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We know that every system won’t be fixed on time. What we don’t know is how much that’s going to matter. Businesses, consumers, government agencies, hospitals, high-rise buildings, public utilities–all are vulnerable. In the best case, data jam-ups will be only a nuisance. In the worst case, serial, crashing computers will damage commerce so badly that companies lay off tens of thousands of workers and a recession ensues. Single question: Investors contemplating the risks have a single question–should I sell my stocks?...

So it was that in response to the Trump administration’s authoritarian tendencies, made clear from the earliest days of his presidency, millions of Americans became members of “the resistance.” People who were already involved in politics, as well as many who were not that particularly interested at any time before, became acutely aware that damage that could become irreparable was being done to our democracy. There was a vast realization—on the left and also on the right—that this damage represented something much worse than the routine political corruption we’d all pretty much come to expect....

Some new building technologies are emerging as potential alternatives. Geopolymer cements, a byproduct of steel and power plants, and a non-gypsum alternative to standard plasterboard for drywall could cut emissions by at least 80 percent over traditional materials because they can be made at relatively low temperatures. Ecovative Design, a firm in Troy, New York, has developed a carbon-neutral, biodegradable insulation that could replace energy-intensive foam panels made from polystyrene or polyurethane....

The Bulls rookie was wiped out Monday by the Nets’ Jarrett Allen, who went so hard at the youngster on this dunk, the rim might still be shaking. SLAM DUNK CONTEST: Throwdowns and throwbacks Markkanen’s dunk earlier in the game looks tame by comparison. (Well, to be honest, Allen’s dunk makes every other dunk look tame by comparison.) Markkanen attempted to repay Allen about three minutes later, but Allen was having none of it....

The Bulls announced the move Tuesday after reports surfaced over the weekend. The 6-foot-9 Shengelia has appeared in 17 games for the Nets this season, averaging 1.5 points in just over eight minutes. The native of Tbilisi, Georgia, has played in 36 NBA games over two years. Teague was drafted by the Bulls in the first round (29th overall) in the 2012 draft. In 68 regular-season games, he has averaged 2....

In an online interview with Time, Bob Baffert and his wife Jill said Burger King paid $200,000 to be seen with thoroughbred racing’s top trainer. MORE: Belmont replay | Triple Crown winners | Full results, payouts from Belmont Baffert’s American Pharoah won Saturday’s Belmont Stakes and the coveted Triple Crown in the process. Although Baffert declined to wear a Monster Energy pin during the Belmont Stakes, citing superstition, the money from Burger King will go to charities for post-career assistance for jockeys and racehorses....

There was a time when I would have agreed with her. I had my first brush with the night shift almost 20 years ago, when I graduated from nursing school. I was married with two small sons. Those were the days of eight-hour shifts, 10 shifts per pay period, with new graduates at the bottom of the list for day work. My husband was not adept at household chores beyond taking out the trash....

The incident reportedly took place back in April in Fremont County, Colorado. According to a handwritten statement from the child, the bus driver, Bertram Jaquez, slapped the child for not covering her nose with her mask. In the statement, the child alleged that she gets sick from wearing her mask. She said that when she took her seat on the bus, the kids sitting around her repeatedly asked her to wear her mask properly—to which she responded: “No, it makes me sick....

That’s just a two-point swing from pre-convention levels, but an eight-point rise from late June. In a four-way race including Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan, Green Party candidate Nader wins 5 percent and Reform candidate Buchanan one percent. In a two-way contest, Bush leads Gore by a 52-43 percent margin. Still, Bush emerges from the convention in a somewhat vulnerable position. His 11-point margin is within range of a standard post-convention bounce....

By the time he met the press, Bush knew what he wanted to say–had to say. Two American soldiers had been killed in a helicopter crash–the war’s first battle-related U.S. casualties. He had consulted with his military advisers, and presided by videoconference over yet another meeting of his National Security Council, but didn’t bother to vet his thoughts with spin doctors. Don’t worry, he told one of them, I know what I want to say....

THAT’S BIG NEWS For if he means it, Bush is proposing a new model for the presidency, the commander-in-chief as CEO, with the veep as COO. It would be a tag team: the charming Mr. Outside and the substantive Mr. Inside. Cheney is the heaviest of heavyweights: White House chief of staff, rising Republican star in the House, true architect of Desert Storm and head of Halliburton, a global company with 65,000 employees....

The Texas governor’s office is constitutionally weak, but Bush has, in his five years, had a strong but controversial run. Taxes: His ‘97 plan to slash property taxes while hiking other rates was his biggest gambit–and it failed. His almost $2 billion tax cut this year will help. But conservatives will needle him for not going farther. Gun control: He’s for allowing concealed weapons and backed a law limiting Texas cities’ ability to sue gunmakers....

It is unclear at the moment what ails the 35-year-old head coach who is coming into his second season at the helm. “Brandon Miller has requested a leave of absence for medical reasons, which the University has granted,” Butler athletic director Barry Collier said in a release. “We are not in a position to further elaborate and we ask that everyone respect Brandon’s privacy.” Assistant coach Chris Holtmann will step in as interim head coach....

Nagorski, a longtime foreign correspondent for NEWSWEEK, started the novel while he was reporting in Germany, and haunted Hitler’s old neighborhoods and apartments looking for inspiration. “It’s hard not to sense the presence of Nazi ghosts in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany,” he says. “Friends who saw the stacks of books and papers about Hitler would joke that they were a bit worried about me.” The idea for the book came to him during a historical tour of Munich, where Hitler gathered his first recruits and rose to power....

The latest tidbit comes from Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, and it provides details on the last straw for the Cavs. "Before Bynum was thrown out of his final practice and suspended," Wojnarowski wrote, "he was shooting the ball every time he touched it in a practice scrimmage, sources said — from whatever remote part of the court he had caught the ball." The capper came, according to reports, after Bynum stopped trying on the court and was disruptive at practice....

Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jamaal Wilkes attended Tuesday’s introductory news conference for Scott, the 25th head coach in franchise history. MORE: Lakers confirm Scott hire | Kobe is fan of Lakers new coach Scott boldly predicted a quick return to NBA title contention for the Lakers, who are coming off their worst season since moving to Los Angeles. The Lakers spent nearly three months without a head coach before finally hiring Scott, a shooting guard on three Showtime championship teams in the 1980s....

The Big 12 screwed over at least 17 schools Monday when it announced its decision not to expand, but two schools are going to feel that more than the rest. BYU and Cincinnati — two schools that match the Power 5 profile in almost every way and did everything necessary on and off the field — got jobbed. They might not get another shot at Power 5 conference for a long time....

The hosts started as they meant to go on, scoring twice before many of their fans had taken their seats. Carlos Garcia ghosted in behind a lacklustre Red Devils defence to nod in a soft opener, before a flowing move down the left saw Anthony Lozano execute a smart finish to double the lead three minutes later. Back came United though, and with their front three of Alejandro Garnacho, Anthony Elanga and Anthony Martial roaming with relative freedom, they soon got themselves back into the game....

On his webcast, O’Reilly praised Fox News National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin for her spunk to go against the grain, but overall condemned his former employer, saying that it’s “a totally different operation now.” O’Reilly began commending Griffin for her tenacity to correct fellow Fox hosts and guests on comments they’ve made about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Griffin has been at the Pentagon constantly these last few weeks providing the majority of Fox News shows with updates on the strife in Europe....