The Louis Vuitton Men’s Autumn/Winter 2024 collection made its runway show debut on Tuesday (Jan. 16) at Paris Fashion Week, and beyond showing off the new looks, the show also previewed some new music.
While the models walked down the runway, an unreleased track by Miley Cyrus played over the speakers, which fans quickly recognized as the rumored Bangerz leak, “Doctor.” “I could be your doctor / I could be your nurse / I think I see the problem / It’s only gon’ get worse,” Cyrus sings in the upbeat song in a clip circulating X (formerly known as Twitter) from the show.
Pharrell Williams, who succeeded the late Virgil Abloh as Men’s Creative Director at Louis Vuitton, contributed writing or production to four songs on Cyrus’ 2013 album Bangerz. Williams also previewed a new Mumford & Sons collaboration at the show, called “Good People.”
“Good people / been down / for so long / and now / it’s like / the sun is rising,” frontman Marcus Mumford sings in the hopeful, joyous chorus. Pharrell also provides backing vocals on the song alongside the Native Vocalists, according to NME.
If Cyrus were to release “Doctor,” it would follow her introspective single, “Used to Be Young,” released back in August. The 31-year-old star released her eighth studio album, Endless Summer Vacation, in March. The LP was led by Cyrus’ empowering lead single and Billboard Hot 100 chart topper, “Flowers.”
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- Business Insider estimated the cost to care for one child in the US in 2024 will be at least $25,714.
- That’s a 41.5% increase since 2016 and costs will likely continue to go up this year.
- The two main drivers for the jump in costs are childcare, transportation, and food.
If you’re wondering how much of your salary will go toward raising your kid this year — or how much you’ll save by not having one — we did the math for you.
Accounting for expenses like rent, food, apparel, transportation, childcare, and health insurance premiums, Business Insider estimated it will cost about $25,714 to care for a small child this year.
To calculate this number, Business Insiderstarted with a LendingTree analysis of the average annual essential costs for childrearing, which used data from 2021 — the latest year for which complete data was available.
Then to get a rough estimate for where those costs are going, we adjusted them to account for the last two years of consumer price inflation to get a figure for 2023. Inflation has moderated a lot from a high of 8.9% year-over-year in June 2022 and is back down to 3.1% as of November 2023, but we did not presume to predict what will happen in 2024.
The $25,714 figure estimated for 2023 is a 19% increase from LendingTree’s estimates for 2021 and a 42% jump from 2016. And depending on what inflation looks like over the next year, it could be even more.
The estimate also factors in federal tax credits parents receive for having dependents. In 2021, LendingTree estimates parents were saving $3,600 annually on their taxes, an increase of $2,600 from 2016. To determine this national average, LendingTree assumes parents’ tax returns were filed jointly with a total income of $85,028, the national median income among families in 2021. Notably, 2021 featured the more generous Child Tax Credit passed as part of the American Rescue Plan. We instead factored in the current $2,000 per child CTC for 2023.
If you carry this cost forward until a baby born this year is the age of 18, that’s a total of $462,852 in today’s dollars.
It’s not just childcare that’s making costs balloon
The main expenses for raising a kid are childcare, transportation, and food, according to LendingTree’s calculation.
Since the pandemic, we’ve seen the prices of gas and food rise dramatically due to supply chain disruptions, wars, and climate crises. Parents could expect to spend $3,567 on food last year, a 45% increase from 2016.
Transportation can also leave a dent in parents’ wallets, totaling $6,588 last year, a 312% increase from 2016’s estimate of $1,598. A gallon of gas was $2.58 in December 2019 and $3.12 in December 2023, according to AAA.
“The economy is still finding its footing after the chaos wreaked by COVID-19 — and impacting parents’ wallets along the way (especially single parents),” wrote Jamie Cattanach, the author of the LendingTree analysis.
In addition, family health insurance premiums have gone up 10% since 2016 compared to a single person to an annual average of $3,166, according to our calculations based on LendingTree and KFF numbers.
But the largest cost of raising a kid, by far, is childcare, which we estimated to be an average annual cost of $12,883 — 17% higher than in 2016.
The childcare crisis came to a tipping point in September 2023, when nearly $24 billion in federal funds that helped keep childcare services afloat expired. Much of the funding was used to increase pay for employees at childcare centers and without it, childcare providers will either have to raise prices and hope their customers don’t bail or cut their employees’ pay and hope they don’t quit.
