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☆ While Lana Del Rey was serving customers at a Waffle House, David Letterman was bagging groceries in Iowa
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Like Lana Del Rey’s apparent new gig moonlighting as a waitress at an Alabama Waffle House, late night icon David Letterman, too, landed a new job… sort of. Letterman is seen in the video perusing the aisles of the Hy-Vee, bagging groceries, eating uncooked minestrone soup and telling customers on the loudspeaker that “today and today only,” celery was free. Letterman was reportedly in Des Moines over the weekend to attend the Hy-Vee IndyCar Race, where Christian Lundgaard was driving the No. Last week, videos showing the singer donning a Waffle House uniform while serving customers from behind the counter began to circulate on social media. Letterman and Del Rey aren’t the only famous faces to surprise patrons as unsuspecting staff members in recent months.

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☆ Tony Bennett, crooner who sang ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco,’ dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

CNN —Legendary singer Tony Bennett, best known for singing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” has died, according to his longtime publicist, Sylvia Weiner. From Tony Bennett Bennett was discovered by Bob Hope while performing at a New York City club in 1949. In 1963, his recording of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" won Grammy Awards for record of the year and best solo vocal performance. ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television/Getty Images Bennett and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein hang onto the outside of a San Francisco cable car before taking a test ride in 1984. His performance of “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” won Grammys for best record and best male vocal performance.

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☆ Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

US singer Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) performs on stage during an invitation only concert at the newly opened Encore Boston Harbor Casino in Everett, Massachusetts on August 8, 2019. "No country has given the world such great music," Bennett said in a 2015 interview with Downbeat Magazine. The evening's performance resulted in the album, "Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged," which won two Grammys, including album of the year. Bennett would win Grammys for his tributes to female vocalists ("Here's to the Ladies"), Billie Holiday ("Tony Bennett on Holiday"), and Duke Ellington ("Bennett Sings Ellington — Hot & Cool"). He also won two Emmy Awards — for "Tony Bennett Live By Request: A Valentine Special" (1996) and "Tony Bennett: An American Classic" (2007).

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☆ There’s a British Open Winner Coaching High School Golf in Ohio
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Alan Blinder | More About Alan Blinder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This kind of understated Friday morning is very much how Curtis likes his life two decades after he made his major tournament debut at the British Open — and won. Championship and a Players Championship, a spot on a Ryder Cup-winning team, a few other PGA Tour victories — but never the major-winning magic. He last played a tour event in 2017, finishing with career earnings of more than $13.7 million. Today, he coaches his son’s golf team at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent, Ohio, and teaches at a golf academy that bears his name. On Thursday, the Open will begin at Royal Liverpool.

Persons: David Letterman, Ben Curtis, steeling, Curtis, George’s, Theodore Organizations: Royal St, Ryder, Theodore Roosevelt High School, Royal Liverpool Locations: Cleveland, South Carolina, London, Kent , Ohio, Royal

☆ A New Interest in Unions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( David Leonhardt | More About David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Cantor was one of the founders of a new Hollywood labor union, the Screen Actors Guild, along with James Cagney, Miriam Hopkins, Groucho Marx, Spencer Tracy and others. The previous month, the union’s members had elected Cantor as their president. During Roosevelt’s early flurry of legislation, he signed an economic recovery bill that included a provision giving workers a clearer right to join labor unions than they had previously had. Americans responded by signing up for unions by the thousands. By inviting Cantor to join him for Thanksgiving, Roosevelt reminded Americans of the central role that labor unions played in a healthy capitalist economy.

Persons: Franklin Roosevelt, Eddie Cantor, Cantor, James Cagney, Miriam Hopkins, Groucho Marx, Spencer Tracy, Roosevelt Organizations: Hollywood’s, Screen Actors, Hollywood Locations: Warm Springs, Ga

☆ Unions are having a major moment — but don't expect a 1930s-level boom
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

While unions are more popular than they've been in decades, a smaller share of workers are in unions. It's unclear if the strike wave will translate into a labor resurgence absent pro-union legislation. According to Gallup polling, 71% of Americans said they approved of labor unions in 2022, up from 48% in 2009, marking the highest level of public support since 1965. But none of this necessarily means we're approaching a union boom anywhere near the levels of the 1930s. So while unions are certainly having a moment, it's not yet clear if we're approaching the labor resurgence that some are hoping for.

Persons: they've, Joe's, Alexander Hertel, Fernandez, David Leonhardt, Biden Organizations: Service, Gallup, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Workers, Columbia University, The New York Times, House Democrats, Republicans Locations: Wall, Silicon, unionizing, today's Congress

☆ A Positive Covid Milestone
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( David Leonhardt | More About David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Most immunocompromised people are at little additional risk from Covid — even people with serious conditions, such as multiple sclerosis or a history of many cancers. The C.D.C.’s main Covid webpage estimates that about 80 people per day have been dying from the virus in recent weeks, which is equal to about 1 percent of overall daily deaths. data suggests that almost one-third of official recent Covid deaths have fallen into this category. “I don’t know anybody who thinks we’re going to eradicate Covid,” Jha said. Given the politics of vaccination, the recent victims are also disproportionately Republican and white.

