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“My Big Fat Greek Life,” whose debut last week was greeted by 22.7 million depressingly eager viewers, falls apart on a pretty basic level: it isn’t funny. The writing is so retrograde that the mere mention of sex often passes for a joke. Usually it’s Nia’s aunt Voula who brings up the subject. This is funny because Voula is a middle-aged woman. The acting doesn’t bail anyone out. Vardalos was fine in the film, but on TV, she blurts out her dialogue as if she has to beat the laugh track to the joke and ends up stepping on her punch lines....

Late on Thursday night, the 24-time Grammy winner dropped the new music video for “Already” from The Lion King: The Gift that will be featured on Black Is King. On the song, Beyoncé collaborates with Ghanian singer Shatta Wale and Major Lazer. Needless to say, fans are loving “Already” already and the visual feast of a video has certainly whet appetites for everything else Queen Bey has in store on Black Is King....

The notion that children can and should take charge of their own hunger still makes parents uneasy. After all, who else is going to keep a toddler from eating nothing but Marshmallow Fluff sandwiches all day? But many experts now believe that we’ve badly underestimated kids’ capacities for regulating wisely what and how much they eat. Satter, author of the influential guide “How to Get Your Kid to Eat … But Not Too Much,” advises parents to be gatekeepers, not food police....

Let’s start in Copenhagen, itself a non-blockbuster, but very attractive city. It’s civil, scenic and fairly overrun with–what a pleasant change!–bicycles. And Copenhagen possesses three shows at three museums that exemplify the pleasures of looking beyond the obvious. A short train ride north of town, in the spotless suburb of Humlebaek, the stunning Louisiana Museum shows the early paintings on Masonite of Per Kirkeby (through Sept. 1). Easily Denmark’s most renowned contemporary painter, the 63-year-old Kirkeby just paints–and paints and paints–energetic, subtly colorful abstract landscapes....

The 19-year-old Oxford freshman, who has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and a fondness for horse riding and cricket, is expected to return to his studies, leaving Zardari in charge as a kind of regent until Bilawal reaches 25, the minimum age for contesting elections in Pakistan. “The chairmanship of the party is often occupied by martyrs and I don’t know how long my father will be able to keep this position,” Bilawal said, in response to a reporter’s question before his father cut in requesting that all questions be addressed to him....

Just as President Biden begins his term pushing for a quick end to the war in Yemen, Obama entered the fray in 2015 because “they thought Washington could act as a moderating influence. The support that Obama authorized came with limits, caveats, and safety features.” As Robert Malley and Stephen Pomper continue to write, “Obama’s guidance was that American help should serve the purpose of protecting Saudi Arabia’s territorial integrity, making the assistance essentially defensive in nature....

During a Wednesday rally, Trump had encouraged a crowd at a Stop the Steal rally to head to the Capitol. Pro-Trump supporters arrived at the Capitol building as Congress met in a joint session to certify Biden’s victory in the Electoral College. Rioters, some of them armed, breached the Capitol building and were able to access meeting rooms and offices while Pence and members of the Senate were evacuated. Many lawmakers blamed Trump for the riot, which left 4 people dead....

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the administration is still finalizing a contract for the 500 million tests it purchased as part of President Joe Biden’s plan to fight the Omicron variant. “This means the first delivery from manufacturers will arrive in January,” Psaki said, noting that the administration plans to have a complete timeline of when all 500 million kits will be delivered in the weeks following....

The Center will house children held in custody by FEMA who are awaiting processing into the U.S. The Trump administration cut funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Refugee and Entrant Assistance program by 31%. The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which is part of that program, administers the Unaccompanied Children (UC) program, which has direct responsibility for the migrant teens. Customs and Border Protection defines an unaccompanied child as any individual under the age of 18 who arrives without their biological parent or legal guardian at the time of encounter....

