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Thank God for Madonna No one survives like she does. https://ift.tt/dGufmNx https://www.nytimes.com

Naomi Watts, Demi Moore and Diane Lane Swan at the Plaza The stars of Ryan Murphy’s new series, “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” celebrated the premiere at the site of the famed 1966 Black and White Ball. https://ift.tt/qosVwvd https://ift.tt/8dKEtJT

Lloyd Austin Returns to Pentagon a Month After Surgery Complications Lloyd J. Austin III was widely criticized for failing to immediately disclose his illness and hospitalization to President Biden and other officials. https://ift.tt/zCNwJ8y https://www.nytimes.com

The U.N.’s lead agency in Gaza fears its funding will soon collapse. https://ift.tt/w7tOp86 https://www.nytimes.com

Man Who Stole Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers Thought the Rubies Were Real Terry Martin was sentenced on Monday to time served and a year of probation for stealing the slippers from the Judy Garland Museum in Minnesota in 2005. https://ift.tt/Rjgim6I https://www.nytimes.com

Hate Crimes Reported in Schools Nearly Doubled Between 2018 and 2022 Black students were the most frequent reported victims, followed by L.G.B.T.Q. and Jewish students, according to F.B.I. statistics. https://ift.tt/z49RFbi https://www.nytimes.com

Private Equity Is Starting to Share With Workers, Without Taking a Financial Hit The buyout giant KKR pioneered a model of granting ownership stakes to employees at portfolio companies. Now it wants the approach to spread. https://ift.tt/RgNMf8E https://www.nytimes.com

Institutions Are (Quietly) Taking Sackler Money Financial accounts show that the Sackler Trust, a British nonprofit that the family set up, pledged over $6 million in 2022. But few organizations will admit to taking it. https://ift.tt/Y8bASkg https://www.nytimes.com

Crystal Hefner ya no solo cuenta las ‘cosas buenas’ de la Mansión Playboy En una autobiografía reveladora, Crystal Hefner relata sus días pasados como modelo de Playboy y tercera (y última) esposa de Hugh Hefner. https://ift.tt/Dhls2ZO https://ift.tt/JK96rdb

Buried in Wegovy Costs, North Carolina Will Stop Paying for Obesity Drugs Starting April 1, state employees in North Carolina will no longer have insurance coverage for costly weight-loss medications like Wegovy and Zepbound. https://ift.tt/SKCE23k https://www.nytimes.com

Johnson Digs In Against Border Deal as Negotiators Try to Salvage It The speaker said the emerging bipartisan immigration deal would be “dead on arrival” in the House, after senators conceded that the opposition of former President Donald J. Trump may have doomed it. https://ift.tt/NsGYtpZ https://www.nytimes.com

Sweden’s Leader Says He Will Meet With Orban to Advance NATO Bid The Hungarian leader, Viktor Orban, invited his Swedish counterpart to Budapest for talks. Hungary is the last country to vote to accept Sweden’s bid to join NATO after Turkey’s Parliament did so this week. https://ift.tt/Oim0WaY https://www.nytimes.com

Rihanna, Kylie Jenner, Zendaya and More Gallivant in Paris at Couture Dresses, kisses, fan girls: the best celebrity moments at couture. https://ift.tt/fX4D6sC https://ift.tt/uAlQC0N

What to Wear on the Red Carpet? Stars Shop the Paris Couture What to wear on the red carpet? Schiaparelli, Dior and Chanel have some ideas. Armani, too. https://ift.tt/KMgS302 https://www.nytimes.com

Watch Brands Are Part of a ‘Renaissance’ on the Champs-Élysées As the Paris Olympics near, the famed avenue is getting a makeover, with Panerai, Montblanc and others unveiling new and renovated spaces. https://ift.tt/z5UhCWw https://ift.tt/hTK7eFY

Los Angeles Times to Slash Newsroom by Over 20% The layoffs represent the biggest newsroom reduction since the biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong bought the company in 2018. https://ift.tt/JdqUQlx https://www.nytimes.com

‘We’re All Climate Economists Now’ With climate change affecting everything from household finances to electric grids, the profession is increasingly focused on how society can mitigate carbon emissions and cope with their impact. https://ift.tt/Up1mlXR https://www.nytimes.com

