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The Club by Bamford in the Cotswolds, a Look Inside the Luxury Wellness Center
Fitness

The Club by Bamford in the Cotswolds, a Look Inside the Luxury Wellness Center

On the Daylesford estate in the Cotswolds, if you take a walk past the bustling farm shop with the honeyed local-stone exterior, and the spa-in-a-barn with “wellness is a way of life” emblazoned on the side, you’ll soon find the region’s newest exclusive members club. When The Club by Bamford opens at the end of this month, clients can pay up to £15,000 ($18,300) a year to sip coffees at tree trunk tables near roaring fires, consult with doctors about their bloodwork, immerse themselves in a “restorative” sub-zero cryotherapy chamber, and pump iron overlooking the bucolic countryside.Lady Carole Bamford made Daylesford a destination over 20 years ago with her organic farm shop, which is busy year-round with shoppers eyeing £22 organic chickens and £29 geranium scented candles. She crea...
Neo-Nazis protest outside performance of Broadway musical about antisemitism
Entertainment

Neo-Nazis protest outside performance of Broadway musical about antisemitism

Theatergoers waiting to see the sold-out first preview of a classic Broadway musical Tuesday were interrupted by neo-Nazis chanting, holding banners and passing out false information about the show's subject.The group was identified by the musical's producers as the National Socialist Movement. The group is the largest membership-based neo-Nazi group in the United States and is known for "violent antisemitic rhetoric" and "its racist views," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. One patron, who shared brief video of the incident on Twitter, called the protest "absolutely wild" and "genuinely scary."  At the first preview of Parade on Broadway @paradebway and there is a absolutely wild protest outside. Only filmed a second because it was genuinely scary. They were ins...
Artificial intelligence could create more jobs than it displaces
Business

Artificial intelligence could create more jobs than it displaces

Artificial intelligence could create more jobs than it displaces - CBS News Watch CBS News The recent wave of artificial intelligence advancements has stirred up concern about the threat it poses to white-collar jobs. Tony Dokoupil visits a computer programming school in New York City to see if ChatGPT is coming for your job. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link
Biden heads to New York to showcase $292 million for new rail tunnel under Hudson River
Business

Biden heads to New York to showcase $292 million for new rail tunnel under Hudson River

New day, new tunnel. President Biden is ready to showcase a $292 million mega grant that will be used to help build a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, part of a broader effort to draw a contrast between his economic vision and that of Republicans.The money is part of $1.2 billion in mega grants being awarded under the 2021 infrastructure law. The Democratic president's trip to New York City comes on the heels of his stop Monday in Baltimore to highlight the replacement of an aging rail tunnel there, where he pledged that government spending on infrastructure will boost economic growth and create blue-collar jobs. "When America sees these projects popping up across the country, it sends a really importan...
Adams, clergy leaders continue to call for peaceful protests
Politics

Adams, clergy leaders continue to call for peaceful protests

Mayor Eric Adams and more than a dozen local clergy leaders gathered at an anti-violence vigil Sunday in Bedford-Stuyvesant to discuss keeping New York City safe when it comes to protests. “When I saw that video, it felt as though it was a betrayal because these are the same men and women who fought to diversify police departments of all groups,” Adams said. In Adams’ first public reaction since viewing the horrific video that shows Tyre Nichols being beaten by five Memphis police officers, the retired NYPD captain turned mayor said New York City must stay dedicated to becoming a city where fighting crime and fair policing go hand-in-hand.  What You Need To Know Mayor Eric Adams attended an anti-violence vigil Sunday in Bedford-Stuyvesant organized by more than a dozen local clergy l...
After ethics complaint, what’s next for George Santos?
Politics

After ethics complaint, what’s next for George Santos?

Rep. George Santos had barely moved into his new Capitol Hill office when two Democratic House colleagues formally filed a complaint, demanding the House Committee on Ethics investigate the scandal-plagued member of Congress. However, a former member of the ethics panel — former Hudson Valley Rep. Mondaire Jones — says that if the committee does move ahead with a full investigation of Santos, do not expect a resolution anytime soon. “It is far more likely that there will be some indictment by the federal Department of Justice or some local prosecutor’s office, than there will be an ethics committee finding or recommendation to the House,” Jones said. What You Need To Know In their ethics complaint, two New York Democrats accused Rep. George Santos of “failing to file timely, accurate...
U.S. expected to hit debt limit, kicking off monthslong countdown to possible default
Business

U.S. expected to hit debt limit, kicking off monthslong countdown to possible default

Washington — The countdown toward a possible U.S. government default is in the offing — with frictions between President Biden and House Republicans raising alarms about whether the U.S. can sidestep a potential economic crisis.The Treasury Department projects that the federal government will on Thursday reach its legal borrowing capacity of $38.381 trillion, an artificially imposed cap that lawmakers have increased roughly 80 times since the 1960s. Markets so far remain calm, as the government can temporarily rely on accounting tweaks to stay open, meaning that any threats to the economy are several months away. Even many worried analysts assume there will be a deal.But this particular moment seems more fraught than past brushes with the debt limit because of the broad differen...
‘New York cannot take more’ migrants, Adams says
Politics

‘New York cannot take more’ migrants, Adams says

During Mayor Eric Adams’ visit to El Paso, Texas, he said New York asylum seekers are overwhelming the city. “New York cannot take more. We can’t,” he said. “There’s no more room in New York.” Adams called on city mayors across the country to join forces and handle the rapid migrant crisis. “This is a national problem,” Adams said at a news conference in Texas Sunday evening. “ We must have real immigration reform and we must immediately have a short-term fix of making sure that the cost of this does not fall on our local cities.” Adams’ agenda on his one-day trip Sunday included meeting with local officials, visiting a local shelter, going to a facility that provides support services to asylum seekers and the southern border and touring the U.S. Customs Border Protection facility. On F...
Kevin McCarthy stands by George Santos
Politics

Kevin McCarthy stands by George Santos

CNN  —  Rep. George Santos, the recently elected GOP congressman from New York who has admitted to lying about parts of his resume, is facing escalating backlash from his own party as a growing number of House Republican lawmakers call for him to resign or say he can’t serve effectively even as Speaker Kevin McCarthy has stood by the embattled congressman. Santos has so far been defiant, pushing back on calls for his resignation – and House GOP leadership has not called on him to do so. Instead, McCarthy, a Republican from California, has indicated he will not join demands from New York GOP leaders, and others, for Santos’ resignation – and has indicated that Santos is on track to still receive committee assig...