(NEW YORK) — Losing weight can be hard and confusing, but a new study has found an easy way to help.
Adding just one hour or more of sleep a night can help boost weight loss, according to the study published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
Participants in the study who underwent a “sleep extension” program for two weeks, sleeping about one hour longer per night, took in about 150 fewer calories per day, which, over the course of the two weeks, averaged a weight loss of nearly two pounds.
Prior to the “sleep extension” program, the participants slept less than 6.5 hours per night, according to the study, which was led by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Over a three-year period, adding at least one hour of sleep per night could result in a 26-pound weight loss, the study’s authors noted.
“Along with a healthy diet and regular physical activity, healthy sleep habits should be integrated into public messages to help reduce the risk of obesity and related comorbidities,” the study’s authors wrote, noting their study is a first of its kind because it monitored participants in their home environments instead of in a sleep lab, for example.
“The theory here is that sleep can really affect our brain hormones, which trigger hunger, satiety, as well as our behavior,” said ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton, who was not involved with the study. “We know that when we’re sleep-deprived, we tend to make poor food choices.”
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adults ages 18 and over should get a minimum of seven hours of sleep per night.
Infants and toddlers should get between 11 and 16 hours of sleep per night, depending on age, while elementary school children should get between nine and 12 hours of sleep per night, according to the CDC.
Teenagers should get eight to 10 hours of sleep per night, the CDC advises.
Speaking of the importance of sleep, Ashton said, “This is not a luxury. This is a medical necessity.”
“We know that sleep has been linked with everything from thinking ability, mood and mental health, hormone levels,” she said. “It can decrease high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease if we get adequate sleep.”
A study released last year found that sleeping less than six hours a night in midlife can raise the risk of dementia — the loss of cognitive functioning, like thinking, remembering and reasoning — by 30%.
“This is so important,” Ashton said of getting adequate sleep. “This is on par with our nutrition and our fitness in terms of our health.”
Here are four tips from Ashton to get better, more restful sleep:
1. “Keep a consistent bedtime routine during the week and on the weekends.”
2. “Make your bedroom cold, dark and quiet. That’s the most relaxing sleep environment you can have.”
3. “Limit screen time, which includes the phone, about an hour before you go to bed.”
4. “Avoid caffeine, alcohol and large meals in the one to two hours before you go to sleep. What we’re eating and drinking really matters.”
Read more here for tips on how to get a good night’s sleep.
(LONDON) — More than two dozen people are dead and thousands are homeless after a tropical storm struck Madagascar over the weekend, the second to batter the island nation since the start of the year.
With wind gusts of up to about 143 miles per hour, Cyclone Batsirai made landfall on Madagascar’s eastern coast late Saturday before sweeping across the central and southern parts on Sunday. The storm departed Madagascar on Monday morning and returned to sea, but heavy rainfall is forecast for southern Madagascar through Tuesday, according to the country’s meteorology department, fueling fears of more flooding.
The cyclone’s powerful winds and torrential rains flooded roads and farmland, ripped roofs from homes and buildings and knocked down trees and utility poles. The hardest-hit areas were on the eastern side of the country, though the full scope of the damage was still being assessed.
According to Madagascar’s National Office for Risk and Disaster Management, more than 72,000 people have been impacted by Batsirai, which was classified by the country’s meteorology department as dangerous. Over 62,000 people have been displaced from their homes and at least 27 have died.
At least three children under the age of 12 were among the dead, according to United Kingdom-based international charity Save the Children, which cited Madagascar’s risk and disaster management office.
Hundreds schools were affected by the storm, leaving an estimated 9,271 children out of school. The cyclone also damaged various infrastructure, including at least 17 roads and 17 bridges, leaving some of the worst-affected areas inaccessible by road. Some towns suffered disruptions to power and water supplies, the country’s risk and disaster management office said.
The World Food Program, the food-assistance branch of the United Nations, has started distributing hot meals to 4,000 evacuated and displaced people in shelters in coordination with Madagascan authorities. Pasqualina DiSirio, the World Food Program’s director for Madagascar, warned that the number of storm victims could “easily rise.”
“We have right now, still waters increasing in the canals, in the rivers, and people are still in danger,” DiSirio said in a statement Monday. “We know for sure that rice fields, that rice crops will be damaged. This is the main crop for Malagasy people and they will be seriously affected in food security in the next three to six months if we don’t do something immediately and we don’t help them recover.”
