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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12291831" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mary-elizabeth-kelly" source="Orion">Mary Elizabeth Kelly</keyword> popularized the idea of "<keyword id="12291830" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mouth-acting" source="Orion">mouth acting</keyword>" on <keyword id="11894125" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tiktok" source="Orion">TikTok</keyword>.</li><li>She contorts her mouth into the shape that mimics famous actors, such as Drew Barrymore.</li><li>Kelly told Insider she had no idea she was so skilled until she gave it a go over the pandemic.</li></ul>Mary Elizabeth Kelly has gone viral on TikTok multiple times for impersonating celebrities, including her on-point mimicry of Drew Barrymore. Viewer favorites are often quick snapshots of celebrities like Kristen Stewart, Meryl Streep, and Olivia Coleman <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mare_kell/video/6999836644001975557?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=0&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;sender_web_id=68916880389391825971688038939182597" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reading out a recipe</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mare_kell/video/6942666674172628229?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=0&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;sender_web_id=68916880389391825971688038939182597" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordering coffee</a>, or <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mare_kell/video/7007604250381470982?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=0&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;sender_web_id=68916880389391825971688038939182597" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meeting a dog</a>.Kelly, 31, has been on TikTok for about 10 months. She goes by the handle @mare_kell and posts <keyword id="12291829" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="impressions" source="Orion">impressions</keyword> of everyone from Jennifer Aniston to Owen Wilson with a technique called "mouth <keyword id="11962823" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="acting" source="Orion">acting</keyword>." She's built <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mare_kell?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1ebapp=v1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a following of 586,000</a>, and her most popular videos have received millions of views."The whole journey has been crazy," she said.<h2>You may have noticed mouth acting without realizing</h2>"Mouth acting" involves contorting her face, particularly her mouth, into the shape that mimics famous actors. Along with the change in voice, it makes Kelly's impressions particularly memorable. Barrymore tends to smile while she talks, for example, while Jennifer Coolidge sticks her lips out. Keira Knightley's jaw has an under-bite, while Emma Stone pushes her bottom teeth further back. Kelly's original mouth acting video, impersonating these celebrities and more, has <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mare_kell/video/6915235263417552133?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=0&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;sender_web_id=68916880389391825971688038939182597" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over 14 million views</a>.Kelly thinks it's down to the novelty of mouth acting and the fact people may have noticed how actors' mouths differ, but never really thought too much about it."Every day I'll watch something and I'll be like, 'They're a total mouth actor,'" Kelly said. "It's sort of a coinage of something that people haven't really had had a word for." Kelly is now one of the most recognizable faces when it comes to TikTok impressionists, but she wasn't always aware of her talent. She first tried it out while watching "Pirates Of The Caribbean" last Christmas."Johnny Depp was doing bizarre things with his mouth while acting, and Keira Knightley is so intense with her mouth too," Kelly told Insider. "And I was like, this is a thing? Like, I think this is a thing."Kelly had done impressions for her friends, but she decided to film a video for TikTok to try her style out on a wider audience during the pandemic. "It sort of just came pouring out," she said.<div type="image" title="Mary Elizabeth Kelly" height="1500" width="2000" msid="86944503" hostid="261"></div><h2>Mouth acting is a lot less technical than people might realize</h2>Kelly studied acting at Northwestern University, where she specialized in musical theatre. When the subsequent Broadway audition circuit in New York didn't work out, Kelly realized she was "made for a screen, not necessarily for a stage," so she moved to LA last year with her husband to pursue a career in television and movies.Kelly said she's always been analytical when she watches movies, constantly thinking about what actors have been in before, or what accents they are putting on.She considers herself more of a mimic - watching someone over and over until the impression clicks into place: "It's a sort of muscle memory." Kelly gets a lot of requests pouring in, often for the cast of "Grey's Anatomy," which she had never watched <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mare_kell/video/6985717207258909958?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=0&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;sender_web_id=68916880389391825971688038939182597" target="_blank" rel="noopener">before she gave the characters a try</a>. Kelly's favorite impression to do is probably Barrymore, she said, but other celebrities are more of a challenge."When I look very different from that person, I have a hard time," she said. With Blake Lively, who she doesn't resemble very much, Kelly said she has to watch them very carefully and "actively try to match my mouth to what I'm watching."When this happens, she tries to get more of the "essence" of the person."Cause you know, there are limits to the face," she said.<a href="https://www.insider.com/culture">Read more stories from Insider's Digital Culture desk.</a>

A TikToker who keeps going viral for her impressions of celebrities like Drew Barrymore explains how she invented her unique 'mouth acting' style

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Queen Elizabeth has had a "soft spot for Americans" ever since meeting former US President <keyword id="15962" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Barack-Obama">Barack Obama</keyword>, according to a new book. </li><li>In "Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle," a former palace employee said the Queen has even requested for Obama to return to the UK for another visit.</li><li>Barack and <keyword id="27526" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Michelle-Obama">Michelle Obama</keyword> visited the <keyword id="72980" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="royal-family">royal family</keyword> three times between 2009 and 2016, however, they have not returned since leaving office. </li><li>Buckingham Palace declined to comment when contacted by Insider.</li></ul><a href="https://www.insider.com/category/queen-elizabeth-ii">Queen Elizabeth</a> has reportedly had a "soft spot for Americans" ever since meeting former President Barack Obama in 2009. A former employee told royal author Tom Quinn that Her Majesty has even requested Obama to come back to the UK for a visit, even though he is no longer president."The Queen has a soft spot for Americans after meeting Barack Obama who she completely fell in love with – so much so that she has frequently asked her courtiers if they could arrange for him to come to Britain now he is no longer president," the former employee said in the new book, "Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle."<div type="image" title="queen elizabeth barack obama michelle obama" height="1516" width="2000" msid="76037066" hostid="261"></div>The Queen usually hosts world leaders and presidents for official state visits to the UK, however, it would be unusual for Her Majesty to host a former president no longer in office. The monarch first met Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama during the couple's visit to Buckingham Palace in 2009. The couple returned in 2011, and were also introduced to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, before returning for a final time in 2016.The Queen also appeared to have established a close relationship with Michelle Obama through the years.The women were photographed with their arms around one another during a visit in 2009 — a move which caused major backlash among the press, who claimed that the First Lady had broken protocol. <div type="image" title="michelle obama queen elizabeth" height="2266" width="1540" msid="76037069" hostid="261"></div>However, years later, the Queen's dressmaker <a href="https://www.insider.com/queen-elizabeth-michelle-obama-embrace-angela-kelly-book-2019-10">Angela Kelly said this wasn't the case at all.</a>"Much has been made about the meeting between Michelle and Her Majesty, when an instant and mutual warmth was shared between these two remarkable women, and protocol was seemingly 'abandoned' as they stood closely with their arms around each other's backs," Kelly wrote in the 2009 book, "The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, The Dresser, and The Wardrobe.""In reality, it was a natural instinct for the Queen to show affection and respect for another great woman, and really there is no protocol that must be adhered to."When fondness is felt or the host of a state visit goes to guide Her Majesty up some steps, it truly is about human kindness, and this is something the Queen will always welcome warmly," she added.Buckingham Palace declined to comment when contacted by Insider.Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/queen-elizabeth-michelle-obama-embrace-angela-kelly-book-2019-10">The Queen's senior dressmaker says Her Majesty didn't actually break protocol by putting her arm around Michelle Obama: 'It was a natural instinct'</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/queen-elizabeth-ii-hid-in-bush-story-documentary-nicolae-ceausescu-2020-5">The Queen once hid in a bush outside Buckingham Palace to avoid seeing her house guests, according to a new royal documentary</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/the-queen-has-forgotten-how-many-great-grandchildren-she-has-2020-4">Queen Elizabeth appears to have forgotten how many great-grandchildren she has</a>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.insider.com/queen-reportedly-wants-barack-obama-to-visit-uk-2020-5">Insider</a>

The Queen reportedly 'has a soft spot for Americans' since meeting Barack Obama, and has even asked if he'll come to the UK for another visit

Michael Bloomberg built a $54 billion dollar company. For 2 decades, women who worked there have called it a toxic, sexually charged nightmare.

