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Actors and Hollywood Studios to Restart Negotiations

Actors and Hollywood Studios to Restart Negotiations

The major entertainment studios and the union representing tens of thousands of striking actors will return to the negotiating table on Tuesday, less than two weeks after talks were suspended because the sides remained far apart on significant issues.The restart of negotiations was announced in a joint statement on Saturday from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of the studios, and SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union. Four top studio executives — NBCUniversal’s Studio Group chairwoman and chief content officer, Donna Langley; the Netflix co-chief executive Ted Sarandos; the Walt Disney Company chief executive Robert A.…
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Kenneth Chesebro, a Trump-Aligned Lawyer, Pleads Guilty in Georgia

Kenneth Chesebro, a Trump-Aligned Lawyer, Pleads Guilty in Georgia

Kenneth Chesebro on Friday became the second lawyer in two days to plead guilty in a criminal racketeering indictment that also named Donald J. Trump.Mr. Chesebro also agreed to cooperate with state prosecutors in Fulton County, Ga., who have accused him, Mr. Trump and 17 others of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. On Thursday, Sidney K. Powell made a similar deal and said she, too, would cooperate with the prosecutors.Mr. Chesebro was accused of conspiring to create slates of fake electors to support Mr. Trump in Georgia and several other states won by President Biden. His lawyers had argued…
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How Much Influence Should Universities Give Their Donors?

How Much Influence Should Universities Give Their Donors?

Some of the most powerful people in business have taken aim at universities over their responses to the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and to accusations of antisemitism.Marc Rowan, the chief executive of Apollo Global Management and a major donor to the University of Pennsylvania, has called for the resignation of the school’s president and its chairman. Former Ambassador Jon Huntsman halted giving to the school, and Ron Lauder, the Estée Lauder cosmetics heir, said he was “re-examining” his financial support.Donors accuse Penn of applying its free-speech values inconsistently. Clifford Asness, the chief investment officer at AQR Capital Management, wrote…
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Opinion | Donald Trump Is Going to Get Someone Killed

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Going to Get Someone Killed

Mr. Trump’s adversaries often look to the courts for relief, but there’s no remedy there for his tirades. The First Amendment protects all but the most explicit incitements to violence, so Mr. Trump has little reason to fear that prosecutors will bring charges against him for those remarks.The most notorious moment of Mr. Trump’s presidency also demonstrated the limits of relying on the courts as a meaningful check on his provocations. In his speech on the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021, he urged his supporters to “fight like hell,” and many did just that at the Capitol. But they paid…
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Feeld Dating App Finds Another Niche: Those Who Love Directness

Feeld Dating App Finds Another Niche: Those Who Love Directness

When Ana Kirova first heard the idea that she should become chief executive of Feeld, the dating app, she was “terrified.”It was 2021, and Ms. Kirova had been working at the company for five years. The suggestion came from Dimo Trifonov, the app’s founder, and Ms. Kirova’s romantic partner. Ms. Kirova had a strong hand in Feeld’s transformation from a niche app to something closer to mainstream. Still, she wondered if it would be smarter to hire someone from the outside.Over dinner at Seamore’s, a restaurant in Brooklyn, Ms. Kirova, 31, speculated that her hesitation to accept the job was…
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Trump Fined ,000 for Violating Gag Order in NY Fraud Trial

Trump Fined $5,000 for Violating Gag Order in NY Fraud Trial

The judge presiding over the civil fraud trial of Donald J. Trump fined the former president $5,000 on Friday for a “blatant violation” of a gag order imposed this month.The judge, Arthur F. Engoron, stopped short of holding Mr. Trump in contempt but warned that the former president still could face harsher punishments, even jail time, if he ran afoul of the order again.In the trial’s opening days, Justice Engoron had barred Mr. Trump from attacking his court staff after the former president posted a picture on social media of Justice Engoron’s law clerk, Allison Greenfield, with Senator Chuck Schumer,…
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Cameo to the Moon, and Back

Cameo to the Moon, and Back

Mr. Galanis, a 2010 Duke University graduate, recruited a fellow alumnus and software engineer, Devon Townsend, to build it. In the spring of 2017, the website BookCameo.com launched with a tweet from Mr. Marsh, promising videos for around $20; Tori Spelling and niche Vine personalities like Evan Breen joined later that year. (Mr. Blencowe, 37, and Mr. Townsend, 33, who are also co-founders, still work at the company.)For Mr. Galanis, Cameo, based in his hometown, Chicago, felt like the company the trio was destined to build. He and Mr. Blencowe were fresh from a short-lived production career. (Mr. Galanis still…
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Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Not Ready for Prime Time

Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Not Ready for Prime Time

I know you have a lot on your mind, people. But if you’ve got a few minutes to spare, let’s talk about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Come on. It’s either him or Jim Jordan.Perhaps you’ve heard that Kennedy is now running for president as a third-party candidate. Meaning that he’s hoping to appeal to voters who aren’t satisfied with the two probable major party nominees.These dissatisfied voters would include, I guess, just about everybody. That’s the problem with third-party candidates: Nobody really expects them to win, so voters feel they can express their dissatisfaction without taking any real responsibility.But in our…
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The Multimillion-Dollar Machines at the Center of the U.S.-China Rivalry

The Multimillion-Dollar Machines at the Center of the U.S.-China Rivalry

They are smooth white boxes, roughly the size of large cargo vans, and they are now at the heart of the U.S.-Chinese technology conflict.As the United States tries to slow China’s progress toward technological advances that could help its military, the complex lithography machines that print intricate circuitry on computer chips have become a key choke point.The machines are central to China’s efforts to develop its own chip-making industry, but China does not yet have the technology to make them, at least in their most advanced forms. This week, U.S. officials took steps to curb China’s progress toward that goal…
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