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John Legend is every inch the proud dad as he holds newborn daughter Esti in an adorable snap
John Legend appeared absolutely besotted with his newborn baby girl in a snap shared to his Instagram on Wednesday.
The Ordinary People crooner, 44 — who welcomed Esti Maxine Stephens with wife Chrissy Teigen, 37, on January 13 — held the infant in his arms with a broad smile on his face.
‘Our new love,’ the Grammys-Award winning musician — who also shares daughter Luna, six, and son Miles, four, with Teigen — captioned the heartwarming photo.
‘Our new love’: John Legend appeared absolutely besotted with his newborn baby girl Esti in a snap shared to his Instagram on Wednesday
The singer — who’s been married to Teigen since 2013 — looked cozy in the snap, wearing a white and black knitted turtleneck.
Meanwhile little Esti was clad in a pink onesie.
His 15.1M followers were charmed by the father and daughter duo, with one calling Esti his ‘twin.’
Proud parents: The Ordinary People crooner, 44, welcomed Esti with wife Chrissy Teigen, 37, on January 13; The couple pictured on September 2022
Another fan wrote, ‘Literally it’s been five minutes and already she looks just like you dude.’
Meanwhile SNL star Keenan Thompson simply left five red-heart emojis.
The day prior his wife shared the first close-up snap of her bouncing baby girl’s face.
The model – who has been documenting her post partum recovery on social media – took to Instagram on Tuesday afternoon to share an adorable photo of her new daughter.
First close up: The day prior his wife shared the first close-up snap of her bouncing baby girl’s face, writing ‘look at u out here lookin like a baby’
Baby joy: The proud parents originally announced her gender by sharing a sweet snap showing the baby being cuddled by her older siblings: daughter Luna, six, and son Miles, four
The newborn looked cute while wrapped up in a grey blanket as she rested her head onto her own arm while Chrissy cradled her.
Chrissy captioned the snap to her 40.5million followers: ‘look at u out here lookin like a baby.’
The proud parents also previously posted a sweet snap showing the baby being cuddled by her older siblings.
His joy: Legend originally announced the baby news to a crowd, while performing at a private concert; Pictured at El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles in September 2022
Sharing the baby’s name, the post read: ‘She’s here! Esti Maxine Stephens – the house is bustling and our family could not be happier.
‘Daddy sheds nightly tears of joy seeing Luna and Miles so full of love, and I am learning you still need diapers with a c section!? We are in bliss. Thank you for all the love and well wishes – we feel it all!’
The A-list dad has also been spending plenty of quality time with the couple’s older children, and recently took them to their elementary school’s Lunar New Year Party on Friday.
A-list dad: Legend recently spent some quality time with the couple’s two older children as he took Miles and Luna to their elementary school’s Lunar New Year Party on Friday
Legend posted an adorable picture of him holding hands with Miles and Luna as they were dressed in traditional clothing.
Legend first shared the news while performing at a private concert last Friday night, telling the crowd that he and his wife welcomed ‘the little baby this morning.’
‘What a blessed day,’ the singer said, adding that although he ‘didn’t get a lot of sleep’ he felt ‘energized’ after being by spending ‘a lot of time’ by Chrissy’s side at the hospital.
Healing: Chrissy touted the benefits of a postpartum tummy wrap to Instagram on Friday, exactly one week after giving birth to her and John’s baby girl
Bumping along! Teigen – who’s been married to Legend since 2013 – documented her latest pregnancy on social media with plenty of bump updates
Chrissy announced she was expecting on Instagram back in August, posting photos of her blossoming baby bump.
The happy news came nearly two years after she and John lost their son Jack 20 weeks into her pregnancy. She later revealed that her late son’s passing was the result of a life-saving abortion, not a miscarriage as she originally stated.
She explained that she made the ‘difficult decision’ to terminate the pregnancy after coming to terms with the fact that she nor Jack would likely survive.
‘Let’s just call it what it was: It was an abortion. An abortion to save my life for a baby that had absolutely no chance. And to be honest, I never, ever put that together until, actually, a few months ago,’ confessed Chrissy, according to THR.
