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  • Five Reasons Donald Trump Fell For Zohran Mamdani

    “One of the things that President Trump is really good at is he’s a really good listener,” says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

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    Some Mamdani-loving billionaire got on the horn

    Long branded a horrific hellhole by Fox News, San Francisco has been bracing for Trump to deploy the National Guard to the famously liberal town since he started rolling troops into Democrat-led cities earlier this year. In October, the incursion seemed inevitable—that is, until a couple oligarchs, including billionaire Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and billionaire Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, called Trump and told him to stand down. Trump complied.

    “One of the things that President Trump is really good at is he’s a really good listener,” Huang told the SF Chronicle about the call. “If you appeal to him, logically, pragmatically, with common sense, he will listen.” Benioff’s Mamdami-aligned creds have recently taken a beating, but it wasn’t that long ago that he backed a hefty tax on large corporations to generate funds to fight homelessness. And Benioff was a White House guest on Tuesday, at the president’s dinner to fete Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. An ideal time, perhaps, to take the president aside and suggest a warm and friendly approach.

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  • Here are the top 4 takeaways from the Trump-Mamdani meeting

    As New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani wrapped up his high-stakes meeting with President Trump Friday, the president said the two had a great conversation centered on the future of New York City. 

    The two leaders spent half an hour answering questions from reporters in the Oval Office and highlighting some surprising areas of agreement.

    Here are the top four takeaways from the meeting. 

    The meeting was surprisingly cordial

    Mr. Trump and Mamdani have spent months criticizing each other. For two people who appeared, going into the meeting, to be at such loggerheads, the conviviality the two displayed, cracking jokes and offering friendly pats with one another, was surprising. 

    They joked about past names they’ve called one another. At one point, Mr. Trump responded when Mamdani was asked about having called the president a “despot” and “fascist.” 

    “I’ve been called much worse than a despot,” Mr. Trump said. “I think he’ll change his mind once he gets to know me.” 

    During the meeting, Mr. Trump clapped Mamdani on the shoulder in a friendly gesture. At one point, Mr. Trump told reporters Mamdani could end up being the best mayor New York has ever seen. 

    “I just want to congratulate [him], I think you’re going to have, hopefully, a really great mayor, and the better he does, the happier I am,” Mr. Trump said. 

    The two pledged to work together

    Mamdani and Mr. Trump, who both have roots in Queens, said repeatedly they look forward to working together. 

    “I expect to be helping him, not hurting him,” Mr. Trump said. “A big help, because I want New York City to be great.” 

    The two appeared to bury the hatchet, abandoning the name-calling and divisive rhetoric. 

    Mamdani seemed to relish his first test of diplomacy on the national stage, smiling and laughing as the two spoke about common ground. 

    “When I spoke to New Yorkers who had voted for the president last November on Hillside Avenue and Fordham Road, I heard, again and again, two major reasons. One, was that they wanted an end to forever wars. They wanted an end to taxpayer dollars we had funding violations of human rights, and they wanted to address the cost of living crisis. And I appreciated the chance to discuss both of those things,” Mamdani said.

    “He said a lot of my voters actually voted for him, and I’m OK with that,” Mr. Trump said. 

    Mr. Trump has previously threatened to pull federal funding if Mamdani won. He said Friday he and Mamdani are aligned on many issues, like keeping New York City safe. 

    “So, we’re going to work together. We’re going to make sure that if there are horrible people, that we want to get them out,” Mr. Trump said. “He wants to have a safe New York. Ultimately, a safe New York is going to be a great New York.”  

    Mr. Trump said he’d feel comfortable living in New York under a Mamdani administration. 

    Mamdani got good advice

    Before the meeting, Mamdani spoke by phone with Gov. Kathy Hochul, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

    Based on the outcome of the meeting, Mamdani got some good advice. 

    “I think that [Mamdani] went there knowing that he had to make a friend of Donald Trump for this reason: he can’t get his agenda passed if he has troops marching down Fifth Avenue, or if he has to deal with more ICE agents,” CBS News New York’s political reporter Marcia Kramer said. “He can’t do his budget if he’s going to have a huge chunk in it caused by a loss of federal funds. So he knew he had to make him his friend. And I think he did that, and I think that the advice probably that made the most sense to him came from Gov. Hochul. Because the governor had tried repeatedly to get along with the president, and I think she gave him some tips on how to do it.” 

    Kramer added that both Mr. Trump and Mamdani “had a lot riding on this meeting.” 

    “[President Trump] doesn’t need a fight with the mayor of New York City, who has the media spotlight, not only in New York City, but the international media spotlight. This is not something President Trump wants,” Kramer said. “And besides, let’s remember this. This is his hometown. He may be living in Florida. This is his hometown. He has a lot of real estate interests here. And if Mr. Mamdani does not succeed as mayor, it’s going to hurt the president in his pocketbook.” 

    Mr. Trump said he wanted to be mayor himself

    A surprising moment was when Mr. Trump admitted that being mayor of New York is a “big deal.” 

    “I always said, one of the things I would’ve loved to be someday, is the mayor of New York City, ” Mr. Trump said. 

    Kramer pointed out that the president is term-limited, but he could run for mayor in New York City at the end of his term. 

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  • Manhattan’s Jewel Box Celebrates 95 Sparkling Years

    New York’s grande dame, The Pierre, knows how to throw a soirée. Last night, the elegant Taj Hotel celebrated 95 years as a beacon of Upper East Side glamour with a ‘Red Diamond’ gala that brought together residents, diplomats, stars and influencers for an unforgettable evening of vintage Manhattan magic.

    Nearly 500 guests, from silver-haired luminaries to fresh-faced Gen Z tastemakers, donned black tie finery to toast The Pierre’s storied history in its famous ballroom. Sipping champagne beneath glittering chandeliers, partygoers were transported to a more gracious era, when the hotel played host to everyone from Elizabeth Taylor and Aristotle Onassis to Audrey Hepburn.

    The entertainment was a love letter to old New York: A Marilyn Monroe impersonator cooed while Deanna First sketched partygoers and professional ballroom dancers swirled across the stage in a swish of satin and sequins. Historic treasures, like archival photos and a $195,000 0.6-carat pink diamond, were displayed without fanfare (or security).

    Getty Images Deanna First.

    But while the gala paid homage to The Pierre’s glamorous past, the crowd reflected its vibrant present. Among those spotted in the sea of tuxedos and gowns: hotel residents, foreign dignitaries, reality TV stars, Instagram celebrities and even the odd baby or two nestled in couture-clad arms. The evening proved that after nearly a century, The Pierre can still create indelible Manhattan moments.

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    “I was transported back to the galas of the Gilded Age,” Lola Tash told Observer. The Canadian actress and brains behind the satirical, relatable meme account My Therapist Says was “reminded once more why New York is magical.”

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    “The Pierre is my American Home away from home,” Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe told Observer. His godmother lived in The Pierre, the prince said, noting “the happiest of my memories are right here” and calling the historic property “the hotel love of my life.”

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    Experiencing the hotel’s cinematic history firsthand was a highlight for Grace Aki. The gallery of treasures glowing behind glass displays made the night “all the more special,” Aki told Observer.

    “Like stepping into history,” was how Viola Manuela Ceccarini described the event. “The elegance, the legacy and the energy in the room—witnessing generations of excellence converge under that red diamond, a symbol of timeless prestige and the enduring spirit of New York.”

    Courtesy of Lori Altermann The star of the show poses with Lori Altermann.

    “Everywhere I turn, I see New York’s elite—beautiful celebrities and even Marilyn Monroe!” quipped Lori Altermann. “The fashion, the food, the hotel—everything is fabulous!” Altermann told Observer. “It’s a celebration of luxury,” said Namani Shqipe.

