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The other side of this impasse is connection. For you, your father and stepmother are family who can love your child, carry history and childhood stories, and offer a potentially fond and meaningful generational bond. Your husband, on the other hand, given his more distant relationship with his own parents, might have less desire to nurture challenging family relationships.It’s OK to navigate distance differently with your respective parents — you’re closer with yours than he is with his. But while distance from family members is sometimes necessary, it generally comes with wide-ranging consequences, and what’s key here is that your…
After weeks of bluster and escalation, President Trump blinked. Then he blinked again. And again.He backed off his threat to fire the Federal Reserve chairman. His Treasury secretary, acutely aware that the S&P 500 was down 10 percent since Mr. Trump was inaugurated, signaled he was looking for an offramp to avoid an intensifying trade war with China.And now Mr. Trump has acknowledged that the 145 percent tariffs on Chinese goods that he announced just two weeks ago are not sustainable. He was prompted in part by the warnings of senior executives from Target and Walmart and other large American…
European Union regulators said on Wednesday that Apple and Meta were the first companies to be penalized for violating a new law intended to increase competition in the digital economy, ratcheting up tensions with the Trump administration.Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) and Meta was fined €200 million ($230 million) for breaking the Digital Markets Act, which was adopted in 2022. The European law aims to keep big tech companies from abusing their position as digital gatekeepers that can unilaterally impose requirements on users and businesses.Apple violated the Digital Markets Act by restricting how app developers could communicate…
The flashy online announcement called it “the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World,” a chance to have “an intimate private dinner” with President Trump at his members-only golf club in Virginia, followed by a tour of the White House.A seat would be reserved for each of the top 220 investors in $TRUMP, a cryptocurrency that Mr. Trump launched on the eve of his inauguration.In an astonishing escalation of the Trump family’s efforts to profit from crypto, a website promoting $TRUMP, the president’s so-called memecoin, announced on Wednesday that the coin’s largest buyers would be invited to meet him. The effort…
The video is short — just 19 seconds — and not particularly compelling. A viewer would be forgiven for clicking away before it ends.The grainy footage, uploaded on April 23, 2005, of a man standing in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo — “All right, so here we are in front of the elephants” — does not look like the sort of thing that would touch off a video revolution.And yet, two decades after that inauspicious start, YouTube is now a cornerstone of the media ecosystem. It’s where people go for music videos and four-hour-long hotel…
The White House has been hearing out a chorus of ideas in recent weeks for persuading Americans to get married and have more children, an early sign that the Trump administration will embrace a new cultural agenda pushed by many of its allies on the right to reverse declining birthrates and push conservative family values.One proposal shared with aides would reserve 30 percent of scholarships for the Fulbright program, the prestigious, government-backed international fellowship, for applicants who are married or have children.Another would give a $5,000 cash “baby bonus” to every American mother after delivery.A third calls on the government…
For a president who advertises himself as a paramount deal maker, the next 11 weeks will be a pivotal test, as his advisers race to accomplish what no other administration has done before and reach dozens of individual trade deals with other governments.President Trump has promised big gains for American trade, and officials from Japan, South Korea, India and elsewhere have been pushing for agreements as they look to forestall punishing tariffs. But trade experts say the administration has set up a seemingly impossible task, given that traditional trade deals typically take months or years to negotiate.Mr. Trump has tried…
As if 630 home runs and a trip to the Hall of Fame were not enough, Ken Griffey Jr. has taken up a new activity since he retired in 2010: photography.Most recently he was spotted taking pictures at the Masters where he captured an image of the winner, Rory McIlroy, celebrating on his knees that spread quickly online. But Griffey, a.k.a. the Kid, has been shooting for years in the sporting and non-sporting realms.“Because I played baseball, then I’m not allowed to do anything else?” Griffey, 55, said in an interview. “They see me as one thing; that’s not necessarily…
Jason Citron, a co-founder of the popular social chat app Discord, stepped down as the company’s chief executive on Wednesday, a significant management shake-up ahead of Discord’s potential public offering.The new chief executive will be Humam Sakhnini, a 15-year veteran of the video game industry, Mr. Citron said in a statement. Mr. Sakhnini was previously the vice chairman at Activision, the gaming publisher behind titles like Call of Duty and Candy Crush.Discord is in talks to go public as early as this year, and was valued by private investors in 2021 at roughly $15 billion. The app is especially popular…
Is it déjà vu or have we seen this trend before?It’s not just you. The Ice Bucket Challenge, which took over social media a decade ago, has found new life thanks to a group of college students who copied the concept, in its entirety, to spread mental health awareness.Here’s what you need to know.What is the Ice Bucket Challenge?The original Ice Bucket Challenge, which grew out of other online fads but was popularized as an A.L.S. fund-raiser by the activists Pat Quinn and Pete Frates, was a campaign that began in 2014 to raise awareness and help find a cure…