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☆ 'Bridgerton' showrunner Jess Brownell breaks down Polin's future, the return of Kanthony, and 'more conflict to come' in part 2
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Season three of "Bridgerton" centers on Polin, the ship name of Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton). Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington and Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton on season three of "Bridgerton." AdvertisementClaudia Jessie as Eloise Bridgerton and Hannah Dodd as Francesca Bridgerton on season three, episode three of "Bridgerton." AdvertisementLuke Thompson as Benedict Bridgerton on season three, episode two of "Bridgerton." "Bridgerton" season three, part one is now streaming on Netflix.

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☆ ‘Bridgerton’ review: The Netflix show whistles down a new road to romance with Penelope and Colin
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Fortunately, the third round (after a “Queen Charlotte” detour) has the highly sympathetic Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) at its core, adding some additional sweetness to the formula. For the uninitiated, poor Penelope has spent two seasons secretly moonlighting as the acid-tongued gossip Lady Whistledown (still voiced by Julie Andrews, because, well, Julie Andrews! (There’s a praying mantis quality to Bridgertons, since while mating doesn’t lead to death, they do tend to lose their heads and then mostly disappear.) Give some credit to the casting and, more pragmatically, the strength of Netflix as a platform relative to the more rarefied homes for such fare. “Bridgerton” begins its third season May 16 on Netflix, with the second half to premiere on June 13.

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AdvertisementWarning: Spoilers for the first four episodes of "Bridgerton" season 3 and the book "Romancing Mr. Bridgerton" ahead. AdvertisementHannah Dodd as Francesca Bridgerton on season three, episode two of "Bridgerton." Season 3 should've built on 'Queen Charlotte' moreQueen Charlotte and Lady Danbury are underutilized so far in season three. Cressida's story is one of the best parts of the season so farCressida Cowper is given more depth in "Bridgerton" this season. "Bridgerton" season three, part two premieres June 16 on Netflix.

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CNN —Pro-Palestinian encampments were cleared from at least three college campuses early Friday, marking some of the latest examples of schools using law enforcement to respond to demonstrations that have popped up across the country in recent weeks. Police begin dismantling protest encampment at University of Pennsylvania: Police ordered protesters to leave their encampment early Friday morning. Signs and flags are seen at a pro-Palestinian encampment on the lawn of the Stratton Student Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday. Rick Friedman/AFP/Getty ImagesMIT encampment dismantledDemonstrators chanted messages like, “Free Palestine” as police dismantled the pro-Palestinian encampment on the Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus early Friday, video from CNN affiliate WFXT showed. On Thursday, fewer than 10 students were arrested on campus, according to the university.

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☆ Here’s what North American airline passengers think about the state of air travel
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Power’s 2024 North American Airline Satisfaction Study. Power hasn’t revealed an overall North American airline passenger satisfaction score, with Mike Taylor, travel intelligence lead at J.D. Power’s top North American airlines for economy passengers1. Power’s top North American airlines for premium economy passengers1. Power’s top North American airlines for first/business passengers1.

Persons: –, Power hasn’t, Mike Taylor, That’s, Tony Gutierrez, ”, Taylor, “, ” Taylor Organizations: CNN, North, Southwest Airlines, Southwest, Delta Air Lines, Delta, JetBlue, AP, ” Airlines, Allegiant, Alaska Airlines, JetBlue Airways, American Airlines, United Airlines, Air Canada, Spirit Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Delta Air, . Alaska Airlines, Air Locations: ., J.D, Power, Delta, North America

☆ I went to one of the first TikTok Live studios. Here's what it was like and what the livestreamers do.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewNoah Cameron Maydale and Francesca Batley do livestreaming on TikTok for a living. Maydale (who goes by @knowasound, or just Noah, on TikTok) and Batley, whose stage name is Fairie (@fairiefairie on TikTok), are two of the first creators to join a relatively new program started by TikTok agency GravitasQ. TikTok livestreaming in the UK has been growing faster than the company's ads business, company filings show. In-person live studios are a recent addition to TikTok's strategy and one that the company has been developing with select agencies. Here's what it looked like and what Fairie and Noah were doing there at the end of April.

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☆ What it’s like inside The Black Dog, the London pub made famous by Taylor Swift
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

A local London pub that’s been thrust into an unexpected spotlight and onto the tourist map, thanks to musician Taylor Swift. Unexpected fameThe Black Dog pub is in an unassuming residential area of Vauxhall in south London. Taylor Swift fans Jenna Spackey and Maddie Essig came to check out The Black Dog pub after listening to the song. The Black Dog pub says the past few days have been "immense." Hageman compares “The Black Dog” song to a “fable” – it’s probably not based entirely in reality.