What the New Year May Hold for the Luxury Watch Business The dealers Silas Walton and Austen Chu discuss their predictions for 2024, including more stability in the market and collectors who buy for passion over profit. https://ift.tt/4i2Kk5w https://ift.tt/4aNSkXn

Critics Protest Harvard’s Choice to Lead Antisemitism Task Force Bill Ackman and Lawrence Summers decried the choice of Derek J. Penslar, a professor of Jewish history, who had signed a letter describing Israel as an apartheid regime. https://ift.tt/WjXd4kD https://www.nytimes.com

When Jewelry Influences Watchmakers Brands are extending their reach by repurposing best-selling designs, including animal and floral motifs, onto timepieces. https://ift.tt/KDcWr0U https://ift.tt/wZ5KkQE

A New Space Elevates Scandinavian Watchmakers Housed in a 17th-century bank building in Stockholm, Watches of Scandinavia features more than a dozen brands from the region. https://ift.tt/kejxmFB https://ift.tt/Fbw4KBN

Deep Under Gaza, Israel Shows Evidence Hostages Were Held in Tunnels The Israeli military took reporters on a tour of an underground compound in the Gazan city of Khan Younis, where it says about 20 hostages were held by Hamas. https://ift.tt/KvsuUqk https://www.nytimes.com

California and Oregon Ease Covid Isolation Rules, Breaking With C.D.C. Two of the most cautious states have bypassed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by letting students and workers who have the virus but are asymptomatic avoid isolation. https://ift.tt/ghqcTb9 https://www.nytimes.com

A Different Kind of Watch Club “Being a guy of color founding a watch club is not something that’s done every day,” said Henry Flores, the founder of Classic Watch Club. https://ift.tt/q9mzXpu https://ift.tt/Fbw4KBN

When Nate Berkus Decorates Your Home, It’s Best Not to Change a Thing Just ask the actors Patrick Page and Paige Davis, whose Upper West Side apartment has remained virtually untouched for two decades. https://ift.tt/Vp74CXs https://www.nytimes.com

What the New Year May Hold for the Luxury Watch Business The dealers Silas Walton and Austen Chu discuss their predictions for 2024, including more stability in the market and collectors who buy for passion over profit. https://ift.tt/AuiZEJG https://ift.tt/De8mn4C

What Drives Kaveh Akbar? The Responsibility of Survival Akbar had a raging addiction and little reason to believe his life would turn out well. Now he has a debut novel, “Martyr!,” which makes you want to “get up and yell.” https://ift.tt/WJm0nLj https://www.nytimes.com

A Watch Designer Drops a Splashy New Model An industry newcomer, Benoît Mintiens totally rethought watches with his brand Ressence. Now, he’s issuing a 10th anniversary edition of its signature model. https://ift.tt/3kbxD2m https://ift.tt/QDCSYj4

Watches That Can Reflect the Colors of the Rainbow New techniques and processes create case finishes that appear to change hue as the wearer moves. https://ift.tt/XR6Vw0Q https://ift.tt/BEecX9o

An Ancient Woolly Mammoth Left a Diary in Her Tusk Scientists are looking at layers of minerals left behind on mammoth tusks to estimate where the hulking animals spent their days. https://ift.tt/VhB2cl8 https://www.nytimes.com

Inside the Mayor’s Closet Ten suits, 19 ties, crisp white shirts and pin collars — a 30-day snapshot of Mayor Eric Adams’s style. https://ift.tt/p0F4e2X https://ift.tt/ByvSJ1l

Judge Threatens to Eject Trump From Carroll Trial After His Complaints The former president’s right to be at his defamation trial “can be forfeited,” the judge warned. E. Jean Carroll is seeking $10 million in damages for his denials that he sexually assaulted her. https://ift.tt/YAqe9dE https://www.nytimes.com

Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot Marries John Caldwell Nadya Tolokonnikova, a founding member of Pussy Riot, and John Caldwell have always prioritized being “helpful,” he said, over being happy. https://ift.tt/VhB2cl8 https://ift.tt/ByvSJ1l

Christina Applegate’s Resilience Battling MS Shone Through at the Emmys The actress referenced her chronic illness with humor — as a defense mechanism and a disarmament. https://ift.tt/ZsVqor4 https://ift.tt/jeuPbDt

