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Eight Convicted in 2016 Terrorist Bombings in Brussels
The series of attacks was the deadliest such assault in Belgian history. Six of the accused had already been convicted over terrorist attacks in Paris the previous year.
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International Investigation into Mexico’s 43 Missing Students Ends
Members of an international panel said that the Mexican armed forces had repeatedly obstructed their efforts to investigate the 2014 disappearance and that they were leaving the country.
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34 Killed in Algerian Wildfires as Heat Waves Parch Mediterranean Region
Algeria’s government said that 10 of the dead were soldiers who were trying to rescue people from the fires, which have raged for days in a forested coastal region.
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Rite of Passage: Danny and Michael Philippou on Talk to Me
Conventional horror wisdom holds that children shouldn’t play with dead things, but the teenaged Gen-Z protagonists of new horror film “Talk to Me” just can’t resist a trend. Once videos start circulating online of parties where their high school peers hold a supposedly embalmed hand, light a candle, whisper “talk to me,” and experience a…
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No Moment was Wasted: Highlights at the 2023 Indy Shorts International Film Festival
One of the most joyous festival experiences I’ve had in recent years was my first visit to Heartland Film’s Oscar-qualifying Indy Shorts International Film Festival in 2019. It was the last major cinematic event I attended prior to the COVID-19 quarantine, and I cherished my memories of the familial warmth I felt from the community…
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#463 July 25, 2023
Matt writes: I am proud to stand with RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert and my fellow editors in support of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA members’ strikes currently taking place. An excerpt of our joint statement, which can be read in full here, is pasted below… “The key point is that while a very few actors make a…
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Zenbleed: How the quest for CPU performance could put your passwords at risk
“You need to turn on a special setting to stop the code you wrote to stop the code you wrote to improve performance from reducing performance from reducing security.”
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Restaurant Review: Potluck Club in the Lower East Side
Potluck Club looks at the old neighborhood, and its dishes, through the eyes of a younger generation who grew up there.
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Oppenheimer’s famous martini included a twist, and we don’t mean lemon
In the movie “Oppenheimer,” the scientist’s signature drink is an Easter egg. He liked to dip the glass in honey and lime then fill it mostly with ice-cold gin.
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Movies, shows delayed by the SAG strike: from ‘Avatar’ to Zendaya
The SAG-AFTRA actors strike and the WGA writers strike have effected Hollywood movies and shows from “Deadpool 3” to “The Last of Us” and the new Yellowstone spinoff.