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The leaves are changing. The wind comes with a faint chill. The back-to-school sale racks have been replaced by the Halloween spread. This can only mean one thing: Another cold and flu season is upon us. And with it, an onslaught of dubious claims about products that allegedly cut your risk of coming down with […]

I am in the finished basement of our family home, about to do my first workout with a new trainer. God knows I need it: For more than a decade, I have been losing my battle with physical fitness and, at age 57, have decided to finally get serious and fight back. My plan is […]

“When I was little, I used to love to read the classified car ads iysAutoweek,” said Randy Nonnenberg, the Bring a Trailer cofounder and chief executive, his bright blue eyes flashing at the memory. “I’d even cut some of them out and pin them to my wall.” Recently, I visited Nonnenberg, a bona fide car […]

CHICAGO —  Chicago teachers went on strike Thursday, marching on picket lines after failing to reach a contract deal with the nation’s third-largest school district in a dispute that canceled classes for more than 300,000 students. The strike came after the Chicago Teachers Union confirmed Wednesday night that its 25,000 members would not return to their […]

BOSTON —  A powerful autumn storm plunged hundreds of thousands of people into the dark, toppled trees, canceled schools and delayed trains Thursday in the Northeast. The nor’easter brought high winds and rain to the region Wednesday and Thursday. In Massachusetts, wind gusts reached as high as 90 mph on Cape Cod, and about 200,000 residents […]

AKCAKALE, Turkey —  Schools in the Turkish city of Akcakale, on the border with Syria, sat empty Thursday because it was too risky for students to gather in one place. Shelling in the area since Turkey’s incursion into Syria a week ago to push back Kurdish forces had disrupted a basic understanding for Akcakale schools: Turkish […]

Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES ‘Get Over It’ During a Thursday morning news conference, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney came out and said it: President Trump withheld roughly $400 million in aid to Ukraine earlier this year in part to pressure its new government to investigate Democrats. […]

Share 18th Oct 2019 Treasured jewels and sparkling diamonds shine bright in the subconscious at the mention of Cartier. The Juste un clou, the Love bracelet and the Tank are but a few of the maison‘s signature identifiers we’ve come to recognise and covet. Founded in 1847 in Paris by then 28-year-old Louis-François Cartier, the […]

In the living room of this home in Paris’s 16th arrondissement, bespoke Bryan O’Sullivan Studio coffee tables by Rupert Bevan; Faye Toogood Roly Poly table and chairs; Fortuny Icaro pendant lights; Tom Kemp vessel (on table) from Henry Saywell; rug from Tovine Sellers; artwork by Abigail O’Brien.  A long-term client approached Irish-born, London-based interior architect […]

Share 18th Oct 2019 There are few things fashion fans find more compelling than a new pair of shoes. The soft touch of supple leather, the clean slate of a new sole, the promise of an elongating heel – all are temptations enough to stir an idle window shopper to hand over their hard-earned cash […]