Christina Applegate’s Resilience Battling MS Shone Through at the Emmys The actress referenced her chronic illness with humor — as a defense mechanism and a disarmament. https://ift.tt/ZsVqor4 https://www.nytimes.com

Judge Blocks JetBlue From Acquiring Spirit Airlines The ruling is a victory for the Justice Department, which had argued that the merger would reduce competition. https://ift.tt/4ZWYPEw https://www.nytimes.com

Zvi Zamir, Israeli Spy Chief in a Critical Period, Dies at 98 He led the Mossad’s response to the massacre of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Olympics. A year later, he learned that Egypt and Syria were about to attack Israel. https://ift.tt/bz0r8Y4 https://www.nytimes.com

Eric Berryman Channels the Folklore of His Ancestors In his theater work, Eric Berryman injects forgotten voices from the past into the present moment. https://ift.tt/CZUBegr https://www.nytimes.com

Iowa Pandering Has Been Scarce in This Unusual Republican Primary Presidential candidates often enmesh themselves in the state’s politics to woo voters, but the nature of this race means much less focus on local issues. https://ift.tt/d18k3E7 https://www.nytimes.com

Doctor Error Caused Christine Fields’ Death After Childbirth at Woodhull Medical Center Christine Fields, a 30-year-old Black woman, bled to death after giving birth at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn. State investigators said the cause was a doctor’s mistake. https://ift.tt/R2pIEh5 https://www.nytimes.com

Democrats Fret That Biden’s Power Players Are Not at His Campaign Base President Biden has a re-election campaign with two distinct centers of gravity — the White House and his Delaware headquarters — and advisers who are juggling two jobs at once. https://ift.tt/QWPNHcl https://www.nytimes.com

Chevron and Others Build an Underground Hydrogen Battery in Utah The project is part of an audacious plan to create hydrogen, which produces no carbon dioxide when burned, and store it in caverns until electricity is needed. https://ift.tt/LlmRp7B https://www.nytimes.com

Tornado Risk in U.S. South: Tracking Storms in Mississippi, Alabama and More Gusts up to 70 miles an hour are possible over the same wide area from Mississippi to the Atlantic where another storm system earlier in the week spawned 20 reports of tornadoes. https://ift.tt/7el2L5H https://www.nytimes.com

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Ohio Woman Who Miscarried at Home In a case that had drawn international attention, Brittany Watts had been charged with abuse of corpse after miscarrying and disposing of the nonviable fetus. https://ift.tt/rYiW7p0 https://www.nytimes.com

Pentagon Inspector General to Investigate Lloyd Austin’s Hospitalization The independent review will be conducted in addition to assessments by the defense secretary’s chief of staff and the White House after top officials were not notified of the episode for days. https://ift.tt/9clQk1j https://www.nytimes.com

Hisham Matar Discusses ‘My Friends’ Matar won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, “The Return,” mourning his homeland and his father. In his new novel, he turns to the untranslatability of exile — and friendship. https://ift.tt/MHWyXrv https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Norway Moves to Allow Seabed Mining Exploration The decision in Parliament, opposed by environmentalists, will allow prospectors to start surveying the country’s waters. https://bit.ly/47wt6Nf https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

An Antique Dress Held a Secret: A Coded Message From 1888 For nearly a decade, sleuths had tried to decode a cryptic note discovered in the silk bustle dress. An analyst finally cracked the case. https://bit.ly/3HbxDKf https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Joe Biden Puts Donald Trump In His Place The president performed a public service by forthrightly stating what could happen to the country and its democracy if Trump wins again. https://bit.ly/3Hbm7i1 https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Did You Remarry Your Former Spouse? Tell Us About It. We want to know what caused the breakup in the first place and why you decided to get back together again. https://bit.ly/48GrSQA https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

How to Watch the Golden Globes 2024: Date, Time, Streaming Hollywood usually looks to the annual awards as a party, but this year they also have an unlikely mission: A bid for relevance. https://bit.ly/3txSJQ0 https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

The Habanero Rules Yucatán. Let It Rule Your Kitchen, Too. The tiny but mighty chile lends its unmistakable fruity heat to marinades, dressings and, of course, salsas. https://bit.ly/3S8Cp1f https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

The Statue of Liberty Hat Paying an unexpected price for a novelty crown. https://bit.ly/3jvLQpp https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

