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Nintendo was accused of pressuring dealers who tried to undercut suggested prices by threatening to reduce or slow shipments. Although Nintendo’s dominance has been credited with keeping the video-game market strong, many dealers chafed. Even before the settlement, the company had begun to ease its iron grip. Last fall it promised to allow outsiders to manufacture some games for its machine–an abrupt turnaround from the old policy of running every game through Nintendo’s plants....

Approximately 394,025 cars are part of the recall, according to documents Nissan Group of North America sent to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The four models affected in the U.S. include the 2015 to 2018 models of the Nissan Murano SUV, Maxima sedans from 2016 to 2018, and the Infiniti QX60 and Nissan Pathfinder SUVs, both made between 2017 to 2019. That includes 126,579 Pathfinders, 115,518 Muranos, 82,374 Maxima models and 69,554 of the Infiniti QX60....

Harrell reportedly reached an agreement with officials in the state Treasury department in June but only began finalizing the terms last week, according to NJ.com. Harrell was initially eligible for $200,000 because the state’s Mistaken Imprisonment Act (MIA) allows former prisoners to receive up to $50,000 for every year they spent in prison and all legal fees. However, his lawyer said the settlement amount will remain undisclosed to protect Harrell’s privacy....

Five candidates will compete in a primary on July 7 for the opportunity to challenge Representative Jeff Van Drew, who in 2018 was the first Democrat to represent the state’s 2nd congressional district in 24 years. But the blue wave was short-lived. Late last year, Van Drew defected to the Republican Party following his opposition to President Donald Trump’s impeachment. He was just one of two Democrats to back Trump, a move that earned him the scorn of New Jersey’s liberal establishment....

The play in question: Cubs catcher Willson Contreras’ tag of Adrian Gonzalez to end the bottom of the second inning in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series. Gonzalez tried to score from second base on Andrew Toles’ single to Cubs right fielder Jason Heyward. MORE: Must-see NLCS photos The replay crew, composed of major league umpires sitting in MLB’s New York video center, upheld the call by home platge umpire Angel Hernandez....

And not Zito, circa 2002 when he won the AL Cy Young Award for the Oakland Athletics. They need Greinke to be the Zito who pitched the game of his San Francisco Giants life last October, when the Giants found themselves in exactly the same situation the Dodgers are in right now — trailing the St. Louis Cardinals three games to one in the best-of-seven NLCS. MORE: Cardinals take 3-1 series lead | Stats | Must-see photos | TV schedule...

This is a stark reminder of the power of the influenza virus. Americans need to be fully prepared for rest of peak season, which will continue into next year. There is still ample time to receive the annual flu shot. Due to the nature of the vaccine, it takes a few weeks to build up immunity and offer full protection, but that’s no reason not to get it now. Remember: Flu is regarded as the sixth leading cause of death in the U....

Neymar shapes as a huge threat to Madrid as PSG prepare to visit the Santiago Bernabeu for the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday. Carvajal, who is suspended for the opening clash, admits his team simply need to hope the Brazil international is below his best. “To play against Neymar, there is no magic formula,” he said, via AS. “You just hope he doesn’t have his day....

It’s counterintuitive and confusing, and if that’s a spiral Pavel Datsyuk started early in his career, he pulled out of it before completing the 180. He was great, and if he was ever underrated, by the end his genius was appreciated. It would’ve sucked if it weren’t. MORE: The Magic Man — also hilarious Assuming his career really is over — Tampa Bay eliminated the Red Wings on Thursday night, and Datsyuk has said he plans to head back to Russia this summer — everyone involved should feel lucky that he seemed to get credit for exactly what he was: one of the few best two-way players of his era, probably the most entertaining, and definitely his generation’s leader in SportsCenter Top 10 appearances....

