Author: KnowledgeHippo
So you want to go to the Super Bowl this weekend. Even for non-football fans, this year’s spectacle of professional sports and state-of-the-art entertainment — in Las Vegas, no less — could be hard to resist.Some of the best players of their generation, including Nick Bosa, Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, will take the field when the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs meet on Sunday. Off the field, the city will be filled with celebrities including Usher (the halftime champ), Luke Combs, Adele and the Wu-Tang Clan — and those are just the weekend’s scheduled performers. So many…
Pakistanis have called it a “choice” – not an election. Human rights observers have condemned it as neither free nor fair.As voters headed to the polls on Thursday, the influence of Pakistan’s powerful military and the turbulent state of its politics were on full display. Few doubted which party would come out on top, a reflection of the generals’ eventual predominance in Pakistan’s troubled democracy.But the military is facing new challenges to its authority from a disaffected public, making this a particularly difficult time in the nation’s history.The tension was underscored on Thursday as Pakistan’s interior ministry announced it had…
The former president of Seton Hall University in New Jersey sued the school Monday, accusing its former president of trying to intimidate him and sexually harassing his wife.In the lawsuit, the former president, Joseph R. Nyre, accused the university’s former Board of Regents chairman, Kevin H. Marino, of a campaign of harassment. The lawsuit said the university’s board of trustees responded to his complaints with “gas lighting” and retaliation that ultimately led to his employment being “disgustingly terminated.”As a result, Mr. Nyre said, he resigned last summer after four years on the job.He was joined in the lawsuit by his…
The United States is poised to add nearly $19 trillion to its national debt over the next decade as the rising costs of an aging population and higher interest rates continue to weigh on the nation’s fiscal outlook, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.But the report did offer some subtle relief: Newly enacted legislation to curb federal spending and a faster-than-expected U.S. economy make the fiscal picture slightly less bleak. Annual deficits over the next decade are 7 percent smaller than the $20.3 trillion the budget office projected last year.This decline reflects several conflicting forces. A deal President Biden…
About 17 years ago, Steve Jobs took the stage at a San Francisco convention center and said he was introducing three products: an iPod, a phone, and an Internet browser.”These are not three separate devices,” he said. “This is a device and we call it the iPhone.”At $500, the first iPhone was relatively expensive, but I was willing to ditch my mediocre Motorola and sell it out. There were flaws — including sluggish cell speeds. But the iPhone kept its promises.In the last week, I had a very different experience with a new first-generation product from Apple: the Vision Pro,…
Tesla sales surged in the final three months of 2023 as the automaker cut prices and customers rushed to take advantage of tax breaks on electric vehicles — provisions that will be harder to come by in 2024.The company said Tuesday it sold 484,500 cars in the fourth quarter, up from 435,000 in the third quarter and 405,000 in the fourth quarter of 2022. For the full year, Tesla sold 1.8 million vehicles. The earnings put Tesla on track to sell more than two million cars by 2024, potentially surpassing established automakers such as Mercedes-Benz and Renault.A rebound in sales…
A patient goes to the hospital for a routine procedure to treat an enlarged prostate. And, unexpectedly, a test done at the hospital—perhaps a blood test or an X-ray or an examination of the urethra and bladder—finds a cancer.Apparently, something like this happened to King Charles III. When the British monarch was treated for an enlarged prostate in January, doctors found a cancer that the palace said was not prostate cancer. Charles started treatment on Monday. The palace did not reveal what had led to the king’s diagnosis.While some prostate specialists like Dr. Peter Albertsen at the University of Connecticut…
Whether you want to stroll along a beach or cuddle up by a campfire, these getaways prove that romantic accommodations come in many forms, from a new luxury resort in Mexico, an estate in the English countryside, to just opening cabins for birdwatching. stars in the Catskills. a California wine country farmhouse and hotels with February sales on the coast of Maine. Wherever you go, you’ll find Valentine’s Day dinner menus and activities for two, like couples’ massages and private yoga sessions — though many rooms at these properties are so luxurious, you might decide to ditch your plans and…
Hamas’s response to a new cease-fire proposal was met with optimism by mediators, but details emerging from its counter-proposal on Wednesday, including a demand for a full Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza, revealed many of the same obstacles that have stymied previous ones. efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war.Under the militant group’s proposal, both sides would observe a three-stage ceasefire for 135 days, each stage lasting 45 days, during which hostages and Palestinian prisoners in Israel would be released. It calls on the Israeli military to leave Gaza permanently – a demand that Israeli officials have so far publicly rejected.Neither…
In the world of American legal scholarship, Seth Barrett Tillman is an outsider in more ways than one. An associate professor at a university in Ireland, he has proposed unusual interpretations of the meaning of the US Constitution that have for years been largely ignored – if not outright dismissed as unusual.But at 60, Professor Tillman enjoys some level of vindication. When the U.S. Supreme Court considers Thursday whether former President Donald J. Trump is shut out of the Colorado primary, a seemingly contradictory theory that Professor Tillman has championed for more than 15 years will take center stage and…