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1 week ago | 
thestar.com.my | Sadiba Hasan
How do you stop doomscrolling? By setting a time limit? Putting your phone in a different room? Deleting the app altogether? Last Thursday, TikTok announced a new option: a nightly in-app guided meditation exercise that is turned on by default for users younger than 18.
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1 week ago | 
seattletimes.com | Sadiba Hasan
Two weeks before Gabby Morrison and Luke Joseph were set to fly to Tokyo for their honeymoon, they canceled their trip. Joseph, 25, moved from Kent, England, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the week of their March 21 wedding on a K-1 visa, which allows a foreign national engaged to a U.S. citizen to enter the country for the purpose of marriage. But the K-1 visa doesn’t allow Joseph to leave and reenter the country until he has received a green card, which can take five months to a year.
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1 week ago | 
post-gazette.com | Sadiba Hasan
Two weeks before Gabby Morrison and Luke Joseph were set to fly to Tokyo for their honeymoon, they canceled their trip. Joseph, 25, moved from Kent, England, to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the week of their March 21 wedding on a K-1 visa, which allows a foreign national engaged to a U.S. citizen to enter the country for the purpose of marriage. But the K-1 visa doesn't allow Joseph to leave and re-enter the country until he has received a green card, which can take five months to a year.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Sadiba Hasan
Facing allegations that it knowingly lures young users into late-night scroll sessions, the company unveiled a new guided-meditation feature in the app. How do you stop doomscrolling? By setting a time limit? Putting your phone in a different room? Deleting the app altogether? On Thursday, TikTok announced a new option: a nightly in-app guided meditation exercise that is turned on by default for users under 18.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Sadiba Hasan |Rachel Sherman |Sarah Bahr
Out & AboutPop stars, club kids and the mayor of New York City kept the festivities going into the early morning hours. From left, Mohogany, Burna Boy and Shaboozey at Boom, the club at the top of the Standard Hotel in the West Village. Credit...
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Sadiba Hasan
Nicolas Heller and Naomi Otsu celebrated their wedding and New York - complete with pastrami sandwiches and his recurring characters. Nicolas Gianni Heller and Naomi Jenny Otsu describe themselves as "such millennials." They bonded over being awkward in front of a camera, and they prefer to avoid the spotlight because they "hate being perceived," Ms. Otsu said.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Sadiba Hasan
Ten minutes into Gregg Bonti and Alex Randall's first date, Mr. Bonti was smitten. "I'm going to marry this man or he's going to ruin my life," he said. When Alex Patrick Randall and Gregg Kittredge Bonti signed and submitted papers to become registered domestic partners at Brooklyn Borough Hall on April 5, 2024, the ground beneath them shook. An earthquake had rattled New York City. "We like to joke that our love moved the Earth," Mr. Randall said. The couple met in October 2021.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Sadiba Hasan
Savage x Fenty's new collection is the latest entry on a list of times the singer and her partner, ASAP Rocky, have alluded to being engaged. On Tuesday, Rihanna announced a new bridal collection from her lingerie company, Savage x Fenty, with a retro-style video on Instagram. Wearing a lacy pink lingerie set paired with matching thigh-high stockings and a mini veil, all from the collection, she posed beside a massive wedding cake on top of a table before kicking the cake to the ground.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Sadiba Hasan |Amir Hamja
Her daughters then stepped away from the kitchen to set up the dining table with a new tablecloth purchased on a trip to Morocco. They had also changed the bedsheets and cleaned the curtains, a practice that Ms. Diallo carried on from her own mother in Thiès, Senegal. "There is a myth that said that Eid should find everything clean," explained Ms. Diallo, who moved to New York with her family in 2006. "No dirty clothes, nothing.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Sadiba Hasan
At his job at an apparel store in SoHo, Thomas Lanese uses phrases that he would never utter outside of a work setting, like, "I'll shoot this email to you by end of day." Sometimes, he said, it feels like he is living two separate lives. It is something fans of "Severance" might relate to. In the buzzy show that concludes its second season on Apple TV+ next week, the characters literally live two distinct lives. Their "innies" (no relation to belly buttons) are their work selves.
