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The Hardest Ticket at the U.S. Open? Ball Person.

Thirty minutes before the gates to Arthur Ashe Stadium opened at 4 p.m. on June 22, a cluster of people began gently rolling tennis balls across a parking lot. One after the other, they lowered one knee close to the ground, extended their opposite arm, and released a tennis ball to someone 10 feet away. Closer to a locked chain-link fence, a gaggle of people started doing calisthenics as others…

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Brandan De Nuccio and Mary Rosa FIRED from 90 Day Fiance The Other Way?

On this season of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way, Brandan De Nuccio and Mary Rosa’s drama has horrified fans. A lot of viewers root for them as individuals. But, together, their relationship takes toxicity to new extremes. We all know that Brandan and Mary are still together. They’re married, and reportedly have a baby on the way. Maybe we know too much. Did TLC fire these two for oversharing…

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Why Charter and Disney Are Fighting, and What It Means for Viewers

What is this fight over? On its surface, the quarrel is about how much Disney can charge Charter for its content, and how much Charter’s customers will pay for access to Disney’s streaming apps. But it could also have wider consequences. Charter and Disney are two of the biggest players in the cable and TV industries, and they disagree over the best way to distribute movies and TV shows in an era…

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The Tennis Education of Ben Shelton

At the packed grandstand court here on Friday, you could hear the fans’ murmured conversation, a low, languid hush, as Ben Shelton toed the line to serve for the first time. Then the hush came to a jarring halt. Shelton’s knees bent, his shoulder cranked, and his Yonex tennis racket thrust violently toward the tossed ball. Crack! He unleashed a 130-mile-per-hour heater, an ace that stunned his…

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In Florida, a Hurricane Can’t Bring DeSantis and Biden Together

In normal times, the politics of disaster dictate that a president and a governor from opposite parties come together to show the victims of a natural disaster — and potential voters across the country — that they care. These are not normal times. On Friday, a spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a Republican seeking his party’s nomination for president, said the governor doesn’t “have any…

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How Montana’s Attorney General Made Banning TikTok a Top Priority

On a recent summer day, Austin Knudsen, Montana’s attorney general, drove his red Buick from Helena, the state’s capital, to Boulder, a tiny town about a half-hour away whose main claim to fame is that it’s home to the state’s highway border patrol. The road was quiet, flanked by the sort of sprawling pastures and expansive landscapes that give Montana its nickname of Big Sky Country. When Mr.…

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The Season’s Hottest Accessory: The Honey Deuce Cup

Sometimes it sits alone on a table at the U.S. Open or in the grip of a thirsty tennis fan. Often it is stacked, maybe in a pair, maybe in a precariously balanced tower. Everywhere you look is the familiar clear cup of the Honey Deuce. For a while, columns of Honey Deuce cups were all that Christine Dinisi saw when she opened her cupboard while looking for a water glass. “For a long time, until…

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Two Documentaries on School Integration Offer New Views of an Old Problem

You most likely know that the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education ruled that racial segregation in U.S. public schools was unconstitutional. You may also know that the decision ordered states to desegregate “with all deliberate speed.” Less talked about is the 1969 decision in Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, which, after years of obstruction by many…

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Kate Middleton: "Nervous" About Upcoming Prince Harry Visit, Still Refusing to Forgive Brother-In-Law Following Memoir Controversy

Next week, Prince Harry will travel to London to attend an annual event for the WellChild charitable foundation. The visit will be a short one — Harry is due in Dusseldorf the following day for the start of the Invictus Games — and the duke will not be joined by his wife, Meghan Markle. Still, it seems that at least one family member who feels put out by Harry and Meghan’s actions of the past…

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Racehorse Deaths in Saratoga Renew Old Worries and Prompt Reforms

It has become an all-too-common scenario: a thoroughbred suffers a ghastly injury before a packed grandstand and a national television audience and has to be euthanized by injection on the track. This past Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, an undefeated colt named New York Thunder was just strides from winning a $500,000 stakes race when he stumbled and unseated his rider. The jockey, Tyler…

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Record Number of Families Cross Southern Border Illegally in August

Federal agents arrested a record number of migrant families who crossed the southern border illegally in August, two officials with preliminary data said, highlighting the Biden administration’s most prominent immigration challenge after rolling out new border policies this spring. The roughly 91,000 migrants who crossed together as families exceeded the 84,486 such crossings recorded in May…

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Bill Pinkney, Globe-Circling Sailor Who Set a Racial Mark, Dies at 87

He was the first Black person to sail alone by way of the arduous southern route, rounding the perilous Cape Horn and withstanding storms and loneliness. Source link

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Coco Gauff Wobbles, Then Steals the Show at the U.S. Open

In the opening set of her third-round match against Elise Mertens on Friday, Coco Gauff looked fallible, frustrated and like she would be finished early, nothing like she had earlier this week at the U.S. Open. Mertens, a 27-year-old Belgian, was playing loosely and aggressively, while Gauff, the 19-year-old American superstar, made error after error on just about every stroke. Gauff, usually…

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Biden Won’t Meet DeSantis in Florida as He Tours Hurricane Idalia Damage

President Biden said on Friday that he would meet with Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Saturday during a visit to tour the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia, the Category 3 storm that hit the state’s Gulf Coast and swept across the Southeast this week. But Mr. DeSantis’s office said Friday that the governor had no such plans. The unusual miscue between the two chief executives — and potential 2024…

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Caroline Wozniacki Is Getting Very Good at Comebacks

America likes to fancy itself the land of second chances. Show some humility. Work hard. A new you, or perhaps a better version of the old you, is just around the corner. So perhaps it’s fitting that comebacks have featured so prominently in the first days of the U.S. Open. Some have gone well — Caroline Wozniacki, Elina Svitolina, Stan Wawrinka, Jennifer Brady. Others — Venus Williams, who…

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We Used A.I. to Write Essays for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Here’s How It Went.

A.I. chatbots can do a passable job of generating short essays. Whether their use on college applications is ethical is the subject of fierce debate. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer reports on the ways that tech giants and their tools are reshaping education. As high school seniors begin working on their college applications, many are turning to A.I. chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard for…

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Nancy Buirski, Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Dies at 78

Nancy Buirski, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose eye was honed as a still photographer and picture editor, died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 78. The cause had not yet been determined, her sister and only immediate survivor, Judith Cohen, said. After founding the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 1998 at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and…