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Druse Militia Refuse to Join Syria’s New Army
The militias that control the Druse religious minority’s heartland in southwestern Syria have resisted the new government’s attempts to bring all armed groups under its control.
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Netanyahu Drops Nominee for Spy Chief After Backlash
Eli Sharvit was a controversial choice after Israel’s prime minister fired his predecessor. Revelations that he wrote a column criticizing President Trump may have helped sink his chances.
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At the New Frick, Magicians Come Out of the Woodwork
Textile weavers, tassel-makers, lighting restorers, cabinet makers and muralists forged new traditions at the sumptuous Beaux-Arts museum.
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Ebertfest Announces Remaining Films and Special Guests Attending the 2025 Festival
CHAMPAIGN, IL (April 1, 2025) — Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, also known as Ebertfest, announced today the final three films screening at this year’s festival, to be held April 23-26 at the Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign: Francis Ford Coppola’s MEGALOPOLIS Walter Salles’ Academy Award®-winning I’M STILL HERE Lotte Reiniger’s THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED Coppola will participate…
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Prime Video’s “The Bondsman” Takes Kevin Bacon on a Drab Trip to Hell and Back
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Someone either dies, or goes to Hell, or is otherwise handpicked to become a bounty hunter for—get this—escaped souls from the underworld. And he’s got to spend his days tracking down these demons at, on average, the pace of a monster per week, all while juggling his…
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The Unloved, Part 135: Adoration
The untempered version of world events right now: Things are not getting better. There’s no opposition coming, there’s no reckoning on the way, there is no stopping the free fall. And art is not going to save us. I don’t have much use for the untempered version, even if, on my worst days, I believe it. So,…
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What to Watch on Netflix: April 2025
We often give Netflix a hard time for its recency bias, rarely including films from earlier than 2010, much less, gasp, the last century. So it’s wonderfully surprising to say that the April updates for the world’s most popular streamer are impressively pulled from previous generations, including early masterpieces by Martin Scorsese, Arthur Penn, Michael…
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Qilin affiliates spear-phish MSP ScreenConnect admin, targeting customers downstream
Attack matches three-year long pattern of ScreenConnect attacks tracked by Sophos MDR as STAC4365.
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This Tree Wants to Be Struck by Lightning
Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a scientist said.
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How the Myanmar Earthquake Shook Skyscrapers in Bangkok
Large quakes produce shaking at a variety of frequencies. Some waves can travel hundreds of miles, and are amplified by local geological conditions.