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When you’re an NFL head coach, you’re in charge of a lot of things. Brian Callahan, the first-year head coach of the Tennessee Titans, is now overseeing aspects he didn’t have to think about before as an assistant. He was head coach of the Oakland Raiders from 2002 to 2003 and the University of Nebraska from 2004 to 2007. Tennessee Titans head coach Brian Callahan. “Sometimes I’ll call them ‘Coach Bill’; sometimes I’ll call Brian ‘Coach Cally.’ I mean, whatever comes out.”Running backs coach Randy Jordan remembers getting confused early on.

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The man arrested in connection to an apparent attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump appeared to follow law enforcement directions and was taken into custody without incident, footage of the confrontation released on Monday showed. Driver go straight back, keep walking," a law enforcement agent wearing what appeared to be a protective "SHERRIF" vest said. Two law enforcement agents then grabbed his hands and handcuffed the man, the video showed. A witness who spotted Routh and his car was crucial to helping law enforcement find the suspect quickly, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said. "If he's a lone gunman, President Trump is that much safer because we have him.

Persons: Donald Trump, Ryan Wesley Routh, Routh, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder, Snyder, Trump Organizations: Sheriff’s, Martin County Sheriff Locations: Martin, Trump's Florida, Martin County

The wide receiver was driving to the Dolphins-Jacksonville Jaguars game on Sunday when Miami-Dade police stopped him just outside Hard Rock Stadium, handcuffed him and put him face down on the pavement. "If I wasn't Tyreek Hill, Lord knows, I probably would have been, like, worst-case scenario, I would have been shot or would have been locked up" and "put behind bars, you know, for a simple speeding ticket," Hill told NBC News. Hill was cited for reckless driving and driving without a license, said his agent, Drew Rosenhaus. It was crazy how that same officer who took me down handcuffed Calais for just standing on the side." But she was running late Sunday and decided to travel to the stadium on her own, they said.

Persons: Hill, “, Drew Rosenhaus, —, Jonnu Smith, Calais Campbell —, Campbell, Walter Payton Man, he’s, ”, I’m, DeAndre Hopkins, Harold Carmichael, Charley Taylor, Carmichael, Taylor, Tua Tagovailoa, Jaylen Waddle, Keeta, Jesse Kirsch, David K, Li Organizations: MIAMI, Dolphins, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami, Dade, NBC, Miami - Dade Police Department, Pro Football Hall of Fame Locations: Miami, Hill, Calais, Miami's, wasn't, New York City

☆ The Best Conversations
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I considered the headway I could make in the audiobook of “Demon Copperhead,” but quickly abandoned that option for several episodes of the podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend.” I wanted company. Conan and his sidekicks shoot the breeze for a while, before he brings on a celebrity guest for an interview. The shows I love aren’t the ones where a host tees up questions and a dutiful guest answers. Conan O’Brien has been having conversations professionally for most of his career. I didn’t care how long I had to go; I just wanted to keep listening and laughing along.

Persons: O’Brien, ”, Conan, I’m, Conan O’Brien, Woody Harrelson, Ted Danson, you’ll Locations: Maine, New York, Worcester, Hartford

☆ The Olympics Have Arrived
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It has been only three years since the last summer Olympics: the 2020 Tokyo Games, you’ll recall, were held in the summer of 2021. Now the Olympics return with untold opportunities to geek out on sports you haven’t thought about for several years, or ever. Broadcast coverage of the Olympics makes this transformation easy. I’m a total sucker for a hyperemotional documentary featurette on that gymnast whose family sacrificed everything for her Olympic dreams. “One of the strangest things I’ve ever seen an animal do,” Alex had told me, and I concurred.

