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☆ I spent 20 years studying how 100-year-old people eat—and this is the world's No. 1 healthiest breakfast
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Dan Buettner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

As a longevity researcher, I've spent the past 20 years studying the habits of people who live to 100 years old or longer, particularly the foods they eat. And in a tucked-away corner of Nicoya, Costa Rica, I may have found the world's healthiest breakfast. They stoke wood fires in clay ovens, put cauldrons of spicy beans to boil, and mix corn dough with wood ash. The beans cook slowly for about an hour to tender perfection and are then mixed with rice. Add water and stir until a soft dough forms (if the mixture won't form a soft ball of dough, add warm water in one tablespoon increments until it will).

Persons: I've, David McLain, David McLain Nixtamal, masa, Jose Guevara's Gallo Pinto, Jose Guevara, gallo pinto, It's, Cook Organizations: stoke, Worcestershire Locations: Nicoya, Costa Rica, Costa Rican, Worcestershire

☆ Here are some last-minute options to spend down your flexible savings account ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ funds
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Ana Teresa Solá | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

It's common for workers to not know what their employer's FSA rules are. Stock up on over-the-counter medications The CARES Act of March 2020 removed prescription requirements to use FSA funds for many over-the-counter medicines. Buy certain skin care products You can use your FSA savings for eczema-approved creams and lotions. Plan ahead for a new baby New and expectant parents can use their FSA funds for baby products such as diaper rash cream, baby breathing monitors and baby sunscreen. How to use FSA funds wisely

Persons: Tom Werner, Digitalvision, Carolyn McClanahan, Jake Spiegel, you've Organizations: Getty, Planning Partners, CNBC's, Research, CNBC, Invest, Garmin, IRS Locations: Jacksonville , Florida

☆ Madonna Lived to Tell
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Guy Trebay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The account, The AIDS Memorial, is an evolving testament, told in photographs, videos and user stories, to lives lost to a devastating and, it can occasionally seem, forgotten epidemic. To date, Mr. Armstrong has posted more than 11,000 of these tales, and if you are aware of them at all, that may owe to one woman: Madonna. The 65-year-old singer was early among the 269,000 followers of The AIDS Memorial. And, if it did not inspire her outright, the Instagram account served as the basis for a showstopping element of her current “Celebration” tour, which comes to Barclays Center in mid-December. By extension, Madonna’s choice to deploy the montage early in each “Celebration” performance as a backdrop for a rendition of the 1986 song “Live to Tell” is as politically trenchant as it is deeply personal.

Persons: Stuart Armstrong, Armstrong, Sarah Schulman —, —, Martin Burgoyne Organizations: Barclays Center, World Health Organization, The Locations: Edinburgh, York, British

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's decades-old aggravated prostitution statute violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday after an investigation, warning that the state could face a lawsuit if officials don't immediately cease enforcement. LGBTQ+ and civil rights advocates have long criticized the measure as discriminatory, making it almost impossible to find housing and employment due to the restrictions for violent sex offenders. The DOJ letter details several of the struggles of those with aggravated prostitution convictions. A lifetime sex offender registration can stop people from visiting with their grandchildren, revoke job offers, and severely limit housing options. Plaintiffs who had filed a lawsuit seeking to block the aggravated prostitution law in October said the DOJ's letter only further supports their efforts.

Persons: —, ”, Bill Lee, “, Kristen Clarke, Jonathan Skrmetti, David Rausch, Steven Mulroy, it's, Mulroy, ” Brandon James Smith, Skrmetti, “ OUTMemphis, Molly Quinn, OUTMemphis, Adrian Sainz Organizations: U.S . Department of Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Transgender Law Center, Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, of, DOJ, Associated Press Locations: Tenn, Tennessee, United States, Shelby County, Memphis, Memphis , Tennessee

John set up his AIDS Foundation in 1992 and has helped raise millions of dollars to prevent HIV infections and reduce stigma. "This evening I was privileged to welcome Sir Elton John and acknowledge his exceptional contribution to the global fight against HIV and AIDS — personally and through the Elton John AIDS Foundation,” Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said on X, formerly Twitter. The Parliament reception for John came ahead of World AIDS Day, which takes place on Friday. “Sir Elton has been a powerful voice for change in the U.K. and the world,” Sunak told lawmakers. “Through the brilliant work of the AIDS Foundation he has raised awareness of the issue, reduced stigma and saved lives.”

