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☆ Jury Awards $800,000 to a Girl Burned by a Chicken McNugget
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Chang Che | More About Chang Che | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Florida jury awarded $800,000 in damages to a 7-year-old girl on Wednesday for the suffering and mental anguish caused when a Chicken McNugget fell on her thigh, causing a second-degree burn. The jury in Broward County awarded the girl, Olivia Caraballo, the damages for pain, suffering and other forms of mental anguish — $400,000 for the pain she endured and an additional $400,000 for any future suffering resulting from the injury, according to court documents. Lawyers for the family had asked for $15 million. The suit was brought in state court by Olivia’s parents, Philana Holmes and Humberto Caraballo Estevez, against McDonald’s and Upchurch Foods, the franchise operator in Tamarac, Fla. In May, a separate jury determined that the two companies were liable for failing to provide reasonable instructions or warnings — on the packaging, for example — about the risks of injuries that could result from a Chicken McNuggets meal, which comes with pieces of white chicken meat.

Persons: Olivia Caraballo, Philana Holmes, Humberto Caraballo Estevez Organizations: Broward, McDonald’s, Upchurch Foods Locations: Florida, Broward County, Tamarac, Fla

☆ Host city Auckland prepares for World Cup spotlight
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Amy Tennery | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

AUCKLAND, July 19 (Reuters) - Excitement was building across Auckland as the city prepared to kick off the Women's World Cup on Wednesday, the culmination of years of effort to bring the largest ever standalone women's sporting event to its shores. Auckland will host nine matches at Eden Park across the tournament, including one semi-final. While Australia's Matildas are genuine title contenders, the Football Ferns have never won a match at a Women's World Cup. With digital billboards popping up around Auckland featuring the women's home team, Chance said she is already seeing signs of change. The ninth Women's World Cup runs until Aug. 20 when the final takes place in Sydney.

Persons: Santha Brown, Brown, We've, Australia's, Fern Olivia Chance, Chance, Amy Tennery, Nathan Frandino, Peter Rutherford Organizations: AUCKLAND, New Zealand's Football Ferns, Norway, FIFA, Eden, Football Ferns, Veteran, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Auckland, Eden, Queen's, New Zealand, Australia, America, Sydney

☆ Australia's call for World Cup prize equity adds fuel to fire in women's game
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Amy Tennery | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The Matildas called out gender disparity in World Cup prize money in a video message released on Monday, ensuring the topic will stay front-and-centre days before the tournament kicks off on their home turf and in New Zealand. The team went on strike in 2015 to demand better pay and have received the same minimum percentage of prize money for tournaments as their male counterparts since 2019. The statement comes amid upheaval across women's soccer, with players demanding better pay and playing conditions across the globe. The governing body previously said it aimed for prize money parity by the next World Cups in 2026 and 2027. Reporting by Amy Tennery in Auckland, additional reporting by Lori Ewing; editing by Clare FallonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Olivia Chance, Rebecca Sowden, Christina Philippou, England's, Megan Rapinoe, Amy Tennery, Lori Ewing, Clare Fallon Organizations: AUCKLAND, United States, Socceroos, FIFA, New Zealand, Reuters, Australian, University of Portsmouth, Football Association, Thomson Locations: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, Qatar, Brazilian, Norway, New, Auckland

5, home to the biggest pool yet, being a pool owner felt less like a fantasy and more like a nonnegotiable. After all, if we had been willing to spend more on a house that came with a pool, why not just buy a pool? First of all, apparently, the average in-ground pool costs a lot more than $30,000. I found out that while the unusual shape of our yard meant we weren't getting the pool I'd imagined, this limitation could actually solve all of our problems. This left us with a fully buried, semi-in-ground (an in-ground pool without a deep end) as our only option.

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☆ Timothee Chalamet debuts as Willy Wonka in prequel's first trailer
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Yara Nardi/File PhotoLONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - Timothee Chalamet follows in the footsteps of Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp to play Willy Wonka in a new prequel film that looks at how Roald Dahl's fictional character came to love chocolate. The film, out in December, is set before the 1971 movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", starring Wilder as Wonka in an adaptation of Dahl's beloved 1964 book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". The new movie sees Wonka arriving in a fictional European city, which is home to master chocolatiers. Like Wilder, and Depp in the 2005 film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", Chalamet is dressed in Wonka's top hat and long jacket. The trailer also shows Chalamet's famous co-stars, including Olivia Colman, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa.

