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As top-tier presidential candidates go, Ron DeSantis is something of a rarity these days.He was born after the Vietnam War, he came of age when computers were common in American homes and he still has young children of his own, rather than enough grandchildren to fill a basketball team.Mr. DeSantis would be 46 on Inauguration Day if elected, younger than every president since John F. Kennedy.

Just two years ago, Robert Williams was a key part of the Boston Celtics playing their way to the top of the league, utilizing his elite defensive presence to help propel them to an NBA Finals berth.But two knee surgeries and one season later, he may be more expendable than most people realize, as his talent has been overwhelmed by an inability to stay on the court.

In the days after Eric Adams was elected mayor of New York, several of his supporters approached him with some uncomfortable advice.They urged him not to hire his closest ally, Ingrid P. Lewis-Martin, for his administration, according to six people with knowledge of the conversations.It was an audacious suggestion.

Ed Day says he proudly remembers his days as a New York City police commander, fighting crime and helping to restore the city's luster.But as the executive of suburban Rockland County, Mr. Day now views the city differently.The city I knew, the city I worked in, the city we cleaned up back in the '90s, it's not there anymore, said Mr. Day, a Republican whose county is just north of the five boroughs.

Happy Father's Day, White Sox fans.I'm aware of how emotionally challenging holidays honoring parents can be (especially for me in the month of May), so I promise that I won't deliver the toxically-positive aren't-all-dads-the-best? fodder.Instead, I'm going to lend you my dad.My dad is funny, and cool, and he'll sit with you through anything, even when he's uncomfortable.

Auto industry leaders didn't used to be the sort of folks who talked about transformational change.Car companies tended to hire longtime industry veterans as chief executives, and their talking points would tread the same staid ground: better gas mileage, new design concepts, and other slight changes to the same gas-powered products they had been selling for generations.

When Edward and Hazel Short put their life savings into building their fantasy home on the coast, they hoped it would change their lives for the better and give their two children a fabulous childhood.Instead, more than 10 years on the luxury house is up for sale, the couple's marriage is over and millionaire Mr Short is still paying off some of the money he borrowed for the ambitious building project.

A nine-year-old tennis player who was born with a congenital limb difference has said she is very confident on the court after a prosthetic was made to help her serve the ball.Joanie Melady, from South Oxfordshire, was born with a congenital limb difference, meaning that her left arm did not fully develop before birth.

As far as descriptions of writers go, humorist has an old-fashioned, almost quaint ring to it, the literary equivalent of haberdasher or lamplighter.But across four book-length collections the newest is the best seller Quietly Hostile Samantha Irby has always brought scabrously honest, never pat and, it must be said, operatically scatological vivacity to the humorous literary essay.

Few things divide opinion in the restaurant world like the tasting menu.Over the past 20 years, this extended format has both accumulated cachet as a signifier of culinary ambition and attracted relentless dyspeptic criticism.In 2012, the New York Times's restaurant critic, Pete Wells, was feeling trapped, helpless in the face of marathon meals.

As much as I love spending time with my own cats, I'm honestly running out of ways to keep them entertained and prevent them from knocking down an item or two in my home, out of sheer boredom.If you're pretty much in the same precarious situation as me and are always looking for new ways to keep your pet entertained, productive, and happy, then this collection of pet products promises to come to your rescue!

Architecture studio Out of the Valley has created a sauna in Devon with blackened-wood cladding and a large square window overlooking the adjacent forest.Called Forest Sauna, the four-person structure aims to encourage UK residents to embrace the Scandinavian tradition of sauna bathing.The project joins the Out of the Valley's existing range of cabins and shelters, which are all handmade by founder Rupert McKelvie and his team at their Dartmoor workshop.

Like any other season, summer can mean different things to different people.While images of beaches and pool parties immediately come to mind, some see the hottest season of the year as a time to enjoy the wide outdoors, take a well-deserved break from the stress of school and work, or even use the downtime to catch up with life goals and plan the months ahead.

Mjölk Architekti aimed to embed Montessori ideals of learning through play and self-determined activity in this nursery extension in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic.Built in the small town of Jablonec nad Nisou, the project was designed by Prague-based Mjölk Architekti in collaboration with Projektový atelier David.

Beaches aren't the only way to enjoy the sun and water during the summer season.Swimming pools are just as fun, especially for people who prefer a quieter or more intimate experience with only a small group of people.Unlike beaches, you don't have to worry about undesirable yet inescapable objects like leaves or dirt, but keeping a pool clean is no walk in the park either.

