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☆ Colombian Children Rescued From Jungle Are Said to Be in Good Health
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Genevieve Glatsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Four Colombian children who survived in the Colombian jungle for 40 days after their plane crashed were eager to play and asked for books to read, officials said on Saturday, one day after the group was rescued. The siblings, aged 1 to 13, were recuperating at a military hospital in Bogotá, the capital, and were said to be in good health and spirits on Saturday, when they were visited by President Gustavo Petro and other officials. The country has been captivated by the children’s story, with many eagerly awaiting news of their fate since their plane crashed on May 1. The children, members of the Huitoto Indigenous community, had been traveling with their mother and an Indigenous leader from the tiny Amazon community of Araracuara, Colombia, to San José del Guaviare, a small city in central Colombia along the Guaviare River. When rescuers reached the crash site last month, the bodies of the three adults with whom they were traveling were found, but there was no sign of the children.

Persons: Gustavo Petro Locations: Colombian, Bogotá, Araracuara, Colombia, del

☆ Child plane crash survivors in "acceptable" state of health
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

BOGOTA, June 10 (Reuters) - Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia's southern jungle, after surviving a plane crash which killed their mother, are in an "acceptable" state of health, the government said on Saturday. "In general the boy and the girls are in an acceptable state. The youngest of the children turned one while in the jungle, while her brother had his fifth birthday, he said. Clues as to the siblings' whereabouts have been reported for weeks as the search, dubbed Operation Hope, continued. Three adults, including the pilot and the children's mother, died in the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane.

Persons: Gustavo Petro, Petro, Ivan Velasquez, Fidencio Valencia, Velasquez, General Carlos Rincon, Hope, Wilson, gaunt, Manuel Ranoque, San Jose del Guaviare, Carolina Pulice, Luis Jaime Acosta, Nelson Bocanegra, Oliver Griffin, Jamie Freed, Andrea Ricci Organizations: Twitter, Cessna, Thomson Locations: BOGOTA, Caqueta province, Bogota, Araracuara, Caqueta, San Jose, Guaviare

☆ Four Colombian children found alive in jungle weeks after plane crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country's south on June 9, Friday - more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said. Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country's south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said. Photos shared by Colombia's military showed a group of soldiers with the four children in the middle of the jungle. The four children who were lost ... in the Colombian jungle appeared alive," Petro said in a message via Twitter. They found them, it makes me very happy," Petro told journalists on Friday, adding the children had defended themselves alone in the middle of the jungle.

Persons: Gustavo Petro, San Jose del Guaviare, Magdalena Mucutuy, Narcizo Mucutuy, Petro Organizations: Cessna, Twitter Locations: Colombia, Colombia's, Guaviare, Araracuara, Amazonas province, San Jose, Guaviare province, Colombian

☆ Child plane crash survivors get medical care in Bogota after weeks in jungle
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Luis Jaime Acosta | Thomson Reuters | Luis Jaime Has Worked At Reuters For More Than Years. While He Chiefly Covers Colombia'S Armed Conflict | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] A view of ambulances and a plane from San Jose del Guaviare bringing in child survivors from a Cessna 206 plane that crashed in thick jungle, at the CATAM military airbase, in Bogota, Colombia, June 10, 2023. REUTERS/Luisa GonzalezBOGOTA, June 10 (Reuters) - Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in a jungle in Colombia's south following a deadly plane crash arrived in the capital Bogota early on Saturday for medical treatment. In photos shared by Colombia's military, the four children - three girls and a boy - appeared gaunt as they were being cared for by rescuers. After the plane carrying the children landed in Bogota, four ambulances were waiting at to collect them and take them to a military hospital for specialist medical care. Three adults, including the pilot and the children's mother, died in the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane.

Persons: San Jose del Guaviare, Luisa Gonzalez BOGOTA, Hope, Pedro Sanchez, gaunt, Luis Jaime Acosta, Oliver Griffin, Jamie Freed Organizations: Cessna, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: San Jose, Bogota, Colombia, Colombia's, Colombia's Caqueta, Araracuara, Caqueta, Guaviare

☆ This Is Ischia’s Moment in the Sun
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Ondine Cohane | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I fell for Ischia well before I ever visited it in person. The couple’s beautiful, tanned physiques and relaxed smiles, the perfect sand and tranquil sea, were a cinematic ad to move to Italy, and to Ischia, immediately. Ischia is one of a trio of islands (known as the Phlegraeans) off Naples that also includes Capri and Procida. There are simple bars, beach clubs and harbors more likely to dock fishing boats than megayachts. Add in natural thermal spas, lush vineyards and deserted coves, and it’s easy to see why Ischia is quickly become one of Italy’s rising destinations.

