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Diane Keaton's Bowler Hat Sells for $19,200 as Her Estate Auction Prices the Persona

New Delhi, June 12 -- When Bonhams catalogued Diane Keaton's black felt bowler hat, it was estimated the way hats are estimated, at a few hundred dollars. When the bidding closed this week, the hat br... Read More


Bezos Raises $12 Billion for an AI That Builds Things, and Promises It Will Shrink Your Working Hours

SAN FRANCISCO, June 12 -- Jeff Bezos has found the one thing $12 billion still buys quietly. Prometheus, the physical-AI company he co-founded and now co-runs, emerged from stealth on Thursday by disc... Read More


Taylor Swift Becomes the Youngest Woman Ever Inducted Into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

NEW YORK, June 12 -- The institution that exists to honor songwriting handed its highest recognition on Wednesday to a 36-year-old who has spent two-thirds of her life doing it, and the person who wal... Read More


Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau Go Red-Carpet Official at Tribeca

New Delhi, June 12 -- A relationship becomes official not when it begins but when the people in it decide to let a bank of photographers document it on purpose. Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau reached t... Read More


Trump Wants His Impeachments Erased, and Wants It Done Before His Party Loses the House

WASHINGTON, June 12 -- Donald Trump and his allies are quietly working to have the House of Representatives declare his two impeachments erased, a resolution that legal scholars say would accomplish n... Read More


Jaishankar Tells Europe Its Weapons Attack India, Defends Russian Oil in Finland

New Delhi, June 12 -- India's foreign minister came to a Finnish forum on a world in transition and told his European hosts, to their faces, that their own weapons end up being used against his countr... Read More


A Russian Banker Takes Sick Leave, and the West Writes Her a Coup

MOSCOW, June 12 -- Elvira Nabiullina, the woman who has run Russia's central bank since 2013 and held the ruble together through four years of the most aggressive sanctions in modern history, took sic... Read More


Thirty More Years for Yoon, This Time for the Drones He Flew at Pyongyang

SEOUL, June 12 -- The court that has spent eighteen months dismantling Yoon Suk Yeol's presidency reached the drones on Friday, sentencing the former South Korean leader to 30 years in prison for send... Read More


Israel Moves to Fund 61 Instant Settlements Before Its Own Election Can Stop It

JERUSALEM, June 12 -- Israel's government has set in motion the largest settlement expansion of recent decades, a plan to finance 61 new settlement sites across the occupied West Bank with mobile home... Read More


Paxton Threatens Big 12 With $200 Million Bill as Sorsby's Lawyer Warns of Contempt

Paxton's letter, June 12 -- The Big 12 spent the week debating how to punish Texas Tech for obeying a court order. On Thursday the State of Texas answered with a number. Any sanction over Brendan Sors... Read More