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☆ Opinion | Who Might Run With Kamala Harris?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

2 Spot” (news article, July 23):Vice President Kamala Harris, assuming she is the Democratic presidential nominee, has several good options for completing her ticket. But I urge Ms. Harris and her advisers to cast a wider net initially. Nothing in the Constitution would prevent Barack Obama from serving as vice president; indeed, the Republicans considered a similar move with former President Gerald Ford in 1980. Mark Milley, a retired general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a war hero and a true patriot. Doing so would knock the Trump campaign off balance and, most important, inject a rare note of bipartisanship into our poisoned polity.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Josh Shapiro, Roy Cooper, Harris, Barack Obama, Gerald Ford, Mark Milley, Donald Trump Organizations: Democratic, Pennsylvania, Republicans, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Trump Republican, Trump Locations: North Carolina

The government’s repeated failure to address what it knew quickly fed suspicions that the silence itself was evidence of a conspiracy. In the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, we are seeing that happen again. Neither the public nor Congress learned much more when Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the Secret Service at the time of the shooting, appeared before a congressional committee on Monday. Ms. Cheatle acknowledged that the shooting at the Trump rally ranked as the agency’s “most significant operational failure” in decades. But there was outrage from both Democrats and Republicans at her repeated refusal to answer specific questions about the security failures that contributed to it.

Persons: John F, Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, Donald Trump, Kimberly Cheatle, Cheatle Organizations: Service, Department of Homeland Security, Trump, Republicans

☆ Russian detained in Paris over fears of Olympic ‘destabilization’ plans
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Joseph Ataman | Emmanuel Miculita | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Paris CNN —A Russian national has been detained and placed under preliminary investigation in Paris over fears he was preparing to disrupt the Olympic Games, the local prosecutor’s office told CNN Tuesday. French authorities conducted a search of the man’s residence under an administrative order, during which they unearthed evidence he was preparing, “events likely to lead to destabilization during the Olympic Games,” the prosecutor’s office said. He was placed under preliminary investigation and detained Tuesday under suspicion of: “intelligence with a foreign power with a view to provoking hostilities in France,” the prosecutor’s office added. The prosecutor’s office released no further details as to what the man was allegedly planning. The Olympic Games begin this week with the official opening ceremony due to be held in central Paris on Friday evening.

Persons: Paris CNN —, Gerald Darmanin, ” Lucie Sorin, ’, –, “, ” Sorin Organizations: Paris CNN, Olympic Games, CNN, Olympic, ”, “, Paris Locations: Paris, France

☆ Police officer attacked in Paris, as security ramps up for Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Saskya Vandoorne | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Paris CNN —A police officer was attacked and injured in central Paris on Thursday evening, as France ramps up security measures in the capital ahead of the 2024 Olympics. “A police officer was attacked in the eighth arrondissement of Paris while he was responding to a call from officers securing a store,” French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said in a post on X. The attack comes a week before the opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics. This is the second violent incident against French security agents this week, after a soldier was stabbed on Monday in a Paris train station. France has been strengthening security in the city ahead of the Olympics, which are expected to draw around 15 million visitors, according to the European Union.

Persons: Paris CNN —, “, Gérald Darmanin, Charlie Hebdo Organizations: Paris CNN, Interior Ministry, CNN, Champs, Operation Sentinel, European Union Locations: Paris, France

☆ Bob Newhart, comedy legend and star of 'The Bob Newhart Show' and 'Elf,' dead at 94
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Known for his comedic timing, the "Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart" star was one of the funniest men of the 20th century. Breaking through into comedy in the '50sYoung Bob Newhart initially didn't consider comedy a career. Over the next 11 years, he released seven more albums, including "Bob Newhart Faces Bob Newart" (1964) and "Best of Bob Newhart" (1971). Bob Newhart during the first season of "The Bob Newhart Show," performing one of his popular telephone jokes. "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart"Newhart on "The Bob Newhart Show."

