Tag: Apologies

Princess Kate’s Cancer Diagnosis: A Timeline of the Last Few Months

For months, nearly all eyes have been fixated on the ebbs and flows of the British royal family, with King Charles III and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, in the spotlight because of health matters. But the extended absence of Kate from the public eye and her slow re-emergence propelled a tidal wave of rumors […]

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Dan Schneider Apologizes for Behavior After ‘Quiet on Set’ Documentary

Dan Schneider, the children’s television producer and writer behind many of Nickelodeon’s biggest hits, released a video on Tuesday in which he apologized for some of his behavior on the job, including soliciting massages on set. The video comes after the release of a documentary series in which former employees denounced him as a boss […]

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Altered Princess Kate Photo Creates PR Problem for Royal Family

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a digitally altered picture of an absent British princess is apparently worth a million. That seemed to be the lesson after another day of internet-breaking rumors and conspiracy theories swirling around Catherine, Princess of Wales, who apologized on Monday for having doctored a photograph of herself […]

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Princess Kate and the Royal Family: A Timeline of the Last Few Months

For months, nearly all eyes have been fixated on the ebbs and flows of the British royal family, with King Charles III and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, in the spotlight because of health matters. But as of late, the extended absence of Catherine, also known as Kate, from the public eye has propelled a […]

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Princess Kate Apologizes For Editing Photo

Catherine, the Princess of Wales, apologized on Monday for doctoring a photo of her with her three children, which was recalled by several news agencies on Sunday after they determined the image had been manipulated. The decision to recall the photo reignited a storm of speculation about Catherine, who has not been seen in public […]

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Indian Burglars Return Filmmaker’s Medal

When the thieves broke into the country home of a renowned film director in southern India, taking gold, silver and cash, they made a clean getaway. But days later, a small plastic bag appeared outside the house’s gates, stitched shut with thin sticks and containing something wrapped in a white handkerchief. Inside was a medal […]

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Gov. Kathy Hochul Apologizes For Israel-Hamas Analogy to Canada

Gov. Kathy Hochul apologized on Friday night for remarks she made at a Jewish philanthropy event in New York City that implied that Israel would be justified in destroying Gaza because of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. In a speech on Thursday at the event, for the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York, Ms. Hochul […]

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Yale Apologizes for Its Connections to Slavery

Yale University on Friday issued a formal apology for its early leaders’ involvement with slavery, accompanied by the release of a detailed history of the university’s connections to slavery and a list of what it said were initial steps to make some amends. The announcement came more than three years after Yale announced a major […]

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In Reversal, Guinness Gives a Frenchman’s Matchstick Eiffel Tower the Record

Richard Plaud toiled over eight years to construct a nearly 24-foot model of the Eiffel Tower. Each of the 706,900 matchsticks he glued together brought the Frenchman one step closer toward his dream: Achieving a world record for building the tallest matchstick sculpture. But in late January, weeks after he finished the replica, Guinness World […]

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E.U. Reaches Ukraine Aid Deal, and Zuckerberg Apologizes

The New York Times Audio app is home to journalism and storytelling, and provides news, depth and serendipity. If you haven’t already, download it here — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter. The Headlines brings you the biggest stories of the day from the Times journalists […]

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‘Almost Naked’ Party in Moscow Angers Russian Conservatives

Tearful apologies, revoked sponsorships, canceled performances and two weeks in jail for wearing a sock on the genitals. A widening crackdown on the participants in an erotic celebrity party in Moscow underscores an accelerating conservative shift in a country where hedonism has long been tolerated in return for the acceptance of shrinking political freedoms. The […]

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New York to Consider Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved People

New York will undertake an ambitious effort to address the state’s history of slavery and racism, establishing the United States’ second statewide task force to examine whether reparations can be made to confront the legacy of racial injustice. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed a bill that empowers a commission to study not only the […]

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An Israeli Hostage Speaks of Her 7 Weeks in Hamas Captivity

She and the surviving children — another daughter, Agam, 17, and two sons, Gal, 11, and Tal, 9 — were released in late November as part of the exchange of prisoners between Israel and Hamas that has since ceased. In an interview this week, she shared details about her ordeal. She said she and the […]

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Harvard President Apologizes for Congressional Testimony on Antisemitism

Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, apologized to the university community for her testimony before Congress, where she gave evasive responses to questions about whether calls for the genocide of Jews would violate campus policies. “I am sorry,” Dr. Gay said in an interview that the campus newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, published on Friday. “Words matter.” “When […]

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For Israel’s Netanyahu, War in Gaza and at Home

The social media post went up online at 1:10 a.m. Sunday, while most Israelis were sleeping. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a message: His military and security chiefs, he said, had failed to provide him with any warning of the surprise Hamas assault on Oct. 7. He appeared to be placing all the blame on […]

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Hasan Minhaj Addresses Embellished Stories Detailed by The New Yorker

The comedian Hasan Minhaj released a 21-minute video on Thursday, addressing a New Yorker article that chronicled fabrications of personal experiences he recounted in his stand-up specials, and apologizing to those who felt “betrayed.” Minhaj, whose politically-minded Netflix show “Patriot Act” ran from 2018 to 2020, posted the video — which he called a “deep […]

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Dutch Royals Confront South Africa’s Colonial Legacy

On their first visit to an African country since ascending the throne a decade ago, the King and Queen of the Netherlands made a symbolic visit on Friday to the Slave Lodge in Cape Town, South Africa, where Dutch colonists once enslaved thousands of Africans and Asians. As they entered the two-story building with creaky […]

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Man Says Airline Stopped Him on Suspicion He Was Trafficking His Children

American Airlines has apologized to a Black musician who said that he was stopped on suspicion that he was trafficking his own children, who are biracial, on a flight last month. Many airlines, including American, have adopted policies and training programs to prevent human trafficking and child exploitation. But the experience described by the musician, […]

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Famous People Don’t Know How to Apologize

Somehow, Mila Kunis’s scripted apology was even worse. She and Mr. Kutcher had weathered criticism for writing letters in support of their former “That ’70s Show” co-star Danny Masterson after he was convicted of rape. Facing her public, she spoke in the awkward cadence people have when they haven’t memorized their lines and don’t know […]

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Lauren Boebert Apologizes for Vaping in a Denver Theater

Representative Lauren Boebert, a hard-right Republican rabble-rouser from Colorado, apologized on Friday night for her behavior at a recent performance of the family-friendly musical “Beetlejuice” in Denver, after surveillance video revealed her vaping and behaving disruptively in the theater. Ms. Boebert, 36, previously denied reports that she had been vaping. A pregnant woman seated behind […]

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