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Feeling stranded by so-called friends

Dear Annie: I am the friend everyone calls when they need something. I am the one who remembers birthdays, checks in after surgeries, brings soup when someone is sick and sends the “just thinking of you” text. If a friend is going through a divorce, I am there. If someone’s child is struggling, I listen for hours. If there is a crisis, I show up. But lately, I have started to notice something painful. When I am the one having a hard time, the room gets very quiet. A few months ago, I went through a health scare. It turned out to be OK, thank goodness, but while I was waiting ...

Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu close Paris Fashion Week with competing visions of nature

PARIS (AP) — Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière built a fake mountain range inside the Louvre and sent models climbing through it. On Tuesday it closed out a starry Paris Fashion Week with folklore treated as high fashion — capes, cowbells, shearling caps and walking sticks draped with handbags. Ghesquiere called the collection “Super Nature” and said he wanted to find what mountain people from the Alps to Central Asia to the Andes all have in common: clothes shaped by weather, altitude and the need to keep moving. Zendaya, Ana de Armas, Jennifer Connelly and Jaden Smith sat ...

Hints From Heloise

Try these two hints in the kitchen Dear Heloise: I have two hints. The first is that I’ve had rotator-cuff issues and find it easier to use a hand mixer or stir thick foods if the bowl is in the sink. The lower angle puts less stress on my shoulders. It also keeps the countertop cleaner and avoids splatters. My second hint is that a box of inexpensive latex gloves has multiple uses when you want to keep your hands clean but don’t want to wear heavy rubber gloves. I use them when deboning chicken and mixing things by hand like meatloaf, cookie batter, pimento cheese, etc. Just ...

U.S. stocks hold steady on Wall Street

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market held steadier Tuesday as Wall Street waited for the next signal on when the war with Iran may end. The S&P 500 dipped 0.2%, a day after its latest wild swings caused by extreme moves in the oil market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 34 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite edged higher by less than 0.1%. Oil prices, meanwhile, remained sharply below their peaks hit on Monday. Such spikes have been rocking financial markets worldwide because of worries that the war could block the global flow of oil and natural gas for a long time. The ...

Judge urges states to settle Live Nation claims

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York federal judge on Tuesday urged over two dozen states to settle their antitrust claims against Ticketmaster and its parent company this week after the U.S. Justice Department reached a deal and dropped out of an ongoing trial. But Dan Wall, a lawyer for Ticketmaster’s parent, Live Nation Entertainment, told Judge Arun Subramanian at a hearing in Manhattan that the chance all states would settle their claims by Friday was “about zero.” He said he based his assessment on the nature of discussions between the ticketing and entertainment giants and the ...

Thune says Senate to consider voting bill but pushes back on demands for ‘talking filibuster’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that the Senate will consider a bill to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements in elections, but says “the votes aren’t there” to pass it through a marathon talking filibuster sought by President Donald Trump. Trump has said he won’t sign any other legislation until the bill — known as the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility or SAVE America Act — is passed. But it faces unified opposition from Democrats, meaning that the Senate can’t pass it unless Republicans change the rules and eliminate the ...