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☆ She set out to find a husband in a year. Then she matched with a guy on a dating app on the other side of the world
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

He quickly found the Wellington dating pool to be full of people he vaguely knew – friends of friends or old college acquaintances. The whole thing was quite surreal, made only more so by the fact that Samantha had now met Toby’s parents before she’d actually met Toby in person. When Samantha returned to London, Toby was in a bad way. “But we were spending 24/7 together.”Samantha says the decision was obvious “pretty much as soon as we met in real life.”In time, Toby met Samantha’s family. Telling the story on stageSamantha first told the story of how she met Toby on stage in 2018.

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☆ China faces a difficult balancing act managing its currency: Strategist
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailChina faces a difficult balancing act managing its currency: StrategistFrancesca Fornasari of Insight Investment expects the Chinese Yuan to remain 'relatively steady' against the U.S. dollar, but says that creates spillover effect to other Asian currencies.

Persons: Francesca Fornasari, Yuan Organizations: China, Insight Investment, U.S .

CNN —Dubai International Airport, one of the world’s busiest aviation hubs, remained in disarray Thursday after unprecedented heavy rain led to airliners having to negotiate flooded runways. Delays and cancelations caused by the flooding have led to ongoing congestion at Dubai International Airport. The tarmac of Dubai International Airport was left submerged. Some residents were seen rowing canoes outside their homes, and one viral video on social media showed residents wake boarding on a flooded street in a residential area. Amr Alfiky/ReutersOther videos from social media showed water rushing through a major shopping mall and inundating the ground floor of homes.

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☆ A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Emily Badger | Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Indeed, according to new research from economists at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, this lock-in effect is responsible for about 1.3 million fewer home sales in America during the run-up in rates from the spring of 2022 through the end of 2023. That’s a startling number in a nation where around five million homes sell annually in more normal times — most of those to people who already own. These locked-in households haven’t relocated for better jobs or higher pay, and haven’t been able to downsize or acquire more space. They also haven’t opened up homes for first-time buyers. And that’s driven up prices and gummed up the market.

Persons: That’s, haven’t Organizations: Federal Housing Finance Agency Locations: America

☆ Tom Holland’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’ costar Francesca Amewudah-Rivers receives support after her casting sparks racist remarks
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —More than 800 Black actors are denouncing backlash aimed at actor Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who was cast to play Juliet opposite Tom Holland in an upcoming stage production of “Romeo & Juliet” in London’s West End. “When news of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers’ casting in Jamie Lloyd’s production of Romeo and Juliet was announced so many people celebrated and welcomed this news,” the letter, organized by playwright Somalia Nonyé Seaton, stated. “For a casting announcement of a play to ignite such twisted ugly abuse is truly embarrassing for those so empty and barren in their own lives that they must meddle in hateful abuse. When The Jamie Lloyd Company issued its tweet decrying the online behavior, the theater company said, “This must stop… Any abuse will not be tolerated and will be reported. “Romeo & Juliet” opens on May 23 and will play through August 3.

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☆ Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Natasha Singer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Westfield Public Schools held a regular board meeting in late March at the local high school, a red brick complex in Westfield, N.J., with a scoreboard outside proudly welcoming visitors to the “Home of the Blue Devils” sports teams. But it was not business as usual for Dorota Mani. In October, some 10th-grade girls at Westfield High School — including Ms. Mani’s 14-year-old daughter, Francesca — alerted administrators that boys in their class had used artificial intelligence software to fabricate sexually explicit images of them and were circulating the faked pictures. Five months later, the Manis and other families say, the district has done little to publicly address the doctored images or update school policies to hinder exploitative A.I. “It seems as though the Westfield High School administration and the district are engaging in a master class of making this incident vanish into thin air,” Ms. Mani, the founder of a local preschool, admonished board members during the meeting.

Persons: Dorota Mani, Mani’s, Francesca —, Ms, Mani Organizations: Westfield Public Schools, Devils, Westfield High School Locations: Westfield, N.J

☆ For 50 Years Ailey II Has Been a Proving Ground, Not Just for Dance
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ailey II, the second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, turns 50 this year. Since its creation, some things have remained consistent: It has always served as a bridge between student and professional life. “It’s a pressure cooker,” said Francesca Harper, who has been the artistic director of Ailey II since 2021. Between classes, rehearsals and an extensive touring schedule that combines performances with lecture-demonstrations and master classes, those years are tough. “Alvin often called it a kind of finishing school,” said Sylvia Waters, who was the company’s artistic director from the beginning until 2012.