Persons: Timothee, Yara, Gene Wilder, Johnny Depp, Willy Wonka, Roald Dahl's, Wonka, Wilder, Dahl's, Charlie, Paul King, Roald Dahl, he'd, Charlie Bucket, Augustus, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teevee, Depp, who've, King, Chalamet's, Olivia Colman, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Grant, Marie, Louise Gumuchian, Sharon Singleton Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Venice, Italy, European

☆ ‘Wonka’ director teases all singing, all dancing Timothée Chalamet in new teaser trailer
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The chocolatier and torturer of naughty children is getting the prequel treatment in a new film starring Timothée Chalamet, coming to cinemas in December. Chalamet steps into shoes previously filled by Gene Wilder in 1971 and Johnny Depp in 2005. Speaking in London ahead of the teaser trailer release, King promised an all singing, all dancing Chalamet and a film that “answers all the questions you never had” about Wonka. The director shared that he’d accessed Dahl’s personal archives and read early drafts of the novel, gleaning ideas from there. CNN and Warner Bros. Pictures are units of Warner Bros.

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☆ Timothee Chalamet debuts as Wonka in prequel's first trailer
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

My dilemma is that because they think I'm "rich", my siblings and sometimes even my parents expect me to pay for everything. How do I tell my family that I can't afford to pay for everything and I need them to step up? 4 ways to take control of your credit card debt »That said, generosity and family are some of my highest values. You asked me how to tell your family that you can't pay for everything and that you need them to step up. Still, as I am sure you know, credit card debt is often more complicated than being a shopaholic.

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☆ Toronto elects Olivia Chow as first Chinese-Canadian mayor
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Sam Jabri-Pickett | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TORONTO, June 26 (Reuters) - Olivia Chow became the first Chinese-Canadian to be elected as mayor of Toronto, Canada's biggest city, on Monday, pledging to support renters, champion social causes, and reduce the sweeping powers of her office. Chow secured 37.2% vote, according to preliminary results, ahead of her nearest rival Ana Bailao, former deputy mayor. Chow, 66, will be the first woman to serve as mayor since Barbara Hall in 1997. Chow takes over as mayor after the resignation of John Tory, conservative-leaning mayor who won his third election last October. Tory had endorsed his former deputy Bailao, while Ontario Premier Doug Ford had endorsed former Toronto Chief of Police Mark Saunders.

Persons: Olivia Chow, Chow, Ana Bailao, Jack Layton, Barbara Hall, John Tory, Tory, Bailao, Doug Ford, Police Mark Saunders, Ford, Sam Jabri, Rosalba O'Brien, Michael Perry Organizations: TORONTO, New Democratic Party, University of Guelph, Tory, Ontario, Toronto, Police, Thomson Locations: Toronto, Canada's, Ottawa, Hong Kong, Canada

☆ He Was Handcuffed and Hospitalized. Now He’s on Track for Housing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Andy Newman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If the hospital would not help the patient, damaging that trust did not seem worth it. “If you’re going to forcibly take away somebody’s rights and take them to the hospital against their will, you want to make sure you’re not making the situation worse,” Mr. Auwarter said. BronxWorks sent its first person to the hospital under the mayor’s directive on Christmas night, when the wind chill was 12 degrees. Outreach workers at an elevated subway station approached a woman in her 60s who had refused to talk to them for five years. Her legs were covered with ulcers and so swollen she could not get socks on, and one foot was bare.

Persons: ”, Mitchell Katz, ” Mr, Auwarter, BronxWorks, Jacobi, Olivia Cooley, ’ Organizations: Psychiatric Center

☆ Longo prepared to play with pain for New Zealand's World Cup campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Ian Ransom | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 22 (Reuters) - Midfielder Annalie Longo is in a race to recover from a serious knee injury and make New Zealand's Women's World Cup squad, but will gladly endure pain to play in front of home fans if selectors back her. The 31-year-old tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial ligaments in her left knee against Mexico last September but has returned to training with Jitka Klimkova's Football Ferns to push for a fourth World Cup appearance. "For me it's kind of a do-or-die, risk-reward thing," she told Reuters from training. "I think just the nature of the time-frame there is going to be a bit of uncomfortable pain in the knee but it's all to play at a home World Cup. Drawn in Group A, New Zealand will also play Philippines and Switzerland in the preliminaries, looking for their first ever win at a World Cup and to fulfil their goal of making the knock-out phase.