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>"Sorry for Your Loss" is the latest series to hit Facebook Watch, and one of its most acclaimed with Elizabeth Olsen in the lead as a grieving widow.</li><li>Olsen, who is also an executive producer on the show, talked to Business Insider about the three-year process to get it made and why going with Facebook was the right choice.</li></ul>&#xa0;Tuesday marks a major leap for Facebook Watch as it debuts one of its most high-profile TV series yet.Starring Elizabeth Olsen, "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sorryforyourloss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sorry for Your Loss</a>" takes a look at one woman dealing with grief after her husband's shocking death. Also starring Kelly Marie Tran ("Star Wars: The Last Jedi") and Mamoudou Athie ("Patti Cake$"), the 10-episode half-hour series was able to get some incredible talent behind the camera as well with James Ponsoldt ("The Circle"), Allison Anders ("Sex and the City," "The L Word"), Jamie Babbit ("But I'm a Cheerleader"), and Azazel Jacobs ("Mozart in the Jungle") all directing episodes.&#xa0;But in many ways Olsen is the face of the project. Along with playing the grieving widow, Leigh, she jumped on as an executive producer after being given the script to the pilot three years ago. She said she was involved in every facet of production, from sitting in on the edits to going over to the composer's house to check in on the show's score.&#xa0;"I am a micromanager, so it's really hard for me to be so involved with something for it not to be [completely] my own creation, because it's not," due to its collaborative nature, Olsen told Business Insider over the phone. "It was draining because you're exhausted being on set and then go home for the weekend and give notes on past edits and future episodes. It was really an intense amount of time."The work paid off, however. "Sorry for Your Loss" is as well-crafted a show as anything the major networks put out, and Olsen delivers a performance that is raw and at times shockingly comedic that keeps you sucked in.&#xa0;It was toeing that line between drama and dark comedy that drew Olsen in, as well as the challenge of being involved as a producer for the first time in her career (on her first-ever series). And she certainly learned a lot.&#xa0;<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Olsen was involved with the pitch of the show around Hollywood, and was deep in the development process with the show's creator, playwright Kit Steinkellner, and Big Beach, the production company behind it, when it was at Showtime for a brief period.The big revelation Olsen found in the pitch process was how much they had to explain the cycle of grief beyond just the story they wanted to tell on the show. She said reading multiple times Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking," an account of the year following the death of the author's husband, helped in making executives understand what they wanted to do with the show."Sorry for Your Loss" finally found a home at Facebook Watch in January, leading to a breakneck production with post wrapping just a week and a half before it had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.Looking back, Olsen couldn't be happier with the show being on Facebook, she said. The social community aspect makes it easier for people to instantly continue the conversation&#xa0;on topics like grief and loss after watching episodes (though Olsen admits, for her own good, she will not be reading the comments section).And Olsen said she's definitely caught the producing bug after doing this.In many ways she sees the business right now as "the Wild West," as she put it, because with streaming there are now so many avenues to get content out. But she said it still comes down to finding projects that have the right stories and great characters.But in regards to the nuts-and-bolts of being a producer, Olsen said doing the show cemented the importance of being on set."This really was a learning process," Olsen said. "Doing TV and having rotating writers and directors, it was really nice to be the most consistent person on the set. You really need a leader, and that to me is the most important thing going forward."<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sorryforyourloss/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See "Sorry For Your Loss" episodes every Tuesday at 6PM and 9PM ET.</a><div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/domhnall-gleeson-movie-accents-little-stranger-star-wars-harry-potter-2018-8">A top movie actor reveals how he learns different accents</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Elizabeth Olsen explains the 3-year process that led her intense new show, 'Sorry for Your Loss,' to Facebook Watch

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Lawyer Roberta Kaplan said Trump once used a coded version of the C-word profanity against her.</li><li>She said Trump said "See you next Tuesday," despite them not being scheduled to meet that day. </li></ul>A lawyer who represented writer E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump claimed that the former president once used a coded version of the C-word profanity against her.Kaplan's allegation is the latest accusation of Trump's use of misogynistic language toward women.Roberta Kaplan said that the incident occurred at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort at the end of a deposition for an unrelated case before she went on to help Carroll win <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-e-jean-carroll-defamation-damages-sexual-abuse-2024-2">$86.3 million in damages</a>.Kaplan said on an episode of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thebulwark.com/podcast-episode/george-conway-explains-how-trump-lost-83m-with-roberta-kaplan/">"George Conway Explains it All (to Sarah Longwell)"</a> podcast that Trump's attorneys made sure that they were off the record before he said: "See you next Tuesday."The phrase is commonly known as a euphemism for a derogatory four-letter word referring to female genitalia.Kaplan told Conway that she initially didn't understand what Trump meant because they were not scheduled to meet the following Tuesday."I, thank God, had no idea what that meant, so I said to him, 'What are you talking about? I'm coming back on Wednesday,'" Kaplan said. "Literally, it was an honest answer. I had no idea what he's talking about."A representative for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, which was made outside regular working hours.<h2>'He talks about women in the most demeaning of ways'</h2><div type="image" title="donald trump megyn kelly" height="2400" width="3452" msid="107389877" hostid="261" sizebytes="584500"></div>This matters as Trump has long faced accusations that he speaks about women in a derogatory and sexist way, ranging from his notorious "grab 'em by the pussy" comment to other demeaning remarks about women made <a target="_blank" href="https://theweek.com/donald-trump/655770/61-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-women">in public </a>and reportedly <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html">in private.</a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-megyn-kelly-insult-republican-candidates-2015-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">One of his most egregious remarks was about Fox News host Megyn Kelly</a>, who he said had "blood coming out of her wherever" at a Republican presidential debate in 2015.During the debate, Kelly had pressed Trump about misogynistic, sexist comments he made in the past, such as calling some women "fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals."Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutger's University, previously told the BBC that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50563106">Trump's insulting language about high-profile women</a> is part of a pattern."The kind of things that he said about Hillary Clinton, Carly Fiorina, Elizabeth Warren, Heidi Cruz — the list goes on — he talks about women, any prominent, powerful woman, in the most demeaning of ways, trivializing them."Of course, Trump is known to attack all of his rivals and perceived enemies viciously, regardless of gender, but his language toward women is often distinct.Professor Marianne LaFrance, a psychologist at Yale University, previously told the BBC that Trump often uses gendered language when insulting women — such as by referring to diplomat Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, not by name, but as "the woman."In the same podcast episode, Kaplan revealed that Trump "yelled" at his attorney Alina Habba, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/roberta-kaplan-donald-trump-threw-documents-across-table-maralago-2024-2?r=US&amp;IR=T">threw documents "across the table"</a> in fury after finding out Kaplan and her team had been offered lunch at Mar-a-Lago.