Heartbreak: The happy pregnancy news came nearly two years after she and John lost their son Jack 20 weeks into her pregnancy
Stock futures inch lower after rocky start to 2023
Stock futures inched higher Tuesday evening after Wall Street started 2023 on a sour note.
Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.04%, or 14 points, while S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures traded flat rose 0.08% and 0.2%, respectively.
The overnight moves followed a down session for stocks as rising rate concerns, high inflation and recessionary fears crushed hopes that Wall Street could kick off the new year on a positive note.
During regular trading Tuesday, the Nasdaq shed 0.76%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 dipped 0.03% and 0.4%, respectively. Shares of Tesla plummeted more than 12% on delivery numbers that missed expectations, while Apple fell 3.7% on reports of production cuts.
Six of the 11 major S&P sectors closed lower, led to the downside by energy. The sector was the best performer in 2022 as oil prices boosted energy stocks. Communication services gained about 1.4%, led to the upside by Meta Platforms and Walt Disney.
“U.S. stocks were unable to hold onto earlier gains as restrictive policy and recession fears remained front and center for investors,” wrote Oanda’s senior market analyst Ed Moya in a note to clients Tuesday. “Discount buying triggered another bear market rebound that didn’t last long at all.”
Many investors have been hoping the market would bounce back after the major averages notched their worst year since 2008. The Federal Reserve and its tightening plan hang over markets in the near term, along with fears of a looming recession.
Investors will gain more insight into what Fed members are thinking on Wednesday afternoon as minutes from the central bank’s latest policy meeting are released. Earlier in the day, the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS, and ISM manufacturing data are due out.
Friday’s December jobs report also will be closely watched as it is the last read on the labor market before the Fed meeting in February.
“It is too early to start betting on a Fed pivot this year and that should make this difficult environment for stocks,” Moya said.
Opinion | Give Ukraine the ability to strike every inch of Russian occupied territory
While these are the deepest attacks inside Russia that Ukraine has yet carried out, they are hardly the first. In early April, there were reports that a Ukrainian Tochka ballistic missile had hit a military depot in the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border and that Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter gunships had sneaked over the border to ignite a fuel depot in Belgorod. U.S. intelligence even leaked word that Ukrainian operatives were responsible for the car bomb in August near Moscow that killed the daughter of Russian ultra-nationalist Alexander Dugin.
There have also been a number of spectacular Ukrainian attacks on Russian military installations in Crimea — Ukrainian territory that Vladimir Putin has illegally annexed. In August, explosions at the Saki air base in Crimea destroyed nine Russian warplanes; Ukrainian officials told The Post that their special forces were responsible. The Kerch Strait Bridge linking Crimea to Russia — one of Putin’s showcase projects — was badly damaged by an explosion on Oct. 8 apparently caused by a truck bomb. And on Oct. 29 Ukraine used sea drones to attack the Russian Black Sea fleet at its anchorage in Sevastopol, apparently damaging at least one warship. (In April, Ukraine sank the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, the cruiser Moskva, at sea with anti-ship missiles.)
Some of these strikes are militarily significant, others are merely symbolic. But even symbolism can be important. Michael Kofman, an expert on the Russian military at the CNA think tank, compared last week’s strikes on two Russian airfields to the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo on April 18, 1942. Although the U.S. bombers caused little damage, they demonstrated that Japan was not immune from attack and rallied U.S. public opinion a few months after Pearl Harbor. Today, Ukrainians shivering in the cold and dark because of Russian attacks on the electrical grid must be heartened to see their military striking back.
The Ukrainian attacks naturally raise concerns in the West about provoking Putin. The Biden administration has made clear that Ukraine is not using U.S. equipment for attacks on Russian soil, and indeed it has refused to provide Ukraine with longer-range weapons for fear that they would be used deep inside Russia. (One administration official told me that if the Ukrainians got F-16s, they could bomb Moscow.)
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“We have neither encouraged nor enabled the Ukrainians to strike inside of Russia,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week. But he did not condemn the attacks. The U.S. position seems to be that if U.S. weapons systems aren’t employed, and the attacks are focused strictly on military targets, it doesn’t object to the attacks.
That’s a reasonable position — but, as I’ve argued before, the Biden administration is too restrictive in the types of weapons it provides Ukraine. The U.S. Air Force wants to send roughly 50 older model Reaper drones – which can fire Hellfire antitank missiles – to Ukraine because it doesn’t need them anymore. But the request has languished for months in the Pentagon bureaucracy.
