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The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia remains open to a meeting between President Vladimir V. Putin and President-elect Donald J. Trump, but that any concrete steps to begin such talks could only be made when Mr. Trump in office on January 20th.Responding to the comments made on Thursday by Mr. Trump, who said Mr. Putin wants to meet him to discuss the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin spokesman confirmed Russia’s long-standing official position that Moscow is ready to talk.”We need mutual desire and political will to engage in dialogue,” Dmitry S. told reporters. Peskov, Kremlin spokesman. “We see that…
When the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates in September, inflation was easing and the labor market was showing some worrying signs of weakness.Three months and a full percentage point of rate cuts later, the opposite is true: the labor market appears to have stabilized, but progress on inflation has stalled.As a result, the central bank is widely expected to halt its campaign for rate cuts at its meeting this month, a message reinforced by Fed officials in a series of speeches this week.”While not my main outlook, I cannot rule out the risk that progress on inflation will continue…
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Friday on the fate of TikTok, the wildly popular video app that Congress says poses a looming threat to the nation’s security.Unless judges intervene before a January 19 deadline set by federal law, the app must be sold or shut down.The law, enacted in April with broad bipartisan support, said urgent action was needed because TikTok’s corporate parent, ByteDance, is effectively controlled by the Chinese government, which could use the app to collect sensitive information about Americans and spreading hidden disinformation.Saying the law violates both First Amendment rights and the rights of its 170…
Richard M. Cohen, an outspoken and award-winning television news producer whose career was ultimately derailed by the ravages of multiple sclerosis, which he wrote about in a best-selling memoir, died Dec. 24 in Sleepy Hollow, New York, a village in Westchester County. It was 76.His wife, former “Today” anchor Meredith Vieira, said he died at a hospital of acute respiratory failure.Mr. Cohen spent more than 20 years in the news industry, working with such luminaries as Ted Koppel at ABC and Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather at CBS. But he tackled a different subject when he wrote a memoir —…
Ski patrollers at Park City Mountain in Utah made a triumphant return to the slopes Thursday, after ending a nearly two-week union strike over wages and benefits. The strike brought down the largest U.S. ski resort during a busy holiday season and sparked online outrage about widening economic inequality in rural mountain areas.Late Wednesday, the Park City Professional Ski Patrollers Association ratified a contract with Vail Resorts, which owns Park City and more than 40 other ski areas, that increases the starting pay of ski patrollers and other mountain safety workers $2 an hour, at $23. More experienced patrolmen will…
Venezuela’s popular opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was briefly arrested by rivals during an anti-government demonstration in Caracas on Thursday, a political aide in X said. But soon she was released. Ms. Machado was “violently intercepted as she was leaving the rally,” her party told X. “Regime troops shot at the motorcycles carrying her.”The country’s autocrat, Nicolas Maduro, is set to be sworn in for a third term as president on Friday.Ms Machado has been living in hiding in Venezuela amid threats of arrest by government officials and this was her first public appearance since August. He had called for…
A New York state appeals court on Thursday rejected a request by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation to dismiss part of a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit stemming from the spread of misinformation surrounding the 2020 presidential election.The suit, filed by Smartmatic, a voting technology company, is on track to go to trial in state court in Manhattan, although the parties could settle the case out of court.Smartmatic sued Fox in February 2021, accusing the media conglomerate of defaming it by mentioning its name among false allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election repeatedly aired on Fox News.Fox News agreed in…
The impending demise of TikTok, one of the most popular social media apps in the United States, has marketers, companies and creators scrambling to embrace alternatives — even if they’re not entirely convinced that TikTok will actually leaving the United States this month.Marketers are shifting dollars to Instagram and tweaking their contracts with social media stars so they’re not stuck paying for sponsored TikTok posts in the app’s absence. Creators ask fans to follow them elsewhere while collecting their email addresses to log in on other platforms. And talent agents are telling TikTok stars to hold off on buying a…
Barrie Miskin was recently pregnant when she noticed a change in her appearance. Dark patches bloomed on her skin like watercolor ink. A “thick” growth of hair grew on her upper lip and chin.The outside world was changing, too: In her neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, bright lights enveloped objects in a halo, blurring her vision. Her colleagues and even her doctors began to seem like “alien proxies” of themselves, said Ms Miskin, 46.”I felt like I was looking at the world through a dirty glass,” he added. However, Mrs Miskin knew it was all an illusion, so she sought help.It…
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