Persons: Ailey, Alvin Ailey, ”, Francesca Harper, Alvin, Sylvia Waters, Harper, Troy Powell Organizations: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Joyce Theater, Ailey School Locations: Waters

☆ Opinion | Deep-Sixing Pornographic Deepfakes for Good
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Deepfake Violations, Met With a Shrug,” by Nicholas Kristof (column, March 24):Mr. Kristof underscores the urgent need to address the distressing prevalence of nonconsensual A.I. sexual content online and in top search engine results, to protect individuals, particularly the women and girls overwhelmingly targeted, from exploitation and harm. I urge all readers to raise their voices by sending letters, emails or open letters tagged on social media and LinkedIn to Google and Microsoft Bing executives and social media teams. Our collective advocacy can amplify the call for these tech giants to take proactive measures in removing such content from their search results. ‘After school, I came home, and I told my mom we need to do something about this.’

Persons: Nicholas Kristof, Mr, Kristof, Microsoft Bing, Brittany Poley, Nicholas Kristof’s, ’ Francesca, ‘, ’ Organizations: Google, Microsoft Locations: ”, Brittany, Brittany Poley Washington

☆ ‘It’s a dolphin!’: Researchers uncover unusual ancient fossil in the Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The newly identified dolphin species lived in a freshwater lake in the Peruvian Amazon 16 million years ago. This composite image captures the phases of a total solar eclipse as they unfolded in El Molle, Chile, in July 2019. Stan HondaOn April 8, astrophotographer Stan Honda will be stationed in Fredericksburg, Texas, armed with four cameras to document the total solar eclipse. Mark your Apple iCal or Outlook, Google, or Office365 calendar with the date of the upcoming total solar eclipse, which CNN will be covering live. UnearthedThe remains of a decorative wall can be seen at the site of an ancient home renovation in Pompeii.

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☆ Seven Seas Splendor: World cruise offers swanky suite for $1.7 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The cruise line is pitching this 2027 voyage as a “once-in-a-lifetime experience” on board its Seven Seas Splendor liner. The living room area of the Regent Suite, available for $1.7 million on Regent Seven Seas Cruises' upcoming 2027 world cruise. Onboard decadenceWhether guests opt for the Regent Suite or not, prospective Regent Seven Seas Cruises travelers should expect onboard decadence. Cruise line president DeMarco told CNN Travel that the fact Regent Seven Seas’ world cruise is “truly all-inclusive” means there’s “value” associated with these high costs. The cruise line is currently operating a sold-out 2024 world cruise on board its Seven Seas Mariner cruise ship, while its 2025 world cruise also sold out in what Regent Seven Seas’ claimed was “record time.” The cruise line’s 2026 world voyage still has suites available at time of writing.

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☆ Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Sarah Mervosh | Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

Increase in chronic absenteeism, 2019–23 By local child poverty rates By length of school closures By school district size By district racial makeup Source: Upshot analysis of data from Nat Malkus, American Enterprise Institute. Sara Miller, a counselor at South Anchorage High School for 20 years, now sees more absences from students across the socioeconomic spectrum. But after a visit from her school district, and starting therapy herself, she has settled into a new routine. Nationally, about 26 percent of students were considered chronically absent last school year, up from 15 percent before the pandemic. Kaylee Greenlee for The New York TimesThe Ypsilanti school district has tried a bit of everything, said the superintendent, Alena Zachery-Ross.

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☆ A Crisis of School Absences
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Sarah Mervosh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A few years ago, a troubling phenomenon began to spread in U.S. education: Students were not showing up to school. Schools had shut down in the spring of 2020, at the start of the pandemic, and some did not fully reopen until fall 2021. Before the pandemic, about 15 percent of U.S. students were chronically absent, which typically means missing 18 days of the school year, for any reason. By the 2021-22 school year, that number had skyrocketed to 28 percent of students. Last school year, the most recent for which national estimates are available, it held stubbornly at 26 percent.

Persons: Quarantines, Francesca Paris Organizations: Schools

☆ ‘Remarkable’ Roman villa discovered under housing development
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Archaeologists have unearthed a “remarkable” Roman villa complex on a housing development site in a small English village. The complex was decorated with painted plaster, mosaics and there was a collection of tiny, tightly-coiled lead scrolls suggesting some sort of ritual or pilgrimage might have taken place there, according to a press release. The villa in Grove would have been “central for this area of Oxfordshire,” Francesca Giarelli, project officer for Red River Archaeology Group and the site’s director, told CNN on Thursday. Archaeologists found huge quantities of painted plaster. Even in the late Roman period, this particular villa continued to show signs of human activity.

