German soldiers assigned to Surface Air and Missile Defense Wing 1 firing the Patriot weapons system in Chania, Greece, on November 8, 2017.
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The US plans to stop open orders for Patriot interceptor missiles, the Financial Times reported.
It aims to send them to Ukraine instead, leaving other countries to wait, per the FT.
Ukraine has repeatedly asked for more Patriot systems, but has only received a handful from its allies.
The US plans to halt open orders for the delivery of Patriot interceptor missiles and send them to Ukraine instead, the Financial Times reported, citing people with knowledge of the discussions.
According to the FT, President Joe Biden said countries expecting deliveries will have to wait because "everything we have is going to go to Ukraine until their needs are met."
The move is expected to be announced on Thursday, officials told the FT.
The US will be "re-sequencing deliveries" of air defense systems, including Patriots, "so interceptors rolling off the production line now are provided to Ukraine," an unnamed senior White House official told the outlet.
The official said the move shows the US' "commitment" to supporting partners when they're in "existential danger" but is also a message to Russia that "if they think they can outlast Ukraine in this war, they are mistaken," per the outlet.
Washington has briefed all affected countries privately, the FT reported.
Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has received only a handful of Patriot missile systems from its allies.
The Netherlands, Germany, and the US have provided Ukraine with at least three, possibly five, Patriots systems — however, their precise number and deployment have not been disclosed.
Some Ukrainian allies have refused to send their own systems, like Greece, which says it needs them to protect its airspace.
According to unnamed senior military and administration officials who spoke to The New York Times last week, Biden approved the transfer of a second battery from the US earlier this month.
In April, Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, told The Washington Post that his team had identified more than 100 Patriot air-defense systems that its allies could spare.
The Patriot had a questionable reputation going into the conflict, but has performed extremely well in Ukraine, experts told BI in March, citing upgrades and operators' training.
Ukraine used one to down a prized Russian A-50 spy plane earlier this year, and it likely deployed several to take out two Russian planes in January, two analysts told BI at the time.
The 28-year-old model and socialite is the youngest daughter of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., well known for his misleading claims about vaccine safety. She's also a mainstay at fashion shows and fashion-brand popups, making her one to watch from "America's royal family."
Here's everything you need to know about Kyra Kennedy.
Kyra Kennedy is the youngest daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Mary Richardson Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Kyra Kennedy in 2009.
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Kyra Kennedy was born on August 22, 1995. She is the second child of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his second wife, Mary Richardson.
People reported that Kennedy and Richardson started dating before the politician's divorce from his first wife, Emily Ruth Black, was finalized in 1994. Kennedy married Richardson that same year, and they were married until Richardson's death by suicide on May 16, 2012. The couple were estranged at the time of her death, The Guardian reported.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has two children with Black: Robert "Bobby" Kennedy III, 39, and Kathleen Alexandra "Kick" Kennedy, 36, according to People.
Kennedy had four children with Richardson: Conor Richardson Kennedy, 29; Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy, 28; William "Finn" Kennedy, 27; and Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy, 23.
Kennedy married his third wife, actor Cheryl Hines, in 2014. They have no children together, though she has a daughter from a previous marriage.
Kennedy made her debut in society at a Paris debutante ball.
Kyra Kennedy goes down the stairs as she tries her new dress at Dior in Paris on November 27, 2013, ahead of the Debutantes Ball.
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Harper's Bazaar reported that then-21-year-old Kyra was "the latest Kennedy making headlines" after she made her formal debut in society at a 2013 debutante ball in Paris.
The event, known as "Le Bal," was held at the Automobile Club de France in Paris, and all attendees wore haute couture. As reported by Harper's Bazaar, Kennedy wore Dior, whom she had already interned with when she made her debut.
Vanity Fair reported that other debutantes that year included Larry David's daughter Romy and Lady Amelia Windsor, a member of the British royal family.
She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Cheryl Hines in 2014.
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Kennedy has been a longtime fashion enthusiast.
In addition to earning her degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, she also held internships at Kenneth Cole and Dior, Harper's Bazaar reported.
Kennedy was a member of the "Snap Pack," which also included the likes of Tiffany Trump.
Andrew Warren, Kyra Kennedy, and Charlotte Bickley attend an event on December 3, 2019.
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The New York Times coined the term "Snap Pack" in 2016. The group was made up of uber-rich young people who lived and partied in Manhattan, and who documented their lives for their many devoted Snapchat and Instagram followers.
Kennedy's high-profile social circle also included people like Gaia Matisse, the great-granddaughter of artist Henri Matisse, Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany Trump, and up-and-coming fashion designer Andrew Warren.
Her father reportedly barred her from using social media after an online incident with a reporter.
Kyra Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in September 2019.
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In 2016, Page Six reported that Kennedy's dad, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had barred her from using social media after her reported involvement in a "cyberbullying" scandal.
According to the tabloid, Kyra Kennedy, then 20, had used her Instagram page to write mean comments on an Instagram page owned by Allie Jones, a New York writer who had written a post about The New York Times' "Snap Pack" article for The Cut, a subsidiary of New York Magazine. She later deleted the comments, per Page Six.