Likewise, the Biden administration refuses to provide the ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) to Ukraine and has even modified HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) launchers so that they cannot fire ATACMS rockets, which would increase their range from 50 miles to as many as 180 miles. U.S. fighter-bombers such as the F-16, which the Ukrainians have been requesting, are also off the table.
I can understand the administration not wanting U.S. weapons to be used for attacks on Russian soil, but the Zelensky government has proven to be a reliable partner that has abided by U.S. restrictions. Moreover, the most valuable targets for longer-range strikes are in Ukraine, not Russia.
The Ukrainian military has enabled successful offensives around both Kharkiv in the east and Kherson in the south by targeting Russian headquarters, supply lines and ammunition depots to wear down enemy forces. Gaining access to longer-range “fires” will enable the Ukrainians to more effectively strike such military targets across the width and breadth of Russian-occupied territory. That includes Crimea, which remains out of HIMARS range. Such strikes, in turn, will enable future offensives that can bring this awful war to a conclusion.
The United States shouldn’t enable attacks against targets in Russia. But it should definitely enable more effective Ukrainian strikes on Russian supply lines and bases all over occupied Ukraine.
Stock futures inch higher after Powell propels rally
U.S. stock futures gained modestly Thursday as December trading commenced with a tailwind from Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s indication of a slowdown in the pace and magnitude of rate increases as soon as this month.
Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) were up about 0.2%, while those on the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded just above breakeven. In other pockets of the market, the U.S. dollar index retreated to a three-month low, and U.S. Treasury yields held steady after sharp declines.
Filings for unemployment insurance fell last week, holding near historic lows. Initial jobless claims, the most timely snapshot of the labor market, came in at 225,000 for the week ended Nov. 26, a decrease of 16,000 from the previous week’s revised level, Labor Department figures showed Thursday.
The moves Thursday follow bursts across the major averages in the previous session on the heels of a speech by Powell in Washington, D.C., in which he signaled U.S. central bank officials may downshift the final interest rate hike of the year later this month to 50 basis points. Wednesday saw the S&P 500 bounce 3.1%, the Dow rise 2%, or more than 700 points — and exit a bear market — and the Nasdaq surge 4.4%.
“It makes sense to moderate the pace of our rate increases as we approach the level of restraint that will be sufficient to bring inflation down,” Powell said, speaking at the Brookings Institution, as he acknowledged the “uncertain lags” of monetary tightening. “The time for moderating the pace of rate increases may come as soon as the December meeting.”
Powell’s comments are likely the last public remarks he’ll deliver before Federal Reserve officials enter a blackout period — a time policymakers limit public speaking prior to a policy-setting meeting — ahead of their next gathering Dec. 13-14.
“The focus now should not be on the pace, but how much higher rates will need to go and how long they will need to stay there,” Jason England, global bonds portfolio manager at Janus Henderson Investors said in a note. “As the Fed will need to see ‘substantially more evidence’ that inflation is easing before they pause and Powell ended his speech by saying ‘history cautions strongly against prematurely loosening policy,’ pricing in cuts is premature.”
Sentiment got a boost Thursday from easing concerns over China’s zero-COVID unrest after top government official Vice Premier Sun Chunlan urged an “optimization” of the nation’s virus response as pathogenicity weakens.
Meanwhile on the corporate side, all eyes were on Salesforce (CRM) following news Co-Chief Executive Officer Bret Taylor would step down in January and co-founder Marc Benioff will become the sole CEO. Shares fell more than 7% pre-market.
Snowflake (SNOW) shares also dropped in extended trading after the company’s fourth-quarter product revenue forecast missed estimates on an expected slowdown in tech spending. The stock was down about 4% ahead of the open.
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Albany gets over an inch of snow as seasons first storm hits
ALBANY — The remnants of the season’s first snowfall transitioned into rain throughout most of the Capital Region, increasing the likelihood that the Wednesday morning commute would be sloppy but not dangerous.
By midnight, about an inch and half of snow had fallen at Albany International Airport but the flakes gave way to rain as the morning progressed.
