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Congress Seeks to Bar Funding for U.N. Agency for Palestinians
A bill would bar support for the agency, UNRWA, amid accusations that some employees were Hamas fighters. Other countries are scrambling to make up the looming shortfall.
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Israel-Hamas War in Gaza Leaves Power Vacuum
Analysts say the Israeli military’s return to the largest hospital complex in the enclave may foretell more chaos without governance.
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E.U. Plans to Use Russian Frozen Assets to Pay for Weapons for Ukraine
Using interest earned on frozen Russian assets held in Europe, the bloc plans to raise billions. But other ways to pay for new weapons remain elusive.
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Iceland’s Tourism Suffers Amid a Belching Volcano and Flowing Lava
In a country that relies heavily on visitors, hotels faced repeated evacuations, and one resort was temporarily shut.
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Ireland’s Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, Resigns
Leo Varadkar, whose Fine Gael party has struggled in the polls, said he would step down as leader of the country and of his party, citing “personal and political reasons.”
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Joan Jonas: A Trailblazer Shines at MoMA
A bounteous and playful survey of the 87-year-old artist’s career on the vanguard highway fills the museum and the Drawing Center.
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No Matter How Big He Gets, David Dastmalchian Still Wants to Scare You
In the unnerving new horror film “Late Night With the Devil,” a 1970s talk-show host named Jack Delroy is having a terrible evening. It’s Halloween, and he’s doing a live broadcast on the year’s spookiest night. His guests including a psychic, a parapsychologist and a young girl who may be possessed by a demon. Jack…
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SXSW 2024: Diane Warren: Relentless, Thank You Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, Preconceived
“Diane Warren: Relentless” is a rare documentary on an influential musician that doesn’t feel as if it’s either been interfered with by the parties that hold the music rights or self-censored into mush by the filmmakers for fear of alienating the subject and their fans. At its best, it reminds me of the first wave of…
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Like Slimer shoving snacks in his ravenous maw, “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” tries to cram way too many characters, storylines and iconic images into its two-hour runtime. Director Gil Kenan’s film does a vaguely better job of balancing the old and the new than its predecessor, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife.” It finesses the fan service in a way that the 2021 reboot/legacyquel/whatever you want to call it did not,…
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Disney+ Returns to the Classic World of X-Men ’97
When Disney purchased Fox in 2019, one of the first questions was how soon the X-Men would be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Imagine characters like Wolverine and Professor Xavier crossing over with Deadpool and Doctor Strange. Superhero fandom saw it as the most compelling reason to be excited about the merger. When Marvel began…