Persons: — Elton John, ” John, John, Sir Elton John, AIDS —, Elton John, Lindsay Hoyle, Rishi Sunak, “ Sir Elton, ” Sunak, ” Organizations: AIDS Foundation, AIDS, Elton John AIDS Foundation, Twitter, NHS, Health, World Health Organization, John's AIDS, “ Locations: London, England

☆ Options traders appear to be betting the worst is over for this beaten-up retailer
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Michael Khouw | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

What do options traders mean when they referred to an "implied move"? A core component of the implied move is the implied volatility of the options. Implied volatility is an estimate of a stock's future volatility and is embedded in an option's price. What causes large moves, such as the one seen in Foot Locker, and what are traders betting on now? FL YTD mountain Foot Locker in 2023 As the chart reveals, FL has had a tough go of it this year.

Persons: Locker, Foot Locker Organizations: FL, NBA

A South African company will make vaginal rings that protect against HIV, which AIDS experts say should eventually make them cheaper and more readily available. The Population Council announced Thursday that Kiara Health of Johannesburg will start making the silicone rings in the next few years, estimating that 1 million could be produced annually. The nonprofit council owns the rights to the rings, which are now made by a Swedish company. About 500,00 rings are currently available to women in Africa at no cost, purchased by donors. Last year, activists charged the stage in a protest during last year's biggest AIDS meeting, calling on donors to buy the silicone rings for African women.

Persons: Ben Phillips Organizations: Population, World Health Organization, WHO, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: Johannesburg, Swedish, Africa, South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Uganda, Zimbabwe

LONDON (AP) — Elton John is to address Britain's Parliament on Wednesday on his work fighting HIV at an event to mark World AIDS Day. The British star's AIDS Foundation has led campaigns to extend a pilot government program to test people visiting hospitals' emergency rooms for HIV. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak paid tribute to John's AIDS Foundation, saying he was pleased its work was being celebrated in Parliament. Political Cartoons View All 1270 Images“Sir Elton has been a powerful voice for change in the U.K. and the world,” Sunak told lawmakers. World AIDS Day takes place on Friday.

Persons: — Elton John, Rishi Sunak, Sir Elton, ” Sunak, ” John’s Organizations: AIDS, John's AIDS, “, AIDS Foundation, World Health Organization Locations: London, Manchester, England

☆ A Gaza Truce Aids Both Sides. Until the Calculus Changes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Patrick Kingsley | More About Patrick Kingsley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The decision by Israel and Hamas to extend their brief truce has created short-term benefits for both sides but amplified uncertainty about how, when and whether Israel will continue its invasion of the Gaza Strip. From the outside world, Israeli leaders will face calls to make cease-fire permanent. Within their own country, however, there will be competing demands that they resume fighting and crush Hamas, while also securing the release of Israeli hostages. On Tuesday, both Israel and Hamas accused each other of violating the truce. Hamas said its fighters had engaged in a “field clash” provoked by Israel, without offering additional details.

Persons: Israel Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ What is fast fashion, and why is it so controversial?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Amaya Mcdonald | Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But while cheap chic may seem like the way to go, the fast fashion industry sees clothing pushed out on a scale that is even too large for most consumers to keep up with. Why is fast fashion so popular? Fast fashion accounts for “quick designs, quick manufacturing, quick marketing, quick retailing — it doesn’t leave the time to consider these bigger needs, like ethical considerations or rights of workers,” Osnes said. “The planet is on fire, and the truth is the fashion industry aids in a percentage of that.”Is ‘sustainable fashion,’ a viable alternative? But shop responsibly… try to use your budget to buy one good quality item,” Arya said, instead of a glut of fast fashion basics.

Persons: CNN —, Preeti Arya, Vox, Shein, Jade Gao, Beth Osnes, ” Osnes, “ It’s, ”, Aja Barber, Technology’s Preeti Arya, Richard Levine, Arya, ” Arya Organizations: CNN, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York Times, Times, Shein, Getty, United Nations Environment Programme, Greenpeace, George Washington University . Apparel, University of Colorado, Fashion Institute, Technology’s, Thrift Locations: New York, United States, Paris, Zara, Singapore, China, Guangzhou, AFP, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa, Colombia and other countries that lost out in the global race for coronavirus vaccines are taking a more combative approach towards drugmakers and pushing back on policies that deny cheap treatment to millions of people with tuberculosis and HIV. The pills are especially important for South Africa, where TB killed more than 50,000 people in 2021, making it the country’s leading cause of death. In July, J&J’s patent on the drug expired in South Africa, but the company had it extended until 2027, enraging activists who accused it of profiteering. Back then, President Nelson Mandela’s government in South Africa eventually suspended patents to allow wider access to AIDS drugs. Bedaquiline was not rolled out as a standard treatment in South Africa until 2018.

