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Ali Wong finalized her divorce from Justin Hakuta earlier this year. But you won’t be reading about the split on any of the scandal-obsessed tabloid sites. That’s because Ali and Justin have managed to maintain their friendship and their healthy co-parenting relationship in the months since their split. Ali Wong and Justin Hakuta attend HBO’s Official 2016 Emmy After Party at The Plaza at the Pacific Design Center on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) Ali Wong Explains Her ‘Unconventional’ Divorce Ali’s latest standup special just dropped on Netflix, and the material has…

Great Rooms A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman. The Living Room: “Things we have bought over time have moved with us,” says John Gachot. “And we have gotten really lucky that pieces work together.” A painting by Nancy Lorenz hangs above the fireplace. The two vintage armchairs are from Modernlink, and the black lacquered coffee table and cinnamon velvet sofa are custom Gachot Studios. A vintage Danish side table and ­upholstered round stools are from Maison Gerard. Photo: William Jess Laird People thought we would move back downtown,” Christine Gachot says, sitting in the living room of the…

Zara’s website is often ridiculed for being confusing.But experts say it contributes to its luxury-adjacent image.This helps Zara target aspirational shoppers who can’t afford to splurge on high fashion. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email. Zara’s website has been the subject of routine lambasting in recent years.A quick Google search will yield…

The main suspect in the disappearance of three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann, has been cleared by a German court of rape and sexual abuse in an unrelated trial.Christian Brückner, 47, was acquitted of carrying out five offences in Portugal between 2000 and 2017. He is already serving a seven-year jail term in Germany for rape.Brückner has not been charged in the case of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 and has never been found. Brückner’s defence team had argued he should be cleared because of a lack of evidence, although prosecutors had called for the court in Braunschweig…

The Department of Justice could be ready to square off again with the National Association of Realtors — this time over an optional rule to prevent commingling of MLS and non-MLS listings. (Image generated by AI in Midjourney) The Department of Justice and the National Association of Realtors (NAR) are currently locked in what may be the culmination of a decades-long battle over a variety of NAR’s policies and rules. DOJ seemingly succeeded via proxy with the Sitzer/Burnett suit in changing the structure of real estate agent commissions. And by being allowed to reopen its investigation into NAR, the DOJ…

Crude oil futures fell about 2% on Tuesday, as the rally on geopolitical risk took a pause while the market waits for Israel to strike back against Iran. “Oil can keep ascending only for so long purely based on perceptions and not actual supply disruption,” Tamas Varga, an analyst at oil broker PVM, said in a Tuesday note. Oil prices have surged about 13% through Monday’s close since Iran fired 180 ballistic missiles at Israel last week, raising fears that Israel might retaliate by hitting Iran’s crude industry. Here are Tuesday’s energy prices at around 7:39 a.m. ET:West Texas Intermediate November…

Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza has unleashed yet another deadly, but silent enemy on the people there – asbestos. A mineral that poses little risk to humans when undisturbed but that is highly carcinogenic when dispersed and released into the atmosphere, asbestos is present throughout much of Gaza’s structures. Over the past year, Israel’s bombs have caused vast amounts of it to be broken into tiny, airborne particles, which can potentially cause cancer in those who breathe it in, leading experts to say cases of cancer will likely be reported “for decades” in Gaza. According to United Nations estimates, some…

Play video content When Diddy was a free man, he had a message for the White man … come to one of my parties and you’ll wind up unconscious with your face buried in a couch. Case in point … Diddy was featured in an old video as his younger, cocky self, hanging out with three White dudes and an Asian lady at a house party in the 2000s, apparently in London. Check out the clip … Diddy spoke directly into the camera, explaining to Londoners about what happens to “the White man” when he comes to a Diddy soiree.…

The top brokerage in the country by transaction side count, eXp Realty, has settled the commission lawsuits. The parent company of eXp Realty, eXp World Holdings, announced the settlement on Monday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the filing, the firm officially settled with the Hooper suit plaintiffs on Oct. 1. As part of the settlement, eXp has agreed to pay $34 million into the settlement fund and make unspecified business practice changes. The brokerage firm noted that it does not expect the terms of the settlement to have a material impact on its operations,…

Geoffrey Hinton and John J. Hopfield have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.The pair won for their inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.Hinton and Hopfield’s work advances image recognition and data pattern reconstruction. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email. Geoffrey Hinton, often dubbed the “Godfather of AI,”…