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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Rejects Ban on Noncompete Agreements

23Dec

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Rejects Ban on Noncompete Agreements

Updated Dec. 23, 2023 10:34 am ETALBANY, N.Y.—New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed legislation that would have banned noncompete agreements for employees, after business groups warned such a measure would push jobs out of state.Hochul, a Democrat, said Friday that she supported eliminating noncompete agreements for low and middle-income workers. She had floated a compromise with Democratic lawmakers in Albany in which noncompete clauses would remain for higher-paid employees but a flurry of negotiations, including through Friday, ended without a deal.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Dean Phillips, the Democrat Who Says Biden Can’t Win

22Dec

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Dean Phillips, the Democrat Who Says Biden Can’t Win

New YorkJoe Biden is asking voters to let him field the nuclear football until he’s 86, which is an obvious political vulnerability. Yet many Democrats fear that acknowledging this in a voice louder than a library whisper would help Donald Trump and damage their inevitable 2024 nominee. Rep. Dean Phillips has no qualms about weakening Mr. Biden. “He’s going to lose anyway,” the Minnesota Democrat says. “I don’t see any way for Biden to beat Trump in any circumstance whatsoever.” The people truly undermining Mr. Biden are the ones “propagating this delusion that he can be the next president.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Rudy Giuliani Files for Bankruptcy After Losing Election Worker Defamation Case

21Dec

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Rudy Giuliani Files for Bankruptcy After Losing Election Worker Defamation Case

Updated Dec. 21, 2023 1:46 pm ET|WSJ ProRudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and ex-lawyer for Donald Trump, has filed for bankruptcy after a court ordered him to pay nearly $150 million to two Georgia election workers for defaming them.Giuliani filed for chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, reporting estimated assets of between $1 million and $10 million and estimated liabilities of at least $152 million.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

New York Times Staffers Form Journalistic ‘Independence Caucus’ Amid Concerns Over Union’s Actions

17Dec

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New York Times Staffers Form Journalistic ‘Independence Caucus’ Amid Concerns Over Union’s Actions

Dozens of New York Times employees have formed a group to take a stand on journalistic independence as concerns grow that the labor union that represents the Times and other outlets has veered toward advocacy.The Times faction, which includes high-profile journalists such as Megan Twohey, Julian Barnes and Emily Bazelon, has created what it calls an “independence caucus” within the NewsGuild-CWA, the parent of the Times’s newsroom union that represents some 1,500 people at the publication.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

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

Samuel Morse’s Moving Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette

16Dec

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Samuel Morse’s Moving Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette

Samuel Morse came to Washington in February 1825, an ambitious but frustrated 33-year-old artist. Before the discovery of telegraphy and the code that bears his name, he was nearly as well known for his paintings as for his father, the famed geographer Jedidiah Morse. Or as the Marquis de Lafayette jested to his son Georges Washington, “this is Mr. Morse, the painter, the son of the geographer; he has come to Washington to take the topography of my face.” Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Fed Official Says Central Bank Isn’t ‘Really Talking About Rate Cuts’

16Dec

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Fed Official Says Central Bank Isn’t ‘Really Talking About Rate Cuts’

Updated Dec. 15, 2023 4:53 pm ETFederal Reserve officials offered competing views Friday of when they might begin to lower interest rates next year after Chair Jerome Powell suggested they were likely done raising them.One of Powell’s senior lieutenants said Friday that central-bank officials weren’t actively debating when to cut rates at their policy meeting this week, an apparent effort to temper markets’ exuberant interpretation of the chair’s comments at a news conference Wednesday.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

16Dec

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Union to Eric Adams: Drop Dead

Public unions are big cities’ toughest customers, even for an ally like New York’s Eric Adams. The mayor is patching the city’s budget amid a growing migrant crisis, but government workers are dragging him to court to block cost savings.One of New York’s largest public unions sued Wednesday to prevent City Hall from curtailing a costly jobs program. The parks and sanitation departments currently pay welfare recipients to do custodial work, but the city’s Office of Management and Budget wants to save money by shifting about 2,300 of those positions to outside firms. These savings are low-hanging fruit for a city with a $7 billion budget gap, but the union won’t budge.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8