Persons: —, Bob Newhart, Jerry Digney, Newhart, Bernard, Will Farrell, he'd, Young Bob Newhart, Gerald Smith, George Robert Newhart, James Thurber, Max Shulman, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, couldn't, Abraham Lincoln, Conan O'Brien, Abe Lincoln Vs, Dan Sorkin, Ed Sullivan, Bob Newart, Grace L, it's, Carol Burnett, Dean Martin, Sanford, Son, Bob Hartley, Roseanne, Variety, Gerald Ford, Dick Loudon, Ginnie, Rolling Stone, Cuoco, Monty Brinton, George, Leo, Bob, Arthur Jeffries, Sheldon Cooper, Sheldon fanboyed, Jeffries, Cooper, Proton, Sheldon, Virgina, Ginny, Quinn, Timothy, Jennifer, Courtney, Kirsten Acuna Organizations: Service, CBS, Business, Disney, Television Academy Foundation, NBC, NBCU, Getty Images, Television Academy, United States Army, Madison, ABC, Warner Bros . Records, AV, Getty, Warner Bros, Party, Ferguson, Peabody, Fox, Entertainment, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame, Proton, Wars Locations: Oak Park , Illinois, Chicago, Vermont

☆ Thomas Crooks, Donald Trump, and the Banality of Gun Violence - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( David Wallace-Wells | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Eleven of the last 12 American presidents have endured an assassination attempt or a plot against their lives. The same is true for 20 of the country’s 45. Most of the recent plots have been foiled early, making the indelible image of Donald Trump fist-pumping in Pennsylvania seem like an atavistic monument or an ominous portent or perhaps both. And though we may describe the stochastic terror of the past decade in terms of ugly bumper stickers and reckless speeches, there has been real violence, not just incitement. “No political party, movement, ideology or manner of thinking has had an absolute monopoly on this violence, and it really hasn’t mattered whether the surrounding political atmosphere was aggressive or docile,” Dayen wrote.

Persons: Donald Trump, David Dayen, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton’s, Barack Obama’s, Donald Trump’s, Gabrielle Giffords, Steve Scalise, hasn’t, ” Dayen, “ Organizations: The, White, Financial Times, Republican National Convention Locations: Pennsylvania

CNN —A suspected serial killer has confessed to murdering 42 women over the past two years, police in Kenya have said, in a shocking case that has sparked calls for increased measures to combat gender-based violence in the country. Authorities said Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, “lured, killed, and disposed of 42 female bodies,” of which only nine have been recovered. Gerald Anderson/Anadolu/Getty Images“We are dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for life,” Amin said Monday. A group of female leaders called for enhanced protections for Kenyan women on Monday after increasing cases of femicide. “It is so sad that someone who killed 42 people was still roaming out there.

Persons: Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, “, Mohamed Amin, ” Amin, Douglas Kanja, Kanja, Gerald Anderson, Khalusha “, Amin, dismembering, ”, Josphine Mulongo, Leah Sankaire Sopiato, women’s Organizations: CNN, Authorities, Anadolu, Getty, Kenyan Police, Kenyan Locations: Kenya, Soweto, Nairobi, Kware, Nairobi’s, Njenga

☆ Soldier in France’s anti-terrorism force stabbed in Paris ahead of Olympics opening ceremony next week
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Saskya Vandoorne | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Paris CNN —A French soldier deployed in the country’s anti-terrorism force was stabbed at a train station in central Paris on Monday evening, French government officials said, a little more than a week before the Paris 2024 Olympics’ opening ceremony is due to take place. “A soldier with Operation Sentinelle was stabbed while on patrol at Gare de l’Est in Paris. Operation Sentinelle is an anti-terrorism military operation that was established in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in January 2015. France has increased its security measures around Paris ahead of the Olympics, which includes bolstering the Operation Sentinelle forces. “Our thoughts are with the soldier injured this evening at Gare de l’Est, who was deployed as part of Operation Sentinelle,” French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on X.

Persons: Paris CNN —, “, Sentinelle, Gérald Darmanin, Charlie Hebdo, Sebastien Lecornu, ” Lecornu Organizations: Paris CNN, Gare de, de, French Locations: Paris, Gare, Gare de l’Est, France, de l’Est

☆ What two assassination attempts in two violent elections in the 1870s warn about today
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Dana Bash | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The Civil War was over, and Black men were legally allowed to vote and helped Republicans win in 1870. Two years later, Louisiana Democrats were determined to take back the state by preventing Black men from voting through intimidation and voter suppression. On Easter Sunday morning, White supremacists stormed the building and went on a killing spree, brutally murdering some 150 Black men. Another disputed election, more political violenceAs for the gubernatorial election dispute in 1872, it happened again in 1876. And while violence should never be the answer, it has occurred more than any of us would want to admit.

