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Nigel Farage, a supporter of former President Donald J. Trump, a driving force behind Brexit and Britain’s best known political disrupter, was elected to Parliament for the first time. Mr. Farage won by a large margin in Clacton, a faded seaside town, where pre-election opinion surveys had suggested he had a strong chance of winning. He had tried and failed seven times before to be elected to Parliament. “The establishment are terrified, the Conservatives are terrified,” Mr. Farage declared gleefully in a speech last month, referring to the governing party. Britain was “a broken nation,” he added, attacking targets ranging from asylum seekers to the BBC.
Persons: Nigel Farage, Donald J, Trump, , Farage, ” Mr Organizations: BBC Locations: Clacton, Britain
A French Museum Collides With New Jersey Politics
  + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Plans to build an outpost of the Pompidou Center in the heart of Jersey City were put on hold after the State Legislature voted last week to rescind $24 million in funding for the Paris museum’s project. Another $34 million in state and federal assistance for what would have been the Pompidou’s first satellite location in North America was also put in jeopardy by the vote. Tim Sullivan, chief executive of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, addressed a letter to museum officials saying that the project was called off. “Due to the ongoing impact of Covid and multiple global conflicts on the supply chain, rising costs, an irreconcilable operating gap and the corresponding financial burdens it will create for New Jersey’s taxpayers, the Legislature has rescinded financial support,” Mr. Sullivan wrote, “leaving us to determine that this project is unfortunately no longer feasible.”
Persons: Tim Sullivan, ” Mr, Sullivan, Organizations: Pompidou Center, State, Paris, New, New Jersey Economic Development Authority Locations: Jersey, North America, New Jersey
On Tuesday, Mr. Biden suffered his first formal call to resign from the race from a Democratic member of Congress. At the White House press briefing on Tuesday, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, faced a nearly hourlong barrage of questions about the president’s abilities, medications and physical examinations, including whether he had received a neurological test. But he also preemptively announced whom he would endorse if Mr. Biden departed the ticket. Period.”Image Many Democrats worry that Mr. Biden has moved too slowly to confront fears about his mental fitness and stamina. “I came back and nearly fell asleep onstage,” Mr. Biden said.
Persons: Biden, wringing, Mr, Biden “, Nancy Pelosi, Puck, Biden’s, George Stephanopoulos, Kamala Harris, David Walter Banks, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Jeffries, Tim Walz, Karine Jean, Pierre, , Jean, Trump, Jeff Zients, Jen O’Malley Dillon, James E, Harris, preemptively, , ” Mr, Clyburn, Ms, Joe Biden’s, Joe Biden, Haiyun Jiang, Jared Golden of, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Washington —, Sheldon Whitehouse, Lloyd Doggett of, Doggett, Privately, Dan Sena, Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, Gretchen Whitmer, David Walters of, David, Katie Glueck, Nicholas Nehamas Organizations: Democratic Party, Democratic, Biden, PAC, Republicans, White, ABC News, Credit, The New York Times, Gov, Democratic Governors Association, White House, Mr, MSNBC, CBS News, Trump, House Democratic, CNN, Transportation, Former Gov, Democratic National Committee, Locations: New Mexico , New Hampshire, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Washington, Minnesota, South Carolina, San Francisco, Rhode, Lloyd Doggett of Texas, Austin, Trump, California, Michigan, David Walters of Oklahoma, McLean , Va, Europe
After calling just four witnesses, lawyers for Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey rested their case late Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan federal court, setting the stage for jurors to begin deliberations in his international bribery conspiracy trial early next week. Mr. Menendez, 70, said that he decided against testifying in his own defense for two primary reasons. The government, he said, had not proved its case, and he did not want to give prosecutors an opportunity to rehash the charges twice — once on cross-examination and again in closing arguments. That was “simply not something that makes any sense to me whatsoever,” Mr. Menendez said as he left the courthouse after proceedings ended for the day.
Persons: Robert Menendez, Menendez, , ” Mr Organizations: Robert Menendez of New Locations: Robert Menendez of, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Manhattan
Vinod Kumar was away from home on Tuesday, as he usually is for days at a time in search of masonry work, when he got the dreadful call. All the women in his family, three generations of them, were dead, crushed in a stampede. For the rest of the day, Mr. Kumar and his three sons went from hospital to hospital searching for their loved ones among the bodies of the 121 people who had died when a large gathering of a spiritual guru broke into deadly panic. “Why did you leave me just like that? Who will scold the children now and push them to go to school?” Mr. Kumar wailed at the feet of his wife.