E. Jean Carroll lawyer claims Trump once called her a coded version of the C-word after a deposition

In July, when Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello separated after seven years of marriage, my friend texted me with a link to an article about the breakup. "Love is dead," she wrote. My friend had recently ended a long-term relationship, and she was bereft over the once happy couple. She wasn't the only one. My social-media feed filled with similar declarations. Crying-face emojis. "Oh no! Not them, I thought they would make it."For the fans, celebrities' lives function as a funhouse mirror. We see ourselves in them, except with better skin, hotter partners, and more money. Their clothes, baby names, and relationships become our aspirations. Because of the roles they play in culture-defining movies and shows, and the lives they display to us in magazines, celebrities are the stage managers of modern romance. And we project onto them all of our cultural and social anxieties. If Taylor Swift can find a supportive male partner, then maybe there is hope out there for the rest of us. But if Lisa Bonet can't make her marriage work, can we?Hugh Jackman, Britney Spears, Kevin Costner, the prime ministers of Canada and Finland, and Reese Witherspoon are among the many, many high-profile couples who announced they would be <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/celebrity-couples-divorce-breakups-split-2023">ending their marriages this year</a>. It's not just celebrities: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.aarp.org/home-family/friends-family/info-2023/gray-divorce-trend.html">Divorce among boomers is skyrocketing</a>, and women of all ages <a target="_blank" href="https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/07/marriage-divorce-rates.html">are increasingly noping out of marriage altogether</a>.2023 was the year of the divorce — the year of the breakup. The year of the undoing of love. Headlines speculate about what is happening. Perhaps <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/magazine/couples-therapy-orna-guralnik.html">relationships are changing</a>. We just <a target="_blank" href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/ariana-grande-justin-trudeau-sofia-vergara-divorce.html">survived COVID</a>. Do we <a target="_blank" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/fleishman-is-in-trouble-review-relatable-elegy-for-being-young-and-fun">want more from life</a> now? Is Venus in retrograde?The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/20/married-parents-ideal-children/">Washington Post</a> editorial board, <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/BradWilcoxIFS/status/1705917576230936705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1705921794266337402%7Ctwgr%5E90dac23cb193580c7eda39ef4613ec9ef35f0fa8%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com%2Fthe-good-news-you-havent-heard-about-marriage-divorce-rate-hits-50-year-low%2F">Brad Wilcox</a> of the right-leaning Institute for Family Studies, and the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/opinion/marriage-happiness-career.html">columnist David Brooks</a> made for a Greek chorus of panic and concern. Ross Douthat joined in, remarking in The New York Times that something was clearly going on, whatever the reason — and that the decline in marriage today was "the simplest possible explanation for declining happiness." <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/opinion/barbie-ken-ideology.html">Using Barbie and Ken as an analogy</a>, Douthat lamented: "For women maybe first, and for men too, eventually, less wedlock means more woe."But we've been here before. A panic over the state of marriage and social order always follows a period of rapid social change. It's an exhausting cycle, which we repeat ad nauseam. Every historical push for political freedom has led to a push for personal freedom. As a result, there is a rise in divorces. And then, a panic over the decline of social order. And finally, freedom.Right now, America is in the throes of backlash to historic pushes for equality. And we have the opportunity to rage against this social shift, or to further expand our definitions of freedom — making divorce more accessible and less taboo and, in the process, making us all a little happier.In 1866, newspapers and social chatter were still dominated by the Civil War, and the violent split of the country. That was, until Peter Strong filed for divorce from his wife Mary Strong. Mary was alleged to have had an affair with her brother-in-law, a widower turned Union war hero, Edward Strong. While being sued for divorce, Mary fled with one of the couple's daughters. The case tore apart the rarified world of wealth and class in New York City and revealed that behind the veneer of money and respectability lay the same old human errors of the heart, and other organs.Newspapers reported on the case with lurid fascination. Society was still reeling from another high-profile divorce 10 years earlier: Catherine Walker sued her husband for divorce on the grounds he'd been unfaithful to her with prostitutes in debtors prison. Newspapers published daily court updates of the trial. Other high-profile divorces of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1870/10/08/archives/the-bishop-divorce-case-new-counsel-for-the-plaintiff.html">that era were covered breathlessly</a> in the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1870/07/29/archives/the-roux-divorce-case-postponement-of-the-trialinteresting.html">pages of The New York Times</a>. By 1887, the <a target="_blank" href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=b17ff20644e26878c090725ac87ca210f4579b7586829c0d551bb1b23ba975e3&amp;postID=657738adf1dbb59a62a6496f&amp;postSlug=why-celebrities-are-getting-divorced-society-is-changing-2023-12&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers.com%2Farticle%2Fnew-york-daily-herald-divorce-in-america%2F136393724%2F">New York Herald</a> published a story that argued that marriage was society's most sacred link and that more than crime, the rise in divorce was a sign of American decline and "barbarism."But despite the doomsaying, American society did not end or devolve into barbarism. America was, in fact, undergoing a seismic period of change that would start to make the nation more equitable for everyone. The American Civil War ushered in a push for equal rights under the law. Calls for emancipation and enfranchisement of enslaved people coincided with calls for the emancipation and enfranchisement of all women in society. And while the century ended with women still not receiving the right to vote, the push catalyzed a burgeoning feminist movement that included Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, and Mary Wollstonecraft."You can only say the sky is falling for so long before the sky actually has to fall," the historian April White told Business Insider in an interview. Translation: Panic about change usually indicates a brewing feeling that change should come.White noted that every highly publicized celebrity divorce prompts a backlash that claims divorce is ruining society. But the conversation seems to always precede more freedoms for women.Take Blanche Molineux, a New York socialite, whose story White chronicles in her 2022 book, "The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier." Molineux obtained a divorce from her husband (a man who may or may not have killed her ex-lover) by traveling to North Dakota in 1902 and establishing residency for a quickie divorce. Quickie, in this sense, meant waiting 11 months."This moral panic in the 1890s ended up giving us greater access to divorce," White explained. "And so in this case, after Blanche Molineux's divorce, the newspapers were full of comments about how the family is crumbling, the nation is crumbling, we have to stop divorce. And then 20 years later, the family hasn't crumbled, the nation hasn't crumbled."Molineux was perfectly fine, except for the fact that she was trapped in a marriage that made her deeply unhappy and fearful. And when you feel trapped and scared, it doesn't matter what laws or societal judgment stands in front of you; when you reach breaking point, you will do what you need to make a change — even if that means moving to North Dakota for almost a year. "All of the panic and all of the probation and all of the judgment had exactly the opposite effect these people were trying to accomplish," White explained.One hundred and fifteen years after Molineux got her divorce, I was in Wichita for my brother's wedding, while my 12-year marriage was falling apart. Unable to sleep after the ceremony, with my kids and husband up in the room, I sneaked downstairs to the lobby for free cookies. A news station was playing a late-night documentary about the life of Princess Diana.I sat down and watched, and immediately began crying. The documentary detailed how Diana had to fight against centuries of tradition to divorce Prince Charles. It was corny, but crying, eating stale cookies, and watching images of Diana in her black revenge dress gave me a way to see myself out of my own marital mess.For years, I had been quietly grappling with the imbalance in my relationship — his comfort and goals taking priority, and mine being deferred indefinitely. Surely, if Diana could take on the monarchy to get her freedom, I could take on a tight-knit evangelical family. And more important, watching her smiling in that black dress, I could see myself, on the other side of tragedy and finally happy.That same year, the #MeToo movement, which started in 2006, reached a zenith, provoking a global conversation about gender and emotional labor. Why do husbands add <a target="_blank" href="https://news.umich.edu/exactly-how-much-housework-does-a-husband-create/">seven hours of domestic work a week to a woman's life</a>, per a recent study? Why do women do more of the cooking than <a target="_blank" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/10/30/1209473449/worldwide-women-cook-twice-as-much-as-men-one-country-bucks-the-trend">their male partners, a gap that appeared to grow wider this year</a>? Almost <a target="_blank" href="https://www.aamft.org/Consumer_Updates/Domestic_Violence.aspx">20% of all marriages involve physical abuse</a>, and emotional abuse is far more pervasive, according to the AAMFT. <a target="_blank" href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-017-0939-z?fbclid=IwAR31q4Gy-NOYk-Irc6KUNJc5Cj1-ZAQQISuhnfrKm6OMDZJ-Io_5bPV-Wys">Married heterosexual women have historically not been happy with their sex lives</a>.The cultural anxiety was, and remains, palpable. That movement culminated in the historic US midterms of 2018, bringing more female representation to all levels of government. And yet, many women who have talked to a heterosexual man in the past five years have probably heard some version of how since #MeToo, he can't flirt without being accused of sexual assault. Any spouse (especially one with kids) will remember when the pandemic began and this reality was laid bare: Mothers became our social safety net, taking over childcare and homeschooling often on top of their full-time jobs. Many fathers got really into making sourdough bread.In sum, it makes sense for us to be in the grips of yet another panic in 2023, as we try to "get back to normal" while taking stock of these cultural shifts. And, as history has shown us, it's only natural that celebrities would <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-celebrity-divorces-work-lawyers-publicists-2023-12">model that new reality first</a>.Celebrities are often a bellwether of cultural change because they have access to things that the average person does not. They are us, but with the money and the cultural power to test out a version of freedom that's withheld from the rest of us — or at least, that's what it feels like from our side of the screen. Whether it's a singer like Kelly Clarkson or a socialite like Mary Strong, their push for personal change becomes a fantasy for the rest of us. When Glennon Doyle Melton and Abby Wambach model a new kind of co-parenting, what they are demonstrating is not the breakdown of social order but another way to approach it. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-costner-divorce-christine-baumgartner-yellowstone-2023-12">Kevin Costner</a>, on the other hand, modeled what not to do.A few months after my tearful evening with cookies and a Diana documentary, I read Gwyneth Paltrow's essay on her "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/gwyneth-paltrow-conscious-uncoupling">Conscious Uncoupling</a>" from her then-husband, Chris Martin. It showed me how divorce didn't have to be combative, that there were other ways to break, and that it didn't have to end my world, and I could fight for my freedom.This divorce news cycle is <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thecut.com/article/why-is-everyone-so-eager-for-men-and-women-to-get-married.html">being weaponized in a Republican push to ban no-fault divorces</a> and promote marriage at all costs. Conservative commentators worry that divorce is becoming trendy. There is research that suggests divorce is catching. When one couple gets divorced, it can have a ripple <a target="_blank" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/10/21/is-divorce-contagious/#:~:text=The%20findings%20suggest%20that%20the,over%20the%20overall%20divorce%20rate.">effect throughout their community</a>, with other couples following. But that study shouldn't incite panic. In fact, it should inspire the opposite reaction.Forcing women into institutions and relationships that don't serve them doesn't lead to longer or healthier relationships. The research shows just the opposite. A 2019 study by the US Census Bureau found that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/12/the-upside-of-divorce.html">liberal divorce laws had led to better gender equality and stronger marriages</a>. The study said that in countries where divorce laws were more liberal, the actual number of marriages were at least 9% higher. Suicides among women was lower by 8% to 16%. And rates of domestic violence were lower by about 30%. Additionally, in places with liberal divorce laws, women were 7% more likely to have jobs outside the home. And that's just the beginning: Other research suggests that laws that make divorce easier to access improve the welfare of even couples that choose to stay married.It's hard to study the impacts of divorce law on societies, because relationships are subject to the vast array of human faults and desires. But writing in a study of Chile's divorce laws, Misty Heggeness, an associate research scientist at the University of Kansas Institute for Policy and Social Research, found that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387818317474?via%3Dihub">implementing pro-homemaker divorce laws increased school enrollment anywhere from 3.4 to 5.5 percentage points</a>. She also found that the faster divorce was available, the less likely the children in the family were to drop out of school. A 2005 study out of Australia found that there was no social, emotional, or academic difference between teens 17-18 who came from divorced households and those who didn't. To explain this phenomenon, <a target="_blank" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15819644/">researchers pointed to Australia's strong social safety net and enforcement of child support</a>.Basically, despite the pearl-grabbing and hand-wringing over divorce in America, what studies find is that when we are free to choose — to stay or to go — our lives all get just a little bit better. In any case, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/07/marriage-divorce-rates.html">divorce rates in America are actually at an all-time low</a> because more and more people are opting out of marriage. The marriages that do happen seem to be lasting longer. Turns out, when people are empowered to enter relationships not out of financial benefit and social coercion, they end up stronger.We are in a time of social recalibration, so it's no wonder the many, many celebrity breakups this year have become something of a fascination for us. But what if we didn't try to stuff ourselves back into traditional systems pre-COVID, pre-#MeToo, that rely on women as the social safety net? What if we used this time of breaking to find new ways to imagine our relationships and to support families?If there is one thing history has taught us, it's that, as Blanche Molineux once said, women desire "freedom above all else in the world" and are "justified in seeking it."Read more about the year of celebrity divorce:<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-celebrity-divorces-work-lawyers-publicists-2023-12">Divorce sucks. For rich and famous celebrities, it's even worse.</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-costner-divorce-christine-baumgartner-yellowstone-2023-12">Kevin Costner's divorce is so messy that it's worthy of its own TV series</a></li></ul>

