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Israel-Hamas War: U.S. Says Security Council Resolution on Gaza Is Ready for Vote
After a week of negotiations and delays over who would inspect aid going into Gaza, the United States said it had arrived at a U.N. measure it could back, but did not say when a vote would take place.
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Hamas Frees Teenage Hostage, but Her Father Is Still in Gaza
Sahar Kalderon, 16, spent 52 days as a hostage. She says she cannot enjoy her freedom until her father, Ofer, is free.
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Czech University Shooting: At Least 15 Are Killed in Prague Rampage
The police said the suspect, who also died, first shot his father in a town outside Prague and then continued his rampage at the university.
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Show Restores ‘Erased’ Black Figures in Early American Art
A vital American Folk Art Museum show reckons with centuries of erasure by uncovering historical records of the unnamed Black people depicted in artwork.
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Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Pad Thai Diplomacy at MoMA PS1
The artist’s midcareer survey at MoMA PS1 demonstrates the impotence of contemporary art to heal social ills.
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Stéphane Mandelbaum, Edgy Art and a Life Violently Cut Short
In 1980s Belgium, this Jewish artist dared to blur the lines between victims and villains. A bracing retrospective is now at the Drawing Center.
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
In the DC Expanded Universe of films, which appears to be winding down, there’s only one hero who brings an instinct for fun to every scene, along with an awareness of his own ridiculousness, and that’s Aquaman. Specifically, that’s Aquaman as played by Jason Momoa, who refashioned the half-human Prince (and later King) of Atlantis,…
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Anyone But You
As Hollywood mid-budget films became a rarity in the 2010s, romantic comedies appeared to be a dying species. Then in 2018, Claire Scanlon and Katie Silberman’s summer sensation “Set It Up,” starring Glen Powell and Zoey Deutch, seemed poised to revive the genre. Five years later, the fate of rom-coms is still on rocky ground,…
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A Miniature Society: İlker Çatak on The Teachers’ Lounge
Since its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, İlker Çatak’s “The Teachers’ Lounge” has been growing a fan base of viewers stunned at how this smart film turns a social drama into a thriller. It won the Audience Award there and was later named one of the five best international films of the year…
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Akira, again: The ransomware that keeps on taking
Seven months after our first investigation, a fuller portrait of the criminal gang and its tactics emerges