Persons: Ripley, Tom, Marge, Dickie, Procida, Marie, Louise Sció Locations: Ischia, Italy, Naples, —

☆ My Siblings’ Inheritance Depends on Whom They Marry. Is That Wrong?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Kwame Anthony Appiah | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

It isn’t really a gift if it makes you grit your teeth.” (Reread the full question and answer here.) Women have been subtly (and overtly) coerced into doing this type of supportive, unpaid work for far too long. Should a spouse do unpaid work to support the partner whom they claim to love above all others? If the letter writer needs another reason to stop performing this unpaid work, consider the message that it sends to her husband’s trainees. What the letter writer is doing is very much necessary, yet under appreciated, much like background support has been over the years.

Persons: “, you’ll, you’ve, ”, — Anne ⬥, — James ⬥ Academia, — Beth ⬥, — Maureen ⬥, I’ve, — Greta

☆ Meet Waltine Nauta, Trump's 'Diet Coke valet' who's now his co-defendant on federal charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Kelly Mclaughlin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

One of Trump's aides has been named as a co-defendant in Trump's recent federal indictment. Waltine Nauta, Trump's body man who brought him Diet Coke, has been charged with six counts. New York Magazine's Intelligencer reported that Nauta was Trump's "Diet Coke valet," the person who brought Trump a soda whenever he needed one in the White House's Oval Office. According to the Washington Post, Nauta would also bring Trump anything else he needed. He worked in the White House mess hall before becoming a valet, The Post reported.

Persons: Waltine, Coke, Trump, —, Donald Trump, Nauta, FBI Trump's, Trump's Organizations: Prosecutors, Service, FBI, Lago, New, New York Magazine's Intelligencer, Trump, Washington Post, Navy, The Post, Post, White, New York Times, Justice Department, Times Locations: White, New York, Guam, Pacific, Bedminster , New Jersey, Lago, Florida, Mar

☆ A New Front in Reparations: Seeking the Return of Lost Family Land
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Audra D. S. Burch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For much of their lives, the Jones siblings had passed by a parking lot on the campus of the University of Alabama in Huntsville without giving it much thought. Then one day, a relative casually pointed to the spot and said she thought it was once owned by their ancestors, who had farmed the land since the 1870s. The Joneses want it back. “For our family and others, it’s not just about the taking of the land, it’s about the taking of our ability to build wealth,” said Michael Jones, 63, the youngest of five brothers and sisters. African American families across the country — particularly in the South — are pushing for the return of land they say was taken in government seizures, an emerging attempt to provide economic restoration for the long saga of Black land loss and deprived inheritances.

Persons: Jones, it’s, ”, Michael Jones Organizations: University of Alabama Locations: Huntsville

Pamela Mukalasinga, 54, a small-scale trader and mother of five, would tune in religiously to Mackenzie’s Times TV channel. “The rescued child narrated the sufferings his two siblings underwent after being starved for some time before their mother suffocated them to death,” prosecutors said. Many of those found in the forest are believed to be followers of Mackenzie. This is extremism and brainwashing of the highest order,” Walid Sketty of Kenya-based human rights group Haki Africa, which has been involved in rescue operations at Shakahola, told CNN. Shibutse recalls that his mother started to observe some of Mackenzie’s doctrines denouncing healthcare and modern education for children.

Persons: Rodgers Shibutse, Pamela, Paul Mackenzie, Pamela Mukalasinga, Shibutse, Rodgers, Mackenzie, “, Paul McKenzie, ”, Malindi, ” Mackenzie, George Kariuki, Pastor Mackenzie, ” Kariuki, Kariuki, Titus Katana, GNI, Katana, “ Mackenzie, Yasuyoshi Chiba, I’ve, ” Walid Sketty, Johansen Oduor, ” Oduor, Oduor, ” Shibutse, Robert, Mackenzie’s GNI, Gideon Mung’aro, Mackenzie wasn’t, Moses Odhiambo, Kithure Kindiki, Ezekiel Ombok Odero, ” Kindiki, Jared Magolo, “ It’s, Pastor Odero, hasn’t, Odero, Odhiambo Organizations: CNN, Mackenzie’s Times, Good News International, Kenyan Red Cross, Police, National Police, Kenyan, …, Nation . Police, Workers, Getty, Government, Digital, Times TV, Citizen Digital, Prosecutors, New, Centre Church, Kenya’s Communications Authority Locations: Kenya’s, Bungoma County, Malindi, Kenya, Shakahola, Mombasa, AFP, Africa, ”, bodybags, Kenyan, Haki Africa, “, Kilifi County, Odero

