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From the mid-1990s onward he was one of the biggest names in fashion, with stores around the world and celebrity admirers like Lenny Kravitz and Cindy Crawford. Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer who celebrated glamour and excess, sending models down the runway and actresses onto red carpets wearing leopard-print dresses, bejeweled distressed jeans, satin corsets and other unapologetically flashy clothes, has died. He was 83. His company announced the death on Instagram but provided no details. Mr. Cavalli’s signature style — “molto sexy, molto animal print and molto, molto…

His negotiations led to Dan Rather’s elevation from “60 Minutes” to anchor of the “CBS Evening News” and sent Diane Sawyer from “60 Minutes” to ABC. Richard Leibner, a powerful agent whose firm brokered contracts for many of the biggest names in television news, including Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer, Anderson Cooper, Ed Bradley, Morley Safer and Steve Kroft, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 85. His son Jonathan said the cause was kidney cancer. Mr. Leibner’s firm, N.S. Bienstock — named for one of its founders,…

A British surgeon who recently returned from Gaza has told the BBC how she was struck by the high number of wounded children she operated on. Dr Victoria Rose said a “huge amount” of her work was on children under 16, including many under six. Over 76,000 Gazans – mainly civilians – have been injured by Israel over the course of the war, the Hamas-run health ministry says, while 33,000 people have been killed. The war was sparked by Hamas attacking Israeli communities near Gaza last October, killing about 1,200…

Published 15 minutes ago Share close panel Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Jessica Parker Berlin correspondent The German parliament has passed a law making it easier for citizens and residents to legally change gender. It’s also introducing hefty fines – in specific circumstances – for disclosing someone’s prior registered name or gender without consent. Previously, changing your registered gender required a doctor’s certificate and the approval of a family court. Now over-18s can change to male, female or diverse, a third gender option that…

With his longtime co-host Jim Lehrer, he delivered thoughtful reports that stood in stark contrast to the commercial networks’ ever more sensational newscasts. Robert MacNeil, the Canadian-born journalist who delivered sober evening newscasts for more than two decades on PBS as the co-anchor of “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report,” later expanded as “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” died early Friday in Manhattan. He was 93. His death, at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, was confirmed by his daughter Alison MacNeil. Mr. MacNeil spent time at NBC News early in his career and was a reporter for the…

Mr. Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, has turned off many people with polarizing remarks on social media, and it may be affecting the automaker’s sales. Endorsing an antisemitic post on X. Withholding Starlink satellite internet service from Ukraine to prevent a drone attack on Russian forces. Reposting conspiracy theorists who claim that the Biden administration’s immigration policies are part of a plot to increase the number of people who vote Democrat. Elon Musk’s behavior and public statements have clearly offended many people, especially left-leaning consumers who are the most…

Magie’s creation, The Landlord’s Game, inspired the spinoff we know today. But credit for the idea long went to someone else. This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. When Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman in Philadelphia, learned about a new board game that was becoming popular in small circles, he asked his friends to type up the rules and help him jazz up the graphic design. In 1933, he copyrighted the game, Monopoly, as…

Millions in Sackler donations sat dormant, rising in value as the opioid epidemic raged and as other institutions distanced themselves from the makers of a notorious painkiller. The National Academy of Sciences is asking a court to allow it to repurpose about $30 million in donations from the wealthy Sackler family, who controlled the company at the center of the opioid epidemic, and to remove the family name from the endowment funds. The petition filed by the Academy in Superior Court in Washington, D.C., Thursday aims to modify the terms…

The Arizona Supreme Court recently reinstated a near-total abortion ban from 1864, which makes performing an abortion punishable by two to five years in prison, except when the mother’s life is at risk. The BBC spoke to Katarina White, from Arizona Right to Life and Karen Moscato, from the Indivisible Project, on what’s next for those on either side of the debate. Video by Anahita Sachdev and César Rojas AngelThis post was originally published on this site

Published 18 minutes ago Share close panel Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, Reuters By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Israel’s prime minister is to meet top officials to prepare for a possible attack by Iran, local media report. Tensions are high over the possibility that Tehran will retaliate for an air strike that killed senior Iranian commanders nearly two weeks ago. Several countries have now warned their citizens about travelling in both countries. US officials have told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, that a major attack on…

