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☆ Cancer Drug Advancements Give New Hope to Metastatic Patients - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Kate Pickert | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In some cases, patients like Ms. MacKenzie with cancer that has spread inside their bodies — called metastatic disease — are able to stay alive much longer than previously predicted. Until recently, the prevailing wisdom in oncology was that many early-stage cancer patients could be cured, but metastatic disease was almost always incurable. This thinking drove cancer research, treatment and care for decades. Since metastatic disease was usually considered incurable, research focused on early-stage disease. Right now, two relatively new classes of cancer drugs are displacing traditional chemotherapy for many types of cancer and giving metastatic patients, in particular, more time.

Persons: MacKenzie, Oncologists, John McCain —

☆ Opinion: Trump’s case is a crucial test for justice in America
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Opinion Jill Filipovic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

This is the first time a former American president has been arraigned on federal charges. Jill Filipovic Courtesy of Jill FilipovicFormer President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 federal charges at a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday afternoon. The indictment says that Trump willfully retained national security information, violated the Espionage Act more than 30 times, and conspired to obstruct justice, among other crimes. What is clear, though, is that this case will be a test of the US justice system and the strength of national institutions in a (for now) post-Trump America. Any president who is found to have used national security documents for bragging rights and flouted American law must be held accountable.

Persons: Jill Filipovic, Donald Trump, “, Trump, Trump’s, Bill Barr, Aileen Cannon, Trump –, Judge Cannon, –, ”, Kevin McCarthy, Chris Christie, Mitch McConnell, Joe Biden Organizations: Twitter, CNN, US, Fox News, Trump America, FBI, Republican, GOP, Republican Party, Trump, Justice Department, Gallup, Facebook Locations: New York, American, Miami, United States, Florida, Mar, America, –, New Jersey

☆ Where Presidential Hopes Go to Die - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Gail Collins | Bret Stephens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But speaking of forest fires, shall we get to that latest Trump indictment? Gail: We’re obviously in history-making territory — first former president indicted in a criminal case brought by the federal government. And this one, which involves trying to stash away official papers he’d been told were government property, is certainly a classic Trump combination of shocking and stupid. That may be about as close to a slam dunk, legally speaking, as we’re ever going to get in a case like this. Bret: The second thought is that a special counsel appointed by President Biden’s attorney general is bringing a criminal case against the president’s presumptive opponent in next year’s election.

Persons: Gail, We’re, he’d, Bret, I’m, ” Gail, Jack Smith, Trump, Biden’s, Damon Organizations: Georgia

☆ Charlie Javice, the founder of student loan assistance company Frank, appears in court over allegations she bought or invented email addresses to claim millions of users
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Javice is accused of inflating the number Frank's users before she sold it to JPMorgan Chase. The charges represented a significant fall for one of the much-lauded young fintech founders. But within a year of selling Frank to JPMorgan Chase, the bank cried foul, claiming that the number of users had been wildly inflated. The complaint alleges that Javice bought names and email addresses from third parties and then represented them as Frank customers. Fergenson explained that Javice had made JPMorgan Chase, "believe that Frank had been an extremely successful start up."

Persons: Charlie Javice, Frank, Javice, JPMorgan Chase, Jarvis, Micah F, Fergenson, octogenarian, Alvin K, Morgan Chase, Judge Hellerstein, Alex Spiro Organizations: JPMorgan, Manhattan, Frank's, Forbes, U.S, Southern, of, Securities and Exchange Commission Locations: of New York

☆ The Mystery of the Vanishing Kestrels: What’s Happening to This Flashy Falcon?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Catrin Einhorn | Bryan Anselm | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At first, people thought it might be a housing shortage. Scientists had noticed worrisome declines in the American kestrel, a small, flashy falcon found coast to coast. The downturn was especially puzzling because birds of prey in North America are largely considered a conservation bright spot. “Why are all these other raptors doing great when the American kestrel is on the decline?” said Chris McClure, who directs global conservation science at the Peregrine Fund, a conservation group. Scientists and members of the public set out nest boxes, and kestrels moved in.

