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The End of Sustainable Fashion
A decade or so ago, pairing Everlane kick-crop jeans with the brand’s almond-toe Modern Loafer and a crewneck sweater was a quintessential Millennial city-girl uniform: minimalist, boring, and, most important, vaguely ethical. The San Francisco–based fashion start-up was founded in the early 2010s on the premise of “radical transparency.” It told consumers about the factory…
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Blanche doesn’t rule out payments to violent Jan. 6 rioters as he defends $1.8B fund
WASHINGTON — Acting Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche on Tuesday wouldn’t rule out the possibility that people who carried out violence during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol will be considered for payouts from a new $1.776 billion fund to pay individuals who believe they were targeted politically. Pressed during a Congressional hearing over whether…
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Trump proposes the U.S., China and Russia target the ICC, reports the Financial Times
According to the Financial Times, President Donald Trump suggested the United States, China, and Russia “co-operate against the International Criminal Court,” or ICC. The ICC is the only intergovernmental organization with the authority to prosecute individuals for genocide and crimes against humanity. The Financial Times cited what it described as “several people familiar with the…
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Tennis great Billie Jean King graduates from Cal State L.A. 65 years after enrolling
Long before Billie Jean King won dozens of Grand Slam tennis titles, founded the Women’s Tennis Association, became part owner of the Dodgers and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, she enrolled in what was then called Los Angeles State College. Three years later in 1964, King left without a degree to devote full…
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Fuming Trump lashes out after Fox News and Newsmax skip his live event
Donald Trump is nursing a fresh grudge against his favorite networks — and he aired it Tuesday morning in front of his half-built ballroom. Strolling out to inspect his $400 million East Wing project, the president stopped to talk to reporters and quickly turned a question about health care affordability into a bitter complaint about…
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San Diego’s Tragic Lesson About Terrorism
Yesterday in California, the physical world and the world of free-floating grievance and ideological bluster met once again, when two teenagers attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing a security guard and two others, before taking their own lives. The attack is being investigated as a hate crime; according to police, the words hate…
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson hammers Supreme Court colleagues over ‘unusual’ move
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took aim at her colleagues Monday with a blistering rebuke of what she labeled as their “unusual” move, one that she claimed had been done no more than three times in the last quarter century, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Jackson was referring to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling…
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‘Iron Boy’ Review: This Former Pixar Animator Has Made His Own Magical Hand-Drawn Movie
A bittersweet, gorgeously animated family film that looks like a watercolor painting come to life, Louis Clichy’s “Iron Boy” (“Le Corset”) is a solo feature debut whose sense of imagination is matched only by its sharp craft and the passionate care of its storytelling. Drawing from much of the director’s own life and proving all…
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Paramount denies Bari Weiss may cede control over CBS News
Paramount is flatly denying a report that Bari Weiss could lose control over key CBS News broadcasts amid mounting turmoil inside the network’s news division. The company issued a statement Tuesday insisting Weiss retains the “full support” of Paramount and Skydance boss David Ellison after Puck reported that executives had privately discussed scaling back her…
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Meryl Streep and Martin Short prove romance is still going strong with ‘tender’ London dinner date
It’s [not] complicated. Meryl Streep and Martin Short’s romance was proven to be still going strong after they were photographed together on a dinner date in London. A fan took to X over the weekend to share that she had been seated near the actors in a restaurant. “Spending a few days in London, picking…