Persons: ” Francesca Giarelli, Giarelli, ” Giarelli, Barratt, David Wilson Homes, haven’t Organizations: CNN —, River Archaeology Group, CNN, River Archaeology, Red River Archaeology Locations: Grove, Oxfordshire, Red

☆ Force of Ship Collision Was on the Scale of a Rocket Launch
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Aatish Bhatia | Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Erin Schaff/The New York TimesForce of Ship Collision Was on the Scale of a Rocket LaunchThe container ship Dali appeared to move sluggishly before striking the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday. Experts disagreed on whether it was reasonable for any bridge pier to withstand a direct collision with a massive container ship. F = ma force mass acceleration F = ma force mass accelerationOur first task, and a major source of uncertainty, was finding those numbers. F= (100,000 to 195,000 metric tons) × (7.8 mph - 2.5 mph) / 38 seconds mass acceleration F= (100,000 to 195,000 metric tons) × (7.8 mph - 2.5 mph) / 38 seconds mass acceleration For the actual calculation, we used metric units. We tried one more method: using a formula to calculate the ship collision force published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the industry organization that publishes bridge safety standards.

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For Evan Gershkovich, the dozen appearances in Moscow's courts over the past year have fallen into a pattern. Guards take the American journalist from the notorious Lefortovo Prison in a van for the short drive to the courthouse. The periodic court hearings give Gershkovich’s family, friends and U.S. officials a glimpse of him, and for the 32-year-old journalist, it’s a break from his otherwise largely monotonous prison routine. Friends and family say Gershkovich is relying on his sense of humor to get through the days. Every day, Milman said, “I wake up and look at the clock.”“I think about if his lunchtime has passed, and his bedtime," she said.

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☆ ‘Reasonable grounds’ to believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, UN rights expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Louis Mian | Benjamin Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —There are “reasonable grounds” to believe Israel is “committing the crime of genocide against the Palestinians as a group in Gaza,” the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories has said. Francesca Albanese made the remarks Wednesday following the submission of her latest report called “Anatomy of a Genocide” to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. Speaking at a press conference, Albanese said: “Israel has committed three acts of genocide with a requisite intent: killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”Israel said it “utterly rejects” the report, which it said “brings shame” on the Human Rights Council. It is “no surprise, that the premise of this report is that the creation of the Jewish State in 1948 was an act of ‘settler colonialism,’ and genocide is an ‘inherent part’ of that act,” the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations in Geneva said in a statement on X on Monday. Israel’s diplomatic mission in Geneva in its response also said, “the very attempt to level the charge of genocide against Israel is an outrageous distortion of the Genocide Convention.”“Israel’s war is against Hamas, not against Palestinian civilians,” it added.

Persons: Francesca Albanese, Albanese, “ Israel, ” Israel, “, ”, ” Albanese, bello, ” “ Jus, bello ” Organizations: CNN, Israel, United Nations, UN Human Rights, Human Rights, Jewish State, Getty, UN, Hamas, Palestinian Locations: Gaza, Geneva, Israel, Al, Gaza City, AFP

☆ The Deepfake Porn of Kids and Celebrities That Gets Millions of Views - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Alarms are blaring about artificial intelligence deepfakes that manipulate voters, like the robocall sounding like President Biden that went to New Hampshire households, or the fake video of Taylor Swift endorsing Donald Trump. Yet there’s actually a far bigger problem with deepfakes that we haven’t paid enough attention to: deepfake nude videos and photos that humiliate celebrities and unknown children alike. One recent study found that 98 percent of deepfake videos online were pornographic and that 99 percent of those targeted were women or girls. Francesca Mani, a 14-year-old high school sophomore in New Jersey, told me she was in class in October when the loudspeaker summoned her to the school office. The boys had made naked images of a number of other sophomore girls as well.

Persons: Biden, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, there’s, influencers, Francesca Mani Organizations: Google Locations: New Hampshire, New Jersey

Four years ago this month, schools nationwide began to shut down, igniting one of the most polarizing and partisan debates of the pandemic. Some schools, often in Republican-led states and rural areas, reopened by fall 2020. Others, typically in large cities and states led by Democrats, would not fully reopen for another year. A variety of data — about children’s academic outcomes and about the spread of Covid-19 — has accumulated in the time since. Today, there is broad acknowledgment among many public health and education experts that extended school closures did not significantly stop the spread of Covid, while the academic harms for children have been large and long-lasting.

Organizations: Republican, Democrats Locations: Covid

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