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The company posted a message on its website Wednesday morning: “In light of the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, we are postponing the Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga launch until Friday, May 27. As we pause, our hearts go out to the families and communities impacted.” An 18-year-old gunman on Tuesday fatally shot 19 children and…
The yen hit a six-year low against the dollar on Tuesday, as the hawkish tone of the US Federal Reserve and its determination to curb inflation convinced investors that Japan’s currency may have further to fall. The currency fell to ¥121 against the greenback, its lowest point since February 2016, completing a near 5 per…
UK-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has criticised successive British foreign secretaries for failing to secure her release from Tehran earlier, arguing that it “should have happened six years ago”. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who last week returned to the UK after six years’ detention in Iran, told reporters on Monday that her experiences would “always haunt” her as…
Volodymyr Zelensky hailed his troops for taking back territory from Russian forces as the Ukrainian president welcomed US and European plans to hit Moscow with a fresh round of sanctions this week. The Ukrainian military has mounted a series of limited counter attacks in recent days, claiming to retake Makariv on the outskirts of the…
We are more than 20 days into the war in Ukraine. Every day brings new examples of how it is, as this Washington Post headline said, “A thoroughly modern war:” — Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the US Congress via video link on Wednesday. “There has never been a speech” quite like it, Dan Balz…
But suburban and rural schools have not been immune. In the suburbs of Kansas City, the school district of Olathe, Kan., lost more than 1,000 of its 33,000 or so students in 2020, as families relocated and shifted to private schools or home-schooling; only about half of them came back this school year. In rural…
A South Texas sheriff’s official said on Saturday that a 26-year-old woman had been indicted on a murder charge in connection with the “death of an individual through a self-induced abortion.” The woman, Lizelle Herrera, 26, was arrested on Friday and detained in Starr County, the official, Maj. Carlos Delgado, said in a statement reported…
Kim DeMola died a week after the beating, according to a report filed by a federal magistrate judge in 2015. In April 2005, a Riverside County Superior Court jury convicted Ms. DeMola and Mr. Bell of first-degree murder. They were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in July 2005, the judge’s report said….
An elected representative sharing her beauty routine in an influencer-style video? A decade ago, that would have been unheard of. But a handful of female politicians have now openly begun to embrace the power of fashion and beauty to burnish their images and reinforce their messages. Whether it’s US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with her “Tax…
The fun things go first, explained Michelle Nicholls, a self-employed cleaner in the English town of Harlow in Essex, just north east of London, who earns £8,000 a year. Since food costs hit the escalator and petrol prices spiked, the 47-year-old and her partner, who works as a delivery driver earning £25,000 before tax, have…