Jones recounted the experience in another article for The Cut, titled, "I'm Being Cyberbullied on Instagram by a Kennedy."
"Mr. Kennedy has spoken to Kyra and informed his daughter that their family does not bully people. He has instructed her to shut down all of her social media accounts immediately," a representative for the politician told Page Six.
The ban didn't last forever, however, as the Daily Mail reported in September 2019 that Kennedy had resumed using her social media pages.
Kennedy has dabbled in modeling over the years.
Kyra Kennedy and Leia Sfez attend the Gucci Women's Fall Winter 2024 Fashion Show during Milan Fashion Week.
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In May 2016, she made her modeling debut posing for her friend and fellow Snap Pack member Andrew Warren's clothing line during New York Fashion Week, Harper's Bazaar reported.
According to her Instagram, she frequently attends brand pop-ups, fashion shows, and Fashion Week events held by major brands, from Gucci to Tod's and Louis Vuitton.
As a member of one of America's most famous families, she's certainly one to watch.
Kyra Kennedy.
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Kennedy now has nearly 30,000 followers on Instagram, where she documents her outfits, glamorous lifestyle, and travels.
Judging by her page, she still has many celebrity friends, including comedian Larry David's daughter Cazzie.
The unemployment rate in Texas had been consistently at 3.9% from June 2023 to March 2024. It had ticked up to 4.0% in April, but that's still a low rate, and the labor force participation rate also ticked up from 64.1% to 64.2% in April. The unemployment rate for Texas has been close to or at the national unemployment rate during 2024 so far. Plus, the state added 42,600 jobs in April, which is a robust gain compared to most of the monthly gains for this state in 2023.
Amid a robust job market and with over 15.2 million people in the Texas labor force, Business Insider decided to look at what pay opportunities look like in the state based on recently published data.
Around two dozen jobs in Texas pay an average of over $175,000, including architectural and engineering managers, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, and athletes and other sports competitors.
That's based on average annual wage data from the May 2023 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. BI focused on jobs that had data available for Texas from that release. While pediatric surgeon is a high-paying job in the state, we didn't include it in our ranking below because it didn't have a specific estimate stated.
Below are the highest-paying jobs in Texas along with their average annual wages and employment estimates in the state.
26. Postsecondary health specialties teachers
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Average annual wage: $176,430
Employment estimate: 25,650
25. Lawyers
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Average annual wage: $177,890
Employment estimate: 45,950
24. Commercial pilots
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Average annual wage: $180,660
Employment estimate: 6,360
23. Architectural and engineering managers
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Average annual wage: $185,320
Employment estimate: 18,540
22. Podiatrists
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Average annual wage: $201,210
Employment estimate: 260
21. Psychiatrists
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Average annual wage: $205,270
Employment estimate: 1,040
20. Family medicine physicians
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Average annual wage: $214,720
Employment estimate: 5,920
19. Nurse anesthetists
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Average annual wage: $216,280
Employment estimate: 5,390
18. Dentists
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Average annual wage: $220,000
Employment estimate: 10,910
17. General internal medicine physicians
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Average annual wage: $224,640
Employment estimate: 2,690
16. Pediatricians
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Average annual wage: $225,220
Employment estimate: 2,530
15. Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers
In a world where everything from a driver's age to local climate events can be used to assess insurance rates, it might sound nice to have one's risk assessed on something you can actually control.
But most families don't realize that some phone apps they use in the background, such as Life360, MyRadar, or GasBuddy, are handing their driving data over to insurers, The New York Times reported.
These apps all rely on driving-analysis technology operated by Arity, an Allstate company that collects data to determine a driving score that can be sold to insurers to "help create future transportation solutions that are smarter and safer," according to Allstate's website, which says Arity has collected "more than a trillion miles of driving data."
The opt-in consent on the apps is vague about what information is shared, the Times reported, so many customers had no idea they were sharing driving data with insurers.
"People today are generating massive amounts of data, and we believe this data has significant potential value for businesses across transportation. Consumers stand to gain big too," Arity's website says, adding that customers can have "greater control to receive rates based on how safely they drive."
In a comment to Business Insider, Arity said that it "partners with mobile app publishers to provide value features, like Crash Detection and fuel efficiency to users who opt-in for those services."
"For the use of personalized auto insurance pricing, consumers must clearly and explicitly opt-in to have Arity create and send a summary of their driving data via the Arity IQ network and consumers can request a copy of this driving report once they opt-in to share their driving data for a personalized insurance quote," the company continued.
In a statement to BI, a Life360 spokesperson said the Times article was "inaccurate and misleading."
"Life360 does not share personally identifiable driving data with insurance companies to influence our members' insurance premiums unless a member explicitly requests that we do so. We require specific, opt-in consent before sharing a member's personal driving data for personalized insurance quotes," the spokesperson said. "There may be companies that share data with insurance companies without the driver's full knowledge or affirmative consent, but Life360 is not one of those."
Update June 12, 2024: This story has been updated to include a comment from Arity and Life360.
My family had a great time sailing on the Disney Fantasy during spring break.