The rising costs of raising a child could be one of the factors deterring US adults from creating families. About 44% of non-parents between the ages of 18 and 49 said they weren’t likely to have kids in the future, up 7% from 2018, according to a Pew Research Center study that was publishedin November.
Are you a parent balancing the costs of raising a child and willing to provide details about your expenses? If so, reach out to this editor at ecanal@insider.com.
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A new spinoff series of a popular Netflix show for babies and preschoolers has some parents in an uproar after it introduced LGBTQ characters and a scene where a boy dresses up in a tutu and tiara.
In one episode segment for “CoComelon Lane” called, “Just be me,” a little boy plays dress up in a studio preparing for a photo shoot with his two dads.
Taking out different costumes, he asks his same-sex parents which one would look best. His dads encourage him to “be himself.”
“Think about all the things you like to do; just be you,” they sing to him. After dressing up as a firefighter and a chef, he dons a tiara and tutu and spins around the room.
The clip was shared by “End Wokeness” on X where it received over 7 million views in less than 24 hours.
Upset parents weighed in accusing the latest version of the well-known kid’s show of going “woke.”
Consumers’ Research executive director Will Hild told Fox News Digital he was “disgusted” by what he saw as an attempt to “groom” children.
The father of two said his children had long watched the original show and never had a reason to be concerned until now.
Hild argued the episode went beyond pushing a general acceptance for same-sex families and seemed to be encouraging cross-dressing, which he believed was pushing an agenda, “given everything that is going on with drag queen story hours” and sexually explicit books in schools and libraries.
“Now they’ve injected a far-left woke political agenda into it in a frankly, disgusting way. I don’t think the word groomer is even too far to use,” he remarked.
The leader of the consumer advocacy organization claimed most shows that are open about their political activism from the start aren’t successful. Media companies like Netflix realize this, Hild believes, so they have to sneak these themes into well-established shows in an “insidious” and deceptive way, he said.
He noted how other hit children’s series like “Peppa Pig” have also added LGBTQ characters in recent years after gaining a significant audience.
Hild wasn’t alone in his reaction.
Parents on X renounced the Netflix show and lamented the trend of media companies pushing far-left social messages.
“Wife and I have several young kids in the target age range. Never watching CoComelon again….there’s better kids content out there anyway!” Club For Growth analyst Andrew Follett wrote.
Texas Freedom Coalition President Sarah Fields commented, “I got into a debate the other day when I said that all the kid’s TV shows and movies are being destroyed with the woke agenda. Nothing is wholesome anymore. Not even Cocomelon is off the table. I’m so fed up.”
Parents also griped about the show’s turn to the left on the media content review site, Common Sense Media.
“Another show ruined. Typical,” Sky, a mother of a three and five-year-old, wrote.
“Why? Why are they SO desperate all the time to ruin absolutely everything. So sad that nothing is safe for children anymore. They do NOT need the woke agenda shoved down their throats for another second! It’s a toddler show… come on that’s enough now. Aren’t all these show creators sick of losing money yet?” she asked.
“Cocomelon lane is the woke spinoff of Cocomelon. Don’t waste your time,” another parent commented.
Not all parents were upset by the new content.
Several parents on the website praised the show for its “diversity” and mocked the concerned parents as “homophobic.”
Netflix did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Earlier this year, a Netflix Jr. cartoon for preschoolers drew backlash for teaching kids they can identify as “nonbinary” and use “they/them” pronouns.
In February 2023, a reboot of the Disney show “The Proud Family” received backlash over a rap in an episode of the cartoon featuring kids debating slavery and reparations, arguing that America “owes” Black Americans because America “still has not atoned for” its systemic prejudice, racism, and White supremacy.
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NEW YORK – A federal judge has ordered the public disclosure of the identities of more than 150 people mentioned in a mountain of court documents related to the late-financier Jeffrey Epstein, saying that most of the names were already public and that many had not objected to the release.
The people whose names are to be disclosed, including sex abuse victims, litigation witnesses, Epstein’s employees — and even some people with only a passing connection to the scandal — have until Jan. 1 to appeal the order, signed Monday by Judge Loretta A. Preska.
