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☆ Bob Moore, founder of Bob’s Red Mill, has died
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Bob Moore, the founder of Bob’s Red Mill whole-grains company, has died. Moore “peacefully passed away” at his home on Saturday, at the age of 94. “Bob’s legacy will live on forever in all of us who had the opportunity to work with him and is infused into the Bob’s Red Mill brand,” said Bob’s Red Mill CEO Trey Winthrop. Moore’s passion for healthy foods helped lead him to start Bob’s Red Mill in 1978 in Portland, Oregon, as a local company before gradually expanding its sales into more than 70 countries and employing about 700 people. Moore is survived by his three sons (Ken, Bob, Jr. and David), plus his four daughters-in-law, nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

Persons: Bob Moore, Moore “, ”, Red, Trey Winthrop, Moore, Leah Nash, ” Winthrop, Ken, Bob, Jr, David Organizations: New, New York CNN, Shoppers, Washington Post, Oregon State University Locations: New York, Portland , Oregon, Oregon

☆ Israel’s repudiation of a deal with Hamas draws fury from hostages’ families
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Survivors of the October 7 terror attack and the families of hostages were furious at the uncompromising repudiation of a deal that – ultimately – could have resulted in the return of all the remaining hostages in Gaza. Moshe’s words carried power – she was kidnapped by Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Oz and held hostage in Gaza for seven weeks. The families of the hostages held in Gaza have emerged as a leading voice and they attract huge support among Israelis. Protesters demand a hostage deal amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel, on February 1, 2024. These anti-government protests are still strictly separate from the hostage families’ events, which tend to take place just down the road at what has become known as the Hostage Plaza.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, “, ” Netanyahu, –, Adina Moshe, Netanyahu, Sahar Kalderon, Aviva Siegel, Nili Margalit, Sharon Aloni Cunio, Susana Vera, I’m, ” Moshe, Nir Oz, David, Sa’id, Moshe, Lital Shochat, Shochat, ‘, Shochat Chertow, Shiva, ”, Doron Shabtai, Shabtai, Ivana Kottasova, Yair Lapid, ” “, Bibi ”, Evyatar Cohen, … Organizations: Tel, Tel Aviv CNN, State, Wednesday, Reuters, Protesters, Israel Democracy HQ, Hamas, CNN, Israeli, Yesh Locations: Tel Aviv, Israel, Gaza, Sderot, Jerusalem, Israel’s, Lebanon

☆ I moved to Japan having never visited. Here are the 7 things I found surprising after living there for 17 years.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Julian Ryall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Tom Fay moved from a small village in North Wales to Osaka in 2007 having never visited Japan. Looking back, I've found a few surprising things living in Japan for nearly two decades. Living in Japan has broadened my palette for seafood and local seasonal vegetables, which are readily available. AdvertisementCity living and countryside living are very differentI wish I'd moved to the countryside even sooner. I could see myself living in Japan forever, but part of me would like to move back to the UK.

Persons: Tom Fay, —, It's, I've, I'd, Summers, you've, I'm Organizations: Service, University of Manchester Locations: North Wales, Osaka, Japan, British, Kyoto

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will resume a long-suspended Peace Corps program in the North Pacific island of Palau as the Biden administration continues moves to counter growing Chinese influence in the region. “Volunteers will live and work side-by-side with community partners to improve childhood literacy and math and science skills, along with teaching English as a foreign language,” Peace Corps director Carol Spahn said in a statement. Palau’s president, Surangel Whipps, said the return of the Peace Corps reflects the strong relationship between his nation and the United States. Peace Corps officials said they hope that with congressional funding the Palau reopening will be the first of several new programs it will restart in the Pacific. The Peace Corps, a creation of the John F. Kennedy administration, currently has Pacific island programs in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu.

Persons: Biden, Carol Spahn, Surangel Whipps, “, ” Whipps, John F, Kennedy, Didi Tang Organizations: WASHINGTON, Peace Corps, “ Volunteers, Peace, Corps, Pacific, Marshall, Associated Press Locations: United States, North, Palau, Taiwan, Federated States, Micronesia, China, Marshall Islands, Beijing, U.S, Pacific, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu

☆ New York’s Rubin Museum is closing its doors — but will live on as a ‘museum without walls’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —New York’s Rubin Museum of Art, home to one of the world’s largest and most important collections of Himalayan art, announced on Wednesday that it will close its doors in October. Rubin Museum founders Shelley and Donald Rubin, pictured on October 8, 2015. Mireya Acierto/Getty Images“Building and sharing this collection of Himalayan art was one of my family’s great joys,” added Shelley Rubin. A lot of the time, we are shown Tibetan art as part of Chinese art — as an appendage because Tibet is now part of China. Robert K. Chin/Storefronts/AlamyThe closure will see some 40% of the Rubin’s staff lose their jobs — mostly those in “front-of-house roles,” a spokesperson for the museum told CNN.