Switching to a Flip Phone Helped Me Cut Down on My Smartphone Addiction Was it inconvenient? Yes. Did T9 texting drive me crazy? Definitely. Was it worth doing? Absolutely. https://bit.ly/3tImZHI https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

U.S. Moves Closer to Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple Justice Department officials are in the late stages of investigating the iPhone maker, focusing on how Apple has used its other products and services to defend against threats to its core business. https://bit.ly/3NTc0lB https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

New York A.G. Seeks $370 Million From Trump After Civil Fraud Trial The penalty was well over the $250 million that the attorney general, Letitia James, had estimated in the fall of 2022, when she sued the former president. https://bit.ly/3S8iu2M https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

David Soul, a Star of the Hit Cop Show ‘Starsky & Hutch,’ Dies at 80 An actor and singer, he rose to fame in the 1970s as one half of popular television crime-fighting duo. He also notched a No. 1 hit single. https://bit.ly/3jvLQpp https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

A ‘Golden Bachelor’ Wedding: Gerry Turner and His Finale Pick, Theresa Nist Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist married before 150 guests (and even more TV viewers), then enjoyed a more intimate, off-air reception with family and friends. https://bit.ly/3jvLQpp https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

Winter Storm Traps Hundreds of Motorists Overnight in Sweden Truck drivers and other motorists were locked in blankets of snow on a major roadway overnight after nearly 10 inches of snow fell within 24 hours. https://bit.ly/4aNsSnV https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Townhouses Took Off in December, and Neighbors Filed a Rare Joint Listing Two townhouses in the West Village, one owned by the producer Scott Rudin, are listed together at $37.5 million. They could be combined into a 40-foot-wide mansion. https://bit.ly/3jvLQpp https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

Harvard Couldn’t Save Both Claudine Gay and Itself How the left, not just the right, helped bring Gay down. https://bit.ly/3TML8r9 https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Russia and Ukraine Exchange Record Number of P.O.W.s The exchange of prisoners was the first in months and came as both sides were engaged in an escalating cycle of air assaults. https://bit.ly/3NOAHzO https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Townhouses Took Off in December, and Neighbors Filed a Rare Joint Listing Two townhouses in the West Village, one owned by the producer Scott Rudin, are listed together at $37.5 million. They could be combined into a 40-foot-wide mansion. https://bit.ly/3jvLQpp https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

Tiny Love Stories: ‘It All Began So Innocently’ Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. https://bit.ly/48fGMgX https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

6 Months and a Swirl of Controversy: A Timeline of Claudine Gay’s Tenure as Harvard President Since beginning in her role in July, Dr. Gay had come under criticism over the Middle East war and her academic record. https://bit.ly/48oYEGg https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Powerful Earthquake Hits Japan, and Officials Warn of Aftershocks There were reports of collapsed buildings and people being trapped underneath them. The quake disrupted electricity and phone service, and initially raised fears of a tsunami. https://bit.ly/3RJStoL https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

On the Wedding Day, Taking the Plunge (Quite Literally) Hayley Hitchcock met Brandon Brown on Hinge while waiting out the Covid-19 pandemic with her parents in Bozeman, Mont. Before their ceremony, Mr. Brown took an icy dive in the Gallatin River. https://bit.ly/3jvLQpp https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

Les McCann, a Jazz Pianist and Singer, Dies at 88 He released more than 50 albums but had his greatest commercial success with “Compared to What,” a recording that came together at the last minute in 1969. https://bit.ly/48xhMkO https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Cale Yarborough, Hall of Fame NASCAR Driver, Dies at 84 He won the Daytona 500 four times, but his fistfight with Bobby Allison at a televised race “put NASCAR on the nationwide map.” https://ift.tt/fA7NLRB https://www.nytimes.com

On the Wedding Day, Taking the Plunge (Quite Literally) Hayley Hitchcock met Brandon Brown on Hinge while waiting out the Covid-19 pandemic with her parents in Bozeman, Mont. Before their ceremony, Mr. Brown took an icy dive in the Gallatin River. https://ift.tt/S8MFk7O https://ift.tt/7H56aqx

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to Step Down Margrethe, the longest-serving monarch in Europe, announced during her New Year’s speech that she would abdicate her throne in January. Her eldest son, Crown Prince Frederik, will succeed her. https://ift.tt/koPnEG9 https://www.nytimes.com