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European luxury brands are facing growing challenges once seen as the region’s answer to the stock market powerhouse that is the “Magnificent Seven” U.S. tech companies, which include Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google parent Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Nvidia Corp., Meta Platforms Inc. and Tesla Inc.According to a Bloomberg report, these companies, which define “slightly premium” as a Goldman Sachs index of luxury stocks, have lost $240 billion in market capitalization since their March peak. The reason: a tough global economy and a worsening Chinese recession. After a period of strong growth after the pandemic, these companies are now reportedly…

MOSINEE, Wis. (AP) — Days before his first and likely only debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump posted a message to his social media sites warning of jail time for anyone “engaged in immoral conduct” in the election and saying it will be closely watched. “If I win, those who cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, including long prison sentences, to ensure this perversion of justice never happens again,” Trump wrote late Saturday, again raising doubts about the integrity of the election even though fraud is extremely rare. “Please be aware…

Compatriot Meryem En Nouri finished just over nine minutes behind, followed by Michishita, nearly 15 minutes behind the winner.Elena Congosto thought she had won the bronze medal but was disqualified after letting go of her guide, Mia Carol Bruguera, just before the finish line.Michishita only found out he’d been promoted to bronze medal when he was on his way to a doping test.”I couldn’t believe it,” said the Japanese runner, who had been injured after winning the last Tokyo Olympics and was unsure whether she would be able to race in Paris.Tunisia’s Wajdi Bouhiri won the men’s T12 marathon.The 25-year-old…

IIt will be a study in contrasts of age, gender, race, temperament and policy, and it will also mark the first time in U.S. presidential history that a former trial prosecutor will debate alongside a convicted felon in a White House debate.Democratic candidate Kamala Harris served as a lawyer, district attorney and state attorney general in California, where her Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal.Just 75 days after Joe Biden’s abysmal performance against President Trump sparked a political earthquake that ultimately forced him to withdraw…

‘M”Amazing,” “Extraordinary,” “The Best.” Step forward 59-year-old dynamo Kamala Harris. She has rebuilt the country with lightning speed, presenting it as a byword for optimism, hope and patriotism. For the rest of us, Kamala’s gift is her joy, her vitality and the way she holds up 60 strong and glorious even as she turns 70 in just a few months. Welcome to a new golden age.She is confident in her power, exudes experience and expertise, and is full of the vitality of a woman who knows her time has come. No more waiting in the green room while Sleepy Joe…

Solidarity and burnout in an election year In the lead-up to this year’s presidential election, how should we best make use of the anxiety we feel during this fraught political moment? This spring, The Yale Review invited the writers and activists Astra Taylor and Hannah Proctor, both of whom have written extensively about the emotional and psychological dimensions of social movements that work for political change, to consider this question. Taylor’s most recent work has focused on the history and meaning of solidarity, including “transformative solidarity,” which has powered progressive social movements through the centuries. She has argued that beyond…

Moroccan authorities said on Sunday that an “extraordinary” weather event had caused flooding in southern parts of the country, leaving four people dead and 14 missing. Four dead, 14 missing in Morocco floods A local official told AFP that “four people have been killed and 14 are missing” since heavy rains began on Friday in Tata province, some 740 kilometres (460 miles) south of Rabat, and that the death toll could rise. “Eight houses have been washed away by floodwaters” in several valleys near Tammannath in rural Thatta district, an official said, requesting anonymity. Normally dry areas in southern Morocco…

Washington CNN — Without long-awaited Congressional action to add more judges to the bench to match the massive increase in caseloads over the past few decades, federal courts across the nation are straining to support the growing caseload. It has been 34 years since the last comprehensive bill to increase the number of lower court judges was passed. During that time, the U.S. population has grown by 80 million people. The U.S. district court caseload has increased by more than 30 percent. Last year, the federal courts, which consist of 677 judges (including about 40-50 vacancies), handled more than 724,000…

President Macron’s appointment of Barnier has sparked huge controversy in France.France is in political turmoil. After months of deadlock, President Emmanuel Macron appointed a new prime minister. Republican Michel Barnier, 73, was the European Commission’s chief negotiator in the negotiations over Britain’s departure from the European Union. But Macron’s appointments of right-wing politicians have infuriated those on the left. They argue that their left-wing coalition won the most votes in the early general election and deserves a prime minister who reflects that result. The country is facing pressure on multiple fronts as the government has been unable to keep the…

IIn her latest book, “Trump Exile,” about the life of the former president after losing power, journalist Meridith McGraw describes how Donald Trump’s aides led Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to his downfall when he threatened to seduce Republican voters.”One Trump adviser referenced Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals,'” McGraw writes. “Rule No. 5: Ridicule is man’s most powerful weapon.”Alinsky was a Chicago community activist who died in 1972 but remains influential on the left and demonized on the right, and Trumpworld has adopted his fifth rule (again, “Infuriate your opponents so they will react to your advantage”) into its coordinated actions.Governor…