Persons: Vinod Kumar, Kumar, Raj Kumari, Bhumi, Mr, Kumar wailed Locations: Hathras
Inflation “now shows signs of resuming its disinflationary trend,” Mr. Powell said on Tuesday at the European Central Bank’s annual conference in Sintra, Portugal. It was an optimistic message after the Fed’s fight against inflation hit a speed bump earlier this year. Fed officials have been waiting to see further progress on inflation before they begin to lower interest rates, which are currently set to their highest level in decades, at 5.3 percent. Mr. Powell declined to say exactly when officials could begin to cut borrowing costs, but suggested that they could lower rates if inflation data continued on its current track or if the labor market weakened. “What we’d like to see is more data like what we’ve been seeing recently,” Mr. Powell said, later adding, “We have the ability to take our time and get this right.”
Persons: Jerome H, Powell, Mr, Organizations: Federal Reserve, Fed, Central Locations: United States, Sintra , Portugal
platform named Ed was supposed to be an “educational friend” to half a million students in Los Angeles public schools. In typed chats, Ed would direct students toward academic and mental health resources, or tell parents whether their children had attended class that day, and provide their latest test scores. Ed would even be able to detect and respond to emotions such as hostility, happiness and sadness. Alberto Carvalho, the district’s superintendent, spoke about Ed in bold terms. Los Angeles agreed to pay a start-up company, AllHere, up to $6 million to develop Ed, a small part of the district’s $18 billion annual budget.
Persons: Ed, , Alberto Carvalho, democratize, , , ” Mr, Carvalho, Carvalho’s, AllHere Locations: Los Angeles
Carlos Watson, a co-founder of the digital media start-up Ozy Media, testified on Monday at his fraud trial that he had not conspired to trick investors. Instead, he said, his young media company employed strategies to build partnerships, secure advertising revenue and draw in investors. “We really thought we had a chance to do something special that could be around a long time,” Mr. Watson told the jury. Mr. Watson’s testimony is the center of his defense against charges that he misrepresented his company’s financial results, fund-raising and audience data to investors and lenders from 2018 to 2021. The prosecution has called a variety of witnesses, including prospective investors who testified that Mr. Watson had misled them about the company in an attempt to secure funding.
Persons: Carlos Watson, , ” Mr, Watson Organizations: Ozy Media
With a defiant flurry of speechifying, Stephen K. Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald J. Trump, reported to prison on Monday to begin a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress, days after the Supreme Court rejected his last-ditch effort to avoid incarceration. Mr. Bannon arrived outside the federal lockup in Danbury, Conn. — a low-security facility about 60 miles north of Manhattan — before noon, and used his last moments of freedom to host a loud rally and live-streamed news conference, surrounded by supporters waving flags and ringing cowbells. Standing alongside Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right congresswoman from Georgia, and Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York police commissioner who spent three years imprisoned on fraud charges, Mr. Bannon predicted big victories for Republicans in this year’s election. “Victory or death,” Mr. Bannon said, just before being blessed by a priest. “We either win or we’re going to have the death of a constitutional republic.”
Persons: Stephen K, Bannon, Donald J, Trump, , Marjorie Taylor Greene, Bernard B, ” Mr, , Organizations: New, Republicans Locations: Danbury, Conn, Manhattan, Georgia, New York, America
It’s unclear how far along the talks between IAC and National Amusements are. A bid to take control of Paramount would be a coda of sorts for Mr. Diller, 82, who tried to acquire Paramount Pictures in the early ’90s. Mr. Diller was named head of Paramount Pictures in 1974 at the age of 32. After Mr. Redstone outbid him for the company, Mr. Diller set his sights on continuing to build his new media empire, striking a series of audacious deals to expand IAC. “They won,” Mr. Diller said in a statement after losing out to Mr. Redstone.
Persons: Edgar Bronfman Jr, Steven Paul, Diller, Sumner Redstone, Shari, rejuvenating, Michael Eisner, wunderkind Jeffrey Katzenberg, ” Mr, Shari Redstone Organizations: IAC, National, Hollywood, Paramount, Paramount Pictures, Disney, , Amusements, Skydance, National Amusements
President Biden knew immediately after stepping off the stage in Atlanta on Thursday night that the debate had gone wrong. In those first stricken moments after a raspy, rambling and at times incoherent performance, he turned to his wife, Jill Biden. “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence,” Mr. Trump said when Mr. Biden blundered an answer on immigration. They acknowledge her unique influence and power in his life, but they say Mr. Biden is in control of his own campaign. But as long as Mr. Biden wants to run, advisers say, she will support him.
