Philadelphia 76ers forward LeBron James yells during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the New York Knicks Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, in New York. Frank Franklin II/AP hide caption toggle caption i Frank Franklin II/AP NEW YORK — LeBron James got the business from Knicks fans still gloating and riding an emotional high from an NBA championship banner celebration. As he stepped to the free-throw line for the Philadelphia 76ers early in Tuesday night’s season opener, Knicks fans erupted toward James with chants of “We don’t want you! We don’t want you!” Such a rude reception from New Yorkers to one of the city’s newest residents. The shouts of rejection came in part because there was a plausible scenario under which James would have opened the season at Madison Square Garden in a Knicks uniform. James and his agent, Rich Paul, had said the Knicks would have been James’ first choice in free agency had New York not won its first NBA championship since 1973 last season. Knicks fans said, we’re good. …

Five years after Berliners voted to expropriate their landlords, the German capital finally has a government willing to do it. On Saturday, Die Linke, the Greens and the SPD presented the 30-page exploratory paper that will underpin their coalition agreement for the next Berlin Senate, and buried among the usual promises sits a plan to socialize, under Article 15 of the German constitution, every apartment a private landlord owns in Berlin above the first 10,000. The compensation for this act of municipal generosity: a hard cap of €16 billion which works out to about €105K per unit, or 58% of book value… and even that cap is conditional on “fiscal sustainability.” The bond market did the rest: Adler Group‘s 10% notes due 2029 plunged 20 points on Monday to a record low around 59 cents on the euro (they dropped as 53 earlier in the session), as creditors scrambled to price in the possibility that 43% of Adler’s yielding Berlin portfolio is about to be bought by the state at a 42% to 48% discount …

Vinted says it has removed listings of items believed to have been looted from shops during the ongoing riots in France. The second hand re-selling platform said following the weekend’s disorder it had “taken immediate action to identify and remove listings linked to looting”. Shops across several French cities were broken into and ransacked during the outbreak of riots over the weekend. “The sale of stolen goods, or soliciting them, is strictly prohibited on Vinted, and we have zero tolerance for it,” a spokesperson for the company said. Widespread looting was reported across Paris, Marseille and Lille, as well as other areas after protests against the cost of living and public spending turned into riots, leading to the arrests of at least 1,200 people. More than 2,000 businesses were directly impacted by the weekend’s violence, according to the head of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI). Alain Di Crescenzo told France’s broadcaster RTL that the riots led to hundreds of millions of euros worth of damage. Groups of rioters, some wearing masks and balaclavas, …

Another driver, Valery from Krasnodar, had been on the job for only a few months, having previously worked at a packing center for Wildberries, Russia’s retail giant, whose warehouse was attacked by Ukrainian drones in July. When the Yandex outages started, he said, the taxi app would show error messages or even send several cars for the same customer. While that has been largely resolved, said Valery, 24, the biggest issue for him was that he could not withdraw the money that he had already earned with Yandex. “If I can’t access my pay in another week or two, I will start looking for another job,” he said. In addition to Yandex, the data centers of Russia’s biggest bank, Sberbank, and the tech giant VK have also been targeted in recent days. The chaos is no accident, analysts say. “Ukraine’s campaign from the start has had as one of its objectives bringing home to ordinary Russians the fact that they are at war and this involves consequences,” Keir Giles, an associate fellow at Chatham House, …