Persons: they’ve, ”, Brook Baker, Johnson, Christophe Perrin, Peter Maybarduk, Petro Terblanche, Afrigen, Nelson Mandela’s, “ Mandela, Terblanche, Lynette Keneilwe Mabote, Andy Gray, Gray, Zolelwa, Bedaquiline, “, Sifumba, ___ Cheng Organizations: Health Organization, Northeastern University, One, Johnson, J, Viiv Healthcare, WHO, Public Citizen, Pfizer, Moderna, Terblanche, Big Pharma, South, University of KwaZulu, World Health Organization, AP Locations: CAPE, South Africa, Colombia, Belarus, Ukraine, Colombian, Washington, Africa, Natal, South African, London

GENEVA (AP) — International aid groups say they are ready to deliver thousands of truckloads of food, water and other supplies to besieged Gaza if a temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war takes hold as hoped on Thursday. Della Longa lamented bottlenecks he said have confounded the delivery of already insuffient aid into Gaza. The only route for international humanitarian aid into Gaza since the start of the war has been through the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza. Some aid groups say they wouldn’t be able to get enough fuel into Gaza over the four days to distribute aid to the hard-to-reach north. “And very ineffective Band-Aids.”Uncertainty is also looming over possible arrangements for contacting Israeli hostages in Gaza.

Persons: ”, Tommaso Della Longa, Israel, Della Longa, Joel Weiler, “, doesn’t, Jan Egeland, Shani Sasson of COGAT, “ It’s, Jason Lee, Mirjana Spoljaric, ’, Ismail Haniyeh, ___ DeBre, Melanie Lidman, Jon Gambrell Organizations: GENEVA, —, Aid, International Federation of Red, Red Crescent Societies, Norwegian Refugee Council, Red Crescent, International Committee, Red Cross, ICRC, Monday, Associated Press Locations: Gaza, Israel, Egypt, Egyptian, El, Arish, Paris, Rafah, Nitzana, Della, Red, “, Palestinian, Geneva, Qatar's, Qatar, United States, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

CNN —American Airlines said it is reviewing a video posted on TikTok that shows a baggage handler releasing a passenger’s wheelchair to slide down a jet bridge chute, where it crashed into a metal barrier, flipped over and tumbled onto an airport tarmac. In the video, as the first man lets the wheelchair go, a second baggage handler, who is on the ground at the other end of the chute and wearing an American Airlines vest, steps back. American Airlines said in a statement, “We recognize how important it is to support the independence of customers with disabilities by ensuring the proper care of mobility devices throughout their journey with us. In 2022, American Airlines’ rate of damaging, delaying or losing wheelchairs and scooters was 2.00 per 100, DOT statistics show. It also calls on the agency to study whether it is possible for passengers to use wheelchairs in the main cabin.

Persons: Haeley Dyrdahl, Dyrdahl, ”, “, Pete Buttigieg, Sen, Tammy Duckworth, ” Duckworth, “ It’s, Duckworth, John Thune, –, Steve Cohen, Pete Stauber, CNN’s David Williams, Ross Levitt, Gregory Wallace Organizations: CNN — American Airlines, Miami International Airport, CNN, American Airlines, Transportation, Department of Transportation, DOT, United Airlines, Illinois Democrat, Republican, Senate Commerce, Science, ”, Tennessee Democrat, Minnesota Republican Locations: America, American, Illinois, South Dakota, Tennessee, Minnesota

☆ 'Give him the benefit of the doubt': Why one gay GOP leader is holding his fire on Mike Johnson — and wants to know if he has any gay friends
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Again, not to predetermine or predispose the speaker, I just don't know how many gay people he knows. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she voted against him in part because he voted for the "Democrat gay marriage bill." So you're out of step, you're out of line, Marjorie, if you've got a problem with gay marriage. I don't think during that time, President Obama or then-Vice President Biden were supportive of LGBT equality. I'm not surprised it tracks with where he is on gay marriage, it tracks with where he is on LGBT acceptance issues in society.

