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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 of media obsessives. Under the headline “Shutout at the TK Corral,” he wrote that David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, “solemnly folded up and ate each of his prepared speeches as he w...

World leaders, who had urged Israel and Iran to ease tensions, once again implored both countries to avoid any further action that could spark a wider war in the Middle East as Israel battles Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. , both allies of Iran.“A significant escalation is in no one's interests,” British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose military took part in defending Israel from Iran's missile and drone attack last weekend, told reporters on Friday. “What we want to see is for calm to prevail throughout the region.”Last Saturday, there was an airstrike on a base used by an Iranian-backed armed group, Harakat al Nujaba, in Iraq's Babylon province, according to an arm of Iraq's security forces, the Popular Mobilization Forces. A hospital said at least three peop...

Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen ha un problema: troppe persone vogliono quello che sta vendendo.Il signor Jorgensen è l'amministratore delegato di Novo Nordisk, il produttore farmaceutico danese. Anche se l'azienda non è proprio un nome familiare, il jingle televisivo del suo farmaco più venduto: "Oh-oh-ohhh, Ozempic!" - potrebbe risuonare nelle tue orecchie. In tutti gli Stati Uniti, i farmaci per il diabete e la perdita di peso di Novo Nordisk, Ozempic e Wegovy, sono saliti allo status di celebrità e hanno contribuito a rendere l'azienda l'azienda pubblica più preziosa d'Europa. Non ne può fare abbastanza dei farmaci.Il problema del signor Jorgensen è che a molti alti dirigenti non dispiacerebbe, ma il successo lo ha colto di sorpresa. L'anno scorso, quando la soci...

Twenty-three top Chinese swimmers tested positive for the same powerful banned substance seven months before the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 but were allowed to escape public scrutiny and continue to compete after top Chinese officials secretly cleared them of doping and the global authority charged with policing drugs in sports chose not to intervene.Several of the athletes who tested positive — including nearly half of the swimming team that China sent to the Tokyo Games — went on to win medals, including three golds. Many still compete for China and several, including the two-time gold medalist Zhang Yufei, are expected to contend for medals again at this year’s Summer Games in Paris.China acknowledged the positive tests in a report by its antidoping regulator, saying the swimmers had i...

Another start-up founder will go to prison for overstating his company's performance in the eyes of investors.Manish Lachwani, who last year pleaded guilty to three counts of defrauding investors in his software start-up, HeadSpin, was sentenced Friday to a year and a half in prison. He will also pay a fine of $1 million.Prosecutors said Mr. Lachwani, 48, deceived investors by inflating HeadSpin's revenue by nearly fourfold, making false claims about his customers and creating false invoices to cover it all up. His misrepresentations allowed him to raise $117 million in funding from major investment firms, valuing his start-up at $1.1 billion.When HeadSpin board members discovered the behavior in 2020, they pushed Mr. Lachwani to resign and cut the company's valuation by two-...

For more than a decade, Israel has attempted, time and time again, bombing and missile campaigns that would knock out Iran's nuclear production capacity, much of it based around the city of Isfahan and the nuclear enrichment complex of Natanz, 75 miles north.That's not what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet chose to do before dawn Friday, and in interviews, analysts and nuclear experts said the decision was significant.So was the silence that followed. Israel has said almost nothing about the limited attack, which appears to have caused little damage in Iran. U.S. officials noted that the Iranian decision to downplay the Isfahan explosions — and suggestions by Iranian officials that Israel may not have been responsible — was a clear effort by the Islamic Revolut...

Some context: Experts say bad situations can often be reversed with treatment.Both the mental health and drug addiction crises are rocking the country, and the effects of parents' drug use and mental illness can quickly spill over to their children. Public health experts say substance use disorders can incapacitate a previously diligent parent and lead to Child Protective Services involvement.In 2021 alone, more than seven million children were referred to authorities over concerns of maltreatment, and more than 200,000 were removed from their homes, according to a federal report. But research shows that when parents seek treatment for psychiatric and substance use disorders, they are much less likely to experience family separation.The numbers: what the researchers discovered.To cal...

From the bloody trenches of the battlefield to the crowded cities hit by Russian bombing, millions of Ukrainians waited in nervous anticipation as the U.S. Congress prepared, after months of delay, to decide whether America would resume providing their country with a fundamental military support.Private Pavlo Kaliuk, who fought to slow the Russian advance after the fall of the town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine earlier this year, was on his way to the funeral of a fallen soldier when he was reached by phone Friday.“I'm walking and thinking that maybe it's my friend who died in the war, who is up there in heaven now, who will help the world and the United States support Ukraine,” he said.Ukraine cannot rely on divine intervention; Instead, he is counting on the House of Representa...

Tesla has agreed to recall nearly 4,000 of its Cybertruck pickups to fix an accelerator pedal that can get stuck, increasing the risk of crashes, a federal safety agency said Friday.The defect could cause unintended acceleration of the vehicle, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a warning posted on its website. Tesla began selling the Cybertruck, its first pickup truck, in November after many delays.The recall represents yet another setback for Tesla, the largest electric vehicle maker in the United States. The company has been losing market share to emerging rivals and this month reported that its sales in the first three months of the year fell compared to the same period a year earlier – the first time this has happened since the start of pandemic.Tesla's r...

The relatively limited scope of Israel's overnight attacks on Iran, and a moderate response by Iranian officials, may have reduced the chances of an immediate escalation in clashes between the two countries, analysts said on Friday.There have been fears for days that a strong Israeli response to Iran's attack on southern Israel last weekend could provoke an even more aggressive response from Iran, potentially turning an "eye for an eye" confrontation into a broader war. Foreign leaders have advised Israel to view its successful defense against Iran's missile barrage as a victory that requires no retaliation, warning of a counterattack that could further destabilize the region.But when Friday finally arrived, the Israeli attack appeared less damaging than expected, allowing Ira...