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Awards season has arrived! Over the next few months, Hollywood’s top stars will be making their rounds on the red carpets—leading up to the grand-final event, the Oscars. This plethora of step-and-repeats means that A-listers and their stylists are already busy doing fittings and gathering designer options. We got our first taste of what’s to come this week at various film premieres and the star-studded Palm Springs International Film Festival. In Palm Springs, we saw a variety of fresh formal designs make their way to the carpet. Michelle Yeoh went for surrealism when she slipped into an ensemble from Schiaparelli’s fall…

Monday’s one-day conference, which will open with speeches by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, aims to secure commitments of support towards the country’s US$16 billion recovery and reconstruction plan. Pakistan’s government aims to cover half that amount with “domestic resources”, including through public-private partnerships, but is looking to the international community to cover the rest. Steiner insisted the international community had a moral duty to help Pakistan recover from a catastrophe clearly amplified by climate change. The country is responsible for less than 1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions but is one of the…

A New Jersey art teacher was arrested after he overdosed on fentanyl in front of students at a Westfield school, police said.Frank Thompson, 57, was charged Thursday with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and endangering the welfare of children in connection with an incident in November.Westfield police received a report on the morning of Nov. 29 from a school resource officer that Thompson had been found “unconscious and unresponsive” on a classroom floor at Roosevelt Intermediate School.Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield, N.J.Google MapsThompson, an art teacher, “was discovered and observed in distress by students” and…

Nobody does a fashion era quite like Kim Kardashian. Over the years, the reality star and beauty mogul has experimented with many different looks—obsessing over one particular designer or aesthetic for a prolonged period of time. She goes through phases of almost exclusively wearing one brand only: She’s been a Balmain muse, an archival Jean Paul Gaultier fanatic, and most recently, a Balenciaga devotee. But her brand new fashion mantra for 2023? It’s all about rocking the vintage tee. Over the past few months, Kardashian has been spotted out and about sporting rare pieces of merch. Just last night in L.A., Kardashian attended…

Chaos struck Brazil’s capital Sunday when supporters of far right former President Jair Bolsonaro descended on government buildings, breached them, climbed on a rooftop and broke windows.Video depicted damage to an office in the presidential palace, as well as broken windows in the country’s highest court.Leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, sworn in Jan. 1, responded by authorizing federal intervention in the Federal District until the end of January. He called those who attacked Congress “fascists,” according to translations of his tweets Sunday.“Whoever did this will be found and punished. Democracy guarantees the right to free expression, but it also…

Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown, has died. He was 82.Banks, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, died Saturday in upstate New York, his editor, Dan Halpern, told The Associated Press. Banks was being treated for cancer, Halpern said.Joyce Carol Oates, who referred to Banks on Twitter as a great American writer and “beloved friend of so many,” said he died peacefully in…

CNN  —  House Republicans are gearing up to investigate the Department of Justice and the FBI, including their “ongoing criminal investigations,” setting up a showdown with the Biden administration and law enforcement agencies over their criminal probes, particularly those into former President Donald Trump. The new House GOP majority has proposed that a new select subcommittee be formed – a result of one of the key concessions House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made to his opposition to secure the gavel. In addition to having the power to investigate all ongoing criminal probes of the executive branch, the Select Subcommittee on the…

DAKAR, Senegal — At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in a bus crash in central Senegal, the country’s president said Sunday.President Macky Sall tweeted that the collision happened in Gnivy village, in the Kaffrine region, at about 3:30 a.m.“I am deeply saddened by the tragic road accident today in Gniby causing 40 deaths and many serious injuries. I extend my heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and wish a speedy recovery to the injured,” said Sall.He declared three days of mourning starting Monday and said he will hold an inter-ministerial council to discuss road safety…

Prince Harry reveals in his new book he struggled with agoraphobia, an anxiety disorder that can cause people to become afraid to leave their home.“I was an agoraphobe. Which was nearly impossible given my public role,” Harry writes in his memoir, “Spare,” which will officially be published on Jan. 10, but was released early in Spain and translated by NBC News.He recalls “one speech, which couldn’t be avoided or canceled, and during which I’d nearly fainted” and writes that his older brother, Prince William, came backstage afterwards laughing at him for being “drenched.”“Him of all people. He’d been present for…

Mount Sinai Morningside and West hospital reached a tentative agreement with the state nursing union on a new contract Sunday, avoiding a strike Monday morning, according to a news release from the union. Nurses at two other area hospitals, Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Bronx, are still due to strike after not reaching agreements. Both hospitals are back at the bargaining table with New York State Nurses Association nurses today – if a tentative agreement is not reached, then approximately 3,625 nurses at Mount Sinai and approximately 3,500 nurses at Montefiore Bronx will strike at 6 a.m. Monday. The union…