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The Cultural Meaning of the Kennedys

Why JFK has more in common with Elvis than with FDR
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Queen Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, says doctor told him to ‘f–k off’ when he asked for Ozempic
"He just went, ‘f--k off. You’re a food writer,’” Tom Parker Bowles recalled.
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California dairy ordered to stop production following listeria outbreak
A federal court has ordered Rizo Lopez Foods to shut down after a listeria outbreak that was linked to two deaths and multiple hospitalizations.
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The Race for the White House is Too Close to Call
Kamala Harris’s path to victory depends on the Blue Wall
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Consumer Reports calls for federal ban on baby walkers. Here's why.
Banned in Canada for 20 years, baby walkers send thousands of U.S. children to hospital emergency rooms every year.
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Exec admits stealing $4.8M from Va. birth-injury fund for jet trips, gold
John Hunter Raines, 38, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and money laundering offenses that carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison.
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Feds raid NYPD’s school safety HQ as part of probe into city contracts: sources
FBI agents raided the city’s school safety command headquarters in Queens Thursday as part of a probe into school safety panic button contracts greenlit by an embattled former senior adviser to Mayor Eric Adams, sources said.
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Jerry Seinfeld cheers on the Mets — and Israel — during NLDS clincher
Jerry Seinfeld wasn’t only cheering on the Mets during Wednesday’s game at Citi Field. 
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Englishman in New York: Sting’s back in a trio at Brooklyn concert — but it’s not the Police
After becoming a superstar as frontman of the Police, Sting is back leading another trio with his Sting 3.0 Tour that hit the Brooklyn Paramount this week.
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‘RHONY’ star Brynn Whitfield admits it’s ‘hard’ keeping up with stylish co-stars: ‘They’re way more fabulous’
"It's hard. They're literally all fashionistas! I would raid any of their closets. It's incredible," she told Page Six Style exclusively.
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Dr. Dre’s former divorce therapist sues mogul, alleging harassment, ‘homophobic’ threats
Dr. Dre's former divorce therapist — who mediated the music producer's split with ex-wife Nicole Young — is suing for civil harassment and seeking $10 million.
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Georgia May Jagger gives birth to first baby with boyfriend Cambryan Sedlick
The model debuted her baby bump in a June maternity shoot, gushing that she and her partner were "patiently waiting for [their] new best friend."
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49ers vs. Seahawks player props: ‘Thursday Night Football’ pick, prediction
The Seahawks defense is a mess. 
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Ye sued by ex-'fixer' allegedly asked to tail Bianca Censori, look into Kardashians
Kanye West's former 'fixer' is suing the rapper for threatening to kill him and retaliating against him when he reported alleged abuses about Donda Academy.
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IKEA annual sales slump 5% on weak housing market as company commits to price cuts
The Swedish home decor retailer has slashed prices and committed itself to making more price cuts in the future in an effort to win back cash-strapped customers.
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This common mistake may shrink your 401(k) by as much as $300,000
The 401(k) is the most popular retirement plan in America, but many workers make a repeated mistake that can cost them.
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Erin Foster feared ‘Nobody Wants This’ would lead to her own divorce — as it gets Season 2 pickup 
Thinking that her romance with Simon Tikhman, 40, would be an interesting show idea, she decided to sell it to 20th-Century Fox.
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Mayorkas refuses to answer questions on Afghan accused of Election Day terror plot
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to answer questions about an alleged terror plot in the United States by an Afghan evacuee who came to the U.S. in 2021.
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Why the South and West can’t seem to crack the list of America’s hottest housing markets
Where are people shopping for homes now that mortgage rates have fallen significantly from last October’s peak?
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Book excerpt: "War" by Bob Woodward
The veteran Washington Post reporter's latest book delves into the inner circles of the Biden White House to examine Russia's war against Ukraine, and Israel's conflict against Hamas and Hezbollah.
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JSerra baseball coach Brett Kay criticizes colleges for dropping recruits late in year
Brett Kay says he's upset USC failed to communicate before withdrawing an scholarship offer to JSerra baseball player Cole Strane late in the year.
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The Hurricanes That Caught America Off-Guard
Less than a century ago, many New Englanders were in a similar position to the Appalachian communities devastated by Helene.
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Bears owner George McCaskey details his Tom Brady free agency flirtation
Brady revealed weeks ago that he was considering the Bears during free agency in 2020 before joining the Buccaneers.
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Florida deputies rescue boy floating on piece of fence in floodwaters
A Florida boy floating in the flooded water in Tampa was rescued by sheriff's deputies on a patrol boat, authorities said Thursday.
