内容摘要：handed director Jack O’Brien the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. This year, it’s his turn.

handed director Jack O’Brien the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. This year, it’s his turn.

Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island have some of the largest concentrations of Portuguese speakers in the U.S., making it the most spoken language in these states behind English and Spanish. It also is the second-most common non-English language in Utah, which is home to missionaries who served in Brazil and explains its popularity, according to the University of Utah.The Filipino language was prevalent in California, Hawaii and Nevada, where it was the second-most popular non-English tongue.

In Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon and Texas, Vietnamese was the most popular language behind English and Spanish, reflecting that people who speak different languages are no longer concentrated in big cities that serve as entry points for immigrants.“People of different backgrounds are dispersed to different parts of the country,” Frey said.Follow Mike Schneider on the social platform Bluesky:

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday dismissedas “an ultimatum” and renewed his call for direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to break the deadlock over

, which has dragged on for nearly 3½ years.

Putin, however, showed no willingness to meet with Zelenskyy, expressing anger Wednesday about what he said were Ukraine’s recent “terrorist acts” on Russian rail lines in the Kursk and Bryansk regions on the countries’ border.Even before tariff-related volatility,

clouded the major technology theme that powered the market in 2023 and 2024, as AI stocksBut there have been equity gains to be had in 2025. When I look at

, I notice a few surprising stars: European stocks, Latin America, and real estate investment trusts.The common thread that connects the three? All had been underperformers in prior years.