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From the Editor's Desk According to data from the Climate Policy Initiative, climate finance, which includes funds for both adaptation and mitigation, needs to increase at least five-fold, from $1.3T in 2021/2022, to an average $8.6T annually until 2030, and then to just over $10T in the two decades leading up to 2050. |
| Work Nobody Saw Andy Kim Coming. That?s What He Was Counting On.  The announcement, which Mr. Kim posted on social media that afternoon, kicked off perhaps the luckiest Senate campaign in modern New Jersey history. Over the next six months, Mr. Kim went from underdog to front-runner, outmaneuvering Tammy Murphy, the wife of Gov. Philip D. Murphy, who joined the race in November and quickly won the support of New Jersey’s powerful Democratic Party machine. |
| Work Ask Amy: Siblings? estrangement is a tangle over money  Dear Upset: You should tell them, “You really do need to call first if you want to stop in. I want to spend time with you, but could you please call first to give us a choice about whether it’s a good time for us'” |
| Work Southern California woman pleads guilty in $150-million counterfeit postage scheme  Melissa Gomez is an enterprise reporter on the State Team who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2018. She reports on a range of news and issues, with a special focus on the Central Valley. She previously covered education and the 2020 presidential campaign at The Times. A native Floridian, she graduated from the University of Florida. |
| Work L.A. supervisors oppose plan to eradicate Catalina deer by shooting them from helicopters  Andrew J. Campa is a member of the Fast Break team at the Los Angeles Times, having previously covered the Eastside and San Gabriel Valley. Before, he worked at several medium and small daily newspapers and has covered education, sports and general news. He’s a proud University of Alabama (#RollTide), Cal State Fullerton and Pasadena City College alumnus. |
| Work Carvalho faults alleged actions of school safety worker who failed to stop fatal fight  Howard Blume covers education for the Los Angeles Times. He’s won the top investigative reporting prize from the L.A. Press Club and print Journalist of the Year from the L.A. Society of Professional Journalists chapter. He recently retired “Deadline L.A.,” a past honoree for best public-affairs radio program, which he produced and co-hosted on KPFK-FM (90.7) for 15 years. He teaches tap dancing and has two superior daughters. |
| Work 12 days that rocked USC: How a derailed commencement brought 'total disaster'  Matt Hamilton is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting with colleagues Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle and was part of the team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack. A graduate of Boston College and the University of Southern California, he joined The Times in 2013. |
| Work Columbia Bars Student Protester Who Said ?Zionists Don?t Deserve to Live?  He also compared Zionists to white supremacists and Nazis. “These are all the same people,” he said. “The existence of them and the projects they have built, i.e. Israel, it’s all antithetical to peace. It’s all antithetical to peace. And so, yes, I feel very comfortable, very comfortable, calling for those people to die.” |
| Work What Weinstein?s Overturned Conviction Means for His California Case  New York and California law differ on the crucial issue of witnesses. The office of the Los Angeles district attorney, George Gascón, said that California’s law, unlike New York’s, allows evidence, at a judge’s discretion, that shows a defendant’s “propensity” to commit sexual assault. |
| Work After Apple Stock Has Skyrocketed 527%, Why Does Warren Buffett Still Own It'  Neil Patel and his clients have no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Apple and Berkshire Hathaway. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
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| Work Echoing Their Client, Trump?s Lawyers Pursue an Absolutist Defense  But that time-honored tactic is not available to a defendant who is also the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a man who despises weakness and is allergic to anything but praise from the people around him. So Mr. Trump’s legal strategy mirrors his political talking points as his lawyers portray the case as an unjust assault on the former president’s character. |
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| Work Fact-Checking Trump?s Remarks in the Hush Money Trial  According to prosecutors, Mr. Trump’s former fixer, Michael D. Cohen, paid $130,000 to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, who was shopping around a story of an affair with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen says the payment, made just before the 2016 election, was issued at Mr. Trump’s direction. Mr. Cohen then sent 11 monthly invoices to the Trump Organization for legal services beginning in 2017. |
| Work Food delivery fees have soared. How much of it goes to workers'  No one is happy about the delivery apps. Not the customers, who feel gouged by an avalanche of fees. Not restaurants, who feel gut-punched by the commission apps take from them. Certainly not delivery workers, who have long been rewarded with a pittance for doing a job that, in a city like New York, has a higher injury rate than that of construction workers. |
| Work What the backlash to student protests over Gaza is really about  The demonstrations appear to be growing in the face of intense crackdowns involving local law enforcement, as well as growing political scrutiny. And they have once again, made top universities the locus around which America litigates questions about the US’s support of Israel amid its deadly war in Gaza, free speech, antisemitism, and anti-Muslim discrimination — and a convenient target for political elites looking to make a point. For example: Lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, visiting Columbia’s campus this week. |
