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READ MORE We’ll get to some of the least useless suggestions below, but first here are some of the broad trends revealed by the approximately 3,000 responses submitted on Facebook, Twitter, our website and directly to my email. There was plenty of support for widely publicized names already coined for the generation born, roughly, between 1995 and 2015: Generation Z, Homeland Generation, Post-Millennials and iGeneration . A significant minority had grown comfortable with “Generation Z,” including Racquel Glassner, 22, of Olympia, Wash. “I’ve never heard iGeneration before, but that is really horrendous,” she said. “Our whole generation shouldn’t be branded by Apple. Gen Z is the final generation of the 1900s, and a generational title using the last letter in the alphabet seems fitting.” (It should be noted that iGeneration or iGen, a name coined by the social psychologist Jean Twenge, had plenty of fans. Dr. Twenge herself chimed in...

READ MORE Sen. Colin Kenny will resign his seat months before his scheduled retirement date, CBC News has confirmed. The Senate Speaker’s office says it received a letter from Rideau Hall informing Speaker George Furey that Friday will be the Liberal senator’s last day. Kenny was due to retire in December when he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 75. His departure, therefore, comes 10 months earlier than expected. CBC News has not seen Kenny’s resignation letter and the Speaker’s office said its contents are confidential. But the Canadian Press reported passages of the letter Wednesday, with Kenny citing ill-health as the reason for his resignation. “I think I have done my bit … It has been my great privilege to serve my country over the last forty-four years, both in the office of Prime Minister (Pierre) Trudeau and as a member of the Senate,” Canadian Press quoted his letter as saying. Kenny, named to the Senate by former prime...

READ MORE The executive of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party will announce a new leader on March 10, president Jag Badwal said late Wednesday. Conservative MP Erin O’Toole considering run for Ontario PC leadership Vic Fedeli opens up about aborted leadership bid, doubles down on ‘rot’ in PC infrastructure “I am excited to announce that the Ontario PC Party has a path forward to selecting our next leader and future premier,” Badwal said in a statement. “The new leader will have a united party behind them ready to fight and win the upcoming election,” Badwal added. The party is seeking a new leader after Patrick Brown stepped down following allegations of sexual misconduct from two women. Brown has denied the allegations. Ontario PCs to hold leadership race before next election Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown denies sexual misconduct allegations The party president said there will be a $750,000 spending limit for the leader...

READ MORE A considerable portion of the money raised in the fourth quarter, more than $4 million, came from supporters who gave $200 or less. Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and a senior adviser to his campaign, said in a statement that the campaign’s election commission reports revealed that “grass-roots support for President Trump is stronger than ever.” She added, “Never has a president enjoyed so much support from small donors who continue to rally around him.” Mr. Trump’s campaign has assiduously courted small donors online, often tying those solicitations to major news events. For instance, donors who gave before the State of the Union address on Tuesday were offered the chance to see their names displayed on a live stream of the speech on the campaign’s website. Cultivating small donors is not cheap. Mr. Trump’s campaign committees paid $1.1 million to a company owned by Brad Parscale, the digital director for Mr....

READ MORE Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, according to the three people. Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the Trump Tower meeting — in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians — “will never get out.” That left Mr. Corallo with concerns that Ms. Hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice, the people said. In a statement on Wednesday, a lawyer for Ms. Hicks strongly denied Mr. Corallo’s allegations. “As most reporters know, it’s not my practice to comment in response to questions from the media. But this warrants a response,” said the lawyer, Robert P. Trout. “She never said that. And the idea that Hope Hicks ever suggested that emails or other...

READ MORE MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – The security operation in place for Sunday’s Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles are “ready for anything” after two years of planning that was adjusted following last year’s deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas. The National Football League’s championship game is one of the biggest sporting events in the world and those planning to be anywhere near the game venue of U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis can expect plenty of security. Bomb-sniffing dogs, police patrols, helicopters and a massive chain-link and concrete fence surrounding the stadium are among the many measures in place. “We are absolutely ready for anything that may come our way,” Minneapolis Police Commander Scott Gerlicher, whose department is overseeing security, told a news conference on Wednesday. “We hope it’s just cold weather and that’s it.” The Super Bowl is being held four months afte...

READ MORE SEOUL (Reuters) – A North Korean figure skating pair along with eight other athletes will arrive in South Korea later on Thursday by airplane, set to compete in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics that will begin next week. The figure skating pair had been the only North Koreans to have secured a spot at the Winter Games through the conventional qualifying competition. Despite losing their place after failing to register, they were handed one quota place by the International Olympic Committee last month. Three alpine skiers, three cross-country skiers and two short-track skaters will accompany the pair, according to the Ministry of Unification. The North Korean athletes, who have been also been handed quota places, will join 12 ice hockey players who arrived in South Korea last month. North and South Korea have agreed to march under a single flag at the opening ceremony at the Pyeongchang Olympics and field a united team in the women’s ice hockey after rare inter-Korea...

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READ MORE Under the deal, Fujifilm will own just over 50 percent of the Xerox business. There are plans to cut $1.7 billion in costs in coming years. Fujifilm said it would cut its payroll by 10,000 workers worldwide. How Xerox fell so far is a case study in what management experts call the “competency trap” — an organization becomes so good at one thing, it can’t learn to do anything new. Photo Children using an Alto, a prototype personal computer that Xerox developed in the 1970s. Credit Xerox Xerox traces its origins to the founding in 1903 of the M. H. Kuhn Company. But it was an invention dreamed up in a makeshift Queens lab in the 1930s — a forerunner of the Silicon Valley garages used by the likes of Mr. Jobs — that changed Xerox’s trajectory. That invention, by Chester Carlson, a patent lawyer, led to the creation of the modern copy machine. He even came up with a term for the process: “xerography.” In 1959, Xerox, which ha...

READ MORE YANGON (Reuters) – Two Reuters journalists accused of violating Myanmar’s colonial-era Official Secrets Act were brought to a district court on Thursday where, according to a defense lawyer, the judge is due to rule on a bail request. The prosecution is also scheduled to present at least one more witness at the hearing in the Insein District Court of Yangon, Myanmar’s main city. The two journalists – Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27 – had worked on Reuters coverage of a crisis in Rakhine state, where an army crackdown on insurgents since the end of August has triggered the flight of 688,000 Rohingya Muslims, according to the United Nations. The reporters were detained on Dec. 12 after they had been invited to meet police officers over dinner in Yangon. They have told relatives they were arrested almost immediately after being handed some documents at a restaurant by two officers they had not met before. The two reporters were smiling as they were ...

READ MORE (Reuters) – Facebook Inc offered reassurances to investors on Wednesday that its digital ad business would remain highly profitable, despite a dip in usage on the social media network and an overhaul of its flagship News Feed. The company said in an earnings report that quarterly revenue jumped 47 percent from a year earlier, and executives said on a conference call that they saw more chances to make money even if people spend less time on Facebook. Analysts had wondered about the resilience of the world’s largest social media network, which is making changes to its products to deter foreign influence campaigns like ones that it says Russia has carried out and to stem the spread of sensationalism. Facebook added to jitters after the bell on Wednesday when, in its earnings report, it said that at the end of last year time spent by users had fallen by about 50 million hours a day. Shares fell more than 4 percent in after-hours trading. Shortly afterward, though, Face...

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READ MORE WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Trey Gowdy, chairman of the powerful House Oversight committee, will not run for re-election this November, he announced on Wednesday, becoming the latest high-profile Republican to retire from Congress. Gowdy, a 53-year-old former prosecutor and Christian conservative, said he would be returning to the justice system. “I will not be filing for re-election to Congress nor seeking any other political or elected office,” he said in a statement. “Whatever skills I may have are better utilized in a courtroom than in Congress, and I enjoy our justice system more than our political system.” Gowdy joins 40 other House Republicans, many of them in senior positions, who have left the current Congress or will not run again. Initially some went to jobs in the administration of President Donald Trump. Others are leaving to run for another office or retire from politics during speculation that an anti-Trump backlash c...