Persons: York’s Rubin, Shelley, Donald Rubin, Rubin, Noah Dorsky, Mireya Acierto, ”, Shelley Rubin, “, Matthew Eisman, Jorrit Britschgi, ” Britschgi, Nepal’s, Ian Johnson, meanwhile, Curtis S, Chin, ” “, ” Johnson, Robert K Organizations: CNN, York’s Rubin Museum of Art, Rubin Museum, Rubin Museum of Art, Venice Biennale, Itumbaha Museum, Mandela, Centre for Foreign Relations, Asian Development Bank Locations: Manhattan, New York, Kathmandu, Nepal, New York City, Venice, York, Tibet, China

☆ Colorectal cancer is killing more younger people than ever. 3 people under 50 diagnosed with it shared their first symptoms.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Kim Schewitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

People under 50 in the US are dying from colorectal cancer at an increasing rate. AdvertisementMore people under the age of 50 are dying of colorectal cancer than ever before, according to the American Cancer Association. The disease is sometimes called colon cancer or rectal cancer, depending on where it starts. When colorectal cancer is caught early, before it has spread, the chance a person will live for another five years is about 90%. AdvertisementShe now visits her gastroenterologist regularly, eats healthy, exercises, and raises awareness of the signs of colorectal cancer.

Persons: —, Kimmie Ng, you've, JJ Singleton, Singleton, Lynch, Tom McKenna, Paula Chambers Raney, Doctors, gastroenterologist, Kim Schewitz, kschewitz@businessinsider.com Organizations: Service, American Cancer Association, Dana, Farber Cancer Institute, NBC Locations: Boston

☆ Top marketers from Popeyes, Kawasaki, and more dish on how they'll maximize the value of their first-ever Super Bowl ads
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewPepsiCo's lemon-lime soda Starry is only one year old, but millions of US consumers will soon see its first-ever Super Bowl ad, as it battles to steal share from stalwarts like 7-Up and Sprite. AdvertisementPopeye's will use its Super Bowl spot to introduce five new chicken wing flavors. First-time advertisers are also looking beyond TVTo justify the high price of a Super Bowl ad, however, marketers invest heavily to keep the conversation going across other channels. And Popeye's, which hopes to drive people to one of its restaurants with a Super Bowl-themed promo, also hopes to extend the campaign beyond the Super Bowl. Highdive is working on BetMGM's first Super Bowl ad this year.

Persons: —, Nielsen, Sami Siddiqui, Michael Smith, Bob O'Brien, O'Brien, Popeye's Siddiqui, Mark Gross, Highdive Organizations: Service, Business, Super, Kawasaki, Popeye's, Kawasaki Motors Corp, Bowl, National Collegiate Athletic

☆ Meet the former child prodigy who played 'Moneyball' with GPUs and built a $3 million AI model for $30,000
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Daimon Labs, by contrast, had raised $1.5 million from a handful of VCs. It was around then that he started Daimon Labs alongside Dhruv Malik and Xiang Zhang to pursue the dream of what he calls "machines of loving grace". He ignored every metric of success for an AI model, except one: perplexity. It's a measure of how certain the AI model is of its predictions. But even with ruthlessly optimized hardware and that single-minded focus, Daimon Labs still couldn't afford to build the model Benmalek was envisioning.

Persons: —, Ryan Benmalek, wouldn't, Benmalek, Isaac Asimov, Dhruv Malik, Xiang Zhang, Michael Lewis, Daimon, Brooklyn Organizations: Service, Business, Daimon Labs, The University of Washington, Cornell, Apple, Google, Nvidia, Labs, Lambda, Daimon Locations: Silicon, Seattle, Moneyball, Montreal, Brooklyn, North Carolina, Canada

The website, beloved for being one of modern music’s true centers of gravity and renowned for its daily record reviews scored 0.0 to 10.0, will be folded into GQ, parent company Condé Nast announced Wednesday. Schreiber sold Pitchfork to Condé Nast in 2015. Says Snapes: “Music is so much more than a ‘men’s interest’ or leisure pursuit. Pitchfork paid close, longform critical attention to so many different types of music, and so many different niches. “It’s the independent, experimental artists that are going to suffer.”___ Maria Sherman writes about music for The Associated Press.

