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Jeff Bezos, Doja Cat and Pamela Anderson Pregame the Met Gala
NEW YORK — On Sunday evening, rapper Doja Cat swept into an upscale French restaurant in SoHo carrying a disposable Starbucks cup. She stashed it at the bar and then made her way to the rear of the room to kiss actress Pamela Anderson on one makeup-free cheek.
Tensions Rise in Silicon Valley Over Sales of Startup Stocks
SAN FRANCISCO — Sohail Prasad, an entrepreneur, launched a fund in March called the Destiny Tech100. The fund owns shares in hot tech startups like the payments firm Stripe, the rocket maker SpaceX and the artificial intelligence company OpenAI.
Russia to Hold Drills on Tactical Nuclear Weapons in New Tensions With West
BERLIN — Russia said Monday that it would hold military exercises with troops based near Ukraine to practice for the possible use of battlefield nuclear weapons, ratcheting up tensions with the West after two European leaders raised the prospect of more direct Western intervention in the war.
Commencement Events Largely Proceed as Planned, with Some Interruptions
The war in the Gaza Strip, combined with tensions over student protests in the past several weeks, had an unmistakable presence at some commencement ceremonies on Sunday. At Fenway Park in Boston, home of the Boston Red Sox, about 4,000 undergraduate students of Northeastern University and nearly 30,000 attendees gathered for a graduation ceremony. It came at a tense time, just over one week after 98 people were arrested — including 29 students and six faculty or staff members — when police cleared out a pro-Palestinian encampment built on campus last Saturday.
4 Children From Gaza Arrive in U.S. for Medical Treatment
NEW YORK — The four children had survived horrors in the Gaza Strip. But on Sunday morning, they reached the end of an arduous journey out of the conflict zone and into U.S. hospitals to receive urgent medical care. They flew from Cairo to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, where they were greeted with much fanfare by a crowd of about 50 people carrying plush toys, flowers and bobbing balloons.
DNA Tests and Stranded Bodies: Ukraine’s Struggle to Name Its Dead
KYIV, Ukraine — The bodies of the two Ukrainian soldiers lay motionless in a field for months. Around them were bloodstains and their rifles. The soldiers’ relatives identified their bodies from aerial footage gathered by drone. Although excruciating to watch, it seemed clear: The two men — Pvt. Serhiy Matsiuk and Pvt. Andriy Zaretsky — were dead. Yet more than four months later, the Ukrainian military still lists them as missing, even though subsequent drone footage provided by a fellow soldier weeks later showed them still lying there.
Hope Hicks, Once Trump’s Voice, Testifies About ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape
NEW YORK — Hope Hicks, Donald Trump’s former press secretary and White House communications director, testified Friday at his criminal trial in Manhattan about the deep anxiety that gripped Trump’s campaign after the revelation of the “Access Hollywood” tape in October 2016, weeks before the presidential election, in which he bragged about indiscriminately grabbing women’s genitals.
U.S. Economy Adds 175,000 Jobs in April, a Hiring Slowdown
The U.S. job market may be shifting into a lower gear this spring, a turn economists have expected for months after a vigorous rebound from the pandemic shock. Employers added 175,000 positions in April, the Labor Department reported Friday, undershooting forecasts. The unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9%.
Oil Companies Expand Offshore Drilling, Pointing to Energy Needs
About 80 miles southeast of Louisiana’s coast, 100,000 metric tons of steel floats in the Gulf of Mexico, an emblem of the hopes of oil and gas companies. This hulk of metal, a deepwater platform called Appomattox and owned by Shell, collects the oil and gas that rigs tap from reservoirs thousands of feet below the seafloor. Equipment on the platform pipes that fuel to shore.
Strongest U.S. Challenge to Big Tech’s Power Nears Climax in Google Trial
WASHINGTON — The biggest U.S. challenge so far to the vast power of today’s tech giants is nearing its conclusion. On Thursday and Friday, lawyers for the Justice Department, state attorneys general and Google will deliver their final arguments in a yearslong case — U.S. et al. v. Google — over whether the tech giant broke federal antitrust laws to maintain its online search dominance.
Trump Praises Police Crackdowns on Campus Protests
Holding his first campaign rallies since his criminal trial in New York City began, former President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged college presidents to take a tougher approach to protests over the war in the Gaza Strip that have swept across campuses and praised police action at the demonstrations.
Prosecutors Say They Plan to Retry Harvey Weinstein as Soon as the Fall
NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors on Wednesday said they planned to retry Harvey Weinstein after his recently overturned sex crimes conviction and could be ready to do so as soon as this fall.
What the First Amendment Means for Campus Protests
Protesters on college campuses have often cited the First Amendment as shelter for their tactics, whether they were simply waving signs or taking more dramatic steps, such as setting up encampments, occupying buildings or chanting slogans that critics say are antisemitic.
Florida’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Now Law, With Political Implications
MIAMI — As Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida prepared to run for president last spring, he gathered anti-abortion activists in his Capitol office for an unusual bill signing, held late at night and behind closed doors.
‘Smartphones on Wheels’ Draw Attention From Regulators
In the American imagination, car keys and a driver’s license have long represented freedom, autonomy and privacy. But modern cars, which have hundreds of sensors, cameras and internet connectivity, are now potential spying machines acting in ways drivers do not completely understand.
Protesters Take Over Building on Columbia Campus
The occupation of a building on Columbia University’s campus early Tuesday marked an especially tense 24 hours of pro-Palestinian protests across the country, as police in California started arresting protesters that had taken over at least one other building and threatened to do so at others.
All New U.S. Cars Must Carry Automatic Brakes by 2029
Starting in 2029, a new federal safety regulation will require all new cars and trucks in the United States to be sold with automatic emergency braking — sensors that hit the brakes to avoid a collision if the driver does not.
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