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At a Glitzy Saudi Investment Forum, Almost No Mention of War Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbors are seeking to reassure foreign investors that it’s still safe to do business amid the turmoil around the Mideast. https://ift.tt/QUAslKY https://www.nytimes.com

Whole Body Deodorants, and Their Ads, Inspire Online Debates No. But body odor is a hot topic on social media as companies try to provide what one dermatologist called, “the answer to a problem people didn’t even know they have.” https://ift.tt/YE8rXN2 https://ift.tt/FCs26yq

Parts of Spain Get a Month’s Worth of Rain in a Day The deluge flooded streets, breached rivers and destroyed crops along the Mediterranean coast. There could be more rain still to come. https://ift.tt/qKYcS9r https://www.nytimes.com

Lightbulbs and Cassette Tapes as Art Joe Sheehan’s pieces, carved from stone, reflect his New Zealand heritage, as well as influences from around the world. https://ift.tt/L7dkebN https://ift.tt/4THP3O1

Gérard Depardieu’s Sexual Assault Trial Is Postponed Until March The French movie star’s lawyer said poor health kept his client from court on Monday. https://ift.tt/nPry8az https://www.nytimes.com

New York’s Old Guard Meets a Sexy Newcomer The literary establishment welcomes Feeld, a very sex-positive dating app, at a party on the Upper East Side. https://ift.tt/hT93Vvo https://ift.tt/ZKOLMvx

California Governor Proposes $750 Million in Annual Film Tax Credits Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to more than double the amount the state offers in incentives, which would make its program one of the nation’s most generous. https://ift.tt/v9D8oqp https://www.nytimes.com

Michelle Obama’s Plain Words at a Harris Rally in a Plain Suit Who needs a slogan tee when your outfit can say it all? https://ift.tt/q4xLKcT https://ift.tt/XIw4OQ7

Penny Hires Jury Consultant Who Aided O.J. Simpson and Kyle Rittenhouse The courtroom presence of Jo-Ellan Dimitrius illustrates the pressure on the 12 people who will decide if Daniel Penny is guilty of manslaughter for choking a man on a New York subway train. https://ift.tt/c1etDf2 https://www.nytimes.com

Before the First Kiss, Plenty of Drives Home Jocelyn DeGroot-Lutzner grew up four blocks from Ephream Seyoum in West Philadelphia. But the two didn’t meet until she applied for a job at his family’s Eritrean restaurant. https://ift.tt/4s0f1Ip https://ift.tt/wmARi9v

Dan Price, Former CEO of Gravity Payments, Charged With Rape The former chief of Gravity Payments rose to prominence with the introduction of his company’s $70,000 minimum salary and a splashy social media presence. https://ift.tt/NHGYbv1 https://www.nytimes.com

My Body Doesn’t Belong to You In this essay from 2017, a young woman offers powerful testimony about the damaging effects of men’s possessiveness over women’s bodies. https://ift.tt/bCp7umH https://ift.tt/2RW6smi

From Swing States to Drive-Throughs: On the Campaign Trail with Trump Since 2023, the political correspondent Michael Gold has followed the former president’s campaign, which has proved to be anything but predictable. https://ift.tt/feH5dqh https://www.nytimes.com

Samuel L. Jackson, Megan Thee Stallion and Sarah Jessica Parker Pick Up Honors The Museum of Modern Art hosted its film benefit, while God’s Love We Deliver drew comedians, fashion executives and restaurateurs to its annual gala. https://ift.tt/PWvzu2y https://ift.tt/9rHlj54

How One Georgia Voter’s Mistake Turned Into a Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theory One voter’s mistake has been transformed into a voter fraud conspiracy theory, catapulted into the national spotlight by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. https://ift.tt/K7LO6nQ https://www.nytimes.com

A Feathered Murder Mystery at 10,000 Feet Scientists say they have observed one of the highest-altitude acts of bird predation ever recorded. https://ift.tt/ymazATf https://www.nytimes.com

A Local Hangout Dad and Daughter Found Special (for Different Reasons) Jocelyn DeGroot-Lutzner grew up four blocks from Ephream Seyoum in West Philadelphia. But the two didn’t meet until she applied for a job at his family’s Eritrean restaurant. https://ift.tt/V6x5HBC https://ift.tt/bWJ0YzK

Why Harris Is Struggling With Blue-Collar Voters in Detroit Not everyone is impressed by her background as a prosecutor. https://ift.tt/1BjakSo https://www.nytimes.com

Formerly Classified Documents Get the Fine Art Treatment Hundreds of declassified U.S. Army photos are featured in the new book “Fashion Army.” https://ift.tt/1BjakSo https://ift.tt/3hzRoPT

Why Hasn’t the 9/11 Trial Started? A new court, a death penalty case and even the weather have contributed to the go-slow process at Guantánamo Bay. https://ift.tt/v3UpqaD https://www.nytimes.com

Dylan Bachelet Brings Pirate Style to ‘Great British Baking Show’ A breakout contestant on “The Great British Baking Show” is drawing style comparisons to characters from “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “The Princess Bride” and more. https://ift.tt/0Yu87H6 https://ift.tt/qHAgjrC