Jill Robbins
My family of four splurged on a seven-night Caribbean cruise aboard the Disney Fantasy.
We stayed in an inexpensive class of stateroom, but paid $7,000+ to cruise during spring break.
We didn't watch our onboard spending and money spent on excursions, which quickly added up.
My family of four – my husband, two teens, and myself – sailed on the Disney Fantasy this spring. Our cruise was seven nights and left from Port Canaveral, Florida, near Orlando.
Our ship stopped in Grand Cayman, Falmouth, Jamaica, Cozumel, Mexico, and Disney's island, Castaway Cay. This was our first time sailing on the Fantasy and our ninth Disney cruise.
Our trip cost just over $10,000. Perhaps surprisingly, this is on par with the higher end of what a family can expect to spend on a seven-night Caribbean cruise: about $270 to $2,600 a person.
Here's a rough look at what we spent:
Cruise: $7,300 (includes interior room, meals, and entertainment)
Excursions: $1,160
Spa: $846
Alcohol: $334
WiFi: $490
Bingo: $152
Here's the value we felt we got and what we might do differently next time.
We got the cheapest room type but would've saved by sailing at a different time of year
Our stateroom was the cheapest class available.
Jill Robbins
Even though we stayed in the cheapest stateroom category — interior cabins — our cruise was still pricey because we sailed during spring break.
We could've saved $3,000 on the cruise if we'd went in September, which is during hurricane season and while school is in session for our kids. In the end, we couldn't justify our sons missing that week of school.
Sadly, there's not much getting around this cost in the next few years. It's hard for us to travel during cheaper times since cruises almost always cost more during spring break, summertime, and over the winter holidays when most kids are out of school.
I don't regret our WiFi or bingo budgets
We bought an intermediate WiFi package for $490 and spent $152 on bingo.
We don't usually spend money on WiFi while cruising, but decided to get a package since this was a longer sailing. This allowed my kids to play their online games at night and me to keep an eye on my inbox.
No one was glued to their device, and even though this was quite a chunk of change, I'd consider it again for a longer cruise like this one.
The bingo turned out to be an OK investment since we won $145 and almost broke even. We usually play at least one round of bingo and usually don't win much, but my kids enjoy it, and it's something we do as a family.
Still, excursions, spa treatments, and drinks added up
I could get a cheaper massage at home.
Jill Robbins
We booked excursions in Grand Cayman, Jamaica, and Cozumel, and my husband and I had a couple's massage on the beach at Castaway Cay.
We didn't book super elaborate excursions, but costs added up for four people. Even so, I don't regret any of the experiences or the time spent with my family.
We could've cut back on our excursions budget by not booking directly with Disney Cruise Line or finding a spot to snorkel on our own, but I liked the ease and security of booking directly with the cruise line.
Next time, we might cut back on drinks and spa treatments
My husband and I aren't huge drinkers.
Jill Robbins
Since we're limited by when we can travel, we're honing in on alcohol and spa treatments as areas we can spend less money on.
We're not huge drinkers, but my husband and I enjoy having a glass of wine with our dinner and a couple of cocktails on deck or while lounging on the beach at Castaway Cay.
On future trips, we may cut back. When we looked at our bill, we saw that some of the wine we ordered was as much as $18.50 per glass!
And, as much as we loved the massages on the beach, they cost $289 a person (including automatic gratuity). Getting a massage in a beachside cabana while on vacation was super relaxing, but we can get massages at home for a fraction of that price.
Overall, we loved our cruise and have no regrets
The longer cruise with four ports of call was pricier than we realized, and we got a bit of sticker shock when we saw the final bill with our onboard extras.
I don't have any regrets since my family has always been more focused on experiences than stuff: We don't drive fancy cars or wear expensive clothes, but we prioritize nice vacations.
Although we know we need to curb the spending in a few areas and be a little more aware of what things cost when charging things to our room, we came away with fond memories that were worth every penny.
A toddler was rescued from a locked Tesla after the car's battery died, a report says.
The child's grandmother called 911 after she was unable to open the car.
Firefighters eventually broke the car's window with an ax and rescued the child, the report said.
A toddler was rescued from a locked Tesla by Scottsdale firefighters after the car's battery died.
Renee Sanchez told Arizona's On Your Side that she was planning to take her 20-month-old granddaughter to the Phoenix Zoo when the incident occurred.
She said the EV's battery died after she closed the door on her grandaughter and walked around the car to get in the front seat.
"I could not get in. My phone key wouldn't open it. My card key wouldn't open it," Sanchez told the outlet.
She ended up calling 911 operators, who then dispatched Scottsdale firefighters, per the report.
After arriving on the scene, the firefighters told Sanchez they often struggled to get inside locked Teslas. They eventually broke the car's window with an ax and rescued the child, the report said.
Representatives for Tesla and Scottsdale Fire Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours. Sanchez could not immediately be reached for comment.
Numerous Tesla owners say they have been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power. There are several ways to open the doors when the car is completely flat, including if drivers are stuck outside, but many Tesla owners aren't aware of these safety features.
One key safety feature is a release lever on both the driver's and passenger's side doors that manually unlocks the doors.