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  • WNBA’s latest CBA proposal would put max salary over $1.1M with revenue sharing, AP source says

    NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA’s latest collective bargaining proposal would include revenue sharing with a maximum salary of more than $1.1 million available to more than one player per team growing each year, according to a person familiar with the negotiations on Tuesday night.

    WNBA officials updated the board on the latest proposal at meetings this week, the person told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because ongoing negotiations are private. The new league minimum would be more than $220,000 with an average of more than $460,000.

    Those numbers would start in the first year of the deal for more than 180 players and increase over the length of the CBA.

    People familiar with the WNBA’s latest proposal described the plan to the AP as a highly lucrative package providing substantial increases over prior years and designed to bring negotiations to a quick conclusion.

    The current CBA was set to expire Oct. 31 when the WNBA and the players union agreed to continue negotiations to Nov. 30, allowing more time to negotiate a deal that would be revolutionary for the players in terms of salary.

    The players exercised their right to opt out of the current CBA last year with hopes of getting, among other things, increased revenue sharing, higher salaries, improved benefits and a softer salary cap. When the last CBA expired in 2019, both sides agreed to a 60-day extension with a CBA eventually ratified in January 2020.

    WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert was hopeful before the 2025 All-Star Game that everyone would be talking about how great the next CBA would be at the 2026 All-Star Game.

    “I’m still really optimistic that we’ll get something done that would be transformational,” Engelbert said in July.

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  • Randy Jones, the San Diego Padres’ first Cy Young Award winner, dies at 75

    Randy Jones, the left-hander who won the Cy Young Award with the San Diego Padres in 1976 during a 10-year major league career, has died. He was 75.

    Jones died Tuesday, the Padres announced Wednesday, without disclosing a location or cause.

    Jones pitched eight seasons for San Diego and two for the New York Mets, going 100-123 with a 3.42 ERA. He still holds the Padres franchise records with 253 starts, 71 complete games, 18 shutouts and 1,766 innings pitched.

    Jones was one of the majors’ best pitchers in 1975 and 1976, earning two All-Star selections and becoming the first player to win the Cy Young for the Padres, who began play as an expansion team in 1969.

    He finished second in Cy Young voting behind Tom Seaver in 1975 after going 20-12 with an NL-leading 2.24 ERA for a San Diego team that won just 71 games.

    Jones won the award one year later, winning 22 games for a 73-win team while pitching 315 1/3 innings over 40 starts, including 25 complete games — all tops in the majors. The still-young Padres experienced a surge in attendance whenever he pitched from fans who appreciated his everyman stature and resourceful pitching skills, and he made the cover of Sports Illustrated.

    He earned the save in the 1975 All-Star Game, and he got the victory for the NL in 1976. He never regained his top form after injuring his arm during his final start of 1976, but he remained a major league starter until 1982 with the Mets.

    Jones was a ground ball specialist who relied on deception and control instead of velocity, leading to his “Junkman” nickname. His career statistics reflect a bygone era of baseball: He started 285 games and pitched 1,933 career innings in his 10-year career but recorded only 735 career strikeouts, including just 93 in his Cy Young season.

    “Randy was a cornerstone of our franchise for over five decades,” the Padres said in a statement. “His impact and popularity only grew in his post-playing career, becoming a tremendous ambassador for the team and a true fan favorite. Crossing paths with RJ and talking baseball or life was a joy for everyone fortunate enough to spend time with him. Randy was committed to San Diego, the Padres and his family. He was a giant in our lives and our franchise history.”

    Born in Orange County, Jones returned to San Diego County after his playing career ended and became a face of the Padres franchise at games and in the community. A barbecue restaurant bearing his name was established at the Padres’ former home, Qualcomm Stadium, and later moved to Petco Park along with the team.

    Jones announced in 2017 that he had throat cancer, likely a result of his career-long use of chewing tobacco. He announced he was cancer-free in 2018.

    Jones’ No. 35 was retired by the Padres in 1997, and he joined the team’s Hall of Fame in 1999.

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  • Disability advocates rally Albany for care worker pay | Long Island Business News

    THE BLUEPRINT:

    • Over 300 advocates rallied in Albany for better pay and support for care workers.

    • Housing, childcare, and healthcare initiatives supported to ease worker costs.

    • Investment in workforce stability can reduce turnover and ensure consistent care, advocates say.

    More than 300 members of the New York Disability Advocates (NYDA) have a message for Albany: Support the needs of direct support professionals (DSPs) as national policies shift and costs continue to rise.

    These are pressures faced across the state, including in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

    “On Long Island, we’ve seen how inflation and rising costs affect every part of the care system,” Walter Stockton, president and CEO of Manorville-based Kinexion, said in a news release about a recent NYDA rally in Albany held earlier this week.

    Kinexion is a management service organization that supports seven not-for-profit organizations on Long Island.  Stockton said that investment “in provider agencies and their staff will help stabilize services and ensure people with disabilities continue to get the care they deserve.”

    Stockton was joined at the rally by leaders of nonprofit agencies across the state, several members of the state legislature, direct support professionals, family members and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

    Now, advocates are calling for a “CareForce Affordability Agenda” to meet the needs of those whose work involves caring for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

    To address these needs, NYDA is advocating for a 2.7 percent targeted inflationary increase to keep Medicaid reimbursement in line with costs and allow nonprofit agencies to fairly compensate DSPs while maintaining essential services such as utilities, transportation, food, insurance and housing.

    The organization also supports affordability initiatives, including a CareForce Affordable Housing Lottery Preference, an Employer-Assisted Housing Matching Grant Program, and SONYMA CareForce incentives to expand homeownership. Additional measures include funding for childcare, an expanded New York State Child Tax Credit for human services workers, and increased healthcare coverage to address workforce affordability challenges.

    NYDA also calls for investments in infrastructure and the care system to modernize facilities serving people with intellectual and development disabilities. This includes supporting innovative service models, implementing climate-friendly upgrades and ensuring providers can properly maintain homes for the individuals they serve.

    Advocates say that over the past five years, New York provided a cumulative 15.8 percent inflationary increase to providers, resulting in measurable gains for agencies. Since 2021, frontline staff vacancies fell 43.5 percent, staff turnover dropped 6.1 percent, and statewide starting wages rose 28.6 percent. Continued investment is needed, advocates say, to maintain this progress and prevent a return to earlier workforce shortages and funding shortfalls.

    And while many DSPs find their work rewarding, they struggle with meeting expenses. Half face food insecurity, and half experience housing insecurity, according to NYDA.

    Investing in affordability for DSPs would strengthen local economies and communities across the state, advocates say.  It would help reduce turnover, ensure consistent care for people with disabilities, boost local spending, support small businesses and increase housing stability and property tax revenues, promoting workforce stability statewide.

    Advocates say the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” has created uncertainty about the state’s healthcare commitments. New York provider agencies rely almost entirely on Medicaid, and while the federal cuts exclude the intellectual and developmental disabilities care system, experts stress the need for continued state investment as inflation drives up costs.

    Federal cuts are eliminating $7.5 billion for the New York Essential Plan, a state‐sponsored health insurance program, which provides health coverage to New Yorkers in households earning up to $39,125 for a single adult or $80,375 for a family of four who are not eligible for Medicaid, according to NYDA. Ending the plan would put hundreds of thousands, including DSPs and other frontline care workers, at risk of losing affordable healthcare.

    Rising inflation has increased operational costs for provider agencies, with essential expenses such as transportation, food and housing rising, while New York State’s inflationary increase for non-profit care agencies has not kept pace with real costs, according to NYDA. Lower-wage workers, including direct support professionals and frontline care staff, are disproportionately affected, facing severe housing insecurity as rent often consumes more than half of their income, advocates say.