After Becoming Housemates, Romance Entered the Picture Jolyn Chen and Louis Lin went from middle school classmates to badminton partners to colleagues and, now, spouses. https://ift.tt/h2VcLMJ https://ift.tt/4E6UR7Z

2 Dead, Hundreds Rescued in ‘Historic’ New Mexico Floods Roswell, N.M., received nearly a third of its annual rainfall total in just a few hours on Sunday. Rescue efforts were ongoing with more storms in the forecast. https://ift.tt/1yqdzBG https://www.nytimes.com

The Watches of Switzerland Group Marks Its Centennial Brian Duffy, the company’s chief executive, reflects on growth, philanthropy and a new opportunity in jewelry. https://ift.tt/xgLVyvF https://ift.tt/4E6UR7Z

Who Said Self-Care Was for Young People? How aging has affected six older Americans’ view of wellness and staying healthy. https://ift.tt/EHSweKp https://ift.tt/OzuPhc4

Frozen Waffle Products Are Recalled Over Listeria Risk Some products were sold under the brands of major retailers like Kroger, Price Chopper and Walmart. No illnesses so far have been linked to the waffles. https://ift.tt/8tehgOx https://www.nytimes.com

This Watch Line Says It’s More a ‘Gathering’ Than a Brand ‘We’re just friends having fun, doing something that we would like for ourselves,’ one Kollokium founder said. https://ift.tt/8tehgOx https://ift.tt/OzuPhc4

On TikTok, Some Grieved Liam Payne’s Death With Reaction Videos On TikTok, some users posted videos of themselves learning about Liam Payne’s death in real time. At a time when the cameras are always rolling, it’s not so unusual. https://ift.tt/F0Roc9G https://www.nytimes.com

Where Did Modern Love Come From? The column’s founding editor and the former Styles editor discuss the origin of Modern Love (which wasn’t originally going to be called Modern Love). https://ift.tt/5myKgMD https://ift.tt/opM49c3

For Ruben Gallego, the Campaign Trail Runs Through the Grand Canyon The Democratic congressman, who is running for Senate in Arizona, hiked thousands of feet down to meet the Havasupai, a Native tribe, on their land, part of an extensive outreach effort in a competitive race. https://ift.tt/8U2u5Q1 https://www.nytimes.com

Arie Kopelman, Former President of Chanel Inc., Dies at 86 Arriving at the storied luxury house two years after Karl Lagerfeld, he helped guide a boom in both products and revenues. https://ift.tt/5TyoedO https://ift.tt/Q9qnuHt

Richard V. Secord, Middleman in Iran-Contra Scandal, Dies at 92 A war hero and a former Air Force general, he denied wrongdoing for his role in the Reagan-era shipment of arms to Iran to support Nicaraguan rebels. https://ift.tt/qY95Z7y https://www.nytimes.com

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Queer Kid in Appalachia’ Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. https://ift.tt/95Jzh1q https://ift.tt/x2FTy1L

Holiday Sales Growth Expected to Normalize to Prepandemic Levels Despite shoppers’ election-year concerns and worries about the economy, retail executives predict sales to increase as much as 3.5 percent over last year’s holiday season. https://ift.tt/eM8pwhd https://www.nytimes.com

Elon Musk’s Giant Leap When one of the richest men in the world made a surprise cameo at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa., he did so with the gusto of a meme exploding. https://ift.tt/ebliCP8 https://ift.tt/Y01enEk

Ethel Kennedy, Matriarch of Family Dynasty, Honored at Cape Cod Funeral Several politicians and relatives, including her son Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, the actress Cheryl Hines, were in attendance. https://ift.tt/J6pQf7O https://www.nytimes.com

N.J. Transit Train Hits Tree on Track, Killing 1 and Injuring 23 A light rail train traveling south from Trenton collided with a chunk of tree, killing the train’s operator. https://ift.tt/QR5rbMB https://www.nytimes.com

Mark Zuckerberg Tries His Hand at Fashion Et tu, Zuck? https://ift.tt/Ra6xhuD https://ift.tt/Wg4MTbh

13 Days After Meeting, She Proposed on TV and He Followed Suit Tessa Tookes and Joey Kirchner were both feeling down on love. Then they were cast on “Bachelor in Paradise Canada,” and had a change of heart (with the help of producers). https://ift.tt/hQvOSUF https://ift.tt/JAGx6Cs

The Ground Game: Harris’s Turnout Machine vs. Trump’s Unproven Alliance Both parties are frenetically chasing votes in the counties that could very well decide the election. In many places, inexperienced conservative groups are going up against a more tightly organized Democratic operation. https://ift.tt/Eu3fxWL https://www.nytimes.com

Fisher-Price Recalls ‘Snuga Swings’ Linked to Five Infant Deaths The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall, which one of its commissioners said was “doomed to fail.” https://ift.tt/Qdw2O0t https://www.nytimes.com

