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New York magazine says that its highly regarded Washington correspondent, Olivia Nuzzi, is on leave after disclosing that she had a personal relationship with a former reporting subject, violating the publication’s standards.

The newsletter Status, which broke the story, and The New York Times both cite unnamed sources in identifying Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the other person involved with Nuzzi. New York magazine and Nuzzi have not confirmed Kennedy’s involvement, and Kennedy said in a statement that he had only met her once.

It’s an explosive development for the magazine and Nuzzi, whose piece featuring an interview with Donald Trump, “Peering into Donald Trump’s Ear, and Soul,” was featured on its most recent cover.

In a note to readers published late Thursday, New York said that if it had been aware of the relationship, Nuzzi would not have been permitted to cover the presidential campaign.

New York said an internal review of her work has found no inaccuracies or evidence of bias, but that Nuzzi is on leave while a more thorough third-party review is undertaken.

“We regret this violation of our readers’ trust,” the magazine said, and a spokeswoman had no further comment. A spokesperson for Kennedy, who is married to the actress Cheryl Hines, did not immediately return a message from The Associated Press.

Nuzzi said in a statement to Status that in early 2024, the nature of some communication between herself and a former reporting subject turned personal.

“During that time, I did not directly report on the subject nor use them as a source,” she said. “The relationship was never physical but should have been disclosed to prevent the appearance of a conflict. I deeply regret not doing so immediately and apologize to those I’ve disappointed, especially my colleagues at New York.”

It was not immediately clear how and when Nuzzi’s bosses at the magazine became aware of the relationship.

Nuzzi wrote a story about Kennedy’s campaign that was published last November, “The Mind-Bending Politics of RFK Jr.’s Spoiler Campaign,” where she described a harrowing car ride and brief hike with Kennedy and his dogs while interviewing him.

His name came up in a March 2024 piece in The New York Times where Nuzzi, Frank Bruni and Joe Klein discussed the state of the campaign at the time. “We’re forgetting or purposefully ignoring something rather important about this election: It’s not a two-man race. It’s a three-man race,” Nuzzi said, noting that at the time Kennedy was “polling competitively.”

Status quoted a representative for Kennedy saying, “Mr. Kennedy only met Olivia Nuzzi once in her life for an interview she requested, which yielded a hit piece.”

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Basic Economic Concepts

Economists are overly reliant on rules

The bitter lessons of Brexit

Are economists selfish? Not according to Monopoly

Behavioural economics
Luxury car sales plunge as buyers put off by South Korea’s neon green licence plates

Institutions, marginal thinking
Outlook. Baseball tries to beat the clock to appeal to younger fans

Incentives
Internet ratings get only three stars from me

Supply and Demand

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Coffee prices set to rise even higher, warns Italian roaster Lavazza

Orange juice crisis prompts search for alternative fruits

Wall Street turns to ‘solar grazing’ sheep in its push to go green

Legoland and Madame Tussauds owner to roll out surge pricing

Demand shifts, inflation
Introducing the ‘TSwift Lift’

Supply shifts
Russia bombs Ukraine grain silos in ‘barbarian’ attack on food supplies

Price controls
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Price controls: elasticity
Pepsi revenue declines after US consumers flinch at higher prices

Taxes and Subsidies

Externalities
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The hidden cost of your supermarket salmon

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Ursula von der Leyen calls on EU to subsidise defence production

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Trade and Specialization

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EU to hit Chinese electric cars with tariffs of up to 48%

International trade
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Are there any steaks left to be discovered?

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Martin Wolf: the world economy’s story remains one of integration

The bitter lessons of Brexit

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Saving
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Adapting to a higher-for-longer world

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Central Banks debate: an ‘high for longer’ substitute for rate rises?

Economic fluctuations, monetary policy, inflation

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Economic Growth

Can Europe’s economy ever hope to rival the US again?

The weakest links in the global economy are on the mend

Declining fertility rates will transform global economy, report says

Long run growth

China’s leaders sweat over ‘difficult to heat’ economy

(Mis)remembering Chile’s military coup

It may not feel like it, but the planet has many reasons to be cheerful

How is the US economy managing to power ahead of Europe?

Nigeria’s economic reforms need to regain momentum

Obesity drugmaker’s expansion raises dominance worries for Denmark

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California fire agency worker faces arson charges

An employee of California’s state fire protection agency has been arrested on suspicion of starting five forest fires in recent weeks, local officials have said.

Robert Hernandez, a 38-year-old apparatus engineer at Cal Fire, was charged with five counts of arson, and is due to appear in court on Tuesday.

He is suspected of igniting the blazes while off duty in three areas of northern California between 15 August and 14 September.

Thanks to the quick response by firefighters and local residents less than an acre (0.4 ha) of wildland was burned, the officials said.

“I am appalled to learn one of our employees would violate the public’s trust and attempt to tarnish the tireless work of the 12,000 women and men of Cal Fire,” agency chief Joe Tyler said.

Hernandez was arrested on Friday, and booked into Sonoma County Jail on Friday.

