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Review: ‘The Skyjacker’s Tale’ Tracks Down a Fugitive in Cuba

Photo Ishmael Muslim Ali in “The Skyjacker’s Tale,” a documentary directed by Jamie Kastner. Credit Strand Releasing While it falls somewhere short of being a great documentary, “The Skyjacker’s Tale” may have one of the great documentary gets. It tells the story of Ishmael Muslim Ali, who in 1973, when …

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Senate GOP mulling not repealing Obamacare tax increase for BCRA

Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images From left, Sens. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, conduct a news conference after the Senate Policy Luncheons on June 6, 2017. Senate Republicans trying to …

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How artificial intelligence is taking on ransomware

P. Goetzelt | AFP | Getty Images A window announcing the encryption of data including a requirement to pay appears on an electronic timetable display at the railway station in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, on May 12, 2017. A fast-moving wave of cyberattacks swept the globe, apparently exploiting a flaw exposed …

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Modern Love Podcast: Weddings Edition

In honor of wedding season, the Modern Love podcast is bringing back two readings about marriage. The first features Kathryn Hahn (“I Love Dick”) reading “The Wedding Toast I’ll Never Give,” by Ada Calhoun. In it, she talks about lessons learned — but seldom shared — from 11 years of …

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Uber crosses 5 billion trips

Jonathan Newton | The Washington Post | Getty Images Uber driver looking for new passengers in Washington, D.C. Uber said on Thursday that the ride-hailing services company had completed 5 billion trips, as of May 20. The news comes after a string of setbacks for the privately held firm, including …

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Citi passed its stress test and raised dividends. Now what?

Drew Angerer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Michael Corbat, chief executive officer of Citigroup Inc. Now that Citigroup has aced the Federal Reserve’s latest stress test, it needs a strategy. The $188 billion U.S. bank doubled its dividend and boosted its share buyback by $15.6 billion after clearing the exam. …

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Treasury unveils sanctions in effort to pressure North Korea to halt missile program

KCNA | Reuters North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 (Mars-12) in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 15, 2017. The Treasury unveiled new sanctions on Thursday in response to North Korea’s weapons program and its …

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Remarkable. Extraordinary. Eccentric: The Man Who Drew Eloise Recalls His Muses

“You know, the walls were like this and I said we cannot have that,” Mr. Knight said, waving dismissively at a shelving area. “Perforated orange wood!” Filled with enough plastic baubles, china, dioramas, feathers and fabric swatches to send the Etsy crowd into ecstasy, the bi-level exhibition complements “Eloise at …

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Amazon-Whole Foods deal increases other food retailers’ likelihood of default, report says

Amazon’s plan to gobble up Whole Foods may have a bigger impact on food retailers than Wall Street has been discussing. The proposed acquisition has triggered a reaction in the market-perceived credit quality of many of Whole Foods’ peers, Richard Peterson of S&P Global Market Intelligence wrote in a report …

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‘Life is not smooth’ for Bruce Berkowitz, who’s now betting on Sears

The top mutual-fund manager of the 2000s has lost billions in assets this decade, and is now betting big on Sears to spark his comeback, one of the hardest-hit stocks of the 2010s, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Fund has lost 89 percent of its assets …

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