Authorities dealt with a number of crashes on local highways overnight but most seemed cleared by 5:30 a.m.
Lee Picard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albany, said the morning commute should have drivers facing rain instead of snow and ice.
Weather in the Albany area had transitioned to rain and “we expect it to stay that way,” he said.
“The Capital District is just wet roads,” he said, but added, “There could definitely be some slick spots.”
Ahead of the storm, local auto mechanics and body shop experts urged people to take it slow, noting the first snowfall of the year often brings a rash of crashes as drivers readjust to winter roads.
The temperature in the region had climbed above freezing which was likely to ensure the precipitation remained rain until the storm ends later in the morning.
As of 5:30 a.m., a wintery mix was still falling in the southern Adirondack Mountains as well as in Schoharie County and other areas to the west of the Capital Region. Schoharie and Montgomery counties recorded between 2 and 3 inches of snow.
A number of schools in Warren, Essex, Herkimer and Greene counties were delaying the start of school on Wednesday.
Closings and delays
Much of the rest of the Capital Region measured between 1 to 3 inches of snow. A small amount of ice was recorded at the airport and elsewhere.
Snow fell in the Catskill Mountains too, with parts of western Greene County receiving 1 to 2 inches of snow.
The weather caused no widespread power outages.
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National Grid was dealing with small pockets of outages in Schenectady and Albany counties. Central Hudson reported scattered outages around parts of Ulster County, but just 70 customers had lost service. New York State Electric & Gas was restoring service to about 130 customers left in the dark in Sullivan County.
The temperature is expected to slowly climb through the 30s as the morning progresses before hitting the 40s in the afternoon.
College Football Playoff Rankings: Top five hold, LSU and USC inch up, Washington makes huge jump in top 25
With the top five teams in last week’s College Football Playoff Rankings all holding serve after emerging victorious last week, the third edition of the CFP top 25 released Tuesday night was largely uneventful. Reigning national champion Georgia held onto the No. 1 spot with fellow undefeateds Ohio State, Michigan and TCU rounding out what would be the four-team field should the playoff be decided today.
Tennessee, with its lone blemish coming to Georgia two weeks ago, remains the first team out at No. 5. The Volunteers will have a chance to make the playoff given the strength of their victories to this point along with having the best loss in the country. Reminder: All but one team ranked No. 1 in a season’s initial CFP Rankings ultimately reached the playoff (Mississippi State, 2014).
A debut in the CFP for the Vols is hardly a sure thing, however, as they will not have an opportunity to earn extra credit in the eyes of the CFP Selection Committee by winning a conference championship game. That possibility still exists for No. 6 LSU, which is seeking to become the first two-loss team to earn a CFP bid in the event’s history. No. 7 USC aims to become the first Pac-12 team to make the playoff since 2016-17, while No. 9 Clemson looks to get through the rest of the season unscathed; that will require it getting by fellow one-loss ACC brethren No. 13 North Carolina, which itself has a puncher’s chance at making the CFP.
Perhaps most notable was a change in ranking order for the top Group of Five programs aiming for a New Year’s Six berth. With a 38-31 head-to-head road victory over the weekend, UCF (now No. 20) jumped Tulane (now No. 21) to take pole position for that opportunity.
The biggest riser in the rankings was Washington, which jumped eight spots to No. 17 after taking down Oregon, which fell six spots down to No. 12.
Let’s take a look at the entire CFP Rankings top 25. Analysis by bowls expert Jerry Palm below.
College Football Playoff Rankings, Nov. 15
- Georgia (10-0)
- Ohio State (10-0)
- Michigan (10-0)
- TCU (10-0)
- Tennessee (9-1)
- LSU (8-2)
- USC (9-1)
- Alabama (8-2)
- Clemson (9-1)
- Utah (8-2)
- Penn State (8-2)
- Oregon (8-2)
- North Carolina (9-1)
- Ole Miss (8-2)
- Kansas State (7-3)
- UCLA (8-2)
- Washington (8-2)
- Notre Dame (7-3)
- Florida State (7-3)
- UCF (8-2)
- Tulane (8-2)
- Oklahoma State (7-3)
- Oregon State (7-3)
- NC State (7-3)
- Cincinnati (8-2)
Analysis by bowls expert Jerry Palm
The only change in the top 10 this week was former Oregon dropping out, allowing LSU, USC, Alabama and Clemson to move up a spot. Utah also moves up to the top 10 ahead of a showdown with the Ducks for a leg up in the Pac-12 Championship Game race.