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Military sends resources to Florida in wake of Hurricane Milton while Helene recovery efforts continue
The U.S. military is flooding resources into storm-ravaged Florida while also continuing to tend to those affected in North Carolina by Hurricane Helene.
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SBF’s FTX lieutenant Ryan Salame adds prison stint to LinkedIn resume
“I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as inmate at FCI Cumberland!” Salame wrote on the social networking site on Wednesday.
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TD Bank pleads guilty to enabling money laundering and other crimes
As part of a deal, the TD Bank will pay more than $3 billion in fines for enabling drug traffickers and other criminals to open accounts and transfer money.
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This Michelin-starred chef wants to feed people. So she closed her restaurants
Minh Phan shut her restaurants so she could feed people's hearts and minds, and their stomachs, with immersive art and 'challenging' foods at the surplus produce nonprofit Food Forward.
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Housewife Hot Takes: Jenn Fessler gets real about Ariana Grande’s future facelift and crazy Botox bills
“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Jenn Fessler joined “Virtual Reali-Tea” hosts Danny Murphy and Evan Real in the Page Six studio to sound off on hot topics like tanning beds, Botox, and Ariana Grande’s plastic surgery. Check out our new series “Housewife Hot Takes” from “Virtual Reali-Tea” and Page Six!
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Amazon Prime Big Deal Days breaks record as company’s biggest October shopping event
Amazon hosted its Prime Big Deal Days on Tuesday and Wednesday – a two-day event that offered a slew of deals and promotions to its members.
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Harvard, other top universities colluded to inflate tuition for students of divorced parents, suit claims
Having both parents fill out the CSS Profile allowed the schools to artificially inflate the sum that the family could afford to pay, it was alleged.
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DOC press secretary who wrestled another DOC official was once on MTV ‘Anger Management’ reality show
City Department of Correction press secretary Annais Morales — who wrestled with DOC compliance officer Mariam Singh in a diva donnybrook on Oct. 8 — was just 21-years-old when she appeared on the episode.
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Tom Cruise can rest easy after Florida penthouse survives Hurricane Milton unscathed
The "Top Gun" star can breathe a sigh of relief after his luxury Clearwater penthouse stood tall against the potentially devastating Hurricane Milton.
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Nintendo’s new motion-detecting alarm clock turns your morning routine into a real-life video game
Shut the bleep bleep bleep up!
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‘Thursday Night Football’ Schedule: Start Time, Channel, Where To Watch Tonight’s ‘TNF’ Game Live
Can the 49ers rebound after their Week 4 loss to the Cardinals?
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Hurricane Helene causes dire IV fluid shortage at hospitals nationwide
An IV fluids plant that supplies a majority of America's health care system has been impacted by Hurricane Helene. Dr. Kenneth Perry discusses the importance of this treatment for various conditions.
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'Out of money': Whistleblowers allege lack of Secret Service funds, delayed payments, top senator reveals
Sen. Grassley is asking the Department of Homeland Security and Secret Service for answers about their funding and payments to agents.
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Anti-Israel protests on the Oct. 7 anniversary: Letters to the Editor — Oct. 11, 2024
NY Post readers discuss pro-Palestine protests held on the first anniversary of Hamas’ deadly attack.
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Embattled Packers receiver returns to practice field after serving one-game suspension
Packers wide receiver Romeo Doubs returned to practice Wednesday after serving a one-game suspension issued by the team for missing two practices before Sunday's game against the Rams.
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Help! My Sister Stupidly Bought a Farm to “Raise Her Kids on the Land.” Now She’s Trying to Drag Me Into the Dirt.
Her “cottage core” fantasy will not be my nightmare.