Persons: —, we’re, ” Jha, Shira Doron, ” Organizations: Tufts Medicine Locations: Covid, Massachusetts

☆ The Semiconductor Struggle
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( David Leonhardt | More About David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have both visited Beijing in recent weeks partly to improve communication between the two countries. Biden administration officials appear close to announcing rules restricting American firms from investing in many cutting-edge Chinese technology companies. The Biden administration put the restrictions in place Oct. 7. Muse, a semiconductor expert at Evercore ISI, an investment advisory firm. The article explains how the Biden administration is trying to prevent China from getting access to cutting-edge semiconductors, which are vital to many digital technologies.

Persons: Janet Yellen, Antony Blinken, Biden, ” Yellen, Yellen, Gina Raimondo, you’d, would’ve, ”, C.J, Alex Palmer, Alex Organizations: “, U.S, Biden, ISI, Times Locations: U.S, China, Beijing, Japan, Netherlands, Taiwan

☆ A Turning Point for Military Spending
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( David Leonhardt | More About David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But starting in 2012, Shinzo Abe, then the prime minister, began pushing for a new approach, one that he argued was more fitting for modern realities. Japan’s current prime minister, Fumio Kishida, plans to raise defense spending gradually to 2 percent of economic output, and the public reaction has been “remarkably sanguine,” Motoko says. The additional money that countries spend on defense is money they cannot spend on roads, child care, cancer research, refugee resettlement, public parks or clean energy, my colleague Patricia points out. One reason Macron has insisted on raising France’s retirement age despite widespread protests, analysts believe, is a need to leave more money for the military. Those other countries, sensing a more threatening world, are now once again promising to pull their weight.

Persons: Shinzo Abe, Motoko Rich, Fumio Kishida, ” Motoko, Patricia, Macron, — Organizations: North Locations: Japan, Germany, Tokyo, China, North Korea

☆ The Global Immigration Backlash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( David Leonhardt | More About David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Rutte’s decisionWith today’s left-leaning and centrist parties largely accepting of high levels of immigration, right-wing parties have become attractive to many voters who favor less immigration. The governing coalition there collapsed on Friday after centrist parties refused to accept part of the conservative prime minister’s plan to reduce migration. Rather than alter his plan, the prime minister, Mark Rutte, dissolved the government, setting up an election this fall. Yet he came to believe that reducing immigration was “a matter of political survival” for his party, my colleagues Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Claire Moses reported. Although the details are different, President Biden has also recently taken steps to reduce unauthorized immigration.

Persons: today’s, Jason Horowitz, Jason, Mark Rutte, Matina Stevis, Claire Moses, Biden Organizations: The Times, Democratic Party Locations: France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Netherlands, Dutch, U.S, Mexico, Europe

☆ A woman filed a lawsuit claiming her eye had to be removed due to 'defective' lenses made by Hubble Contacts
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Stephanie Guarisco claimed in a lawsuit that an eye had to be removed due to her Hubble contacts. She accused the company of selling "unsafe, defective" contact lenses that left her in severe pain. A New Mexico woman has filed a complaint alleging she was sold defective contact lenses that led to the loss of her eye. Guarisco is suing Vision Path, Hubble Contacts' parent company, for consumer fraud and negligence. "Hubble contact lenses were unsafe, defective, and inherently dangerous in that the contact lenses were subject to a high rate of eye infections and corneal damage during normal and customary use," the complaint stated.

Persons: Stephanie Guarisco, Guarisco, Guarisco's, David Lever, Hubble, Ken Paxton Organizations: CBS News, New York, Hubble, Path, Food and Drug Administration, Federal Trade Commission Locations: New Mexico, Guarisco, Texas

☆ How Elba Makes a Living Wage
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( David Leonhardt | More About David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Early in Barack Obama’s recent Netflix documentary series about American jobs, viewers meet a housekeeper at the Pierre Hotel in New York named Elba. Elba is meant to be a symbol of difficult service-industry work in today’s economy. “I don’t worry too much about money,” said Elba, who recently became a grandmother, “because I know I can count on my paycheck.”Many other service workers earn far less. Full-time Starbucks baristas in New York City often earn less than $35,000 a year, while many Walmart employees make even less. Across New York City, the median household income is about $75,000 — which is less than Elba and Francisco make.