Persons: Bruce Springsteen …, I’ve, Katie Ledecky’s, she’s, Alex Marshall, Jagerbomb, ” Alex, Tom Jones, Alex wasn’t Organizations: YouTube Locations: Tokyo, Paris

☆ ‘Twisters’ and the Appeal of the Sequel
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

That movie is “Twister,” the story of a lovably eclectic band of tornado chasers who follow soon-to-be-divorced Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt right into the eye of many storms. We got cows.”One friend said she watched it every single time she happened upon it on cable. As Janet Maslin wrote in The Times when the movie came out, “Somehow ‘Twister’ stays as uptempo and exuberant as a roller-coaster ride, neatly avoiding the idea of real danger.”This week, “Twisters,” a sequel to “Twister,” directed by Lee Isaac Chung, arrived in theaters. I didn’t have a deep-rooted relationship with the original film, but, fresh off my positive viewing experience, I didn’t feel like I needed another chapter. Why can’t we just make one good thing and then make another new thing that’s also good?

Persons: Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dorothy ”, Julia, Hoffman, Alan Ruck, Jami Gertz, Lois Smith, Todd Field, I’d, Janet Maslin, ’, “, ”, Lee Isaac Chung, Glen Powell, Charlie Organizations: Times

Paula Szuchman and Melissa Kirsch andPete Wells announced on Tuesday that he was stepping down as The Times’s restaurant critic. Wells became the restaurant critic in 2012, and his insights into the dining experience, alongside his biting wit, have made him a favorite of our readers. But recent health issues have caused him to reconsider his relationship with dining out. Wells joins Melissa Kirsch to discuss why he’s leaving his post, the highs and lows of his life as a critic, and what he hopes for the future.

Persons: Paula Szuchman, Melissa Kirsch, Pete Wells, Wells, he’s

☆ Slowing Down Like Scarlett
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

With Melissa Kirsch — the regular writer of our Saturday newsletter — off today, we’re going to turn to another source for some life guidance: Scarlett Johansson. Despite all this, as Maureen explains, Johansson manages to carve out a surprising amount of normalcy in her life. “She goes to the supermarket,” Colin Jost, the Saturday Night Live star, who’s married to Johansson, said. As I read the profile, I was struck that Johansson also rejects modern normalcy in some important ways. Her large green eyes stay trained on me for nearly two hours, asking nearly as many questions as she fields.

Persons: Melissa Kirsch —, Scarlett Johansson, Maureen Dowd, Johansson, Maureen, Colin Jost, who’s, “ She’s, Read Organizations: Times, Disney Locations: New York, Central Park

☆ How to Like Yourself More
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

A yoga practice, a mindfulness practice, a gratitude practice. I’m not totally sure when a nourishing activity passes into the realm of a practice, but I think it has something to do with intention and devotion. You commit to doing it on a regular basis, and after enough reps, it becomes part of who you are. I’ve done the first day of the “Yoga With Adriene” 30-day challenge at least 30 times. It might be something witty I said, or the way I reframed how I was thinking about a situation.

Persons: I’m, I’ve, —

☆ When Travel Plans Go Awry
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The weekend trip is, in theory, the perfect break. Two nights someplace else, just a small duffel bag and limited logistics standing between you and a reset. You might take a weekend trip for vacation or work or to see family, but the effect is the same. An old friend used to call these neither-here-nor-there realms the “zero world” for the way they feel unfastened from reality, parallel to daily life but separate. I was as cranky and impatient as the rest of my fellow travelers at each complication in our journeys, but also fascinated by the communities and customs and Cibo Express markets of the zero world.

Organizations: Cibo Express

☆ A 64-year-old 'peak boomer' worries his savings and Social Security won't be enough to retire: 'My biggest fear is finding myself at 75 standing at the door at Walmart.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Allie Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Kirsch is hoping to start collecting Social Security checks in a couple of years, just before his 67th birthday. Related storiesFor many, Social Security won't be enough to fill the gaps. As of March 2024, the Social Security Administration said that its average monthly check sent to recipients is $1,774.83. And, if lawmakers don't intervene, the US Social Security fund is set to dry out by the late 2030s. "Start saving and do it as aggressively as you can," he said.

