China relies on a system that puts tens of thousands of children in government-run training schools. Many of the young athletes are funneled into less prominent sports that Beijing hopes to dominate.

Scarlett Johansson is suing Walt Disney. The Marvel star filed a lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging her contract was breached when the company released "Black Widow" on its streaming service Disney+ at the same time it debuted in theaters. Johansson claims her agreement with Disney's Marvel Entertainment guaranteed an exclusive theatrical release for her solo film, and her salary was based, in large part, on the box office performance.

Comparing the infrastructure plan President Biden proposed in March with the one the Senate may take up soon.

WilmerHale will 'review' Activision Blizzard HR policies.

She never would have said the quote that is commonly attributed to her.

After nearly a year and a half of telling their constituents that it’s their constitutional right to ignore coronavirus guidelines and public health restrictions, it seems to be dawning on leaders in the Republican Party that letting a deadly and very infectious disease run rampant through their states and localities—not to mention the rest of the country—is actually a terrible idea. 

Seeds do expire, but if you store them right they can last up to 10 years.

Baseball is coming back to Staten Island. The Staten Island Yankees — a farm team for the Bronx Bombers that has been the launch pad for greats including Robinson Cano and Melky Cabrerra — was one of the 40-some Minor League teams that were tragically shuttered last year because of the pandemic and a massive reorganization of the Minors. But The Post has learned that a group of investors — which includes Gristedes mogul John Catsimatidis and New Jersey politico Eric Shuffler, with more still to be named — is set to start a new team that will play out of the Richmond County Bank Ballpark on the shores of New York Harbor.

Born in New York in the 1930s, Popeil came by his inventor/salesman bona fides honestly, having started at age 17 in the family business at Chicago’s Popeil Brothers manufacturing facility. Working under his father, Samuel, Popeil helped sell items like his dad’s Chop-O-Matic and Veg-O-Matic line of home food processors, pitching them cheerfully to a nation of eager consumers. Efforts to demonstrate said products—which reportedly required so much produce to show off their fast-chopping action that it became a pain to lug them around on a person-by-person basis— eventually brought Popeil to his true home: In front of the camera, and into the welcoming arms of television itself.

The Italian island suffered through "unprecedented" wildfires, destroying centuries-old olive groves and vineyards.

'The story of Soul City is a version of the story of every Black town I’ve lived in.' My dad moved us to the South in 1990 to work in a Black town called Soul City. We came to North Carolina from Detroit—a much bigger Black town—where my parents grew up. Dad commuted to work an hour each way, the lush low-density streets of Durham giving way to the even more lush rural roads of Warren County. The sign for Soul City looked like the 70s version of the future—a towering flat grey column with red letters carved in sans-serif font. Every time Dad took me to work I felt like Dorothy in The Wiz, easing down a long winding road to a magic city in the middle of nowhere. The dust from the red clay that covered the ground clung to everything—your new Reeboks, your white tights, your freshly washed car doors. But there was so much land in that place, so much space for seven-year-old me to run, that by the time my mom saw me at the end of the day, my legs were red-orange, my hair liberated from the braid she had carefully platted that morning. My dad is a pediatrician, and the HealthCo Clinic in Soul City was his first job out of medical school. It was a medium-sized yellow and brown brick building neighboring business offices and the local manufacturing plant, called Soul Tech. Dad treated a lot of kids at the clinic, but there weren't enough doctors to specialize, so he saw adults too. Years later, he told me that some of his patients were sick because they didn't have adequate plumbing in their homes. I learned soon after that these conditions were not unusual in Black towns. In 2016, as I traveled with visual artist Torkwase Dyson through two other Black towns in North Carolina and Alabama, trying to understand why neither of them had sanitation infrastructure in the 21st century, I learned that Soul City was also a Black dream killed just as it was coming true. By the time my dad started working at HealthCo, it had already been 14 years since the Department of Housing and Urban Development defunded Soul City. Much of the several thousand acres of the former tobacco plantation Floyd McKissick Jr., director of the 1960s civil rights group Congress of Racial Equality, envisioned as a safe haven for Black empowerment sold in foreclosure.

The family of a Portland homeless woman who died two years ago following a sweep of her campsite filed a court notice today stating they plan to sue a city contractor for her wrongful death. In the filing, the husband and son of Debby Ann Beaver allege that the contractor removed medication in her tent that could have saved her life. The July 28 filing in Multnomah County Circuit Court says Beaver, 57, died on the corner of Southeast 35th Avenue and Yamhill Street on July 24, 2019—one week after her camp was swept by Rapid Response Bioclean. Marie Tyvoll, a volunteer advocate for the homeless, sent a written declaration to the court Wednesday, alleging the loss of medications led to Beaver’s death. “[Debby] was this lovely, lovely person who suffered from horrible chronic diseases and a disability,” Tyvoll says. Tyvoll tells WW that, in talking to witnesses and those who knew Beaver, she learned Beaver “kept a slew of medications in a little bag, and [Rapid Response] took that bag.” The attorney preparing the wrongful death lawsuit, Michael Fuller, says Beaver’s medication was to “treat symptoms from seizures due to a head injury, high blood pressure and diabetes.” The legal filing arrives on the eve of a planned sweep of a large homeless camp at Laurelhurst Park. Fuller says he hopes the filing will cause city officials to reconsider their sweep plans until he can present his case.

