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The men’s engagement with the ads did not surprise some small business owners interviewed by The Times. Morgan Koontz, a founder of Bella & Omi, a West Virginia children’s clothing business that promotes itself on social media, said the company received “inappropriate, almost pedophile-type, perverted comments” from men when they started advertising on Facebook in 2021.”It made our models uncomfortable, and it made us uncomfortable,” he said.When the company expanded to Instagram, she and her co-owner, Erica Barrios, decided to avoid the problem by targeting only women, even though fathers and grandfathers were among their regulars. that customer.Lindsey Rowse, who…

For 20 years, Participant Media has become Hollywood’s preeminent producer of activist entertainment, supporting socially conscious films such as “An Inconvenient Truth,” a climate change cri de coeur, and “Wonder,” about a boy with birth defects. Its films have won 21 Academy Awards.But the company has never quite done well while also being profitable, at least not consistently. Matt Damon in a fracking drama (“Promised Land,” a 2012 Participant effort) struggles to compete with “Avengers: Infinity War” in 3-D.On Tuesday, the company’s founder and financial lifeline, eBay billionaire Jeff Skoll, pulled the plug — a decision based, at least in…

Time is running out for you to see Pons-Brooks, the devil-horned comet that appears once every 71 years. Last seen by humans on Earth in the 1950s, the comet is prone to explosions, or unexpected flares of brightness.”This is an extraordinary comet,” said Eliot Herman, a retired biotechnologist at the University of Arizona and an astrophotographer who has been tracking Pons-Brooks for months. “Not only does it get brighter as it approaches the sun, but also the comet changes dramatically every day,” he said.The comet, a green ball of ice, drew public attention in July, when it appeared to sprout…

Federal regulators on Tuesday issued new protections for miners against a type of dust long known to cause fatal lung ailments — changes that government researchers recommended half a century ago. past.Mining companies need to limit concentrations of airborne silica, a mineral commonly found in rock that can be deadly when ground up and inhaled. The new needs affecting more than 250,000 miners who extract coal, various metals, and minerals used in products such as cement and smartphones. Tuesday’s announcement is the culmination of a tortuous regulatory process that has spanned four presidential administrations.Miners paid dearly for the delay. While…

A nonprofit founded and funded by a liberal billionaire George Soros funneled a whopping eight-figure sum to a prominent liberal super PAC that bankrolled several left-wing groups, according to records reviewed by Fox News Digital.Soros’s Fund for Policy Reform poured $60 million into Democracy PAC in the first quarter of this year, which then funneled millions of dollars to top Democratic committees benefiting from House and Senate races, along with other liberal groups, the FEC notes posted on Monday out.Of the $21 million Democracy PAC sent to a dozen left-wing groups, $8 million was split evenly between a pair of…

Israeli settlers were killed by two Palestinians in the West Bank on Monday, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials, as tensions continue to rise in the Israeli-occupied territory.The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry identified the two men as Abdelrahman Bani Fadel, 30, and Mohammad Bani Jama, 21. The circumstances of their deaths near the town of Aqraba remained unclear.The Israeli military said the two men were killed in a “violent exchange” between Israeli settlers and Palestinians following a report of a Palestinian attacking an Israeli shepherd. An initial investigation indicated that the shot “did not come from” Israeli soldiers, the military…

The global economy is approaching a soft landing after several years of geopolitical and economic turmoil, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. But it warned that risks remain, including stubborn inflation, the threat of worsening world conflicts and rising protectionism.In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the IMF projects global output to remain at 3.2 percent in 2024, unchanged from 2023. Although the pace of expansion is tepid by historical standards, the IMF said that global economic activity is surprisingly resilient as central banks aggressively raise interest rates to tame inflation and wars in Ukraine and the Middle East…

In his office on one of the top floors of the Paris Olympic organizing committee’s headquarters, Franz Regul had no doubts about what was to come.”We will be attacked,” said Mr. Regul, who heads the team responsible for preventing cyberthreats against this year’s Summer Games in Paris.Companies and governments around the world now have teams like Mr. Regul operates in spartan rooms equipped with banks of computer servers and screens with indicator lights that warn of incoming hacking attacks. At the Paris operations center, there is even a red light to alert staff to the greatest danger.So far, Mr. Regul…

Maurice El Medioni, an Algerian-born pianist who combined Jewish and Arab musical traditions into a single style he called “Pianoriental,” died March 25 in Israel. He is 95.His death, in a nursing home in Herzliya, on Israel’s central coast, was confirmed by his manager Yvonne Kahan.Mr. Medioni is a late representative of a once vibrant Jewish-Arab musical culture that flourished in North Africa before and after World War II and proudly derived from both heritages.In Oran, the Algerian port where he was born, Arabs and Jews sought him out to play at weddings and at banquets, in the years between…

It seems unlikely that North London fan TS Eliot was an Arsenal fan, but his poem suggests otherwise.“April is the cruelest month,” begins The Waste Land. “I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,” says J. Alfred Prufrock’s The Love Song. “This is the way the challenge ends; not with a bang but a whimper,” probably the first draft of The Hollow Men.Sunday was a disappointing day not just for Arsenal and Liverpool fans, but neutrals who wanted to see the three-way title battle continue. Liverpool’s 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace and Arsenal’s 2-0 defeat at Villa left Manchester City…