WASHINGTON — Amid tensions in the Middle East, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was hospitalized, including spending four days in the intensive care unit, according to two senior administration officials. The Pentagon did not inform senior officials in the White House’s National Security Council of Austin’s hospitalization until Thursday — three days after he arrived…
A judge on Friday declined to immediately put Cher’s son into the legal conservatorship that she is seeking and he is opposing, but the court will take up the issue again within weeks. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jessica A. Uzcategui ruled that Cher’s attorneys had not given Elijah Blue Allman and his lawyers the…
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Australia beat Pakistan by eight wickets to give a perfect send off to David Warner in his farewell Test Australia’s Pat Cummins celebrates the wicket of Pakistan’s Aamer Jamal with teammates during day four of the third Test between Australia and Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground on January 6, 2024. —AFP Pakistan were only…
The former Times columnist Russell Baker, in The New York Review of Books, wrote: “Among the Lelyvelds, confusion, misunderstanding, and too much silence at all levels were the makings of an obviously unhappy family, whose members, if asked, Lelyveld says, would have called themselves a happy family. His book is more like life than memoir.”…
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During his wedding ceremony at a picturesque resort in the Southern California desert, Gerry Turner made his way down an aisle lined with roses. Then he turned around and walked back. The crowd murmured. Cold feet? No, the redo was for the cameras broadcasting the wedding on ABC. “For real this time!” Mr. Turner mouthed…
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Epstein was accused of exploiting numerous teenage girls before his 2019 suicide in federal custody US financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ sex offender registry on March 28, 2017, and obtained by Reuters on July 10, 2019. — Reuters The recent release of…
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Oscar Pistorius, now 37, shot Steenkamp multiple times, initially claiming he mistook her for a burglar Paralympian Oscar Pistorius looks at and girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at an event in this undated picture — File/AFP Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, infamous for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has been released on parole from a South…
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Peloton Interactive and TikTok are teaming to develop fitness content, the exercise equipment maker and social platform said Thursday. The partnership marks the first time that Peloton will produce custom social content for use outside its own network, according to to the New York company and China’s TikTok said. The co-branded hub, which will be…
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The Las Vegas Raiders will be conducting a head coaching search heading into the offseason. And one Raiders star wants interim coach Antonio Pierce to keep the job. Davante Adams spoke to the media Wednesday, backing Pierce and adding that others in the locker room support him. “It’s obviously who I wanted, that’s my vote,…
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After 14 years running the Frick Collection, during which this art museum finally realized a controversial expansion of its Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue — and temporarily took up residence in the modernist Breuer building on Madison Avenue — its director, Ian Wardropper, said he would retire next year. “My goal is to leave…
