The Trump administration announced on Friday that it will bar organizations that provide abortion referrals from receiving federal family planning money, a step that could strip millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood and direct it toward religiously-based, anti-abortion groups. The new federal rule is almost certain to be challenged in court. Clinics will be able…
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UnitedHealth Group, the giant health insurance company, on Friday lost its case to prevent a former executive from working at the new health care venture formed by three powerful corporations, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase. A federal judge in Boston denied UnitedHealth’s request to have the executive, David William Smith, immediately stop working. Mr.…
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Dress with turtleneck, $9,500, sunglasses, $1,085, all, Gucci. Earrings, necklace, all, De Beers. SEBASTIAN MADER Dress, hat, $550, both, Celine by Hedi Slimane. Hoop earring, Messika Paris, $11,600 (for pair). SEBASTIAN MADER Coat, Yves Salomon, $15,370. Turtleneck, Loro Piana, $975. Earring, necklace, bracelet, rings, $1,850–$9,700 each,all,Bulgari. Handbag, Bottega Veneta,$2,650. SEBASTIAN MADER Pump, Jimmy Choo, $795.…
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Just days after the news of Karl Lagerfeld’s passing Veronica Webb, model, actress, and the first African-American woman to land a major cosmetics contract, reflects on meeting the legendary designer at the beginning of her career. Here she tells ELLE.com about traveling around the world with Lagerfeld and the generosity and creative brilliance that set…
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Just a few months before Donald J. Trump became the Republican nominee for president, The New York Post published an interview with his first wife, Ivana. Speaking from her seven-story townhouse on the Upper East Side, the Czech emigrant praised the restrictive immigration policies proposed by her ex-husband, before adding, “As long as you come…
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I was talking about borscht the other day with a friend — you know, as one does. Perhaps we were discussing the long-gone resorts of the Catskills, in the so-called Jewish Alps. During their heyday, in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, these summer resorts hosted generations of Jewish Americans, at a time when virulent anti-Semitism…
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As virtual and augmented reality apps continues to develop, it’s becoming more likely that travelers will interact with these technologies, whether before or after their trips. “We’re seeing lots of people play with different forms of what I call ‘content excitement,’” said Mike Croucher, the chief architect at the technology company Travelport. Examples of that…
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On Tuesday, Feb. 26, the second day of Paris Fashion Week, the city will wake up to 4,000 posters of Carine Roitfeld. The placards show her completely naked, looking out a window and making a peace sign with one hand. They will be placed in hot spots all over the city. No model, fashion editor…
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Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes, recipes for busy people who still want something good to eat. And don’t we need something good to eat? We’re in blah season, people. So go for brightness and tang, with kimchi, lemon, mint and feta. Or take this moment to embrace richness and depth, deploying lamb and…
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We Americans don’t cook nearly enough sausage bakes. In Britain, those glorious one-pan meals of vegetables topped with browned sausages are standard weeknight fare — easy to throw together, endlessly variable and as cozy and warming as supper should be. Here, in the United States, we are more likely to roast a chicken over those…
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