Persons: William Pitt Kellogg, Charles R, Railey, “, scoundrel, ” Railey, Kellogg, David Fisher, Donald Trump, Abraham Lincoln, James A, Garfield, William McKinley, John F, Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S, Truman, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, John D, McEnery, McEnery’s, ”, wasn’t, White supremacists, Stephen Packard, Francis T, Nicholls, Packard, Ulysses S, Grant, William Weldon, Frank Hudson, Weldon, ” Packard, Jim Crow Organizations: CNN, Louisiana Gov, American, Republican, Black, Republicans, Louisiana Democrats, Blacks, The White League, Philadelphia Press Locations: Louisiana, New Orleans, Colfax, Grant Parish , Louisiana, Washington

☆ The $25 Trillion System of Retirement Savings Needs Fixing
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Mark Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Classic car aficionados recall their sleek, innovative designs, but the brands are also a reminder of another bygone era: the traditional defined benefit pension. Their pension plans were terminated, leaving thousands of workers without their expected benefits. That, along with other pension plan failures, prompted efforts to make retirement savings safer, culminating in federal legislation that has shaped much of the current retirement benefit landscape. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, which was signed into law in 1974 by President Gerald R. Ford, marks its 50th anniversary this year. It also created the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, a federally sponsored insurance fund that backstops failing pension plans.

Persons: Gerald R Organizations: Studebaker, Packard, Guaranty Corporation

☆ French voters head to polls for crucial second round of snap parliamentary election
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The newly-formed left-wing coalition, the New Popular Front (NFP), came second with 28%, while Macron’s Ensemble alliance trailed in a distant third with 21%. In the outgoing parliament, Macron’s alliance had only 250 seats, and so needed support from other parties to pass laws. In an attempt not to split the anti-far right vote, more than 200 candidates from Macron’s alliance and the NFP agreed to stand down in the second round. Whatever the result of Sunday’s vote, France seems set to endure a period of political chaos, with Macron unable to call another parliamentary election for at least a year. Jordan Bardella speaks at the RN headquarters in Paris after the first round of voting, June 30, 2024.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, –, Jordan Bardella, Bardella, Gerald Darmanin, Sarah Meyssonnier, Macron, Jean, Luc Melenchon, Raphael Gluckmann, Gabriel Attal, Macron’s Organizations: CNN — Voters, Front, NFP, National Assembly, Macron’s, France Unbowed, Melenchon Locations: France, Vichy, Paris, Europe, Brussels, Ukraine

☆ Weeks After Alice Munro’s Death, Daughter Tells of Dark Family Secret
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Elizabeth A. Harris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Andrea Robin Skinner, a daughter of the Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro, said that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child — and that her mother knew about it, and chose to stay with him anyway. Skinner, who is now an adult, detailed these accusations in an essay in the Toronto Star on Sunday. According to a separate article in the Toronto Star, Skinner went to the Ontario police, and in 2005, her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, was charged with indecent assault against her. Because of her mother’s fame, Skinner wrote, “the silence continued.” Munro died on May 13 at 92. “What I wanted was some record of the truth, some public proof that I hadn’t deserved what had happened to me,” Skinner wrote of going to the police in 2005, about 30 years after the abuse began.

Persons: Andrea Robin Skinner, Alice Munro, Skinner, Gerald Fremlin, Munro, ” Munro, ” Skinner Organizations: Toronto Star, Ontario police Locations: Ontario

☆ 'A kind of civil war': Divided France on high alert for unrest amid political earthquake
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has said French voters now have a "moral duty" to halt the party's advance. The officer — a father of three who's in his 40s, and a right-leaning voter — said the polarization in French society was "very worrying, but unfortunately normal with the 'diversity' of our society." The police officer said he expected civil unrest after the vote, whichever party gained the most votes. "There will be civil unrest whoever is elected, this is France and the people speak their mind." Civil unrest possiblePolitical experts agree that the current febrile atmosphere of French politics, and antagonism between the main bodies of voters, are the ingredients for further civil unrest.

