TikTok user Gina Bologna asked her followers to unfollow even some Hollywood and corporate names to lessen the elites’ giant incomes. Her video was posted Saturday and it’s starting to pick up steam. At the time of publishing, over 54,000 people liked the video and nearly 1,000 users made their own videos that showed them unfollowing celebrities—such as billionaire Kylie Jenner—on social media. “Eat the Rich” isn’t a new concept or phrase....

No doubt about that. And there’s no doubt, either, that election-year politics lie behind the FAA’s new firmness and Pena’s request that Congress make safety the agency’s sole responsibility. But don’t confuse rhetoric with reform. Thanks to inept management, bureaucratic inertia and the constant tugging of powerful economic interests, the FAA remains one of the federal government’s least adaptive agencies, Congress loves to hate it and hates to change it....

This time, an unknown group called the Indian Mujahedin claimed responsibility for the blasts. E-mails sent to TV networks and a Hindu political party included videos showing one of the bicycles used in the bombings, its serial number clearly visible. But many security experts think the group is actually a front, a ruse meant to put an indigenous face on a foreign-based organization. Among the chief suspects is Harkat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami, or HuJI for short....

PFAS are used in a variety of consumer goods, including nonstick cookware, rain jackets, fast food packaging, and carpeting, due to their grease- and water-resistant properties. They leach into the environment during the production processes and seep through landfills. PFAS is everywhere—it contaminates drinking water, soil, and the air. They’ve become so widespread that around 97% of people in the U.S. likely have PFAS in their blood. Over time, PFAS buildup can cause a range of health issues, such as low birth weight, reduced immune response, liver damage, high cholesterol, and various cancers....

I am in favor of statehood for Puerto Rico. I ran and won as a statehooder under the Citizens’ Victory Movement, a truly progressive party that supports a self-determination process among non-territorial decolonizing options—namely statehood, independence, or a compact of free association. As a Puerto Rican, I believe that statehood vindicates our political rights, improves our economy, strengthens our ties to progressive movements throughout the U.S. and protects our links to our Puerto Rican brothers and sisters on the mainland....

What do these deformities look like and how can they affect the function of your hands and wrists by causing pain and a reduced range of motion? We’ve compiled a gallery of images that illustrate the effects of arthritis on the hands, but it’s important to note that these deformities are becoming much less common with early treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other forms of inflammatory arthritis. The combination of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNF blockers) has given many people the opportunity to prevent these problems....

Richard Attenborough’s “Shadowlands,” adapted by William Nicholson from his play and an earlier BBC telefilm, is a literate tearjerker that walks softly but wields a big emotional stick. Anyone who sat through “A Chorus Line” or “Chaplin” has reason to be wary of Attenborough’s 10-ton touch, but here, at home in the English milieu and aided by Nicholson’s witty, finely honed screenplay, Attenborough redeems himself. if for no other reason, “Shadowlands” should be seen for Hopkins’s masterly performance, as delicately comic as it is heartbreaking....

The suit against CACI, brought by 256 former inmates at Abu Ghraib, is a test case. Susan Burke, the lead attorney for the Iraqis, says CACI interrogators took part in torture at the prison in 2003 and 2004. She has argued that CACI employees were not just following military personnel’s instructions but even directed some of the abuse. (“There’s nothing in any of the Abu Ghraib investigations that accuses CACI personnel of having anything to do with rape or murder or torture,” CACI attorney Bill Koegel said in response....

But a new blood test, described this week in the journal Urology, could change all that. In a study of 385 men, the new test was able to distinguish BPH from prostate cancer, and it pinpointed men who were healthy, even when their PSA levels were higher than normal. It also did the reverse—singling out men with cancer, even when their PSA levels were low. It may also distinguish cancer confined to the prostate from cancer that has spread beyond the gland....

He may well lose this time. He is running for a fourth term (he jokes that a Queens friend asked, ““Is that legal?’’). He is opposed by a cipher – a state senator named George Pataki – who is sponsored by a sleaze, the incorrigible U.S. Sen. Alfonse D’Amato. ““But it’s not really D’Amato who’s behind Pataki,’’ says Richard Brodsky, a Democratic state assemblyman. ““It’s Peter Finch in the movie “Network’: they’re mad as hell and they don’t want to take it anymore....

Murray DeCourcy just happened not to be that type of dad. It’s hard to imagine that now. The archetypal fathers presented to us, both in fiction and modern media, either are detached and absent or intimately involved in every last activity. My dad was present and interested but left the kid stuff for the kids. I “played catch” plenty – with my younger brother, with the dozen or so boys near my age who grew up in the Old Hills neighborhood....

I can see myself meeting this man, and, with courtesy, arguing with him. It is my form of respect, the only compliment I crave from others, the only serious tribute I pay to the people I take seriously. I can see myself not only meeting and arguing with Jesus, challenging him on the basis of our shared Torah, the Scriptures Christians would later adopt as the “Old Testament.” I can also imagine myself saying, “Friend, you go your way, I’ll go mine, I wish you well–without me....

It is possible to feel sympathy for Brodhead (who in an interview with Taylor denied he was tearful or self-pitying at the meeting). The president of a modern, elite university must be careful not to cross his politically correct faculty. Brodhead had already lost face with some professors (who dislike the admissions break given to athletes) by appearing to kowtow before Duke’s iconic basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski, to stop him from jumping to the pros....

This ingenious–and perfectly legal–piece of financial engineering is designed to let GM dispose of its defense business for $9.5 billion without the company’s or its stockholders’ having to pay a penny in capital-gains taxes. GM won’t tell me the price at which it carries its defense business for tax purposes. However, it seems to be less than $1.5 billion. Thus, a normal, straightforward sale for $9.5 billion would produce a profit of more than $8 billion....

It is testimony to these jittery times that an altogether mediocre bomb scare involving two pseudorevolutionary mopes rattled Atlanta like nothing since Sherman’s march. Although government sources quickly retracted the notion that Starr and McCranie planned to disrupt the Summer Games, the 1996 Olympics are a multibillion-dollar extravaganza that will attract 2 million spectators, thousands of athletes and 40 heads of state–a fat target. Think of Munich, Oklahoma City or the World Trade Center: an attack can come in many forms and for as many reasons as the paranoid mind can conceive....

For starters, as a prosecution expert testified last week, there is no physical evidence linking Skakel to the crime. Worse, the case has always suffered from too many suspects–including Thomas Skakel, Michael’s older brother, and Kenneth Littleton, the Skakels’ live-in tutor. The cops shifted to Michael Skakel late in the game; investigators were still pursuing Littleton into the 1990s. Skakel’s lawyer, Michael Sherman, insists Skakel was at the home of a cousin when Moxley was killed....