☆ Jimmy Carter's legacy: How he welcomed refugees
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

These steps Carter took during his presidency are still shaping the United States, decades after he left office. Because of Carter’s actions, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing persecution had a chance to come to the United States when he was commander-in-chief. A crisis that began before Carter took office was becoming increasingly dire by the day. That respect, Nguyen says, was earned by actions that Carter took that changed the course of her parents’ lives. “They were only able to do so because of the political courage exercised by President Carter,” she says.

Persons: Jimmy Carter’s, hasn’t, Carter, ”, Kai Bird, Jimmy Carter, Bird, Carter didn’t, Fred Ihrt, ” Carter, Bee Nguyen, it’s, Nguyen, ’, “, ” Nguyen, President Carter, AAPIHeritageMonth, –, ♥️, ince, ives, K unis,, inger, egina, sia, ould, ong, ake, ariel, haring, J, ross Organizations: CNN, CBS, The New York Times, White, ust, ashington Locations: United States, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Saigon, Georgia, Thailand, Iowa, America, ife

☆ Kathleen Folbigg: Mother who served 20 years for killing her four babies pardoned
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Folbigg was jailed in 2003 on three counts of murder and one of manslaughter following the deaths of her four babies over a decade from 1989. As recently as 2019, an inquiry into her convictions found there was no reasonable doubt she had committed the crimes. But another inquiry began last year after new scientific evidence emerged that provided a genetic explanation for the children’s deaths. Examination of the babies’ remains failed to find any physical evidence they’d been suffocated, but without another plausible reasons to explain their deaths, suspicion focused on Folbigg. During Folbigg’s 2003 trial, the prosecution used “coincidence and tendency” evidence to allege that Folbigg had also killed Caleb.

Persons: Australia CNN —, General Michael Daley, Kathleen Folbigg, Daley, ” Daley, Folbigg, Sophie Callan, Folbigg’s, ” Patrick, Craig Folbigg, she’d, Caleb, Patrick, Sarah, Laura, Graham Barr, Barr, ”, Laura Folbigg, Shutterstock, ’, Tom Bathurst, Laura – Bathurst, “, Bathurst, “ We’ve, We’ve, You’d Organizations: Australia CNN, New South Wales, South, South Wales Supreme, New South, New South Wales Supreme Locations: Brisbane, Australia, NSW, South Wales, Newcastle, New South Wales, New

☆ ‘Lots of Explosions and Shooting Outside’: Giving Birth in Wartime Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Maria Varenikova | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

They squabble, as siblings do, and they both have a curious appetite for cheese, “like little mice,” their mother says. But they are small for 1-year-olds, a legacy of their premature birth during the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For seven months, Ms. Tsoi had enjoyed a happy and healthy pregnancy, largely without complications. “My mother-in-law entered our room and said, ‘The war has started,’” Ms. Tsoi said. After she had an emergency cesarean section, during which she lost enough blood to require two transfusions, her daughters, born six weeks premature, clung to life in incubators.

Persons: Amina Tsoi’s, Tsoi, ‘, ’, Ms Locations: Ukraine, Mykolaiv

☆ Opinion | Put ‘Succession’ in the TV Pantheon
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Then, too, the show’s judgment on elites can be read in two distinct ways, one more left-wing and one more right-wing. This consciousness came with varying levels of self-delusion, and none of these shows fully forgave their protagonists in the end. But the possibility of redemption existed for them at least notionally, and I think that’s why “Succession” seems like such an outlier among its peers. I think this critique is partially fair, and that, along with the strengths I described above, there is a savage superficiality to some of the characterizations in “Succession” that’s beneath the psychological level achieved on other famous TV dramas. When it comes to the desire for redemption and honesty and love, though, I’m not sure “Succession” is as barren as Phillips seems to suggest.