Persons: that's, Emmanuel Macron, Macron, Gabriel Attal, Amel, Sebastien Salom, Gérald Darmanin, —, You've, Philippe Marlière, you've, Marlière, Jordan Bardella, Bardella, Ifop Organizations: la Republique, Nurphoto, CNBC, Front, Left, Afp, Getty, Republican, France's, Republique, Rassemblement, Anadolu, University College London, National Assembly, National, NATO, Le, Palais des Sports Locations: la, Paris, France's, France, Nantes, gomis, de, Bordeaux, Europe, Ukraine

☆ French elections: More than 50 candidates and campaigners physically assaulted ahead of runoff
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Niamh Kennedy | Emma Leyo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —French authorities have recorded more than 50 physical assaults on candidates and campaigners on the campaign trail, the country’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said Friday as concerns mount about political violence ahead of France’s high-stakes parliamentary elections. However, we have counted 51 candidates, deputies, or campaigners who have been physically assaulted. The attacks have ranged from the less severe to “extremely serious,” Darmanin said, adding that some candidates have been hospitalised for their injuries. Roughly thirty or so people have been taken in for questioning in relation to the attacks, Darmanin added. In Cherbourg, a center-right candidate from The Republicans party, Nicolas Conquer, made a formal complaint after he claimed he was assaulted by left-wing campaigners on Monday.

Persons: Gérald Darmanin, ” Darmanin, Darmanin, Emmanuel Macron, Prisca Thevenot, Marie Dauchy, Nicolas Conquer Organizations: CNN, BFMTV, National, Republicans, Front, NFP, Interior Ministry, National Assembly Locations: “, France, Savoie, Cherbourg

☆ Demands in the Middle East risk leaving an aircraft carrier-sized hole in US naval power in the Western Pacific
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The only US carrier in the area is on its way to the Middle East following a series of military drills in the Pacific. Sailors conduct flight operations on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt near Indonesia. The Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is anchored in Busan, South Korea. The aircraft carrier Shandong and a Chinese amphibious assault ship conducted an exercise in the South China Sea earlier this week. AdvertisementLately, China has also ramped up altercations with the Philippines in contested waters in the South China Sea.

Persons: —, Theodore Roosevelt Carrier, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Roosevelt, Gerald R, Dwight D, Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, Navy Petty, Andrew Benvie, Ronald Reagan, Carl Vinson, Song Kyung Organizations: Service, US Navy, Business, Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, North, South Korean, Nimitz, Ford, Navy, Pentagon, Western Pacific, USNI News, Information, AP, South China, Coast Guard Locations: China, South Korea, Japan, North Korea, Gulf of Aden, Israel, Indonesia, Pacific, Russia, Philippines, Western, Eastern Pacific, Hawaii, Philippine, Busan, Shandong, South, Soviet, Liaoning, China's, Fujian, Beijing, South China

☆ Fears mount over election-linked violence in France after government spokesperson attacked on campaign trail
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Niamh Kennedy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Concerns are growing about political violence ahead of high-stakes parliamentary elections in France after a series of lawmakers were attacked on the campaign trail this week. French government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot and her team came under attack while canvassing on Wednesday night, the latest in a string of violent incidents involving French lawmakers contesting Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Four people have been taken in for questioning regarding the incident, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told French television station France 2 on Thursday morning. Acknowledging that violence has been linked to both the far-right and far-left camps, Bardella vowed, if appointed, to be a prime minister who “re-establishes order” in France. An additional 30,000 police officers and gendarmes will be deployed across France on Sunday night in the event of public disorder, Darmanin said Thursday.

Persons: Prisca Thevenot, Marie Dauchy, Nicolas Conquer, Emmanuel Macron, Gérald Darmanin, Thevenot, ”, Jordan Bardella, ” Bardella, CNN’s, Bardella, “, Gabriel Attal, Darmanin Organizations: CNN, National, Republicans, Macron’s, France, BFMTV, Incumbent, Front, NFP, Interior Ministry, National Assembly Locations: France, Savoie, Cherbourg, Thevenot

☆ Jesse Owens’ achievements at 1936 Olympics were ‘thumb in the eye’ to Adolf Hitler, says US athlete’s grandson
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Ben Morse | Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Owens’ grandson Stuart Owen Rankin describes the track and field great’s actions as a “thumb in the eye” to Hitler. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images‘A bond, a brotherhood, a connection’Another enduring memory from the 1936 Games was Owens’ connection with the German long-jumper Luz Long. Owens and Long were seen as the two favorites to compete for the gold medal in the long jump at the Berlin Games. According to Rankin, Owens said Long offered him advice on how to not overstep, which was an issue the US athlete was having in the long jump qualifying competition. DHM/ullstein bild/Getty Images)StridesAfter the Berlin Games, widespread, institutionalized racism and segregation in the US meant Owens’ achievements weren’t fully appreciated when he returned home.

