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Fire extinguishers (R) are left at the park across from Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City after a man reportedly set himself on fire during the trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump, in New York City on April 19, 2024. A man set himself on fire Friday outside of the New York courthouse where a jury was being picked for the criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump. NBC News reported that the man was in an area across from Manhattan Supreme Court that is cordoned off for protestors. Judge Juan Merchan had been scheduled to hold a hearing Friday afternoon on the admissibility of past conduct by Trump as evidence at the trial. On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was spotted just outside the building.

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☆ In photos: ‘Wash Day’ honors a classic Black hair ritual
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Brooklyn White-Grier | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

I wanted to show the inherent beauty of Black natural hair.”For Black women and children, wash day is equal parts essential maintenance and self-renewal. Tomesha FaxioIn the series of portraits that make up “Wash Day,” Faxio sat with 26 families and took photos as they went through their distinct routines. We talk often, after all, about the obsession with hair being “done” and the intra-communal shame that sometimes comes with natural hair. For us too, wash day is a high energy sport — and it’s also a bonding exercise that neither of us will forget. Tomesha Faxio

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☆ St. Vincent Dives Headfirst Into the Darkness
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On a recent Tuesday night in a dressing room of the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, Annie Clark, the 41-year-old musician who records as St. Vincent, thumbed through a shelf of secondhand records and sipped a glass of pink champagne. Clark, invited to D.J. the venue’s grand reopening party, was the room’s first inhabitant since a major renovation restored the former movie palace; a pristine, new-car smell lingered. She wore a cream-colored silk blouse, black kitten-heeled shoes and a gauzy black bow tied artfully around her neck. Even in a moment of relative repose, Clark possessed a feline hyper-awareness of her surroundings.

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☆ New Rule for Buying a Home: Fire Your Real-Estate Agent
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Albert Fox Cahn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

She had never purchased a home, and as a lawyer, I just assumed I knew how the system worked: The buyer has an agent, but the seller pays a commission (typically 6% of the sale price) that's split between their agent and the buyer's agent. So my agent wasn't going to find me my dream house, and the work of hunting was basically on me. But the real-estate industry has made it hard for many buyers to understand just how little having an agent can help. The class-action settlement with the NAR is going to make it a lot harder for sellers to be forced to pay for buyers' agents. Going forward, for people like me without an agent, a savvy seller may pay just 3% of the sales price to their own agent instead of 6% to be split with a buyer's agent.

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☆ Meet Nicola Peltz Beckham, the billionaire heiress, actress, and director who's married to Brooklyn Beckham
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Elana Klein | Mykenna Maniece | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Nicola Peltz Beckham is the daughter of billionaire businessman Nelson Peltz. She married David and Victoria Beckham's son Brooklyn in a star-studded wedding in 2022. Critics slammed Peltz Beckham's recent directorial debut, "Lola," as "poverty porn." AdvertisementNicola Peltz Beckham, one of billionaire Nelson Peltz's 10 children, is making headlines for her recent film "Lola." She's also known for her marriage to Brooklyn Beckham, the eldest son of world-renowned soccer player David Beckham and designer Victoria Beckham.

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☆ Women Talk Through Their Abortions on TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Emily Schmall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“Have an abortion with me,” a single mother from Brooklyn named Sunni says as she twirls around her kitchen to light jazzy piano, before walking TikTok viewers through the steps she took to end her pregnancy at home. With states expanding restrictions on abortion and the issue likely to be at the forefront of the presidential election, women are creating videos on social media describing their own abortions and sharing practical information on how to obtain one. Sunni explained to viewers that she was craving information when she was planning her abortion. “This is the video I was looking for,” she said.

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☆ Book bans are accelerating across the country amid right-wing pressure campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But, as they try to claim that mantle, many of those same forces in media and politics are behind a disturbing wave of book bans sweeping the nation. PEN America, a non-profit organization committed to protecting free expression, published an alarming report Tuesday indicating that the “book ban crisis” is only getting worse. “There were over 4,000 instances of book bans in the first half of this school year—more than all of last school year as a whole. In doing so, they have also disproportionately targeted books by women and nonbinary authors,” PEN America said. Ted Shaffrey/APSuch brazen book bans — unprecedented in modern American history — is at its worst in the red states of Florida and Texas.

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☆ Camels evolved from a cold-weather ancestor. We could learn from their remarkable transformation
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Bill Weir | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“Gentoo penguins are big climate change winners in the Antarctic,” Heather Lynch told me. Conversely, the more flexible gentoo penguins keep moving farther and farther south, chasing new prey, and even abandoning nests to increase the odds of long-term survival. Julian Quinones/CNNThe gentoo population has exploded by as much as 30,000% in just a few years. Bill Weir/CNNHere lieth the lesson of the camel and the gentoo: Heat will move us, one way or another. I just know River won’t be satisfied without a magic plot twist that somehow saves all creatures great and small.