Persons: Biden, Jill Biden, Biden’s, They’d, they’ve, doesn’t, , Elizabeth Alexander, , Jill, Valerie, John Morgan, Donald J, Trump, , Ms, Alexander, Kamala Harris, Joe, Dr, , you’ve, Camp David, Mr, Hunter Biden, gingerly, Joe Biden, Harriet M, Hageman, Drudge, Matt Drudge, JILL, ” Ms Organizations: Democratic, Democratic Party, , Camp, White, Republican, Mr Locations: Atlanta, foxholes, Manhattan, Wyoming, New York
The day after President Biden melted down in Thursday’s prime-time debate, Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia stood beside former President Donald J. Trump on a farm in Chesapeake, gushing. “This is the best Trump rally ever!”In the past, when it suited him, Mr. Youngkin kept his distance from Mr. Trump and his unpredictable behavior. “Hello, Virginia,” Mr. Trump cooed as he took the stage before thousands of his supporters in what Republicans increasingly see as a winnable state. “Did anybody watch a thing called the debate?” He roared: “That was a big one.”On the surface, the rally in Chesapeake was a quick-turn victory lap after the debate and before the 2024 race hits a higher gear.
Persons: Biden, Glenn Youngkin, Donald J, Trump, Youngkin, ” Mr Organizations: Trump, Republicans Locations: Virginia, Chesapeake, , Virginia
President Biden knew immediately after stepping off the stage in Atlanta on Thursday night that the debate had gone wrong. In those first stricken moments after a raspy, rambling and at times incoherent performance, he turned to his wife, Jill Biden. “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence,” Mr. Trump said when Mr. Biden blundered an answer on immigration. They acknowledge her unique influence and power in his life, but they say Mr. Biden is in control of his own campaign. But as long as Mr. Biden wants to run, advisers say, she will support him.
Persons: Biden, Jill Biden, Biden’s, They’d, they’ve, doesn’t, , Elizabeth Alexander, , Jill, Valerie, John Morgan, Donald J, Trump, , Ms, Alexander, Kamala Harris, Joe, Dr, , you’ve, Camp David, Mr, Hunter Biden, gingerly, Joe Biden, Harriet M, Hageman, Drudge, Matt Drudge, JILL, ” Ms Organizations: Democratic, Democratic Party, , Camp, White, Republican, Mr Locations: Atlanta, foxholes, Manhattan, Wyoming, New York
The annual conversations around Pride marches, both in New York City and across the country, often focus on who should — or shouldn’t — be included. While these are crucial debates, they often mean that, paradoxically, what gets lost is a discussion of belonging in a broader sense. Pride retains its importance precisely because it gives the L.G.B.T.Q. A trove of photographs that elegantly capture Pride in all its inclusive intimacy, focusing not only on the marchers but on the crowds reveling from the sidelines, illuminates how powerful that element can be. “From the beginning,” Mr. Cratsley wrote, “I was excited by the parade’s exotic, somewhat chaotic sexiness and joy.
Persons: Bruce Cratsley, ” Mr, Cratsley, Organizations: Pride, Chevron, West 29th Street Locations: New York City, San Francisco, Israel, Houston, Manhattan
In January 2020, Robert Williams spent 30 hours in a Detroit jail because facial recognition technology suggested he was a criminal. On Friday, as part of a legal settlement over his wrongful arrest, Mr. Williams got a commitment from the Detroit Police Department to do better. The city adopted new rules for police use of facial recognition technology that the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Mr. Williams, says should be the new national standard. Mr. Williams was the first person known to be wrongfully arrested based on faulty facial recognition. Law enforcement agencies across the country use facial recognition technology to try to identify criminals whose misdeeds are caught on camera.