Persons: Mike Johnson's, We've, Charles Moran, —, Mike Johnson, Johnson, litigating, Moran, he's, Steve Scalise, Tom Emmer, …, Jim Jordan, I'm, Kat Cammack, Johnson's, litigate, He's, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rick Allen, Emmer, Joe Biden, Marjorie, you've, I've, we've, Donald Trump's, Dylan Mulvaney, Bud Light, Obama, Biden, Hillary Clinton, It's, it's, Lawrence, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, That's, they're, haven't Organizations: Republican, Service, Republicans, Republican Conference, Representatives, Research, LGBT, Democrat, House Republican Conference, Senate, US Initiative, Trump, . Texas, Defense, Republican Party, Human, Education Law, HRC Locations: Roman, America, Louisiana, Georgia, ., Florida

☆ Millennials and Gen Z are driving demand for experiences. It could be a great industry to stake your career on.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Cooks at restaurants are expected to increase 20% between 2022 and 2032. Employment is expected to grow from 1.36 million in 2022 to 1.64 million in 2032, which represents an over 20% increase. As of May 2022, restaurant cooks make about $34,000 a year, or $16.40 an hour. Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Nevada have the largest concentration of restaurant cooks, while the Northeast and West Coast have the highest average salaries. However, the number of fast food cooks is projected to fall by over 101,000 by 2032 as fast food establishments continue to reduce staff or close locations.

Persons: —, Disney, Bruce Grindy, Grindy, It's, there's Organizations: Service, Employment, Restaurant Industry, National Restaurant Association, Student, Entertainment, BLS Locations: Hawaii , Rhode Island, Nevada, Northeast, West Coast, United States

☆ At Least 24 Killed in Strike on Gaza School Run by the U.N.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Hiba Yazbek | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A strike this weekend on a school run by the United Nations that was being used for shelter by thousands of displaced people in northern Gaza killed at least 24 people, a U.N. official said Sunday. Palestinian officials had said on Saturday that many people were killed and injured in an Israeli attack on the Al-Fakhura school, which was being used as a shelter by adults and children, in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the U.N. agency that aids Palestinian refugees, gave a death toll on Sunday and said that there were nearly 7,000 displaced people sheltering in the school when the strike hit. He did not give a number for the wounded or suggest who was responsible. The Israeli military said that it had received reports of an incident on Saturday in the Jabaliya area and that it was under review, adding that it was “committed to international law including taking feasible steps to minimize harm to civilians.”

Persons: Philippe Lazzarini, “, ” Organizations: United Nations Locations: Gaza, Jabaliya

☆ ‘Where will I leave these children, on the street?’ The struggle for survival faced by disabled Palestinians in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Rosa Rahimi | Sana Noor Haq | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

“There was chaos in the place, children crying, and smoke and fire spread,” Al-Naizi told CNN, sharing videos of the aftermath. It took about two hours to evacuate the group, according to Al-Naizi, as many of the children had to be carried. “Where will I leave these children, on the street?” Al-Naizi said. Streams of Palestinians – including women, children and the elderly – have been making their way south in a growing exodus along daily evacuation corridors announced by the IDF. Hazem Saeed Al-NaiziAs Israeli troops close in on Gaza City, Al-Naizi fears the orphanage will be displaced again.

Persons: Hazem Saeed Al, Naizi, ” Al, ”, “, Hamza, Muhammad, Naizi Israel, Volker Türk, Abu Jazar Sama, Sama, Walid Mahmoud Nazzal, ” Sama, ” Heba Abu Jazar Sama, Heba Abu Jazar Sama, Sama’s, Jamal Al Rozzi, Ayas, Saeed Al, Reham Shaheen, bedsores, Shaheen, Gazans, Al Rozzi, Fidaa Fouad Khamis Omar, Khan Younis, ’ Al Rozzi’s, Adham, Israel, Omar, , ” CNN’s Kareem El Damanhoury, Abeer Salman, Akanksha Sharma, Mostafa Salem, Zeena, Eyad Kourdi Organizations: CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Palestinian Ministry of Health, West Bank, Humanitarian Affairs, IDF, United Nations, Palestinian Central Bureau, Statistics, Palestinian, Palestinian Union of, UN, Human Rights Watch, National Society for Rehabilitation, Humanity, HRW, Aid, National Society for, Rehabilitation, Amnesty International Locations: Gaza, Gaza City, Al, Ramallah, Palestinian Union, “, Wadi Gaza, Khan