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How Lore Segal Saw the World in a Nutshell
Lore Segal, who died on Monday, spent the last four months of her life looking out of the window. Her world had been shrinking for some time, as a hip replacement, a pacemaker, deteriorating vision, and other encroachments of old age had made it difficult to leave her New York City apartment, even with the aid of the walker she referred to as “my chariot.” But now, after a minor heart attack in June, she was confined to a hospital bed at home. There, she could study the rooftops and antique water tanks of the Upper West Side—a parochial vision for some, but not for the Viennese-born Segal, who once described herself as “naturalized not in North America so much as in Manhattan.”Of course, she was an old hand at seeing the universe in a nutshell. It was one of her great virtues as both a writer and a person, and her affinity for tiny, telling details had drawn me to her work long before I became her friend. I also loved her freshness of perception. In Segal’s 1985 novel, Her First American, Ilka Weissnix, newly arrived in this country, disembarks from a train in small-town Nevada and has what must be one of the very few epiphanies ever prompted by a glue factory. “The low building was made of a rosy, luminescent brick,” Segal writes, “and quivered in the blue haze of the oncoming night—it levitated. The classic windows and square white letters, saying AMERICAN GLUE INC., moved Ilka with a sense of beauty so out of proportion to the object, Ilka recognized euphoria.”To some extent, this euphoria must have stemmed from Segal’s own history as an immigrant. She left Vienna on the Kindertransport in 1938, then lived in Britain and Santo Domingo before making landfall in the United States in 1951. Her books are full of people who have been dislodged from one place and set down in another. The challenges of such displacement are obvious. But it can be a gift for a writer, dropped into a glittering environment whose every detail is, to use Segal’s favorite word, interesting.She also possessed extraordinary empathy. Segal was quite specific about what this meant, and resisted the idea of being seen as a victim, even when it came to her narrow escape from the Third Reich’s killing machine. “Sympathy pities another person’s experience,” she once wrote, “whereas empathy experiences that experience.” It was getting inside other people that counted, even if our grasp of another human soul was always partial.Her empathetic impulse accounted for a hilarious comment she once made to me about her television-watching habits: “I don’t like to watch shows where people feel awkward.” Because this is the modus operandi of almost every post-Seinfeld TV show, it must have really cut down Segal’s viewing options. I think what bothered her were scenarios specifically engineered to bring out our helplessness in social or existential situations. She found it hard to hate other people and couldn’t even bring herself to dislike the water bug that lived in her kitchen.I’m not suggesting that Segal was some sort of Pollyanna. She was well aware of our capacity for cruelty and destruction—it had, after all, been shoved in her face when she was very young. But her fascination with human behavior on the individual level seemed to insulate her from received thinking on almost any topic. “Contradiction was her instinct, her autobiography, her politics,” Segal wrote of her doppelgänger, Ilka, who reappeared in Shakespeare’s Kitchen more than 20 years after the publication of Her First American. “Mention a fact and Ilka’s mind kicked into action to round up the facts that disproved it. Express an opinion and Ilka’s blood was up to voice an opposite idea.” Everything had to be freshly examined; everything had to pass the litmus test that is constantly being staged in a writer’s brain.[Read: Remembering the peerless Toni Morrison]Segal also brought this approach to ideological truths, few of which made the grade. It’s fascinating to me that a writer so allergic to ideology managed to produce one of the great Holocaust narratives and one of the great American novels about race—projects that might now be hobbled by questions of authenticity and appropriation. For Segal, the glut of information, and the ethical exhaustion that resulted, turned contemporary existence into a minefield, and politics was no way out. Decency was, but that took enormous work and concentration.“To be good, sane, happy is simple only if you subscribe to the Eden theory of original goodness, original sanity, and original happiness, which humankind subverted into a fascinating rottenness,” she wrote in an essay. “Observation would suggest that we come by our rottenness aboriginally and that rightness, like any other accomplishment, is something achieved.” In all of her books, in every word she wrote, Segal struggled for that very rightness. I would say she achieved it too, with amazing frequency.I cannot think about Lore Segal’s work without thinking about my friendship with her. For years and years, I read her books and admired her from a distance. It was only in 2009 that I finally met Lore, as I will now call her. Her publisher was reissuing Lucinella, a madcap 1976 novella that somehow mingles the literary life with Greek mythology: Zeus turns up at Yaddo, the prestigious artists’ colony, in a notably priapic mood. I was asked to interview her at a bookshop, and we hit it off at once.This small, witty, white-haired person, whose voice still bore the inflection of her Viennese childhood, was a joy to be around. She laughed a lot, and made you laugh. Her marvelous capacity to pay attention made you feel larger-hearted and a little more intelligent—it was as if you were borrowing those qualities from her. In her apartment, with its grand piano and Maurice Sendak drawings and carefully arranged collections of nutcrackers and fin de siècle scissors, we spent many hours visiting, talking, joking, complaining. We bemoaned the slowness and blindness and intransigence of editors (even during the years when I was an editor). We drank the dry