Persons: ”, Chris McClure, kestrels Organizations: Peregrine Locations: North America, United States, Turkey

☆ ‘The Pictures Are Miracles’: How Judith Joy Ross Finds Pain and Nobility in Portraits
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Arthur Lubow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a room hung with empathetic black-and-white photographic portraits for her retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Judith Joy Ross, frail-looking and white-haired, was recently taking pictures for her next series. Posing a guard in front of her old-fashioned wooden view camera, she chattered on in an obscenity-laced monologue about her ineptitude. “That’s great,” she gushed. “Everybody can see that’s great. Ross turned to me and said, “People don’t like to be photographed, but photographers also don’t like to photograph.

Persons: Judith Joy Ross, “, Ross, it’s Organizations: Philadelphia Museum of Art

☆ Utah changed its state flag to honor Mormon work ethic — but it was a total flop. Now, even the state's governor admitted he 'should have known better.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Utah's new flag design is ruffling feathers, and people are already trying to replace it. Spencer Cox said that he should "have known better" that the new flag would be unpopular. Brandon Beckham, a member of Utah's Republican party central committee, told the Journal that the new design is "just a logo." "The original Utah flag has built in its ideals that are true to the founding of the state that are linked to history," Beckham told the Journal. Ryan Woods, a conservative drag performer known as Lady MAGA USA, said the change flies in the face of history.

☆ Haaland breaks Premier League record as Man City reclaim top spot
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

West Ham remain in trouble in 15th place, four points above the relegation zone. West Ham, hampered by the absence of midfielders Declan Rice and Tomas Soucek, defended valiantly with the colossal Angelo Ogbonna heading away cross after cross. West Ham still looked capable of adding a twist to the title script until Grealish released Haaland for his milestone moment. Foden then put the icing on his side's ninth successive league win with the 1,000th goal in Guardiola's City reign. As well as five league games left, City are in the semi-finals of the Champions League and FA Cup final.

Jeremy Selwyn/WPA Pool/Getty Images Camilla stands next to Queen Elizabeth II during a Diamond Jubilee pageant on the River Thames in June 2012. Chris Jackson/Getty Images From left, Camilla, Charles, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip attend the state opening of Parliament in May 2013. From left are Camilla, Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Louis, Duchess Catherine, Princess Charlotte, Prince George and Prince William. Frank Augstein/WPA Pool/Getty Images In pictures: Britain's Queen Camilla Prev NextShe reportedly met Prince Charles at a polo match in Windsor in 1970 and they became friends. From left are Camilla, Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Louis, Duchess Catherine, Princess Charlotte, Prince George and Prince William.

CNN —President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden capped South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s official state visit with a glamorous state dinner at the White House Wednesday night to celebrate the two nations’ 70-year alliance. May we do it together for another 170 years.”But Biden wasn’t the only leader who took the mic. Following a round of musical performances, his South Korean counterpart joined him on stage to give his own – a karaoke rendition of Don McClean’s “American Pie” – which received a standing ovation from the crowd. The elaborate dinner is the result of weeks of careful diplomatic preparations, with each detail meticulously planned by a team of White House chefs, social staff, and protocol experts. U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden pose with South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee in front of the Grand Staircase of the White House before an official State Dinner, in Washington, U.S. April 26, 2023.

☆ Harry Belafonte, Folk Hero
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

And rather than simply translate his hot-ticket cabaret act for American living rooms, Belafonte imagined something stranger and more alluring. “The bleaker my acting prospects looked,” Belafonte wrote, in “My Song,” his memoir from 2011, “the more I threw myself into political organizing.” That organizing took familiar forms — marches, protests, rallies. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with Coretta Scott King as the beneficiary, because Dr. King didn’t believe he could afford it. (“Martin began drafting his antiwar speech in my apartment.”) So, yes, Belafonte was near the psychic core and administrative center of the movement. But those bleak Hollywood prospects — some incalculable combination of racism and too-raw talent — kept Belafonte uniquely earthbound, doing a kind of cultural organizing.