Persons: Condé Nast, Anna Wintour, ” Wintour, Ryan Schreiber, Pitchfork, Schreiber, ”, Laura Snapes, ” Snapes, “, ” Ann Powers, ” Powers, Wintour, Melissa Consorte, Condé, P4K, Consorte, Joanna Melissakis, Gareth Paisey, Yasmin Williams, Sam Sodomsky, Williams, Paisey, “ We’ve, Taylor Swift, ” ___ Maria Sherman Organizations: ANGELES, Pitchfork, GQ, Associated Press, Napster, “, SPIN, Blender, PITCHFORK, AP, Condé Nast, The Associated Press

The Red Square mausoleum where his embalmed corpse lies in an open sarcophagus is no longer a near-mandatory pilgrimage but a site of macabre kitsch, open only 15 hours a week. The ideology that Lenin championed and spread over a vast territory is something of a sideshow in modern Russia. “As a result of Bolshevik policy, Soviet Ukraine arose, which even today can with good reason be called ‘Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s Ukraine.' The Mayakovsky poem that proclaimed Lenin's immortality was “a parting word, or a spell, or a curse,” Rudakov said. At the annual military parade through Red Square, the structure is blocked from view by a tribune where dignitaries watch the festivities.

Persons: soothed, “ Lenin, Lenin, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir Putin's, Konstantin Morozov, Gennady Zyuganov, ”, Putin, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s, ” Putin, “, VTsIOM, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's, Yuri Annenkov, Josef Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Russian Orthodox Church —, Bolsheviks —, Stalin, Trotsky, Lenin ”, ’, Vladimir Rudakov, ” Rudakov, Jim Heintz Organizations: Moscow Zoo, Communist Party, Russian Academy of Sciences, AP, Union of Russian Architects, Russian Orthodox Church, Bolsheviks, Tass, The Associated Press Locations: Soviet Union, Russia, Moscow, St, Petersburg's Finland, United Russia, Ukraine, Soviet Ukraine, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s Ukraine, Soviet, Russian, Red, USSR, Estonia

West Maui's tight housing market, which is heavily populated by expensive vacation rentals, is one reason. Lawmakers said solutions to these problems are badly needed for Maui but would also help communities across the state. Fire mitigation would a top Senate priority, Senate President Ron Kouchi, a Democrat, said. Hashimoto said lawmakers know Lahaina Strong wants stable housing for the people of Lahaina. Last year lawmakers didn't increase funding for behavioral health care but she hopes they will this year.

Persons: Ron Kouchi, ” Kouchi, Scott Saiki, Saiki, “ It’s, ” Saiki, “, haven’t, Nadine Nakamura, Sen, Troy Hashimoto, “ We've, ” Hashimoto, ”, Jordan Ruidas, ” Ruidas, Hashimoto, Joy San Organizations: Wednesday, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, University of Hawaii, Democrat, Protesters, Capitol Locations: HONOLULU, Hawaii, Lahaina, Maui, West Maui, Honolulu, Oahu, Joy San Buenaventura

NEW YORK (AP) — It's the end of the road for Kiss. Many Kiss fans said they are not interested in paying to see virtual recreations of the band, including syndicated rock host Eddie Trunk. Political Cartoons View All 1277 Images“I have very little interest in seeing an avatar concert of Kiss, or anyone for that matter,” he said. It in no way is a replacement for the live concert experience. That was a reference to the absence of former Kiss band members from the final shows, despite Stanley's repeated statements that he'd be open to former members appearing in some capacity.