Persons: Kendall Roy’s, Logan, Tom Wambsgans, Roy, Naipaul, ”, Damon Linker’s, Brian Phillips’s, Tony Soprano, Walter White, Don Draper, There’s, Hank, Peggy Olson, I’m, Phillips, Shiv Roy, Shiv, Tom Organizations: “ Locations: Swedish

☆ Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck that Trala, a startup offering virtual violin lessons, used to raise $8 million from investors like Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

TralaTrala is a startup that helps adult violin students learn to play from virtual lessons. Now, the company has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six. For Trala cofounder and CEO Sam Walder, music has always been a huge part of his life. That app, called Trala, allows students to take virtual violin lessons with an instructor, and follow a practice and lesson plan. Check out the 18-slide pitch deck that edtech startup Trala used to raise $8 million in Series A funding:

Persons: Vishnu Indukuri, Sam Walder, Alexis Ohanian's Seven, Alexis Ohanian, Trala, Indukuri Organizations: University of Illinois, Seven Locations: University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign

☆ Members of Gen Z were born between 1997 and 2012. Here are 7 events that have defined their lives so far.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Elana Klein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Here are some of the generation-defining events that have had a profound effect on Gen Z. As Business Insider previously reported, Gen Z was established as a generation in 2019 by the Pew Research Center, which defines generations — such as Gen Z, Millennials, and Baby Boomers — to understand how perspectives and views change, rather than to create strict categories that define people. Here are some cultural events that have shaped the attitudes and tendencies of members of Gen Z. The recession of 2008 showed Gen Z 'the fragility inherent in the system'Members of Gen Z were children, or babies, during the Great Recession, so it hung over their formative years. Instead of looking ahead to a world of opportunities, Gen Z now peers into an uncertain future," the report continued.

Persons: Gen Z, —, Gen, Jean Guerrero, Zers, Aaron Klein, Chelsea Guglielmino, Marjory Stoneman, Donald Trump, Mark Makela, Guerrero, Olivia Julianna, Matt Gaetz, Z, George Floyd The, George Floyd —, Gen Z's, Sara Fischer, Axios Organizations: Service, Pew Research Center, Los Angeles Times, USA, Pew Research, Brookings Institution, Morning, Chelsea, Columbine High School, Washington Post, New York Times, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, LA Times, Trump, trolled, Social Locations: New York, —, Washington, lockdowns, Parkland , Florida, Texas, Minneapolis

☆ First Drought, Then Flood. Can the West Learn to Live Between Extremes?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Brooke Jarvis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Since New Year’s, storm after storm had pummeled the state, dropping epic quantities of water and snow. Houses and farms and dairies flooded, and people were using excavators to hastily build earthen dikes around their properties. In a valley where powerful interests had long jockeyed for access to water, the arguments were now about who would bear the flood. A froth of brown storm water started to spread toward the houses. Had someone intentionally cut the levee, jeopardizing Allensworth, not to mention someone else’s farm, to save his own?

Persons: Deanna Jackson, Gonzales, Ruben Guerrero, Floodwater, Jack Mitchell, Allensworth, ” Guerrero, ”, Kiara Rendon, Denise Kadara, Allen Allensworth, Kadara, Rendon Organizations: Cal Fire, Navy Locations: Year’s, Tulare, Allensworth, ”, California, farmworkers

☆ The CEO of Priceline reveals why post-pandemic 'revenge travel' is here to stay
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Brett Keller joined Priceline in 1999 just as the dot-com boom was getting in gear. Brett Keller joined the company in 1999 and rose through the ranks to become CEO in 2016. Keller, 55, who grew up in small-town Idaho, didn't travel much as a kid. And yet, Keller didn't set out to forge a career in the travel industry. We have to keep pushing the travel world in the right direction while continuing to promote travel as much as we can.

☆ What is a 529 plan? How you can score a tax break while saving for future college expenses
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair | In Kamaronmcnair | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

And what better time to think about a college savings account than 529 College Savings Day? Unlike college costs, however, your 529 plan funds can only go toward tuition for primary and high school. On top of tax-free growth, some states allow taxpayers to deduct or get a credit for 529 plan contributions on their taxes. Drawbacks of 529 savings plansOne of the main drawbacks of saving in a 529 plan is that you owe a penalty if you use the funds for an ineligible expense. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) does take 529 plan savings into account when determining your expected family contribution (EFC), but not at face value.

