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Chess is seeing a global resurgence, sparked by The Queen's Gambit and the pandemic impact on leisure time. India is an emerging power player, with 85 grandmasters and intense chess schools for youth.

The head of the General Services Administration and two deputies are out of jobs. And other career employees have been suspended for their role in spending $820,000 on a Nevada conference.

A group that includes former Lakers star Magic Johnson agreed Tuesday night to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers from Frank McCourt for a record $2 billion. The price would shatter the mark for a North American sports franchise, topping the $1.1 billion Stephen Ross paid for the NFL's Miami Dolphins in 2009.

After interviews with more than a dozen current and former executives at the bank, the newspaper concludes that it was warned about bets that would cost it more than $2 billion. A plan to roll them back wasn't properly implemented, the Journal says.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the bank will indeed seek to recover stocks paid to some of its top executives.

For first time since the 17th century, judges there can go without their traditional tops. It's part of a modernization and cost-saving effort.

Yuval, Anat and Avishai Cohen are top-tier jazz musicians. They're also siblings, and they occasionally record and perform together as a band. It's a family reunion you won't secretly dread.

By John Durkeehttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kwgs/local-kwgs-834737.mp3Tulsa, Oklahoma – Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor went before the…

Noah Jeffrey, 3, climbed up the chute at the top of the claw grab game, and into the case of stuffed animals and candy. The Herald Sun reports while he sucked on lollipops, he also handed them to children gathered outside. The boy was coaxed out the same way he went in — lured by the promise of a toy.

Three senate committee chairmen have written a letter to President Pro Tempore Brian Bingman and Appropriations Chairman Clark Jolley seeking to increase…