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Devra Lee

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Horoscope for Tuesday, July 2nd

The VorosTwins were robbed while doing a TikTok live in Prague, leaving them stranded with no passport, money, or anywhere to sleep. Chris and Patrick Vörös, known online as the VorosTwins or the Da Vinki Twins, blew up on TikTok after a viral video saw the identical twins mispronounce Leonardo da Vinci’s last name.

VorosTwins left stranded in Prague after getting robbed during TikTok live

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NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

Kentucky State

Hermes Helfricht, Kapellmeister of Oper Bonn, is to be the next GMD of Theater Hagen, in the Ruhr. Helfricht, 32, succeeds Joseph Trafton, who’s from Kentucky.

Jobs for boys: Bonn baton is bumped up

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

San Francisco, CA

An audience member who held up a rude sign in Finnish during an Esa-Pekka Salonen concert ten days ago has been threatened with disciplinary acction by the orchestra management. Laura Leibowitz brandished the sign below. Loosely translated from the Finnish it means ‘F*ck the board’. Impractical and unpleasant...

San Fran Symphony threatens concertgoer

A primary school music teacher in West Yorkshire has been banned from the profession after pupils claimed he touched them on the knee. The teacher, 63, refused to attend the disciplinary hearing, saying some of the children in the class had a vendetta against him. BBC report here.

Music teacher is banned for touching knees

Business Insider

Tatyana Bakalchuk founded Russian e-commerce retailer Wildberries from her apartment while on maternity leave. It made her a billionaire.

Meet Russia's richest woman, a self-made billionaire who founded her e-commerce company on maternity leave

Le Figaro reports that the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg has chosen its next director. Chrysoline Dupont is presently production director at the Opera Comique in Paris. She will succeed Alain Perroux, who is off to run the Grand Théâtre de Genève.

Tip-off: Woman rising on the Rhine

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Monday warned the U.S. against the potential "fatal consequences" of allowing Kyiv to deploy U.S.-supplied weapons against targets inside Russia. "I would like to warn American leaders against miscalculations that could have fatal consequences. For some unknown reason, they underestimate the seriousness of...

Kremlin warns Washington of 'fatal' miscalculation to let Kyiv use U.S.-supplied weapons inside Russia

New Jersey State

NEW JERSEY - Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs announced today that Walmart has agreed to pay $1.64 million to settle allegations of unlawful unit pricing practices across its 64 New Jersey retail stores. The settlement, which includes a $1.61 million civil penalty, marks the largest ever obtained by the Division’s Office of Weights and Measures (OWM).

Walmart Pays $1.64M Settlement for Unlawful Pricing in NJ

Alexandria, VA

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The SBC has removed another church from it's fellowship. First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, is the latest casualty in the Southern Baptist Convention's war on churches that accept women pastors. The Independent reports that on Tuesday, delegates attending the SBC annual meeting voted 6,759 to 563 to oust the congregation.

A Historic Virginia church was expeled from SBC for asserting that women can be senior pastors

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The number of relationships and marriages ending because of disloyalty are on the rise. Loyalty plays a key role in strengthening partners’ bond. Yet, some zodiac signs are more loyal than others. They remain committed and faithful to their partners throughout. Loyalty and honesty increases a person’s trust for you.

3 Zodiac Signs Who Are The Most Loyal

Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn Academy of Music has chosen veteran programmer Amy Cassello as its Artistic Director. BAM President Gina Duncan said: ‘Amy is a deep thinker who considers the needs of artists and arts workers at every turn. As a longstanding BAM programmer and creative producer, she intimately understands our role in the arts ecosystem. I could not have a better partner in leading BAM’s artistic programming at this pivotal moment.’

BAM picks artistic director

Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Putin said countries "friendly to Russia" were the ones that deserved special attention. He added that Russia would seek to boost the share of settlements conducted in the currencies of BRICS countries, referring to an economic coalition of emerging markets which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Cut off from the West, Putin says almost 40% of Russian trade turnover is now in rubles

The death has been announced in Warsaw of Szábolcs Esztényi, a Hungarian-born pianist and composer who influenced generations of students as piano improvisation teacher at the Fryderyk Chopin Secondary School of Music in Warsaw and the Academies of Music in Warsaw and Łódź. Which western...

Death of a noted improviser, 84

The Fourth of July is right around the corner, and Play, the low-cost airline, has a surprise in store for all travelers who want to celebrate the American holiday. In honor of Independence Day, Play is offering incredibly cheap tickets to fly off to Europe, starting as low as $79 one-way. But don't stress— even though not all fares are $79, the price range is pretty thin, and all routes participating in the deal are less than $100 one-way.

You Can Get a $79 Flight to Europe Right Now

Davone Tines, a premier bass-baritone, channels a hero, Paul Robeson, at the Little Island Amphitheater in New York. Robeson had a rich, sonorous bass. Tines defines his own voice as a basso cantante, a bass with a high upper extension, like a falsetto, balanced by a very low booming register. We heard the high and low expression.

Review: Davone Tines channels Paul Robeson

The violinist Edward Dusinberre, leader of the renowned Takacs Quartet, has some fascinating tips for Ariane Todes on playing tough stuff when the body says, take it easy. ED: You can’t be in a string quartet for more than three decades and not learn flexibility. When I joined, I had to make a strong statement and be on top of the sound. People were looking at me to see if I could sit in that chair. I’m not complacent because that’s never good, but I don’t worry in the same way now. I’m more interested in how I can emerge in the sound and then retreat, and how can my sound facilitate the sound of other people, or draw the attention of the ears away from me to someone else. Those weren’t much on my mind when I was 28.

String quartet veteran: Grow older, play smarter

Multiple reports are circulating of the sudden death of Franca Courtin in the Thai beach resort of Hua Hin, where she was teaching. No further details are presently available. The Romanian-born soprano Ana Maria Labin writes: ‘We all have that extraordinary person that crosses one’s path and has that impact that would change your life forever…As a musician, singer, woman and human being I wouldn’t have been who I am today without Franca Courtin. She was my very first singing teacher … Ever since she remained my mentor, spiritual animal and friend. I miss you so much!! Will see you later with the angels! Love to her family and friends…may you rest in peace.’

Rhubarb up your Deutsch before the next Germany match

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