Don Schlitz Dies at Seventy-Three Having Written The Gambler at Twenty-Three
A songwriter who wrote 'you got to know when to hold 'em' before he had lived enough to find out, and then spent fifty years proving that he had.
Maya Calloway
Bureau: New York
Nadia Farès Dies at Fifty-Seven After a Pool Accident in Paris
The French-Moroccan actress best known to American audiences from The Crimson Rivers died in Paris after being found unresponsive in a fitness-club pool; investigators 'favor a lead.'
Fertility Rate Hits Fifty-Three Point One As Teenage Births Drive the Historic Low
The US fertility rate fell to 53.1 births per 1,000 reproductive-age women; the drop is a teenage-births collapse and a delayed-motherhood story on the same page.
Eddie Bauer's Final Twelve Days Meet Consumer Sentiment at a Record Low
Eddie Bauer's 175 stores close April 30 with no buyer, Francesca's shutters 457, Saks has 15 full-price stores left, 7-Eleven is closing 600 — it is not tariffs and it is not the war.
The 130th Boston Marathon Is Monday, and the City Opens Its Doors on Saturday
Thirty thousand runners from 137 countries line up Monday for the 130th Boston Marathon. The Expo opens Friday at the Hynes. Saturday is when the city starts to lean in.
FBI Says Boston Marathon Runs Monday in a Heightened Threat Environment
Ted Docks, FBI Boston's special agent in charge, cited the war in Iran Friday as the reason Patriots' Day security is heavier than usual, with no specific or credible threat named.
MacKenzie Scott Sent Meals on Wheels Seventy Million Dollars This Week
Yield Giving's recent disclosures — seventy million to Meals on Wheels America, forty-two million to an HBCU — track a pattern that looks almost nothing like Altman or Musk megadonor politics.