Prologue Journal – Page 32516 – Understanding current events through the lenses of the past and future.

2026 Winter Olympics Chief Talks Plans and Progress

New York Times Andrea Varnier, chief executive of the Milan-Cortina organizing committee, talks about managing the most sprawling Games in history, and why he thinks it could be a model for future Olympics. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/sports/olympics/2026-olympics-milan-cortina-andrea-varnier.html

Telecom company sued by nearly every state over billions of robocalls

Washington Post A coalition of 48 states and the District alleges that Avid Telecom facilitated 21 billion calls from 2018 to 2023, including many on the Do Not Call Registry. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/24/avid-telecom-robocalls-lawsuit/

HSBC puts global footprint under fresh scrutiny, considers dozen exits

Reuters In his first interview since taking the role, Chief Financial Officer Georges Elhedery exclusively told Reuters that HSBC is reviewing a possible exit from as many as a dozen countries, or one in five of the markets it operates in, to sharpen its focus on Asian expansion. The post HSBC puts global footprint under…

Delaware committee approves pay raises for state employees, adds marijuana funding to spending plan

Fox News Members of the Delaware legislature’s budget-writing committee began marking up Gov. John Carney’s spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year on Tuesday by approving across-the-board pay raises of up to 9% for state employees. The Joint Finance Committee approved Carney’s plan to give state workers pay raises ranging from 3% to 9%, depending…

Suicide car bomber kills 2 soldiers, 2 others at security checkpoint

Fox News A suicide car bomber targeted a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing two soldiers, a policeman and a civilian, the military and security officials said. It was the second militant attack to hit Pakistan in as many days. The bombing happened in North Waziristan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that…

Recipe for a Healthy Vacation: A Cooking Class on a Greek Island, Where Residents Live Past 90

Wall Street Journal Travel to sunny Ikaria—a remote locale where inhabitants routinely enjoy life into their 90s, even 100s—and learn the tricks and techniques behind their delicious, salubrious Mediterranean diet https://www.wsj.com/articles/healthy-vacation-cooking-class-ikaria-greek-island-18ce1818

Russia fairly cooperates with other countries, fully implements agreements — Putin

Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. Inside the EAEU trade growth demonstrates solid rates, which is a notable indicator of the efficiency of joint work https://tass.com/economy/1622517

95-year-old Australian woman dies after cop shoots her with stun gun in a nursing home

Fox News A 95-year-old Australian woman died Wednesday, a week after a police officer shot her with a stun gun in a nursing home as she moved toward him using a walker and carrying a steak knife, in a tragedy that has outraged many Australians. Clare Nowland, who had dementia, had been hospitalized in Cooma…

US examining reported Ukrainian use of US vehicles in Russia – White House

Jerusalem Post https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-744124

Many support Russia’s approaches to fair relations in economy — Putin

Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. An increasing number of nations set their sights on strengthening national sovereignty, pursuing independent domestic and foreign policy, stick to their own development pattern https://tass.com/economy/1622515