The patient narratives were displayed on a screen in the lobby of the new central Illinois abortion clinic on a recent weekend.One abortion seeker traveled hundreds of miles from Florida to end a 22-week pregnancy following a birth control failure."I have infant twins and my previous birth/labor was so traumatic," the patient said.

At this time of year, as we mark Father's Day and give thanks to all the fathers in our lives - our own fathers, father figures, spiritual fathers - it may be worth taking a moment to reflect on what exactly being a father calls one to do.Pope Francis spoke of this in 2020 when he said: "Fathers are not born, but made.

The needless, tragic murder of Laquan McDonald, a Black teen, by a white Chicago police officer in 2014 put the city's Police Department, and the need to reform it, in the national spotlight.McDonald's death was a driving force behind the federally mandated consent decree that requires the Chicago Police Department to overhaul its training, supervision and accountability.

At a warehouse in Irving Park, a group of teenage boys and young men between the ages of 14 and 20 sat on couches in a recording studio Wednesday afternoon, taking turns freestyling over a loud beat that bounced off the walls of the glowing room.Music producer and sound engineer Johnny Rayborn maneuvered the settings on his soundboard at the front, looping beats and cutting segments of audio.

The new podcast " You Didn't See Nothin " takes a critical look at the media narrative that followed the 1997 Armour Square neighborhood beating of 13-year-old Lenard Clark Jr., a Black child who lived in the Stateway Gardens public housing development, going to get air for his bike tire, by a group of white Bridgeport teens ages 17 to 19.

A former Downing Street official who worked throughout the Covid crisis has revealed the true scale of the drunken debauchery under Boris Johnson with No 10 parties so wild that staff passed out on the stairway.Speaking exclusively to The Independent, the whistleblower said the details in the Partygate report were just the tip of the iceberg when it came to the raucous drinking culture and blatant rule-breaking throughout the pandemic.

A Tory aide given an OBE by Boris Johnson is among staff filmed at a Christmas party held during Covid restrictions.Ben Mallett was given the honour in the former prime minister's resignation list earlier this month, and also appears in the Partygate clip said to have been filmed on 14 December 2020.

Concern is growing within Whitehall over Boris Johnson's decision to make a former political aide the UK's youngest ever life peer, amid claims that she only entered Downing Street's political office to cover for another official's maternity leave.The former prime minister's resignation honours list caused months of angst within the government as a result of some of the names that Johnson intended to either place in the House of Lords or award with another gong.

Almost 20,000 abusive social media posts were aimed at players, coaches and officials during last year's World Cup, says a
Of 20 million posts scanned by moderation software developed by Fifa and players' union Fifpro, 286,895 were hidden from public view.The biggest spike in abuse came after England's quarter-final loss to France, when Harry Kane missed a late penalty.

I spend a lot of time maybe you do, too thinking about happiness.What is it?How can I get more of it?But there are other times and maybe this also applies to you when I just think, forget all that: Life is hard, and who says lasting happiness is even within reach?It's in those moments that Samantha Irby's work feels so valuable and refreshing.

On last Sunday's BBC politics show, presenter Laura Kuenssberg spoke to the energy secretary, Grant Shapps.On this occasion Shapps manifested as himself, rather than as one of the many false identities he used to inhabit when promoting his internet business.I always find Shapps's appearances as himself uncomfortable, a bit like when Mike Yarwood used to say and this is me! at the end of his impressionist shows and then sing an old jazz standard in a weird American accent while squinting and waving his hands.

The Universal Hip Hop Museum, which will be part of Bronx Point, a new mixed-use development with affordable housing in the South Bronx, is not scheduled to open until 2025.But that hasn't stopped Rocky Bucano, the museum's executive director, from celebrating hip-hop's 50th anniversary this year.[R]Evolution of Hip Hop, an exhibition tracing the genre's momentum from 1986 to 1990, will offer free admission this August in honor of the anniversary.

In 2017 Ray Kaplan, a parasitologist and veterinarian then at the University of Georgia, started receiving e-mails from colleagues around the U.S. asking for help with resistant parasitic infections in dogs.The parasites were hookworms, a group of roundworm species that target animals and humans.Kaplan specializes in livestock animals, not pets.

