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Babies are not ordinarily a fixture of closed-door White House meetings.But when Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, convened a group of women this month for a discussion on nutrition and other topics, a healthy-eating activist who calls herself “the Food Babe” was stunned to see President Trump’s press secretary with her eight-month-old on her lap.While several female cabinet secretaries looked on, the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, lamented that baby formula seems healthier in Europe than in the United States, where a recent study found that many varieties are laden with added sugars. Last week, Mr. Kennedy met with…

The sci-fi thriller “Severance” is about an enigmatic, cultlike company and its “severed” employees, whose brains have been surgically divided into an “innie” work consciousness and an “outie” home one. The show itself has a kind of bifurcated existence, becoming Apple TV+’s most popular series ever while inspiring fans in the non-TV world to spin fanciful theories — some of which have been borne out — and otherwise wallow in its imagery and mysteries.One of the most colorful examples of this happened at a venue in Kingston, N.Y., on Friday, as the series closed out its second season. The owners…

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TikTok voluntarily shut down service ahead of the controversial ban which took effect on Sunday. However, the social media app gave users the option to download their data despite losing service.TikTok sent a pop-up to users on Saturday evening saying, “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now. A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!” If users click on Learn More, at the bottom of the…

Chaos surrounded us. Informal porters rolling luggage carts zigzagged between cars. Commuters spilled from the bus terminal onto the sidewalk, where they sat on suitcases and duffel bags. Minibus taxis zoomed through the congestion, pedestrians be damned.Our car crawled past a barbed-wire fence and reached a sliding gate, where all that separated my wife and me from the empty lot on the other side was a security guard. “Blue Train,” I said, and the guard waved us through.We pulled up to a blue carpet next to Cape Town’s central train station, where two butlers in blue vests and white gloves…

Ageing design, rising competition and controversy around Elon Musk seen driving reversal of Tesla sales.Tesla’s European sales dropped 49 percent year on year in January and February, despite rising registrations of electric vehicles (EVs). New Tesla registrations in the European Union fell to 19,046 in the first two months of the year from at least 37,000 in the same period of 2024, according to a report published by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) on Tuesday. The lobby group noted that the United States-based EV manufacturer is struggling to keep pace with competitors while the political controversy around owner Elon…

When Starbucks announced last month that it was laying off more than 1,000 corporate employees, it highlighted a disturbing trend for white-collar workers: Over the past few years, they have seen a steeper rise in unemployment than other groups, and slower wage growth.It also added fuel to a debate that has preoccupied economists for much of that time: Are the recent job losses merely a temporary development? Or do they signal something more ominous and irreversible?After sitting below 4 percent for more than two years, the overall unemployment rate has topped that threshold since May.Economists say that the job market…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Shell has said it will cut costs and spending, especially in clean energy, and boost the amount of cash it returns to shareholders as it tries to narrow the valuation gap with rivals ExxonMobil and Chevron. In a statement ahead of an event for investors in New York, Shell pledged to cut annual costs by $5bn to $7bn by 2028, compared with 2022, and trim its capital expenditure to between $20bn and $22bn a year.As part of the change, the FTSE 100 group…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Blackstone has made a final £489mn bid to acquire listed landlord Warehouse Reit, in private equity’s latest swoop on the commercial property sector following a brutal downturn. The US group, which is the world’s largest commercial property investor, has made four previous offers alongside private equity firm Sixth Street — which were all rejected by Warehouse Reit. Sixth Street said in a statement on Tuesday that it was dropping out of the pursuit of the company, which owns warehouses in industrial hubs…

The U.S. and Russia are expected to release a joint statement Tuesday morning after discussions in Saudi Arabia aimed at achieving a Black Sea maritime ceasefire deal, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. The statement was scheduled to be out at 4 a.m. in Washington, D.C., and 11 a.m. in Moscow, two of the sources said.  While the details of the statement were not immediately clear, reports shared with the Trump administration from the U.S. technical team in Riyadh seemed optimistic, the sources said. Ukrainian officials have also been briefed, one of the sources said.French news agency AFP reports a…