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August tends to be a slow month for TV series and a movie dump, and Netflix Inc. doesn’t appear to be immune to that trend. While Netflix NFLX, -0.05% It still has dozens of original series, specials, and movies on tap for August 2020, just a handful have massive appeal. …

Gregory Bull / Associated Press When the Los Angeles Dodgers traded for Mookie Betts in February, they were only guaranteed to have the 2018 American League MVP for one year. Do it 13. On Wednesday, WEEI’s Lou Merloni was the first to mock that the Dodgers and Betts were nearing …

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman raised $ 4 billion Wednesday through an IPO for a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC), the largest such offering in history. Because it is important: SPACs, publicly traded shell companies designed to acquire other companies, are flooding Wall Street, creating new pathways to public markets for …

The United States and the United Kingdom have agreed to close an immunity gap for Americans stationed at military bases in England. The old legal anomaly that was created in the 1990s when the United States made “extraordinary renditions” in Europe was intended to protect CIA agents doing business abroad, …

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf is due to quit his job after his department deployed illegal crowds to stem protests in Portland, Oregon, retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore. “The police do not do this. Look at this, what kind of shit is this? Honore told MSNBC on Tuesday. …