The divorce wave reflects major shifts in how we live

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword> says it has banned 287 UK MPs from entering the country in retaliation to sanctions.</li><li>Russia's foreign ministry said the bans are because British MPs are creating "Russophobic hysteria."</li></ul>Russia has sanctioned nearly 300 British MPs in retaliation for restrictions imposed on members of its parliament, the Duma, last month, but has included a number of politicians who are no longer serving. In its list of 287 individuals, the Kremlin has targeted current ministers including Cabinet Office minister Steve Barclay, minister for Brexit opportunities Jacob Rees-Mogg, trade minister Penny Mordaunt, and solicitor general Alex Chalk, as well as senior MPs such as Jeremy Hunt, Steve Baker, David Davis and Julian Lewis. However Russia has also gone after Rory Stewart, Dominic Grieve and Sarah Wollaston, who haven't been MPs since the 2019 election, and Charlie Elphicke, who stepped down after being found guilty on three counts of sexual assault. In another error, Tory MP Heather Wheeler's name appears twice, as the 18th and 206th entries, meaning there are actually just 286 names on the list. Meanwhile Alun Cairns' name has been misspelled. <a href="https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1810980/#sel=11:1:J1Q,11:6:HJo">According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,</a> the politicians listed "cannot visit the Russian Federation from now on."A translation of a statement reported by state-owned Russian news agency RIA Novosti said the sanctions were being applied "on the basis of reciprocity," following the decision to <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-sanctions-386-duma-members-over-support-for-luhansk-and-donetsk/">sanction 386 members of the Duma after they backed Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine</a>."These persons, who are now banned from entering the Russian Federation, took the most active part in the establishment of anti-Russian sanctions instruments in London (and) contribute to the groundless whipping up of Russophobic hysteria in the UK," it read."The hostile rhetoric and far-fetched accusations coming from the lips of British parliamentarians not only condone the hostile course of London, aimed at demonizing our country and its international isolation, but are also used by opponents of a mutually respectful dialogue with Russia to undermine the foundation of bilateral co-operation."Prime Minister <keyword id="11911533" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="boris-johnson" source="Orion">Boris Johnson</keyword>, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and 10 other senior politicians — mostly members of the Cabinet — have already been barred. Theresa May, the former prime minister, was also on the initial list. "Taking into account London's bet on the consistent strengthening of anti-Russian sanctions, work on countermeasures, including the expansion of the Russian 'stop list,' will continue," it added. Speaking during Prime Minister's Questions shortly after the list was published, Boris Johnson said those on the list "should regard it as a badge of honour".He vowed that the UK "keep up our robust and principled support for the Ukrainian people and their right to protect their lives, their families, and to defend themselves".Chris Bryant, the senior Labour MP and prominent critic of the Putin regime, told the Commons he was "absolutely distressed that I am not on the list… and if I am honest slightly surprised". He added: "I can only assume the Russian Federation accepts every single thing I have said about President Putin over the last few years is true. He is a barbarous villain and we should make sure he fails."Peter Bone, one of the Tory MPs to feature on the list, said: "I am proud to have supported <keyword id="11985141" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine" source="Orion">Ukraine</keyword> and its people. I condemn Russia for its barbaric invasion. Sanctioning me will not stop me speaking out."Tim Loughton, another of the sanctioned Conservatives, said he had "done the double", after he was also banned from China for speaking out against human rights abuses.The list of MPs, as published by Russia's foreign ministry, <a href="https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1810980/#sel=11:1:J1Q,11:6:HJo">can be seen here</a>, or keep scrolling for the full list:<h3>Conservative MPs</h3><ol><ol><li>Stephen Paul BARCLAY,</li><li>David Michael DAVIS,</li><li>Charles George EUSTICE,</li><li>Dominic Charles GRIEVE,</li><li>Christopher HEATON-HARRIS,</li><li>Jeremy Richard Streynsham HUNT,</li><li>Alistair William JACK,</li><li>Daniel Robert KAWCZYNSKI,</li><li>Andrea Jacqueline LEADSOM,</li><li>Julian Murray LEWIS,</li><li>Esther Louise MCVEY,</li><li>Penelope Mary MORDAUNT,</li><li>Caroline Fiona Ellen NOKES,</li><li>Christopher John PINCHER,</li><li>Jacob William REES-MOGG,</li><li>Mark Steven SPENCER,</li><li>Theresa Ann VILLIERS,</li><li>Heather Kay WHEELER,</li><li>Nigel ADAMS,</li><li>Bim AFOLAMI,</li><li>Adam AFRIYIE,</li><li>Peter James Guy ALDOUS,</li><li>Lucy Elizabeth ALLAN,</li><li>Stuart James ANDREW,</li><li>Edward John Comport ARGAR,</li><li>Victoria Mary ATKINS,</li><li>Richard Michael BACON,</li><li>Kemi BADENOCH,</li><li>Steve John BAKER,</li><li>Harriet Mary Morison BALDWIN,</li><li>John Charles BARON,</li><li>Alexander Paul BERESFORD,</li><li>James Jacob Gilchrist BERRY,</li><li>Peter William BONE,</li><li>Peter James BOTTOMLEY,</li><li>Andrew Campbell BOWIE,</li><li>Ben David BRADLEY,</li><li>Karen Anne BRADLEY,</li><li>Jack Edgar BRERETON,</li><li>Andrew James BRIDGEN,</li><li>Steve BRINE,</li><li>Fiona Claire BRUCE,</li><li>Michael Alex BURGHART,</li><li>Conor BURNS,</li><li>Alan Hugh CAIRNS,</li><li>James Roger CARTLIDGE,</li><li>William Nigel Paul CASH,</li><li>Maria Colette CAULFIELD,</li><li>Alexander John Gervase CHALK,</li><li>Atta-Ur-Rehman CHISHTI,</li><li>Joanna Peta CHURCHILL,</li><li>Simon Richard CLARKE,</li><li>Geoffrey CLIFTON-BROWN,</li><li>Therese Anne COFFEY,</li><li>Alberto Castrenze COSTA,</li><li>Robert Alexander COURTS,</li><li>Tracy Elizabeth Anne CROUCH,</li><li>David Thomas Charles DAVIES,</li><li>Edward Glyn DAVIES,</li><li>Mims Jane Alice DAVIES,</li><li>Philip DAVIES,</li><li>Michelle Emma May DONELAN,</li><li>Steve Daniel DOUBLE,</li><li>Richard Grosvenor PLUNKETT-ERNLE-DRAX,</li><li>James Philip DUDDRIDGE,</li><li>David James DUGUID,</li><li>Philip Martin DUNNE,</li><li>Michael ELLIS,</li><li>Charlie Brett Anthony ELPHICKE,</li><li>Michael Louis David FABRICANT,</li><li>Victoria