In April, a TikToker said she got stuck in her Tesla for 40 minutes during a software update while parked in the sun. She said the temperature in the car soared to115°F while the EV updated.
Ken Griffin is reportedly adding more floors to Citadel's new Florida office.
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Billionaire Ken Griffin is doubling down on Miami.
The Citadel boss is expanding its new office in the city's financial district, CoStar News reported.
Griffin has pumped millions of dollars into Florida since moving his company from Chicago in 2022.
Ken Griffin is in a Florida state of mind.
The billionaire boss of Citadel is adding two more floors to the firm's planned office at a new 55-story tower in Miami, according to a report in CoStar News.
The new Citadel office at 830 Brickell in the middle of Miami's financial district will now feature eight floors, CoStar reported.
The new tower (designed by the firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Dubai) will feature panoramic views of Miami, a luxury rooftop restaurant, and a fitness center, according to developers OKO Group.
CoStar News reported that the tower's rent is upwards of $100 per square foot.
Citadel didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
Griffin had stunned the financial world in 2022 when he announced he was moving Citadel from Chicago to Florida. He blamed Chicago's crime rate at the time for the mega-firm's shift.
Last November, Griffin declared that Miami could one day overtake New York as the premier financial hub in the United States.
"Miami, I think, represents the future of America," he said, praising the state's pro-business stances. Florida taxes are much lower than those in New York City or Chicago.
Earlier this year, Citadel employees told BI that the city's ample sunshine and less stressful vibe made Miami a welcome change of pace.
Since moving the firm, Griffin has pumped millions into South Florida through donations to local programs.
Last September, he announced Griffin Catalyst, a Miami-based civic engagement organization building on his prior philanthropic work. The group focuses on topics like charter school expansion, free speech initiatives, science and medical research, and the promotion of "the American dream" and economic mobility.
Griffin has also donated to local hospitals and groups, including a $50 million donation to cancer research for the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and $9 million for the area's public schools to expand tutoring programs.
Giovanni Carmine has curated Art Basel's Unlimited show for four years.
Carmine told BI that picking the art, building a hall, and installing it for the latest show took a year.
This article is part of BI's 2024 Art Basel series, taking you inside the art fair's global scene.
Giovanni Carmine tosses out words like "dialogue" and "conversation" to describe the relationship between artworks in Unlimited, an exhibition at the annual Art Basel show in Switzerland.
Carmine, the director of Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, told Business Insider his goal as the exhibit curator is to find a way for pieces with vastly different subjects to flow together and converse.
While some pieces, like Lutz Bacher's "Chess," have literal sound, others, like David Claerbout's "Birdcage," intentionally leave out noise. Regardless of the sound a piece omits, Carmine hopes it ignites a discussion among the observers.
A person sits in front of David Claerbout's "Birdcage."
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"The people that come here, they will have — maybe for the first time — an experience they will never forget," Carmine said. "This is the proposition that art makes: Let's discuss things together, let's figure it out, and let's challenge ourselves, too."
For Carmine, creating a space to welcome those conversations doesn't start weeks or months before the show. Curating a space like Unlimited takes a year to complete.
Giovanni Carmine stands in front of a Keith Haring artwork.
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Curating this year's Unlimited show started at last year's Art Basel
For one week each summer, the Swiss town of Basel ushers in an influx of visitors. Gallery owners, museum curators, artists, and art-curious tourists arrive for the Art Basel show.
The weeklong event is divided into a handful of sectors. Art installations dot public spaces, creating the Parcours program. Inside one large hall, more than 250 galleries display art from around the world. Films are showcased, and experts host discussions, Q&As, and debates.
Perhaps the most popular part of Art Basel is the Unlimited sector, famous for its large-scale works. The exhibition doesn't have a theme, but Carmine describes it as "an overview of contemporary art and what is interesting at the moment in the market."
In a hall the size of three football fields, artists can create and showcase work without physical barriers.
This year, 70 projects were featured in the 172,000-square-foot room. The works include immense installations, seemingly never-ending paintings, captivating live performances, encompassing photo series, and striking video projections.
For example, Chiharu Shiota's "The Extended Line" takes up about 1,550 square feet of the hall. Miles of red rope hangs above a bronze cast of the artist's open hands and arms, urging viewers to question what it means to be human. In another area of the hall, 1,200 of the world's most popular names stretch across a wall in a project titled "The World: A Moment in Time" by Allan McCollum.
Carmine said the placement of each piece is intentional. But before he can decide where an artwork will find its home in the hall, Carmine must select what will be displayed — something that starts a year in advance.
"The moment we open the show is the moment we are starting to work for the next year," he said.
Julio Le Parc's work "Zepelin de Acero."
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This is Carmine's fourth year of curating Unlimited. He spends the week of Art Basel conversing with gallery representatives, discussing artists' works, and planting seeds for the next exhibit.
Once Art Basel is over, Carmine said these conversations get more serious. Instead of an individual artist submitting a project, the artwork is featured with the support of a gallery.
Carmine's next step is to visit galleries to view artworks and artists. He might head to another Art Basel show in Paris or Miami and continue exploring potential works.