Humanity & Inclusion, a France-based independent charity that has worked in Madagascar for over 30 years, has a 163-person team on the ground helping Madagascan authorities evaluate and respond to the disaster. Vincent Dalonneau, Humanity & Inclusion’s director for Madagascar, said the effects of Batsirai “are devastating.”
“The amount of destruction is significant and for many this is only the beginning. The storm may have passed, but now the affected communities must restart from scratch — rebuilding their homes, schools and hospitals,” Dalonneau told ABC News on Monday night. “Right now, we only have initial estimates of the damage caused. What remains a great challenge is that more isolated areas have yet to be assessed. So, we expect to see the extent of destruction rising in the coming days as we get a clearer image of the situation.”
Dalonneau said some isolated villages are more than a two-day walk away, which make damage assessments and aid deliveries even more difficult.
One of the affected residents was a 32-year-old single mother named Josephine. She said she and her young daughter evacuated their home near the eastern city of Mahanoro on Friday night amid heavy rain. When they returned, Josephine said their house was “completely destroyed,” according to Humanity & Inclusion.
Batsirai, which means help in Shona, an official language in Zimbabwe, arrived less than two weeks after Tropical Storm Ana barreled through southeastern Africa, killing scores of people in Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi.
The Madagascan government declared a state of emergency on Jan. 27 due to Ana.
Despite being nominated for most of the awards leading up to the Oscars, Lady Gaga failed to capture a second acting Oscar nomination for her role in House of Gucci.
Gaga was been nominated for a BAFTA, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Critics’ Choice Award and a Golden Globe Award for her showy role as Patrizia Reggiani in the film, but when the Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday morning, her name wasn’t among the honorees. Instead, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Olivia Colman, Kristen Stewart and Jessica Chastain got the nods.
Meanwhile, two other chart-topping singers were nominated for Oscars: Billie Eilish and Beyoncé.
Billie and her brother FINNEAS were nominated for Best Original Song for “No Time to Die,” from the James Bond movie of the same name. It’s already won them a Grammy and a Golden Globe.
In a statement, the siblings say, “Words cannot describe how honored and excited we are to have been nominated for an Academy Award for our song ‘No Time To Die.’ It was a lifelong dream of ours to write a Bond theme, and one we never thought would ever come true.”
They add, “It’s completely unbelievable that we are here being recognized for this song, and this is a peak life experience for us as songwriters and artists. To be recognized today among these other incredible nominees is something we most certainly do not take for granted.”
Beyoncé is also nominated for Best Original Song, for “Be Alive,” from the Will Smith movie King Richard. She co-wrote the song with singer, songwriter and producer Darius Scott, aka DIXSON.
These are the first Oscar nominations for both Beyoncé and Billie.
(LOUISVILLE, Ky.) — Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the trial of a former Kentucky police officer who was involved in the botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor.
Brett Hankison’s trial was initially scheduled to begin on Aug. 31, 2021, but was delayed due to COVID-19 restrictions. The trial was later delayed due to an unscheduled surgery and inclement weather.
Hankison is charged with three counts of wanton endangerment for firing into a neighboring apartment while serving a “no-knock” warrant on Taylor’s apartment on March 13, 2020, in Louisville, Kentucky. He has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison.
“Our hope is that we can pick an impartial jury,” Hankison’s lawyer Stew Mathews told ABC News. “We’re going to both defend [against] the charges in the courtroom.”
No officer has been charged with Taylor’s killing and the decision to charge Hankison with endangering others sparked outrage. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron called Taylor’s death a “tragedy” but said the officers were justified in deciding to shoot.
“Our investigation found that Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in their use of force after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker, [Taylor’s boyfriend],” Cameron said. “This justification bars us from pursuing charges in Ms. Breonna Taylor’s death.”
Hankison and Louisville Metro Police Department officers Myles Cosgrove and Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly fired 32 shots into Taylor’s apartment.
Hankison fired 10 of the shots into Taylor’s apartment. Errant bullets penetrated a wall of the residence and entered a neighboring apartment that was occupied by a child, a man, and a pregnant woman, according to Cameron.
Taylor, a Black 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was fatally shot multiple times during the raid. No drugs were found in her apartment.
Hankison and Cosgrove have both been fired from the force.
Cameron said that none of his shots struck Taylor.
The fatal shooting sparked protests nationwide, as demonstrators demanded action against police brutality and racism in policing.
No-knock warrants, which allow law enforcement officials to enter a private residence without knocking, have since come under scrutiny and have prompted policy changes in states across the country.
