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☆ Miss America is embroiled in legal drama weeks before the 2025 competition
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Samantha Grindell | Anneta Konstantinides | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

The Miss America Organization is in a legal battle just weeks before the 2025 competition. In a letter to Miss America board members, Straub wrote that Fleming was using the organization's scholarship fund to pay her legal fees, which was "putting Miss America in financial and legal jeopardy." Miss Colorado Madison Marsh has been crowned Miss America 2024. Courtesy of Robin FlemingFleming said she bought Miss America's assets on behalf of Miss America Competition, LLC and Miss America IP, Inc., using three documents created by Straub's attorney, Craig Galle, who she used at Straub's suggestion. Straub sent a letter to Miss America directors and licensees in late December 2022 stating that he had "purchased all the assets of the former Miss America Organization."

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☆ New report reveals a major reason Michelle Obama isn't campaigning for Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Michelle Obama also appeared to mention Buhle in her own book, writing that she still takes regular walks with her friend Kathleen. AdvertisementThough Michelle Obama did repost President Biden's campaign announcement on Twitter in 2023, she hasn't tweeted about the election since. In 2018, Michelle Obama launched a nonpartisan voter engagement organization, When We All Vote, where she has since focused much of her political energy. "Mrs. Obama has already said she supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign," Crystal Carson, the communications director for Michelle Obama, said in a statement. There may be some precedent to Michelle Obama getting involved later in the election cycle.

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☆ Meet Kyra Kennedy, the youngest daughter of RFK Jr. and a member of the next generation of American royalty
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Erin Mcdowell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Kyra Kennedy is the youngest daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Mary Richardson Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Kyra Kennedy in 2009. She is the second child of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his second wife, Mary Richardson. Kennedy married Richardson that same year, and they were married until Richardson's death by suicide on May 16, 2012. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has two children with Black: Robert "Bobby" Kennedy III, 39, and Kathleen Alexandra "Kick" Kennedy, 36, according to People. Kennedy had four children with Richardson: Conor Richardson Kennedy, 29; Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy, 28; William "Finn" Kennedy, 27; and Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy, 23.

Persons: Kyra Kennedy, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Mary Richardson Kennedy, Charles Eshelman, Mary Richardson, Kennedy, Richardson, Emily Ruth Black, Robert, Bobby, Kennedy III, Kathleen Alexandra, Conor Richardson Kennedy, Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy, William, Finn, Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy, Cheryl Hines Organizations: Guardian

☆ Election Updates: Biden courts labor unions, with a speech to electrical workers planned today.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Members of this prominent Democratic family, including most of Mr. Kennedy’s siblings, had already signaled their support for Mr. Biden. Just as President Biden does today.”“Nearly every single grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy supports Joe Biden,” she said. “That’s right: The Kennedy family endorses Joe Biden for president.”Responding on social media, Mr. Kennedy avoided engaging with his family’s rejection of his candidacy. “I know you’re never supposed to reject a gift,” Mr. Kennedy joked as he held them. He then encouraged the roughly dozen people there to volunteer for the Biden campaign, arguing that their help could decide the election.

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☆ You're never entitled to overhead bin space on a plane in economy, former flight attendant says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Joey Hadden | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Overhead bin space is a luxury on flights in economy class, but not a guarantee. But economy tickets only confirm a seat, not overhead bin storage, she added. But according to former flight attendant Shawn Kathleen, overhead bin space is a luxury, not a guarantee. Economy tickets don't guarantee passengers any overhead bin space, she said on the Jtrain podcast hosted by comedian Jared Freid. AdvertisementEconomy tickets don't come with guaranteed overhead bin storageOverhead bin space is a luxury that's not assured.

Persons: —, Shawn Kathleen, Jared Freid, Freid, Alexander Hassenstein, Kathleen, peeve, let's, Condé Organizations: Service, Business

☆ I became a nomad in my 60s and have traveled to 37 countries. I want to show others that international travel is not something to fear in your 60s.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

His fear during that trip inspired him to travel abroad more often, and encourage others, too. "Regardless of your age, you are not too old to travel," he said. I was born and raised in the Philadelphia area but have lived in California for most of my adult life. Courtesy of Norman Bour)Since 2019, my wife Kathleen and I have lived in and traveled to 37 different countries. The dollars we spend go towards lodging, travel, and food.

Persons: Norman Bour, Kathleen Plumley, Kathleen, we've, We're, Katheen, we're Organizations: Service, Social Security Locations: Wall, Silicon, California, Europe, Philadelphia, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Prague, Romania, Southern California, Costa Mesa, Bour, Plumley, Egypt, London, Paris, Stockholm, Balkans, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, United States, Auschwitz

☆ Native American artist Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Benjamin Sutton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. (CNN) — Jeffrey Gibson, the Colorado-born, New York-based artist who is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, will represent the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale, becoming the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the US Pavilion. Gibson’s work mixes many traditions, combining techniques from Indigenous beading, weaving, metalwork and more with the formal language of hard-edged abstract painting, Pop Art sculpture. For his exhibition in Venice, Gibson will create installations inside the US Pavilion, on its exterior and in its courtyard, incorporating elements of performance and multimedia in addition to static works. Jeffrey Gibson Brian Barlow“The last 15 years of my career have been about turning inward and trying to make something I really wanted to see in the world,” Gibson, reflecting on his selection for the Biennale, told The New York Times.

Persons: — Jeffrey Gibson, Gibson, Jeffrey Gibson Brian Barlow “, ” Gibson, Kathleen Ash, Louis Grachos, Abigail Winograd, Jeffrey, ”, Milby, Venice —, ” Winograd, Ruth, Elmer Wellin, Leigh Bowery, Simone Leigh Organizations: The Art, CNN, Colorado -, Mississippi Band, Choctaw, Institute of American Indian Arts, Bard College, Biennale, New York Times, Portland Art Museum, SITE, Portland Museum of Art, US State Department, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Biennial, Gallery of Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum Locations: Colorado, New York, United States, Venice, Santa Fe , New Mexico, Navajo, Portland , Oregon, SITE Santa Fe, American, Oregon, New Mexico, Clinton , New York, Bentonville , Arkansas

☆ How parents’ sex and birth control talks with teens have changed since the end of Roe v. Wade
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Her best guess is that even though there are no legal restrictions on birth control in the US, this practice might have been anticipating some. “So we had talked about it with her before, and the decision to get birth control was really independent from the whole [end of] Roe v. Wade. There, anyone under 18 needs their parent’s permission to get birth control – even if they’re already a parent themselves. In the meantime, Title X clinics in Texas have stopped providing birth control to teens unless they get their parents’ OK. To them, she said, getting a teenager birth control was like giving her permission to have sex.

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