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For several years, Preska has reviewed documents sought by the Miami Herald from a civil case, filed by one of Epstein’s victims, that eventually was settled.
Many of the records related to that lawsuit were publicly released in past years, but on Monday the judge made determinations about some portions of the records that were initially withheld on potential privacy grounds and what can be made public about certain people mentioned in the records.
In many instances, she noted that individuals had given media interviews or that their names had previously emerged publicly in various ways, including at a trial two years ago of Epstein’s associate and former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Preska concluded that some portions of the records should remain confidential, including those identifying people who were children when they were sexually abused by Epstein and had tried to maintain their privacy.
The Epstein case has spawned countless conspiracy theories about the possible involvement of rich and powerful people in sex trafficking.
The three criminal cases brought by federal and state authorities, however, have focused on allegations about sexual abuse by Epstein himself and Maxwell.
Epstein took his own life in August 2019 in a federal lockup in Manhattan as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. He was accused of luring numerous underage girls to his homes under the guise of giving him massages, and then sexually abusing them.
Maxwell, 61, is serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was convicted in December 2021 of helping Epstein recruit and sexually abuse underage girls.
]]>An incident occurred at Tesla’s Giga Texas factory near Austin, where an assembly robot reportedly malfunctioned and attacked a Tesla engineer. As reported in the Daily Mail, an injury report recounted a terrifying incident where two employees witnessed their colleague being attacked by a robot. The robot that attacked was specifically engineered to efficiently and precisely handle newly formed aluminum car components.
According to reports, the man was pinned by the robot while he was programming software for two disabled Tesla robots in the vicinity. With a merciless grip, it mercilessly pierced the worker’s back and arm, leaving a gruesome mark of crimson on the factory floor. According to reports, the victim sustained a significant injury to his left hand. The attack took place in 2021 and was disclosed in an injury report submitted to both Travis County and federal regulators. According to DailyMail.com, they have reviewed the report.
According to the report, the Tesla engineer who was bleeding tried to break free from the assembly robot’s grip, but a coworker quickly pressed the emergency ‘stop’ button. After gaining freedom, the engineer unexpectedly tumbled down a chute specifically created to gather scrap aluminium.
By the way, Tesla did not report any other injuries related to robots to regulators at the Texas factory in either 2021 or 2022. This incident occurs in the midst of ongoing concerns surrounding the potential dangers of automated robots in work environments
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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to carry out retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. servicemembers were injured in a drone attack in Northern Iraq.
National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said one of the U.S. troops suffered critical injuries in the attack that occurred earlier Monday. The Iranian-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups, under an umbrella of Iranian-backed militants, claimed credit for the attack.
Biden, who is spending Christmas at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, was briefed on the attack. and ordered the Pentagon to prepare response options.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Biden’s national security team quickly drew up plans and presented him with options in a call and Biden directed strikes against three locations utilized by Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups. The U.S. strikes were carried out at about 4:45 a.m. on Tuesday in Iraq.
“The President places no higher priority than the protection of American personnel serving in harm’s way,” Watson said. “The United States will act at a time and in a manner of our choosing should these attacks continue.”
The latest attack on U.S. troops follows months of escalating threats and actions against American forces in the region since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the devastating war in Gaza. The U.S. has blamed Iran, which has funded and trained Hamas, for the rising violence by its network of proxy groups across the region, including attacks by Yemen’s Houthis against commercial and military vessels thorough a critical shipping choke point in the Red Sea.
The Biden administration has sought to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from spiraling into a wider regional conflict that either opens up new fronts of Israeli fighting or that draws the U.S. in directly. The administration’s measured response — where not every attempt on American troops has been met with a counterattack — has drawn criticism from Republicans.
The U.S. has thousands of troops in Iraq training Iraqi forces and combating remnants of the Islamic State group, and hundreds in Syria, mostly on the counter-IS mission. They have come under dozens of attacks, though as yet none fatal, since the war began on Oct. 7, with the U.S. attributing responsibility to Iran-backed groups.
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(CNN) – Tesla is recalling more than 120,000 of its vehicles because the unlocked doors may unlatch and open during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the defect affects some Model S and X vehicles with model years 2021 through 2023.
Tesla says it first became aware of the issue during a routine crash test earlier this month. The automaker says it is not aware of any injuries as a result of the defect.
