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Catherine, Princess of Wales, said on Friday that she planned to take part in a parade on Saturday for King Charles III’s birthday, a tentative return to the public stage after confirming in March that she was being treated for cancer.The news, which Catherine released in an intensely personal six-paragraph statement, reflected both the progress she has made since she was first admitted to hospital for abdominal surgery last January, and the long road to recovery that has still facing.”I’m making good progress, but as anyone going through chemotherapy knows, there are good days and bad days,” Kathryn wrote.”On those…
On a clear spring morning, I trusted a horse—a bay named Sino—to show me the vast Gila Wilderness in southern New Mexico. Red rocks rose up beside us as we weaved back and forth in a shallow creek that separated the ponderosa pine on the shady south side of Rocky Canyon from the barrel cactus in the rock crevices on the desert-like north face. I leaned into his neck as Shino climbed a steep ridge that led to a hilltop savanna of pinyons, junipers, and forests of tentacle cactus chola sugar cane with sharp yellow fruit. Around them, the wooded…
“This is a video for anyone coming to the 2024 Paris Olympics,” a woman says in a clip posted on TikTok. He pauses a little, then continues, “Don’t come. Cancel everything.”The video, which was uploaded in November, now has more than 700,000 views.The creator, Miranda Starcevic, is a 31-year-old French-American living in Paris. She usually records herself speaking French, but she thought a message about the Olympics would reach more people if it was in English.And Ms. Starcevic wanted her viewers to know that from her perspective, for French citizens who “are kind of middle class,” as she put it:…
Pixar is finally back in racing form.The Disney-owned animation studio’s 28th film, “Inside Out 2,” reached about $145 million in estimated North American ticket sales from Thursday night through Sunday, ending a cold streak that began in March 2020 , when theaters were closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. .It was the second-biggest opening weekend in Pixar’s 29-year history, behind only the superhero sequel “Incredibles 2,” which took in about $180 million in 2018.”They’re back,” David A. Gross, a film consultant who publishes a newsletter on box office numbers, said of Pixar. “This is an exciting opening.”Based on pre-release surveys…
With Stuart A. ThompsonStuart Thompson collected and analyzed data on thousands of Facebook posts for this article.On the morning of January 6, 2021, Christopher Blair’s fake news empire was humming.Mr Blair was earning up to $15,000 in some months posting fake stories on Facebook about the Democrats and the election, reaching millions of people each month.But after a crowd of Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol, his growing business came to an abrupt halt. Facebook appeared to recognize its own role in fomenting an insurgency and tweaked its algorithm to limit the spread of political content, fake and otherwise. Mr.…
The once-conquering F1 team Mercedes-AMG Petronas is in a quagmire.It is a distant fourth in the Formula 1 constructors’ championship, and most of its race results this year have been in the bottom half of the top 10.”We have to accept that we are the fourth fastest team at the moment,” George Russell, one of the team’s drivers, said earlier this month at a media session after the Miami Grand Prix. “Lap times don’t lie, the championship doesn’t lie, here we are. We are fighting for the P5 to P8 area week in, week out at the moment.”Mercedes won a…
People who paid nearly $1,400 for an annual Disneyland pass will start getting checks in the mail this month from a $9.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit that accused Disney of misleading customers into believing the program had “no blackout dates “.More than 100,000 people who bought the Dream Key annual pass between August 25 and October 25, 2021, will each receive about $67.41, a small fraction of what they paid for the pass. The payments were supposed to start arriving by mail or online by mid-June, according to the settlement agreement.The lawsuit was filed in November 2021 by…
Iran and Sweden swapped prisoners on Saturday, breaking a standoff that brought relief to families but concern over Sweden’s decision to free the first Iranian official convicted of crimes against humanity.Iran has released Johan Floderus, 33, a European Union diplomat and Swedish national who was arrested in April 2022 in Tehran, as well as Saeed Azizi, a dual national who was arrested in 2023, the Swedish prime minister said.”I am happy to announce that Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi are now on a plane bound for Sweden and will soon be reunited with their families,” Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said…
Former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp sat in her second-floor office at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, preparing to appeared on a television newscast Friday afternoon when three pro-Palestinian protesters wearing masks and sunglasses stormed in and ordered her out of the building.Ms. Heitkamp, the institute’s director and the only staff member left in the building, refused to go, slowing an apparent attempt to occupy the building, the latest tactic in protests over the Israel-Hamas war. position on the University of Chicago campus and across the country.”They were desperate for me to leave,” Ms. Heitkamp recalled. “I told them, ‘I’m…
Lynn Conway, a pioneering computer scientist who was fired by IBM in the 1960s after telling managers she was transgender despite her major technological innovations – and who received a rare formal apology from the company 52 years later – died on 9 June in Jackson. Mich. It was 86.Her husband, Charles Rogers, said she died at a hospital of complications from two recent heart attacks.In 1968, after leaving IBM, Ms. Conway was one of the first Americans to undergo gender reassignment surgery. But she kept it a secret, living in what she called “stealth” for 31 years out of…