Posts

The details of his cosseted royal life emerged as U.K. network ITV prepared to show a bombshell new documentary about his association with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. British tabloid The Sun published details of laminated instructions prepared to show servants where to put the cuddly toys and how to place cushions with “Daddy,” “Ducks” and “Prince” on them. The selection included a grey hippo, a black panther, a hippo in a blanket, a teddy holding a heart, and a teddy with a necklace....

“Is it a boy, or is it a girl,” Winfrey asked. Markle glanced over at Harry, who was looking back at her. “It’s a girl,” Harry confidently answered. The three mega-famous people on the TV set showed immense joy after he said it, and then they were asked what was their first thought when learning from an ultrasound that their second child would be a little girl. “Amazing,” Harry said....

The Duke of Sussex will turn out for BetterUp’s “Inner Work Day” on February 3 in his capacity as its Chief Impact Officer. Williams—who has won 23 grand slams—was a guest at Prince Harry’s wedding in May 2018 and has been a friend of Meghan Markle’s spanning years. The online event takes place at 4.15pm ET (1.15pm PT) with registration possible through the BetterUp website. The event description reads: “Join BetterUp CEO, Alexi Robichaux, in conversation with Chief Impact Officer, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, and Serena Williams, record-smashing tennis champion, entrepreneur, philanthropist and designer, about cultivating the power of Mental Fitness through a bold commitment to Inner Work....

The Duke of Sussex revealed baby Archie has motivated him to “give our children the future they deserve” by fighting for the environment. His passionate comments come in the annual report for NGO African Parks, which he is president of. Prince Harry said: “We are currently living through an extinction crisis and now a global pandemic that has shaken us to our core and brought the world to a standstill....

The Duke of Sussex, 38, wanted to bring to light the fate of drug addicts in a part of Sao Paulo known as Cracolandia, due to the proliferation of crack cocaine, which sold at the time for 80p per rock. Courtiers, by Valentine Low, describes how it was not a normal royal visit, and it was uncertain whether Harry would “get out in one piece” as the crowd around him became frenzied....

The Duke of Sussex, 35, told of “rolling around in hysterics” with baby Archie as he shared his parenting experiences with two U.K. families helped by charity WellChild. He discussed the stress felt by mothers and fathers struggling to get their children with underlying health conditions added to the vulnerable list. However, he also acknowledged his own past anguish in words that echo previous comments about the death of his mother Princess Diana....

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex published the plans for their Archewell Foundation online a day after Queen Elizabeth II failed to mention them in a COP26 speech praising Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Philip’s record on the environment. Harry and Meghan name-checked the conference in a statement on their website which also affirmed their “long-standing commitment to the planet” dating back “over a decade.” The statement read: “As global leaders convene for COP26 to commit to solutions for our climate crisis, all of us at Archewell, led by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, share our pledge towards a more sustainable future by becoming net zero by 2030....

Speaking about his time in Britain with Meghan, Harry tells viewers: “I wonder what would have happened to us if we hadn’t got out when we did…I said we need to get out of here.” The royal then describes the flight he is self-filming footage on as the “freedom flight.” One of the most incendiary parts of the trailer comes as clips of negative press coverage of Harry and Meghan are shown before a focused photograph of Buckingham Palace appears on screen, with Harry delivering the line: “They were happy to lie to protect my brother but were never willing to tell the truth to protect us....

The Duke of Sussex appeared at the Vax Live concert to raise money to vaccinate the world at SoFi stadium on May 2. And when he went on the Armchair Experts podcast he had some words for the UFC commentator, who suggested healthy young people should not get jabbed. Prince Harry appeared to bring the subject up, asking host Dax Shepard: “what’s your feelings about Joe Rogan’s comments?” He added: “I think the issue is in today’s world with misinformation just, like, endemic, you’ve got to be careful about what comes out of your mouth when it comes to that because news doesn’t exist in just news any more....

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, 38, took the photos of her son with his hands covered in colourful paint as her youngest prepares to turn two in lockdown today. The happy toddler holds his hands up to the camera and to his cheeks as he smiles broadly in a blue and white checked shirt in the images. Kate shared the rainbow handprint he made during a craft session this month as part of a trend for children across Britain during the pandemic....

Karlen says, “Ken Kesey had that line: ‘The trouble with superheroes is what to do between phone booths.’ I think that Prince had that problem.” That revelation is just one of many about the star in Karlen’s newly published book This Thing Called Life: Prince’s Odyssey On + Off the Record (St. Martin’s Press). A former Newsweek editor, the Minneapolis-based Karlen is one of the few journalists who had access to the notoriously private and eccentric musician, penning three cover stories about him for Rolling Stone between 1985 and 1990....

The success of the 70-year reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has been built on her discretion, her discernment and skill in knowing when to speak and when to say nothing at all. The British monarch is actively apolitical, never expressing publicly an opinion and leaving the day-to-day running of the country to her prime minister and elected government. Because politics are left to the government of the day, the queen is a living symbol of the British state; and her role, and that of her family, is to represent each and every one of us....

Uploaded to the social media platform by user 2000sfemme, the video shows images of William taken on Christmas Day at Queen Elizabeth II’s Sandringham estate in 2008. William had grown out the facial hair during a navy special boat service training operation with the British Royal Navy in Barbados earlier that December, though he was restricted in how long he could keep the beard owing to the British military’s differing rules on appearance....

She never returned. Waiting outside her apartment was an officer of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The young undocumented mother soon found herself processed and detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, a government-contracted facility in San Diego run by the private prison company CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America. Separated from her three daughters and facing a high-risk prison pregnancy owing to a difficult history with child-bearing, she experienced what her sister, Izabel, described to Newsweek as a level of despair that left her despondent at the time and traumatized to this day....

The existence of the tapes was first disclosed late last year in a blistering report on conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn by the Justice Department’s inspector general. But the tapes got little attention at the time, in part because only a handful of blurry stills from the videos were released. But now attorneys in two lawsuits filed against top Justice officials on behalf of former inmates tell NEWSWEEK they plan to push for full release of the videos, arguing that, as with Abu Ghraib, the visual evidence can make the case far more powerfully than mere allegations from prisoners....

Having to reinvest in an existing product is not only a problem from a cost perspective, but it also affects the scalability of the business. Technical debt is an overhead that looms above, waiting to rear its head at an inopportune time, often when you need to deliver a feature that has a dependency on a previously deployed “quick fix.” This ends up requiring a lot more effort than expected due to having to re-develop the previous fix as well as the new feature, potentially jeopardizing a deal or release and adding frustration to all teams involved....

There is a catch to all this public-spirited, high-policy grandeur, however. The very rich in America pay taxes at a lower rate than most working people, and, due to a wrinkle in the tax code, private-equity partners enjoy some of the lowest tax rates of all. At a Hillary Clinton fund-raiser in New York last month, Warren Buffett, no stranger to wealth, told an audience filled with bankers and real-estate developers the system was, in effect, rigged....

He also said that Congress should relaunch the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) to hold people “accountable for treason,” a belief he reiterated to Newsweek when reached on Friday for comment. Burns is currently running for Congress in South Carolina’s 4th District against three other Republicans. Ahead of next week’s primary election, he has encouraged his supporters on social media to donate to his campaign and vote for him “to help fight to bring God back to the center of American politics and culture....