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JOHANNESBURG — The death toll from several days of punishing rain that drenched the city of Durban and the surrounding areas near South Africa’s east coast rose to more than 250 on Wednesday as the nation’s president visited the area to take stock of the devastation. Although the rain in…

When the groundbreaking pianist Chick Corea died unexpectedly, at 79, in February 2021, he left a legacy of experimentation, preserving and expanding the jazz tradition. Over more than a half-century, he deftly navigated the music’s continually shifting boundaries. Corea started his career playing with the Afro-Cuban percussionist Willie Bobo and…

In a first for the tech giant, Google filed a consumer protection lawsuit to shield the vulnerable and unsuspecting from what it called a “nefarious” scheme: the sale of adorable, but imaginary, puppies. The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., claims that Nche Noel Ntse,…

SERENADE A Balanchine Story By Toni Bentley Toni Bentley’s sixth book, “Serenade,” is a tribute not only to the Georgian American choreographer George Balanchine’s timeless, titular ballet, but also to the art form. Bentley, who danced under Balanchine’s direction at the New York City Ballet for a decade in the…