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Israel Claims Killing of Militant Leader as Funerals Are Held for 2 Others
The fate of Muhammad Deif, a top Hamas leader, has been unclear, and the group has not confirmed his death. Funerals for senior officials from Hamas and Hezbollah, both of whom were assassinated this week, drew thousands.
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Fears of Wider Mideast Conflict Deepen, With U.S. Seen as ‘Not in Control’
American officials said they had no advance warning of the attack on the Hamas leader in Iran, raising worries of a power vacuum that could lead to a broader geopolitical crisis.
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How Track’s Athletics Integrity Unit Catches Doping Cheats
Track and field’s antidoping arm, the Athletics Integrity Unit, has announced a string of cases in recent months. Is that the sign of a problem, or proof that its approach is working?
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Stitch by Stitch, Pacita Abad Crossed Continents and Cultures
The Filipino American artist is having her first retrospective at MoMA PS1 as the mainstream art world finally catches up to her work. “You will regret missing it,” our critic says.
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‘Millions of Cats’ and Prints for Grown-Ups: Wanda Gág at the Whitney
Celebrated for her children’s books, the illustrator channeled the intensity of childhood perception into lesser-known but striking lithographs.
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Harun Farocki, the Filmmaker Who Saw War Everywhere
Harun Farocki, a German artist and documentarian, spent his career unpacking how consumer and military technology intermingle in even the most mundane images.
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955 hymn to the power of imagination (I gift every love one’s new baby with a copy of the book with a purple crayon taped inside), the idea of a film adaptation has always filled me with a certain sense of trepidation. This is due…
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Trap
Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup of M. Night Shyamalan’s near-miss of a thriller “Trap,” a movie that feels less like the Night Brand than a lot of his twisty ventures, a pared-down version of what he does that needed a round or two more of fleshing out its…
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The Unloved, Part 128: Cobweb
Earlier this year a movie was released and forgotten in such quick succession there’s a strong chance you didn’t know it existed. That’s fine, I almost missed it myself, except for one thing: I was looking for it. Why? It was directed by the great and lively Kim Jee-woon, the least celebrated of the big…
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Losers Win: Guardians of the Galaxy Turns 10
There’s never a time when I don’t feel like watching the “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies, the first of which was released August 1, 2014. That’s ten years ago this week. Time flies when a film is a classic. This one is. So are the sequels, even though there are vestigial plot elements from the larger Marvel…