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The sixth annual Forces of Fashion summit will return in person and virtually today in London and New York. Headlining the panels this year at Manhattan’s Spring Studios will be Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour, artistic director of Fendi and Dior Men Kim Jones, supermodel Gigi Hadid, actor and November issue cover star Michaela Coel, and climate-justice activist and cofounder of Re-Earth Initiative Xiye Bastida.While video recordings of the talks between these leaders and Vogue’s editors will be available for purchase, this year marks the first return to an in-person event since 2019. The topics range from activism—Bastida and…

Bruce Sutter, a Hall of Fame reliever and the 1979 Cy Young winner, has died. He was 69.Sutter was recently diagnosed with cancer and died Thursday night in hospice, surrounded by his family, one of Sutter’s three sons, Chad, told The Associated Press. The Baseball Hall of Fame said Bruce Sutter died in Cartersville, Georgia.“All our father ever wanted to be remembered as was being a great teammate, but he was so much more than that,” the Sutter family said in a statement Friday. “He was also a great husband to our mother for 50 (years), he was a great…

Cadena, who will soon appear in the Marvel movie Black Panther, shared the problem of discrimination in the film industry. “When you realize that it is an issue for Latinos around the world, you start to grow your community to fight for the place we want to occupy outside of our country.”From left to right: Mabel Cadena, Gabriela Cartol, Valentina Collado, Ana Carbajal, and Tindi Mar. VIRIDIANA.In the search for greater inclusion in the fashion industry, Carbajal—model and writer—has worked to open spaces in the modeling industry. “Every day, I am grateful to be Mexican, Latina, and to be able…

Wand_prapan | Istock | Getty ImagesSocial Security’s average retiree benefit will go up by $146 per month in 2023, thanks to a record 8.7% cost-of-living adjustment prompted by high inflation.More than 70 million Social Security and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries will benefit from those higher payments.”It’s the highest COLA in 40 years,” said Andrew Biggs, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “It shows inflation is an issue again after having been dormant for literally decades.”But those bigger benefit checks will cost the program, by some estimates, over $100 billion more in payouts. In 2022, the program will spend more…

In the northern French city of Dunkirk, near a vast fuel depot hit by strikes for the past three weeks, shortages at petrol stations have become so severe that taxi driver Saïd Fertakh has seen his earnings dwindle as he spends time trying to find somewhere to fill up his car. “It’s becoming a struggle,” Fertakh said after filling up at one newly replenished station, where there was a long line of truckers and other motorists. “I spent an hour in a queue last week. I’ve had to say no to some customers because I needed to find somewhere to…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday that his country wants to strengthen ties to Mongolia, citing the country’s wealth of key commodities such as copper and rare earth metals.Speaking after a meeting in Berlin with Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene, he said the two leaders had agreed to “deepen and also expand cooperation between our two countries.”GERMANY PLANS TO INTRODUCE GLOBAL PUBLIC TRANSIT PASSScholz said combating climate change and transforming the energy sectors would be the focus of a meeting in Mongolia next year, adding that the country has “enormous potential when it comes to wind and solar power.” Germany,…

CNN  —  A pro-Trump operative who was caught on tape participating in a Georgia voting system breach after the 2020 election has testified before the special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the outcome in that state, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. Scott Hall, a Georgia bail bondsman and Fulton County Republican poll watcher who was captured on surveillance video the same day the breach happened and acknowledged he gained access to a voting machine, testified as a witness for over three hours last week in the state-level probe overseen by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis,…

The federal public safety minsiter says he is to travel to James Smith Cree Nation next week to advance the Liberal government’s plan to have First Nations policing recognized as an essential service. Marco Mendicino says policing by Indigenous Peoples for Indigenous Peoples is a key part of reconciliation.He says he has been speaking with his provincial counterpart in Saskatchewan, Christine Tell, and Indigenous leaders about the issue.The minister says steps need to be taken to ensure a tragedy like what occurred on James Smith Cree Nation never happens again. On Sept. 4, 11 people were killed and 18 others…

After more than two years of a surviving pandemic, you may feel like you’re more exhausted and stressed out than ever — and that the strength of your relationships, romantic and otherwise, has been tested.For couple’s therapist Sinead Smyth with the East Bay Relationship Center in Alameda, California, the onset of COVID-19 brought burnout for both her and her husband of 22 years, who is a health care worker. The couple share two sons, both of whom are in college. Smyth is a certified Gottman Institute therapist.”We didn’t realize it for a bit, actually, because we weren’t fully burnt out, and…

The FBI has been back at FIFA this week, working with soccer’s governing body to protect the World Cup in Qatar from potential crime including match-fixing.Federal investigators from the United States joined a panel meeting in Zurich that included Interpol and betting monitoring experts to oversee “timely handling of integrity matters” at the tournament that starts on Nov. 20, FIFA said on Thursday.Their cooperation follows more than seven years after a United States federal investigation and related Swiss case was unsealed that removed a swath of international soccer officials and led to FIFA’s then-president Sepp Blatter being banned for financial…