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  • Verizon is cutting more than 13,000 jobs as it works to ‘reorient’ entire company

    NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon is laying off more than 13,000 employees in mass job reductions that arrive as the telecommunications giant says it must “reorient” its entire company.

    The job cuts began on Thursday, per to a staff memo from Verizon CEO Dan Schulman. In the letter, which was seen by The Associated Press, Schulman said Verizon’s current cost structure “limits” the company’s ability to invest — pointing particularly to customer experiences.

    “We must reorient our entire company around delivering for and delighting our customers,” Schulman wrote. He added that the company needed to simplify its operations “to address the complexity and friction that slow us down and frustrate our customers.”

    Verizon had nearly 100,000 full-time employees as of the end of last year, according to securities filings. A spokesperson confirmed that the layoffs announced Thursday account for about 20% of the company’s management workforce, which isn’t unionized.

    Verizon has faced rising competition in both the wireless phone and home internet space — particularly from AT&T, T-Mobile and other big market players. New leadership at the company has stressed the need to right the company’s direction.

    Schulman became CEO just last month. In the company’s most recent earnings, he stated that Verizon’s trajectory was at a “critical inflection point” — and said, rather than incremental changes, Verizon would “aggressively transform” its operations.

    For its third quarter of 2025, Verizon posted earnings of $4.95 billion and $33.82 billion in revenue. The carrier reported continued subscriber growth for its prepaid wireless services, but it lost a net 7,000 postpaid connections.

    News of coming layoffs at Verizon was reported last week by The Wall Street Journal. The outlet says that the 13,000 job cuts mark the largest-ever round of layoffs at the company.

    Beyond the cuts across Verizon’s workforce, Schulman said that the New York company would also “significantly reduce” its outsourced and other outside labor expenses.

    It’s a tough time for the job market overall — and Verizon isn’t the only company to announce sizeable workforce reductions recently. More and more layoffs have piled up at companies like Amazon, UPS, Nestlé and more.

    Some companies have pointed to rising operational costs spanning from U.S. President Donald Trump’s barrage of new tariffs and shifts in consumer spending. Others cite corporate restructuring more broadly — or are redirecting money to artificial intelligence. Regardless, such cuts have raised worker anxieties across sectors.

    Schulman on Thursday recognized that “changes in technology and in the economy are impacting the workforce across all industries.” He said that Verizon had established a $20 million “Reskilling and Career Transition Fund” for workers departing the company.

    Shares of Verizon fell just over 1% by Thursday’s close.

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  • A Juvenile Triceratops and Francis Bacon Heat Up Phillips’s $67.3 Million Evening Sale

    Phillips’s New York Evening Sale closed at $67.3 million—a 24 percent increase from last November. Photo: Jean Bourbon

    The auction results of the past few years have confirmed it: dinosaurs are on trend. And not just as prehistoric relics or tools of scientific inquiry, but as symbols of timelessness and taste. More and more, fossil skeletons are being treated as investments—something that is, in some cases, more emotionally and symbolically resonant than contemporary art with which it might share the auction block. Is it the return of Jurassic Park? Or perhaps simply that most of us are captivated by dinosaurs in childhood? In any case, as nostalgia increasingly drives purchasing decisions across collectibles markets, dinos are unquestionably riding the wave.

    Phillips has been strategically attuned to this shift—likely thanks to a younger cohort of specialists in its ranks. Instead of competing head-to-head with Sotheby’s and Christie’s single-owner sale narratives, the house has leaned into a different storytelling and marketing strategy, enhancing the symbolic power of artworks not through tales of glamorous collectors but by connecting the works to deep time.

    Last night, CERA—a juvenile Triceratops skeleton dated to 66 million years ago and the first of its species ever to appear at auction—fetched $5,377,000 in the Out of This World auction (a specially curated section of the house’s November Modern & Contemporary sales). While that figure may seem modest when measured against the marquee masterpieces of the season, spirited bidding pushed it far beyond its $2,500,000-3,500,000 estimate and confirmed demand for this type of collectible. It also brought Phillips an audience that may never have engaged with the auction house otherwise; representatives confirmed that the skeleton sold to a private American collector new to the house, though global interest had poured in ahead of the sale from both private buyers and international institutions.

    According to Miety Heiden, Phillips’ chairman for private sales, the result is a powerful testament to collectors’ evolving tastes. “More than ever, we’re seeing a desire for works that spark curiosity and transcend traditional categories. People are looking for objects that bring wonder and dialogue into a collection,” she said. “This result underscores the appetite for rare and extraordinary pieces that challenge convention and expand the boundaries of what collecting can be.”

    At this year’s Frieze Masters—the only segment of the global brand typically reserved for million-dollar modernist and Old Masters works—two of the opening day’s first sales were paleontological. David Aaron placed a Triceratops head from the Late Cretaceous (circa 68 million years ago) within the first hour, followed later by a complete saber-toothed Nimravidae skeleton from the Oligocene (circa 33.7-23.8 million years ago), which sold for a strong six-figure sum. And no one has forgotten the Stegosaurus Apex, which shattered records at Sotheby’s in July 2024, hammering at $44.6 million—more than seven times its $4-6 million estimate—to billionaire Ken Griffin.

    Phillips’s Evening Sale on November 19 achieved $67,307,850 across 33 lots, with a robust 94 percent sold by lot (only two passed) and 97 percent sold by value. It was a strong result, particularly considering the momentum already shown by Sotheby’s and Christie’s earlier in the week.

    Leaving behind the cutting-edge but highly speculative ultra-contemporary works that once dominated its auction offerings, the evening’s turnout—up 24 percent from last November—was driven by a pairing of institutionally recognized blue-chip artists of the past century with recent market consolidations, presented for the first time alongside natural history highlights under the Out of This World label. The top lot was the highly anticipated Francis Bacon Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne and George Dyer (1967), which sold for $16,015,000—neatly within its $13-18 million estimate. Just after came Joan Mitchell’s monumental Untitled (1957-1958), a densely gestural canopy of color from her New York years, which brought in $14,290,000.

    Another high-profile lot, Jackson Pollock’s dynamic 1947 work on paper, sold for $3,486,000—just below its high estimate. Mark Tansey’s Revelever (2012) sparked a competitive seven-minute bidding war that carried it to $4,645,000 against its $2,500,000-3,500,000 estimate. The hypnotic, conceptually loaded composition creates an optical push-pull that immerses viewers in a moment of driving toward a mountainous horizon, almost tasting the crisp air in its ultramarine haze.

    Meanwhile, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Exercise (1984), a loosely composed, surreal tangle of hallucination and paint, achieved $3,852,000 after a $3-4 million estimate. Another Basquiat from 1982 followed close behind, selling for $1,225,500. Camille Pissarro’s late Impressionist Le pré et la maison d’Éragny, femme jardinant, printemps (1901) surpassed its high estimate, closing at $1,900,000. Max Ernst’s Dans les rues d’Athènes (1960) doubled its expectations with a $1,534,000 result, riding the continued momentum for Surrealism. Rising Colombian artist Olga de Amaral also saw strong results. Her luminous golden textile Alquimia 62 (1987) soared to $748,200, well above its $300,000-500,000 estimate. A few lots later, a red composition from the same series met its estimate midpoint, hammering at $516,000.

    Firelei Báez set a new auction record—if only briefly. Her Daughter of Revolutions brought in $645,000 over a $300,000-500,000 estimate before being surpassed by a $1,111,250 result at Christie’s later that evening.