| Work Voided Harvey Weinstein conviction may never be retried after woman says she is unsure of testifying again  “Every time I speak about it, whether it’s to the press or to a group of students or young people, I get physically hot and uncomfortable. My head pounds, I have a physical, visceral reaction. It takes a physical and mental and emotional toll,\" Rosenbaum said. |
| Work Sean ?Diddy' Combs files motion to dismiss some claims in a sexual assault lawsuit  In a lawsuit Combs settled the day after it was filed in November, his former protege and girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, sued him alleging years of sexual abuse, including rape. The lawsuit said he forced her to have sex with male prostitutes while he filmed them. |
| Work Hamas is reviewing an Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, as possible Rafah offensive looms  Hamas sparked the war with its attack into southern Israel on Oct. 7, in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took some 250 people as hostages. Israel says the militants are still holding around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others. |
| Work Five-pack of third-period goals help Avalanche rout Jets in Game 3, take 2-1 series lead  Jets defenseman Brenden Dillon appeared to suffer a significant laceration to his hand during a scrum after the game ended. Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness did not have an update on Dillon’s condition. |
| Work Avalanche-Jets Game 3 Quick Hits: Thanks, Gabriel Vilardi! Stick in face wakes up Devon Toews, fuels massive Colorado comeback  3. Parise on point: For the second straight game in the series, the Avs’ forecheck got veteran Zach Parise in the crease and on the board. The 39-year-old veteran winger cleaned up in a scramble situation in front of Hellebuyck, tapping the rebound past the netminder at the 11:18 mark of the first period to give the hosts a 1-0 lead. Parise’s goal was his second of the series, giving him scores in consecutive Stanley Cup Playoff games for the first time since April 2018, when he netted for the Minnesota Wild in Games 2 and 3 of their first-round series against Winnipeg. |
| Work Best available for NFL Draft Day 3: Broncos set up for busy Saturday with six picks, college free agency frenzy ahead  P Tory Taylor, Iowa: The lone specialist we’re putting on the list. Taylor is a potential weapon as a punter. The latest in a line of Australians to come through the college ranks, Taylor would be an interesting addition for a staff that clearly prioritizes special teams. |
| Work PHOTOS: Colorado Avalanche down Winnipeg Jets 6-2 in Game 3 of first-round NHL playoff series Winnipeg Jets defenseman Brenden Dillon (5) quickly skates off the ice to take care of his bloodied left hand after the game was over against the Colorado Avalanche for game three of the first round of the NHL playoffs at Ball Arena in Denver on Friday, April 26, 2024. The Avalanche and the Jets had a scrum after the game ended. The Jets lost 6-2. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post) |
| Work How Louis Cato, Bandleader for ?The Late Show,? Spends His Sundays  DAD HAT As of late we’ve been walking to the piers, two blocks away. That’s sort of our get-out-of-the-house thing of choice. We’re walking and talking, just hanging. We play a lot of 20 questions. If it’s raining, she likes to jump in the puddles, much to the chagrin of me in my father hat. When we get back home late morning, we do what I like to think of as the real breakfast, which is delivery from Galaxy Diner. She gets a waffle with bacon; I get an omelet. |
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| Work Stock Market Sell-Off: 3 Bargain Stocks Worth Buying Now  Chuck Saletta has positions in Kroger. Eric Volkman has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Jason Hall has positions in Live Oak Bancshares. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Live Oak Bancshares, Roku, and Walmart. The Motley Fool recommends Kroger. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work Meet the 2 Best S&P 500 Stocks of 2024. They Could Soar Another 69% and 91%, According to Certain Wall Street Analysts.  Bank of America is an advertising partner of The Ascent, a Motley Fool company. Trevor Jennewine has positions in Nvidia. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, Bank of America, and Nvidia. The Motley Fool recommends Intel and recommends the following options: long January 2025 $45 calls on Intel and short May 2024 $47 calls on Intel. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work The 'peak boomer' crisis might only get worse: A fifth of Americans 50 and up have no retirement savings, and the majority are worried they won't have enough money  Are you a peak boomer or older American worried you won\'t have enough money for retirement? Contact these reporters at [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. |
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| Work Jamie Dimon says to get a job at JPMorgan, what you study in college ?almost doesn?t matter?  When speaking about education in the past Dimon has implored colleges and educational institutions to prioritize getting students good jobs over graduation rates. “If you look at kids, they gotta be educated to get jobs,” Dimon said during an interview last month. “I think the schools should be measured on, did the kids get out and get a good job'” |