Persons: Barack Obama’s, Elba, Francisco, Pierre Hotel’s, ” Organizations: Netflix, Pierre, Walmart Locations: New York, Elba, New York City, Francisco

☆ Why Does New Hampshire Go First?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( David Leonhardt | More About David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

New England biasNew Hampshire’s critics often point out the many ways it does not look like the rest of America. I have covered the New Hampshire primary, and I too found it charming. The clearest pattern is that New Hampshire prefers Democrats from nearby, regardless of their ideology or national appeal. The closest thing to a substantive counterargument from New Hampshire officials is that their state is a swing state, unlike South Carolina, which is solidly Republican. In a very close national election, New Hampshire might even determine the Electoral College result.

Persons: Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Clinton, “, Bernie Sanders, John Kerry, Paul Tsongas, Michael Dukakis, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Marianne Williamson, ” Ray Buckley Organizations: New, Democratic, New Hampshire, Biden, New Hampshire Democratic Party Locations: England, America, New, Greece, United States, Hampshire, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, South Carolina

☆ Social Class Is Not About Only Race
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The same is true at some other public universities, including Auburn, Georgia Tech and William & Mary. It is also true at a larger group of elite private colleges, including Bates, Brown, Georgetown, Oberlin, Tulane and Wake Forest. Nearly every college with an affluent enrollment has historically used race-based admissions policies. Those policies often succeeded at producing racial diversity without producing as much economic diversity. And whether they figure out how to do so is important (as I’ve previously covered).

Persons: Mary, Bates, Brown Organizations: University of Virginia, UVA, Grants, Georgia Tech, Oberlin, Tulane, Wake Locations: Auburn, Georgetown

☆ Former world number one Wozniacki announces comeback
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

COPENHAGEN, June 29 (Reuters) - Caroline Wozniacki is set to make a comeback to tennis after the former world number one said on Thursday that she was ready to return to the Tour having retired from the sport in 2020 to start a family. Danish player Wozniacki spent 71 weeks at the top of the world rankings and finished with 30 singles titles - including a Grand Slam crown at the Australian Open in 2018. The United States Tennis Association later announced that Wozniacki, a two-time finalist at Flushing Meadows, had been awarded a wildcard for the Grand Slam that begins on Aug. 28. The Dane, who turns 33 next month, said she was inspired by 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams after the American returned to the sport following the birth of her daughter Olympia. "I think that Serena doesn't get nearly enough credit for getting to so many Grand Slam finals after having Olympia," she said.

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☆ Caroline Wozniacki plans return to tennis at US Open three years after retiring from the sport
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Jill Martin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

1 and the 2018 Australian Open champion, has announced she’s returning to tennis. Wozniacki, now 32, had retired from the sport following the 2020 Australian Open after a 15-year career, winning 30 singles titles. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images/FILE“So I’m going to play the US Open,” Wozniacki said in the Vogue story. The Danish star also referenced playing with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which she was diagnosed with in 2018, in the Vogue story. I’m not putting as much pressure on myself, but at the same time I know when I’m out there, I’m going to be fighting.”

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☆ Analysis: Contrarians bet U.S. energy shares will shake doldrums in 2023's second half
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( David Randall | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

That has hurt shares of energy companies: after soaring in 2022, the S&P 500 energy sector (.SPNY) has lost nearly 10% this year, making it the index’s worst performing sector. Most investors believe central bank interest rate hikes to fight inflation should keep a lid on global growth for the time being. Yet some are positioning for a rebound in energy shares, drawn by attractive valuations and signs the U.S. will continue to stave off an economic downturn. Stan Majcher, a portfolio manager at Hotchkis & Wiley, is among those counting on oil prices rebounding due to tight supply. “If you don’t get it, the path of least resistance is for oil prices to move much higher," he said.

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The planned end of the MINUSMA mission follows years of tensions between the U.N. and Mali's military junta that came to a head this month when Mali Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop asked the force to leave "without delay". The U.N. mission is credited with playing a vital role in protecting civilians against an Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands. Under the draft text, MINUSMA would have until Dec. 31 to undertake an "orderly and safe" withdrawal, which the Security Council would review by Oct. 30. A UN peacekeeping spokesperson said: "Subject to the decision of the Security Council, the United Nations is ready to work with the Malian authorities on an exit plan for MINUSMA." The U.N. had been expected to extend its mandate for another year this month, before Mali asked it to leave.

Persons: Adama Diarra, Abdoulaye Diop, Russia's Wagner, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, MINUSMA, David Lewis, Edward McAllister, Michelle Nichols, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: UN, United Nations, Reuters, Mali Foreign, Security Council, Thomson Locations: Kouroume, Mali, Kourome, Timbuktu, Mali Mali, NAIROBI, DAKAR, Mali's, Russia, Belarus, China, United States, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, al Qaeda, West Africa, Gao, Algiers Accords

The U.N. mission is credited with playing a vital role in protecting civilians against an Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands. "The Security Council ... decides to terminate MINUSMA's mandate as of June 30 2023," said the draft resolution circulated among council member states last week. A draft resolution could still be changed before publication, but two of the sources said they expected no changes to be made. The 15-member Security Council is due to vote on Thursday. Under the draft resolution, operations would be pared down to providing security to U.N. personnel, facilities and convoys.