Persons: —, David Kirsch, Kirsch, Hill , New Hampshire —, he's, Kirsch isn't, didn't Organizations: Service, He's, Business, Walmart, Survey, Income, Social, Social Security Administration, US Social Security Locations: Caribbean, South America, Hill , New Hampshire

☆ The Gen Z Crossword Era
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

My 20-year-old niece, Emma, texted the other day to tell me she’s addicted to The Times’s game Connections; she and her friends play every day, along with the Mini and Strands. “The people who make the games need to make more fun games,” she declared. I don’t mind her treating me as her personal on-demand suggestion box for The New York Times; she’s my personal on-demand focus group for Gen Z. She’s used to my asking her about Snapchat etiquette, or which athleisure brands are cool, or if it’s true that her generation is grossed out by feet. I’d read about how younger people are getting into puzzles, but this was the first time my Gen Z rep had volunteered a report from the field. I, too, love Connections, but my deepest and most abiding puzzle romance is with The Times’s crossword.

Persons: Emma, texted, ”, I’d Organizations: The New York Times

☆ Drake Bell believes his abuser Brian Peck 'fooled' stars including James Marden into defending him, and isn't angry at them
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Drake Bell said he believes Brian Peck fooled stars into defending him after he was accused of abuse. During the trial, actors including James Marsden wrote letters of support for Peck. AdvertisementDrake Bell said he believes ex-dialogue coach Brian Peck "fooled" stars into writing him letters of support after he was charged with sexually abusing the former Nickelodeon child actor in 2003. On the third and fourth episodes of Investigation Discovery's documentary "Quiet on Set," Bell spoke publicly for the first time about being sexually abused by Peck when he was 15. Some 41 people who knew Peck, including friends and family, wrote letters of support for the dialogue coach before he was sentenced.

Persons: Drake Bell, Brian Peck, James Marsden, Peck, —, Bell, Drake, Josh, Zoey, Taran Killam, Brian, Amanda Kirsch, it's, I've, Maxine, Peck haven't, Marsden, Sarah Fraser, hasn't, Killam Organizations: Bell, Service, Nickelodeon, Maxine Productions, Sony Pictures, Business Locations: Los Angeles

☆ In Praise of Tiny Triumphs
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Spring arrives, and with it, a semi-annoying, semi-invigorating mandate to spring clean — to clear out spaces both physical and psychological. Because I am constantly looking for reasons to get rid of old things, old ways of thinking and being that have outstayed their usefulness, I’m drawn to spring cleaning as an annual rite. But because I am also constantly reckoning with a pesky sense of dread regarding obligations of any size, I also find the concept of spring cleaning over-ambitious and intimidating. and panic (it’s that time of year and, once again, I have waited too long to call the accountant!). Then she mentioned how accomplished she felt after sewing a button on a shirt to ready it for the sale.

Persons: I’m

☆ The Music That Made Us
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Adam rises from his desk and goes to the next room, where he drags a bin of memories out from under the bed. “Johnny Come Home” is one of those songs that evokes the ’80s so acutely for me that I was already experiencing flashbacks to my own adolescence before Adam began to excavate his. I hear it and I’m returned to my childhood bedroom: the boombox with dual tape players, pink wall-to-wall carpet, a diary with a lock. I hadn’t listened to Fine Young Cannibals in many years, but returning to their self-titled album now, I was curious to see if it would arouse the same emotions (anticipation mixed with melancholy). What happens when we re-encounter them later, when we’ve certainly changed, and perhaps they have too?

Persons: Andrew Haigh’s, Adam, Andrew Scott, Johnny Come, ”, We’re, Johnny, I’m, hadn’t, Fine, we’ve Organizations: Fine Locations: Irish

☆ In Search of Spring
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When does spring begin? For some, it’s the second Sunday in March, when we turn our clocks forward by an hour in the United States. It’s only a three-hour flight from La Guardia (rainy, cold) to West Palm Beach (sunny, 81 degrees, slight breeze), and from there an hour’s drive to Clover Park in Port St. Lucie, the spring training home of the New York Mets. Here in Port St. Lucie on a Tuesday afternoon, weeks before the season’s official start, cheery fans were decked out in team merch, drinking Modelo Especial tallboys and snacking on peanuts, reeling off stats, heckling the players. Here, spring was already happening.