Good News if You Want to Look ‘Demure’ Many brands in their spring 2025 collections offered ladylike alternatives to the flashy and revealing clothing that has proliferated in recent years. https://ift.tt/l9QCkfs https://ift.tt/GURk5zZ

Former U.S. Soldier Is Sentenced to 14 Years for Planning to Help ISIS Pvt. Cole Bridges pleaded guilty in 2023 to charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to murder U.S. military service members. https://ift.tt/6gvxrjO https://www.nytimes.com

Mark Zuckerberg Tries His Hand at Fashion Et tu, Zuck? https://ift.tt/TJVCvx0 https://ift.tt/47Suple

Claudia Conway Has Waded Back Into Politics With an Eye on Gen-Z Voters The scion and sometimes antagonist of two figures in Republican politics has re-emerged as an independent aiming to sway her fellow Gen-Z voters. https://ift.tt/RWIDAHJ https://ift.tt/7CYiaBU

Amazon Could Be Forced to Treat Drivers as Employees Amazon’s delivery system depends on third-party companies. But labor regulators have challenged that model, possibly opening the way for unionization. https://ift.tt/uRboD0L https://www.nytimes.com

Residents of a Mobile Home Park Join Forces to Buy Their Community The residents are the first in the state of Maine to successfully utilize a new law making it easier for them to compete with investors and gain ownership of the land their homes sit on. https://ift.tt/ay7kJHI https://www.nytimes.com

Thomas Rockwell, 91, Dies; Taught Children ‘How to Eat Fried Worms’ His father, Norman Rockwell, depicted his childhood on covers of The Saturday Evening Post. The worms came later. https://ift.tt/Y0EhMOc https://www.nytimes.com

The Story of the African Diaspora, Told Through Its Fashions By examining the work of designers of African descent, a new exhibition in Manhattan finds common threads and, more interestingly, divergences. https://bit.ly/3zRiZrp https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

3% of American High Schoolers Identify as Transgender, First National Survey Finds A survey by the C.D.C. found high rates of sadness, bullying and suicide attempts among transgender and gender-questioning teenagers. https://ift.tt/BdwrYpC https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

U.S. Budget Deficit Rises to $1.8 Trillion in 2024 New estimates from the Congressional Budget Office show continuing fiscal strain, despite steady economic growth. https://ift.tt/41DG6se https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Is the Election Affecting Your Relationships? Tell Us About It. If this political season is influencing your marriage, friendships or dating life, for better or worse, we want to hear about it. https://bit.ly/3zWD67C https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Kylie Jenner and Ayo Edebiri Toast a Starry Crowd at Paris Fashion Week Actors, designers and musicians turned out at a party to celebrate the Business of Fashion’s annual index of industry leaders. https://bit.ly/4dCshW4 https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

The Year American Jews Woke Up American Jews need to recover their instinct for danger. https://bit.ly/3Yb0ebX https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Climate Change Is Scorching Stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway. https://bit.ly/4eVtlFR https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Myha’la’s Relationship Advice? Get in a Fight. The “Industry” star on how she learned to have a healthy argument with her new fiancé. https://bit.ly/3Bt5COO https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

Rwanda’s Doctors and Nurses Hit Hard by Deadly Marburg Virus The Health Ministry has reported that 80 percent of the infected are health care professionals. https://bit.ly/4dzfMdR https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

As Bird Flu Spreads, Two New Cases Diagnosed in California Both patients were dairy workers whose illnesses were mild. Investigators are continuing to evaluate the contacts of a Missouri patient who had no exposure to animals. https://bit.ly/4dy5JFV https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Savannah Bananas Announce 2025 Schedule in MLB and NFL Stadiums Everyone’s favorite dancing baseball team is taking its act almost exclusively to M.L.B. and football stadiums in 2025, with even more extreme changes on the horizon. https://bit.ly/4dBRIap https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

Can I Still Use an Expired Covid Test? The expiration date listed on the box might not be accurate. Here’s what to know. https://bit.ly/3BsA7Et https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

Taking a Cue From Cable, Restaurants Embrace the Low-Budget TikTok Ad Owners and staff star in a new generation of goofy commercials on social media. https://bit.ly/48w0sMR https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

Penn Station Must Expand to Improve Service, Railroads Say. But How? After studying other ways to double capacity at the busy transit hub, the railroads that use it say they have concluded that it needs to be expanded. https://bit.ly/3zQS66X https://nyti.ms/3eyQv5F

If You Always Wanted This Watch, Your Wait Might Be Over Patek Philippe’s best selling Ref. 5711 models may never be what you would call affordable, but resale prices have been declining. https://bit.ly/48w0sMR https://nyti.ms/3oXc7QK

Dreamy Denim From Fashion Week Denim has been prominent on runways and on the streets in Paris and we captured some of the memorable ways people wore it. https://bit.ly/3Y3GHdt https://ift.tt/Qvzem4M

Biden Expands Asylum Restrictions at the Southern Border Biden administration officials have credited the policy for leading to the dramatic reduction in illegal crossings. https://ift.tt/uaQ6FvP https://www.nytimes.com