☆ 529 college savings plans took a hit last year: How to protect your money with more volatility ahead
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

watch nowAdvantages of a 529 planOverall, there are many advantages to a 529 plan. A few states also offer additional benefits, such as scholarships or matching grants, to their residents if they invest in their home state's 529 plan. Further, you can now put some of the funds toward your student loan tab: up to $10,000 for each plan beneficiary, as well as another $10,000 for each of the beneficiary's siblings. And starting in 2024, savers can roll money from 529 plans over to Roth individual retirement accounts free of income tax or tax penalties. Still, the time horizon for college is much shorter compared with most retirement savings accounts, he added.

☆ 34-year-old makes up to $167 an hour nannying for the mega-rich: I could work just 2 months a year and 'be fine'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

When Gloria Richards isn't acting on off-Broadway stages, she travels with billionaires' kids, often whom she's never met, across the world. Richards spends half of each year nannying for the ultra-wealthy to supplement her income between off-Broadway and one-woman shows in New York City and Virginia. "What feeds me is being able to work so closely with these kids." Nannying for the ultra-wealthy isn't always about childcare: She spends most of her working hours coordinating children's educational and social calendars. She gets paid up to $2,000 per day for 12 to 15 hours of work, she says.

☆ Before Carlos Alcaraz Was Great, He Was Good Enough to Be Lucky
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Matthew Futterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

So Grandpa Alcaraz (another Carlos) made sure to include those courts with the development. López Rueda is the tennis-mad chief executive of Postres Reina, which is based in Caravaca de la Cruz. But López Rueda doesn’t just like tennis; he likes to play tennis on red clay. One day López Rueda agreed to watch the boy play and it was unlike anything he had ever seen. Alcaraz became the first, wearing the company logo on his shirts.

☆ Opinion: The ultimate ‘Succession’ lesson
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. Walt Handlesman/Tribune Content AgencyIn a much more ominous vein, the theme of survival dominates the HBO show “Succession,” which is coming to an end Sunday. She’s so caught up in beating her brothers at the succession game that she can’t see this baby as anything but an obstacle.”“Ultimately, this storyline is a perfect encapsulation of the larger tragedy that is ‘Succession,’” Bodenheimer added. The contest for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination heated up last week with the official entry of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former President Donald Trump’s strongest challenger in the polls.

☆ 4 things 'Succession' gets wrong about business
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

HBO's hit show "Succession" airs its series finale Sunday night, with Waystar Royco's future in the balance. It captures the spirit of boardroom drama, but takes some liberties with corporate law, experts said. On HBO's hit show "Succession," the beats of a proxy fight are sometimes just as intense as a scheming betrayal from a once loyal lackey. Over four seasons, the show has laid out a thesis about the all-encompassing gravitational force of Logan Roy, the media mogul behind the fictional news and entertainment conglomerate Waystar Royco. "But the failure of the board to engage in any succession planning at all, is a first thing to note," she said.

☆ Ayvalık and Cunda: Turkey's prettiest Aegean coast resorts
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-24 | by ( Feride Yalav-Heckeroth | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Alongside classic beach towns like Bodrum and Alaçatı, two of the coast’s loveliest spots are the little-known seaside town of Ayvalık and the nearby island of Cunda. Near the Taksiyarhis Memorial Museum, in a beautifully renovated historic house with large arched windows, is Moyy Atölye. For a truly Aegean dining experience inside an olive grove, Karina Ayvalık is worth the 10-minute drive south to the village of Küçükköy. “I can breathe in the Aegean air and feel history as I walk through the old streets with their historic houses. Getting lost on Cunda leads to discoveries – like the Cunda Taksiyarhis Rahmi M. Koç Museum inside a renovated Greek Orthodox church with a collection of antique cars, motorcycles and toys.

☆ The mourning dress codes of ‘Succession’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Jacquelyn Palumbo | Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“Succession” has treated us to both a wedding and a funeral as fate of the Roy siblings spin out towards its finale (which is produced by Warner Bros. Discovery, parent company of CNN), and its penultimate episode gave us mourning dress codes in a grand Catholic setting. “I can do anything — my dad just died,” Shiv responds when asked for a favor at the mass. By episode nine, with the company in a shaky post-Logan transition, the optics of how the Roy siblings perform at the funeral hold a lot of weight. Emotions must be stamped down, they maintain a fragile façade, and getting too close to the truth of Logan Roy is met with a wall of cognitive dissonance.

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