ANNOUNCED
By Tim Duncan, that he would retire after 19 seasons and five championships with the San Antonio Spurs. The 40-year-old two-time MVP helped lead his team to the playoffs every year of his career in the NBA.
DIED
Sydney Schanberg, 82, Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times correspondent whose reporting on Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge inspired the film The Killing Fields.
> Aaron J. Klein, 55, longtime Jerusalem correspondent for TIME and author of Striking Back, about the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
SUED
Fox News Channel CEO Roger Ailes, by former anchor Gretchen Carlson, in a suit alleging sexual harassment and retaliation. Carlson says Ailes made sexual comments to her and fired her for speaking up about harassment. Representatives for Ailes deny the claims and say the network declined to renew Carlson’s contract because of poor ratings.
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