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☆ Nicola Peltz Beckham, a billionaire's daughter, made an indie film where she plays a poor stripper. It didn't go well.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Nicola Peltz Beckham wrote, directed, and stars in the indie film "Lola" about a teen living in poverty. Peltz Beckham is the daughter of billionaire Nelson Peltz and is married to Brooklyn Beckham. AdvertisementNicola Peltz Beckham's directorial debut about a teen struggling to make ends meet in middle America is getting lambasted by critics. "Lola," released in limited theaters on February 9, is written and directed by Peltz Beckham, who plays the titular character. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Nicola Peltz Beckham's directorial debut is being slammed by critics who are calling it 'poverty porn'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Nicola Peltz Beckham wrote, directed, and stars in the indie film "Lola" about a teen living in poverty. Peltz Beckham is the daughter of billionaire Nelson Peltz and is married to Brooklyn Beckham. AdvertisementNicola Peltz Beckham's directorial debut about a teen struggling to make ends meet in middle America is getting lambasted by critics. AdvertisementBrooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz Beckham have been married since 2022. Business Insider reached out to Peltz Beckham and the film's distributor Vertical Entertainment, but did not receive a response.

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☆ Meet the 12 first-round picks of the WNBA draft
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Mykenna Maniece | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The WNBA draft was held on Monday, April 15, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. The Indiana Fever selected Caitlin Clark first overall. AdvertisementThe WNBA reported that the 2023 season was "its most-watched regular season in 21 years," with combined viewership across networks "up 21 percent over the 2022 regular season." With big names like Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark joining the league, there's no telling what new heights it'll reach this season. AdvertisementGet to know all 12 talented women from the first round of the draft as they prepare to continue changing the world of women's basketball, one block, three-pointer, and rebound at a time.

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☆ College athletes wore Cartier, Prada, and Louboutins at the 2024 WNBA Draft
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Amanda Krause | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The 2024 WNBA Draft was hosted in Brooklyn on Monday night. Basketball stars such as Caitlin Clark stood out on the red carpet in designer ensembles. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementAt the 2024 WNBA Draft red carpet on Monday night, basketball temporarily took a back seat to fashion. All eyes turned to Caitlin Clark when she arrived wearing a full Prada ensemble that transformed her into a style superstar.

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☆ OpenAI speeds up growth with plans to open NYC office, more hiring and new products
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The generative artificial intelligence company, best-known as the creator of ChatGPT, is looking to open next year an office in New York City, according to two people familiar with the plans. Early last year, OpenAI had only about 400 employees all working out of one San Francisco office. It's now looking for a second office in San Francisco, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle. OpenAI has taken a selective approach to hiring, the person added, relative to how much interest the company receives for its job postings. The other is a search product likely to incorporate Microsoft's Bing search engine, according to a report from The Information.

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☆ 32-year-old in Brooklyn brought in $400,000 last year selling cheese
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

As a little girl, Caroline Hesse would practice writing her name and get upset that it could be shortened to C. Hesse. "I didn't want to be the weird cheese girl." Twenty-five years later, Hesse proudly says she's grown from the "weird cheese girl" to the "the weird cheese woman." That's because the 32-year-old spends her days in a Brooklyn warehouse operating her very own cheese mongering business: C. Hesse Cheese. Hesse says she's not a traditional cheesemonger because she doesn't have a brick-and-mortar cheese shop.

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☆ At a Holi festival in Brooklyn, tradition and contemporary celebration create a colorful union
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Sheetal Banchariya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The Hindu festival Holi has become more popular and inclusive, especially in the Indian diaspora. The Hindu festival of colors, observed as Holi in India and Fagu Purnima in Nepal, holds immense cultural significance for South Asians. "There were not many or any events celebrating Holi at that time, despite a considerable number of Indians living in Jackson Heights," she said. He said that over the years he'd seen Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Sri Lankans, African Americans, and Irish people attending his Holi event. Love was in the air at the Holi celebration.

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☆ Couple pays $1,600 a month for a 1-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn—they have 150 houseplants: Take a look inside
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Mickey Todiwala. "I'm just a homebody that wants to stay at home all day to play with my cats and plants," Wai says. Mickey Todiwala. Mickey Todiwala. Mickey Todiwala.