He is suspected of starting the five fires near the towns of Geyserville, Healdsburg and Windsor, some 56-62 miles (90-100km) north of San Francisco.

Apparatus engineers at Cal Fire are responsible for operating and maintaining fire engines and water tanks during emergency responses.

California has seen a number of severe wildfires during the summer, with nearly three times as much acreage burn as during all of 2023, the AP news agency reported.

On Tuesday a 34-year-old delivery driver pleaded not guilty to 11 arson-related crimes by prosecutors in southern California.

Justin Wayne Halstenberg is alleged to have started one major wildfire – dubbed the Line Fire – which burned through 61 square miles (158 square kilometers) of the San Bernardino mountains east of Los Angeles.

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How culture of fear at Harrods protected a predator

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How culture of fear at Harrods protected a predator

One of Fayed’s victims says she was threatened by his security chief when he told her he knew where her parents lived

BBC One of Mohamed Al Fayed's victims says his security chief threatened her when he told her he knew here her parents lived — One of Fayed’s victims says she was threatened by his security chief when he told her he knew where her parents lived

“I am walking around feeling terrified of somebody who is dead,” explains Gemma, who has been reliving the moment when she says Mohamed Al Fayed raped her.

“He just had that power – I am petrified of someone who is no longer alive”.

She is among more than 20 women who told us the former Harrods owner sexually assaulted or raped them while they worked at the luxury London department store.

Many of them describe being imprisoned by a similar sense of fear; it is what kept them from coming forward for so many years.

Some were worried our documentary team might have been secretly working for the businessman’s associates when we first contacted them after his death last August.

Even after we provided assurances, they were concerned about how those close to him might react. There were lots of conversations about what might happen if our meetings were discovered.

We could sense their paranoia about the consequences of speaking out and the fear engendered in them by Fayed and the people who worked for him. In these circumstances, the bravery of these women is to be applauded even more.

Fayed was a man who used money and power throughout his life to bully and intimidate his way into getting what he wanted.

In the early 1990s, a government investigation concluded he had lied when he bought Harrods. He deployed dirty tricks against Tiny Rowland, his rival in buying the business, and was even accused of stealing items from his safety deposit box at the store.

A few years later, he caused the downfall of Tory politicians when he went public about bribing them to ask questions for him in parliament. He was not a man to be crossed.

Warning: this story contains details some may find distressing.

At Harrods, his personal fiefdom, he created an intimidating atmosphere where a phalanx of bodyguards protected him around the clock and where surveillance equipment was installed in backroom offices.

‘He knew where my parents lived’

Alice, not her real name, said she received a phone call from Fayed’s head of security after, in 1995, he found out she had spoken to a journalist about their boss’s behaviour. She says she was 16 years old when Fayed sexually assaulted her.

“He said that I wasn’t to be involved in the article and that, if I went against his advice, I should be aware that he knew where my parents lived – It turned me cold.”

Alice didn’t speak about her experiences again until she gave an interview to the BBC recently.

Fayed also corrupted the store’s HR department, which played a role in promoting young women from the shop floor to work in his executive suite – aware of his interest in them.

“We all watched each other walk through that door thinking, ‘you poor girl, it’s you today’ and feeling utterly powerless to stop it,” recalls Alice.

We now know that in Gemma’s case a senior member of the Harrods HR department was present in 2009 when lawyers destroyed evidence of his sexual misconduct against her. This included messages he had sent her and tapes of nasty voicemails.

Gemma began working as one of Fayed’s personal assistants in 2007. She says Fayed raped her at his villa in France after she woke to find him next to her bed.

After it was over, she cried while he got up and told her aggressively to wash herself with Dettol. “Obviously he wanted me to erase any trace of him being anywhere near me,” she explains.

Gemma describes how a shredding truck was sent to her lawyer’s office

Many of the women raped and sexually assaulted by Fayed decided to speak out only after his death because they felt it was finally safe enough to do so.

But that wasn’t the only reason. Some were angered by the positive way he was portrayed in the Netflix series The Crown.

They thought this was a rewriting of history and the truth about him needed to be revealed.

“It feels good to change the legacy of a man who really was a monster,” says Natacha, another women subjected to Fayed’s behaviour. “I don’t think we really comprehended that at the time.”

Speaking at a press conference on Friday, the morning after our documentary was broadcast, she said: “I finally have the opportunity and freedom to speak up. I no longer feel afraid so I speak for my daughters, my nieces … and all the survivors of sexual abuse in this room today who were silenced for so many years.”

Around 20 of Fayed’s victims had gathered at the event to listen to lawyers lay out the details of his alleged crimes. Others were still too afraid to come.

Mike Radford is executive producer of Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods

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Malnutrition crisis threatens child health gains, warns Bill Gates

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State the estimated increase in the number of children predicted to experience stunted growth due to malnutrition between 2024 and 2050, according to Bill Gates
According to the article, explain how climate change has worsened global food security and nutrition
Suggest two reasons why western countries have become more reluctant to donate aid to combat malnutrition, as highlighted in the article
“Increasing foreign aid to combat malnutrition is the most effective way to ensure long-term food security in low-income countries.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?

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