Persons: Annalie Longo, Jitka, Longo, I've, I'm, Olivia Chance, Ria Percival, Klimkova, shrugged, Ian Ransom, Muralikumar Organizations: Mexico, Jitka Klimkova's Football Ferns, Norway, Reuters, Ferns, New Zealand, Iceland, New Zealand Football, Thomson Locations: Eden, Czech, New Zealand, Philippines, Switzerland, Melbourne

"He's vulnerable and kind of finding his way in this," Jackson told Reuters about his character, the protagonist with the eye patch in the TV action series "Secret Invasion." It follows Nick Fury as he and his allies fight to stop the shapeshifting reptilian humanoids known as the Skrulls from committing international terrorist attacks and eventually invading Earth. The cast includes Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, a Skrull ally of Nick Fury, Emilia Clarke as G'iah, Talos' daughter, and Olivia Colman as agent Sonya Falsworth. While the series, directed by Ali Selim, is based on other projects from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), it takes a different direction from previous Marvel shows. "It happens in a very organic kind of way, to know that we're inside something that doesn't have a superhero solution," Jackson said.

Persons: Samuel L, Jackson, Marvel, Nick Fury, Ben Mendelsohn, Emilia Clarke, Talos, Olivia Colman, Sonya Falsworth, Ali Selim, Clarke, they're, They're, Danielle Broadway, Rollo Ross, Mary Milliken, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Reuters, Disney, Marvel, Strategic, Intervention, Logistics, Thomson Locations: ANGELES

☆ Trump welcomed transgender women in his Miss Universe pageant years before he started campaigning on excluding them from women's sports
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump took credit in 2012 for ending the Miss Universe pageant's ban on transgender women. CNN's Andrew Kaczynski resurfaced Trump's stance on trans women competing in the Miss Universe pageant, which he owned from 1996 to 2015. Several news reports from April 2012 credit Trump specifically with reversing the pageant's ban on transgender women. Trump's tone on transgender women competing in women's sports has been pointedly different on the 2024 campaign trail. In countless rallies and speeches, Trump has railed against transgender women and claimed they are destroying women's sports.

Persons: Trump, Jenna Talackova, —, Donald Trump, CNN's Andrew Kaczynski, they'd, Talackova, Gloria Allred, Michael Cohen, " Cohen, Jenna, Miss USA Olivia Culpo, Culpo Organizations: CNN, Service, Miss Universe, Trump, Miss Universe Organization, Miss, Miss USA, Fox News, American Medical Association Locations: Canada

☆ Trump repeatedly celebrated the inclusion of transgender women in his beauty pageant
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Andrew Kaczynski | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Years before he said he was running for president to “defeat the cult of gender ideology,” Donald Trump welcomed and praised the inclusion of transgender women in the Miss Universe pageant. He then later effusively praised the winner of the Miss USA pageant, Olivia Culpo, for saying that transgender women should be allowed to compete. Transgender contestant Jenna Talackova takes part in Miss Universe Canada competition in Toronto, May 19, 2012. Mark Blinch/ReutersTrump, then the owner of the Miss Universe pageant, would go on to cite the possible participation of transgender women in Olympic sports to justify his decision to end a ban on transgender pageant participants. “And you have the Miss Canada, which is essentially the Miss Universe.

Persons: ” Donald Trump, Jenna Talackova, effusively, Olivia Culpo, Mark Blinch, Reuters Trump, Trump, ”, he’d, That’s, Culpo, “, ” Culpo, Trump . Donald Trump, David Becker, –, ” Trump, Talackova, Gloria Allred, Michael Cohen, Cohen, Laura Ingraham, Carrie Prejean, Shanna Moakler, Donald Trump, Lucas Jackson Organizations: CNN, Miss Universe, Trump, Miss USA, Miss Universe Canada, Reuters, Republican, White, Trump ., Miss, Hollywood, Getty, Fox, Friends, Trump Organization, Olympics, Fox News, Miss California USA, Miss Universe Organization, GLAAD, Mr Locations: Canadian, Toronto, Las Vegas , Nevada, Canada, Miss Canada, United States, New York

☆ Sudan's West Darfur governor killed
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsSudan's West Darfur governor killedPostedFighting rocked several cities in western Sudan on Wednesday in an expansion of the country's almost two-month-old war as a regional governor was killed after publicly blaming the deaths of civilians on the country's paramilitary force. Olivia Chan reports.

Persons: Olivia Chan Organizations: Sudan's West Darfur Locations: Sudan's West, Sudan

For Love & Money is a biweekly column from Insider answering your relationship and money questions. This week, a reader writes they lost their job a month ago and are too embarrassed to tell their husband. Write to For Love & Money using this Google form. You didn't want to tell your husband and risk him seeing you as the failure that you fear you are. So I'm going to give you the same advice my therapist gave me: tolerate the anxiety, and tell the truth.