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☆ In the Nigeria Pavilion, Criticism Meets Optimism
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The artist was collecting material for a sonic and sculptural installation that will be presented in the Nigeria Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. The event, one of the art world’s most important, opens for previews next week and to the public on April 20. Okoyomon’s steel-framed structure, erected in a courtyard, imagines a kind of radio tower, decked with bells and colonized by creeping vines. Motion sensors on the tower activate a soundtrack: It will play in the courtyard and also online, for anyone to tune in. It mixes poems by Okoyomon with music and passages from those interviews, whose respondents range from fellow artists to “strangers, someone’s cook, someone’s auntie,” Okoyomon said.

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☆ Millennials aren't giving up on having a home they love
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Joi-Marie Mckenzie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . From the home shortage to having higher debt compared to their parents during the same stage of life, it hasn't been easy. AdvertisementBut millennials, the eldest of the group being in their early 40s, aren't giving up. Still, while some millennials are spending seven figures buying and renovating their homes, others are giving up on homeownership completely. Why Masters merch is so coveted.

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☆ We pay $1,600/month for an apartment in Brooklyn–and have 150 plants
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Mickey Todiwala | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Unlocked is a home tour series focused on how much people across the globe spend on their housing, what they get for the money and what they had to sacrifice to make it happen.

☆ Beyoncé bounce: Western boot sales jump more than 20% week over week since 'Cowboy Carter' launch
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Beyonce leaves the Luar fashion show at 154 Scott in Brooklyn during New York Fashion Week on February 13, 2024 in New York City. The country fashion staple's sales surged more than 20% in the week after the music superstar released her "Cowboy Carter" album, according to consumer behavior firm Circana. "Cowboy Carter," which came out late last month, marked the "Halo" singer's foray into the country genre. Louis Vuitton unveiled an American Western line during Paris Fashion Week earlier this year, featuring models in everything from cowboy hats to bolo ties. Beyoncé's chart-topping album can provide a same-store sales boost and help lasso in women shoppers at Boot Barn , said Williams analyst Sam Poser.

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☆ Mister Cee, ‘legendary’ New York City disc jockey, dead at 57
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

“As a family at HOT 97 and WBLS, we’re deeply saddened by the passing of our beloved Mister Cee,” reads the statement posted on Hot 97’s site. LeBrun’s childhood friend Kevin “DJ 50 Grand” Griffin helped rapper Christopher Wallace record his demo, which launched him into infamy as The Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls. “The first time I met him was when his DJ 50 Grand, rest in peace, [DJ 50 Grand died in 2022] brought Big to my house. The plan was we were going to redo the basement demo that he and 50 Grand put together,” LeBraun told Rock the Bells last year. (Death of Auto-Tune)” by saying, “I made this just for Flex and Mister Cee.”

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☆ Doctor Is Fired After Maternal and Infant Deaths at a Brooklyn Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Joseph Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A baby died during childbirth late last year after medical staff at a Brooklyn hospital appeared to ignore worrying signs for several hours, a new report by state health investigators has found. Two weeks later, the same doctor involved in the infant’s death was also involved in the death of a mother who gave birth at the hospital, Woodhull Medical Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to the report. The doctor, Ronald Daniel, 72, was fired in December after the mother’s death, his employer said. The doctor was not the first at Woodhull to be fired following a maternal death in recent years. And this is not the first time regulators have concluded that problems on the hospital’s labor and delivery floor led to a death.

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☆ Millennials Make the Most of the Housing Market; Renovating Rentals
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Emily Jensen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

In a 2022 survey by Apartment List, a quarter of millennials said they expected to rent forever. And housing experts say that when it comes to homeownership, millennials are the most screwed generation. "Millennials have a much different mindset on life in general than the generation before us," Muller told me. But millennials' housing misfortunes go beyond personal spending habits; they entered adulthood at a terrible time for the housing market. At the same time the housing market was soaring out of control during the pandemic, people were spending more time at home.

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☆ Nigerian Fashion Moves Beyond the Catwalk
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Tariro Mzezewa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

LAGOS, Nigeria — For the past decade, Nigeria’s best-known ambassadors have, arguably, been its musicians: Burna Boy, WizKid, Davido, Tiwa Savage Asake and Tems, who have popularized Afrobeats beyond West Africa. At a moment when music, literature, visual art and food from across the African continent continue to gain global popularity, fashion designers, particularly those from Nigeria, are ready for their industry to take center stage. There’s more variety, and people feel proud to be wearing things made by Africans.” In 2023, Alara opened a pop-up shop as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s “Africa Fashion” exhibition. “Currently the global fashion community is looking to the African continent for more than inspiration,” said Ernestine White-Mifetu, the Sills Foundation curator of African art at the Brooklyn Museum. “The fashion world at large is finally ready to pay attention.”

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