Persons: Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, White, Owens, Owens ’, Stuart Owen Rankin, Hitler, “, ” Rankin, CNN’s Don Riddell, ” Jesse Owens, Luz Long, Long, Rankin, ” Owens, Juergen, Shutterstock Rankin, ” Long, scrolled, Julia Long, Long’s, ”, Julia, weren’t, AP Owens, Gerald Ford, George H.W, Bush Organizations: CNN, Olympics, Nazi, Fox, Berlin Games, American, Games, AP, White Locations: Berlin –, Nazi Germany, Berlin, White, American, Munich, York, United States, America

☆ Dangerous feral hogs that destroy lawns and eat plastic are growing across the US, and states can't kill them fast enough
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The US has been trying to keep the feral pig population — estimated to be between 6 and 9 million — in check for over a decade. Feral pigs will eat almost anythingAlan Biggerstaff of Nuisance Wildlife Management & Control set up hog traps in Texas in 2019. Mayer has seen feral hogs forage at landfills and feed on diapers, rubber bands, and plastic. AdvertisementWhen feral pigs start rooting in grass, they can leave a mess behind, as this photo from 2014 shows. Mayer said another factor that makes controlling wild hogs difficult is that the entire country is a mosaic of different methods.

Persons: —, Jack Mayer, Mayer, Alan, Brett Coomer, they're, wilder, Gerald Herbert, Robert F, You've Organizations: Service, Business, Laboratory, Management, Control, Houston, Getty, Texas Locations: San Antonio , Texas, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Savannah, North America, England, Louisiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Oklahoma

☆ 'The worst is in the rearview mirror': Why Wall Street thinks Tesla's comeback story is finally here
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tesla stock had a tough first half of 2024 but Wall Street is eyeing a turnaround. Tesla deliveries slumped for the second quarter in a row, but they were stronger than analysts had expected, with clocking in at 443,956, compared to estimates of 436,000. AdvertisementTesla also reduced its inventory over the second quarter and boosted its energy storage to an all-time high. Morgan Stanley reiterated its "overweight" rating on Tesla stock with a price target of $310, implying another 30% upside. In the most bullish scenario, Tesla stock could rally to $400 by the end of the year, Ives said, implying 63% upside from current levels.

Persons: —, Wall, Musk, Tesla, Morgan Stanley, Elon, Garrett Nelson, Robotaxi, Nelson, CFRA, Keith Fitz, Gerald, Gerald Research, Dan Ives, Wedbush, Ives Organizations: Service, Elon, Wall Street, Investors, Tesla Energy, CFRA, CNBC, Wedbush Securities

☆ Hundreds of candidates drop out of French election runoff in last gasp bid to keep far right from power
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Saskya Vandoorne | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

They’ve put aside their differences with one goal in mind: to keep the far right firmly away from the 289 seats required for an absolute majority currently within their reach. By Tuesday, as the deadline to drop out closed, fewer than 100 remain, after centrist and left-wing candidates strategically dropped out in individual seats. This tactic could stop some RN candidates from winning, according to analyst Antoine Bristielle. Macron’s Ensemble allies also called on their supporters to prevent the far right taking office, but some warned against lending their votes to the hard-left France Unbowed, a party inside the NFP. “I’ve taken the difficult decision to withdraw … leaving it up to my voters to position themselves against the far right or far left,” Samuel Deguara, a candidate from Macron’s camp said after withdrawing.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron’s, They’ve, Antoine Bristielle, Nathan Laine, ” Bristielle, Leslie Mortreux, Gérald Darmanin, Bruno Le Maire, “ I’ve, ” Samuel Deguara, Pen, ” Le Pen, Perpignan Louis Aliot, Dimitar Dilkoff, Jordan Bardella Organizations: CNN, Republique, Bloomberg, Getty, National, NFP –, NFP, Macron’s, France Unbowed, . Finance, …, Rassemblement National, Perpignan Locations: Antoine Bristielle ., Paris, France, AFP

☆ Marina Abramović and her ‘peace’ dress silenced Glastonbury for seven minutes
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —On Friday, Marina Abramović staged a collective seven minute silence at the UK’s biggest music festival. In case her messaging was unclear, the Serbian artist wore a white sculptural column dress that, when her arms were outstretched, opened out into a peace sign. Standing tall, her shoulders sloped to create the top of the peace sign — her hands lost in the round of the giant white sleeves. The dress, designed by her friend and former Burberry creative director Riccardo Tisci, was inspired by the Japanese kimono. Joel C Ryan/Invision/APWhile we’re more familiar seeing peace signs printed on crop tops or canvas tote bags, Abramović and Tisci’s IRL-rendering is closer to the symbol’s creation story.