CNN —Dozens of young Americans have posted videos on TikTok this week expressing sympathy with Osama bin Laden, the notorious terrorist who orchestrated the September 11 attacks, for a two-decade-old letter he wrote critiquing the United States, including its government and support of Israel. TikTok is hugely popular with young Americans, with a majority of Americans under 30 using the app at least once a week, according to a KFF survey. The attack was orchestrated by Bin Laden, the former leader of the al Qaeda terrorist group who was killed in a US special forces raid in 2011. “There’s no proof it was written by bin Laden and some of the things that he focuses on are inconsistent with his other writings,” he told CNN. New data from the Pew Research Center released Wednesday shows TikTok is rapidly becoming a place where more and more young Americans get their news.

Persons: Osama bin Laden, TikTok, Bin Laden, influencer, ”, al, Andrew Bates, “, ” Bates, ” Imran Ahmed, ” Ahmed, Peter Bergen, Bergen, bin Laden, Pew Organizations: CNN, Israel, Hamas, Center, CNN National Security, Guardian, Pew Research Center Locations: United States, Israel, New York City , Washington, Pennsylvania, America, New York, American, al Qaeda, Palestine, TikTok

☆ Largely Ignored by the Western World, Africa’s Medieval Treasures Shine at the Met
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Holland Cotter | More About Holland Cotter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

We like to keep history as we’ve learned it in a headlock, to make sure it doesn’t shift or change. They turn the world into a fixed field of safe-spots and blanks, an us-them weave of gates and fences. One of the many — many — benefits of much-maligned “wokeness” has been its message to relax the hold, toss the charts or, better, revise them: explore blanks, rethink fences. It’s thanks to this more free-breathing approach to history, including art history, that we’re getting a challenger of an exhibition like “Africa & Byzantium,” which opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Sunday. At the same time, as its title suggests, the show confuses — in a good way — certain expectations about who made what, and what came from where.

Persons: we’ve, ”, we’re Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art Locations: Africa, New York, Asia, Europe

☆ Make America Build Again
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +37 min

America is the sixth-most-expensive place in the world to build subways and trolleys. The solutions will cost trillions of dollars and require a pace of building unseen in America since World War II. Perhaps the single most pressing question we face today is: How do we make America build again? "For this class of projects, federal environmental laws are more the exception." The prospect of overhauling our hard-won environmental laws might feel like sacrilege to anyone who cares about the Earth.

Persons: Anne, Marie Griger's, Griger, —, They're, Obama, I'm, we've, We've, I'd, It's, Matt Harrison Clough, Jamie Pleune, AECOM, Joe Biden's, There's, David Adelman, David Spence, Spence, James Coleman, NECA, Coleman, everyone's, Danielle Stokes, Nobody, Bill McKibben, Mother Jones, McKibben, Michael Gerrard, Columbia University —, they've, David Pettit, it's, Zachary Liscow, That's who's, Adam Rogers Organizations: RES Group, Environmental, Infrastructure Investment, Jobs, Land Management, Forest Service, University of Utah, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, Brookings, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, White, University of Texas, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Act, NEPA, Berkeley, University of California, University of Southern, Southern Methodist University, Ecosystems Conservation, GOP, Biden, Motorola, Telecommunications, Conservatives, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, University of Richmond, UC Berkeley, USC, Star, Sabin, Climate, Columbia University, Natural Resources Defense, Republicans, Democrats, Management, Budget, Yale Law School Locations: Panama, Colorado, . California, Los Angeles, San Francisco, China, America, Washington, , Wyoming, Nantucket, New England, San Francisco ., University of Southern California, California, New York, Florida, Southern California, Las Vegas

The Transamerica Pyramid building is seen as tourists ride a cable car in downtown San Francisco, California, U.S., July 7, 2023. San Francisco has been waging for years a multi-pronged war on drugs and related crime, homelessness and unaffordable housing. "They do this for the Superbowl, they do this for conferences ... but nothing ends homelessness like a home," Boden said. The city has a homelessness rate of 887 people per 100,000 residents, according to a 2023 report from the San Francisco controller's office on 16 American cities. Reporting by Peter Henderson and Anna Tong in San Francisco; Editing by Sayantani Ghosh and Stephen CoatesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Carlos Barria, Joe Biden's, Christopher Crandall, he'd, He'd, Gavin Newsom, Biden, China's Xi, Paul Boden, " Boden, Tesla, Elon Musk, Trevor Chandler, I’ve, Peter Henderson, Anna Tong, Sayantani Ghosh, Stephen Coates Organizations: REUTERS, FRANCISCO, Economic Cooperation, United Nations, Police, APEC, Western Regional Advocacy, San, Fox News, Twitter, Thomson Locations: San Francisco , California, U.S, Asia, San Francisco, California, Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles

☆ A Writer’s Memorial to a Lover, and an Era, Lost to AIDS
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The result interweaves elements of biography, memoir, psychotherapy, philosophy and confession. Glück’s long struggle to write this book remains palpable in its fragmented structure. “About Ed” may be Glück’s homage to Ed, but that doesn’t mean their relationship was easy. But ultimately, “About Ed” looks not so much toward the future as it does toward a suspended past. If this is a book about a lost loved one, it is also a memorial to a lost sensibility, a period in the 1970s when sex was “founded on hope,” before the onslaught of the AIDS crisis.

Persons: Robert Glück “, ” Robert Glück, ”, Ed Aulerich, it’s, we’ve, Ed, Ed ”, “

The bestselling spiritual author and one-time advisor to Oprah Winfrey didn’t make it to the 2020 primaries in a wide-open Democratic field. But Williamson worries that negative perceptions detract from her policy positions, which include financial reparations for Black Americans and creation of a Department of Peace. “The way to sell books is by going on a book tour, not a presidential campaign," she said. Williamson talks at times in religious and spiritual terms to describe America as a nation in need of confession and atonement. "To say, ‘We need a politics of love’ without explaining what that is,” he said.

Persons: Marianne Williamson, Oprah Winfrey, Joe Biden, Williamson, ” Williamson, it’s, ”, Oprah, “, Issac Bailey, “ I’m, Bernie Sanders ’, “ cringeworthy, Donald Trump, Galen Watts, Biden, Jose Serna, Serna, Marianne, Marie Griffith, Louis, ” Griffith, Jay Michaelson, Michaelson Organizations: Democratic, Black, Department of Peace, Davidson College, University of Waterloo, Williamson, Augustana University, Washington University, America, ”, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: America, New York City, Houston, North Carolina, California, Canada, Sioux Falls , South Dakota, St

☆ How a Friend of the High Line Spends His Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Alix Strauss | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Alan van Capelle spends a lot of time trying to foster equality and a sense of belonging as the executive director of Friends of the High Line, the nonprofit that oversees the park’s operations. He grew up on Commack, Long Island, and is now living a life he never thought possible as a Jewish, biracial, gay man. “You either died early of AIDS or were alone, abandoned by family,” he said. “I’m living the dream because I never knew I could have a husband and two kids.”Mr. van Capelle was one of the lead architects of the marriage equality campaign in New York, and is married to Matthew Morningstar, 48, an executive vice president at LPL Financial, a financial services firm in Manhattan. They live in a two-bedroom on the Lower East Side with their sons Patrick, 9, and Ethan, 12, whom they adopted at birth.

Persons: Alan van Capelle, ”, van Capelle, “, ” Mr, Matthew Morningstar, Patrick, Ethan Organizations: LPL Locations: Long, New York, Manhattan

☆ Biden-Xi summit could be last chance to stabilize U.S.-China relationship: Op-ed
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Dewardric L. Mcneal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Presently, this relationship faces more challenges than it has encountered in the past two decades. They must also rebuild the essential habits of cooperation to address the existential challenges that have arisen. However, this deep-rooted reliance underscores their vulnerability to disruptions and uncertainties in the ever-shifting landscape of U.S.-China relations. Such a shift toward stability isn't just beneficial for these corporations but stands to bolster the overall bilateral relationship between the two nations. The summit could be the final chance to stabilize the relationship, demonstrating to domestic audiences in both countries and global stakeholders that a workable, if not entirely ideal, management framework for China-U.S. relations is possible.

Persons: Joe Biden, Xi Jinping, John Kerry, Paul J, Richards, Xi, Biden, Antony Blinken's, Janet Yellen, Gina Raimondo, Chuck Schumer, Gavin Newsom's, Yellen, Dewardric McNeal Organizations: China, Department of State, AFP, Getty, Biden, Asia Pacific Economic Conference, U.S, APEC Summit, Apple, Nike, Caterpillar, Longview Global, CNBC Locations: Washington ,, United States, China, U.S, Taiwan, Bali ., California, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, South China, San Francisco, China's, Francisco

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