    Women artists once again delivered some of the evening’s most compelling results. Amid growing recognition for Alma Thomas, her Untitled collage from 1968—a blueprint for her signature mosaic-like abstractions—sold for $477,300 over a $250,000-350,000 estimate. Ruth Asawa’s Untitled (S.230, Hanging Single-Lobed, Five-Layered Continuous Form within a Form) opened the sale with a burst of energy, doubling its $400,000-600,000 estimate to achieve $1,006,200 as her MoMA retrospective opened. Others performed well too: a Martha Jungwirth fetched $516,000 (estimate $200,000-300,000), and Lucy Bull’s Light Rain (2019) exceeded its high estimate at $490,200.

    One of the night’s more surprising passed lots was a vivid 2022 abstraction by record-setting enfant prodige Jadé Fadojutimi, whose $800,000-1,200,000 estimate may have been too ambitious. Also unsold, despite its uniqueness and luxuriousness, was The Thunderbolt, the longest gold nugget ever discovered. Weighing 3,565 grams and measuring 50 centimeters, the 114.6-troy-ounce gold formation was estimated at $1.25-1.5 million but failed to find a buyer. Dug up by accident at Hogan’s Find in Western Australia, the rare natural formation was revealed by sheer chance.

    According to Robert Manley, Phillips’s chairman for modern and contemporary art, the success of the evening was due in part to the house’s new priority bidding system, which helped secure early commitments and interest on most lots. That contributed to 91 percent of works selling within or above estimate. “The enthusiasm was made especially clear by the fact that we had 27 times the number of early selling bids for this sale as we had last November, partly a result of our introduction of Priority Bidding,” he told Observer. The results, he said, confirmed not only the enduring draw of blue-chip artists but also the market’s resilience and ongoing global demand. “With strong participation from collectors worldwide and competitive bidding across Impressionist, Postwar, Contemporary and Natural History offerings, tonight’s outcome reaffirms confidence in the long-term strength of this market.”

    A Juvenile Triceratops and Francis Bacon Heat Up Phillips’s $67.3 Million Evening Sale

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  • Injured Giants running back Cam Skattebo defends his WWE ‘Monday Night Raw’ appearance

    NEW YORK (AP) — While Cam Skattebo has not played football for the New York Giants since undergoing season-ending surgery in late October, the rookie running back still has plenty of people around sports talking about him.

    Skattebo attended WWE’s “Monday Night Raw” at Madison Square Garden, along with teammates Abdul Carter and Roy Robertson-Harris. After some back-and-forth banter during a skit, Skattebo shoved wrestler JD McDonagh from behind a barrier and got pushed back, with the clip going viral.

    “Cam’s crazy,” Giants starting left tackle Andrew Thomas said Tuesday with a chuckle.

    A handful of local radio hosts blasted Skattebo for risking his health by taking part in the show. Skattebo took to social media to defend himself.

    “Honestly if you don’t like that I’m having a good time while dealing with a tough time, then just go ahead and unfollow and casually move on,” Skattebo posted on X, formerly Twitter. “I’m not able to play football and have the fun I’ve been having my whole life so I am doing things outside the box trying to find stuff to keep me happy. Enjoy the rest of y’all’s week and just don’t talk about me if you ain’t got nothing nice to say.”

    Skattebo, who wore a jersey of Rangers enforcer Matt Rempe at the event, is recovering from a broken right fibula and dislocated right ankle after getting hurt in gruesome fashion Oct. 26 in a loss at Philadelphia. In a video interview with Complex Sports over the weekend, Skattebo showed how well the injury was healing, and he was wearing a protective boot at the Garden.

    The 23-year-old also was on the sideline Sunday at the Meadowlands on a scooter and sporting the boot.

    ESPN New York’s Chris Carlin said he “could not have been angrier at the just remarkable stupidity shown by Skattebo. He was one of the lone bright spots of this team, and he thinks it’s a good idea to get involved like that.”

    Co-host Bart Scott, who played 11 NFL seasons as a linebacker with the Baltimore Ravens and New York Jets, was less vocally critical but still described Skattebo’s participation as “carelessness.”

    “Whether you’re play wrestling or wrestling, it’s still a physical act,” Scott said.

    WFAN’s Chris McMonigle said “the optics are so bad.” On the same station, Brandon Tierney called it dumb.

    “I’m not here to be the buzz kill or holier than thou or the headmaster or the dean of discipline, but, dude, use common sense,” Tierney said. “What happens if there’s a little beer or a little water or a little seltzer on the Garden floor and he slips and he loses control?”

    Skattebo responded to that clip on social media by saying his foot was off the ground, adding, “Trust me wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize anything.”

    Skattebo, along with quarterback Jaxson Dart, had brought an infusion of energy into the organization before going down. The fourth-round pick out of Arizona State had run for five touchdowns and had two more receiving in his first eight professional games.

    Asked Tuesday on a video call with reporters about Skattebo at the Garden, second-year back Tyrone Tracy flashed a smile.

    “I wasn’t there last night, but you best believe I was fighting,” Tracy said. “I was fighting at home, though, telling him to duck and sit down. Cam’s a wild man. Everybody knows that. He’s going to go out there and do what he do.”

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  • Holiday tree featuring thousands of origami works opens at NYC’s American Museum of Natural History

    NEW YORK (AP) — A beloved Christmas tree tradition is returning to Manhattan for the holiday season next week. No, it’s not the towering spruce at Rockefeller Center, which is lit in early December.

    The comparatively smaller Origami Holiday Tree that’s delighted crowds for decades at the American Museum of Natural History opens to the public on Monday. The colorful, richly decorated 13-foot (4-meter) tree is adorned with thousands of hand-folded paper ornaments created by origami artists from around the world.

    This year’s tree is inspired by the museum’s new exhibition, “Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs,” which chronicles how an asteroid crash some 66 million years ago reshaped life on Earth.

    Talo Kawasaki, the tree’s co-designer, said the tree’s theme is “New Beginnings,” in reference to the new world that followed the mass extinction.

    Located off the museum’s Central Park West entrance, the artificial tree is topped with a golden, flaming asteroid.

    Its branches and limbs are packed with origami works representing a variety of animals and insects, including foxes, cranes, turtles, bats, sharks, elephants, giraffes and monkeys. Dinosaur favorites such as the triceratops and tyrannosaurus rex are also depicted in the folded paper works of art.

    “We wanted to focus more not so much the demise of the dinosaurs, but the new life this created, which were the expansion and the evolution of mammals ultimately leading to humanity,” Kawasaki explained on a recent visit.

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    The origami tree has been a highlight of the museum’s holiday season for more than 40 years.

    Volunteers from all over the world are enlisted to make hundreds of new models. The intricate paper artworks are generally made from a single sheet of paper but can sometimes take days or even weeks to perfect.

    The new origami pieces are bolstered by archived works stored from prior seasons, including a 40-year-old model of a pterosaur, an extinct flying reptile, that was folded for one of the museum’s first origami trees in the early 1970s.

    Rosalind Joyce, the tree’s co-designer, estimates that anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 origami works are embedded in the tree.

    “This year there’s a lot of stuff stuffed in there,” she said. “So I don’t count.”

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  • Mamdani Says He Wants to Talk Affordability With Trump and Isn’t Worried He’s Walking Into a Trap

    NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that he’s “not concerned” his upcoming meeting with President Donald Trump could be a political trap, vowing instead to center the Oval Office sit-down on how they could work to make the city more affordable.

    Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, is set to travel to Washington for a meeting with Trump on Friday, a potentially explosive pairing of polar-opposite politicians who have been at odds for months.

    At a news conference outside New York City Hall, Mamdani said he hopes to “share the facts about the affordability crisis in the city” while waving off the idea that the president could use the meeting to embarrass him.

