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PHOENIX — The comparison surfaced shortly after Kevin Durant beat the Chicago Bulls on Monday. In the final seconds, the Phoenix Suns forward nailed a double-pump jumper to help the Suns win 115-113. Watched the replay all night long! pic.twitter.com/EEw60HC8Uf — Phoenix Suns (@Suns) January 23, 2024If you thought Durant’s incredible shot was similar to Michael Jordan’s iconic double-pump jumper that eliminated the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 5 of the first round of the 1989 playoffs, you’re not alone. Several Bulls players from the team agreed.NBC Sports Chicago analyst Will Perdue watched Monday night’s game from a studio in Chicago.…

Is anyone still rocked by Balenciaga’s notorious ad campaign from 2022 featuring teddy bears in harnesses? Seemingly not Kim Kardashian, who was “re-evaluating” her relationship with the fashion house in the wake of the scandal those ads caused, only to be named an ambassador for the brand this week.Nor is Patricia Field. Ms. Field, 82, a merchant, costume designer and lifelong champion of funky alternative style, is a star of Balenciaga’s new “closet” campaign alongside Ms. Kardashian and Nicola Peltz-Beckham.Looking formidable in a black leather trench and toting an updated version of the label’s Le City bag ($2,450), a smiling…

Vince McMahon, the longtime chairman and former chief executive officer of World Wrestling Entertainment, resigned from his positions with W.W.E. and its parent company, the T.K.O. Group, on Friday, one day after a former employee accused him of sexual assault and trafficking in a federal lawsuit.W.W.E. employees were informed of the changes in an email sent by Nick Kahn, the president of W.W.E. “He will no longer have a role with TKO Group Holdings or W.W.E.,” Mr. Kahn wrote in the email, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times.Vince McMahon at W.W.E. headquarters in Stamford, Conn.,…

The genetic testing company 23andMe is being accused in a class-action lawsuit of failing to protect the privacy of customers whose personal information was exposed last year in a data breach that affected nearly seven million profiles.The lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in federal court in San Francisco, also accused the company of failing to notify customers with Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage that they appeared to have been specifically targeted, or that their personal genetic information had been compiled into “specially curated lists” that were shared and sold on the dark web.The suit was filed after 23andMe submitted…

Jon Franklin, an apostle of narrative short-story style journalism whose own work won the first Pulitzer Prizes awarded for feature writing and explanatory journalism, died on Sunday in Annapolis, Md. He was 82.His death, at a hospice, came less than two weeks after falling at his home, his wife, Lynn Franklin, said. He had also been treated for esophageal cancer for two years.An author, teacher, reporter and editor, Mr. Franklin championed the nonfiction style that was celebrated as New Journalism but that was actually vintage narrative storytelling, an approach that he insisted still adhere to the old-journalism standards of accuracy…

“We were sharecroppers, got up real early and would play for about 15 or 20 minutes, then walk across the street and I’d have a doughnut and he would have his coffee,” Mr. Sonnier recalled in the 88 Miles West interview. “We shared something very special, and then he’d drive me to school.”A young Mr. Sonnier placed third in an accordion contest in 1959. With him, from left, were Nathan Abshire, who won; Whitney Pousson, who came in second; and the musician and M.C. known as Happy Fats.Credit…via Sonnier FamilyMr. Sonnier spent much of the next two decades making a…

The United Nations on Friday fired 12 of its employees in Gaza and began an investigation into them after accusations by Israel that they had helped plan and had participated in the Oct. 7 terrorist assault that left about 1,200 Israelis dead and more than 240 others captured.The workers, all men employed by the U.N. agency that aids Palestinians, known by the acronym UNRWA, are subject to a criminal investigation, two U.N. officials said.“UNRWA reiterates its condemnation in the strongest possible terms of the abhorrent attacks,” said Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the agency. “Any UNRWA employee who was involved…

Protests by farmers angered by complex regulations, administrative hassles and low wages spread across France on Friday, blocking several highways, snarling traffic for miles and forcing the country’s new prime minister to tear up his schedule and head to a remote farm in the region where the demonstrations began.Gabriel Attal, the 34-year-old prime minister who took office this month, arrived late in the afternoon in southwestern France to try to ease the tension.“Without our farmers, we are no longer France,” he declared at a cattle farm in Montastruc-de-Salies, in the Haute-Garonne region. He appeared intent on convincing his rural audience…

After Mr. Manning’s move, they traveled to see each other at least once a month, either in New York or Dallas, where they would sleep in Mr. Manning’s dorm. When Mr. Wingfield began seminary the following year, they would also sleep in his dorm.“It’s a rare thing when you meet someone who’s OK with staying in a dorm room,” Mr. Manning said, referring to common sleeping arrangements in seminary. “We’re both like, ‘Yeah, this is cool.’”In December 2022, during one of Mr. Manning’s weekend visits to New York, he sat at the bar of the Commerce Inn, with Mr. Wingfield…

JPMorgan Chase is reshuffling its leadership team, a move that many consider a succession plan even though its longtime chief executive, Jamie Dimon, has signaled he is staying put.Mr. Dimon, 67, has been head of what is now the largest bank in the United States for nearly two decades, and repeatedly brushed off suggestions that he might step aside. The specter of his eventual departure, however, hangs over JPMorgan as outsiders question whether he might run for public office or serve in a presidential administration.In a memo to employees Thursday, JPMorgan muddied the matter further. Daniel Pinto, the bank’s chief…