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She Looked for Her Missing Brother. Now, People Are Looking for Her.
The violent abduction of volunteer searcher Lorenza Cano is yet another fresh wound for the hundreds of mothers looking for Mexico’s missing.
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A Shocking Confession Upends the Case of a Fatal Fire in South Africa
Activists fear that one man’s sudden admission that he lit a crowded building ablaze to cover up a murder will let officials off the hook for failing to correct unsafe conditions there.
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Haiti Threatened by Armed Environmental Group
The country’s political crisis grew more volatile this week after an armed environmental brigade allied with a former coup leader began demanding the prime minister’s ouster.
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Widening Mideast Crisis: Families of Israeli Hostages Protest at Border Crossing to Block Aid to Gaza
Families of hostages have taken more aggressive steps, trying to increase pressure on the Israeli government to give priority to the captives’ return.
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Sundance 2024: Sue Bird: In the Clutch, Luther: Never Too Much, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Four years ago, the Sundance Film Festival was one of the last major events in the film world before the pandemic (you know the one). Although the festival soldiered on with virtual and then hybrid editions, this year was my first time back in Park City, trudging through snowbanks to get out of one movie…
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Sundance 2024: In a Violent Nature, The Moogai, Krazy House
The Midnights program at Sundance this year was strongly considered to be one of the best of the year, particularly because it produced fest hits “I Saw the TV Glow” and “Love Lies Bleeding,” two A24 films that people will be talking about for months. Of course, those films weren’t alone in the program that’s…
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Sundance 2024: Girls State, Power, And So It Begins
Usually, I have to search for what themes bind together the films in a dispatch. But for these three documentaries in the Premieres section, the connection is clear. “Girls State,” “Power,” and “And So It Begins” are all political docs, interrogating the functionality and origin of systems to varying results. Jesse Moss and Amanda…
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Genius: MLK/X Fails Legacies of Civil Rights Leaders
The fourth season in the NatGeo anthology drama series “Genius,” focusing on Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X’s lives and accomplishments in the Civil Rights Movement, has arrived just in time for history teachers struggling to get their iPad-gen-raised students to pay attention during Black History Month. Before said teacher rolls down the projector…
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Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in widely used security driver
A false-alarm incident involving Panda Security software leads to three very real CVEs
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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Ends Its Mars Mission
The robot flew 72 times, serving as a scouting partner to the Perseverance rover, aiding in the search for evidence that there was once life on the red planet.