    “I have many disagreements with the president and I believe that we should be relentless and pursue all avenues and all meetings that can make our city affordable for every single New Yorker,” he said.

    Mamdani won a stunning victory in New York City’s mayoral race this month with a campaign heavily focused on the city’s affordability crisis, promising to turn the power of government toward helping the working class while also fighting back against a hostile Trump administration.

    Trump has railed against Mamdani for months, warning that his hometown would slide into chaos under the young progressive’s leadership and suggested he would withhold federal money from the city if Mamdani won. Trump has also incorrectly called him a communist and has threatened to deport Mamdani, who was born in Uganda but became a naturalized American citizen in 2018.

    The president announced the meeting in a social media post Wednesday night, putting Mamdani’s middle name Kwame in quotation marks while incorrectly referring to him as the “Communist Mayor of New York City.”

    Mamdani brushed off the idea that he was walking into an adversarial sit-down with Trump, telling reporters Thursday: “I’m not concerned about this meeting. I view this meeting as an opportunity to make my case, and I’ll make that case to anyone.”

    When pressed further, Mamdani said he’d make it clear to the president that he was there as an emissary of the city, not simply a political newcomer.

    “For me, it’s not about myself. It’s about a relationship between New York City and the White House, the president, and the federal administration. And I will look to make clear my interest goes beyond any one of an individual but it’s for the people I look to represent,” he said.

    When asked if he intended to bring up the president’s threats of stepped-up immigration enforcement in New York, Mamdani tried to pivot back to his affordability argument.

    “I think affordability was at the core of our campaign, and also it was affordability based on the value of protecting each and every New Yorker,” he said. “That means protecting them from price gouging in their lives, but it also means protecting them from ICE agents and making it clear that I will look to representing every single person.”

    Mamdani will take office as mayor next year, succeeding current Mayor Eric Adams, who has been traveling abroad and posted a picture on X Thursday morning of himself alongside an Uzbek official.

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  • Verizon Is Cutting More Than 13,000 Jobs as It Works to ‘Reorient’ Entire Company

    NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon is laying off more than 13,000 employees, as the telecommunications giant says it must “reorient” its entire company.

    The jobs cuts began on Thursday, per to a staff memo from Verizon CEO Dan Schulman. In the letter, which was seen by The Associated Press, Schulman noted that Verizon’s current cost structure limits the company’s ability to invest — pointing particularly to customer experiences.

    “We must reorient our entire company around delivering for and delighting our customers,” Schulman wrote. He added that the company needed to simplify its operations “to address the complexity and friction that slow us down and frustrate our customers.”

    Beyond the job cuts across Verizon’s workforce, Schulman said that the New York company would also “significantly reduce” its outsourced and other outside labor expenses.

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  • Why Does This NYC Subway Station Smell ‘Christmassy’? It’s an Ad

    NEW YORK (AP) — A trip through New York City’s crowded subway system usually offers a pungent mix of industrial and bodily aromas.

    But inside a stretch of the Grand Central station this holiday season, the air smells of vanilla and fresh pine.

    The scent is part of a novel advertising campaign for Bath & Body Works, which is pumping the fragrance into the 42nd Street shuttle train platform through November.

    Many commuters don’t pause to take notice of the diffusers that have been attached to a steel girder over the platform, and along the walls of a connecting tunnel. Those who look up can see them releasing visible bursts of vapor. Bath & Body Works estimates that 20 to 30 pounds (9 to 14 kilograms) of fragrance will be dispersed by the end of the month, when the campaign ends.

    “It smells better than the normal New York City tunnels that we normally smell here,” commuter Jerome Murray said. “So yes, I appreciate it.”

    The area is one of the busiest parts inside the transit hub, with people moving quickly as they transfer to and from the Times Square shuttle every four to five minutes.

    Commuter Kelly Rodriguez, 23, described the smell as “a pine scent, very Christmassy” — a note given by many riders. Kathleen Baptiste, 60, added that it reminds her of “fabric softeners.”

    The scent is subtle enough that some riders said they missed it as they traveled through the space. If you didn’t see the poster explaining that it is a Bath & Body Works ad campaign, it could be easy to mistake for another rider’s perfume.

    The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city’s subways and buses, says this is the first ad campaign of its kind inside the transit network, which is seeking to generate new revenue streams. Hoping to avoid any blowback, the agency tested a pilot of aroma-based ads last year in stations in Queens and Brooklyn to review the safety and gather feedback, according to Mary John, the agency’s director of commercial ventures.

    John says the agency has not received any complaints so far.

    Jamie Sohosky, Bath & Body Works’ chief marketing officer, said the retail chain chose “Fresh Balsam” for the campaign because it is one of the brand’s most iconic holiday scents and a long-running seasonal favorite. Grand Central, she said, was a natural choice, since huge numbers of riders pass through while connecting to other trains.

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  • New York Police Commissioner Credited With Crime Drop to Stay on Under Mamdani

    By Jonathan Allen and Maria Tsvetkova

    NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jessica Tisch, the New York City police commissioner who has overseen a drop in violent crime under outgoing Mayor Eric Adams, has agreed to remain in the post under newly elected Zohran Mamdani, who recently apologized for his past criticisms of the department.

    Although Mamdani said during his campaign that he would like to retain Tisch, it was uncertain until their joint announcement on Wednesday whether Tisch would agree to serve under a mayor who has expounded progressive critiques on policing and the criminal justice system.

    Earlier this year, Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic state lawmaker and democratic socialist, publicly apologized to the city’s police officers for his past public comments in which he described some of the department’s officers as racist and a threat to public safety. Even so, there were concerns among some New York City voters and within the New York City Police Department that Mamdani would be soft on crime while frustrating the police in fighting it.

    On Wednesday, Mamdani and Tisch announced that they were in agreement on fundamental issues and would prioritize continuity for the city of more than 8 million people, the country’s biggest, where murders and shootings have dropped sharply under Tisch’s first year in the job.

    “I have admired her work cracking down on corruption in the upper echelons of the police department, driving down crime in New York City, and standing up for New Yorkers in the face of authoritarianism,” Mamdani, who was elected on November 4, said in a statement.

    Tisch, 44, was appointed police commissioner in November 2024 by Adams, the fourth person to oversee the nation’s largest police department in an 18-month span, as Adams and members of his inner circle faced criminal investigations into allegations of corruption.

    Tisch said in a statement that she and Mamdani “share many of the same public safety goals for New York City: lowering crime, making communities safer, rooting out corruption, and giving our officers the tools, support, and resources they need to carry out their noble work.”

    The mayor and his police commissioner come from contrasting backgrounds. Mamdani will be the city’s first Muslim mayor. Tisch is the first Jewish woman to lead the New York Police Department. Mamdani, the son of a college professor and a filmmaker, has been sharply critical of the city’s wealthy elite, while the commissioner is an heir of the billionaire Tisch family, which made its fortune with the Loews Corp and owns a 50% stake in the National Football League’s New York Giants franchise.

    MAMDANI CALLED FOR POLICE DEFUNDING IN 2020

    During his election campaign, Mamdani publicly apologized to police officers for his past criticisms, in particular for calling on social media in 2020 for the department to be defunded for being “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.”

    Disavowing his past calls for defunding, Mamdani pledged to maintain the current number of police officers after he is sworn in on January 1. He also pledged to create a new Department of Community Safety to deploy mental health experts and social workers to some calls currently handled by police officers.

    U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican and a native New Yorker who falsely denigrated Mamdani as a communist, has said he would try to punish New Yorkers if they voted for him, issuing legally shaky threats to withhold federal funds. But this week, Trump said he would consider meeting with Mamdani. 

