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William H. Donaldson, who made an early fortune as a co-founder of the modern securities agency Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and later pushed for tighter monetary regulation as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission within the wake of the Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals, died on Wednesday at his residence in Westchester County, N.Y. […] More

Sunday’s broadcast of the Tony Awards averaged 3.5 million viewers, a decline of about 15 % from final yr, in response to preliminary rankings information from Nielsen. Though not an enormous drop from the 2023 present, which reached a median of 4.1 million viewers, the viewership was the second lowest for a Tonys telecast since […] More

The laboratory at Terray Therapeutics is a symphony of miniaturized automation. Robots whir, shuttling tiny tubes of fluids to their stations. Scientists in blue coats, sterile gloves and protecting glasses monitor the machines. But the actual motion is going on at nanoscale: Proteins in resolution mix with chemical molecules held in minuscule wells in customized […] More

A name to arms to rethink social media Just in: The U.S. surgeon normal, Vivek Murthy, referred to as for a warning label for social media platforms in a Times Guest Essay, advising dad and mom that the expertise could also be serving to gasoline a psychological well being disaster amongst adolescents. It’s the most […] More

During his lengthy tenure as chief govt, Akio Toyoda led Toyota Motor to the highest of the automotive trade. Toyota as we speak sells extra vehicles than some other automaker on the earth. It was Mr. Toyoda’s guess on the enduring reputation of hybrid gas-electric autos that final 12 months helped Toyota obtain the largest […] More

Pixar is lastly again in combating type. The Disney-owned animation studio’s twenty eighth film, “Inside Out 2,” arrived to roughly $145 million in estimated North American ticket gross sales from Thursday evening to Sunday, ending a chilly streak that started in March 2020, when theaters closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was the second-biggest […] More

In an strange industrial constructing off a busy Orange County road, a Seussian contraption, almost 100 toes lengthy, clattered to life. The room crammed with the hum and squeaks of belts and equipment. There was the odor of scorching glue. Like passengers on a darkish amusement journey, bundles of colourful journal pages, printed per week […] More

Four years in the past, after officers in Grand Prairie, Texas, have been pitched an thought to show the town’s underused minor league ballpark right into a stadium for cricket, the town’s manager, Bill Hills, thumbed via a replica of “Cricket for Dummies.” Like most Americans, Mr. Hills was oblivious to cricket, though that’s beginning […] More

An American Airlines passenger who kicked and spat at flight attendants and passengers and tried to open the cabin door earlier than she was secured to a seat with duct tape has been sued by the Federal Aviation Administration for $81,950, the largest-ever high quality assessed by the company for unruly conduct. The passenger, Heather […] More

The writer and incoming editor of The Washington Post used fraudulently obtained telephone and firm data in newspaper articles as journalists in London, in response to a former colleague, the printed account of a personal investigator and an evaluation of newspaper archives. Will Lewis, The Post’s writer, assigned one of many articles in 2004 as […] More

People who paid practically $1,400 for an annual move to Disneyland will start receiving checks within the mail this month from a $9.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit that accused Disney of deceptive prospects into believing that this system carried “no blockout dates.” More than 100,000 individuals who purchased the Dream Key annual move […] More

We spend lots of our lives working, particularly within the United States — 40, 50, 60 or extra hours every week. We maintain a number of jobs to make ends meet. The candle is perpetually burning at each ends. Hard work, we’re advised, is a advantage. It permits us to contribute to society and assist […] More