But Speaker Pelosi was right to go. Such a confusing and oscillating policy will prove perilous to the already-frail state of cross-Strait relations. It seems clear that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is determined to invade Taiwan as soon as the opportunity arises, evidenced by the removal of the word “peaceful” from China’s Taiwan reunification policy and messaging. Moreover, People’s Liberation Army military aircraft are now regularly dispatched over Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, a clear act of intimidation and aggression....

“Taken” spans 50 years, starting with a World War II pilot abducted by aliens and ending with a girl who discovers that her special powers come from an otherworldly ancestor. “Taken” has a wonderful sense of atmosphere and place–it manages to be both creepy and homespun, fantastic yet familiar. If you’ve always wanted a family drama that happens to include aliens as characters, “Taken” will put you in orbit. But it doesn’t make a lot of sense....

Son Heung-min was given the nod to lead a flexible Spurs attack that afternoon, with Harry Kane having suffered an ankle ligament injury earlier in the month, and the South Korea international’s performance had White Hart Lane purring. The 24-year-old peppered Claudio Bravo in the City net and linked beautifully with Dele Alli to gift the midfielder Spurs’ second just before halftime after an Aleksander Kolarov own goal broke the deadlock....

Curt Carlson, who founded a $20 billion business (Radisson hotels, TGI Fridays) on his Gold Bond stamp company during the Depression, is peddling them again, this time as a salve for harried shoppers and small businesses pummeled by superstores. The 84-year-old billionaire recently rolled out Gold Points Plus in Minneapolis and St. Paul and plans to have them in the top 50 markets by the millennium. His company claims that more than 800,000 Twin Citians (nearly half the area’s households) have collected points on his credit-card-size pieces of plastic, from more than 500 retail partners....

A list of celebrities shared throwback photos and current style moments on social media in the absence of Anna Wintour’s coveted night. It’s enough to hold us over, and remind us of the good times, while we all adhere to social distancing, show respect for healthcare workers and essential employees and commit to saving lives. So as a reward for our hard work at home, here are some of the best celebrity glam photos that have surfaced, and resurfaced during the quarantine....

But if I can get through the details of the Doris Kearns Goodwin scandal, so can you. First, here’s the predictable second-paragraph contextualizing, about how our confidence in pop historians was already rocked to its very foundations by the news that Stephen Ambrose also plagiarized from other people’s books. Ambrose’s appropriations–among other examples, whole passages of his 2001 “The Wild Blue” were lifted from Thomas Childers’s 1995 “Wings of Morning”–seem pretty shameless....

The two Koreas agreed to rebuild a rail link connecting Seoul and Pyongyang during a breakthrough summit in June 2000. Trains were supposed to start running a year ago. But the new track laid by the South Koreans ends at the thicket of bunkers and land mines that marks the border. Pyongyang, citing various pretexts, has barely lifted a shovel to fix the railway on its side of the DMZ....

The Frenchman tore the lateral collateral ligament in his left knee in a 2-2 draw against Hertha Berlin at the start of October, with a lengthy lay-off initially predicted. FCB 15/2 to win CL But Ribery has made good progress and says he feels “great”, even if he is in no rush to get back to full training. “Obviously I feel great right now, but we have to control my progress and we don’t want to take any risks,” he told Bayern’s official channel....

It is a notion that has been baked into the lore of Seattle’s MLS Cup final victory over Toronto FC, after the Sounders failed to register a single shot on goal through 120 minutes but managed to win in a penalty shootout. One year later, the Sounders head toward a rematch with TFC boasting a stronger attack, but Schmetzer disputes the notion unequivocally. “That’s the one thing that always rankles me a little bit because here’s the deal: No coach is going out there to not score goals,” Schmetzer told Goal on Wednesday shortly after the Sounders arrived ahead of Saturday’s final....

The officer, whose name has not been released to the public, was filmed kneeling on the neck of a Brockton High School student on November 17. In an announcement on Tuesday, officials with the Brockton Public School district confirmed that an investigation of the incident by the Brockton Police’s Internal Affairs Division found no wrongdoing, The Enterprise reported, and concluded that the officer “acted in accordance with existing laws and department protocols....