The Louisville, Kentucky, Metro Council unanimously passed Breonna’s Law on June 11, 2020, which outlawed “no-knock” warrants and required body cameras be turned on before and after every search.”
(NEW YORK) — The recent tensions between Russia and Ukraine are affecting Americans at the pump.
Prices for oil are now at their highest level in eight years.
“Russia still supplies some of the oil to the United States, and prices for oil are now above $90 a barrel for the first time since 2014,” ABC News’ Rebecca Jarvis explains. “And you’re seeing that at the pump — prices up overnight another penny, $3.45 a gallon.”
In the past week, prices for gas have shot up an average of 8 cents a gallon across the country, with some states seeing even bigger increases.
“Nowhere in the country, at this point, is paying less than $3 a gallon for gas, on average, according to Gas Buddy’s Patrick Dehaan,” Jarvis says.
She adds that Dehaan forecasts that in the coming days and weeks, “we will continue to see this price pressure rise” and that prices for gas could climb to $4 a gallon as tensions between both countries escalate.
The Oscar nominations were announced at 8:18 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday morning. The Western The Power of the Dog leads with 12 nominations in multiple categories, while the sci-fi epic Dune followed close behind, with 10.
Emmy-nominated black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross and Emmy-winning The Help veteran and Call Me Kat co-star Leslie Jordan presented the nominees in all 23 categories live via a livestream on Oscars.org and the Academy’s social media sites.
The 94th Annual Academy Awards will air live on ABC on March 27. The ceremony will be returning to Oscars’ home at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.
Here are the nominees:
Best motion picture of the year
Belfast – Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers CODA – Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers Don’t Look Up – Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers Drive My Car – Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer Dune – Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers King Richard – Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith, Producers Licorice Pizza – Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers Nightmare Alley – Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper, Producers The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, Producers West Side Story – Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
Achievement in directing
Belfast – Kenneth Branagh Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion West Side Story – Steven Spielberg
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick…BOOM!
Will Smith – King Richard
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Ciarán Hinds in – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – CODA
Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog
J.K. Simmons – Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman in – The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz in – Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman in – Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart in – Spencer
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Judi Dench – Belfast
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
Best animated feature film of the year
Encanto – Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie Luca – Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren The Mitchells vs. the Machines – Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht Raya and the Last Dragon – Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho
Achievement in cinematography
Dune – Greig Fraser Nightmare Alley – Dan Laustsen The Power of the Dog – Ari Wegner The Tragedy of Macbeth – Bruno Delbonnel West Side Story – Janusz Kaminski
Achievement in costume design
Cruella – Jenny Beavan Cyrano – Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran Dune – Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan Nightmare Alley – Luis Sequeira West Side Story – Paul Tazewell
Best documentary feature
Ascension – Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell
Attica – Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – Ahmir – Questlove – Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein Writing with Fire – Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
Best documentary short subject
Audible – Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean Lead Me Home – Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk The Queen of Basketball – Ben Proudfoot Three Songs for Benazir – Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei When We Were Bullies – Jay Rosenblatt
Achievement in film editing
Don’t Look Up – Hank Corwin Dune – Joe Walker King Richard – Pamela Martin The Power of the Dog – Peter Sciberras tick, tick…BOOM! – Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum
Best international feature film of the year
Drive My Car – Japan Flee – Denmark The Hand of God – Italy Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom – Bhutan The Worst Person in the World – Norway
Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
Coming 2 America – Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer Cruella – Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon Dune – Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr The Eyes of Tammy Faye – Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh House of Gucci – Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Don’t Look Up – Nicholas Britell Dune – Hans Zimmer Encanto – Germaine Franco Parallel Mothers – Alberto Iglesias The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“Be Alive” from King Richard – Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
“Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto – Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Down To Joy” from Belfast – Music and Lyric by Van Morrison
“No Time To Die” from No Time to Die – Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell
“Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
Achievement in production design
Dune – Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos Nightmare Alley – Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau The Power of the Dog – Production Design: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Amber Richards The Tragedy of Macbeth – Production Design: Stefan Dechant; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh West Side Story – Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo
Best animated short film
Affairs of the Art – Joanna Quinn and Les Mills Bestia – Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz Boxballet – Anton Dyakov Robin Robin – Dan Ojari and Mikey Please The Windshield Wiper – Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez
Best live action short film
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run – Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger The Dress – Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki The Long Goodbye – Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed On My Mind – Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson Please Hold – K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse
Achievement in sound
Belfast – Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri Dune – Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett No Time to Die – Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor The Power of the Dog – Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb West Side Story – Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy
Achievement in visual effects
Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer Free Guy – Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick No Time to Die – Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver Spider-Man: No Way Home – Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick
Adapted screenplay
CODA – Screenplay by Siân Heder Drive My Car – Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe Dune – Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth The Lost Daughter – Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal The Power of the Dog – Written by Jane Campion
Original screenplay
Belfast – Written by Kenneth Branagh Don’t Look Up – Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota King Richard – Written by Zach Baylin Licorice Pizza – Written by Paul Thomas Anderson The Worst Person in the World – Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Olympic diver Tom Daley still applauds Simone Biles‘ decision to withdraw from several events she was predicted to win at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. While many were shocked by the move, Daley understood she bowed out in order to protect herself.
