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Cram Fire Grows to Largest Wildfire of the Year So Far in U.S.

The fire in Oregon ballooned to more than 95,000 acres amid shifting winds and dry air, but improved weather this weekend was expected to slow its expansion.

© Jefferson County Oregon Sheriff

Wisps of smoke from the Cram fire, which has grown to more than 95,000 acres.
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A W.N.B.A. Star Loves These Sneakers. She Gets Fined for Wearing Them.

When an upstart women’s shoe brand made a sponsorship deal with Courtney Williams, a Minnesota Lynx all-star, it put the hugely popular league in an awkward position.

© Tony Luong for The New York Times

Natalie White founded Moolah Kicks on the conviction that a sneaker brand catering exclusively to women and girls could outpace the big industry players.
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Oleksandr Usyk v Daniel Dubois: undisputed heavyweight championship – live updates

And now here’s Usyk. The unbeaten heavyweight champion walks slowly to the ring to a haunting version of Ave Maria by Tommee Profitt and Stanaj. He’s wearing a silver hooded robe and looks all business. Nothing new there. He makes the final approach to Браття by Василь Жадан, one of his more familiar ringwalk songs.

The lights have gone down and Daniel Dubois is making his ring entrance. A half-dozen stage pyrotechnicians are doing their thing on stage to a Chase & Status banger. And now here’s Dubois, making the long way to the ring wearing a sleeveless black shirt with black shorts. He looks calm and composed, making his final approach as Dennis Brown’s Want To Be No General blasts from the stadium sound system.

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© Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

© Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

© Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

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Art advisor to the stars Barbara Guggenheim slept with clients, once ripped off Sylvester Stallone: lawsuit

Barbara Guggenheim, who is not believed to be related to the famed family whose name graces the Guggenheim Museum, once urged her much younger employee and later, partner, Abigail Asher, to "wear leather and be provocative" at a client's house and told her "that she should never go to a client’s home unless she was...

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