Exclusive from ‘The Weekly,’ a New TV Series from The New York Times Watch on FX this Sunday at 10 p.m. and Hulu on Monday. The youngest known child taken from his parents at the U.S.-Mexico border was a 4-month-old baby named Constantin Mutu. While he was sent to Michigan to live with a foster […]
“It’s all what the public believes,” he said. He faulted grading companies like Professional Sports Authenticator, which is part of Collectors Universe, a publicly traded company in Santa Ana, Calif., that offers authentication services for sports memorabilia and trading cards. P.S.A. charges up to $5,000 to grade a card. Mr. Moser said that its graders
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Image caption David Walliams with Esme Harrison-Jones, one of the two gold winners A story about chickens trying to cross the road has outrun the competition at this year’s 500 Words contest. The judges felt Why Did the Chicken… was so finger lickin’ good they made its author, Esme Harrison-Jones, gold winner in the 10
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Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here. Hi, we’re Jim Kerstetter and Pui-Wing Tam, tech editors filling in for Jamie Condliffe while he’s on a much-deserved vacation. Here’s a look at the week’s tech news:
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FIFA presidential adviser Zvonimir Boban is returning to the club closest to his heart, AC Milan, as its chief football officer. Boban, the deputy secretary general with responsibility for soccer issues, is leaving within days, FIFA said Friday announcing the news . Boban teams up again with club icon Paolo Maldini, the newly appointed technical
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David Starkey takes aim at those hoping to lead the Conservative and Lib Dem parties, and also has a go at Labour. In a personal film for BBC One’s This Week, he picks out one political bloom – Tory Rory Stewart – but says he is in the wrong party and has chosen the wrong
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Americans stepped up their retail spending last month, a sign that low unemployment and modest wage gains are encouraging consumers to shop. The Commerce Department said Friday that retail sales rose 0.5% in May, after a smaller gain of 0.3% in the previous month. April’s figure was revised up from an earlier estimate that had
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The World Health Organization says it has opened its expert meeting to decide whether the Ebola outbreak in Congo — which spilled into Uganda this week — should be declared a global emergency. WHO’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a tweet on Friday the committee will “review and make recommendations regarding the Ebola outbreak.”
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Elizabeth Lederer’s prosecution of five black and Hispanic teenagers for a rape they did not commit was overturned in 2002 The prosecutor of five teenagers convicted for the brutal rape of a female jogger in 1989 – depicted in Netflix’s When They See Us – has left her job
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Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri pushed and struck a sheriff’s deputy while attempting to reach the court to celebrate his team’s NBA championship on Thursday in Oakland, California, according to reports. An altercation began after a man witnesses identified as Ujiri was blocked from the floor by a deputy after the Raptors defeated the Golden State
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