Grace FORD,</li><li>Kevin John FOSTER,</li><li>Mark Gino FRANCOIS,</li><li>George William FREEMAN,</li><li>Mike Whitney FREER,</li><li>Marcus John Hudson FYSH,</li><li>Roger James GALE,</li><li>Mark Robert Timothy GARNIER,</li><li>Nusrat Munir UI-GHANI,</li><li>Nicholas John GIBB,</li><li>Paul William GIRVAN,</li><li>John Philip GLEN,</li><li>Robert GOODWILL,</li><li>Richard Michael GRAHAM,</li><li>James Whiteside GRAY,</li><li>Christopher Patric James GREEN,</li><li>Damian Howard GREEN,</li><li>Justin GREENING,</li><li>Dominic Charles Roberts GRIEVE,</li><li>Samuel Phillip GYIMAH,</li><li>Robert Henry HALFON,</li><li>Luke Anthony HALL,</li><li>Greg William HANDS,</li><li>Mark James HARPER,</li><li>Elizabeth Rebecca Scott HARRIS,</li><li>Trudy Lynne HARRISON,</li><li>Simon Anthony HART,</li><li>John Henry HAYES,</li><li>Oliver HEALD,</li><li>Gordon HENDERSON,</li><li>Damian Patrick HINDS,</li><li>Kevin Paul HOLLINRAKE,</li><li>Philip Thomas HOLLOBONE,</li><li>Adam James Harold HOLLOWAY,</li><li>John Michael HOWELL,</li><li>Nigel Paul HUDDLESTON,</li><li>Eddie Francis HUGHES,</li><li>Bernard Christison JENKIN,</li><li>Andrea Marie JENKYNS,</li><li>Robert Edward JENRICK,</li><li>Caroline Elizabeth JOHNSON,</li><li>Gareth Alan JOHNSON,</li><li>Joseph JOHNSON,</li><li>Andrew Hanson JONES,</li><li>David Ian JONES,</li><li>Marcus Charles JONES,</li><li>Gillian KEEGAN,</li><li>Sema Louise Ghiassi KENNEDY,</li><li>Stephen Charles KERR,</li><li>Greg KNIGHT,</li><li>John Robert LAMONT,</li><li>Pauline Elizabeth LATHAM,</li><li>Philip James LEE,</li><li>Jeremy John Elton LEFROY,</li><li>Edward Julian LEIGH,</li><li>Oliver LETWIN,</li><li>Andrew Iain LEWER,</li><li>Ian Richard Peregrine LIDDELL-GRAINGER,</li><li>Julia Louis LOPEZ,</li><li>Jack Giacomo LOPRESTI,</li><li>Jonathan George CALADINE,</li><li>Tim Paul LOUGHTON,</li><li>Craig MACKINLAY,</li><li>Rachel Helen MACLEAN,</li><li>Alan MAC,</li><li>Scott Leslie MANN,</li><li>Paul Christopher MAYNARD,</li><li>Patrick Allen MCLOUGHLIN,</li><li>Stephen Anthony MCPARTLAND,</li><li>Mark Andrew MENZIES,</li><li>Johnny Luther MERCER,</li><li>Hugh William MERRIMAN,</li><li>Stephen James METCALFE,</li><li>Amanda Anne MILLING,</li><li>Nigel John MILLS,</li><li>Andrew John Bower MITCHELL,</li><li>Damien MOORE,</li><li>Nikola Ann MORGAN,</li><li>James George MORRIS,</li><li>David Gordon MUNDELL,</li><li>Cheryl MURRAY,</li><li>Andrew William MURRISON,</li><li>Robert James MacGillivray NEILL,</li><li>Sarah Louise NEWTON,</li><li>Alexander Jesse NORMAN,</li><li>Neil O'BRIEN,</li><li>Neil Quentin PARISH,</li><li>Mark Julian Francis PAWSEY,</li><li>John David PENROSE,</li><li>Christopher Ian Brian Mynott PHILP,</li><li>Rebecca Faye Clark POW,</li><li>Victoria Mary Boswell PRENTIS,</li><li>Mark Andrew PRITCHARD,</li><li>Thomas Christopher John PURSGLOVE,</li><li>Jeremy Mark QUIN,</li><li>William James QUINCE,</li><li>John Alan REDWOOD,</li><li>Lawrence Anthony ROBERTSON,</li><li>Mary Josephine ROBINSON,</li><li>Douglas Gordon ROSS,</li><li>Lee Benjamin ROWLEY,</li><li>David Henry RUTLEY,</li><li>Paul Stuart SCULLY,</li><li>Andrew Edmund Armstrong SELOUS,</li><li>Richard James SHANNON,</li><li>Alec Edward SHELBROOKE,</li><li>Christopher James SKIDMORE,</li><li>Chloe Rebecca SMITH,</li><li>Henry Edward SMITH,</li><li>Julian Richard SMITH,</li><li>Royston Matthew SMITH,</li><li>Arthur Nicholas Winston SOAMES,</li><li>Andrew George STEPHENSON,</li><li>Andrew John STEVENSON,</li><li>Robert Alexander STEWART,</li><li>Roderick James STEWART,</li><li>Gary Nicholas STREETER,</li><li>Melvin John STRIDE,</li><li>Graham Charles STUART,</li><li>Desmond Angus SWAYNE,</li><li>Robert Andrew Raymond SYMS,</li><li>Derek Gordon THOMAS,</li><li>Margaret Ann THROUP,</li><li>Kelly Jane TOLHURST,</li><li>Justin Paul TOMLINSON,</li><li>Michael James TOMLINSON,</li><li>Craig Paul TRACEY,</li><li>David Arthur Stephen TREDENNICK,</li><li>Shailesh Lackman VARA,</li><li>Martin John VICKERS,</li><li>Theresa Ann VILLERS,</li><li>Robin Caspar WALKER,</li><li>David John WARBURTON,</li><li>Matthew Robert WARMAN,</li><li>Helen Olivia Bicknell WHATELY,</li><li>Heather Kay WHEELER,</li><li>Craig WHITTAKER,</li><li>John Flasby Lawrance WHITTINGDALE,</li><li>William David WIGGIN,</li><li>Sarah WOLLASTON,</li><li>Mike John WOOD,</li><li>William Peter WRAGG,</li><li>Jeremy Paul WRIGHT.</li></ol></ol><h3>Labour MPs</h3><ol><li>Lindsay Harvey HOYLE, Speaker of the House of Commons,</li><li>Diane Julie ABBOTT,</li><li>Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie ABRAHAMS,</li><li>Michael Lee AMESBURY,</li><li>Antonia Louise ANTONIAZZI,</li><li>Jonathan Michael Graham ASHWORTH,</li><li>Margaret Mary BECKETT,</li><li>Clive James Charles BETTS,</li><li>Paul Christopher BLOMFIELD,</li><li>Kevin Denis BRENNAN,</li><li>Karen Patricia BUCK,</li><li>Richard BURGON,</li><li>Don Petula BUTLER,</li><li>Alan CAMPBELL,</li><li>Dan Joseph CARDEN,</li><li>Charalambos CHARALAMBOUS,</li><li>Vernon Rodney COAKER,</li><li>Neil Alan John COYLE,</li><li>Stella Judith CREASY,</li><li>Judith Mary Cummins,</li><li>Janet Jessica DABY,</li><li>Tarnmanjeet Singh DHESI,</li><li>Peter Christopher DOWD,</li><li>Rosie Clare DUFFIELD,</li><li>Chris Philip James ELMORE,</li><li>Victoria Jane FOXCROFT,</li><li>Barry Strachan GARDINER,</li><li>Ruth Stephanie Nicole GEORGE,</li><li>Preet Kaur GILL,</li><li>John Timothy GROGAN,</li><li>Louise HAIGH,</li><li>Fabian UZIELL-HAMILTON,</li><li>David George HANSON,</li><li>Carolin HARRIS,</li><li>Susan Mary HAYMAN,</li><li>John HEALEY,</li><li>Margaret Olivia HILLIER,</li><li>Sharon HODGSON,</li><li>George Edward HOWARTH,</li><li>Daniel Owen Woolgar JARVIS,</li><li>Darren Paul JONES,</li><li>Gerald JONES,</li><li>Mohammed Afzal KHAN,</li><li>Peter KYLE,</li><li>Ian LAVERY,</li><li>Emma Louise LEWELL-BUCK,</li><li>Anthony Joseph LLOYD,</li><li>Justin Piers Richard MADDERS,</li><li>Khalid MAHMOOD,</li><li>Rachel Helen MASKELL,</li><li>Christian MATHESON,</li><li>Kerry Gillian MCCARTHY,</li><li>Conor Patrick MCGINN,</li><li>James Ignatius O'Rourke MCMAHON,</li><li>James Ian MEARNS,</li><li>Stephen James MORGAN,</li><li>Ian MURRAY,</li><li>Alexander James Jordan NORRIS,</li><li>Stephanie Louise PEACOCK,</li><li>Luke POLLARD,</li><li>Eleanor Claire REEVES,</li><li>Matthew Richard Allen RODDA,</li><li>Lloyd Cameron RUSSELL-MOYLE,</li><li>Jeff SMITH,</li><li>Nicholas Desmond John SMITH,</li><li>Karin Marguerite SMYTH,</li><li>Alexander David SOBEL,</li><li>John Francis SPELLAR,</li><li>Mark Richard TAMI,</li><li>Gareth Richard THOMAS,</li><li>Stephen Creswell TIMMS,</li><li>Mary Elizabeth TWIST,</li><li>Alan Patrick Vincent WHITEHEAD,</li><li>Daniel Stephen ZEICHNER.</li></ol>