| Work 4 Dominant Growth Stocks You'll Regret Not Buying in the New Nasdaq Bull Market  Sean Williams has positions in Intel and PayPal. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia, and PayPal. The Motley Fool recommends BioMarin Pharmaceutical and Intel and recommends the following options: long January 2025 $45 calls on Intel, short June 2024 $67.50 calls on PayPal, and short May 2024 $47 calls on Intel. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work Forget Nvidia: Members of Congress Are Scooping Up Shares of Its Core Rival Instead  Keith Speights has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, HP, and Nvidia. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
| Work Sadiq Khan's green credentials may be critical in London mayoral election And while there was more work to do on everything from hitting the net zero target to introducing home insulation and heat pumps, Singer Hobbs said that if Khan did win and that was followed by a Labour victory nationally, it could unlock many more crucial environmental measures. |
| Work Littler India: why Britain's south Asian garment stores are struggling A Southall council spokesperson said: "Supporting Southall's small businesses to thrive and harnessing investment to create well paid jobs is a key priority for Ealing council through our Good for Ealing inward investment programme. |
| Work Conservatives condemn Kristi Noem for 'twisted' admission of killing dog "But when those tough moments come, you have options. Shooting your dog in the face should not be one of them. And if you do happen to shoot your dog in the face, please, don't write about it in your autobiography. |
| Work Remote working and whiffy workout wear fuel laundry revolution With extremely high standards as the Queen of Clean to maintain, Crombie says short cycles have their place and “clean everyday clothes well”. But, she adds: “Towels, underwear and bedding I still wash on a higher temperature on a longer cycle.” |
| Work Rageh Omaar receiving care after becoming unwell on air, ITV says However, ITV pulled the show from its scheduled reruns on ITV+1, with a message instead telling viewers that ITV was “temporarily unable to bring you our +1 service. We will resume shortly.” |
| Work Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead outside Baghdad home Despite years of war and sectarian conflict since the 2003 US invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein, Iraq has returned to a semblance of normality. But civil liberties – for women, sexual minorities and other groups – remain constrained in the conservative society. |
| Work Middle East crisis live: infant girl dies from extreme heat in Rafah, says UN, as fears grow over Gaza conditions Four workers from Yemen were killed in a drone attack on an Emirati-owned gas complex in Iraq’s northern autonomous region of Kurdistan on Friday, Reuters reported citing local officials. A security source confirmed the attack against the site which is owned by the United Arab Emirates firm Dana Gas. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. |
| Work And now for the pinchline: competition crowns world's funniest crab joke A man walks into a restaurant with a crab under his arm and says: "Do you make crab cakes'" The manager answers: "Yes, we do." "Good," says the man, "because it's his birthday." |
| Work Polish border 'pushbacks' back in spotlight after pregnant woman's ordeal Some in Tusk's ruling coalition have become uneasy at the lack of action on the situation at the border. Franek Sterczewski, an MP who was involved in helping people in the border area during the peak of the standoff in 2021, said that instead of using pushbacks, authorities should implement a quick and transparent process of reviewing asylum claims. |
| Work Violence against women rallies: thousands attend protests as Mark Dreyfus rules out royal commission In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14 and the national family violence counselling service is on 1800 737 732. In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123 and the domestic abuse helpline is 0808 2000 247. In the US, the suicide prevention lifeline is 988 and the domestic violence hotline is 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). Other international helplines can be found via www.befrienders.org |
| Work Two people die after glider crashes near Mount Beauty airport “Paramedics responded with significant resources dispatched to the scene including Advanced Life Support paramedics, Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance paramedics and an air ambulance,” an Ambulance Victoria spokesperson said. |
| Work Briton in critical care after 'unusual' shark attack on Tobago In 2023, 69 unprovoked shark bites were recorded worldwide, according to the database. The five-year average is of 63 incidents annually. About half of the 2023 attacks took place in the US, which recorded 36 unprovoked bites. |
| Work Arne Slot to Liverpool: Compensation deal agreed for Feyenoord boss to be Jurgen Klopp's successor  On Thursday, Slot indicated he was confident a deal would be agreed. \"Everybody understands Feyenoord will want to receive as much money as they can get, but I get the feeling that they will not begrudge me this move,\" he said. |
| Work Oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar region damaged in Ukraine drone attack, authorities say  Russia\'s Defence Ministry said on Saturday its air defense units had intercepted and destroyed 66 Ukrainian drones over the territory of the Krasnodar region, and two more over the Crimean peninsula. |
| Work Daimler Truck reaches deal with United Auto Workers, averts U.S. strike  The UAW clinched a historic victory at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last week, and workers at a Mercedes factory in Vance, Alabama, are going to vote on whether to join the union during the week of May 13. |