Then, a committee works together to select the projects by the end of January. Like most years, a selection of old and new works were picked this year.
Carmine is given the blank canvas of an enormous white hall, and for the next two months, he'll work with an architect to design the space. Walls will need to be built, and rooms will need to be created to house each project.
Seba Calfuqueo performs during Art Basel's Unlimited showing.
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Carmine estimates there were about 50 iterations of this year's hall. Each year has hurdles, and this year, Carmine was tasked with developing a space for unusually long pieces.
"I knew that having some really long paintings would be a challenge to show them in a way that's good for the paintings, first of all, and for the visitors to see," he said.
Carmine said the team landed on the use of diagonals. Two long walls divide the room. Keith Haring's "Untitled (FDR NY) #5-22" stretches across one wall, and Sam Falls' "Spring to Fall" fills another.
"Through the placement, you can generate also a kind of dramaturgy," Carmine said.
For example, Carmine said it was intentional to have Mario Ceroli's "Progetto per la Pace" be the first piece visitors see. The mixed-media work, composed of 365 white silk flags staked in soil and hay, represents a vision of peace.
"In these moments of human history, I think it's interesting to put an exclamation on this topic at the beginning of the exhibition," he said.
Mario Ceroli's "Progetto per la Pace."
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Once the hall's layout is finalized, walls and lights are built and placed. Finally, the galleries and artists arrive to install their projects about four days before Art Basel begins.
A view of Art Basel's Unlimited hall.
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Carmine watches as the bright white room is transformed. During installation, he estimates he walks about 30 miles a day while supervising the process.
Then comes Carmine's favorite part: welcoming an audience.
Faith Ringgold's"The Wake and Resurrection of the Bicentennial Negro."
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'A little town of art'
For the next week, viewers will wander through what Carmine calls "a little town of art." The projects invoke a wide range of emotions.
Kresiah Mukwazhi challenges cultural norms and taboos placed on girls and women in her 26-foot-long work, "Nyenyedzi nomwe (The Seven Sisters Pleiades)." In the piece, she uses more than 1,000 pieces of salvaged bra straps and lingerie fabric from sex workers in Harare, Zimbabwe, to showcase lived experiences.
Across the hall, viewers do exactly what Julio Le Parc set out to do with his installation, "Zepelín de Acero." His piece, which uses stainless steel and mirrors, stimulates active engagement. People of all ages walk around the reflecting pieces as they catch glimpses of themselves and others.
Carmine said the response this year has been overwhelmingly positive, adding that the commercial aspect of the Unlimited exhibit has been a success.
The 70 projects are listed for sale, and because they are so large, the target buyers are typically museums or private foundations. Installations like Christo's "Wrapped 1961 Volkswagen Beetle Saloon," a recreation of the artist's earlier work, were listed for $4 million. Christo was known for these large-scale works, such as wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in 2021.
Carmine said everyone from art collectors to galleries to the general public has shown appreciation and amazement for the exhibit.
And, he added, conversations seem to be sparking.
"What I was reaching for, it's happening," he said.
The US still has a long way to go in terms of systemic racism, inequality, and police brutality.
Here are 15 movies and TV shows that are a good place to start educating yourself.
The list includes biopics like "Judas and the Black Messiah" and comedies like "Sorry to Bother You."
Reading books and watching documentaries is a part of education, but fictional movies or dramatizations of real stories can be equally as illuminating.
June 19 was Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the US. To mark the holiday, we picked 15 movies and TV shows that will help people understand the history of racism in this country, from the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic "Selma" to the 1961 film "A Raisin in the Sun," to the horror-comedy "Get Out."
Keep scrolling for our recommendations of movies and TV shows to watch to educate yourself.
In 2018's "The Hate U Give," high school student Starr finds her voice as an activist after her friend is shot by a police officer in front of her.
"The Hate U Give."
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"The Hate U Give," which is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Angie Thomas, follows Starr after her best friend, Khalil, is fatally shot during a traffic stop.
"Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right," IMDb writes.
"It's so gripping to watch — as well as being, in places, just delightfully funny — that you never feel you're being preached to. It picks you up in one place and sets you down in another," wrote Stephanie Zacharek of Time.
The film's director, George Tillman Jr., announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that "The Hate U Give" was free to stream in June 2020 after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a Minneapolis officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes.
"I hope the film provides a bit of understanding. Our story is a reminder to never be afraid to raise our voice in the name of justice. We must stand up for what we believe. The time for change is now!" Tillman wrote.
You can rent or buy "The Hate U Give" online.
Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx starred in "Just Mercy" in 2019, which is based on the real case of Walter McMillian and his lawyer Bryan Stevenson.
"Just Mercy."
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According to IMDb, "Just Mercy" is about the "world-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson," who "works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner" in 1989. That prisoner, Walter McMillian, was convicted of the murder of a white woman. Stevenson is also famous for founding the Equal Justice Initiative.
"'Just Mercy' captures Bryan Stevenson's story for posterity's sake. We shall never forget," wrote Alan Ng of Film Threat.
"Just Mercy" is streaming on Prime Video.