The Indonesian anti-corruption investigators began hunting for the powerful local official after they caught two of his aides taking a $40,000 bribe.Their six-month investigation led them to a sprawling estate in North Sumatra, where they made a shocking discovery: 65 men locked in two cages.The captives, investigators learned, had been imprisoned under the guise of a drug rehabilitation program and forced to work as slaves at a palm plantation and palm oil factory owned by the official, Terbit Rencana Perangin-angin, and his family.

Pope Francis prayed with a crowd of thousands in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, two days after he was discharged from a Rome hospital, giving thanks for the closeness he had felt during his hospitalization for abdominal surgery.A thunderous cheer along with scattered calls of Viva il papa!Italian for Long live the pope!

Ukrainian forces blew up an ammunition dump in territory occupied by Russian troops in southern Ukraine, Ukrainian military officials and local authorities said on Sunday, in the latest in a series of recent strikes aimed at making it more difficult for Moscow to fend off Ukraine's counteroffensive.

More than 10,000 people have been detected crossing the English Channel in small boats so far this year, after a jump in arrivals in recent days, figures show.Some 486 people made the crossing on Friday, with a further 374 on Saturday.The provisional total for 2023 now stands at 10,139, according to the latest data from the Home Office.

At least nine people were shot, one fatally, in a shooting just after midnight Sunday in Willowbrook, Ill., southwest of Chicago, fire officials said.Around 12:30 a.m., shots were fired during some kind of celebration with hundreds of people in a shopping mall's parking lot on Route 83, near Honeysuckle Rose Lane, in DuPage County, said Joe Ostrander, a battalion chief with the Tri-State Fire Protection District.

Gwyny Pett has been visiting the Kern River for decades, camping there as a girl and then taking her own children, now grown, to splash in shallows so calm they felt like a private pool.She has seen it in dry cycles like last year, when the river was difficult to explore not because of surging water, but because she turned her ankles on the exposed pebbles.

In black boots, jeans and an untucked shirt the fund-raiser dress code specified ranch casual Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Saturday tried to persuade Republican voters in Nevada still loyal to former President Donald J. Trump that the party's formula for winning elections was beyond its shelf life.

An economic crisis was quietly brewing last week while the Conservative party was tearing itself to pieces over Boris Johnson's misleading of parliament.Fears about the tough measures that might be needed to bring down inflation sent mortgage rates surging towards 6%.Even without the disgrace of the former prime minister, this would be a government in serious political trouble staring at electoral meltdown.

La Gamba, Unit 3, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London SE1 8XX (lagambalondon.com).Tapas 4.50-15; large plates 19-36; desserts 5-7.50; wines from 27 La Gamba is the answer to an infuriating question, that question being: where can I eat before seeing a show at the Southbank Centre?There are, of course, restaurants in that part of London.

Alex Ovechkin needs 72 goals.but he'd probably like his team to be better too.By the Numbers
For on-ice percentages, 50 percent means even: both teams possess the puck evenly.Higher is better, lower is worse.Isolated Impact by HockeyViz
About this visualization: This series of charts made by Micah Blake McCurdy of hockeyviz.com

I don't like being mad at the Mets.They're an important part of my life - while I'm not as doctrinaire about it as I was in the not so distant past, it's odd for me not to see or hear every pitch, and decidedly rare for a game to go in the books wholly unglimpsed by me.(The last one, though?It was Friday night.

Craig Race is all for seeing Toronto put more homes on existing lots.That's what the architect did with his own property, splitting the east-end home into two units.He and his family live in one of those units, while the other is rented to somebody else.Toronto has moved to ease the process of revamping homes in this manner, following a council vote last month allowing duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes across city neighbourhoods.

Little more than a tenth of international arrivals at Canada's major airports used the ArriveCAN app in the first few months of 2023.The app was launched during the pandemic as a communication and screening tool to ensure travellers arriving in Canada complied with pandemic border measures.It later became a way for travellers to show their vaccination status.

Tory MPs in marginal seats are already sounding the alarm over an interest rate catastrophe, amid claims that the party has not understood the impact of spiralling mortgages.With the Bank of England likely to increase interest rates again this week and major mortgage lenders raising their own rates in the last few days, there is a growing nervousness among Tories about the impact this will have later in the year as the main parties begin to shape their campaigns for the next election.

For real people, the plot points of our lives are seldom explained before the credits roll.And the Indiana Jones saga has always known this.Back in 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark presented a perfect metaphor for this kind of intellectual untidiness: At the very end, the ark itself is placed in a massive warehouse, in a sealed box, among countless other sealed boxes.