“It wasn’t just about mental health, it was… about her physical health,” the British athlete told ABC Audio. “She was very brave to speak up and I think it was really important to know that athletes are human beings, too.”
Daley, who captured hearts by knitting in between his Olympic events this summer, said athletes should not be “expected to be these invincible heroes” because “we do have things that can get to us.”
One of those things is “the twisties,” which is what Biles experienced in Tokyo. Daley says this phenomenon, in which the brain and the body feel out of sync, also affects divers and can be potentially dangerous.
“It is an extremely scary thing because you get lost in the air and you don’t really know which way’s up and which way is down,” he explained, adding he suffered the twisties after the 2012 London Olympics. The Olympic gold medalist said Biles was not just protecting her mental health: she knew pressing on could’ve resulted in a career-ending injury.
“The difference between diving and gymnastics is that if you get lost in the air, you land in the water in a heap… and it hurts. But for a gymnast? When you land on the floor — that’s hard. So if you land the wrong way up or you land on your head, that’s a serious injury,” Daley remarked.
Biles recently spoke to PORTERmagazine about the ordeal. “I felt scared,” she recalled, and reiterated she that she doesn’t regret withdrawing from the Olympics.
Kristen Wiig is reuniting with her Downsizing co-star Laura Dern for Apple TV+’s Mrs. American Pie, a 10-episode comedy series revolving around Palm Beach high society in the 1970s. Wiig will reportedly play Maxine Simmons, “an outsider” trying to “cross that impermeable line between the haves and the have-nots,” according to the streaming service. “Mrs. American Pie asks the same questions that still baffle us today: ‘Who gets a seat at the table?”Apple TV+ asks. Dern, an executive producer on the series, is “eyeing a key role” in the comedy, per a press release, but details are being kept under wraps…
Academy Award-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones has been tapped to star in Disney+’s National Treasure TV series, based on the movies of the same name starring Nicolas Cage, the streamer announced on Monday. The series will follow a new, younger heroine, Jess, played by Lisette Alexis, a DREAMer who embarks on an adventure to uncover the truth about her family’s mysterious past and save a lost Pan-American treasure also being sought after by Bille, a nefarious black-market antiquities expert, played by Zeta-Jones. Disney is the parent company of ABC News…
Amazon Studios will release the first teaser-trailer for its long-awaited The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV series on Sunday, February 13 during the Super Bowl, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The multi-season series, costing a reported $465 million — the most expensive ever made — will tell the tales that happened before Frodo and Sam trekked to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, as seen in Peter Jackson‘s Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy. The series will premiere Friday, September 2, on Prime Video, with new episodes being rolled out each week…
(KYIV, Ukraine) — French officials said Russian President Vladimir Putin has committed to not launching any new “military initiatives” near Ukraine, a sign they said suggests Putin is moving towards de-escalating the crisis around the country.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said Putin made the commitment during more than five hours of talks between the two leaders on Monday night in Moscow. The French officials said Putin had also promised that thousands of Russian troops massed in neighboring Belarus to the north of Ukraine would leave after exercises end there this month.
It “makes it possible to consider de-escalation,” the officials said in a briefing note sent to journalists.
If true, the promise could be an important sign Putin may be closer to taking Western diplomatic offers as a road out of the crisis, where the massing of tens of thousands of Russian troops near Ukraine has sparked fears of invasion.
The Kremlin on Tuesday downplayed the French officials comments, denying that any deal had been reached.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Financial Times, which first reported the French claims, had “simply written incorrectly.”
Peskov said it was not possible for Putin and Macron to reach a deal since France was not the leader of NATO, which would need to accept any agreements.
But in reality the French officials had not said a deal was reached, just that Putin had promised not to undertake new military initiatives and to initiate a “broader dialogue” that would need to include the rest of NATO countries.
Peskov also confirmed the promise Russian troops will leave Belarus once the joint exercises there end on Feb. 20.
