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Julian Assange’s Family React to Biden Suggesting U.S. Might Drop Case
The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spent five years in a London prison while contesting extradition efforts. Before that, he holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy.
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Ukraine’s New Draft Unsettles the Young
Reporters from The New York Times spoke to men who could be affected by the change.
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What the Election Loss Means for President Yoon of South Korea
President Yoon Suk Yeol, a key U.S. ally, faces the prospect of becoming a lame duck unless he starts negotiating with the opposition.
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Vietnamese Real Estate Tycoon Sentenced to Death in $12 Billion Fraud Case
Truong My Lan received the death penalty as Vietnam’s Communist Party cracks down on corruption in the fast-growing Southeast Asian economic hub.
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O.J. Simpson Dies: The Rise & Fall of A Superstar
O.J. Simpson, who saw his 1970s and 80s genial public image as an attractive athlete and sometime performer eclipsed by his acquittal for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, has died of cancer at age 76, according to his family. In his early years, he was a record-setting college and NFL football…
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Which Cannes Film Will Win the Palme d’Or? Let’s Rank Their Chances
On May 14, the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival gets underway. That means the annual tradition of glamorous red carpets and starry premieres is nearly upon us—not to mention the unveiling of the winner of the Palme d’Or, the prestigious top prize given out by a hand-selected jury to the best film in…
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Second Sight Drops 4K Releases for Excellent Films by Brandon Cronenberg, Jeremy Saulnier, and Alexandre Aja
Last year, we highlighted a pair of great releases from the U.K.-based distributor Second Sight in the 4K drops for David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” and David Robert Mitchell’s “It Follows.” With their early 2024 releases, it’s become clear that this is a production house that values auteurs. Recent editions of “Green Room,” “Possessor,”…
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Wagner Moura Is Still Holding On To Hope
Wagner Moura’s characters are accustomed to being in high-pressure situations. Perhaps best known for his role in the gritty crime saga “Elite Squad” and playing Pablo Escobar in “Narcos,” the 47-year-old Brazilian actor is now part of the year’s most talked-about film, the dystopian action-thriller “Civil War,” in which he stars as Joel, a veteran…
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Food, Inc. 2
“My relationship with food is complicated …very complicated. Because I have Type 1 diabetes,” says Larissa Zimberoff, author of the investigative book Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley’s Mission to Change the Way We Eat and one of the many interview subjects in the documentary “Food, Inc. 2” a sequel to, you guessed it, 2008’s “Food, Inc.”…
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Our Readers’ Favorite New York City Restaurants
We asked, you answered: Here are the restaurants our dining-obsessed readers would rank the best in the city.