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Three West African Countries Exit Regional ECOWAS Bloc
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are withdrawing from a 49-year-old regional alliance that has allowed goods and nearly 400 million people to travel freely across a tightly connected region.
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Defeated by A.I., a Legend in the Board Game Go Warns: Get Ready for What’s Next
Lee Saedol was one of the world’s top Go players, and his shocking loss to an A.I. opponent was a harbinger of a new, unsettling era. “It may not be a happy ending,” he says.
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Rwanda Says It Doesn’t Have to Repay UK for Scrapped Migration Plan
Britain gave Rwanda hundreds of millions of pounds, even though no asylum seekers were deported to the Central African nation under the agreement.
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Statue Honoring Women and Justice Vandalized at University of Houston
An anti-abortion group had previously denounced Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture as “satanic.” University officials said they are investigating the attack.
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High Noon: Greg Kwedar and Monique Walton On Sing Sing
Three years ago, Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar released their gorgeous second feature “Jockey,” an immaculate portrait of an aging horse rider (Clifton Collins Jr.) confronting his broken past and his bleak future. That intimately shot work, which combined stars with first-time actors, was a neorealist jolt. Now, they’ve returned with another striking film, one…
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Longlegs
Everything about Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is designed to rattle you, unsettle you, and make you think about it hours or even days later. It’s a very purposefully exaggerated film, from the oppressive sound design to the heavily mannered performances, going for something closer to a cinematic nightmare than anything approaching realism. To that end, despite…
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Netflix’s “Receiver” Should Work for NFL Fans Despite a Predictable Playbook
The wild success of Netflix’s “Quarterback” last summer led fans to imagine a new trio of ball-slingers to follow in summer 2024. The first season chronicled the 2022-23 seasons of Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Marcus Mariota, a perfect array of professional athletes in very different phases of their careers. How could they top it?…
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Hulu’s “UnPrisoned” Takes Bigger Swings In Its Self-Assured Second Season
There are lots of shows about trauma but few are as funny or as fun as the Onyx Collective’s “UnPrisoned,” now in its second season. If that sounds like shade, it is not. Loosely based on creator Tracy McMillan’s own life, “UnPrisoned” matches its protagonist’s personality and worldview perfectly. The fictional Paige Alexander is a…
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Sophos ZTNA now supports on-premise Microsoft AD
The gateway image updates are available from Sophos Central. There is no need to update your ZTNA agents.
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NASA Says No Plan to Use SpaceX to Rescue Boeing Starliner Astronauts
In a news conference from aboard the International Space Station, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said they had confidence in the troubled spacecraft to get them home.