Russia sanctions almost 300 British MPs in retaliatory move, but its list includes several errors

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-06-08/tmx-ceo-eccleston-on-canadian-exchanges-regulation">Bloomberg TV</a><ul class="summary-list"><li>TMX Group, a Canadian-financial services firm, announced on Friday that CEO Lou Eccleston will be stepping down from the company, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-built-a-toxic-sexually-charged-nightmare-for-women-2019-11">following a Business Insider investigation</a> that revealed he allegedly engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior while working at Bloomberg LP in the 1990s.</li><li>According to several witness statements discovered by Business Insider, Eccleston openly flirted with female employees, inappropriately touched them at office and social gatherings, excessively drank at work events, and engaged in sexual relationships with coworkers.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-michael-bloomberg-bio-age-family-and-key-positions-2019-11">Michael Bloomberg</a>, the former New York City mayor running for president, was told about Eccleston's alleged behavior while working at Bloomberg LP, according to accusations in legal filings previously reported on by Business Insider.</li><li>Eccleston's departure comes as Michael Bloomberg faces scrutiny over the culture he fostered at his namesake company, which multiple former employees have characterized as toxic and sexually charged.</li><li>On Friday, the company said Eccleston will be retiring early to "avoid further distraction to the Company," despite his contract being set to expire in December 2020. According to TMX's Board of Directors, an independent investigator found no evidence that Eccleston engaged in sexual harassment or sexual misconduct while at TMX Group</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories.</a></li></ul>TMX Group, a Canadian-financial services firm, announced on Friday that CEO Lou Eccleston will be stepping down from the company, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-built-a-toxic-sexually-charged-nightmare-for-women-2019-11">following a November Business Insider investigation</a> revealing allegations that he engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior during his tenure at Bloomberg LP in the 1990s.Business Insider previously reported that Eccleston, then a senior manager at the financial-data firm created by presidential candidate <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-michael-bloomberg-bio-age-family-and-key-positions-2019-11">Michael Bloomberg</a>, was accused by multiple employees in court records and New York Division of Human Rights filings of preying on women with impunity. The article described allegations of a toxic workplace and misconduct at Bloomberg LP, documented in a string of lawsuits spanning decades at the company.According to several witness statements discovered by Business Insider, former employees alleged that Eccleston openly flirted with female employees, inappropriately touched them at office and social gatherings, excessively drank at work events, and engaged in sexual relationships with coworkers. One witness statement filed with the New York Division of Human Rights said that "Lou Eccleston is the biggest sleaze in the world. There are two ways to get ahead with Eccleston: Kiss his ass, kiss his penis."Do you have a tip about working at Bloomberg LP, or about Michael Bloomberg? Contact this reporter at neinbinder@businessinsider.com, direct-message on Twitter at @NicoleEinbinder, or text our tips line via Signal or WhatsApp at 646-768-4744. You can also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-tip-business-insider-securely-guide-signal-securedrop-2017-6">contact Business Insider securely via SecureDrop</a>.Following the publication of the story, <a href="https://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKBN1Y20DM">TMX Group announced an investigation</a> into Eccleston's past conduct. On Friday, the company <a href="https://tmx.com/newsroom/press-releases?id=807&amp;year=2020">said he will be retiring early</a> to "avoid further distraction to the Company," despite his contract being set to expire in December 2020. According to TMX's Board of Directors, an independent investigator found no evidence that Eccleston engaged in sexual harassment or sexual misconduct while at TMX Group."The Board accepts Mr. Eccleston's decision to retire and recognizes his outstanding efforts since taking on the CEO role in October 2014," Charles Winograd, Chair of TMX Group, said in a statement. "We thank him for his leadership of TMX Group and for delivering a focused and compelling business strategy and growth plan that is driving our continued success."John McKenzie, TMX's Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed as interim CEO, the company said. Eccleston did not immediately respond to a message sent via LinkedIn.<h3>Michael Bloomberg allegedly knew about Eccleston's behavior</h3>According to witness statements obtained by Business Insider, multiple former employees said that Bloomberg was aware of complaints about Eccleston's alleged behavior while at Bloomberg LP and failed to take any action.According to one witness statement filed with the New York Division of Human Rights, a Bloomberg employee said that "Mike Bloomberg knew all about what Lou was doing. If five girls want to sleep with Lou, that was O.K."Mary Ann Olszewski, a former Bloomberg sales staffer who sued the company in 1996, alleging that she had been raped by a senior manager, said "the sexualized attitude comes from the top: Mike Bloomberg and Lou Eccleston," according to a New York Division of Human Rights filing. "We saw Lou drink and proposition girls to come up to his room," she added.Erik Freeland/Corbis via Getty ImagesBloomberg LP's flagship offering is the Terminal, a financial-data product used across Wall Street, pictured in 1995.Multiple records obtained by Business Insider, including a sworn statement from former Bloomberg LP employee Rowland Hunt, described an office Christmas party in 1990 at which Eccleston did "body shots" with several female employees under his authority. "'Body shots' consist of embracing and licking salt off the neck, kissing, squeezing, leg up," read Hunt's statement. "It was a ribald scene." The statement went on to describe a "rumor that Lou Eccleston had slept with one of the female employees who got pregnant."Eccleston's behavior bothered Hunt so much that, according to his statement, he confronted Michael Bloomberg directly. "After the Christmas party experience, I lost respect for management and I was not happy at work. I met with Mike Bloomberg in February 1991 and told him I didn't see eye-to-eye with Lou Eccleston," Hunt's statement said. "Mike insisted I take my concerns directly to Lou. In March, Lou called me to talk in Mike Bloomberg's office. I told him that I had lost respect for him as a professional and as a boss. Lou's response was, 'You're fired.'"Bloomberg LP and a Bloomberg campaign spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Bloomberg's knowledge of Eccleston's behavior. <h3>Allegations of a toxic workplace at Bloomberg LP</h3>Eccleston's departure comes as Michael Bloomberg faces scrutiny over the allegedly toxic culture he fostered at his namesake company.Business Insider's November report revealed that nearly 40 employment lawsuits from 65 plaintiffs have been filed against Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg personally in state and federal courts since 1996. The majority of those allege discrimination over gender, race, and disability status, as well as pregnancy discrimination and wage theft. Eight discrimination suits were launched after Bloomberg returned to the company as president and CEO in 2014.Last month, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bloombergs-sexist-remarks-fostered-company-culture-degraded-women/story?id=67744180">after ABC News wrote a follow-up story about</a> the Bloomberg lawsuits, presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren called on Bloomberg to release women from any non-disclosure agreements they may have signed with the company. The group Lift Our Voices, formed by three former Fox News employees to end the practice of mandatory non-disclosure agreements to conceal workplace misconduct, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/politics/2020-Democrats-Fox-News-NDAs.html">also sent letters to all of the presidential campaigns</a> urging them to publicly condemn these types of agreements in the context of sexual misconduct and other workplace issues.Julie Roginsky, one of the founders of Lift Our Voices, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-bloomberg-employee-court-invalidate-employees-ndas-2020-1">told Business Insider</a> earlier this week that Bloomberg did not respond to the group's letter. On Thursday, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bloomberg-wont-release-women-sued-secrecy-agreements/story?id=68171036">ABC News reported</a> that Bloomberg won't release women who sued him from their NDAs. "You can't just walk away from it," Bloomberg said. "They're legal agreements, and for all I know the other side wouldn't want to get out of it."Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty ImagesDemocratic Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg addresses a crowd of community members and elected officials at the Metropolitan Room on January 3, 2020 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.While NDAs are common in legal disputes, they have faced scrutiny in the wake of the #MeToo movement for being used by powerful men, such as Harvey Weinstein, Bill O'Reilly, R. Kelly, and Donald Trump, to silence their accusers.Laurie Evans, a former Bloomberg LP employee who has sued the company for discrimination, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-bloomberg-employee-court-invalidate-employees-ndas-2020-1">asked a New York Supreme Court judge last month</a> to invalidate not just her NDA, but the NDAs of any "similarly situated" Bloomberg LP employees."Employees, and particularly female employees who are aware of discrimination in the workplace, if they become aware of it or become a victim of it, they are afraid to complain, to lose their job, to be retaliated against, to not be believed - and therefore they are silenced," Donna Clancy, Evans' attorney, previously told Business Insider. "When they are silenced, it breeds a culture. When you have a culture then and no one complains about it and it can be swept under the rug and managed internally, it gets worse and nothing gets better."<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-bloomberg-employee-court-invalidate-employees-ndas-2020-1">Under pressure, Michael Bloomberg faces a new court challenge to his company's use of non-disclosure agreements in discrimination cases</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-built-a-toxic-sexually-charged-nightmare-for-women-2019-11">Michael Bloomberg built a $54 billion company. For 2 decades, women who worked there have called it a toxic, sexually charged nightmare.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-fabulous-life-of-michael-bloomberg-the-eight-richest-man-in-the-us-2015-7">The life of Michael Bloomberg: How an unemployed 39-year-old banker became a billionaire, 3-time mayor of New York, and presidential hopeful</a></li></ul> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/quentin-tarantino-movies-steals-cinema-homage-reference-2019-7">How Golden Globes winner Quentin Tarantino steals from other movies</a></h3>

Former top Bloomberg lieutenant steps down from financial services company after Business Insider reports past harassment complaints

