedman, Professor Chetty, John N . Friedman of Brown, David J . Deming, ”, Jesse Rothstein, Chetty, They’re Organizations: U.S . News, Harvard, Dartmouth, Chetty, Ivy League, University of California, Stony Brook University, Carnegie Mellon Locations: U.S, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Berkeley, Los Angeles, California, Swarthmore, Wellesley

☆ ‘Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts’ Review: A New Look at the New Deal Era
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Edward Rothstein | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ ‘Grand Views: The Immersive World of Panoramas’ Review: Painted Portals
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Edward Rothstein | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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The injunction was expected after Hinkle on June 6 partially blocked Florida from enforcing its recent ban on people under 18 receiving gender-affirming care such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy. U.S. district court judges elsewhere have blocked state laws banning gender-affirming care in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana and Oklahoma. The plaintiffs were two transgender adults, August Dekker and Brit Rothstein, and two transgender minors who filed under pseudonyms. The defendants were the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) and its secretary, Jason Weida, who did not respond to an after-hours request for comment. The AHCA "retained only consultants known in advance for their staunch opposition to gender-affirming care," the judge found.

Persons: Robert Hinkle, Hinkle, August Dekker, Brit Rothstein, Jason Weida, Ron DeSantis, Daniel Trotta, Gerry Doyle Organizations: District, Affordable, Republican, Rights, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Thomson Locations: U.S, Florida, Alabama , Arkansas , Indiana, Oklahoma

☆ Can’t Repeat the Past? An Immersive ‘Great Gatsby’ Thinks You Can.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The original script was brief, just 35 pages, and the set, created mostly from scavenged furniture, was improvised and minimal. Audiences entered up a fire escape, over the roof and through the back of the building into a replica of a drugstore speakeasy. Scheduled to run for just four weeks in 2015, the production re-emerged in two new spaces the next year. Wright and his producers, Immersive Everywhere, had long wanted to bring the show — which uses both group scenes and more intimate ones and select one-on-one encounters to bring “Gatsby” alive — to New York. To bring this “Gatsby” to the city in which it’s set felt, Wright said, “amazing, inspiring, humbling, a bit intimidating.” It was also challenging.

Persons: Wright, Gatsby, —, Louis Hartshorn, Arnold Rothstein, Meyer, Hartshorn, it’s Organizations: Audiences, Bond, Central Locations: London, Belgium, Ireland, Wales, South Korea, New York

☆ ‘If I Betray These Words’ Review: First, Do No Harm
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Aaron Rothstein | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

As the chaos of the hospital reigns, the physician tunes it out and focuses on helping the patient. Alas, this paradigm seems more at home in a bygone era than in our current medical system. Such is the crisis facing physicians, according to the psychiatrist Wendy Dean and the hand surgeon Simon Talbot, co-founders of Moral Injury of Healthcare, a nonprofit focusing on distress in the healthcare workforce. They claim physicians suffer from “moral injury” instead. This places the blame on the system, not the physicians.

☆ The MIT Museum’s Stirring Spirit of Inquiry
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Edward Rothstein | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ We asked Broadway actors which audience behaviors annoy them most — here are their 8 theater-etiquette rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Iris Dorbian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Insider asked Broadway and off-Broadway experts about their top etiquette tips for watching a show. Recently, Insider spoke to a number of Broadway and off-Broadway experts to ask about proper theater etiquette. Below are eight tips to follow the next time you're in a Broadway theater. Robin Rothstein, a playwright and former director of operations at touring-show producer Broadway Across America, told Insider: "The Broadway theaters are old and seats are small. Now that you know the eight rules of proper Broadway etiquette, buy a ticket and enjoy a show.

When measured on the grime factor, “The Rings of Power” has emerged as the dirtier show because of its settings. Elves slog through mud to dig tunnels for their captors. Hobbit-like nomads called Harfoots have soiled skin and shrubbery in their hair. Fighters get caked in ash from an erupting Mount Doom. Ben Rothstein/Amazon

☆ The Last Word: Angela Lansbury
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Mervyn Rothstein | Kassie Bracken | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

In between, Angela Lansbury’s career spanned seven decades and countless transformations on stage, screen and television. It was missing the night of the fire.” “Jessica Fletcher was probably about as close not to me, but to the sort of woman that I might have been had I not been an actress.” Angela Brigid Lansbury was born in London in 1925. I didn’t know anything. ‘This could be it.’ And I had a special dress made and, oh, I don’t know, It’s just — I think soon after that, I came to New York.” In the mid-’60s, Angela Lansbury returned to the theater. In 2009, she won her fifth Tony Award for playing Madame Arcati in “Blithe Spirit.” Ms. Lansbury was 83 years old.

☆ (video) De ziua maestrului. Zece filme ale lui Martin Scorsese care merită revăzute
▼ + stars: | 2019-11-18 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +6 min

Zece filme ale lui Martin Scorsese care merită revăzutePe 17 noiembrie, Martin Charles Scorsese a împlinit 77 de ani. Scorsese este un regizor de film, scriitor și producător de film american, fondator al World Cinema Foundation. Chiar și așa, echipa #diez îți recomandă 10 filme ale regizorului care trebuiesc văzute sau revăzute. #Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore3 nominalizări și un premiu Oscar 19752 nominalizări Globul de Aur 1975o nominalizare la Festivalul Internațional de Film de la Cannes6 nominalizări și 4 premii BAFTA 1975„Este filmul care îi aduce consacrarea lui Martin Scorsese. # Silenceo nominalizare Oscar 2017„Silence” este povestea a doi misionari portughezi care pornesc într-o călătorie periculoasă în Japonia secolului al XVII-lea în căutarea mentorului lor dispărut şi pentru a răspândi creştinismul.

Persons: Martin Scorsese, Martin Charles Scorsese, Scorsese, Oscar, Palme, Travis Bickle, Michael Henry, Alice Doesn’t, Alice, Claude Beylie, Cannes Rupert Pupkin, Jerry, Nikos Kazantzakis, Willem Dafoe, Iisus, Isus, Henry Hill, Jimmy Conway, Tommy, Vito ., Henry, Nicky Santoro, Ace, Ginger McKenna, Howard Hughes, Katharine Hebburn, Ava Gardner, Hughes, Juan Trippe, Noah Dietrich, Owen Brewster, Billy Costigan, Queenan, Costigan, Frank Costello Organizations: World Cinema Foundation, BAFTA, Pan American Locations: american, Cannes, Vietnam, New York, Veneția, Hollywood, Japonia, credinţă

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