Ava DuVernay's Netflix miniseries, "When They See Us," is based on the case of the Central Park Five, a group of teenagers who were wrongfully convicted in the rape of a jogger.
"When They See Us."
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As the Netflix summary states, "Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park. Based on the true story." The series, which is split into four parts, delves deep into the fear and racism that surrounded the case, as reported by the BBC.
Hannah Giorgis of The Atlantic wrote, "In rendering their journeys, DuVernay pays careful attention to the terrifying power of language, especially the animalistic rhetoric with which prosecutors and journalists referred to the teens."
"When They See Us" is streaming on Netflix.
"Loving" is about the real-life couple Richard and Mildred Loving, who were at the center of the Supreme Court case that took down the ban on interracial marriage.
"Loving."
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According to IMDb, "Loving" is "the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision."
"What is radical about [Jeff] Nichols' film is the extent to which he focuses not on the legal fight and ensuing national attention but on the Lovings themselves," wrote Newsweek's Tom Shone.
You can rent or buy "Loving" online.
Ryan Coogler's directorial debut, "Fruitvale Station," tells the story of the last day of Oscar Grant's life before he was shot in the back by a police officer.
"Fruitvale Station."
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"Fruitvale Station" is another dramatization of a real crime — according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Oscar Grant died in 2009 after he was detained and shot in the back by a police officer at a San Francisco BART station. He was 22 years old.
Matthew Lucas of The Dispatch wrote, "It's a rough sit, sometimes unpleasant, and ultimately deeply painful, but somehow an essential watch."
"Fruitvale Station" is streaming on Max, or any app with the Max add-on.
David Oyelowo completely inhabits the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in "Selma," which follows the Selma to Montgomery Marches in 1965.
"Selma."
Paramount Pictures
"Fueled by a gripping performance from David Oyelowo, 'Selma' draws inspiration and dramatic power from the life and death of Martin Luther King, Jr. — but doesn't ignore how far we remain from the ideals his work embodied," according to Rotten Tomatoes.
"'Selma' is spectacularly staged, impressively acted and narratively satisfying. But it is also something much, much more and we need much, much more like it," wrote Ryan Syrek of The Reader.
Director Ava DuVernay announced on X that Paramount made "Selma" free to rent for the month of June 2020. "We've gotta understand where we've been to strategize where we're going. History helps us create the blueprint. Onward," her tweet read.
"Selma" is streaming on Paramount+ and MGM+.
"Get Out" is both a horror movie and a critique on so-called "woke" white people.
"Get Out."
Universal Studios
No spoilers; the twists and turns of "Get Out" should be seen on screen. But the basic gist: An interracial couple, Rose and Chris, travel to Rose's parents' house so Chris can meet them, but Rose and her parents are white, and her parents don't know her boyfriend is Black. Drama and uncomfortable jokes ensue.
"The villains here aren't southern rednecks or neo-Nazi skinheads, or the so-called 'white supremacy.' They're middle-class white liberals. The kind of people who read this website. The kind of people who shop at Trader Joe's, donate to the ACLU and would have voted for Obama a third time if they could," Lanre Bakare of The Guardian wrote.
"Get Out" is streaming on Peacock.
The 1961 film "A Raisin in the Sun," based on the play of the same name, remains relevant over 60 years later.
"A Raisin in the Sun."
Columbia Pictures
The movie centers on the Youngers, a Black family living in a city. The family must decide what to do with a $10,000 life insurance check. It deals with themes of racism, feminism, and economic inequality, among others.
A 2019 retrospective from Film Frenzy calls the film "a groundbreaking work that manages to be both specific to the African-American experience and universal in its themes of hope, change, and upward mobility."
"A Raisin in the Sun" is streaming on Tubi or Prime Video.
"If Beale Street Could Talk," based on the James Baldwin novel of the same name, is about a couple who has to deal with a false rape accusation and racist police.
"If Beale Street Could Talk."
Annapurna Pictures
The film centers on Tish and Fonny, who have begun dating after being friends their whole lives. When Fonny is falsely accused of rape, Tish and her family work together to support each other and try to get Fonny freed.
Matthew Norman of the London Evening Standard wrote, "[Director Barry] Jenkins doesn't scratch the surface of the Black American experience. He takes you deep into its bones and suggests that far less has changed than the naive may believe."
"If Beale Street Could Talk" is streaming on Peacock, Prime Video, and Starz.
Spike Lee's seminal film "Do the Right Thing" takes place on the hottest day of the summer in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bed-Stuy.
"Do the Right Thing."
Universal
According to IMDb, the film is about "the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn" when "everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence."
"If you think Spike Lee's 'Do the Right Thing' is dangerous, let me ask you: Aren't the problems he addresses, and our silent neglect of them, far more dangerous?" asked Eva Yaa Asantewaa of OutWeek.
"Do the Right Thing" is available to rent or buy online.
Lee's 2018 film "BlacKkKlansman" is also worth a watch.
"BlacKkKlansman" was directed by Spike Lee.
Focus Features
"BlacKkKlansman" is based on the 2014 memoir "Black Klansman" by Ron Stallworth, the first Black detective in Colorado Springs.