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For Love & Money is a biweekly column from Insider answering your relationship and money questions. Our columnist says it's important to put yourself first on your wedding day, even if it feels selfish. Write to For Love & Money using this Google form. My mom especially is pressuring me to have a big wedding, but I don't want one. Any time she pressures you to have a big, traditional wedding, simply tell her you can't afford it.

For Love & Money is a biweekly column from Insider answering your relationship and money questions. I keep this a secret because I know everyone will think I'm being unrealistic, but I don't think I need a degree to have financial stability. Am I being unreasonable, or is there a life outside of a college degree? I don't think your plan to take your time choosing a career path is unreasonable. I'm so confident in this assertion that I don't think you should keep your ambivalence about going to college a "big secret."

☆ Pakistan's Khan returns home after bail granted
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsPakistan's Khan returns home after bail grantedPostedA Pakistani court ordered former Prime Minister Imran Khan's release on bail for two weeks, his lawyer said on Friday, after his arrest in a land fraud case ignited deadly protests and a tussle with the military. Olivia Chan reports.

The last few years have been hard in our marriage, and he sometimes says he's considering a no-fault divorce. But if you live in a community property state, your husband will be entitled to half. Is your state a fault or no-fault state? You mentioned in your letter that your husband has specifically threatened a "no-fault" divorce, but according to Costas, it isn't up to him. If you live in a no-fault state, outside of criminal factors, it won't matter whether one partner cheated or left.

I requested an extension on my taxes last year, and I put off dealing with my taxes until October. I've gotten another extension this year, but this time it's out of necessity, and I'm going to be careful. I'm requesting a tax extension. Editor's Rating 4.2/5 A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star Editor's Rating 4.7/5 A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star Editor's Rating 4/5 A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star A five pointed star Learn more On TurboTax's website Learn more On TaxAct's website Learn more On FreeTax USA's websiteI kept putting my taxes off — and then it was OctoberThose are my excuses for logging on and begging for another six months. If everything goes according to plan, we'll be back on track in time to handle 2023 taxes on time.

For Love & Money is a biweekly column from Insider answering your relationship and money questions. Write to For Love & Money using this Google form. The hidden costs of pregnancy »But from a value standpoint, I'd like to remind you of a similar choice you made years ago when you chose to have kids — kids you surely realized might have kids of their own one day. If your daughter doesn't recognize this, don't feel guilty for explaining it to her. She is trying to tell you what she hopes you'll tell her — that you can hardly wait to love her baby.

☆ World Cup co-hosts New Zealand suffer another setback with Nigeria thrashing
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MELBOURNE, April 12 (Reuters) - Women's World Cup co-hosts New Zealand suffered another blow to their confidence in the leadup to the tournament on Tuesday with a 3-0 defeat to Nigeria in a friendly and the loss of veteran midfielder Betsy Hassett to a suspected broken rib. The defeat in Antalya, Turkey extended the Football Ferns' winless run to 10 matches and heaps further pressure on embattled coach Jitka Klimková. Hassett's injury added salt to 25th-ranked New Zealand's wounds, the midfielder forced from the field after 70 minutes after clashing with Oparanozie. New Zealand, who co-host the Women's World Cup with Australia in July and August, have not won since handing the Philippines a 2-1 defeat in September. They meet Norway, Philippines and Switzerland in Group A at the World Cup.

☆ Sudan transition deal delayed, protesters march
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsSudan transition deal delayed, protesters marchPostedThe head of Sudan's army said he remained committed to a plan for a new transition towards elections, despite disputes over the integration of a paramilitary force that have twice delayed the signing of a final deal. Olivia Chan reports.

☆ The parents of an 8-year-old trans girl say they're moving from Florida to Minnesota, fearing an anti-trans law that could threaten the custody of their daughter
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Leo Aquino | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The bill would restrict funding and protections for healthcare providers that offer gender-affirming care to trans patients. "I thought the worst they would do is restrict gender-affirming care," Amanda said. This would prohibit universities or health insurance plans for government workers from using public funds to provide gender-affirming care. In February, the Board of Medicine expanded on the restrictions and banned gender-affirming care for minors, including in clinical trials. In a previous story about SB 254, representatives for DeSantis declined to comment on SB 254 until it makes its way to the Governor's desk.

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