    Adams, who abandoned his bid for a second term as mayor as his popularity plummeted this year, commended Mamdani, whom he had roundly criticized in the past. 

    Mamdani, in retaining Tisch, Adams said in a statement, “is recognizing our public-safety efforts were right and that they will continue into the future.”

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  • Gustav Klimt portrait painting sells for record $236 million at New York auction

    A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 million.

    The toilet, by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana to a wall — went up for auction Tuesday evening at Sotheby’s in New York. The starting bid for the 223-pound, 18-karat-gold work was about $10 million.

    Cattelan has said the piece, titled “America,” satirizes superwealth.

    “Whatever you eat, a $200 lunch or a $2 hot dog, the results are the same, toilet-wise,” he once said. Sotheby’s, for its part, calls the commode an “incisive commentary on the collision of artistic production and commodity value.”

    This image provided by Sotheby’s shows Gustav Klimt’s “Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer” (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer), which sold for $236.4 million at auction Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in New York. 

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    Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sold earlier in the night after a 20-minute bidding war, also becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold by Sotheby’s worldwide. The piece attracted bids from at least six collectors before finally selling.

    The portrait was one of the few by the Austrian artist that survived World War II intact. It depicts the young daughter of one of Klimt’s patrons and was kept separate from his other paintings that were burned in a fire at an Austrian castle.

    The piece was part of the collection of billionaire Leonard A. Lauder, heir to cosmetics giant The Estée Lauder Companies. He died earlier this year.

    In 2024, a portrait of a young woman by Klimt that was long believed to be lost was sold at an auction in Vienna for $32 million. The painting, “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser,” was one of Klimt’s last pieces of work before he died in 1918. 

    Klimt worked mainly in Vienna in the early 1900s and he may be best known for “The Kiss.” 

    Glance-Famous Heists

    This Sept. 16, 2016 file image made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled “America,” by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. 

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    The toilet, which had been owned by an unnamed collector, was one of two that Cattelan created in 2016. The other one was displayed in 2016 at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, which pointedly offered to lend it to President Trump when he asked to borrow a Van Gogh painting. Then the piece was stolen while on display in England at Blenheim Palace, the country manor where Winston Churchill was born.

    Two men were convicted in the toilet heist, but it’s unclear what they did with the loo. Investigators aren’t privy to its whereabouts but believe it probably was broken up and melted down.

    “America” was exhibited at Sotheby’s New York headquarters in the weeks leading up to the auction.

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  • PHOTO ESSAY: Summer camp for kids with autoimmune diseases

    CLARYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Autoimmune diseases like lupus, myositis and forms of arthritis can strike children, too. At a sleepaway camp in upstate New York, some young patients got a chance to just be kids.

    That’s how a 12-year-old recently diagnosed with lupus found himself laughing on a high-ropes course as fellow campers hoisted him into the air.

    “It’s really fun,” said Dylan Aristy Mota, thrilled he was offered this rite of childhood along with the reassurance that doctors were on site. If “anything else pops up, they can catch it faster than if we had to wait til we got home.”

    Nicholas Toska, 11, center, of Harrison, N.Y., who has juvenile idiopathic arthritis, waters a garden with fellow campers at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, plays a game of paint tag at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, plays a game of paint tag at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Nicholas Toska, 11, center, of Harrison, N.Y., who has juvenile idiopathic arthritis, plays cards with fellow campers at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Nicholas Toska, 11, center, of Harrison, N.Y., who has juvenile idiopathic arthritis, plays cards with fellow campers at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Autoimmune diseases occur when your immune system attacks your body instead of protecting it. With the exception of Type 1 diabetes, they’re more rare in kids than adults.

    “It’s very important that people know that these diseases exist and it can happen in kids and it can cause significant disabilities,” said Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares, a pediatric rheumatologist at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in New York.

    When symptoms begin early in life, especially before puberty, they can be more severe. Treating growing bodies also is challenging.

    Montefiore partnered with Frost Valley YMCA to bring several children with autoimmune diseases to a traditional sleepaway camp, after reassuring parents that doctors would be on hand to ensure the kids take their medicines and to handle any symptom flares.

    Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares, left, examines camper Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares, left, examines camper Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares, right, examines Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares, right, examines Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    “Their disease impacts how they can participate and a lot of the time the parents are just very nervous to send them to a summer camp,” Vasquez-Canizares said.

    Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, causing joint pain and stiffness and “my legs get, like, sleepy.”

    But at camp, Ethan said he’s mostly forgetting his illness. “The only time I get pain is like when I’m on long walks, my legs start getting stiff, and then I kind of feel pain, like achy.”

    One day a doctor examined his hands at camp. Another day, he was running across the lawn splattered in a fierce game of paint tag.

    Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, takes his medication at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, takes his medication at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, left, and Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, right, 11, play a game with Nurse Mary Ramos ahead of their examination at the wellness center at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, left, and Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, right, 11, play a game with Nurse Mary Ramos ahead of their examination at the wellness center at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, plays a card game with bunkmates at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, plays a card game with bunkmates at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, second from left, and fellow campers take shelter from the rain at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, second from left, and fellow campers take shelter from the rain at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, poses for a photograph at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, poses for a photograph at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    “It’s really nice just doing the special activities and just messing around with your friends and all day just having a blast.”

    To the doctor, forgetting their chronic disease for a little bit was the point.

    “They blend perfectly with the other kids,” Vasquez-Canizares said. “You can just see them smiling, running, like any other normal child.”

    Campers run to the waterfront for an evening swim at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Campers run to the waterfront for an evening swim at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, center, who has lupus, splashes in the water during an evening swim at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, center, who has lupus, splashes in the water during an evening swim at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, swims at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, swims at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Nicholas Toska, 11, center, of Harrison, N.Y., who has juvenile idiopathic arthritis, reaches for a ball at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Nicholas Toska, 11, center, of Harrison, N.Y., who has juvenile idiopathic arthritis, reaches for a ball at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Campers take an evening swim at the Frost Valley YMCA, which partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend the sleepaway camp for the first time, in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Campers take an evening swim at the Frost Valley YMCA, which partnered with Children’s Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend the sleepaway camp for the first time, in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, stands at the water's edge during a headcount following an evening swim at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, stands at the water’s edge during a headcount following an evening swim at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Campers walk to their bunks after an evening swim, at the Frost Valley YMCA, which partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend the sleepaway camp for the first time, in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Campers walk to their bunks after an evening swim, at the Frost Valley YMCA, which partnered with Children’s Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend the sleepaway camp for the first time, in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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  • Kids get diseases like lupus, too. As researchers hunt better treatments, this camp brings joy

    A doctor advising … sleepaway camp? That’s how a 12-year-old diagnosed with lupus found himself laughing on a high-ropes course as fellow campers hoisted him into the air.

    “It’s really fun,” said Dylan Aristy Mota, thrilled that he got a chance at the rite of childhood — thanks to doctors reassuring his mom that they’d be at this upstate New York camp, too. Dylan felt good knowing if “anything else pops up, they can catch it faster than if we had to wait til we got home.”

    It may sound surprising but diseases like lupus, myositis and some forms of arthritis — when your immune system attacks your body instead of protecting it — don’t just strike adults. With the exception of Type 1 diabetes, these autoimmune diseases are more rare in kids but they do happen.

    People often ask, “Can kids have arthritis? Can kids have lupus?” said Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares, a pediatric rheumatologist at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, which partnered with Frost Valley YMCA last summer so some of those youngsters could try a traditional sleepaway camp despite a strict medicine schedule and nervous parents.

    “Imagine for an adult, it’s difficult. If you have that disease since you’re young, it’s very difficult to, you know, cope with,” she said.