The film tells the story of Stallworth's real-life infiltration into a Colorado chapter of the Ku Klux Klan with the help of his fellow officer Flip Zimmerman. In the film, Stallworth is played by John David Washington, while Zimmerman is played by Adam Driver.
While communicating over the phone with KKK leader David Duke (played by Topher Grace), Stallworth also deals with racism within his own police department and his reluctance to tell the woman he's dating that he's a cop.
As Slate's Lawrence Ware wrote, positing what it will feel like to watch "BlacKkKlansman" 20 years from now, "We can hope it will feel dated, but as 'BlacKkKlansman' argues, and the previousthree decades of Lee's movies have taught us, it's likely to feel as pertinent as ever. Time may pass, but the struggle against racism in America remains largely the same."
"BlacKkKlansman" is streaming on Prime Video.
Boots Riley's absurdist black comedy "Sorry to Bother You" is both a satirical takedown of capitalism and a critique on racism in the workplace.
"Sorry to Bother You."
Annapurna
In "Sorry to Bother You," released in 2018, LaKeith Stanfield stars as Cash Green, an unemployed Black man who gets a job at a shady telemarketing company. But he can only get ahead using his "white voice" (played by David Cross).
As he climbs the corporate ladder, he distances himself from a union drive at his company and makes moral compromises he didn't think he had in him — and a lot more, but we don't want to spoil the truly absurd turn this movie takes.
"It's aboutexploitation and profit, about the fetishization of Black bodies and the indignities of code-switching, about giving up your dignity and trying to find love. Careening from office comedy to something like horror, 'Sorry to Bother You' is weird and funny and unsettling, and not quite like anything I've seen before," wrote Vox's Alissa Wilkinson.
"Sorry to Bother You" is streaming on The CW's website.
"Hidden Figures" is an empowering movie about the Black women who helped the US win the space race.
"Hidden Figures."
20th Century Fox
"Hidden Figures," loosely based on the book of the same name, focuses on three Black women working at NASA in the 1960s: Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (played by Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (played by Janelle Monáe), as they confronted both racism and sexism in the workplace.
After years of their contributions to NASA and space travel being erased, "Hidden Figures" is a celebration of their hard work and perseverance, as well as a hard look at what it was like in the struggle to be taken seriously by their peers.
"It might be one of the few Hollywood movies about the civil rights era to imagine that Black lives in the '60s, particularly Black women's lives, were affected not only by racism but also by the space race and the Cold War," wrote K. Austin Collins for The Ringer.
"Hidden Figures" is streaming on Disney+.
"Judas and the Black Messiah" is a biopic about the betrayal of Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton by William O'Neal, who was manipulated by the FBI.
"Judas and the Black Messiah."
Warner Bros. Pictures
"Judas and the Black Messiah," released in 2021, stars Daniel Kaluuya in an Oscar-winning performance as Fred Hampton, a Black Panther leader who was assassinated by police officers backed by the FBI.
But where did they get their information? From an informant in the Black Panthers organization, Bill O'Neal, played by LaKeith Stanfield — although, according to the film, O'Neal, who was originally recruited to clear his own criminal record, tried to quit multiple times when he became too invested in Hampton and the cause.
The New York Times' A.O. Scott called the film "a political tragedy" and discussed how the title refers to "the paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover (Martin Sheen), who saw African-American militants as the gravest internal threat to national security and feared the emergence of a popular, crowd-inspiring national leader" — and thus, felt the need to remove him from the playing field.
"Judas and the Black Messiah" is streaming on Max and various other streaming services with an HBO add-on, as well as Tubi.
"Dear White People" is a satirical look at what being Black at a predominantly white university is like.
"Dear White People."
Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions
"Dear White People" is a 2014 dark comedy about what it's like for Black students to attend a prestigious, mainly white college, and how the four students the film focuses on (Tessa Thompson's Sam, Teyonah Parris' Coco, Tyler James Williams' Lionel, and Brandon P. Bell's Troy) each experience life at Winchester College.
But when a frat on campus throws a blackface-themed party, the four are united in their outrage.
"The film explores how two members of the same race can have vastly different experiences depending on how dark their skin is, as well as why certain people can say and act one way, but not others," wrote IndieWire's Jenna Marotta.
"Dear White People," the 2014 film, is streaming on Max and various other streaming services with an HBO add-on. The 2017 TV series based on the film is streaming on Netflix.
This article is part of "Build IT," a series about digital-tech trends disrupting industries.
In December, Michael Cohen, the lawyer who gained notoriety working for Donald Trump, asked a federal judge to overlook his latest transgression: citing cases fabricated by generative AI. Cohen had used Google Bard, a predecessor of Google Gemini, to cite cases that didn't exist. Cohen claimed ignorance, saying he misunderstood the chatbot "to be a supercharged search engine."
These failures could suggest AI has no place in the practice of law. But some lawyers and legal experts told BI that that isn't always the case. Generative AI's accuracy can make it a minefield, but the legal industry's increasing complexity has many lawyers using it for help.
Danielle Benecke, the head of machine-learning practice at the international law firm Baker McKenzie, said AI models were getting good at "interpreting and generating complex legal language," a core part of the business.