Austrian authorities said Sunday they had foiled a possible attack on Vienna's Pride parade by three young men who had allegedly sympathized with the extremist Islamic State group.The head of Austria's domestic intelligence service told reporters that the suspects, aged 14, 17 and 20, were arrested before the start of the Saturday's Pride parade, which was attended by around 300,000 people, public broadcaster ORF reported.

Imagine sinking into a plush, comfortable couch after a long day, looking out over an impeccable skyline as the sun sets, the golden hues of your personal sanctuary reflecting the perfect mix of comfort and luxury.Wouldn't it be amazing if this place was your own?This vision isn't just a dream anymore.

Juan Carlos, recently arrived in Albany, N.Y. after being bused to various cities in the US.He is from Nicaragua, and volunteers with local non-profits in the city as a way to get to know the community and find work.Lexi Parra for NPR Johnson Coronel hopes Albany, N.Y., is the end of the line.He's 26 years old.

I heard my father's voice for the first time three years ago when I was 14 years old.For years, a CD had been sitting in a clear plastic case in my desk drawer, but I had never been able to get myself to play it.I would pick up the shiny disc, stare at the faded black ink that said Donor Interview, notice my distorted reflection in the silver circle, then put the CD back down.

Oliver Marmol wanted a bagel on Saturday morning.This is New York, so it should have been easy to get one.But this is also 2023, and Marmol manages the St. Louis Cardinals.Nothing comes easily.It didn't work out, Marmol said.The line was outrageous.The door guy at the hotel said to just skip the line and walk in.

When I came to work at the Chicago Tribune as a newly graduated journalism major, I had something that sounded like a plan.I'll spend two or three years here and, if things don't work out, I'll move on.That was 50 years ago - and I'm still here.Oh, yes, I spent about four years in local television news in the early 1980s, but soon realized, as an old broadcast saying goes, that I had a "great face for radio."

When I look at the economic news: the housing crunch, the high cost of groceries, or the possibility that AI will render my professional skills obsolete I often come back to the same thought: I should start growing my own vegetables.Financial savings and fresh produce aside, research shows gardening and spending time in nature has been shown to reduce stress, depression, and anxiety.

A slight angle can create a big difference.If you hit up your local commercial gym on any given Monday evening, you'll see that chest training is one of the most popular workouts for many lifters.Two classic lifts regularly used in this high-priority session are the time-tested flat bench press and its close cousin the incline bench press.

As the NBA draft and free agency looms, rumors have spread all around the league.Many key teams have been leaked as possible players in trade deals.Washington Wizards, New York Knicks, and the New Orleans Pelicans have been a part of key rumors.As these rumors surfaced, the Chicago Bulls joined in these rumors, with a possible interest in trading Zach LaVine.

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Dick Shortz stood beside the No. 1 tee box at Los Angeles Country Club this week and surveyed the remodeled clubhouse and double-decker chalets running down the first fairway."This started as a dream," he said."Now it's a thrill."Shortz, a longtime LACC member and past president, led the effort to bring the U.S. Open to the club for the first time, helping convince a membership otherwise entirely happy to fly under the radar, just as it had for decades.

Start with a club rarely used from the tee box, a 60-degree lob wedge.Set the ball on a tee to maximize spin.And for gosh sake, don't take a full swing.Target?A green long and thin, like an anteater's tongue, flanked on each side by tufts of thick rough that quickly give way to deep bunkers.The pin placement at the 15th hole Saturday at the Los Angeles Country Club was near the front of the green, 81 yards from the tee box, shorter even than any hole on the nearby charming Rancho Park 3-Par Golf Course.

Patriots Matthew Judon might have dropped a hint on what's going on with the Patriots' pursuit of DeAndre Hopkins on Saturday afternoon.The Patriots linebacker tweeted "GM of the year?" on Saturday afternoon.As Hopkins visited the Patriots on Thursday, many people on Twitter immediately speculated if that's what his tweet was about, wondering if the Patriots inked Hopkins to a deal.

Before the start of St. Sabina's annual twilight community peace march on Friday, Christine Blanton spoke up for her slain child and she wasn't the only one.A sea of hands and photographs of victims, like Blanton's daughter, Derricka Patrick, rose into the air behind the Auburn Gresham church, prompted by rally speakers asking the crowd of more than 200 youngster and adults to raise their hands if they'd lost loved ones to gun violence.