Australian documentary “Shared Table: Regional Heroes” has been acquired by Cinepolis India for a limited theatrical release later this year, following the film’s world premiere in the international competition sectio...
Read Full Story →Iran's military said it had closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to continued Israeli military strikes in Lebanon; the U.S. said it remains open.
Read article →The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 represents the most significant reform of the U.S. income tax code since the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Previous analyses of the TCJA’s economic impact often rely on estimates bas...
Read article →Lisa Lu, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival, joined a packed audience for a post-screening event celebrating “The Arch,” the 1968 landmark of Chinese-language ...
Read article →The chief of the White House World Cup task force says it’s “pretty amazing” Iran’s football team has been given visas.
Read article →Los Angeles superstar Shohei Ohtani announced on social media Saturday that he is a father again, and hours later, he hit a homer in the Dodgers' 3-2 loss to the Orioles.
Read article →Tigers veteran right-hander Justin Verlander has a left hamstring strain and likely will be out "weeks," according to manager A.J. Hinch.
Read article →Brewers manager Pat Murphy said Saturday he's planning to have back surgery on Thursday, when the team is off, and a procedure on his hip during the All-Star break.
Read article →Byron Buxton hit a grand slam in the Twins' 10-run fifth inning against the Diamondbacks on Saturday night, and Minnesota went on to win 16-8.
Read article →Estonia's parliament voted 55 to 34 on June 20, 2023, to legalize same-sex marriage, making Estonia the first Central European country — and the first former Soviet republic — to do so. The legislation amended the Family Law Act to allow marriage between any two adults regardless of sex, and also granted same-sex couples full adoption rights. The law took effect on January 1, 2024. The vote reflected a significant shift in Estonian society: polls showed 53 percent of the population supported same-sex marriage at the time of passage. The milestone was seen as a meaningful departure from the broader pattern in Central and Eastern Europe, where same-sex marriage remains illegal across most countries that were once part of the Soviet bloc.
Read Full Story →Andrew Callaghan is the creator and host of Channel 5, a YouTube-based street journalism operation that has become one of the most distinctive voices in American media. Starting with "All Gas No Brakes" — a series launched in 2019 in which he drove an RV across the country interviewing people at fringe events — Callaghan developed an interviewing style that is non-confrontational, curious, and deeply empathetic.
Read article →Rod McKuen was, by any commercial measure, the most successful poet in American publishing history. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he sold more than 60 million books of poetry and 100 million recordings worldwide, filled Carnegie Hall annually on his birthday, and wrote songs for Frank Sinatra. His plain-spoken, romantically accessible verse attracted a devoted mass audience.
Read article →Tarn Coffey is an Anchorage-based entrepreneur who made an unlikely bet: growing sweet corn commercially in Nenana, Alaska. After noticing that the region's long summer days produced enough heat to mature corn outdoors, Coffey spent a decade growing it in his backyard before scaling up. In 2022 he won 225 acres of state land at auction and planted his first commercial crops in spring 2023.
Read article →In May 2023, Ireland's Data Protection Commission issued Meta Platforms a record €1.2 billion fine — the largest penalty ever handed down under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation — for systematically transferring the personal data of European Facebook users to servers in the United States in violation of GDPR rules.
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