    Special challenges for kids

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, plays a game of Gaga Ball with fellow campers at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    The younger that someone is when certain illnesses hit, especially before puberty, the more severe symptoms may be. And while genes can make people of any age more vulnerable to autoimmune conditions, usually it takes other factors that stress the immune system, such as infections, to cause the disease to develop.

    But genes are more to blame when disease strikes early in life, said Dr. Laura Lewandowski of the National Institutes of Health who helps lead international research into genetic changes that fuel childhood lupus.

    Symptoms among children can be sneaky and hard to pinpoint. Rather than expressing joint pain, a very young child might walk with a limp or regress to crawling, Vasquez-Canizares said.

    “Before, I looked like everybody else, like normal,” Dylan said. Then, “my face turned like the bright pink, and it started to like get more and more red.”

    His family thought it must be allergies, and Dylan recalled many doctor appointments before being diagnosed with lupus last January.

    Treatment has unique challenges, too. Medicines that tamp down symptoms do so by suppressing young immune systems — just as they’re learning to fend off germs. They can also can affect whether kids build strong bones.

    Research underway to help kids

    Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, center right, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, plays a game of paint tag at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, center right, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, plays a game of paint tag at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    But there are promising treatments in development. Seattle Children’s Hospital recently opened the first clinical trial of what’s called CAR-T therapy for pediatric lupus. Those “living drugs” are made by reprogramming some of patients’ own immune soldiers, T cells, to find and kill another type, B cells, that can run amok. Tests in adults with lupus and a growing list of other autoimmune diseases are showing early promise, putting some people in long-term, drug-free remission.

    And occasionally a mother’s autoimmune disease can harm her child, such as a rare fetal heart defect that requires a lifelong pacemaker if the baby survives. Dr. Jill Buyon at NYU Langone Health is studying how to block that defect — and just reported a healthy girl born to a mom with mild lupus.

    “This is a rare example where we know the exact point in time at which this is going to happen,” allowing a chance at prevention, said Dr. Philip Carlucci, an NYU rheumatology fellow and study co-author.

    What happens: A kind of antibody, found in lupus, Sjögren’s and certain other autoimmune diseases, can damage the heart’s ability to beat properly if enough crosses the placenta during key cardiac development. Some treatments can lower but not eliminate the risk. Buyon’s team is testing if a drug used to treat a different autoimmune disease could better shield the fetus.

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, walks out of the water doing an evening swim at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dylan Aristy Mota, 12, of New York City, who has lupus, walks out of the water doing an evening swim at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Kelsey Kim jumped at the experimental treatment in her last pregnancy, “partly in the hopes of saving my own baby and partly in the hopes of saving other people’s babies and saving them from the pain that I had experienced.”

    Her first daughter was born healthy although doctors didn’t mention the baby’s temporary lupus-related rash was a warning that future pregnancies might be at risk. Kim then lost a son to congenital heart block at 22 weeks of pregnancy. Her second daughter’s heart sustained milder damage, and she’s now a thriving 2-year-old thanks to a pacemaker.

    A third daughter was born healthy in June after Kim got the experimental drug in weekly visits, spanning about three months, to NYU from her northern Virginia home. A single case isn’t proof, and Buyon has NIH funding to start a clinical trial for other high-risk pregnancies soon.

    Helping kids be kids

    Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares, right, examines Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. The camp partnered with Children's Hospital at Montefiore so kids with autoimmune diseases could attend for the first time. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Dr. Natalia Vasquez-Canizares, right, examines Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, of Yonkers, N.Y., who has a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, at the Frost Valley YMCA sleepaway camp in Claryville, N.Y., Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Back at the New York sleepaway camp, the goal was some normalcy for kids ruled by strict medication schedules that can make it difficult to be away from family.

    “I do kind of get to forget about it,” Ethan Blanchfield-Killeen, 11, said of the form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis — similar to rheumatoid arthritis in adults — that can leave his joints stiff and achy.

    One day a doctor examined his hands at camp. Another day, he was running across the lawn splattered in a fierce game of paint tag.

    “Just seeing them in a different perspective” than the sterile doctor’s office “almost brings tears to my eyes,” said Vasquez-Canizares, the Montefiore rheumatologist.



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  • Donald Trump suffers two major legal setbacks within hours

    President Donald Trump faced two major legal setbacks on Monday as courts in New York and Tennessee moved to constrain key parts of his domestic enforcement agenda.

    Within hours, a federal judge upheld New York’s limits on courthouse immigration arrests, while a state judge in Nashville blocked the deployment of Tennessee National Guard troops to Memphis.

    Newsweek contacted the DOJ and the office of the governors of the states for comment via email outside of normal office hours on Tuesday.

    Why It Matters

    Within the span of a few hours on Monday, President Donald Trump’s domestic enforcement agenda was hit by two separate court rulings that underscored growing judicial resistance to the administration’s attempts to expand federal authority in states that push back.

    A federal judge in New York upheld a state law restricting civil immigration arrests at courthouses, while a Tennessee judge blocked the deployment of National Guard troops to Memphis, finding the move likely violated state constitutional limits.

    Together, the decisions highlight the legal constraints confronting Trump as he seeks to intensify immigration operations and broaden the use of military force in U.S. cities over state objections.

    What To Know

    I. Judge Upholds New York Law Barring Immigration Arrests at Courthouses

    President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda encountered a significant legal setback on Monday after a federal judge rejected the administration’s attempt to strike down a New York law restricting civil immigration arrests in and around state courthouses.

    U.S. District Judge Mae D’Agostino dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit challenging the 2020 Protect Our Courts Act (POCA) and related state executive orders.

    In a 41-page ruling, D’Agostino concluded that the federal government’s suit amounted to an improper effort “to commandeer New York’s resources to aid in federal immigration efforts” according to the decision.

    The court held that New York acted within its rights in limiting where federal agents may conduct civil immigration arrests.

    The Trump administration had argued that the state law violated the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause and unlawfully restricted federal enforcement authority.

    Federal lawyers also sought to compel state and local law enforcement agencies to share information with federal immigration officials. D’Agostino rejected those claims, writing that New York was exercising “its permissible choice not to participate in federal civil immigration enforcement.”

    POCA, enacted in 2020 in response to a sharp rise in courthouse arrests under Trump’s first term, prohibits civil immigration arrests of individuals traveling to, attending, or leaving state court proceedings unless agents hold a judicial warrant.

    The measure was intended to limit disruptions to court operations and ensure that parties and witnesses could appear in court without fear of apprehension.

    In recent months, federal immigration agents had intensified courthouse operations in New York and other cities as part of the administration’s broader strategy to increase removals of undocumented immigrants.

    That posture led to renewed friction with states that maintain restrictions on local cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

    Monday’s ruling marks a notable setback for the administration’s efforts to expand civil immigration arrests in sensitive locations.

    The case, United States v. New York, challenged both POCA and executive orders issued during former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration that limited state and local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

    D’Agostino dismissed the suit in its entirety.

    The ruling is likely to serve as a reference point for similar disputes arising in other states where federal immigration enforcement priorities clash with local laws or policies restricting cooperation with federal agencies.

    II. Nashville Judge Blocks Memphis National Guard Deployment

    Just hours after the New York ruling, the Trump administration suffered a second legal blow—this time in Tennessee, where a state court halted the deployment of National Guard troops to Memphis.

    Davidson County Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal issued a temporary injunction blocking Republican Governor Bill Lee from continuing the activation of Tennessee National Guard personnel for participation in President Trump’s Memphis Safe Task Force.

    The deployment, requested by the administration under Title 32 authority, was intended to supplement federal and local law enforcement operations in response to high violent-crime rates in the city.