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READ MORE Yesterday, we reported  the latest attempt to recreate Top Gun in real life when a  Russian Su-27 fighter jet reportedly performed an “unsafe intercept of a US Navy P-3 Orion surveillance plane” while it was flying in international airspace next to Russia , over the the Black Sea Monday. What made this one so special  was that Lt. Col. Michelle Baldanza, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon,  claimed that  the Russian warplane  came within five feet of the US spy plane, forcing it to veer off course and end its mission prematurely . She added that the intercept was unsafe because the Russian aircraft crossed in front of the Aries, exposing the American plane to the turbulence left in the Su-27’s wake. As a result, the Aries experienced “ a 15-degree roll and violent turbulence.” Today we get some video evidence of just how close it was… On Tuesday, the US military released the four-second clip, showing the Russian pla...

READ MORE Also divorced, Mr. Thompson had five children from his previous marriage. “I only had one and that’s a big difference,” Ms. Callan said. At the end of the semester, Mr. Thompson transferred to Wesleyan. From 1995 to 1998 the two stayed in touch. There were phone calls, movies and dinners. One night when he hugged her goodbye, “something had changed,” she said. “That’s when the love affair started.” Five years later, Mr. Thompson proposed at the Olympia Tea Room in Westerly, R.I. “My daughter left for college, his children were on their own, he was no longer a student and had gotten his Ph.D.,” Ms. Callan said. “The time felt right, things had progressed to a point where we both felt we were ready.” What I’ve Learned Ms. Callan: With a second marriage, you come with a lot of baggage. I’ve learned to be more patient and accepting. We’re careful to never take each other for granted and to be...

READ MORE With the city’s constant churn of night-life offerings, it’s not uncommon for hoteliers and bar owners to hark back to New York’s rich cultural past for inspiration. Few newcomers enjoy as many points of reference as Gibson Luce, a subterranean cocktail bar that opened in January beneath the Life Hotel, once the headquarters of Life magazine. Photo The bartender creates a Banana Spliff at Gibson Luce. Credit Nina Westervelt for The New York Times Named after Charles Dana Gibson, the magazine’s former editor, and Henry Luce, its former publisher, the bar pays tribute to the glory days of the famed photojournalistic periodical, in a space where Norman Rockwell and editors once lounged. While the bar does a commendable job of evoking the past, it feels more like an after-work or pre-dinner spot, rather than somewhere one would seek out. THE PLACE The bar is on a dingy stretch of West 31st Street, lined with hole-in-the-wall shops selling discount jewelry...

READ MORE Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a Winnipeg town hall that harassment in the workplace is a serious concern and pledged to look into allegations from a questioner that Canada Post may be fostering such an atmosphere.  Trudeau made the pledge in response to a questioner at the University of Manitoba event who suggested that he had been bullied in the workplace.  “It is not OK, it is never OK, to face situations of harassment or intimidation or bullying in any workplace in this country, but as you say, a Crown corporation, within the responsibility of the federal government — that’s something that I particularly take extremely seriously,” Trudeau said.  “I commit to you that I will follow up on what you are talking about and we’ll try and see if we can make some headway on that.” Members of far-right Storm Alliance attend Trudeau’s town hall in Quebec City Trudeau’s town halls offer a master class in ch...

READ MORE The Senate passed a bill that renders the national anthem gender neutral Wednesday despite the entrenched opposition of some Conservative senators. The House of Commons overwhelmingly passed a private member’s bill in 2016 that would alter the national anthem by replacing “in all thy sons command” with “in all of us command” as part of a push to strike gendered language from  O Canada . The bill was first introduced by Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger , who died in 2016. It now must receive royal assent by the Governor General before it officially becomes law. Since 1980, when O Canada officially became the country’s anthem, 12 bills have been introduced in the House to strip the gendered reference to “sons,” which some have argued is discriminatory. All attempts have failed until now. The song was written by Robert Stanley Weir in 1908 and has been changed before ...

READ MORE “The Democrats are going to be even less disposed to do anything the president suggests even if it’s in their interest,” said Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates more limits on immigration. And “it hardens attitudes among Republicans that the Democrats are simply unreasonable and you can’t talk to them.” Jason Grumet, the president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization in Washington that favors an agreement, said Mr. Trump clearly wanted to reach an immigration deal but was not receiving good advice about how to achieve that. “Last night’s speech didn’t preclude a deal, but it sure squandered an opportunity to advance one,” he said. In the address, Mr. Trump offered what he called an “open hand” on the issue of immigration and challenged Congress to “finally get the job done” on a long-delayed overhaul of the system. But in de...