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Meanwhile, New York's Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed a tongue-in-cheek executive order "temporarily repealing bedtimes" to encourage children to watch the late-night games.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

Grammy-winning rapper J. Cole, a longtime basketball fanatic, has signed to play for the Nanjing Monkey Kings in the Chinese Basketball Assn.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Jurisdiction Again, make sure the VPN provider isn’t based in a country with mandatory data retention laws or one that has signed up to international data-sharing agreements.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

Motorola Solutions has signed a deal to buy D-Fend Solutions for $1.5 billion, adding increasingly important counter-drone technologies to its portfolio of safety and security solutions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

“I see Seftorita Minerva has signed this,” he notes as if I were not present.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez