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The city has changed since those days: the crowds have grown, the pace quickened. And yet, Marrakech still holds pockets of the same magic; alleys humming with life, souks spilling over with colour and spice, courtyards where time seems to slow.

Plus: More developments from around the world. … Books from Dong Zhang, Mingxing Liu, and Victor Shih, on why Beijing, for a time, would have distributed control over its economy; Nicole C. Rust, on why neuroscience hasn’t been more effective in finding treatments for brain disorders; and Tim Weiner, on how new technologies have “shattered the foundations” of traditional intelligence operations. … Music from Soulwax, Nite-Funk, and Baltimora. … & What is Italo disco?

Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill - have both pled guilty to count 2 of their indictment, the conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitter business charge.

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Not Parisian-chic, but provincial in a poetic way. Built on lavender fields and salt flats, plastic beach chairs and sun-warmed fruit, linen fluttering from washing lines. A world shaped by the South of France, and by a boy’s relationship to it.

Alcohol is losing its grip on British youth. This year, 28 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds reported teetotaling—a 10 percent jump from 2014. The nonalcoholic beer Guinness 0.0 has become a major earner for Guinness’s parent company, Diageo. Sales of low- and no-alcohol products in the U.K. rose 47 percent last year.

When England’s national football team lost the UEFA Euro final to Spain last July—after having lost the previous Euro final to Italy in 2020—a brawl erupted outside a pub in Solihull, a town on the outskirts of Birmingham. Dozens of men and women traded blows. It was a big, drunken mess. But spectacularly bad scenes like this, along with everyday bar fights, are becoming rarer. Across England and Wales, 65 percent of a notable decline in violence from 2014 to 2024 is on account of men from 18 to 30 not getting into as many fights as they used to. The biggest factor? Less drinking. Alcohol is losing its grip on British youth. This year, 28 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds reported teetotaling—a 10 percent jump from 2014. The nonalcoholic beer Guinness 0.0 has become a major earner for Guinness’s parent company, Diageo. Sales of low- and no-alcohol products in the U.K. rose 47 percent last year. The shift is global, especially among younger generations, whose alcohol consumption has dropped across most high-income countries over the last couple of decades. The number of U.S. 16- and 17-year-olds who said they’d had a drink in the past month has fallen by 58 percent since 2002. A 2023 Gallup poll found the share of adults under age 35 who say they drink dropped 10 percentage points—from 72 percent to 62 percent—since 2003.