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Jeffrey Epstein Never Stopped Abusing Women—and His VIP Circle Helped Make It Possible

17Dec

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Jeffrey Epstein Never Stopped Abusing Women—and His VIP Circle Helped Make It Possible

Listen to article(2 minutes)In March 2014, Jeffrey Epstein took his private jet to Seattle to visit Bill Gates at his office. Epstein brought along a Polish model he had met a few months earlier. Dressed in a long gray coat, she posed for a photo with the Microsoft co-founder. Epstein took the picture.Looking at the photograph now brings back difficult memories for the Polish model, who was then in her 20s. She notes how young she looks at the time. And how strange she must have appeared to Gates and other famous people that Epstein was escorting her to meet.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of December 17

17Dec

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Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of December 17

By WSJ Arts in Review Staff Film• “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” (Dec. 22): Jason Momoa splashes back into action as the DC superhero, protecting Atlantis from the evil Black Manta (played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). Director James Wan captains a cast that includes Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Dolph Lundgren, Randall Park and Patrick Wilson. • “Anyone but You” (Dec. 22): Much digital ink has been spilled regarding the chemistry between the stars of Will Gluck’s romcom about a pair of vacationers—played by Sydney Sweeney (“The White Lotus”) and Glen Powell (“Top Gun: Maverick”)—who detest each other but find themselves thrown together at a destination wedding in Australia. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 ...

‘Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me’ Review: A Theatrical New York Debut

17Dec

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‘Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me’ Review: A Theatrical New York Debut

New YorkShary Boyle is a lot of things: sculptor, painter, draftsperson, performer, filmmaker. But above all she’s a storyteller. That is abundantly clear in “Outside the Palace of Me,” the Canadian artist’s solo show at the Museum of Arts and Design that warrants as many descriptions as she does: transportive, theatrical, whimsical and captivating, to name just a few.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

U.S. Homeless Count Surges 12% to Highest-Recorded Level

15Dec

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U.S. Homeless Count Surges 12% to Highest-Recorded Level

Updated Dec. 15, 2023 3:33 pm ETThe U.S. count of homeless people surged to the highest level on record, reaching more than 653,000 people early this year as Covid-19 pandemic-aid spending faded, new federal data show.The increase reflects a collision of factors: rising housing costs; limited affordable housing units; the opioid epidemic; and the expired pandemic-era aid that had helped keep people in their homes, federal officials said Friday. A surge of migrants into shelters in places such as New York City, Massachusetts and Chicago also contributed to the challenge.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Sentencing Punctuates Downfall of Former FBI Counterintelligence Chief

14Dec

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Sentencing Punctuates Downfall of Former FBI Counterintelligence Chief

Charles McGonigal spent more than two decades as an FBI agent working on some of the country’s most important national-security and terrorism cases, including the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and ended up as the bureau’s chief spy hunter in New York.He has since taken a humiliating fall, pleading guilty earlier this year to felonies in two separate cases, including violating U.S. sanctions by accepting secret payments from a Russian oligarch, a crime for which he faces sentencing in New York on Thursday.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Geminids Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: Here’s How and When to Watch

13Dec

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Geminids Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: Here’s How and When to Watch

Updated Dec. 13, 2023 4:47 pm ETListen to article(1 minute)The Geminid meteor shower awes sky watchers around the world every December—but this year promises a particularly spectacular show as the meteors streak across an exceptionally dark sky. The Geminids will peak when the moon is just 1% full, leaving the night sky much less illuminated. Last year, light from a bright moon washed out many of the meteors.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

The Migrant Crisis and the Urban Death Spiral

11Dec

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The Migrant Crisis and the Urban Death Spiral

Cities are organic entities. They have life cycles. They can thrive and grow or suffer and shrink. As secretary of housing and urban development, I learned this firsthand. Detroit wasn’t always the Detroit of today. San Francisco today is different from San Francisco 10 years ago. New York, Los Angeles and Chicago aren’t what they were 20 years ago. It’s time we opened our eyes to reality. Many cities are going backward.We are experiencing an unrecognized urban crisis as cities grapple with post-Covid realities. Cities were created primarily as locations for employment. Post-Covid remote work, Zoom meetings, abbreviated workweeks and increased mobility change the basic urban equation. Fewer people need to be in the city to work, and during Covid many adopted new lifestyles and locations. ...

Hate Crimes in U.S. Increase Amid Israel-Hamas War

11Dec

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Hate Crimes in U.S. Increase Amid Israel-Hamas War

Listen to article(2 minutes)Shots fired in the parking lot of a synagogue in New York. A 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy fatally stabbed outside Chicago. Violent assaults on people in religious and cultural attire.Police in major cities including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco have seen a rise in reports of hateful events, including hate crimes, after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the nation’s subsequent military campaign in Gaza. Jews are often on the receiving end, according to cities that have broken down data, while reported attacks on Muslims—which include some of the most violent instances reported recently—are also on the rise.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

New York Joins IBM, Micron in $10 Billion Chip Research Complex

11Dec

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New York Joins IBM, Micron in $10 Billion Chip Research Complex

Updated Dec. 11, 2023 12:26 pm ETNew York state is joining chip companies to invest $10 billion in a semiconductor research facility near the University at Albany that is set to bring advanced chip-making equipment to the state.NY Creates, a nonprofit that oversees the Albany NanoTech Complex where the facility is to be built, will coordinate its construction. It will also use state funds to acquire chip-making equipment from ASML Holding, a Dutch company whose machines can cost hundreds of millions of dollars and are key to making the most advanced chips possible.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Investcorp Joins Corsair’s $4.8 Billion Infrastructure Business

11Dec

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Investcorp Joins Corsair’s $4.8 Billion Infrastructure Business

Dec. 11, 2023 7:00 am ET|WSJ ProInvestcorp has acquired a half-interest in Corsair Capital’s nearly $5 billion infrastructure business, injecting the Bahrain-based firm into a global industry and giving Corsair a capital boost as sheer heft becomes increasingly important in attracting institutional investors to new funds.New York-based Corsair, which also makes buyout investments, managed $9.6 billion at the end of September, including $4.8 billion in infrastructure assets mostly in transportation and logistics. Among those holdings is management company Vantage Airport Group, which helped build the new Terminal B at New York’s LaGuardia Airport and is working on another at John F. Kennedy International Airport.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856...