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US airlines are redesigning travel around their highest-paying passengers

They may arrive at the same destination, but two passengers on the same flight can have strikingly different travel experiences. One traveler breezes through a priority security lane and heads straight to an invite-only lounge for craft cocktails and a chef-prepared meal before boarding early. A flight attendant offering a glass of champagne and a […]

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Who says a vegetable garden needs full sun? Some plants do well in shadier spots

Conventional wisdom says vegetable gardens need full sun, but a productive garden doesn’t always require the recommended six to eight hours of direct sunlight. If fences, trees or your house cast shade on your soil, growing vegetables won’t be out of reach if you stick to plants that are grown for their leaves, stems or […]

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‘Being Heumann,’ about a disability rights activist, to open Toronto film festival

NEW YORK | “Being Heumann,” director Siân Heder’s film about the late disability rights activist Judith Heumann, will open the 51st Toronto International Film Festival. Festival organizers announced Tuesday that “Being Heumann,” starring Ruth Madeley as Heumann, will make its world premiere on the opening night of the Canadian festival Sept. 10. The festival runs […]

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Yacht owners and public housing residents once shared Venezuela’s coast. Now they share its ruin

CARABALLEDA, Venezuela | The rich and poor shared paradise in Caraballeda on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast. Their apartments, a few with direct marina access and hundreds in public housing towers, stood on the same curving street and offered idyllic views of the white sandy beaches and crystal waters. The yacht owners and public transit riders who […]

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Judge dismisses Prince Harry’s privacy invasion lawsuit against publisher of Daily Mail

LONDON | Prince Harry ‘s final lawsuit aimed at taming the British tabloids ended in defeat Tuesday as a judge said he failed to prove his privacy invasion claims against the publisher of the Daily Mail. Justice Matthew Nicklin rejected the broad inferences the Duke of Sussex relied on to try to show that Associated […]

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Jonathan Anderson shifts Dior buzz from Taylor Swift’s hidden wedding gown to sculptural couture

PARIS | Jonathan Anderson arrived at Paris couture week with the fashion world still waiting to see the Dior wedding dress he made for Taylor Swift. On Monday, on the first day, he tried to give it something else to look at. Three days after Swift married NFL star Travis Kelce at New York’s Madison […]

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Even 250 years in, the battle over the American story — and who gets to tell it — endures

DETROIT | From the beginning, many decades before it became the United States, American society was founded not on hundreds of years of common culture but on something less tangible: a series of stories that it told itself over and over — full of truth, tall tales and outright lies — until it willed itself […]

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The year in review: Influential people who have died in 2026

Clive Davis, the legendary music executive who helped launch the careers of some of the industry’s biggest stars, was among the noteworthy and influential people who died in June. And Davis saw his influence seem to grow as he got older. His exclusive pre-Grammys gala, held the Saturday night before the Sunday award show, continued […]

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From ‘The Invite’ to ‘The Studio,’ Seth Rogen loves screaming at Olivia Wilde

Seth Rogen gave Olivia Wilde a note at the end of the shoot for “The Invite.” In it, he wrote, “I love screaming at you.” It wasn’t some toxic jab from a volatile actor to his director and co-star after a difficult shoot; They really have found a kind of magic in screaming at each […]

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Hemingway’s masterpiece on Spain’s bull runs turns 100 years old with its allure intact

PAMPLONA, Spain | Bill Hillmann has been gored three times while running with the bulls in Spain, but he wouldn’t miss this year’s San Fermin festival for anything. It marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ernest Hemingway ‘s book “The Sun Also Rises” that launched the future Nobel Laureate to literary fame and […]