Persons: they’ve, Lucie Organizations: Hemisphere, La Guardia, Palm, Clover, New York Mets, Yankees, Yorker, Modelo Especial Locations: United States, La, Port St, New York

☆ Cramming for the Oscars
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I’m in competition with no one but myself in trying to view all the major-category nominees for the Oscars before the ceremony tomorrow night. I’m doing well this year, probably because the slate is fairly small: Most of the films with acting and screenplay nominations are also contenders for best picture. The problem with cramming for the Oscars, as I do every year to varying degrees of success, is that it renders one cinematically wearied. If I fail to squeeze in a nominated film before the ceremony, I’ll probably never see that film at all. I love the Oscars, with all their pageantry and pomposity.

Persons: I’ll, Mark Harris, ”, Harris, ’, “ we’d Organizations: Hollywood

☆ An HGTV Star’s Party Inspires a Question: What Makes a Home?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | Dolly Faibyshev | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

What makes a house a home? On Tuesday night, that question floated in the delicately candle-scented air of a three-story penthouse apartment on lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan where the interior designer Jeremiah Brent lives with his husband and fellow designer, Nate Berkus, and their two children. An intimate gathering of about 30 guests had assembled to celebrate the publication of Mr. Brent’s first book, “The Space That Keeps You,” a collection of photos and stories of interesting people and their enviable houses. For Mr. Brent, who along with Mr. Berkus is a mainstay on HGTV with shows like “The Nate & Jeremiah Home Project,” a home is a “weird blend of space and place.”

Persons: Jeremiah Brent, Nate Berkus, Brent’s, Brent, Berkus, Nate, ” Organizations: HGTV, Jeremiah Locations: Manhattan

☆ Exploring the Backyard
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For more than 20 years, the British adventurer Alastair Humphreys roamed the planet. He rowed across the Atlantic, traversed India on foot, cycled around the world. Each hyper-detailed map includes not just roads but footpaths, vegetation and variations in terrain. Humphreys commits to deeply exploring one small segment of his map per week, to getting intimate with his immediate environment, by walking or biking every millimeter. “I wanted it to be serendipitous, not governed by my preferences,” he writes.

Persons: Alastair Humphreys, ”, Humphreys, I’ve, “ Organizations: Ordnance Survey, U.S . Geological Survey Locations: British, India, U.S

☆ The Debate Over January
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | More About Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Winter friends — those who, contrary to all hedonic and circadian sense, love dark days and black ice — have been forwarding the story to me, triumphant, as if once and for all it’s been settled, the pointless, perennial battle of the seasons. Everyone just wants to feel better, I get it, but resisting their campaign is a twisted part of coping with the season. I spent the week exchanging snapshots with friends in Mississippi, their mutt cavorting in the snow-covered yard (look how cozy! Another friend asked if I didn’t find the cold and snowfall moody and melancholy, in a good way. It’s a case that the poets have been making for eons: “Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold,” Shakespeare wrote.

Persons: Steven Kurutz’s, mutt cavorting, ”, Stu, Roz Chast’s, Shakespeare, what’s Locations: Mississippi, New

☆ US Army flight tested the seeker that will help turn its newest missile into a ship-killer
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The US Army recently obtained its new Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), a surface-to-surface weapon. Earlier this month, the Army revealed it made progress on a new variant of the ballistic missile. AdvertisementThe US Army has flight tested the seeker that will allow its newest missile to hunt down warships, among other targets. Last month, the Army received its first delivery of the next-generation Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), a short-range, surface-to-surface ballistic missile. On Tuesday, for example, US forces struck and destroyed four anti-ship ballistic missiles that the Houthis were preparing to launch.

Persons: —, Lockheed Martin, James Kirsch, AvMC, DEVCOM AvMC, Biden, Gerald R, Technology Doug Bush Organizations: US Army, Strike, Army, Service, MGM, Tactical Missile Systems, Lockheed, Ship, Command's Aviation, Missile Center, Ford, High, Artillery Rocket Systems, Systems, Acquisition, Logistics, Technology Locations: Ukraine, Yemen, Iran, China, Beijing

☆ Behind the Book Review’s Best Books List
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | More About Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Some people come with prepared speeches in support of the book they’re nominating. By the conclusion of each meeting, it’s clear which books are garnering support and which are losing steam. “There’s sometimes an assumption that we are trying to send a statement with the list,” Gilbert said. But both he and Tina were adamant that the list is not political, and the only statement they’re making is “these are the best books of the year and you should read them.”“We’re not engineering the list in any way,” Tina clarified. “We’re not saying, ‘Oh, gosh, at least three of the books on the fiction list need to be by women.’”

