LONDON — European Union regulators on Monday leveled their first charges under the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook, accusing Apple of preventing app makers from pointing users to cheaper options outside its App Store. The European Commission said that according to the preliminary findings of its investigation, the restrictions that the iPhone maker imposes on
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Megastar ‘an open book’ on health in ‘I Am: Celine Dion’
With “I Am: Celine Dion,” Montreal’s superstar dramatically reveals why she’s stopped performing and her hope that her long-hidden medical issues may be treated. Her physical issues – stiff-person syndrome, a rare neurological disease — often left her paralyzed and in horrible pain. Dion, 56, entrusted her story to Irene Taylor, an award-winning documentarian (“Beware the Slenderman”). “To be
Letters to the editor
Alcohol addiction I’m responding to Chris Van Buskirk’s recent article titled, “Mass. reports largest single-year decline in opioid-related overdose deaths in 13 years,” (June 12). The decline in deaths is encouraging but the fact that there were 2,125 confirmed or suspected opioid-related deaths in 2023 is still much too high. The number is also thought
Ryan Simpkins tackles inner demons in ‘The Exorcism’
When asked to play the troubled daughter of Russell Crowe’s troubled actor in “The Exorcism,” an offshoot of the classic horror hit “The Exorcist,” Ryan Simpkins was ready. “You hear ‘The Exorcist’ and you think one thing. Then I read the script and was like, ‘I have to do this!’ It’s such a great part.