Only five teams remain that control their own fate in the chase for a spot in the four-team field, but they are not the top five teams in the rankings. The top four all control their own fate, but Tennessee does not. That is because if LSU beats Georgia, the Tigers would move into the top four and the Vols would be out of luck.
It is also possible that Tennessee could be passed by a 12-1 champion from another conference, most likely USC if the Trojans can pull that off. Their remaining schedule would include three ranked teams: at UCLA, vs. Notre Dame and the Pac-12 title game. The Clemson-North Carolina winner in the ACC would be in play as well, but it’s less likely to get to the top four.
Cincinnati makes its first appearance of the season in the rankings, checking in at No. 25. The Bearcats are the third AAC team in the rankings. It is extremely likely at this point that the Group of Five representative in the Cotton Bowl will come from among Cincy, UCF and Tulane. The Bearcats host the Green Wave to end the regular season with the winner likely traveling to Orlando to face the Knights for the AAC championship.
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Stock futures inch higher as investors watch midterm results, await inflation data
Stock futures inched higher Thursday as investors awaited new inflation data and eyed U.S. election results.
Futures connected to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 28 points, or 0.1%. S&P 500 futures added 0.1%, while Nasdaq 100 futures gained 0.2%.
It follows a day of losses with the Dow dropping 646.89 points, or 1.95%. The Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 shed nearly 2.5% and about 2.1%, respectively.
The declines came amid uncertainty stemming from U.S. midterm elections. The market had hoped Republicans would take sweeping control of the House of Representatives and the Senate on Tuesday – a situation that would create gridlock in Washington, D.C. Instead, key Senate races in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada remain tightly contested. Indeed, the Senate race between Raphael Warnock, the Democratic incumbent, and Herschel Walker will head to a December runoff.
Stocks’ suffering worsened late Wednesday after crypto exchange Binance said it’s backing out of plans to acquire its rival FTX. This dragged down the tech sector and pulled bitcoin’s price to lows last seen in 2020.
Lack of clarity around the election, as well as uncertainty around incoming October consumer price index data and corporate earnings reports were the drivers around the selloff, said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at the Independent Advisor Alliance.
“Those three things are leading to uncertainty,” he said. “And, as everyone knows, markets really don’t like uncertainty.”
October’s CPI report, due Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET, is the next focal point for investors. Economists polled by Dow Jones expect that headline CPI rose in October by 0.6% from September, or 7.9% over a year ago. It’s a key report for the Federal Reserve, which will meet again in mid-December.
Weekly jobless claims are also due out on Thursday morning.
Stock futures inch lower as Wall Street awaits results of midterm elections
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 27, 2022 in New York City. Stocks continued their upward gains Thursday with the Dow rising nearly 400 points following a new GDP report that beat expectations.
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Stock futures were lower — following recent market gains — as results of the midterm elections dragged on with control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate still up in the air.
S&P 500 futures fell by 0.25%, while Dow futures were down 95 points. Futures for the Nasdaq 100 traded fractionally lower.
Stocks are coming off three-straight days of gains and so possibly were due for a pause. The Dow climbed 333 points on Tuesday for its third-straight session of gaining more than 1%. The bounce for equities may be partly due to the elections, where Wall Street was expecting Republicans to gain ground and create gridlock in Washington, D.C.
But control of the houses of Congress were not clear overnight so far.
Morgan Stanley chief U.S. equity strategist Mike Wilson said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” that if it does end up being divided government it could help ease concerns about inflation and higher interest rates going forward.
“It looks like the House will go the way of the Republicans,” Wilson said. “That means gridlock. Probably, less fiscal spending will be achieved.”
The market’s recent rally is occurring at the front end of a strong seasonal period. Historically, stocks tend to rise after midterm elections and the policy clarity it brings, and the final two months of the year are considered a bullish period for investors.
One stock that weighed on futures was Disney, which fell more than 6% in extended trading after the entertainment giant missed estimates on the top and bottom lines for its fiscal fourth quarter.