Persons: —, it's, Kiss, Gene Simmons, “, Eddie Trunk, ”, franken, Gary Stevens, Paul Stanley, Peter, Ace, Bruce, Stanley's, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss, Alice Cooper's, Simmons, Gibson Les Paul, Tommy Thayer, Stanley, Criss, Eric Singer, Thayer, ” Stanley, Elvis Presley, We're, ” Dee Snider, Wayne Parry Organizations: Kiss, New York City, Madison, Facebook, Detroit, Detroit Rock City Locations: New, —, New Jersey, Detroit Rock, ”, New York City, Madison, Queens, America, www.twitter.com

LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — Tomer Bassis expected his day to be filled with electronic trance music at the Oct. 7 desert rave party he was attending in southern Israel. The open-air Tribe of Nova music festival is believed to be the worst civilian massacre in Israeli history, with at least 364 dead. In a single day, Hamas and other Palestinian militants killed about 1,200 people in Israel, mostly civilians, and took around 240 people captive. The trips to Cyprus are supported by NovaHelp, a group of mental heath professionals who came together to help survivors of the rave party, said Raskin. Raskin has initiated another, similar project currently underway to bring parents who lost children during the Oct. 7 attack to undergo similar therapy in Cyprus.

Persons: Tomer Bassis, revelers, gunning, Bassis, “, ”, “ I’m, —, Eyal Sirota, Sirota, Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, Raskin, ” “ Organizations: NovaHelp, Jewish, Health Ministry, Hamas, Jewish Community Center Locations: LARNACA, Cyprus, Israel, Gaza, Paphos, Larnaca

NEW YORK (AP) — The irreverent feminist website Jezebel is making a comeback less than a month after it was shut down. Paste Magazine, a digital pop culture publication based in Atlanta, announced Wednesday that it was buying Jezebel.com from G/O Media, which closed it and laid off its staff earlier this month. Like many other digital publications, however, Jezebel struggled in recent years to find a sustainable business model as digital advertising plummeted. Paste said Jezebel's “acquisition is poised to bring together the strengths of Paste Magazine’s established presence in the media landscape with Jezebel’s influential position in addressing contemporary issues.”Paste did not immediately return an e-mail seeking further details. The New York Times reported that Paste is searching for a new editor-in-chief for Jezebel before hiring writers.

Persons: Jezebel, Paste, “, Josh Jackson, Jezebel’s, ”, ” Jackson, Jim Spanfeller, ” Spanfeller Organizations: Paste Magazine, New York Times, Paste, Gawker Media Locations: Atlanta

☆ Jezebel acquired by Paste Magazine
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Jezebel, the punchy feminist blog that was shuttered earlier this month, will be resurrected after the publication was sold to a new owner. The digital media outlet Paste Magazine, which focuses on music and culture journalism, said Wednesday that it had acquired the outlet from G/O Media. “We are honored to bring Jezebel back to life and excited to welcome the site into the Paste Magazine family,” Josh Jackson, editor-in-chief of Paste Magazine, said in a statement. G/O Media, which previously owned the site, shut down Jezebel and laid off its entire staff earlier this month as it announced broader restructuring to grapple with a difficult economic environment. But Spanfeller said at the time that he had not “given up” on finding a new home for Jezebel, which he described as having a “storied legacy as the website that changed women’s media forever.”A representative for Paste Magazine said that the company would begin a search for a new editor-in-chief for Jezebel immediately.

Persons: ” Josh Jackson, ” Jackson, Jim Spanfeller, Spanfeller, ”, Jezebel, Paste, CNN’s Jon Passantino Organizations: CNN, Paste, O, Paste Magazine, O Media

☆ Will Livestreaming Be TikTok’s Amazon-Killer?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Jacky Wong | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TikTok is already a channel where hundreds of millions of young users discover new products. Photo: dado ruvic/ReutersTikTok is trying to tap in to shoppers in the U.S. So-called social shopping is already a huge phenomenon in Asia. Success isn’t guaranteed—and politics could intervene. But given how effectively TikTok has already disrupted the social-media landscape, U.S. e-commerce giants like Amazon should be watching their back.

Persons: TikTok, dado ruvic, Reuters TikTok, isn’t Organizations: Reuters Locations: U.S, Asia

☆ Venue renamed 'Christine Sinclair Place' for Canada soccer great's final game
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Nov 27 (Reuters) - BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, will be renamed "Christine Sinclair Place" for one night next week in honour of the captain's final match with the women's international team, Canada Soccer said on Monday. Sinclair, who is the world's all-time leading international goalscorer, announced her retirement from the Canada women's national team in October and her final game will be on Dec. 5 against Australia. "The legacy of Christine's career has and will live on beyond her tremendous accomplishments on the field," Canada Soccer President Charmaine Crooks said in a news release. The 40-year-old Sinclair's international career includes a record 190 goals for Canada, an Olympic gold medal and six World Cup appearances. Sinclair still plans to play for Portland Thorns in the National Women's Soccer League next season and after that expects to remain involved with the game in some capacity.