Persons: Robert Williams, Williams, ” Mr Organizations: Detroit Police Department, American Civil Liberties Union, Detroit Locations: Detroit, Michigan
The debate between Donald J. Trump and President Biden had analysts in Asia fretting. During Thursday night’s debate, President Biden told former President Donald J. Trump that the United States is the “envy of the world.”After watching their performance, many of America’s friends might beg to differ. In Europe and Asia, the back-and-forth between the blustering Mr. Trump and the faltering Mr. Biden set analysts fretting — and not just about who might win the election in November. Image Mr. Biden leaving the debate stage. Kasit Piromya, Thailand’s foreign minister from 2008 to 2011 and a former ambassador to the United States, lamented the state of American politics.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Biden, , fretting —, ” Simon Canning, ” Sergey Radchenko, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, , Putin, “ I’ve, Mr, Kenny Holston, François Heisbourg, Trump’s, “ I’m, Heisbourg, Radoslaw Sikorski, Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, Sikorski, Joe Biden’s, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Daniela Schwarzer, Bogdan Butkevych, “ Trump, Chan Heng Chee, Ms, Chan, Lee Byong, ’ ”, Koichi Nakano, Haiyun Jiang, Narendra Modi, Tara Kartha, , Shen Dingli, don’t, Kasit, Damien Cave, Lee Wee, Choe Sang, Vivian Wang, Camille Elemia, Mujib Mashal, Ségolène Le Stradic, Marc Santora Organizations: Johns Hopkins School, International Studies, , Mr, Russia, New York Times, Trump, Bertelsmann Foundation, Washington , D.C, Credit, Kremlin, Kyiv Independent, Biden unnerves, Institute for Far Eastern, Kyungnam University, Sophia University, The New York Times, Washington, National Security Council of, , Weibo Locations: Asia, Australian, United States, Europe, Australia, Washington, Russia, China, North Korea, Ukraine, Lebanon, Iran, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Gaza, Jerusalem, France, Washington ,, American, Ukrainian, North, Seoul, , United, Tokyo, The New York Times India, National Security Council of India, New Delhi, Beijing, India, Communist, Shanghai, U.S, Southeast Asia
After seven weeks of trial, federal prosecutors rested their case on Friday against Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat accused of conspiring to take hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold, cash and other bribes in return for the senator’s willingness to dispense political favors at home and abroad. Defense lawyers are expected to begin calling witnesses next week in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Throughout the trial, lawyers for Mr. Menendez, who has vigorously maintained his innocence, have aggressively cross-examined a parade of government witnesses, seeking to undermine their credibility. “The government hasn’t proven its case,” Mr. Menendez said as he left the courthouse on Friday. The conclusion of the government’s case comes nine months after Mr. Menendez, his wife and several New Jersey businessmen were first charged with participating in a vast bribery conspiracy that prosecutors say began in 2018.
Persons: Robert Menendez, Menendez, Mr Organizations: New, New Jersey Democrat, Defense, Federal, Court Locations: New Jersey, Manhattan, Jersey
When Liberty Tower went up for sale in Manhattan’s financial district in 1978, there was only one bidder for the 33-story skyscraper. The building was dated and dilapidated, and even though rent had plunged to $5 a square foot, it was two-thirds vacant. New York City itself had tumbled into a downward spiral after a severe fiscal crisis and a deep recession. “The financial district was failing. Liberty Tower was the first major residential conversion of an office building in New York’s financial district.
Persons: Joseph Pell Lombardi, ” Mr, Lombardi, Nobody Organizations: Liberty, New, Sinclair Oil, New York Stock Exchange, World Trade Center Locations: New York City, New York, Liberty, New
The Biden administration denied permission on Friday for an Alaska agency to build a 211-mile industrial road that would have cut through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve to reach copper and zinc deposits beneath untouched wilderness. Separately, the administration said it planned to retain protections for 28 million acres of land scattered across Alaska that the Trump administration had tried to open up to mining and oil and gas drilling. The lands include unique habitat for three major caribou herds, migratory birds and Pacific salmon. Climate activists have pressured the administration to act more aggressively to protect public lands from new oil and gas projects. “Today, my administration is stopping a 211-mile road from carving up a pristine area that Alaska Native communities rely on, in addition to steps we are taking to maintain protections on 28 million acres in Alaska from mining and drilling,” Mr. Biden said in a statement.
Persons: Trump, Biden, Mr, Organizations: Biden, Interior Department Locations: Alaska, Gates
But that gave too much power to unelected government officials, according to conservatives, who ran a coordinated, multiyear campaign to end the Chevron doctrine. The Environmental Protection AgencyEnvironmentalists fear that the end of the Chevron doctrine will mean the elimination of hundreds of E.P.A. “I would expect the industry to attack the F.D.A.’s authority to do premarket review at all,” said Desmond Jenson, deputy director of the commercial tobacco control program at the Public Health Law Center. Others noted the Chevron decision could have a chilling effect, compelling the F.D.A. “The Supreme Court has not relied on Chevron in quite a few years,” she said.