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Even with the COVID-19 pandemic slowing down production, <keyword id="2370" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="hollywood">Hollywood</keyword> managed to put out a slew of exciting new projects full of ambitious stunts and special effects.</li><li>From the massive battle scenes in <a href="https://www.insider.com/disney-live-action-mulan-movie-review">"Mulan"</a> to the gripping <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-wild-stunts-and-fights-of-birds-of-prey-2020-2">fight sequences</a> in <a href="https://www.insider.com/birds-of-prey-movie-review-2020-2">"Birds of Prey,"</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/netflix-extraction-chris-hemsworth-one-take-fight-scene-2020-5">"Extraction,"</a> and <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-old-guard-fight-coordinator-charlize-theron-injuries-2020-7">"The Old Guard,"</a> this year's action films pushed actors and stunt performers to undergo extensive weapons and <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-the-airplane-fight-in-the-old-guard-was-done-2020-7">combat training</a>.</li><li>With Pixar's <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-pixar-revolutionized-way-clothes-are-animated-digital-cloth-technology-2020-3">"Onward"</a> and Netflix's "<a href="https://www.insider.com/netflix-over-the-moon-review">Over the Moon,"</a> 3D-animated films found innovative ways to animate and <a href="https://www.insider.com/netflix-over-the-moon-animators-light-scenes-in-animated-movies-2020-11">light</a> their characters and worlds, the likes of which we've never seen before.</li><li>Boundary-pushing digital effects made <keyword id="406" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Movies">movies</keyword> like <a href="https://www.insider.com/dolittle-movie-review-robert-downey-jr-2020-1">"Dolittle,"</a> <a href="https://www.insider.com/every-version-sonic-the-hedgehog-1991-today-evolution-2020-2">"Sonic the Hedgehog,"</a> and <a href="https://www.insider.com/call-of-the-wild-real-life-dog-2020-4">"The Call of the Wild"</a> possible by combining CG animals with live-action humans and environments. </li></ul>Following is a transcript of the <keyword id="21654" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="video">video</keyword>.Narrator: 2020 was in many ways a rough year for Hollywood, with the COVID-19 pandemic pushing back some of the year's most anticipated movies. But the industry rallied by releasing no shortage of ambitious and exciting new projects, which brought their own set of breakthroughs in the world of special effects.From massive battle and fight sequences to some of the most realistic practical effects we've ever seen, here's a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the biggest films of the year. Three, two, one!To play the legendary warrior <keyword id="3026859" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mulan">Mulan</keyword> in Disney's live-action film, Liu Yifei spent three months training for up to seven hours a day. This demanding regimen paid off. The film's cinematographer, Mandy Walker, told insider that Yifei was able to execute about 90% of her own stunt work.In preparation for the film's acrobatic fight sequences, Yifei and her castmates were schooled in everything from weapons handling and archery to military marching and horseback riding. The performers did their most dramatic midair stunts while attached to wires or beams so that it looked like their characters were flying or spinning through the air.All in all, the film's action sequences required 90 horses, 80 trick riders, 4,000 prop weapons, 281 sets of armor for the Chinese army, and 730 pieces of armor for the Rouran army.How do you create a terrifying monster out of nothing? It turns out, with a lot of clever camera and stunt work. This scene from "<keyword id="920693" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-Invisible-Man">The Invisible Man</keyword>," where the titular villain throws Elisabeth Moss' character across the table, is actually a bunch of shots stitched together.First, the crew filmed Elisabeth as she was about to be thrown. Next, they swapped in the actor's stunt double and filmed her being thrown by another stunt performer in a green suit. Then they swapped in Elisabeth again. In postproduction, VFX artists combined the plates, then digitally erased the green-suit performer and the ropes used for the stunt.For it all to match up perfectly, the crew had to shoot the whole thing with a motion-controlled camera, which could be programmed to perform precise, repeatable camera movements.That wasn't the only bit of camera trickery in the film. On the last day of shooting, when filming this scene, the camera team had to get what they called "an impossible shot" -- one that involved passing a camera out of a moving car into another moving car, all in one smooth handoff."Extraction" marked the directorial debut of Sam Hargrave, the veteran stunt coordinator behind "Atomic Blonde" and a number of Marvel movies. Naturally, then, the Netflix thriller was full of daredevil stunt work -- just as much from the camera crew as from the actors and stunt performers.The centerpiece of the film was what the crew referred to as "the oner" -- an extended fight scene made to look like one continuous shot. Sam is familiar with big, long action sequences from working on the famous one-shot fight in "Atomic Blonde." But this one for "Extraction" required Sam to take us right into the middle of the action, even strapping himself to the hood of a chase vehicle. Just to get this one smooth shot taking us from outside to inside a car, he had to unstrap himself from that one car, run over to the other vehicle, and then repeat the same shot twice. This is what you call a stitch point, one of the invisible cuts that joined about 36 different segments into what looks like one long, seamless 12-minute take.For the third installment in the "Bill &amp; Ted" franchise, special effects legend Kevin Yagher created special bodysuits for scenes where Bill and Ted meet future versions of themselves.The process began with lifecasts of Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves' bodies, which were then used to sculpt the shape of the actors' suits, both the muscle suits they wear in the prison scene and Keanu's fat suit worn in a different scene. Kevin and his team sculpted and spray-painted tiny details like pores and veins onto the muscle suits and added bags of beads into Keanu's fat suit to get just the right jiggle in his belly.[beads shaking]The rollout of the "<keyword id="163980" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Sonic">Sonic</keyword>" movie got off to a rough start when the first trailer was met with backlash from fans who objected to this Sonic's disturbingly realistic appearance. In response, the VFX artists gave the character an overhaul, making his eyes bigger, his mouth more animated, and his nose and limbs more cartoonish, more like the original design in the video games.Just about everyone liked the redesign better, including the man behind the hedgehog, actor and comedian Ben Schwartz. Ben not only lent his voice to Sonic, but also provided facial motion capture to inform the character's animation. On set, they used different stand-ins for Sonic to give costars like James Marsden something tangible to interact with, whether it was a blue stuffy or just a ball on a tripod.We saw CGI turn man into hedgehog. What about turning man into dog?In this year's remake of "The Call of the Wild," veteran motion-capture performer Terry Notary provided an incredible mo-cap performance for the movie's canine protagonist, Buck. Having Terry on set provided a raw-size reference for the other actors and gave costars someone to interact with emotionally.For Buck's design, the filmmakers used the reference of a real-life shelter dog, whose own name happens to be Buckley. To help guide the animation of the many dog and wolf characters in the film, the team brought in five other dogs for a mo-cap playtime session. But don't worry; no pups were involved in the filming of this scene, where Buck and John Thornton navigate a treacherous river.The filmmakers enlisted a stuntperson to shoot the real deal on a river in British Columbia. They then combined the on-location shots with blue-screen footage of Harrison Ford paddling on a canoe gimbal, filmed on a motion-controlled camera that allowed for some particularly cinematic, sweeping shots. Finally, VFX artists digitally added Harrison's canine friend into the mix in postproduction.The character in "Onward" that presented Pixar with the most challenges was this guy, known simply as Dad. He's introduced when Ian, voiced by Tom Holland, carries out a spell to conjure up his late father, but only half of his body appears.Pixar's animators spent a lot of time on Dad's first scene to make sure it would capture the force and unpredictability of magic. They even took turns blasting each other with a leaf blower to get a feel for what the conjuring effect should look like.From there, the challenge was giving life to a pair of pants, a task that forced Pixar to bring its cloth technology to a new level. The studio used a process called simulation to program how a character's clothing should respond to his or her movements and the different forces acting on them. But because Dad's upper half is all clothes and no body, simulation played an even bigger role than usual.To figure out how a person would move if he were missing his top half, Pixar's animators took turns putting on green suits with khakis and moving around in front of a green screen. Later, they digitally removed their top halves and used the footage as reference for what Dad's body language might look like."The Call of the Wild" wasn't the only film where CG animals figured prominently. The majority of scenes in "Dolittle" feature live-action humans and CG animals interacting in some way.The tricky part of that: making sure the humans were looking in the right places during filming. Nailing the eyelines was especially challenging with a character like Betsy the giraffe. To help guide the actors on set, the crew used stuffy props as stand-ins for the CG animals and got creative from there.Like with Betsy, for instance. They ended up sticking a giraffe head on a long pole, which got driven around on a motor cart. In another scene, Robert Downey Jr. needed to ride the ostrich Plimpton into Buckingham Palace. So they devised a gimballed riding rig that they could later replace with a CG creature, voiced by Kumail Nanjiani.The action-heavy "<keyword id="3367480" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Birds-Of-Prey">Birds of Prey</keyword>" involved a lot of physical preparation, with each actor's training program tailored to her particular character. Since Harley Quinn is a whimsical and unpredictable fighter, Margot Robbie's stunt work involved a lot of gymnastics.Black Canary's fighting style was supposed to be more grounded with a lot of legwork, so Jurnee Smollett-Bell's preparation combined tae kwon do and kickboxing. And Mary Elizabeth Winstead adopted judo, jujitsu, and karate to play Huntress, the deadly-accurate assassin who's all about precision.Early on in Netflix's "Project Power," there's an unforgettable scene where Machine Gun Kelly's character spontaneously bursts into flames. To figure out how to turn MGK into a human fireball, the effects team first set stuntpeople on fire in a series of camera tests.Then they came up with a breakthrough: an LED suit that would be embedded within layers of burn prosthetics. The LEDs were programmed to illuminate the actor as his character is seen exploding in flames. The gruesome prosthetics helped hide the LED strips, along with all the wires and battery packs.For MGK, this meant spending five hours in the makeup chair every day of shooting to get hundreds of prosthetic pieces glued on over 95% of his body. The process was so intensive that the rapper started just sleeping in his body prosthetics, and did so for five days straight, even wearing them for a night out on the town with costar Jamie Foxx.For Netflix's "Jingle Jangle," the biggest challenge was creating a fantastical world where magic and spontaneous musical numbers would feel right at home.To make Jeronicus fly in this scene, the crew attached Forest Whitaker to wire rigs, later removed in postproduction.Another particularly fun sequence, the kids' factory escape, was shot in front of a blue screen, with the two young actors rigged to the wooden chest. VFX artists later added in the tunnel and the giant fan and fireball.In this comic-book adaptation, Charlize Theron's character is supposed to have 6,000 years of martial arts experience, ranging from Greco-Roman wrestling to Filipino stick work. Charlize had to do intense combat training so she could look effortless handling both modern and ancient weapons.Of course, the star is no stranger to this kind of hardcore training, having done a lot of her own stunts for "Atomic Blonde" and "Mad Max." The "Old Guard" fight coordinator, Danny Hernandez, told Insider that Charlize and Kiki Layne spent four months training for the film's major fight sequence, where their characters engage in epic hand-to-hand combat inside a plane mid-flight.The payoff? The actors were able to pull off 90% of the fight themselves, without stunt doubles.How does this shot become this? Through the process of CG lighting, which was especially important to building the magical worlds of Netflix's animated film "Over the Moon."Creative lighting helped emphasize the dreamy light coming from the moon, which plays a central role in the story. In this shot, the lighting team is perfecting the big, bright moon reflections in Fei Fei's eyes. And in this shot, they're balancing the different light sources coming from the moon, the kitchen, and the colorful lanterns.These decisions about the intensity and placement of lights are laid out early on in color scripts, which are like artistic blueprints, expressing the mood of any given scene.For the scenes set on Lunaria, the artists wanted the light to be overpowering and the colors vibrant and bold to give an otherworldly aura to the moon kingdom and invoke a sense of awe in the audience.The horror movie slash political satire "The Hunt" follows a group of liberals hunting conservatives for sport, so there were lots of opportunities for practical gore <keyword id="37533" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Behind-the-scenes">behind the scenes</keyword>.But the most talked-about sequence was the climactic kitchen fight between Betty Gilpin and Hilary Swank. To make the head-to-head between these two characters feel as messy as possible, the crew designed a special set that was made to be destroyed.The set included foam floors, a chimney rigged with squibs, and a bunch of household-item breakaway props that were built to be broken, just like this glass window, which shatters in this scene. It was like a twisted jungle gym, meant to serve as the ideal backdrop for all the chaotic violence.So, did we miss anything? And what do you think were the most impressive effects of 2020?Let us know in the comments.

