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So was it a Hitler salute or wasn’t it?Speaking at President Trump’s inauguration event this week, Elon Musk slapped his right hand across his chest before shooting his hand diagonally upwards, palm down. He did it twice.It looked a lot like the salute used in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. But almost immediately, an impressive number of different interpretations began to circulate.Some commentators have called it the “Roman salute”. Others described it as a “heartfelt” expression of joy or dismissed it as just clumsy.The website of the Anti-Defamation League, which campaigns against anti-Semitism, defines the Nazi salute as “raising an…
When Scottish Americans and Scottish immigrants sit down Saturday night to celebrate the birthday of 18th-century poet Robert Burns, traditional haggis likely won’t be up to par.Haggis, the savory Scottish dish of boiled sheep, oats and spices, can be a real Haggis, many argue, only if it includes one key ingredient: sheep’s lung, which is used in the filling. In the United States, which bans imports of sheep’s lung haggis, some Americans of Scottish heritage have turned to the black market to get their hands on the real thing.Now Macsween, one of Scotland’s most popular haggis makers, has developed a…
For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud company, has provided technical support for Tiktok video delivery to tens of millions of Americans.But on the weekend, Amazon faced a dilemma. A new law has entered into force by Tiktok, owned by Chinese byTedance, in the United States. Technology companies were forbidden to distribute it and inform it differently will face financial sanctions. At the same time, elected President Donald J. Trump told technology companies that he was planning to stop the law enforcement by executive decree.A few hours before the prohibition came into force, Amazon appeared…
An email obtained by The Times shows that a committee leader, Rep. Sharon Wylie, an industry advocate, shared a draft of the bill with a cannabis lobbyist. “Thank you for being open to a compromise approach,” he wrote.In an interview, Ms. Wylie said “the jury is still out” on the potential harms of cannabis, and that regulated businesses bring revenue to the state.Ms. Davis is not resigning. He plans to introduce legislation in another committee this month that would ban all concentrates that exceed 35% THC, with exceptions for medical use.”The industry needs boundaries,” he said.MethodologyThe New York Times looked…
And from the westerner of the two docks, it was possible to look directly to the smallest, even more western, even more private dock intended for the exclusive use of visitors staying at Vivamayr’s villa (which goes for 3,750 euros per night). My colleagues regular visitors and I looked at the private dock of the villa and tried to distinguish the characteristics of the face, or even the age, of the woman we saw there. (Impossible.) Constantly people saw each other to see if someone was celebrity. As beautiful and as expensive as Vivamayr was, almost everyone knew somewhere even…
Hamas liberated four female Israeli army soldiers on Saturday as part of hostage -taking with prisoners, more than a year after women were captured during Hamas’ attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.In a choreographed release, the four hostages wore military tiredness as they walked on a scene in the city of Gaza. They were shaking and smiling at a crowd that cheerful, smiling at each other as Hamas fighters with balaclavs surrounded them.The release of hostages is part of a 42 -day ceasefire agreement that came into force on Sunday, interrupting the battles between Israel and Hamas. Hamas…
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to examine a high profile case that could open the door to allow public dollars to immediately fund religious schools.The widely monitored case from Oklahoma could turn the line between the Church and the State in education and will come to court whose conservative majority have widely embraced the role of religion in public life.The case focuses on a proposal for the first school of religious charter of the Nation, St. Isidore of the Catholic Virtual School of Seville. The school would be online and its curriculum will incorporate religious teachings into all courses,…
Barry Sternlicht made a fortune building Starwood Hotels and Resorts, which spawned successful brands like W Hotels, into a giant of the travel industry.Now he wants to do them again – under the Starwood name.Mr. Sternlicht is turning around the Starwood Hotels brand starting in February, nine years after the previous company was sold to Marriott in a $13 billion deal that created the world’s largest hotel chain. His current hotel company, SH Hotels & Resorts, will take on the Starwood name.The move is a sign that Mr. Sternlicht, 64, is looking to reassert himself as a force in hospitality…
Derek Humphry, a British journalist whose experience helping his late wife end her life led him to become a crusader in the right-wing movement and publish “Final Exit”, a best-selling guide to suicide, has died. died Jan. 2 in Eugene, Ore. He was 94 years old.His death, in a hospital unit, was announced by his family.With a populist flair and a knack for talking the mean about death, Mr. Humphry almost single-handedly galvanized a national debate about physician-assisted suicide in the early 1980s, a time when the idea was little more than an inside theory struck by medical ethicists.”He was…
President Donald J. Trump said he would contact North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, asking the possibility of rejuvenating their diplomacy, five years after the first round of their negotiations that caught global attention, but did little to reduce the growing nuclear Threat to Mr. Kim. .”I liked him and did well with him,” Mr Trump said during an interview with Fox News presenter Sean Hanti, after saying that he would contact Mr Kim again in his second term. “He is not a religious zealous. He happens to be a smart guy. “Mr Trump’s comments, broadcast on Thursday night, were the…