Persons: Christine Sinclair, Sinclair, Charmaine Crooks, Frank Pingue, Christian Radnedge Organizations: women's, Canada Soccer, Canada women's, Australia, Sinclair, Canada, Portland Thorns, National Women's Soccer League, Thomson Locations: Vancouver , British Columbia, Toronto

In the southern town of Khan Younis, which has been housing thousands of displaced families including from heavily bombarded northern Gaza, streets were packed with people on the move. "A four-day truce is not enough, those (in the north) of Gaza, may God give them patience. SOME PEOPLE STAYAlaa Al Moubachar, sitting outside a Khan Younis medical centre with her children, said the neighbourhood where she lived in Gaza City had been destroyed. "I just want to go back, even if just for an hour to see my house and the neighbourhood, to see Gaza (City) and what happened to it." Some Palestinians in Khan Younis say they will wait until the end of the war before returning home.

Persons: Khan Younis, Abu Mustafa, KHAN YOUNIS, Ahmad Wael, trudging, Souad Abou Nasirat, We're, Al Moubachar, Ahmad Kabalan, Israel, Timothy Heritage, Peter Graff Organizations: REUTERS, United Nations, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza, Khan, Gaza City, City

The family of Avigail Idan, a small child whose parents were murdered in front of their children by Hamas militants at a kibbutz during the Oct. 7 assault, hoped that they would be able to celebrate her fourth birthday with her on Friday. “I find myself barely breathing through the last 24 hours,” her aunt, Tal Idan, said after the announcement of the agreement. Image An undated photo (from left) of Avigail Idan, Roy Idan, Michael Idan, Amelia Idan, and Smadar Idan. And in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians who have endured nearly seven weeks of intense airstrikes waited anxiously for the truce. Several international humanitarian organizations said the four-day cease-fire window was too tight to address the dire situation.

Persons: Mohammad Abu Salmiya, “, Tal Idan, ”, Avigail, Abigail ”, Idan, Roy Idan, Michael Idan, Amelia Idan, Smadar, Walaa Tanji, Tanji, Nagham, ” Shadi Hijazi, Catherine Russell Organizations: Al, Shifa, U.S ., West Bank, Qatar, UNICEF, . Security Locations: U.S, Nablus, Gaza

☆ Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Gates says that a 3-day work week is "probably OK."The billionaire has previously acknowledged the risks of AI being misused. AdvertisementTechnology may not replace humans, but it could make a 3-day work week possible — at least, that's what Bill Gates thinks. "If you eventually get a society where you only have to work three days a week, that's probably OK," Gates said. There could exist a world where "machines can make all the food and the stuff," and people don't have to work a five day-plus work week to earn a living wage. Companies in the US and abroad have been testing the effectiveness of a four-day work week.

Persons: Bill Gates, Gates, —, Trevor Noah, Noah, that's, Jamie Dimon, Dimon Organizations: Service, Employers, JPMorgan, Bloomberg, Microsoft, Companies

☆ France beats Gibraltar a record 14-0 in Euro 2024 qualifier
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Aimee Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

2-ranked team playing against a country ranked 198 in the world and the gulf between the two was evident on the pitch. Marcus Thuram, Jonathan Clauss, Youssouf Fofana, Adrien Rabiot, Ousmane Dembélé all scored for France, while Olivier Giroud and Kingsley Coman got two goals apiece. “Being down to 10, already with 11 it’s complicated for them, but it doesn’t take away the credit for us even if we could have been more efficient, it’s as much about respecting the opponent as scoring goals,” France manager Didier Deschamps said, per Reuters. “Fourteen is not bad.”France had 39 attempts on goal, 19 of which were on target, while Gibraltar failed to muster a chance. France, already qualified for Euro 2024 in Germany, is top of Group B while a winless Gibraltar is bottom on zero points without having yet scored a goal during qualification.