Persons: ” Gilbert, “, Gilbert, Tina, ” “, “ We’re, ’

☆ Sally Darr, Formidable Chef of ’80s-Era French Bistro, Dies at 100
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Penelope Green | More About Penelope Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sally Darr, the exacting chef and owner of La Tulipe, a tiny 1980s-era French bistro in downtown Manhattan renowned for its exquisite yet homey French cooking — and often agonizing delays — resulting from her infamous perfectionism, died on Nov. 7 at her home in the West Village. Desserts were Ms. Darr’s forte: She was a skilled pastry chef, and her apricot souffle, shaped like a minaret and served table-side with a dollop of whipped cream flavored with kirsch, was a best seller. Though she had spent more than a decade as a recipe tester for Gourmet magazine and Time-Life books, Ms. Darr had zero restaurant experience when she opened La Tulipe. Neither did her husband and business partner, John Darr, a Congregationalist minister and peace activist turned school principal. Yet Ms. Darr never doubted she would win those stars.

Persons: Sally Darr, La, Dorothy Darr, Tulipe, Darr, Mimi Sheraton, Darr’s zucchini fritters, kirsch, John Darr Organizations: The New York Times, Gourmet Locations: Manhattan, West

☆ China-linked ETFs draw bullish options bets ahead of Biden-Xi meet
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Saqib Iqbal Ahmed | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., November 15, 2023. Other large China-focused ETFs, including the iShares MSCI China ETF (MCHI.O), KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF (KWEB.P), also showed upbeat options activity, according to Trade Alert data. "It certainly seems that there is generally bullish positioning ahead of the meeting," said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, noting that the positions had been built up over several days. Reuters GraphicsInvestors' nascent enthusiasm for Chinese stocks is at odds with how these ETF's have performed this year. Daniel Kirsch, head of options at Piper Sandler, said recent bullish options flows into KWEB may be to do with a combination of enthusiasm ahead of the Biden-Xi meeting as well as results from Chinese e-commerce companies JD.com and Alibaba .

Persons: Brendan McDermid, Joe Biden's, Xi Jinping, Steve Sosnick, Biden, Xi, Sosnick, Daniel Kirsch, Piper Sandler, JD.com, Kirsch, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed, Suzanne McGee, Ira Iosebashvili, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, REUTERS, U.S, iShares, KraneShares CSI China Internet, Interactive, Federal, Economic Cooperation, Reuters Graphics Investors, Research, Biden, Thomson Locations: New York City, U.S, China, KraneShares, San Francisco, Asia

[1/5] A trader reacts as a screen displays the Fed rate announcement on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., July 26, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A benign U.S. inflation report is bolstering hopes that the Federal Reserve can bring down consumer prices without hurting the economy, a so-called Goldilocks environment that investors believe will benefit stocks and bonds. This does feel like a Goldilocks moment for the entire market.”The data fueled a powerful rally in stocks and bonds. The S&P 500 (.SPX) was up about 2% on the day, on track for its biggest one-day rise since January. Still, some investors believed it was too early to call a victory in the fight against inflation.

Persons: Brendan McDermid, Eric Kuby, bearish, “, Daniel Kirsch, Piper Sandler, Thomas Hayes, ”, Brian Rose, Jamie Cox, Lewis Krauskopf, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed, Davide Barbuscia, Ankika Biswas, Ira Iosebashvili, Nick Zieminski Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, REUTERS, Federal Reserve, North Star Investment Management Corp, Thomson Reuters, BofA's Global, Fed, Fund, UBS Global Wealth Management, Harris Financial, Thomson Locations: New York City, U.S, Thomson Reuters United States, New York, Bengaluru

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