Administration officials told Newsweek that the temporary plan would give Congress more time to hash out an agreement on a larger $3.5 trillion package that includes new social programs, including universal pre-K, expanded Medicaid benefits, paid parental leave as well as measures to address climate change. “With the end of the current fiscal year rapidly approaching, it’s clear that Congress will need to pass a short-term continuing resolution (CR) to provide more time for the annual appropriations process to play out,” one official said, noting that the White House plans to send guidance to U....

At first there do not seem to be too many parallels. Kennedy was the youngest elected president and Biden the oldest. Kennedy hailed from a patrician family unlike “Middle Class Joe.” The glamour of Camelot is a world away from the not necessarily flashy Bidens. But Kennedy and Biden possess striking similar experiences, outlooks and practices that are instructive and, quite comforting, when we think about the next four years....

Democrats have secured control of the upper chamber by winning both Georgia Senate runoff elections, paving the way for the party to deliver the $2,000 direct payments that its leaders have been promising over the past few weeks. With control of both congressional chambers, Biden on Friday demanded that the larger checks be included in the next coronavirus stimulus measure. “We need more direct relief flowing to families and small businesses, including finishing the job and getting people $2,000 in relief,” he said in Delaware....

The Biden campaign announced in a Wednesday press release that Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised a combined $364.5 million last month—dwarfing what is believed to be the previous single-month record of $193 million raised by former President Barack Obama ahead of his first election in 2008. According to Biden’s campaign, about 57 percent of the money ($205 million) came from small-dollar donors online, meaning the online donations alone were more than the previous overall single-month fundraising record....

On Monday, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED) announced that the majority of its members rejected a tentative agreement with the nation’s freight carriers, putting the threat of a national railroad strike back on the table. But the union said the earliest a strike could happen would be November 19, a week and a half after the midterm elections on November 8. With 23,000 members, BWME is the third largest major freight railroad union....

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Biden questioned how it was “fair” to provide relief only to businesses and not student loan borrowers. “Is it fair to people who in fact do not own multibillion-dollar businesses to see one of these guys getting all the tax credits? Is that fair? What do you think?” the president said. Earlier in the day, Biden announced that his administration would cancel up to $10,000 in student loan debt to Americans earning less than $125,000 a year in an unprecedented move that has received mixed response....

Biden is now scheduled to give a public address on the situation at 3:45 p.m. Eastern time Monday, according to the White House. The address will be streamed online through the White House website. It will be the president’s first in-person public comments on Afghanistan in nearly a week. The Taliban has quickly taken over the country, seizing control of Kabul over the weekend. The White House released a written statement from Biden on Saturday that noted he had been in “close contact with my national security team to give them direction on how to protect our interests and values as we end our military mission in Afghanistan....

Clinton held a lead in polling throughout the 2016 race, before suffering defeat to President Donald Trump as he secured an electoral college victory despite losing the popular vote. Real Clear Politics’ tracker put Clinton at 2.8 points ahead on September 8, 2016, two months before that year’s election. Its tracker looking at Biden and Trump puts the Democrat at 7.2 points ahead of Trump, with a similar amount of time to go to election day....

This is what just happened to the Jewish community. The Biden White House had announced last spring (and even before that), that the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) would deliver an important proposed regulation in December 2022. The regulation is supposed to implement the Executive Order on Combating Antisemitism, which former President Donald Trump had signed in 2019. This order had been a major milestone, codifying important rules under which Jewish students receive civil rights protections in American colleges and schools....

New polling from NBC News/Marist shows Biden ahead of Trump by 7 points, with the former vice president backed by 51 percent of registered voters compared with 44 percent who support the president. That marks a significant change since March, when Biden was backed by 49 percent of voters in North Carolina compared to 45 percent who supported Trump. North Carolina has generally gone for Republicans in most presidential elections going back to 1968....

But in Syria, the U.S. military remains with no discernable exit plan. “Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria are three completely separate issues and should not be conflated,” a senior Biden administration official told Newsweek. “On Syria, we do not anticipate any changes right now to the mission or the footprint.” And that’s because the administration says the strategy is working as is. “As a reminder, in Syria, we are supporting Syrian Democratic Forces in their fight against ISIS,” the official said....