☆ ‘Barry’ Is Ending. For Anthony Carrigan, That’s Nothing to Be Afraid Of
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

That hair and the worry that he would lose it were sources of anxiety. “I really had nothing to lose at that point,” he said as he spooned horseradish onto an oyster. Whatever parts did come his way, he would play the hell out of them. And it netted him an audition for “Barry.”NoHo Hank, intended as a minor antagonist, is a member of a Chechen mob. “He’s a lovable scorpion,” Carrigan explained at the oyster counter.

☆ Senate leader Schumer blasts Fox News' Tucker Carlson, Speaker McCarthy over Jan. 6 footage
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) listens as Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) speaks at a press conference on the Senate’s upcoming procedural vote to codify Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Capitol Building on May 05, 2022 in Washington, DC. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday strongly condemned Fox News host Tucker Carlson for airing footage of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection to portray it as a peaceful visit to the U.S. Capitol. Schumer, D-N.Y., also criticized in blistering terms House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for giving Carlson and Fox News exclusive access to 44,000 hours of Capitol security footage that Carlson used to build that false narrative for his broadcast Monday evening. "I and so many others who were here" on Jan. 6, 2021, "are just furious with Tucker Carson and Kevin McCarthy today," Schumer said on the Senate floor. And he said Carlson had cherry-picked security footage to make "bald-faced lies" about the invasion of the Capitol by hundreds of supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

☆ Another 70 Olaplex customers just joined the hair-loss lawsuit against the trendy hair care brand
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Dozens more customers have joined an ongoing lawsuit against the TikTok-famous brand Olaplex. More than 100 customers now say in an amended suit that they suffered physical injuries like hair loss. Olaplex has said clinical tests have shown its hair products to be "safe and effective." Dozens of customers have joined an amended complaint filed Thursday night in California federal court, adding to a rising volume of allegations that Olaplex products can cause hair loss and scalp problems. "However, Olaplex products do not cause hair loss or hair breakage."

☆ Words including 'fat,' 'ugly' and 'crazy' have been removed from Roald Dahl's books, but the publisher said the 'sharp-edged spirit' of the original text has been maintained
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Language in the latest editions of some Roald Dahl books has been changed, The Telegraph reported. The Roald Dahl Story Company said the changes mean the books "can continue to be enjoyed by all." Roald Dahl, who died in 1990, is one of the most successful authors of all time. The Roald Dahl Story Company, which manages the copyright of Roald Dahl's books and collaborated with Puffin to update the texts, said that "the irreverence and sharp-edged spirit" of the original books had not been lost. Many of Roald Dahl's books have been turned into films or TV shows.

☆ Olaplex CEO says hair loss complaints are 'sadly, a fact of life in our industry' as she's slammed with a new lawsuit and PR nightmare
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

JuE Wong said that Olaplex's hair care products are "safe and effective" in a LinkedIn post. The company is facing a lawsuit that claims Olaplex products damaged some customers' hair. But JuE Wong, Olaplex's CEO, said in a LinkedIn post on Thursday that Olaplex's products are not to blame for those problems. She quoted recent articles on Olaplex, including Insider's coverage, which say that a direct connection between the products and effects like hair loss are hard to prove. A Facebook group called "Olaplex Hair Loss/Hair Damage?"

☆ See the photos that won National Geographic’s ‘Pictures of the Year’ contest
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Audrey Wan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

National Geographic announced the winning photographs from its first "Pictures of the Year" photo competition. The photo will be featured in an upcoming issue of National Geographic's U.S. magazine. Their photos will be published on National Geographic's Your Shot Instagram page, which has some 6.5 million followers. Salt wells on a hillside in the Salt Mines of Maras in Peru. An LiThe mines comprise around 4,500 salt wells, each of which produces some 400 pounds of salt per month.