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☆ Democracy and Reality
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

India is both the world’s most populous country and the only country among the top 10 economies that has not clearly chosen a side in what President Biden calls the struggle between democracy and autocracy. On the one hand, India is skeptical of a Western-led world and has helped to finance Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine by continuing to buy Russian oil. At a White House news conference with Biden yesterday, Modi brushed aside reporters’ questions about these issues. Were the Biden administration to choose its international friends based only on their commitment to freedom and democracy, Modi’s India would be a strange nation to celebrate with White House pomp. But the reality is that the U.S. can’t have everything that it wants in foreign policy.

Persons: Biden, Vladimir Putin’s, Narendra Modi, Modi’s, Putin, Modi Organizations: White House Locations: India, Ukraine, Washington

☆ The Politics of Class
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The class inversion in American politics — Republicans’ struggles with college graduates and Democrats’ struggles with the working class — is a running theme of this newsletter. To help make sense of it, I asked four Times Opinion writers to join me in an exchange this morning. And in the past five years, the party has lost ground with working-class voters of color. Dems need to relearn how to talk to working-class voters — to sound less condescending and scoldy. Too many Democrats radiate an aura of, If only voters understood what was good for them, they would back us.

Persons: Republicans ’, ’, Michelle Cottle, Carlos Lozada, Lydia Polgreen, Ross Douthat, they’re, ” David, Don’t Organizations: Republicans

☆ Waiting for the Justices
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sometime in the next 10 days, the Supreme Court is expected to tightly restrict or ban race-based affirmative action in college admissions. The ruling could come as soon as tomorrow or as late as Friday, June 30, before the justices leave for their summer break. The justices faced a fundamental decision: Should they overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to outlaw abortion? Once a majority of justices decided to do so, the written opinions that they released were less meaningful. “The decision in Dobbs was essentially binary,” Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times, told me.

Persons: Dobbs, Roe, Wade, Adam Liptak, ” Organizations: Jackson, Health Organization, The Times

☆ Republicans Against Inequality
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Vance, the Ohio Republican, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts progressive, have collaborated on a bill to claw back executive pay at failed banks. The two worked through the details through in-person conversations, weekend phone calls and late-night texts. Rubio this month published a book, “Decades of Decadence,” that criticizes the past 30 years of globalization. Tomorrow afternoon, these four Republican senators — Cotton, Rubio, Vance and Young — will speak at an event on Capitol Hill that’s meant to highlight the emergence of a populist conservative movement in economics. Cass is right about that: Income growth for most families has been sluggish for decades, trailing well behind economic growth.

Persons: J.D, Vance, Elizabeth Warren, Marco Rubio, Rubio, Todd Young, Tom Cotton of, Biden, — Cotton, Young —, ”, Oren Cass, Mitt Romney, Cass, ” Cass Organizations: Ohio Republican, Todd Young of Indiana, Capitol, Conservative, American Locations: Massachusetts, Marco Rubio of Florida, Tom Cotton of Arkansas

☆ Rio Tinto iron ore train derailed at weekend in Western Australia
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

SummarySummary Companies About 30 wagons of self-driving train derailedNo injuries reportedUnclear if Rio will be able to meet customer commitmentsMELBOURNE, June 19 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto (RIO.AX) was working on Monday to recover about 30 wagons of a self-driving iron ore train that derailed in Western Australia, an accident that analysts said had the potential to disrupt its exports, although no one was injured. Saturday's incident was the second such event after peer BHP Group (BHP.AX) derailed a runaway iron ore train in the same region in late 2018. "The regulator has approved recovery of the site and work to recover the derailed wagons has commenced." Rio exports from Dampier port and through Cape Lambert in the northern part of Western Australia state. Shares in Rio, which said it was investigating the incident, were down 1.2%, alongside smaller declines in other iron ore miners.

Persons: David Lennox, Melanie Burton, Muralikumar Anantharaman, Clarence Fernandez Organizations: MELBOURNE, Rio Tinto, BHP Group, Thomson Locations: Rio, Western Australia, Dampier, Sydney, Cape Lambert

☆ The Racial Wage Gap Is Shrinking
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In the early 2000s, the wage gap between Black and white workers in the U.S. was as large as it had been in 1950. That is a shocking statistic and a sign of the country’s deep racial inequality. Over the past five years, however, the story has changed somewhat: The wage gap, though still enormous, has shrunk. In today’s newsletter — on Juneteenth — I’ll try to explain why the gap has narrowed and what would have to happen for it to narrow more. After all, even with the recent progress, the median Black worker makes 21 percent less than the median white worker.

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