Tennis Briefing: Djokovic, a water bottle, and so many injuries in Rome
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Tennis Briefing: Djokovic, a water bottle, and so many injuries in Rome

Welcome to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the story behind the stories from the last week on court. This week, the coveted Masters 1000 in Rome ran its first week and the stories on court were matched by the drama off it. Novak Djokovic exited, struck by a water bottle, Rafael Nadal took the next step in his comeback, and the on-court spectacle was overtaken by some strange umpiring.And is everybody injured now?If you’d like to follow our fantastic tennis coverage, please click here.Are all these injuries signal or noise?Friday lunchtime in Rome and the Foro Italico briefly felt like an infirmary, as one medical bulletin followed another.First, defending champion Elena Rybakina withdrew because of illness, before the first matches of the day on the Campo Centra...
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Art Market Seeks Its Footing After Stumbling Sales and a Hack at Christie’s
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Art Market Seeks Its Footing After Stumbling Sales and a Hack at Christie’s

Estimates are still soaring past the $20 million mark and canvases still bear the signatures of dependable ringers like Warhol, Basquiat and Picasso. But there is a shadow looming over the spring auction season that begins Monday.A cyberattack at Christie’s brought down the company’s website on Thursday, and as of Sunday morning, Christie’s had not yet regained control of it. On Sunday evening, in his first public statement since the cyberattack, Guillaume Cerutti, the chief executive of Christie’s, confirmed that eight auctions would proceed as scheduled, with bidding in person and by phone (the rare watches sale has been postponed until May 14). A place-holder website was set up allowing access to the digital catalogs, but did not allow online bidding. With the site down and questions st...
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Comcast Plans Streaming Bundle With Netflix, Apple TV+
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Comcast Plans Streaming Bundle With Netflix, Apple TV+

Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal, is planning to offer its streaming service Peacock in a bundle with Netflix and Apple TV+, Brian Roberts, the company’s chief executive, said at an investor conference on Tuesday.Called StreamSaver, the bundle will be sold at a deep discount compared with subscribing to all three services separately, Mr. Roberts said. He didn’t specify a price for the service, which is expected to debut later this month.“We’ve been bundling video successfully and creatively for 60 years,” Mr. Roberts said. “This is the latest iteration of that. And I think this will be a pretty compelling package.”Over the past year, several media companies have joined forces to entice customers who are weary of signing up and paying for numerous individual streaming services.Ea...
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Israel-Hamas War and Gaza Fighting: Latest News
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Israel-Hamas War and Gaza Fighting: Latest News

As Israeli troops battled Hamas fighters in northern and southern Gaza on Tuesday, the Israeli government was facing increased discontent from military officials.Current and former senior military officers have begun to argue more openly that because the government has failed to roll out a plan for what follows the fighting in Gaza, Israeli troops are being forced — in the eighth month of the war — to battle again for areas in the northern part of the territory where Hamas fighters have returned. With no obvious end in sight to that cycle, and cease-fire talks apparently stalled, the risks for soldiers are growing.Two Israeli officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid professional repercussions, said some generals and members of the war cabinet were frustrated with Prime M...
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Family Members at One Another’s Throats? Call In the Mediator.
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Family Members at One Another’s Throats? Call In the Mediator.

The four adult children were in agreement.Their father, William Curry, a retired electrical engineer and business executive, was sinking deeper into dementia. They had found a memory care facility about a mile from their parents’ house in Chelmsford, Mass., where they thought Mr. Curry would do better.But their mother, Melissa, who was 83 when her family began urging her to make this change in 2016, remained determined to continue caring for her 81-year-old husband at home, despite the increasing toll on her own health. When her children raised the issue of a move, “she wouldn’t discuss it,” said her daughter, Shannon Curry, 56. “She’d clam up. Sometimes she’d cry.”Yet Melissa Curry’s memory was faltering, too. She would forget to give her husband his medications, or get the doses wrong. T...
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Ben Shelton interview: The American tennis star who wants to be different
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Ben Shelton interview: The American tennis star who wants to be different

“I wanted to be a little bit different from anyone else,” Ben Shelton said recently in Madrid.He was actually talking about his decision last year to sign a major deal with the small-but-growing Swiss shoe and apparel manufacturer On, rather than pursuing a certain American behemoth with a famous swoosh. (More on that in a bit.) The Floridian was in the early days of a three-month sojourn in Europe that will last as long as he does at Wimbledon, which ends in mid-July. But Shelton, who is 21, could have been talking about anything to do with his budding tennis career, which has been the opposite of cookie-cutter. Football (the American kind), in addition to tennis, until middle school? Different.Regular high school rather than a tennis academy? Different.Zero junior Grand Slam appearances?...
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How Airlines Are Using AI to Make Flying Easier
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How Airlines Are Using AI to Make Flying Easier

Last month in Chicago, a United Airlines flight to London was ready to depart, but it was still waiting for 13 passengers connecting from Costa Rica. The airline projected they’d miss the flight by seven minutes. Under normal circumstances, they’d all be scrambling to rebook.But thanks to a new artificial-intelligence-powered tool called ConnectionSaver, the jet was able to wait for them — their checked bags, too — and still arrive in London on time. The system also sent text messages to the late-arriving passengers and the people on the waiting jet to explain what was happening.A.I. still might not be able to find space for your carry-on, but it could help put an end to the 40-gate dash — sprinting to catch your connecting flight before the door slams shut — as well as other common travel...
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U.S. to Announce New Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles
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U.S. to Announce New Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles

The Biden administration is set to announce new tariffs as high as 100 percent on Chinese electric vehicles and additional import taxes on other Chinese goods, including semiconductors, as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter.The move comes amid growing concern within the administration that Mr. Biden’s efforts to jump-start domestic manufacturing of clean energy products could be undercut by China, which has been flooding global markets with cheap solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles and other products.The long-awaited tariffs are the result of a four-year review of the levies that President Donald J. Trump imposed on more than $300 billion of Chinese imports in 2018. Most of the Trump tariffs are expected to remain in place, but Mr. Biden plans to go bey...
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Elon Musk’s Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit.
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Elon Musk’s Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit.

Minutes after it became clear that Javier Milei had been elected president of South America’s second-largest nation in November, Elon Musk posted on X: “Prosperity is ahead for Argentina.”Since then, Mr. Musk has continued to use X, the social network he owns, to boost Mr. Milei. The billionaire has shared videos of the Argentine president attacking “social justice” with his 182 million followers. One doctored image, which implied that watching a speech by Mr. Milei was better than having sex, is among Mr. Musk’s most viewed posts ever.Mr. Musk has helped turn the pugnacious libertarian into one of the new faces of the modern right. But offline, he has used the relationship to press for benefits to his other businesses, the electric carmaker Tesla and the rocket company SpaceX.“Elon Musk c...
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Patient Dies Weeks After Kidney Transplant From Genetically Modified Pig
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Patient Dies Weeks After Kidney Transplant From Genetically Modified Pig

Richard “Rick” Slayman, who made history at age 62 as the first person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has died about two months after the procedure.Massachusetts General Hospital, where Mr. Slayman had the operation, said in a statement on Saturday that its transplant team was “deeply saddened” at his death. The hospital said it had “no indication that it was the result of his recent transplant.”Mr. Slayman, who was Black, had end-stage kidney disease, a condition that affects more than 800,000 people in the United States, according to the federal government, with disproportionately higher rates among Black people.There are far too few kidneys available for donation. Nearly 90,000 people are on the national waiting list for a kidney.Mr. Slayman, a supervisor for the s...
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