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Book Review: Tom Rachman's new novel 'The Imposters,' a global journey of disparate stories 06/27/2023 12:12pm • “The Imposters,” by Tom Rachman (Little, Brown and Company) Dutch novelist Dora Frenhofer, now in her 70s, is living alone in her London apartment during the coronavirus pandemic, determined to write her last novel while she still can. As the lead character in Tom Rachman's new book “The Impo Jobseekers beware: Phony postings and job scams are on the rise 06/25/2023 05:27am • With the country’s sizzling hot jobs market, many people are finding and securing choice employment positions. But some are seeing an uptick in job scams, according to a recent survey by a cybersecurity research group. Nearly one-third of the people surveyed told PasswordManager.com that th Analysis: Donald Trump's war on truth confronts another test with voters 06/24/2023 03:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The cherry tree folklore is too good to be true, but it's no lie that George Washington had a thing for the truth. “I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy,” he wrote in his farewell address. A few decades later, Dodgers edge defending champion Astros 3-2 as LA fans rain down boos on Altuve and Bregman 06/24/2023 01:21am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Busch doubled in the go-ahead in the fourth inning, Mookie Betts homered and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Houston Astros 3-2 in an acrimonious game on Friday night. The first interleague meeting since 2021 between the defending World Series champion Astros and th Amid infighting among Putin's lieutenants, head of mercenary force appears to take a step too far 06/23/2023 08:09pm • For months, the outspoken millionaire head of the Wagner private mercenary force bombarded Russia’s military leaders with expletive-ridden insults in a rift that has weakened the country’s forces amid the war in Ukraine. Yevgeny Prigozhin accused them of not providing him with munitions in the k Lawyers submitted bogus case law created by ChatGPT. A judge fined them $5,000 06/22/2023 06:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm in an unprecedented instance in which ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an aviation injury claim. Judge P. Kevin Castel said they acted in bad faith. But he credited Navajo Nation declares widespread Medicaid scam in Arizona a public health state of emergency 06/21/2023 09:07pm • PHOENIX (AP) — A widespread Arizona Medicaid scam that has left an unknown number of Native Americans homeless on the streets of metro Phoenix is being declared a public health state of emergency by the Navajo Nation as fraudulent sober living homes lose their funding and turn former residents out Prosecutors seek at least 25 years in prison for gynecologist who abused dozens of women 06/21/2023 05:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A gynecologist convicted of federal sex abuse charges should face at least 25 years in prison for assaulting a “staggering number of victims” during a quarter-century career as a serial sexual predator disguised as a doctor at prestigious Manhattan hospitals, prosecutors say in Rwanda genocide suspect to claim asylum in South Africa, lawyer says, complicating extradition 06/20/2023 03:03pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — One of the last remaining suspects accused of orchestrating the brutal massacres of the Rwandan genocide nearly 30 years ago plans to apply for political asylum in South Africa, his lawyer said Tuesday. Fulgence Kayishema, a former police officer in Rwanda, was track Iran says 10 dead after consuming tainted booze at party 06/20/2023 02:34pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Ten people died after drinking home-made liquor made with methanol at a party, Iranian state media reported Tuesday, as the number of such deaths increases in the Islamic Republic. Dozens of people were reportedly hospitalized last week after drinking the tainted booze at a par Belgium keeper Thibaut Courtois 'deeply disappointed' by his coach's comments in captaincy row 06/20/2023 04:38am • Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois questioned Domenico Tedesco's “reality” after the Belgium coach accused him of abandoning his teammates and faking an injury before a European Championship qualifier. Tedesco claimed Courtois didn't turn up for Belgium's training camp on Monday because the goalie was Montenegro court sentences founder of cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs to 4 months in prison 06/19/2023 09:29am • PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A court in Montenegro on Monday sentenced the founder of cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs, Do Kwon, and another citizen of South Korea to four months in prison for using forged documents. Kwon was arrested in Montenegro in March on an international arrest warrant in DC subscribers to Victoria's Secret-owned online lingerie retailer will get subscription fee refunds, AG says 06/18/2023 08:20am • Adore Me, the lingerie startup acquired by Victoria's Secret & Co., will refund District subscribers for improperly charged subscription fees, Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced Friday. An estimated 2,500 consumers in D.C., as of 2021, who have VIP Memberships and store credits from rec Short par-3 15th hole presented plenty of challenges at U.S. Open 06/17/2023 11:06pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Country Club features two of the longest par-3 holes in U.S. Open history. On Saturday, it also had the shortest. The 15th hole played at 81 yards, supplanting the seventh hole at Pebble Beach, which played at 92 yards in 2010 in the final round. “I’m the hap US announces sanctions on Mexican migrant-trafficking gang 06/16/2023 03:21pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States Treasury on Friday announced sanctions on a Mexico-based migrant-trafficking gang that supplied asylum seekers with false papers to game the process. Known as the Hernandez Salas organization, the gang is based in the border city of Mexicali, across the border