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Much of life in Israel came to a halt yesterday: Hospitals stopped providing nonemergency care, planes were grounded at the country’s main airport, and malls and banks closed. The disruptions were part of an escalation in protests against the government’s proposed judicial overhaul, which has plunged Israel into one of its gravest political crises ever. The interruptions to daily life were the latest sign that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had underestimated Israelis’ opposition to his government’s proposed changes to the courts. In response to the chaos, he has relented, at least in part. Netanyahu announced yesterday that he would delay the changes until later this year . “When there is a possibility of preventing a civil war through dialogue, I, as the prime minister, take a timeout for dialogue,” he said. The announcement calmed some of the protesters and unions have called off their strikes. But it remains unclear what will happen in the coming weeks — and whether … [Read more...] about A Win for Israel’s Protesters

(CNN) Nick Cannon seems poised to have the last laugh when it comes to all the joking about his large family. After posting a cryptic post about big news coming that had his social media followers believing his 13th child was on the way, Cannon revealed that he was partnering with fellow comedian Kevin Hart for a game show titled "Who's Having My Baby? with Nick Cannon." "We're expecting...a new show on E," the caption on a post on his verified Instagram account read. "#WhosHavingMyBaby premieres this Spring on @eentertainment! @kevinhart4real." Surely they must be joking, right? Turns out they were. Read More A rep for E! told CNN early Wednesday that there was more to the story and it has been announced that the Cannon and Hart are executing producing and hosting "Celebrity Prank Wars." "It's an all-out war as one celebrity pranks another, and the payback begins. Each episode will feature celebrities planning and perpetrating … [Read more...] about Nick Cannon’s ‘Who’s Having My Baby’ part of ‘Celebrity Prank Wars’

0 Politics & Government — Baltimore County Director of Economic and Workforce Development Leonard J. Howie III today announced he will depart Baltimore County. Press Release Desk , News Partner Posted Reply Press release from the Baltimore County Government: March 27, 2023 TOWSON, MD — Baltimore County Director of Economic and Workforce Development Leonard J. Howie III today announced he will depart Baltimore County Government to join the Office of Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, effective April 7, 2023. Howie, who has served as Baltimore County’s director since September 2020, led Baltimore County’s efforts to improve workforce development, attract and retain businesses, and expand the County’s economy. Joining County Government amid the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic crisis, Howie helped coordinate the County’s economic stabilization and recovery efforts. Prior to joining … [Read more...] about Baltimore County Announces Economic And Workforce Development Director To Join Office Of Maryland Attorney

A man who spent 16 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping writer Alice Sebold when she was a Syracuse University student has settled a lawsuit against New York state for $5.5 million, his lawyers said Monday. The settlement comes after Anthony Broadwater’s conviction for raping Sebold in 1981 was overturned in 2021 . It was signed last week by lawyers for Broadwater and New York Attorney General Letitia James, David Hammond, one of Broadwater’s attorneys, said. Broadwater, 62, said in a statement relayed by Hammond, “I appreciate what Attorney General James has done, and I hope and pray that others in my situation can achieve the same measure of justice. We all suffer from destroyed lives.” “Obviously no amount of money can erase the injustices Mr. Broadwater suffered, but the settlement now officially acknowledges them,” Sebold said in a statement released through a spokesperson. Sebold was an 18-year-old first-year student at Syracuse when she was … [Read more...] about New York to pay $5.5M to man exonerated in Sebold rape case

WASHINGTON — As the housing bubble entered its waning hours in 2006, top Federal Reserve officials marveled at the desperate antics of home builders seeking to lure buyers. The officials laughed about the cars that builders were offering as signing bonuses, and about efforts to make empty homes look occupied. They joked about one builder who said that inventory was “rising through the roof.” But the officials, meeting every six weeks to discuss the health of the nation’s economy, gave little credence to the possibility that the faltering housing market would weigh on the broader economy, according to transcripts that the Fed released Thursday. Instead they continued to tell one another throughout 2006 that the greatest danger was inflation — the possibility that the economy would grow too fast. “We think the fundamentals of the expansion going forward still look good,” Timothy F. Geithner, then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, told his colleagues when they … [Read more...] about Inside the Fed in 2006: A Coming Crisis, and Banter

See the article in its original context from May 22, 1983 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Last summer at the Kool Jazz Festival, 17 young and not-so-young musicians who have been acclaimed by the critics and by their fellow musicians as among the brightest hopes for jazz in the 1980's performed in various combinations in a concert that billed them as the Young Lions of Jazz. Though it was a bit formal and stuffy, as such events usually are, the concert did include some superb … [Read more...] about PERILS CONFRONT THE YOUNG LIONS OF JAZZ