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Accrington Stanley boss Andy Holt’s tweet is full of Lancastrian sarcasm.”Congratulations Ryan, I honestly don’t know how you did it! What an achievement. Good luck with your high notes,” it read.He was responding to a celebratory post from Wrexham boss Ryan Reynolds following his side’s second successive promotion.Holt is one of the most interesting figures in English football and his comments are as divisive as the team’s. Wrexham are the Marmite of English football – loved to hate by fans of other teams – and the controversy ended last weekend when they were promoted to League One alongside Stockport County…

Joe Biden es un tipo elegante. Siempre lo ha sido. Hace décadas, cuando salió por primera vez con la que se convertiría en su esposa y la primera dama del país, la reacción instintiva que tuvo ella fue: “Esto no va a funcionar nunca, ni en un millón de años”.Joe Biden, vestido con un abrigo deportivo y mocasines, lucía demasiado elegante para alguien que antes había salido con hombres en camiseta y zuecos.Funcionó. Y el futuro presidente mantuvo su estilo. A veces tendía un poco a lo Gatsby, por lo que en 1974, la revista Washingtonian destacó su predilección por…

Uri Berliner, the NPR editor who accused the broadcaster of liberal bias in an online essay last week, prompting criticism from conservatives and recrimination from many of his co-workers, has resigned from the nonprofit.Mr. Berliner said in a social media post on Wednesday that he was resigning because of criticism from the network’s chief executive, Katherine Maher.“I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new C.E.O. whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay,” Mr. Berliner wrote.In his brief resignation letter, addressed to Ms. Maher, Mr. Berliner said…

For decades, the United States has fashioned itself the champion of an open internet, arguing that the web should be largely unregulated and that digital data should flow around the globe unhindered by borders. The government has argued against internet censorship abroad and even funded software that lets people in autocratic states get around online content restrictions.Now that reputation could take a hit.The House is expected to again try to advance legislation to force a sale of TikTok by its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or institute a first-of-its-kind ban on the app in the United States, this time including it in…

Sophie Kinsella, the best-selling English author of the “Shopaholic” book series, revealed on social media on Wednesday that she had been undergoing treatment for an aggressive and often fatal form of brain cancer.Kinsella said that she had been diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2022, but waited to make the diagnosis public so her children could “ hear and process the news privately and adapt to our ‘new normal.’” She added that her condition was stable after a successful operation and ongoing chemotherapy and radiation at University College Hospital in London.Kinsella, whose real name is Madeleine Wickham, has written a string of…

Lincoln Center said on Wednesday that it would devote its summer festival to themes of community and civic participation, with a mix of hip-hop, comedy, dance, classical music and more under the motto “life, liberty and happiness.”The festival, Summer for the City, will feature premieres of anthems about contemporary hopes and struggles. Classical music concerts will be more participatory than in the past; at one event, audience members will be asked to vote on the program. And civil rights will be prominent, with the New York premiere of an opera about Eric Garner, who died in 2014 at the hands…

Israeli leaders on Tuesday were debating how best to respond to Iran’s unprecedented weekend airstrike, officials said, weighing a set of options calibrated to achieve different strategic outcomes: deterring a similar attack in the future, placating their American allies and avoiding all-out war.Iran’s attack on Israel, a barrage of hundreds of ballistic missiles and exploding drones, changed the unspoken rules in the archrivals’ long-running shadow war. Until this month, the two nations had refrained from launching major airstrikes from one country’s territory directly at the other’s.Now, the calculus that Israel must use to decide its next move has also changed,…

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a cross-border drone and missile attack in northern Israel on Wednesday that the Israeli military said had injured 14 soldiers, six of them severely.It was one of the most damaging attacks in recent months by Hezbollah, Iran’s most powerful regional proxy, in its continuing clashes with Israel. The clashes have intensified in the wake of Israel’s targeted killing of two Hezbollah commanders. And there are growing fears of a broader conflict between Israel and Tehran, which mounted a wide aerial attack on Israel over the weekend.Hezbollah said its attack on an Israeli…

In a time when the headlines are dominated by wars and a divisive presidential campaign, the magazine-world rivalry between The Atlantic and The New Yorker doesn’t amount to much.So you might have missed it when, on April 2, The Atlantic beat The New Yorker in three big categories at the 2024 National Magazine Awards.But to Rusty Foster, who chronicles the media industry and internet culture in his daily newsletter, Today in Tabs, The Atlantic’s victory was big news.Shortly after the awards ceremony, which took place at Terminal 5 in Manhattan, Mr. Foster tapped out a fanciful report for his audience…

The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to sue to block a luxury fashion mega merger, Tapestry’s $8.5 billion takeover of Capri Holdings, two people with knowledge of the matter said.The F.T.C.’s five commissioners are expected to meet next week to discuss the case, a move that could precede a formal vote on whether to file a lawsuit, the people said. The people, who were not authorized to discuss the deliberations, said that it was still possible that the agency could opt not to sue.The deal, intended to bring together labels such as Tapestry’s Coach and Kate Spade with Capri’s Versace…