| Work At F.C. Porto, a Toxic Presidential Race Feels Typical for 2024  Since 1982, Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa has served as Porto’s president. In that time, he has seen the team crowned champion of Europe twice — 1987 and 2004, trivia fans — and established it as Portugal’s pre-eminent force. Porto has won 23 Portuguese titles on Pinto da Costa’s watch, nine more than Benfica, its nearest rival in that time. |
| Work Putin?s War Will Soon Reach Russians? Tax Bills  Military spending and high oil prices have buoyed the Russian economy and driven up wages, despite causing higher inflation and shortages in the labor market; that is probably leading financial officials to see the current moment as a good time to push through tax increases. |
| Work The Essential Joan Didion  “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (1968) was Didion’s second book — her first was the 1963 novel “Run River,” written in her 20s as a Vogue staffer in New York. But even though 13 books of nonfiction and four novels followed it, “Slouching,” published when she was 33, remains fundamental to Didion’s oeuvre, and helped establish her reputation as a practitioner of the New Journalism. |
| Work Anne Hathaway Is Done Trying to Please  There are a bunch of things that are intriguing to me about the new movie. One of them is that there are a few of what I took to be Anne Hathaway psychological Easter eggs sprinkled throughout the film. I’ll get to those, but first: You haven’t done a romance in a while. Can you talk to me about why you wanted to do “The Idea of You”? It’s such a softball question, and I can feel my brain complicating it. |
| Work Donald Trump Has Never Sounded Like This  He began with some thank-yous and superlatives, some reminiscences about his presidency and denunciations of the one that followed. Then he got down to business. “We’re going to win this election, because we have no choice,” Donald J. Trump told us. “If we lose this election, we’re not going to have a country left.” He said it in a tone he might have used to complain about the rain that had doused Palm Beach that weekend. |
| Work Museums Are Changing How They Bring Natural Sciences to Life  It’s the most significant makeover of the 104-year-old museum since it moved from downtown Cleveland to its current location in the University Circle neighborhood, near the campus of Case Western Reserve University, in 1955. |
| Work In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade  The eye-popping spending reflects an old parable in Silicon Valley: The people who made the biggest fortunes in California’s gold rush weren’t the miners — they were the people selling the shovels. No doubt Nvidia, whose chip sales have more than tripled over the last year, is the most obvious A.I. winner. |
| Work How a Pirate-Clad Pastor Helped Ignite Trump Media?s Market Frenzy  Mr. Nedohin raised his arms in celebration. A few minutes later, he cut to a video of a rocket blasting into the sky, with Mr. Trump photoshopped onto it. “We are holding Trump stocks,” he declared. “We are now financial investors in him.” |
| Work Exploring Pittsburgh?s Legacy of Steel  “We are looking at the intersection of steel and Pittsburgh history,” Watt said in a video interview. “After learning more about the industry and its origins in Pittsburgh, I’ve been thinking more about the impact of steel on the community here and how it intersects with my own understanding.” |
| Work Upgraded Museums Add New Value to College Campuses  Each institution has different reasons for renovating and expanding, but “it comes down to relevancy,” said Devon Akmon, director of Michigan State University’s art museum. “How do we remain relevant and how do we create programs for the communities we serve and how do we welcome people into a space'” |
| Work What Would Jesus Do? Tackle the Housing Crisis, Say Some Congregations.  Early next year, Inglewood First United Methodist is scheduled to begin construction on 60 studio apartments that will replace three empty buildings behind its chapel that, until a few years ago, were occupied by a school. |
| Work Widowed Before 40 and Coping With the Financial Consequences  Social Security’s one-time death benefit is only $255, while the median American funeral in 2021 cost $6,971 (with cremation) or $7,848 (with a viewing and burial), according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Social Security survivor benefits are also available for children. Ms. Brougham’s 15-year-old son, Thomas, receives $2,149 a month until he turns 18 or graduates from high school, whichever is later. |
| Work Biden Administration Restores Health Protections for Gay and Transgender People  In 2016, the Obama administration issued a less expansive version of the rule the Biden administration finalized on Friday, requiring health providers to provide medically appropriate treatment for transgender patients. Officials at the time argued that the Affordable Care Act’s protections against discrimination included gender identity. The Obama rule became tied up in litigation, and the Trump administration declined to enforce it. |
| Work A Match Made in MAGA: How a Friendship Helped J.D. Vance Land on Trump?s V.P. List  In no small part, Mr. Vance owes his quick ascent into the Trump orbit to his unlikely friendship and ideological kinship with the former president’s oldest son. They text or talk nearly daily and try to meet up if they are in the same city, according to people who know them both. They are a social-media tag team, often reposting each other’s messages. |
| Work Showcase for Antebellum Homes Displays Their Finery. But What About the History'  The event took its name from the belief among its organizers that Pilgrimage was just that — a journey to houses whose grandeur, scale and history represent something sacred for Mississippi and all of the South. Homeowners and docents often dress in period clothing to facilitate the time travel. |