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Fridman’s L1 Retail to buy Holland & Barrett for around $2.3 billion: Source

John Keeble | Getty Images Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s fund L1 Retail has agreed to buy health food chain Holland & Barrett for about 1.8 billion pounds, Reuters reported citing an unnamed source. Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s fund L1 Retail has agreed to buy health food chain Holland & Barrett …

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At K-Pop Festival, Korean Stars Align With Their Superfans

Photo The group NCT 127 was a fan highlight of KCON at the Prudential Center in Newark. Credit Krista Schlueter for The New York Times NEWARK — That K-pop — the pop music scene that dominates South Korea and, increasingly, the rest of the world — has not yet had …

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Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘The Mind of God’

What’s the most surprising thing you learned while writing it? How much we are dependent on our own brains for whatever form of faith we experience in our lives. How reliant we are on the physical aspects of our spiritual being. Photo Credit Alessandra Montalto/The New York Times What I …

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Los Angeles Collective Honors Plays by Women of Color

Photo “Somebody’s Daughter,” written by Chisa Hutchinson and produced at the Second Stage Uptown this year, was one of the new plays on the Kilroys 2017 list. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Since 2014, the independent Los Angeles-based collective the Kilroys has sought to increase representation for female playwrights …

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A Winning Design for a Monument to Gay and Transgender People

Mr. Goicolea, a mixed-media artist in his mid-40s who lives with his husband in Brooklyn, said in an interview that the boulders were inspired by sites like Stonehenge and Easter Island as well as burial mounds and African stone circles. The artist, who was born in Marietta, Ga., to parents …

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What’s on TV Sunday: Season Premieres of ‘Preacher’ and ‘Power’

Photo Dominic Cooper and Ruth Negga in “Preacher.” Credit Skip Bolen/AMC, via Sony Pictures Television “Preacher” is back with a vengeance as its stars hit the road in search of God. And the season premiere of “Power” finds Ghost behind bars at the hand of his former love. What’s on …

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Big cases, retirement rumors as Supreme Court nears finish

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Chief Justice John Roberts (seated C) leads Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (front row, L-R), Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Elena Kagan (back row, L-R), Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch in taking a new family photo …

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Russia’s economic reform remains elusive as oil stays weak

Mikhail Klimentyev | Kremlin | Sputnik | Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a live nationwide broadcasted call-in in Moscow, Russia, June 15, 2017. Two of the world’s biggest oil producing countries are coping with the slide in crude in sharply divergent ways. Stubbornly cheap oil prices — which this …

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British lawmakers hit by cyber security attack

Clodagh Kilcoyne | Reuters The Union Flag flies near the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, June 7, 2017. Britain’s parliament was hit by a cyber attack on Saturday in which hackers tried to access email accounts, politicians and officials said, just over a month after a ransomware attack crippled …

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The Rowdy World of Rap’s New Underground

But sometimes, as at the Seattle show, the extreme behavior spills into the real world. Ski Mask the Slump God was attacked onstage while performing in Los Angeles. On social media, Lil Pump bragged about crashing a new Porsche and, after reaching one million followers on Instagram, celebrated with a …

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