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More than two feet of fresh snow fell in Park City, Utah last week, perfect for the throngs of skiers gathered at Park City Mountain, the largest ski resort in the United States. But instead of experiencing powder, skiers and snowboarders faced long lift lines, limited terrain and widespread frustration caused by a ski patrol strike.”Five minutes of bliss for a 50 minute wait in line,” one Park City skier said on Instagram.The Park City Professional Ski Patrollers Association, which represents 204 ski patrollers and mountain safety personnel, went on strike Dec. 27 against Vail Resorts, which owns Park City…
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy traveled to Mar-a-Lago to visit President-elect Donald J. Trump for an informal meeting on Saturday, three people with knowledge of the trip said.The trip comes just a few days before Ms. Meloni is set to host President Biden in Rome for an official visit to Italy and the Vatican on January 9-12.Ms. Meloni and Mr. The Trumps have expressed mutual appreciation in the past, and her trip is one of the first few visits by a foreign leader to the president-elect’s Florida estate since his election. The meeting boosts the hopes of supporters of…
Around 2010, Dick Wolf’s vast television empire suddenly collapses.First, NBC abruptly canceled its flagship network, “Law & Order,” which had been on the air for two decades, a move that surprised Mr. Wolf. A year later, two “Law & Order” spinoffs were unceremoniously shown the door. All that was left was “Law & Order: SVU,” a relatively thin paper for a company that was awarded multiple lines of revenue and that had made Mr. Wolf a very rich man. After all, Mr. Wolff has repeated a mantra for decades: “No show, no work.””It was a little tight there for a…
Syria’s main international airport in Damascus will reopen next week, the new government said Saturday, as it tries to restore a sense of normalcy after the uprising that ousted President Bashar al-Assad.The announcement came amid tensions along the border between Syria and Lebanon, where four Lebanese soldiers were injured in clashes on Friday night. The Lebanese military said Syrian fighters fired on Lebanese soldiers along the border.Ahmad al-Shara, Syria’s new de facto leader, faces the challenge of bringing order to a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war that has divided it into several warring regions and fueled the…
Before she was Debrina, she was Debbie.In her hometown of Little Falls, NJ, Debbie Kawam was a girl who wanted to be around: the cheerleader with the inner glow, giving high-fives in the hallways of Passaic Valley Regional High School, cruising with friends, striking a pose against against a backdrop of Led Zeppelin posters, welcoming guests to the Perkins Pancake House in a hostess outfit.In her 20s, Ms. Kawam was the life of the party, jetting off with friends to Las Vegas and the Caribbean and living the moment.Later will come years of darkness, then decades. And on December 22,…
At the end of last month, two days before Christmas, the priest Dr. Katrina D. Foster, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, was showing off her church’s recent renovations. The Neo-Gothic church was built in 1891 and the original blue, vaulted roof. wooden pews; stained glass windows; and a Jardine & Son pipe organ all looked relatively new.”On Dec. 7 we had a huge rededication ceremony,” said Pastor Foster, 56, who walked around the church with quick, glowing steps and couldn’t stop beaming. “It was the same day Notre-Dame had theirs.”Since 1994, when Pastor Foster was…
Listen and Follow “Hard Fork”Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadioThis week, it’s our annual tech predictions. We’ll look at what we got right and wrong for 2024 and tell you what we think will happen in 2025. Then we’ll discuss how we want to interact with technology in the new year. Plus, we’ll answer some of your listeners’ questions.Credits“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Rouse and Casey Newton and are produced by Whitney Jones and Rachel Conn. He edits the show Jen Poyant. Engineering from Alyssa Moxley and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano…
The day was stormy. The 61-year-old woman coaxed her donkey into a trot. She loved riding around the ring with the beautiful white beast — at a walk, then a trot, then a canter. Suddenly she noticed a tingling sensation in her arms and legs spreading up her torso. He recognized the sensation but willed himself to ignore it. It didn’t work. Her strength seemed to melt away and before she could say or do anything, she felt herself fall forward. As the world turned gray, the donkey stopped. Her hands, and then her body, slid down the animal’s sweaty…
The Transportation Department on Friday announced a $2 million penalty against JetBlue Airways for operating several East Coast flights that arrived years late in 2022 and 2023. Half of the money collected will go to affected passengers.The penalty is the first time the DOT has fined an airline for chronic delays, which the federal agency defines as flights that depart at least 10 times a month and arrive more than half an hour late, more than 50 percent of the time .“Unlawful chronic flight delays make flights unreliable for travelers. Today’s action puts the entire airline industry on notice that…
An Iraqi man who pleaded guilty to commanding insurgents who committed war crimes in Afghanistan filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday seeking to stop his transfer from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a prison in Iraq.The petition, filed by his lawyers, made long-running public negotiations to transfer Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, 63, into Iraqi government custody despite protests from him and his lawyers that may be subject to abuse and inadequate medical care.Mr. Hadi, who says his real name is Nashwan al-Tamir, is the oldest and most disabled detainee at the offshore detention area as a…