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MINNEAPOLIS — When Luka Doncic sat down in the small postgame press conference room, he placed a trophy on the table in front of him, the smallest he had ever been in before the season ended. meeting room. The award, presented after he was voted MVP in the Western Conference Finals, begins with a gleaming gold podium supporting a silver orb. He admitted he wasn’t sure how to fit it into his trophy case.”(It’s) going home,” Doncic said, his only certain destination at the moment. “I don’t know where I’m going yet.”pulse communicationFree daily sports updates delivered straight to your…

On a nearby side table was a framed photograph of Mr. Levine with Elaine Kaufman, who died in 2010. Ms. Kaufman’s restaurant, Elaine’s, lay just a few blocks from Mr. Levine’s apartment on the Upper East Side, and he was a regular there, along with media luminaries such as David Halberstam, Pete Hamill, Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe.In Mr. Levine’s bedroom, the walls were lined with framed articles about him and The Enquirer — many of them glowing — from mainstream news outlets including New York, Talk and The New York Times.“Two in one year,” he said.Several times during our…

WHEN WOMEN RAN FIFTH AVENUE: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion, by Julie SatowIn 1980, Donald J. Trump made the front page of The New York Times after assaulting a pair of scantily clad women at a Fifth Avenue department store.That the women were made of stone and were attached to the building of Bonwit Teller, in the process of being razed and replaced by Trump Tower, was of little comfort to the trustees at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which had been promised these Art Deco bas-relief beauties — long hovering over pedestrians, now shattered.The sculptures’…

The bustling Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood certainly keeps directors busy: In the past decade, Daniel Oriahi has made over 25 movies. But the filmmaker hit a new career breakthrough when the Tribeca Festival accepted his latest, “The Weekend,” a simmering thriller about in-laws with nightmarish appetites.The selection brings the 41-year-old director welcome recognition after years of churning out movies. “You’re like, ‘Where does it end?’” Oriahi said of the relentless pace. “The Weekend,” premiering Sunday, is intended as a polished, genre-bending departure from Nollywood quickies, and it screens in the mature-themed Midnight section of the festival, which runs…

Protesters in Tel Aviv and around the world Saturday called on Israeli leaders to accept the latest road map for a cease-fire and the return of hostages in Gaza, a day after President Biden said it was time for the war to end.The Hostages and Missing Families Forum in Israel said it was launching “an emergency operation” to pressure members of the government to accept the declaration outlined by President Biden on Friday. The plan would begin with an immediate, temporary cease-fire and work toward the return of all hostages, a permanent end to the war and the reconstruction of…

“Navigator,” the man who had ordered the children removed from the church, visited the foster home repeatedly. He would later be identified as Igor Kastyukevich, a Russian member of Parliament from Mr. Putin’s political party, United Russia.Anna Kuznetsova, a deputy chairwoman in the Russian Parliament and Ms. Lvova-Belova’s predecessor as children’s rights commissioner, traveled from Moscow to deliver baby products on behalf of the party. “#WeDon’tAbandonOurOwn,” she wrote on Telegram, using a pro-war hashtag to suggest that the children belonged to Russia.In interviews with The Times, Russian officials echoed that view, saying that the children from Kherson were Russian.In May,…

Let’s start with the brass band.That’s what caught Ben Shelton off guard when he stepped onto the court to face France’s Hugo Gaston on Sunday. The playing field is Court 14: a sunken stage that, when the opponent is a native son, can quickly turn into a suffocating cauldron of noise and chaos.“This is the first time I’ve ever been to a tennis tournament and had a band playing in the stands at my court.” Sheldon said. Shelton, the No. 15 seed at this year’s French Open, is no stranger to raucous crowds. He played college tennis for two years…

The main character at Dolly Lana Meckler’s wedding was probably her dress: a theatrical, reconstructed Pucci gown that was more than two years in the making.Her parents, both “eccentric” artists, first spotted the dress at a Pucci store at Woodbury Common Premium Outlets in Woodbury, N.Y., in February 2022, Ms. Meckler said. They sent her a photo of the dress, but a wedding hadn’t yet been on her radar.Over a year later, after getting engaged, she couldn’t stop thinking about that voluminous, ruffled dress that looked a bit like a giant snowball. After searching for it everywhere, and even sending…

Sometimes, it’s illegal to spend money that you set aside for yourself.When you save money in many types of workplace retirement accounts, the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t collect income taxes on that money until it’s time to take it out, when you’re older.Need money before then? Certain types of “hardship” withdrawals are permissible. But you must have a very good reason, and you definitely can’t lie about it.Last week, a sentencing hearing took place after a rare case involving this sort of legal violation. Federal prosecutors had won convictions against Marilyn Mosby, the former Baltimore prosecutor who may be best…

When Frank Pine searched Google for a link to a news article two months ago, he encountered paragraphs generated by artificial intelligence about the topic at the top of his results. To see what he wanted, he had to scroll past them.That experience annoyed Mr. Pine, the executive editor of Media News Group and Tribune Publishing, which own 68 daily newspapers across the country. Now, those paragraphs scare him.In May, Google announced that the A.I.-generated summaries, which compile content from news sites and blogs on the topic being searched, would be made available to everyone in the United States. And…