First, “Uber” became a verb. Now, in parts of Africa, it is becoming past tense. The company’s withdrawal from Nigeria and Uganda complicates one of competition policy’s favorite storylines: U.S. …
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Crime
Man beat ex-girlfriend to death with a dumbbell, choked her, and stabbed her multiple times before fleeing the state: Police
Inset (left): Christian Flores (Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office). Inset (right): Charity Geisel (Legacy.com). Background: The neighborhood in Elgin, Ill., where Charity Geisel was found dead (Google Maps). An Illinois …
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Fourteen months after Donald Trump signed the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill to provide billions in tax cuts while seeking to reduce the cost of programs like SNAP food aid …
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The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Dual Time x Vianney Halter Sandblasted titanium: $80,000; rose gold: $123,000 Bulgari has spent more than a decade pushing the limits of mechanical watchmaking through the …
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The honeymoon was in Fort Lauderdale because plane tickets cost too much. Dinner was drive-through chili, with rice added to stretch it. Byron Donalds is running on it. The Republican …
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Manhattan
9/11 public portal: NYC ‘unlikely’ to face lawsuits over newly released documents on air quality danger after terror attack
New York City is unlikely to face lawsuits based on the information in newly released documents about what the city knew and hid about Lower Manhattan’s dangerous air quality in …
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For 15 years, we let children carry cellphones into most of our classrooms. By the time states began ordering the phones out, a generation had spent its childhood inundated by …
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Under new head coach John Harbaugh, the New York Giants made sweeping changes to their roster. The team held multiple first-round picks, traded away superstar Dexter Lawrence, and signed dozens …
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For glaucoma patients, the most difficult part of treatment usually isn’t the operation. It’s the aftermath, which involves cloudy, stinging eye drops administered every two hours for weeks on end, …
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Crime
Florida woman flung her own feces at neighbor she suspected of having an affair with her husband, police say
Inset: Yirsi Machado Rivera (Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation). Background: The area where the defendant allegedly threw human waste on her neighbor in Opa-locka, Fla. (Google Maps). A Florida woman was …