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A Lebanese Woman Fights for Women’s Rights in the Middle East

This article is part of a Women and Leadership special report highlighting women who are charting new pathways and fighting for opportunities for women and others. Growing up in Beirut, Lebanon, Lina Abou-Habib regularly faced discrimination because of her gender and witnessed inequality for women, she said. “People think of Lebanon as a contemporary, open […]

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The UCL dream is on: Forest beat City to make major statement

NOTTINGHAM, England — Every Nottingham Forest fan will have had a moment during this remarkable season when they wondered whether reaching the Champions League was really possible. Maybe the optimists began to believe as early as September after beating Liverpool at Anfield. Perhaps it was the draw with Arne Slot’s champions-elect at the City Ground […]

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Bringing Diverse Voices to Book Publishing

What are some specific examples of changes you’ve implemented? I canceled our big standing acquisitions meetings, along with other reports and forms, as they didn’t serve our purpose of connecting more books to readers. Marketing and publicity directors came to editorial meetings, which before were only editorial. I hired 24 new people, which is reflected […]

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Figma in Talks With Bankers to Explore an I.P.O. This Year

Figma, a cloud-based design platform, has met with investment banks in recent weeks to discuss an initial public offering that could come as soon as this year, two people with knowledge of the matter said. In 2023, European and U.S. regulators stymied an effort by the software giant Adobe to buy Figma for $20 billion. […]

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Starship Explosions Show SpaceX No Longer Defying Gravity

For SpaceX, 2025 should have been the best year yet. Elon Musk, the founder of the private space company, is one of the most influential people in the Oval Office, and President Trump has endorsed his vision of sending humans to Mars. But so far, it has not been a great year for the rocket […]

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NFL free agency 2025 predictions: One top target for every team

This is supposedly the NFL offseason, but if you’re feeling like you may be suffering from a case of whiplash, there’s a good reason for that. The Super Bowl came and went on Feb. 9. Two weeks later, the NFL world descended on Indianapolis for the annual scouting combine. And next week, free agency kicks […]

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Scammers Stole Their Retirement Savings. Then the Tax Bill Arrived.

They were conned by skilled online criminals into draining their retirement savings. After the shock, shame and grief that followed, the victims were often left with something else: an enormous income tax bill. Mary Ellen Strange, a 75-year-old widow who was deceived by fraudsters impersonating federal investigators, now owes the Internal Revenue Service an estimated […]

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