white wine I’d buy at the liquor store three blocks away, and Lore always pronounced the same verdict after her first sip: “This is good.”In time, she began sending me early drafts of the stories that would eventually make up most of her 2023 collection, Ladies’ Lunch. As her vision worsened, the fonts grew larger—by the end, I would be reading something in 48-point Calibri, with just a few words on each page. I was flattered, of course, to function as a first reader for one of my idols. I was touched as well to discover that she was still beset with doubts about her work. “Wouldn’t you think that age might confer the certainty that one knows what one is doing?” she lamented in an email a couple of years ago. “It does not. It deprives.”We saw each other, too, at meetings of our book group, which Lore had invited me to join in 2010. In more recent years, we always met at Lore’s, because it had become harder and harder for her to bundle herself and her walker into a taxi. Only a few weeks before she died, the group met one last time, at her insistence. She had chosen a beloved favorite, Henry James’s The Ambassadors, and was not going to be cheated out of the conversation.We sat around her hospital bed, with her oxygen machine giving off its periodic sighs in the background. Lore, peering once more into the microcosm of James’s novel and finding the whole world within it, asked the kind of questions she always asked.“Are the characters in this novel exceptional people?” she wanted to know.“Of course not,” replied another member of the group. “They’re absolutely typical people of the period, well-heeled Americans without an original thought in their heads.”This did not satisfy Lore. She felt that Lambert Strether, sent off to the fleshpots of Paris to retrieve his fiancée’s errant son, had been loaned some of James’s wisdom and perceptive powers (exactly as I always thought I was borrowing Lore’s). “Live all you can,” Strether advises, with very un-Jamesian bluntness. And here was Lore, living all she could, sometimes resting her head on the pillow between one pithy observation and the next. It was the capacity to feel, she argued, that had been awakened in the novel’s protagonist. Empathy, rather than analysis, was Lore’s true currency to the very end.[Read: The summer reading guide]I visited her just a few more times. She was fading; the multicolored array of pills and eye drops on the table grew bigger and more forbidding; the oxygen machine seemed louder with just the two of us in the room.“I hope I’ll see you again,” I said, the last time I left. These are the sort of words usually uttered at the beginning of a friendship, not at the conclusion. “But whatever happens, I’ll be thinking of you.”Out the door I went, and boarded the elevator, in whose creaking interior I shed a few tears, and as I strolled up one of those Upper West Side streets mounded with the trash bags that Lore had so eloquently described (“the bloated, green, giant vinyl bags with their unexplained bellies and elbows”), I found myself asking: Why do we cry? How do we cope with loss? What, precisely, is sadness? These were the questions that Lore would ask—the questions she had been asking her entire career. Her books constitute a kind of answer, at least a provisional one. I will be reading them for the rest of my life and, exactly as I promised Lore on my way out the door, thinking of her.
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How to watch Lynx vs. Liberty in 2024 WNBA Finals for free: start times, streaming
The Liberty are in the WNBA Finals for the second time in two years.
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Perrier faces concerns after fecal matter found in sparkling water’s source spring
The alarming discovery lead to a suspension, prompting the destruction of more than 2 million bottles earlier this year.
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Brutes beat sleeping homeless man to death with metal pipes, baseball bat, outside NYC supermarket: cops
The men, 42 and 38, were snoozing in the parking lot of the supermarket on McDonald Avenue near Avenue I in Mapleton around 7 p.m. Sept. 18 when the vicious pair got into a spat with them, authorities said. 
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That Sure Is One Way to Convince Young Men Not to Vote for Donald Trump
"Instead of seeing—you know—it's a picture of Donald Trump."
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‘RHOSLC’ alum Jen Shah’s prison sentence further reduced
Page Six has exclusively learned some “shah-mazing” news for Jen Shah. The “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” alum’s prison sentence has been reduced for a second time. Watch the full video to learn more about the latest update on Jen’s legal woes.  Subscribe to our YouTube for the latest on all your favorite stars.
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Twisted Revenge Thriller Sweetpea Will Delight Fans of Bad Sisters and Dead to Me
'Yellowjackets' and 'Fallout' star Ella Purnell is riveting in this Starz series about a meek young woman who snaps and starts killing.
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Hasidic Jewish students charged in NYC synagogue tunnel digging scoff at plea offer: ‘Rather go to prison’
The Hasidic Jewish students who dug a secret tunnel under a Brooklyn synagogue said they’d rather go to prison than face a ban from the historic temple — as they rebuffed plea deals from prosecutors Thursday. Nearly all of the 13 young men charged over the infamous hideout — which went viral when it was...
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Tampa’s ‘Lieutenant Dan’ emerges unscathed after braving Hurricane Milton’s fury | Reporter Replay
The one-legged, sailboat-dwelling Florida man affectionately nicknamed “Lieutenant Dan” is OK after riding out Hurricane Milton’s wrath in Tampa Bay — despite the mayor insisting he went to shelter ahead of the powerful storm. The sailor who went viral for refusing to abandon ship never left his boat, in which he lives, as Milton swelled...
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