Author: KnowledgeHippo
The influencers weren’t in Aspen to ski. Dressed in pink Barbie ski suits and matching Moon Boots, they rode the Silver Queen gondola to the top of the mountain, smiling and jumping for their cameras and social media feeds. They would soon be back in the gondola and disembarking, perhaps to pose for more content with a glass of champagne at the Ajax Tavern at the base of the resort.They didn’t care that after nearly two weeks without snow in an already below-average year, a storm had finally broken through, replenishing the mountain’s steep slopes and breathing new life into…
Not long after we first met, the man said that if Australia were looking for Chinese spies, he was just the type of man they would be looking at — but the authorities would never dare say I was Chinese intelligence.Given the anti-Chinese fervor in Australia, he acknowledged he could be viewed as suspect. So why not mess with the authorities? He believed it would be embarrassing for Australia to charge him with espionage because he was an active member of a major political party.His trust was absolute and completely misplaced. Less than two years later, in 2020, he became…
A United Airlines flight that took off Friday morning from San Francisco International Airport landed in Oregon without an exterior panel, the Federal Aviation Administration said.The painting was found missing when the plane, a Boeing 737-800, landed safely at its scheduled destination at Medford Rogue Valley International Airport in Oregon and parked at a gate, United Airlines said in a statement. It was unclear when and how the painting was lost.According to the airline, there was no indication of damage to the plane during the flight and the aircraft did not declare an emergency en route to the Medford airport.”We…
After a bill that would have forced TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell the app or face a national ban moved through the House at breakneck speed this week, its progress has slowed in the Senate.Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader who determines what legislation passes, has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor, his spokesman said. Senators — some of whom have their own versions of bills targeting TikTok — will have to be convinced. Other corridor legislation could be prioritized. And the process of getting the House bill and potentially rewriting it…
Tesla and a former employee have agreed to settle a closely watched lawsuit that has cast a harsh light on the automaker’s treatment of black workers.Attorneys for Tesla and Owen Diaz, who worked at the company’s factory in Fremont, California, did not disclose terms of the settlement in a legal filing Friday. “The parties have reached an amicable resolution of their disputes,” Lawrence A. Organ, a lawyer for Mr. Diaz, said in an email, adding that he could not comment further.Last year, a jury in federal court in San Francisco awarded Mr. Diaz $3.2 million after presenting evidence that he…
In the Dune movies, a giant sandworm can rise from the desert and devour soldiers and military vehicles in its wake. In real life, people watching movies gobble up popcorn. These two ideas have been combined to create the ‘Dune’ Popcorn Bucket, a sandworm-shaped tub having a cultural moment. The bucket arrives hot on the heels of other recent popcorn collectibles like the 16-inch Barbie Corvette Snack Case. But is there more to these vessels than meets the eye?Lindsay Moyer thinks about popcorn. She is the senior nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit consumer…
Boeing has told airlines to check the cockpit seats of its 787 Dreamliner planes, the company said Friday, after a Latam Airlines plane on a flight to Auckland, New Zealand, suddenly plunged on Monday, injuring passengers.The drop in altitude appears to have been caused when a flight attendant flicked a switch on a seat that sent a pilot to the plane’s controls, the Wall Street Journal reported this week, citing unnamed US industry officials. Aviation regulators are investigating the incident and have not released any findings.In a statement, Boeing said it reminded airlines of a safety memo from 2017 that…
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appointed a longtime senior authority official as prime minister on Thursday, rejecting international pressure to appoint an independent prime minister who could revitalize the hardening authority.Mr Abbas, who is 88 and has long ruled by decree, named Mohammed Mustafa, a close economic adviser, to take over as prime minister, signing a document accusing him of forming a new government, according to Wafa, the official of the Palestinian Authority. news agency. Mr Mustafa has three weeks to do so, but may take another two weeks if necessary, according to Palestinian law.Mohamed Mustafa in 2013.Credit…Majdi Mohammed/Associated PressThe…
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request by an LGBTQ student group at a public university in Texas to let it perform a drag show on campus over the objections of the university’s president, who had refused to allow it.In an emergency petition, the students said the president’s action violated the First Amendment.As is the court’s custom when ruling on emergency matters, the judges’ brief order did not state reasons. No disagreements occurred.Drag shows have increasingly become a target of the right, with some Republican-led states such as Florida and Tennessee seeking to curtail the performances.The student group, Spectrum…
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald J. Trump, confirmed on Friday that he is making major real estate deals in Albania and Serbia, the latest example of the former president’s family doing business abroad, even as Mr. Trump pursues. to return to the White House.Mr. Kushner’s plans in the Balkans appear to have come about in part through relationships built while Mr. Trump was in office. Mr Kushner, who was a senior White House official, said he was working on the deals with Richard Grenell, who served briefly as deputy director of national intelligence under Mr Trump and also as…