Owners will be notified by mail by mid-February.
Tesla also released an over-the-air software update for the affected cars.
This recall comes a week after Tesla recalled nearly 2 million cars to limit the use of its autopilot feature.
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DENVER (AP) — A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race.
The decision from a court whose justices were all appointed by Democratic governors marks the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate.
“A majority of the court holds that Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,” the court wrote in its 4-3 decision.
Colorado’s highest court overturned a ruling from a district court judge who found that Trump incited an insurrection for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but said he could not be barred from the ballot because it was unclear that the provision was intended to cover the presidency.
The court stayed its decision until Jan. 4, or until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the case. Colorado officials say the issue must be settled by Jan. 5, the deadline for the state to print its presidential primary ballots.
“We do not reach these conclusions lightly,” wrote the court’s majority. “We are mindful of the magnitude and weight of the questions now before us. We are likewise mindful of our solemn duty to apply the law, without fear or favor, and without being swayed by public reaction to the decisions that the law mandates we reach.”
Trump’s attorneys had promised to appeal any disqualification immediately to the nation’s highest court, which has the final say about constitutional matters.
“The Colorado Supreme Court issued a completely flawed decision tonight and we will swiftly file an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request for a stay of this deeply undemocratic decision,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement Tuesday night.
Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel labeled the decision “Election interference” and said the RNC’s legal team intends to help Trump fight the ruling.
Trump lost Colorado by 13 percentage points in 2020 and doesn’t need the state to win next year’s presidential election. But the danger for the former president is that more courts and election officials will follow Colorado’s lead and exclude Trump from must-win states.
Dozens of lawsuits have been filed nationally to disqualify Trump under Section 3, which was designed to keep former Confederates from returning to government after the Civil War. It bars from office anyone who swore an oath to “support” the Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against it, and has been used only a handful of times since the decade after the Civil War.
“I think it may embolden other state courts or secretaries to act now that the bandage has been ripped off,” Derek Muller, a Notre Dame law professor who has closely followed the Section 3 cases, said after Tuesday’s ruling. “This is a major threat to Trump’s candidacy.”
The Colorado case is the first where the plaintiffs succeeded. After a weeklong hearing in November, District Judge Sarah B. Wallace found that Trump indeed had “engaged in insurrection” by inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and her ruling that kept him on the ballot was a fairly technical one.
Trump’s attorneys convinced Wallace that, because the language in Section 3 refers to “officers of the United States” who take an oath to “support” the Constitution, it must not apply to the president, who is not included as an “officer of the United States” elsewhere in the document and whose oath is to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution.
The provision also says offices covered include senator, representative, electors of the president and vice president, and all others “under the United States,” but doesn’t name the presidency.
The state’s highest court didn’t agree, siding with attorneys for six Colorado Republican and unaffiliated voters who argued that it was nonsensical to imagine that the framers of the amendment, fearful of former confederates returning to power, would bar them from low-level offices but not the highest one in the land.
“President Trump asks us to hold that Section 3 disqualifies every oathbreaking insurrectionist except the most powerful one and that it bars oath-breakers from virtually every office, both state and federal, except the highest one in the land,” the court’s majority opinion said. “Both results are inconsistent with the plain language and history of Section 3.”
The left-leaning group that brought the Colorado case, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, hailed the ruling.
“Our Constitution clearly states that those who violate their oath by attacking our democracy are barred from serving in government,” its president, Noah Bookbinder, said in a statement.
Trump’s attorneys also had urged the Colorado high court to reverse Wallace’s ruling that Trump incited the Jan. 6 attack. His lawyers argued the then-president had simply been using his free speech rights and hadn’t called for violence. Trump attorney Scott Gessler also argued the attack was more of a “riot” than an insurrection.
That met skepticism from several of the justices.
“Why isn’t it enough that a violent mob breached the Capitol when Congress was performing a core constitutional function?” Justice William W. Hood III said during the Dec. 6 arguments. “In some ways, that seems like a poster child for insurrection.”
In the ruling issued Tuesday, the court’s majority dismissed the arguments that Trump wasn’t responsible for his supporters’ violent attack, which was intended to halt Congress’ certification of the presidential vote: “President Trump then gave a speech in which he literally exhorted his supporters to fight at the Capitol,” they wrote.