Persons: , Lisa Heinzerling, Donald J, Trump, Mandy Gunasekara, President Trump, Jonathan Berry, doesn’t, ” Rather, Berry, ” Mr, Chevron, Biden, Garden, , Desmond Jenson, Nicholas Bagley, Rachel Sachs, Louis, Abbe R, Gluck, Ms Organizations: Georgetown University, , Congress, Labor, Act, Republican, Trump, Chevron, Labor Department, Mr, Environmental Protection Agency, Biden, University of Minnesota, The National Labor Relations Board, Food, Drug Administration, Public Health Law Center, Health, Affordable Care, University of Michigan, Washington University School of Law, Department of Health, Human Services, Centers, Medicare, Services, Yale Law School, Treasury, Internal Revenue, Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service Locations: Chevron, St
Image Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, center, has threatened not to renew the provision, which makes it easier for Israeli banks to work with Palestinian banks. But many called the West Bank’s current economic predicament the most difficult yet. Before the war, Mahmoud Abu Issa, 53, was earning over $2,000 a month — an enviable salary in the impoverished West Bank — as a construction worker in Israel. If Palestinian banks want to offer shekel accounts, they must maintain links with Israeli banks and rely on them to process shekel transactions. Since 2017, Israel’s Finance Ministry has issued the waiver indemnifying the Israeli banks, according to Lilach Weissman, a spokeswoman for the ministry.
Persons: Bezalel Smotrich, Smotrich, Israel, Biden, Mr, Smotrich —, , Menahem Kahana, Mahmoud Abu Issa, , Abu Issa, Mohammad Rabee, Shadi Abu Afifa, , Abu Afifa, Jake Sullivan, Lilach Weissman, Akram Jerab, Eytan Fuld, Azzam, Shawwa, Rawan Sheikh Ahmad Organizations: West Bank, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian, Agence France, Mr, Palestinian Authority’s Finance Ministry, Israel’s Finance, Quds Bank Locations: Gaza, Bank, U.S, Israel, Hebron, , Palestinian, Palestine
Sparks Flew All Over the World
  + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Ms. Lal, who had jolted him with a sense of instant attraction when they first met, was, at long last, single. Ms. Lal and Mr. Riglin are social media influencers. Mr. Riglin was there to take pictures. Both were on a fast track to accruing a million followers as travel content creators. At first, “it was just for fun, something people were starting to do,” Mr. Riglin said.
Persons: Jacob Samuel Mills Riglin, Agnieszka Ewa Lal, Lal, Riglin, Instagram, Mr Organizations: Aggie Locations: Koh Samui, Thailand, Los Angeles, New York, Abu Dhabi
Four people were killed and nine were injured after a minivan crashed into a nail salon on Long Island Friday afternoon, the authorities said. Shortly after 4:30 p.m., a minivan crashed into Hawaii Nail and Spa on Grand Boulevard in Deer Park, a hamlet in the town of Babylon, N.Y., according to according to Mark Stone, the public information officer for the Deer Park Fire Department. One injured person was in serious condition Friday evening and was transported by helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital, he said. The others sustained “significant injuries,” Mr. Stone said, and were taken to local hospitals. Nine agencies responded to the crash, including fire departments from surrounding towns, and there were 150 firefighters and emergency medical responders on the scene, Mr. Stone said.
Persons: Mark Stone, , Stone Organizations: Hawaii, Fire Department, Stony Brook University Hospital, Suffolk County Police Department Locations: Deer, Babylon, Stony, Suffolk
Sewell Chan, the editor in chief of The Texas Tribune, will become the next executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. Mr. Chan, 46, has helmed The Tribune, a pioneering nonprofit newsroom, since October 2021. He will join CJR on Sept. 16, the publication announced on Thursday. CJR, which covers the media industry, has been published by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961. “It’s always been an intellectual leader in our field, especially on news ethics and decision-making,” Mr. Chan told The New York Times.
Persons: Sewell Chan, Chan, “ It’s, ” Mr, Organizations: The Texas Tribune, Columbia, Tribune, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York Times
Mr. Biden then hammered Mr. Trump on his felony convictions in New York, his other ongoing criminal cases and the civil cases that have resulted in severe financial penalties against him. “Joe could be a convicted felon with all of the things that he’s done,” Mr. Trump said, referring to his policies at the border and in Ukraine. This man — you’re lucky. You’re lucky. I did nothing wrong.”Mr. Biden, visibly angered by Mr. Trump’s claims, denounced the former president’s vows of revenge and highlighted Mr. Trump’s many legal troubles.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Biden, “ Joe, Mr, Trump’s Locations: New York, Ukraine
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