A behind-the-scenes look at 2020's biggest movies

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Associated Press/Matt YorkAn undocumented immigrant from El Salvador is searched on the tarmac prior to boarding an MD-80 aircraft for a repatriation flight of 80 immigrants to their home country, Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Ariz.</div></div></div>Undocumented immigrants across the country, fearing federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, have begun changing their routines, avoiding public spaces, and even seeking refuge in churches, following the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/dhs-memos-detail-aggressive-immigration-enforcement-and-speedier-deportations-2017-2">Trump administration's recent directives</a> cracking down on illegal immigration.Fears had begun sinking in by early February, when <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ice-immigration-sweep-2017-2">ICE conducted a series of raids</a> across the country, but the tension escalated this week after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released two sweeping memos detailing the Trump administration's plans to speed up deportations and widen the pool of immigrants targeted for removal.Several recent incidents involving deportation proceedings have garnered national media attention and put immigrants on the alert. This week, one undocumented immigrant from El Salvador was taken back to a detention center against her will after she was hospitalized in Texas and diagnosed with a brain tumor, her lawyers <a href="http://thehill.com/latino/ice-immigration-detainee-brain-tumor-taken-from-hospital">told The Hill</a>.Last week, an "unprecedented" incident occurred at a courthouse in El Paso county, Texas , when ICE officers arrested an undocumented woman who had sought a protective order against her allegedly abusive boyfriend. The woman had been living in a shelter for victims of domestic abuse, and had a criminal record but no outstanding warrants, according to the county attorney Jo Anne Bernal."It really was a stunning event," Bernal told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/16/this-is-really-unprecedented-ice-detains-woman-seeking-domestic-abuse-protection-at-texas-courthouse/?utm_term=.d26822d94f41">the Washington Post</a>. "It has an incredible chilling effect for all undocumented victims of crime in our community."And on Tuesday, a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/23/mexican-man-deported-suicide-trump-tijuana?CMP=twt_gu">Mexican man took his own life</a> just yards away from the Tijuana-San Diego US border, just hours after he was deported from the country for the sixth time. He had been worried about his ability to provide for his three children, according to relatives.Trump administration officials such as Press Secretary <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/02/21/sean-spicer-white-house-press-briefing-immigration-trump-executive-order">Sean Spicer</a> and Homeland Security Secretary <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/secretary-state-rex-tillerson-strong-countries-differences/story?id=45690306">John Kelly</a> have at times sought to alleviate the panic, saying the memos are not blueprints for "mass deportation."But their denials sometimes appear to conflict with statements made by Trump himself, who on Thursday called the immigration crackdown a "<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/23/trump-touts-recent-immigration-raids-calls-them-a-military-operation/?utm_term=.e513831777ad">military operation</a>."<h3>'They don't know where to turn'</h3><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Courtesy Bryan Cox/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via REUTERSU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conduct a targeted enforcement operation in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. on February 9, 2017.</div></div></div>Some undocumented parents whose children are US citizens have even begun making arrangements in the event they are deported - one Mexican couple told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/us/immigrants-deportation-fears.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&amp;smid=nytcore-iphone-share&amp;_r=0">the New York Times</a> they had already selected a documented friend to act as their children's guardian."There's a real fear that their kids will get put into the foster care system," Mary Clark, executive director of Esperanza Immigrant Legal Services in Philadelphia, told the Times."People are asking us because they don't know where to turn."Meanwhile, some school districts have sought to reassure parents that ICE officers will be denied access to campuses unless they have warrants. Chicago's chief education officer even sent packages to the school district's principals, containing multilingual information on immigration <keyword id="6355470" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Law">law</keyword> and rights, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/22/us/chicago-public-schools-immigrant-students/">according to CNN</a>."While many of our families have serious concerns and anxiety about recent federal actions and statements, we want to make sure that parents know school is a safe place for all students regardless of their race, ethnicity or country of origin," she wrote to principals.The <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-cta-rumors--immigration-checkpoints-20170216-story.html">Chicago Transit Authority</a> took similar actions last week, reassuring the city's undocumented population that "You are welcome here," and denying rumors that ICE officers had been using the city's transit stations as checkpoints.But the constant fear of being spotted by ICE officers has seeped into nearly every aspect of some immigrants' lives, even keeping some from seeking medical care, and opting to stay home instead of visiting hospitals and clinics, doctors and health officials have reported."There's just a lot of fear that ICE would raid our facility," Alex Armstrong, CEO of the California-based Alliance Medical Center, told <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/24/immigrants-doctors-medical-care/">STAT</a>. He added that his facility in Santa Rosa, which includes a large Hispanic population, has seen double the amount of appointment cancellations as normal.Immigrants' reluctance to seek out medical treatment could have an effect on the health community "for decades to come," Elizabeth Poorman, a Massachusetts-based doctor who primarily treats immigrants, told STAT."I have people who have diabetes, who need insulin, who aren't getting it. I have people who had bad asthma and are too afraid to apply for insurance, so they'll stay out for awhile, but they're going to get sicker and end up in the hospitals," Poorman said.Now churches, cognizant that they are considered by ICE to be "<a href="https://www.ice.gov/doclib/ero-outreach/pdf/10029.2-policy.pdf">sensitive locations</a>" where enforcement actions are generally not carried out, have begun opening their doors and offering to shelter undocumented immigrants. One undocumented woman, Jeanette Vizguerra, moved into Colorado's First Unitarian Society of Denver, fearful that she would otherwise be deported and taken away from her three children."These are children who need their mom. I don't know how you can argue that," Rev. Mike Morran told <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/22/sanctuary-churches-movement/98247276/">USA Today</a>, adding that Vizguerra is welcome to stay at the church as long as necessary. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/milo-yiannopoulos-attacks-media-press-conference-resign-breitbart-controversial-2017-2">'F--- you for that': Milo Yiannopoulos attacks the media in a press conference after resigning from Breitbart</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="Y5Z3V3OTE6_YTvZtUZcej98sNYYz_oeA" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

Trump's deportation plans are sowing fear among immigrants across the country

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The New York TimesGoldman Sachs Group chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein.</div></div></div><section><article><div><div><section data-share-hash=""><div>Goldman Sachs just announed a new class of managing directors.</div><div></div><div>Here's the statement:</div></section></div>NEW YORK, November 8, 2017 -- The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that it has selected a new class of Managing Directors, effective from January 1, 2018, the start of the firm's next fiscal year."Our new Managing Directors have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to our people, clients and culture during their tenures at the firm, and we wish them continued success as they take this important next step in their careers," said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs.The following individuals have been promoted to Managing Director: Gregg Abramson Sanjay Acharya Khalid Albdah Amal Alibair Karthikeyan Anbalagan Rolf Andersson Volker Anger Jonathan Armstrong Ken Ashley Lavanya Ashok Sebastian Ayton Jonathan Babkow Julio Badi Amitayush Bahri Soren Balzer Robert Barlick Jr. Philip Barreca Santiago Bau David Bauer Oksana Beard Lee Becker Virender Bedi Stuart Beer Christian Beerli Amanda Beisel Yumiko Bekku David Bell Pierre Benichou Andrew Benito Marco Bensi Laura Benson Stephen Bergin Daniel Berglund Greg Berry Shital Bhatt Dipanjan Bhattacharjee Anu Bhavnani Carissa Biggie Vineet Birman Daniel Bitel Anne Black Richard Blore Emmanuel Bodenstein Timothy Braude Sean Brenan Hugh Briscoe Nathaniel Bristol Leo Brito Troy Broderick Levee Brooks Eric Brothers Robert Bruns III Anthony Bunnell Meg Burke Susan Burt Sean Butkus Russell Byrne Edward Byun Adam Cahill Alessandro Calace Cristiano 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