Book lovers with kids in their lives can’t help but be choosy about what books to place into the hands of young readers. We linger over fuzzy first memories of books, how they shaped our imaginations, how we thumbed through them time and time again, and how we lovingly and literally made our mark on
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Home Depot said Tuesday its core homeowner shopper remains resilient in the face of higher gas prices and plummeting consumer confidence, leading the retailer to reaffirm its full-year guidance after beating fiscal first-quarter expectations.  “The homeowner in a relative sense is perhaps more protected financially than other customer cohorts and so we continue to see
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Standard Chartered on Tuesday announced it would cut more than 15% of its corporate functions roles by 2030, while setting higher medium-term profitability targets. The workforce reduction is part of the lender’s efforts to raise income per employee by around 20% by 2028, StanChart said. According to its 2025 annual report, corporate function roles include employees in human
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Ravie LakshmananMay 19, 2026Vulnerability / Email Security Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in SEPPMail Secure E-Mail Gateway, an enterprise-grade email security solution, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and enable an attacker to read arbitrary mails from the virtual appliance. “These vulnerabilities could have been exploited to read all mail traffic
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(Left) Annabeth Gish in ‘Gone Mom: The Jennifer Dulos story’. Photo: Lifetime Television. (Center) David Denman in ‘Peacemaker’. Photo: Jessica Miglio/HBO Max. (Right) Abigail Breslin in ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing. Preview: Abigail Breslin, David Denman and Annabeth Gish are joining the cast of Netflix’s ‘The Night Agent’. Gabriel Basso returns to star.
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Three people were killed on Monday after two shooters opened fire outside the Islamic Center of San Diego. Two suspects, both teenagers, were later found dead nearby. According to The San Diego Union-Tribune, the shooting is being investigated as a hate crime, and the FBI is involved in the investigation. “Because of the Islamic Center
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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 21, 2023. Alexey Maishev | Afp | Getty Images As Russian President Vladimir Putin travels to China, Moscow’s leader will be keen not only to bolster ties with Beijing but also to extract key wins in areas of
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. James Patterson Pledges $10 million to Early Adolescent Literacy Institute The mega-bestselling James Patterson has promised $10 million to his alma mater, Vanderbilt University. The institute will “work to address the increasingly urgent need for
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A sign sits outside of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Roybal campus in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. March 18, 2026. Megan Varner | Reuters One American has tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo in connection to the deadly outbreak in central Africa that global health agencies are racing to
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INTERPOL has coordinated a first-of-its-kind cybercrime crackdown across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) that led to 201 arrests and the identification of an additional 382 suspects. The initiative involved the efforts of 13 countries from the region between October 2025 and February 2026, aiming to investigate and neutralize malicious infrastructure, arrest perpetrators behind
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