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Lakeview Health Files Notice of Data Breach Affecting Consumers’ Social Security Numbers
On May 30, 2024, Lakeview Health filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Texas after discovering that an unauthorized party was able to access confidential patient information after gaining access to the company’s computer network. In this notice, Lakeview Health explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able…
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Middle East Crisis: Biden Endorses Israeli Proposal for a Cease-Fire in Gaza
The proposal, sent to Hamas through negotiators, would begin with a temporary six-week cease-fire that would pave the way for negotiations to eventually end the war and rebuild Gaza.
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Ukraine Buoyed by Biden’s Move on Using Weapons to Strike Russia
After weeks of entreaties, Ukraine won permission to hit targets inside Russia with American-made weapons, a tactic that it says will help it defend territory in the northeast.
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After Trump’s Conviction, a Wary World Waits for the Fallout
Already braced for uncertainty about the U.S. election, countries in Europe and Asia are now even more unclear about the future of American diplomacy.
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India and Pakistan Heat Wave Is a Matter of Survival for Laborers
Pakistan and India are sweltering. For laborers, not working because of the extreme temperatures can mean not eating.
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Blinken Hints U.S. May Allow Ukraine Greater Latitude to Strike in Russia
The U.S. secretary of state suggested that Ukraine’s use of American-supplied arms could expand beyond the current limitation to strikes in the Kharkiv area.
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The Dead Don’t Hurt
One of my great great great grandfathers fought for the Union and survived the Battle of Antietam. After his infantry unit was wiped out, he survived by crawling under a heap of corpses and staying there for two days. As a child, I often found myself thinking about a person doing what he did and…
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Cannes 2024: Ghost Trail, Block Pass
Opening this year’s section is Jonathan Millet’s “Ghost Trail,” in which a Syrian war refugee (Adam Bessa) hunts his former torturer through France while struggling to heal from the scars, both literal and figurative, that his quarry left him with. Once a literature professor in Aleppo before he was imprisoned by the government, subjected to…
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At the Movies, It’s Hard Out There for a Hit Man
Early on in the new Richard Linklater comedy “Hit Man,” the film’s main character, a nice-guy teacher named Gary (Glen Powell), informs the audience of a truth they may not want to hear: Hit men aren’t real. “It’s a total pop-culture fantasy,” he says in voiceover. “But because hit men have been a staple of…
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Far, Far Away: How to Get People Going to Movies Again
What’s broken in moviegoing? And how can it be fixed? Why do I ask? Surprise: It’s not because of the box office performance of “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and “The Garfield Movie” over the 2024 Memorial Day weekend. Sure, it was the worst such weekend for the industry in decades. Neither did poorly, in any real meaning of the word,…