Colorado Supreme Court Justices Richard L. Gabriel, Melissa Hart, William W. Hood III and Monica Márquez ruled for the petitioners. Chief Justice Brian D. Boatright dissented, arguing the constitutional questions were too complex to be solved in a state hearing. Justices Maria E. Berkenkotter and Carlos Samour also dissented.
“Our government cannot deprive someone of the right to hold public office without due process of law,” Samour wrote in his dissent. “Even if we are convinced that a candidate committed horrible acts in the past — dare I say, engaged in insurrection — there must be procedural due process before we can declare that individual disqualified from holding public office.”
The Colorado ruling stands in contrast with the Minnesota Supreme Court, which last month decided that the state party can put anyone it wants on its primary ballot. It dismissed a Section 3 lawsuit but said the plaintiffs could try again during the general election.
In another 14th Amendment case, a Michigan judge ruled that Congress, not the judiciary, should decide whether Trump can stay on the ballot. That ruling is being appealed. The liberal group behind those cases, Free Speech For People, also filed another lawsuit in Oregon seeking to bounce Trump from the ballot there.
Both groups are financed by liberal donors who also support President Joe Biden. Trump has blamed the president for the lawsuits against him, even though Biden has no role in them, saying his rival is “defacing the constitution” to try to end his campaign.
Trump’s allies rushed to his defense, slamming the decision as “un-American” and “insane” and part of a politically-motivated effort to destroy his candidacy.
“Four partisan Democrat operatives on the Colorado Supreme Court think they get to decide for all Coloradans and Americans the next presidential election,” House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik said in a statement.
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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report.
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]]>Seven Virginia elementary school kids consumed gummy bears laced with fentanyl from a bag one of them brought from home and shared with the others. This resulted in two people being taken into custody.
The Amherst County Sheriff’s Office reported that Clifford Dugan, 50, and Nicole Sanders, 26, were accused of abusing a child and contributing to delinquency after a group of fourth-graders at Central Elementary School required medical care on Tuesday due to something they ate at lunch.
It was discovered throughout the inquiry that these students had consumed gummy bears. Police released a statement stating that the SRO present at the incident noticed residue in the baggie containing the candy.
During lunch, one of the seven kids carried the bag of gummies to school and distributed them to his peers, according to WSLS.
Sheriff’s spokesperson Lt. Dallas Hill told CNN that five children were transported to a hospital, including two who were transported by ambulance.
They all experienced symptoms including nausea, vomiting, headache and muscle spasms, he said.
Officials stated that a field test kit on the bag revealed a positive result for fentanyl, and the sample will be forwarded to a lab run by the Drug Enforcement Administration for more analysis.
Following the investigation, Dugan and Sanders were brought into jail at a house on Pendleton Drive in Amherst County after police executed a search request there.
Sanders was also charged with possessing Schedule I or Schedule II narcotics, while Dugan is facing a count of having a handgun in his possession after a prior conviction.
The impacted students were discharged from a hospital late on Tuesday, according to William Wells, superintendent of schools.
The school district says that it had “confirmed that the bag was brought from home by a student” in a note to families. While the Sheriff’s Office conducts its inquiry, we will cooperate with them.
Wells stated during the press conference, “This is not a school matter. It was someone’s home where the fentanyl was found. I request that our parents assume responsibility. It is real and it exists here.”
Ten-year-old Hayden claimed in an interview with WSET that the gummy bears “tasted weird.” And then it was tasty. The aftertaste was quite tasty.
However, after lunch, things became worse.
With his mother’s approval, Hayden spoke with the publication on Facebook and said, “We felt nauseous, sick in our stomachs, hot.”
“I was really scared when I was in the ambulance,” he admitted. “I was shaking so much that they could hardly put my clothes on.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Perry died from the acute effects of the anesthetic ketamine, according to the results of an autopsy on the 54-year-old “Friends” actor released Friday.
The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner said in the autopsy report that Perry also drowned in “the heated end of pool,” but that it was a secondary factor in his Oct. 28 death, deemed an accident.
The report says coronary artery disease and buprenorphine, which is used to treat opioid use disorder, also contributed.
Perry was declared dead after being found unresponsive at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. Investigators performed an autopsy the following day.
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