Persons: Les Bleus, Kylian Mbappé, Warren Zaïre, Emery, Philippe Lecoeur, Ethan Santos, Santos, Marcus Thuram, Jonathan Clauss, Youssouf Fofana, Adrien Rabiot, Ousmane Dembélé, Olivier Giroud, Kingsley Coman, Didier Deschamps, ” Organizations: CNN, France, European Championship, Reuters, Allianz, “, ” Locations: Gibraltar, San Marino, Nice, ” France, France, Germany

☆ Why a retiree planning to pay $1 million to live on a luxury cruise ship changed his mind: "Is this going to happen in my lifetime?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Brittany Chang | Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A 70-year-old buyer has asked Storylines to refund his deposit for a $1 million condo on the MV Narrative. The startup has delayed the launch of its residential ship from 2019 to December 2026. At the time, it seemed like he had found the answer through a Facebook ad for Storylines and its luxurious $900 million residential cruise ship . AdvertisementStorylines is selling condos aboard the future MV Narrative for between $1 million to $8 million. Nine former employees, consultants, and investors told Business Insider they question if the MV Narrative will ever exist beyond renderings.

Persons: —, Mike Kasperzak, Kasperzak, he's, Alister Punton, I'm Organizations: Service, San Francisco Bay Area, Business Locations: San Francisco Bay

☆ ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’ Review: Songs of Struggle at the Metropolitan Opera
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Heidi Waleson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Will Liverman (center) in a scene from Anthony Davis's ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’ Photo: Marty Sohl/The Metropolitan OperaNew YorkNearly four decades after its birth, Anthony Davis ’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X” has arrived at the Metropolitan Opera. At the time of its 1986 New York City Opera world premiere across the Lincoln Center Plaza, its controversial subject and unconventional musical idiom would have been unthinkable at the conservative Met; today, it is part of a vigorous company initiative predicated on the idea that new operas attract new audiences. The times have finally caught up with “X,” even as the events that it chronicles have receded into the more distant past.

Persons: Will Liverman, Anthony Davis's ‘, Malcolm X ’, Marty Sohl, Anthony Davis ’, Malcolm X ” Organizations: Metropolitan Opera New, Metropolitan Opera, York City Opera, Lincoln Center Plaza, Met Locations: Metropolitan Opera New York

☆ Opinion | Trump’s Deportation Plans for Immigrants
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Trump’s ’25 Immigration Plan: Giant Camps, Mass Deportation” (front page, Nov. 12):After choking on my coffee reading this excellent in-depth piece, I contemplated the America we will live in if these ambitious and aggressive ideas bear fruit. Do the architects of this plan really believe we will have a stronger, safer and more prosperous country by setting up giant immigrant camps and carrying out mass deportations? I am descended from “white” privilege and members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. My family has grown stronger in recent years by the blending of ethnic, cultural and religious origins through marriage and adoption — with Indonesian, Malaysian, Algerian, Romanian, Iranian and Danish heritages combined with Scot Irish and English ones. We have family members who are Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, atheist and agnostic as well as Episcopalian, Quaker and Catholic.

Persons: Scot Irish Organizations: American, Malaysian, Catholic Locations: America, Romanian, Danish

☆ Hayes hired in record deal to turn around U.S. women's soccer team
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The 47-year-old from London is one of the game's most successful professional coaches, guiding Chelsea to 13 major trophies in her 11 seasons with the Women's Super League club. Hayes' deal with the U.S., which will reportedly run through at least 2027, will make her the highest paid women's soccer coach in the world, U.S. Soccer said on Tuesday. "This is a huge honour to be given the opportunity to coach the most incredible team in world football history," Hayes said in the statement announcing her appointment. Chelsea announced on Nov. 4 that Hayes would leave her job at the end of the Women's Super League season in May to pursue a new opportunity "outside the WSL and club football." Hayes replaces Vlatko Andonovski, who stepped down days after the Americans' shock defeat by Sweden in the last 16 of the 2023 Women's World Cup.

Persons: Emma Hayes, John Sibley, Hayes, Chelsea, I’ve, Twila Kilgore, Vlatko Andonovski, Emma, Cindy Parlow Cone, Laurence Stewart, Paul Winstanley, Andonovski, Megan Rapinoe, Lori Ewing, Rory Carroll, Amy Tennery, Ken Ferris Organizations: Soccer, League, Reading, Chelsea, Madejski, U.S, United, national soccer team, Women's Super League, USA, Super League, PARIS OLYMPICS, Paris Olympics, Paris Games, U.S . Soccer, . Soccer, FA, Thomson Locations: Reading, Britain, United States, London, Sweden, U.S, Chelsea, Los Angeles, New York

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