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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Empire: Winnowed, but Still Weighty

In arguing to keep Sean Combs in jail until his trial on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges, prosecutors have portrayed him as a lavishly wealthy, well-connected music mogul who would be well positioned to flee. In court papers, prosecutors cited media reporting that estimated his wealth at close to …

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Global Economic Leaders Confront a New Era of Industrial Policy

At the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank this week, Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the I.M.F., expressed a mix of relief and trepidation about the state of the world economy. Policymakers had tamed rapid inflation without causing a global recession. Yet another big economic …

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Is Canada’s New Immigration Policy Really the End of an Era?

This week’s Letter will be a little unconventional. I’m going to try to put Canada’s shifting immigration policy in a global context. But, if you’ll permit, I’d like to first take a moment to introduce myself. Hello! I’m The New York Times’s new Canada bureau chief. My family and I …

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