☆ Premarket stocks: Don't underestimate the American shopper
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

All that extra cash should support strong spending through February and perhaps March, said Bank of America analysts. That means the Fed may use the strong data as an excuse to keep hiking interest rates. Recession risk may be deferred, but it certainly hasn’t dissipated.”PPI, housing starts and bald spots: What investors are watching today▸ Thursday morning brings two big data releases: The January Producer Price Index and housing starts. ▸ Housing starts, a measure of new home construction, have declined every month since August. Housing starts are expected to decline slightly.

☆ Olaplex fights back against lawsuit accusing the buzzy brand of causing hair loss
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Olaplex, facing a new lawsuit over its hair products, said tests show its products are safe. The brand, a staple in TikTok hair care routines, posted "third-party" test records on its website. "As such, there is no induced inflammation to the hair follicle, which is the primary cause of hair loss." The test reports that Olaplex posted were issued by a number of laboratories including BioScreen Testing Services Inc., Consumer Product Testing Company, and Brazil-based Allergisa Pesquisa Dermato Cosmética Ltda. A representative for Olaplex said on Wednesday that the HRIPT reports are "industry standard and reflect the use of Olaplex products under real world conditions."

☆ Olaplex sued for allegedly causing hair loss and bald spots
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ A job applicant who lost her hair when she had cancer says interviewers called her headpiece not 'professional' enough
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Krystal Garmon said the interviewers called the headpiece she wore not "professional" enough. The interview was "really great," Garmon told Insider. The two interviewers told her what the job entails, asked her questions, and came across as "really kind," she said. Based on the feedback from the interviewers, Garmon expected another call with the company to follow. Garmon told Insider that after she heard what the interviewers said she hung up the call and "broke down crying."

☆ A former sales director will get more than $86,000 after his boss allegedly said he didn't want a team of 'bald-headed 50-year-old men' who were a 'mirror image' of himself
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A former UK sales director will get more than $86,000 after alleging wrongful dismissal and age discrimination. Mark Jones, now in his 60s, claims his former boss said, "I don't want a team of bald-headed 50-year-old men." Jones says he was later put on a "sham" performance improvement plan that led to him resigning last year. Mark Jones was a sales director at UK-based cell phone company Tango Networks. "I don't want a team of bald-headed 50-year-old men — I want to change the dynamics," Hesketh allegedly said.

☆ Olaplex hit with lawsuit by customers accusing the buzzy brand of causing hair loss, downplaying complaints
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Insider has previously reported on Olaplex customers who said they experienced hair loss and got refunds. "OLAPLEX products do not cause hair loss or hair breakage," a spokesperson for the company told Insider in a statement. Insider has previously reported on customers alleging that they experienced hair loss after using Olaplex products and reported that some had even received refunds. Olaplex's statement added that there are "a wide variety of reasons for hair breakage or hair loss," calling the allegations in the lawsuit, "baseless accusations." "Defendants have been dismissive of their customers' hair loss, instead describing hair shedding as normal and unavoidable and attributing the hair loss to a long list of other potential causes," they wrote.

☆ Russian censors scour the internet for claims Putin is a 'bald dwarf' or seriously ill, leaked documents show
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Russian government unit scours the internet for insults about Putin, reports say. Staff at the agency will reportedly hunt down insults about Putin classed as "negative discrediting information", including labelling the Russian president a "thief," or a "bald dwarf". They are allegedly charged with tracking comparisons of Putin to negative figures, such as serial killers or in pornographic films. The Kremlin has closely monitored the internet for signs of dissent, clamping down on Russian search engine Yandex, Reuters reported. According to a Wall Street Journal report last year, Putin never uses the internet because he's concerned about being spied on.

☆ I've donated my hair to charity 4 times, but I probably never will again. Here's what you need to know if you want to do it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Rebecca Harrington | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

I've donated my hair to charity four times, but I don't plan to again because there's less need now. I've donated my hair to charity four times. Human hair wigs usually have to be cut, colored, styled, and fit specifically to the person's head, Hernandez-Salas said. There's just much less demand for human hair wigs than there was years ago. Before she lost her hair, Melore donated it and got a wig from the American Cancer Society all in the same day.

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