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U.S. Seeks ‘Results’ After Israel Promises More Gaza Aid Routes
World leaders welcomed the shift by an Israel facing increasing pressure, but they stressed that the measure of success would be whether enough trucks get in to ease the humanitarian crisis.
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Iran Vows Revenge at Funeral for Commanders Killed in Israeli Airstrike
The Israeli airstrike this week in Damascus that killed seven Iranian commanders was an unusually harsh blow, and officials say Iran is determined to respond, raising fears of a war.
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Gazans Describe Search For Food and Wonder If It Will Get Worse
The charity food group World Central Kitchen suspended its relief efforts after seven of its workers were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
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Documentary Filmmaker Explores Japan’s Rigorous Education Rituals
Her movies try to explain why Japan is the way it is, showing both the upsides and downsides of the country’s commonplace practices. Her latest film focuses on an elementary school.
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Dwindling Ammunition Stocks Pose Grave Threat to Ukraine
What few munitions remain are often mismatched with battlefield needs as the country’s forces gird for an expected Russian offensive this summer.
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A ‘Taxi Driver’ Remake: Why Arthur Jafa Recast the Scorsese Ending
The artist has gone back to his filmmaking roots, re-examining what he sees as racial undertones in Martin Scorsese’s classic 1976 movie.
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Criterion Celebrates the Films That Forever Shifted Our Perception of Kristen Stewart
It has now been 12 years since “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2” came out—12 years since Kristen Stewart had anything to do with the franchise that more than likely will end up being her biggest moneymaker. Those five films, earning about $3.4 billion worldwide, was how much of the world first got…
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The Old Oak
Eighty-seven-year-old filmmaker Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak” is about how changing demographics in an struggling English town called Durham manifest in a crumbling old pub, the last public space that everyone claims as their own. This is Loach’s latest and (according to Loach) final motion picture, and it feels like a summation. It’s as engrossing, thoughtful, heartfelt, angry, hopeful, and altogether…
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The Estate of George Carlin Destroys AI George Carlin in Victory for Copyright Protection (and Basic Decency)
I often wish that I could still hear George Carlin riffing on the news. But I can’t, and it’s good that I can’t, because he died in 2008, and trying to pretend to digitally resurrect him would be obscene, even if you weren’t making a buck from it. Apparently the creators of an unauthorized posthumous AI-garbage version of a new George…
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Girls State
One girl was asked about a significant Supreme Court case and picked “the one with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.” Someone thought it was a good idea to have the opening night icebreaker activities include a bracelet station and cupcake decorating. And yet, the worst political judgment in “Girls State,” the documentary follow-up to the award-winning…