Danielle Benecke, the head of machine-learning practice at Baker McKenzie.
Courtesy of Danielle Benecke
A lawyer's copilot
Founded in 1949, Baker McKenzie has over 6,500 lawyers working in 70 offices worldwide. Benecke said the firm's interest in AI predated generative AI, but the recent arrival of large language models, or LLMs, kicked off a wave of innovation. The firm's work building generative AI to produce legal draft advice for high-volume employment-law questions recently won an award from Law.com.
Benecke said AI tools were especially useful for handling the legal fallout from common issues like cybersecurity incidents. Even a minor incident can overwhelm a company with regulatory-compliance requirements that necessitate several days of work from a small team of lawyers, racking up steep fees.
The pinnacle of AI application in the next five to 10 years is going to be empowering lawyers.
Cecilia Ziniti, the CEO and cofounder of GC AI
Benecke said the firm's tools were designed to provide accurate advice in order to significantly reduce the time lawyers spend on navigating a client's regulatory requirements.
Benecke stressed that the firm's goal is quality, not efficiency. She said the time saved sorting through regulatory requirements is better spent strategizing on the client's response to the incident.
Cecilia Ziniti, the CEO and cofounder of GC AI, predicted this dynamic would come to dominate discussions of AI in the legal profession. "The pinnacle of AI application in the next five to 10 years is going to be empowering lawyers," she said. "It's a lawyer copilot."
Popular media often focuses on the most romantic aspects of law, like a prosecutor grilling a defendant on the stand or a hardworking lawyer crafting a novel legal strategy. But the reality, Ziniti said, is often less glamorous, as the legal industry spans a "very long tail" of tedious tasks.
Replying to such a request can require hundreds of hours of work as lawyers sift through documents to find relevant information. It's important work — a failure to comply may be met with stiff penalties and further scrutiny — but it's also repetitive, dull, and time-consuming.
Ziniti said an AI "copilot" allowed lawyers "to do what we call practicing at the top of our license," meaning "we can do the things that we are most capable of doing, that are the fun part."
GPT-4 enters the courtroom
The allure of a tool that tirelessly digs through documents on a lawyer's behalf is significant but shadowed by AI's biggest bugbear: hallucination.
IBM describes a hallucination as when an AI tool's LLM perceives nonexistent patterns and generates "outputs that are nonsensical or altogether inaccurate." As Cohen discovered, this can happen when an AI chatbot is prompted to answer a specific query that's not well represented in its training data.
It might come as a surprise that AI tools built for lawyers generally don't use models specifically trained for the industry. Most rely on the same generalized LLMs anyone can access, and OpenAI's GPT is by far the most popular. "There's not a model out there more powerful than GPT-4 right now," Ziniti said.
CoCounsel, an AI legal-assistant product, says it takes several steps to reduce hallucinations. It uses retrieval-augmented generation, a technique to ground an AI's response in documents provided to it, in combination with prompted instructions for the LLM to keep its responses focused on documents' contents.
OpenAI operates a set of servers dedicated to CoCounsel, giving CoCounsel's engineers more control over the model's output. That also helps with regulatory compliance, as information provided to CoCounsel isn't shared more widely.
Jake Heller, the head of product for CoCounsel at Thomson Reuters, said Thomson Reuters had established a "trust team" of lawyers and AI engineers to ensure CoCounsel "is getting the right answer." The AI assistant also provides citation links to alleviate accuracy concerns.
Jake Heller, the head of product for CoCounsel at Thomson Reuters.
Courtesy of Jake Heller
AI won't replace lawyers
There's another fear likely to push lawyers toward AI: other lawyers.
Heller said all law firms and lawyers exist within a "competitive dynamic." Law firms fight over a limited pool of clients, and plaintiffs and defendants compete to win cases. Ziniti described the practice of law as an "adversarial system" meant to push each lawyer to present the best case possible on behalf of their client.
"We used to physically review every single document in every case," Heller said. "Even every potentially relevant email, we would physically print them out, and they'd be sitting in banker boxes in a basement."
In a way, you have the problem advancing in tandem with the solution.
Danielle Benecke, the head of machine-learning practice at Baker McKenzie
Times have changed. Electronic review has replaced manual review wherever practical. The legal industry has an entire subfield, electronic discovery, dedicated to finding and sorting electronic documents.
Lawyers might also turn to AI to address a force meant to tame AI: regulation. Benecke said the complexity of government regulation was "on an exponential curve," adding, "In a way, you have the problem advancing in tandem with the solution." This is especially relevant for an international firm, like Baker McKenzie, that advises clients in dozens of countries.
Ultimately, the adoption of AI in the legal industry comes down to a fact of life: There are only so many hours in a day. While manually reviewing every document that could be relevant to a case may sound great, it's often not the best use of a lawyer's time.
"I think in three to five years, not using AI for legal work will be tantamount to refusing to use online search for legal work today," Ziniti said.
She added that lawyers have a professional responsibility to avoid inflating billable hours. That responsibility is codified by many legal organizations, including the American Bar Association.
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