    In her order, Moskal found that the plaintiffs—including Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, local commissioners, and several state lawmakers—had demonstrated sufficient immediate harm to justify halting the deployment.

    The judge wrote that the state’s militia law requires the Tennessee General Assembly to authorize National Guard activation for public-safety purposes and that crime conditions in Memphis did not constitute a “grave emergency” or “disaster” that would permit unilateral deployment by the governor.

    The order temporarily restrains Governor Lee and Major General Warner Ross III “from implementing and continuing the activation and deployment of Tennessee National Guard personnel” under the presidential memorandum.

    The injunction does not affect the presence of federal law enforcement officers already operating in the city.

    In a public statement, Mayor Harris called the ruling “a positive step toward ensuring the rule of law applies to everyone, including everyday Tennesseans and even the governor.”

    The state has five days to appeal the ruling.

    The lawsuit argues that deploying National Guard troops for routine law-enforcement functions violates both the Tennessee Constitution and state statutes, which strictly limit the circumstances under which the militia may be mobilized.

    The Memphis Safe Task Force, created by a September presidential memorandum, aims to increase law-enforcement presence and coordinate multi-agency operations across Memphis.

    Plaintiffs contend that the National Guard deployment exceeded both federal and state legal authority.

    The Tennessee ruling adds to a series of mounting legal challenges to the Trump administration’s domestic troop deployments, several of which are already moving through federal courts.

    What People Are Saying

    Kathy Hochul (Governor of New York) said: “Masked ICE agents shoved and injured journalists today at Federal Plaza. One reporter left on a stretcher. This abuse of law-abiding immigrants and the reporters telling their stories must end. What the hell are we doing here?”

    Bill Lee (Governor of Tennessee) who had approved the deployment of an undetermined number of Tennessee National Guard troops to Memphis, said: “I think [AG] General Skrmetti’s a brilliant lawyer who understands constitutional law, and I suspect he’s got the right answer on it.”

    What Happens Next

    Both rulings are likely to move quickly into appeals, with the Trump administration expected to challenge the New York decision in the Second Circuit and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee poised to seek an emergency stay and appellate review of the injunction blocking his National Guard deployment.

    New York’s courthouse-arrest restrictions will remain in effect during the federal appeal, while the Memphis deployment is paused unless a higher state court reverses the ruling.

    Together, the cases set up parallel legal battles over the limits of federal immigration enforcement and the circumstances under which state-controlled military forces can be used for domestic policing—disputes that could ultimately reach the Supreme Court.

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  • The FAA Lifts Flight Restrictions In Time For Thanksgiving – LAmag

    The FAA lifted flight restrictions on 40 major airports following the end of the government shutdown.

    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Sunday that the restrictions on commercial flights that affected 40 major airports, including hubs like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta were to be lifted Monday morning. This statement comes following the end of the longest recorded government on November 12, which lasted 43 days. Air traffic controllers were part of the government officials who had to work without pay over the last month, missing two paychecks. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy cited reports (not shared) of planes getting too close in the air, more runway incursions and pilot concerns about controller responses due to staffing shortages.

    In light of these conditions, on November 7th the FAA was forced to issue an unprecedented order to limit air traffic, as the controllers were calling in sick because of stress or financial pressure, culminating in 81 staffing triggers on November 8th. Staffing shortages kept growing throughout the shutdown, affecting thousands of flights across the country. The situation reached its peak on November 9th when the shortages along with local weather allowed for more than 10000 flights to be delayed and 2900 to be cancelled.

    Originally, flight cuts started at 4% and grew to 6% before the FAA rolled restrictions back to 3% on Friday, November 12, as a result of the government shutdown ending. However, cuts were way below this at less than 1% with only 315 flights being cancelled on Saturday and 149 on Sunday, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium. Controllers began to return to work later that week amid news that Congress was close to ending the shutdown, allowing the FAA to pause plans for increasing cancellations as they had initially aimed to work toward cancelling 10% of flights. 

    Other restrictions include some visual flight rule approaches, limits on commercial space launches and parachute operations. In a joint statement made by the FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford and Secretary Duffy they explained that an agency safety team recommended the order be rescinded after “detailed reviews of safety trends and the steady decline of staffing-trigger events in air traffic control facilities”. They also acknowledged the agency is “aware of reports of no compliance by carriers over the course of the emergency order. The agency is reviewing and assessing enforcement options”.

    Airline leaders are optimistic that operations will rebound by the time Thanksgiving travel begins, as “The current data aligns with staffing conditions before the shutdown”. Both Bedford and Duffy expressed their gratitude for the controllers’ work during the shutdown and their role in keeping the American public safe.

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  • Fannie Mae Officials Saw No Evidence of Mortgage Fraud Against Letitia James, Filing Shows

    By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senior fraud investigators at Fannie Mae believed there was no clear evidence to prove that New York Attorney General Letitia James committed mortgage fraud, according to new information disclosed by James’ legal team in a filing on Monday.

    The filing, which asks a federal judge to dismiss the criminal charges against James on the basis of outrageous government conduct, reveals some new details about how people inside Fannie Mae viewed the investigation into James and the role that Trump ally Bill Pulte, the nation’s top housing regulator, played in shaping the probe.

    In June communications between Fannie Mae’s Director of Mortgage Fraud Sean Soward and Jennifer Horne, the vice president of financial crimes at Fannie, Soward expressed concern that the case was “certainly not clear and convincing evidence” of fraud, according to the filing.

    James, an elected Democrat, faces charges of bank fraud and making a false statement to a financial institution for allegedly using a Virginia home as an investment property in violation of loan terms that required her to make it a secondary residence. She has pleaded not guilty.

    She is one of several of President Donald Trump’s political foes facing criminal charges after he called on the Justice Department to act against them.

    The case was opened after Pulte, who leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent the department a criminal referral, and Attorney General Pam Bondi assigned pardon attorney and weaponization czar Ed Martin to help with the probe as a special assistant U.S. Attorney handling mortgage fraud cases involving public officials.

    Trump later installed his former personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia to bring the indictment, after her predecessor refused to do so, citing a lack of evidence. 

    QUESTIONS OVER PULTE’S ROLE

    In Monday’s filing, James’ attorneys raised questions about how Pulte gained access to their client’s non-public mortgage files. They noted that Pulte also sent Halligan a private letter on October 6, providing a summary of the information and financial calculations on the property at the heart of the indictment, as well as information from Fannie Mae’s financial crimes investigative team.

    Not long afterward, Halligan went before a grand jury in Alexandria to present evidence, even though it was a different grand jury from the one in Norfolk, Va. that had been convened in the case earlier. When a two-count indictment was returned, it bore the “exact calculations Director Pulte had sent to Ms. Halligan just a few days prior,” her lawyers said.

    “Director Pulte abused his position as FHFA Director to direct an investigation of AG James, outside of the normal processes and rules governing the agency, despite being told repeatedly that there was no evidence of wrongdoing,” the filing said.

    Reuters previously reported that the White House earlier this month ousted the FHFA Acting Inspector General Joe Allen not long after he tried to provide prosecutors in the James case with crucial, constitutionally required discovery. 

    Citing that and other media reports in its filing, James’ attorneys said those disclosures had to date not been produced to the defense team.

    The filing also raises concerns with Martin’s conduct, citing his decision to pose for photos outside of her Brooklyn home and a letter he sent her calling on her to resign as New York’s attorney general.

    “The letter, by itself, violated Justice Department rules, the Principles of Federal Prosecution, and various codes of professional responsibility and ethics,” they wrote.

    (Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward; Editing by Stephen Coates)

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