Derick Almena was ordered to pay $5.8 million in restitution, but only $209,000 total for the 36 families of victims.

A NEW BUSINESS BESTSELLER on one of the past decade’s biggest bankruptcies, Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap’s The Caesars Palace Coup, highlights this repeatedly. Like nearly 3 in 10 of the companies that have filed for bankruptcy in recent years, Caesars was owned by private equity firms, whose business model essentially revolves around draining cash from companies by piling them with debt, then skillfully navigating bankruptcy courts to avoid taking losses if their “investments” don’t pan out. But the casino conglomerate’s billions in plunging bonds had attracted some shrewd distressed debt investors, who threatened not only to sue the private equity firms for “fraudulent conveyance” to get their money, but to name executives, like the foul-mouthed 34-year-old Apollo Global Management partner David Sambur, in a civil racketeering suit as well. Like the Sacklers, Sambur had spent much of the previous five years transferring billions of dollars in assets out of the bankrupt company into vehicles outside the reach of the estate, acquiring a $15 million house in Manhattan along the way. And as with the Sacklers, who emailed one another about taking “a fantastic amount of money out of the business,” there were damning documents, including an internal PowerPoint presentation detailing Apollo’s plan to strip assets out of Caesars in order to “have our cake and eat it too.” And the idea of being held personally accountable for these actions filled Sambur with Sackler-esque indignation. “Motherfuckers, did you not see what I did in Momentive?” Sambur screamed at the bond lawyers, referencing another Apollo portfolio company that had filed for bankruptcy protection months earlier. In that case, Apollo had saddled a silicone manufacturer with an astonishing 15 times its EBITDA in debt, laid off about half its workforce, forced its secured bondholders to take a $300 million haircut, gotten liability shields for the firm and all relevant executives, and still maintained control of the company—all thanks to its ingenious use of a 2004 ruling, Till v. SCS Credit Corp., that slashed the interest rate on a bankrupt couple’s predatory car loan. (“I will Till the shit out of all of you!” Sambur promised the bondholders.)

George Rhoads, a whimsical artist who created elaborate sculptures in which balls traveled seemingly random voyages along labyrinthine paths and set off the ringing of bells, the tinkling of chimes and the vibrating tones of xylophone keys, died on July 9 in Loudun, in western France. He was 95.

Electronic visit verification systems make homecare more difficult, trap people with disabilities, and cost more than paper timesheets. Tech companies and lawmakers promise that EVV will increase efficiency and accountability in home care and will reduce fraud, waste and abuse in government-funded programs. But the tool has been a catastrophe for many in Arkansas, like Walker, and thousands of others across the nation. Advocacy groups and people with disabilities warned from the start that EVV systems would erode clients’ autonomy, make home care more difficult and threaten the progress of the disability rights and independent living movements. At the heart of these disagreements are clients and workers – often women of color or immigrants – who feel as if they are constantly surveilled and under suspicion. The Obama administration passed legislation requiring that EVV be implemented to manage all in-home personal care services paid for by Medicaid, the program that helps poor and working families in the US with healthcare costs. And on 1 April, under a federal deadline to implement or lose a percentage of its Medicaid funding, Arkansas rolled out EVV for self-directed clients like Walker who manage their care workers directly rather than go through a home healthcare agency. Most other states are also currently unveiling EVV systems.

The Times-Herald has obtained a letter from an attorney representing the Vallejo Police Officers Association to the man hired by the City of Vallejo to investigate alleged “badge bending” by officers done to denote the killing of civilians in the line of duty. The letter appears to show the union admitting to the bending — but claims that it has been done to signify officers “surviving officer-involved shootings” and not deaths by their hand.

Employees won’t say what actions they have planned next. When asked if staff plans to unionize, organizers simply said, “no comment.” Still, they made it clear the walkout is not the end. “We’re taking something that has existed and permeated through the gaming industry for decades and beginning to build a movement,” a spokesperson says. “So it’s important to remember where we came from with our demands, what the end goal is and not lose sight of it.”

The law now heads to Mayor Eric Garcetti's desk for his signature. How heavily it will be enforced is far from clear.

Booze, sexual remarks, and a giant portrait of Cosby are all at the center of Activision lawsuit.