“No one has ever said that Russian troops will remain on the territory of Belarus, that has never been a question,” Peskov told reporters. “On the conclusion of these exercises the troops will return to their place of permanent deployment.”
Russia has been pouring trainloads of troops into Belarus amid its broader build up near Ukraine, alarming Western countries which fear they could be used as a cover for an attack. But Moscow and Minsk both insist the troops are there just for war games.
Putin and Macron’s marathon talks in the Kremlin Monday had ended with a glimmer of hope the Russian leader is ready to accept diplomacy. Putin afterwards told a press conference that Macron had brought “a range of ideas,” which he said it was too early to talk about publicly, but that Putin said he considered “possible as the basis for our next steps.”
It was not clear what those ideas were. But French officials afterwards said Putin and Macron had agreed to “the initiation of a broader dialogue” on three key points: First, Russia’s military posture; second, the long-running ‘Normandy Format’ negotiations aimed at ending the conflict in Ukraine between government and Russian-backed separatists in the east; and third, the “opening of a dialogue on strategic issues,” a phrase that refers to troop and weapon deployments, and wider questions of NATO’s relationship with Moscow.
Macron flew to Kyiv on Tuesday to meet with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, where he is expected to bring some of the ideas to which Putin referred. Putin on Monday night told Macron, “Let’s see” how that meeting goes, saying he and Macron had agreed to speak again after.
While massing troops near Ukraine, the Kremlin has demanded the United States and NATO give binding guarantees that Ukraine will never join the alliance and that NATO will pull back its infrastructure from eastern European countries that joined after the Cold War.
The U.S. and NATO countries, including France, have rejected those as non-starters, but have offered to engage with the Kremlin on more modest security issues, including limits on missile deployments and troop exercises.
Macron in front of Putin again affirmed NATO’s so-called “Open Doors” policy, calling it “existential.” Any diplomatic breakthrough would either have to find a creative way of reassuring the Kremlin on its main demands or for Putin to move back from them.
Putin with Macron had said there were “some thing possible to talk about” in written responses the U.S. and NATO have sent to Russia’s demands, referring to the more modest offers on missile deployments and other military issues. But he referred to them as “secondary.”
The Kremlin on Tuesday lowered hopes around Macron’s efforts, saying “for now, of course we can’t say we sense any real path to a resolution.”
Peskov said Russia didn’t see “readiness for now” from Western countries to pay attention to its main concerns on NATO.
“The president emphasised this yesterday that, to our regret, in the answers that we received from Washington and NATO there are grains of rationality, but they unfortunately have a secondary character,” Peskov said Tuesday. “And on the fundamental issues we, unfortunately haven’t received an answer. And so this issue remains open in the full sense of that word and remains for us the most important.”
(NEW YORK) — As American athletes competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing this weekend, a quartet of Summer Olympic athletes scored their own victories at home in the United States.
Four gymnasts who competed in the Tokyo Olympics for Team USA last summer each scored a perfect 10 at college meets this weekend.
The athletes — Auburn’s Suni Lee, UCLA’s Jordan Chiles, Oregon State’s Jade Carey and Utah’s Grace McCallum — all earned the perfect scores within a span of 48 hours, and it was each athlete’s first perfect score at the collegiate level, according to ESPN.
The accomplishment was first noted on Twitter by Nico Edgar, a sports reporter for the Daily Bruin, UCLA’s campus newspaper, and quickly went viral.
That makes it four Olympians who scored their first NCAA 10 this weekend: Jade Carey (bars), Sunisa Lee (bars), Jordan Chiles (floor) and Grace McCallum (bars)
Lee, Chiles and McCallum, along with Biles, took home a silver medal in the women’s gymnastics team competition at the Tokyo Olympics.
Biles, who withdrew from the team final in Tokyo, took to Twitter to congratulate each of her teammates on their perfect 10s.
Lee, who won gold in the all-around competition and bronze in the uneven bars in Tokyo, scored a 10 on the uneven bars, prompting Biles to write on Twitter, “forever & always will be a bar queen,” alongside a video of Lee celebrating her score.
Carey, who won gold in the women’s individual floor exercise final in Tokyo, also received a congratulations tweet from Biles after scoring a 10 on the uneven bars Saturday.
“Love seeing you thrive,” Biles wrote. “You deserve the world & more.”
Carey, a freshman, also earned the meet’s highest scores on every single event, helping to lift Oregon State to victory over Arizona State, according to ESPN.