Persons: Marina Abramović, Abramović, ”, Riccardo Tisci, Joel C Ryan, Gerald Holtom, Holtom, “, Dior knitwear Organizations: CNN, Glastonbury, Burberry, Campaign, Nuclear Disarmament, Chanel, Holtom Locations: Serbian, Abramović, British, London, Moschino

☆ Soma Golden Behr, Longtime Senior Editor at The Times, Dies at 84
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Soma Golden Behr, a longtime senior editor at The New York Times who was a centrifuge of story ideas — they flew out of her in all directions — and whose journalistic passions were poverty, race and class, which led to reporting that won Pulitzer Prizes, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 84. Her death, in the palliative care unit of Mount Sinai Hospital, came after breast cancer had spread to other organs, her husband, William A. Behr, said. Ms. Golden Behr, whose economics degree from Radcliffe led to a lifetime interest in issues around inequality, was instrumental in overseeing several major series for The Times that examined class and racial divides. Each enlisted squads of reporters and photographers for intensive, sometimes yearlong assignments.

Persons: Soma Golden Behr, —, William A . Behr, Golden Behr, Radcliffe, ”, Gerald M, Boyd Organizations: The New York Times, Mount Sinai, The Times Locations: Manhattan, Mount, America

☆ U.S. and Europe warn Lebanon’s Hezbollah to ease strikes on Israel and back off from wider Mideast war
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Iran and Israel traded threats Saturday of what Iran said would be an "obliterating" war over Hezbollah. Attacks intensified this month after Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and Hezbollah responded with some of its biggest missile barrages. "Such a war would be a catastrophe for Lebanon," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said as he met recently with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the Pentagon. "Another war between Israel and Hezbollah could easily become a regional war, with terrible consequences for the Middle East." Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded by pledging his country would move against Hezbollah with "full force" unless it stopped attacks.

Persons: —, Gerald Feierstein, Israel, Martin Griffiths, Lloyd Austin, Yoav Gallant, Gallant, Susan Walsh, Feierstein, Iran's U.N, Israel Katz, CQ Brown Organizations: Marine, Hezbollah, Israeli, Pentagon, Israel, Joint Chiefs, Staff Locations: Khiam, Lebanon, Israel, Lebanon's Iran, Iran, Gaza, United States, Lebanese, U.S, Washington, Israeli

☆ A Tiny Circle of Advisers Helped Prod Macron to Take a Giant Risk
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Roger Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His prime minister was among the last to know. That is how secretive, how confined to a small group of advisers President Emmanuel Macron’s shock decision to dissolve Parliament and call French legislative elections was. Gabriel Attal, 35, was a personal favorite, his wunderkind, when Mr. Macron named him prime minister in January. Mr. Macron’s style has always been intensely top-down, but this time he has played with the possibility of ushering in the once unthinkable in the form of a far-right government. A photograph posted by Mr. Macron’s official photographer on Instagram captured the dismay when, on June 9, Mr. Macron told his government of his decision.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron’s, Gabriel Attal, Macron, dumbfounded, Instagram, Attal, Darmanin Organizations: National Rally

☆ The US Navy's turning to its third carrier strike group as its warships react to Middle East conflicts with no end in sight
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is currently in South Korea, but it will soon depart for the US Central Command area of responsibility. US Navy photo via APA carrier strike group is a naval formation that includes a carrier, its air wing, and several other warships such as cruisers and destroyers. Eisenhower strike groupThe Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group first deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean in October, bringing in more firepower alongside the Ford. Roosevelt strike groupSlated to replace the Eisenhower is the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group. As for the other crises, the incoming Roosevelt carrier strike group has its work cut out for it.

Persons: —, Theodore Roosevelt Carrier, Gerald R, Ford refuels, Arleigh Burke, Thomas Hudner, Ramage, USS Carney, Roosevelt, Carney, Eisenhower, Dwight D, Ike, Theodore Roosevelt, Kyung, Maj, Pat Ryder, Ryder, Israel Organizations: Service, US Navy, Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike, US Central Command, CSG, Business, Pentagon, Ford Carrier Strike Group, AP, Ford, Ticonderoga, Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, Eisenhower, British, European Command Locations: —, Gaza, South Korea, Gulf of Aden, Israel, Lebanon, Laramie, Normandy, Iran, Persian, Gulf, Aden, Yemen, Busan

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