The U.S. government may have paid out $191 billion in improper pandemic unemployment benefits, the Labor Department’s watchdog told Congress on Wednesday. Larry Turner, the inspector general of the Labor Department, said his agency estimated that more than a fifth of the $888 billion federal and state unemployment payments for job losses in 2020 and 2021 may have gone to improper recipients or fraudsters.

When Sanford Diller had an idea for a real-estate project or philanthropic initiative, he would spell them out in long, detailed voicemail messages to family members and employees. Sometimes his daughter, Jackie Safier, spent her entire 45-minute commute listening to messages filled with aphorisms that his loved ones called “Sanford’s Rules.” “In the era of brevity, he was a brilliant writer and a brilliant speaker,” she said. Mr. Diller died Feb. 2 at the age of 89. The founder of Prometheus...