The review, which was led by Ben S. Bernanke, a former Federal Reserve chair, came after the central bank had been criticized for underestimating inflation. The Bank of England said on Friday that it would overhaul the way it forecasts its outlook for the British economy as part of a “once-in-a-generation” review of its process after it was criticized for underestimating inflation. After a few turbulent years — which included a pandemic, the war in Ukraine and a surge in inflation — the central bank was accused of bungling its…

Published 33 minutes ago Share close panel Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, Europa Press Canarias By Guy Hedgecoe Madrid Activists have begun a hunger strike on the island of Tenerife, in protest at what they see as the destructive growth of tourism on the Canary Islands. Protesters are calling for a halt to the construction of a hotel and a beach resort in the south of the island. They also want a moratorium on all tourism development projects. The small group of hunger strikers began their protest…

Published 50 minutes ago Share close panel Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, Supplied A British surgeon who recently returned from Gaza has told the BBC how she was struck by the high number of wounded children she operated on. Dr Victoria Rose said a “huge amount” of her work was on children under 16, including many under six. She said she had treated people with bullet wounds, burns and other injuries. She added the lack of food available in Gaza meant patients were not strong enough to…

The share of those paying the full advertised cost has declined over the last couple of decades, a new report found. Yet many don’t understand how much they’ll really pay. Families with college-bound students may well have shuddered when they heard that the official, full cost of a year at some four-year private schools will soon hit six figures. But outrage over mushrooming college “sticker” prices clouds a reality that some families may not fully understand: Few students pay the full price. That’s because colleges give financial aid to income-eligible…

Prediction markets say former President Donald J. Trump has a good chance of winning. So far, the stock market is fine with that. The markets assume that former President Donald J. Trump has an even chance of winning the November election. So far, it appears they don’t care either way. The political prediction markets — which allow traders to place bets on the outcome of the November election — show that the presidential race is tight. After trailing for months, President Biden has moved slightly ahead of Mr. Trump in…

Prices and mortgage rates are climbing as Wall Street bets that interest rates will remain higher for longer. Mortgage rates and housing prices are climbing again, a market dynamic that could bring strong economic headwinds during election season.Matt Rourke/Associated Press Housing gloom The higher-for-longer inflation predicament has hit the U.S. housing market like a thunderbolt. Home prices and mortgage rates are climbing again, dashing hopes that financing costs would fall this year and adding another economic question that could hang over the presidential election campaign. More economists are paring their…

Warnings from the chief executive of the nation’s largest bank have been consistently at odds with heady financial markets. Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, on Friday warned of an “unsettling” global landscape, highlighting a cascade of pressures including war, rising geopolitical tensions and inflation that threaten the economy and could weigh on the performance of the nation’s largest bank. Mr. Dimon’s remarks, made concurrently with his bank’s weaker-than-expectedquarterly earnings report, add to his litany of concerns about the U.S. economy as the Federal Reserve grapples with when…

Published 1 hour ago Share close panel Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP By Paul Kirby BBC News Less than two months before European voters in 27 countries take part in EU Parliament elections, Belgium says it is investigating pro-Russian networks that are trying to influence the vote. Moscow’s aim was to bring more pro-Russian candidates into the European Parliament, said Prime Minister Alexander de Croo. “Weakened support for Ukraine serves Russia on the battlefield,” he said. The Czech government said recently that it had broken…

Published 47 minutes ago Share close panel Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Kathryn Armstrong in London & Chris Ewokor in Abuja BBC News Dozens of Russian military instructors have arrived in Niger as part of a new accord with the country’s junta, which has cut links with its Western allies. State media report that they arrived along with a state-of-the-art air defence system. They are expected to install the system and teach Niger’s army how to use it. The West African country is one…

Five years after a devastating fire at the iconic Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, video shows the progress of renovation work. The 850-year-old Gothic building’s spire and roof collapsed in April 2019 but the main structure, including the two bell towers, were saved.This post was originally published on this site