Somewhere, we imagine, security footage exists of Ryan Lochte and companions walking out of Sergio Mendes’s estate, dragging a tiger by its leash, or mooning Christ the Redeemer. The Curious Incident of the Lochte in the Night-Time, which as this is being written is now playing in a movie theater in Rio de Janeiro, where […]
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAIf the Ghostbusters reboot ruined your childhood, you’re going to love seeing Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe shave his head and shout racial slurs. It’s not what you think. In the heady new thriller Imperium, Radcliffe convincingly plays an FBI agent sent undercover to take down a white supremacist group from within. It’s a strange
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON — The Justice Department will phase out its use of corporate-run prisons, after concluding the experiment in privatization failed to reduce costs or improve quality, officials said Thursday. At their height, in 2013, privately operated facilities incarcerated nearly 30,000 inmates, or about 15 percent of the federal prison population. But a recent inspector general’s
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USAMUMBAI, India — By winning a bronze medal in wrestling, 23-year-old Sakshi Malik helped India avoid a potentially embarrassing Olympic blackout. The nation of 1.25 billion people awoke Thursday to the news that Malik had earned a place on the podium in the 58-kilogram category, the first medal for India at the Games in Rio
A Palestinian girl whose bicycle was taken and broken by Border Police officers earlier this month received a new bicycle on Wednesday that had been donated by an Israeli man, peace activist Lonny Baskin told The Times of Israel. On August 2, two border guards were caught on film taking 8-year-old Anwar Burqan’s bicycle and
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Middle EastThe showdown these past few weeks between the Jewish community and the Movement for Black Lives is frustratingly familiar, especially for those who experienced the split between Jewish and black activists during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. It would be a terrible waste of well-meaning efforts toward shared goals if we were to
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USANEW YORK — Standing before the glass display case inside Kossar’s Bagels and Bialys, David Zablocki pauses for a moment. The daily offerings lie before him: original; garlic; sundried tomato. “It’s like asking me which of my children I like best, but a hot garlic bialy with the butter melting? That touches my Polish and
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAHARRISBURG, Pa. � Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday nominated a former top state prosecutor to serve as attorney general to fill out the remaining months of Kathleen Kane’s term. The governor’s selection of Bruce Beemer, if approved by the state Senate, as expected, would end the brief tenure of Kane appointee Bruce L. Castor
WASHINGTON — Allegations of anti-Semitism have surfaced against one of Donald Trump’s foreign policy advisers, raising further questions about the guidance the Republican presidential nominee is receiving. Joseph Schmitz, named as one of five advisers by the Trump campaign in March, is accused of bragging when he was Defense Department inspector general a decade ago
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USAEight years ago, Hillary Clinton criticized Barack Obama, her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, for his response when asked why he was having a hard time gaining traction with Rust Belt and rural voters: Obama said: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest,
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USARIO DE JANIERO — Ryan Lochte fabricated a story about a gunpoint robbery earlier this week and was actually involved in a scuffle at a gas station, Brazilian police officials told the Associated Press on Thursday. Meanwhile, Brazilian police told ABC News that there is a tape showing Lochte or one of the three U.S.
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International, Sports & Competitions, USAIstanbul (dpa) – A car bomb and a roadside explosion killed nine members of Turkey’s security forces on Thursday and injured more than 200, the Dogan news agency reported, as a wave of such attacks takes place across the restive south-east in recent days. The first attack, a car bomb in the eastern Elazig province
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Middle EastWASHINGTON – The drug industry is quietly troubled over Donald Trump’s tough talk on trade. The Republican presidential nominee has promised to aggressively renegotiate America’s trade deals – and to tear them up if need be. Those pledges are now rankling a biopharmaceutical sector that depends heavily on the deals to protect their intellectual property
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