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Lead Exposure From U.S. Car Batteries Threatens Health of Mexican Workers
The removal of lead from car batteries, many from the United States, at recycling plants in northern Mexico has led to high levels of lead contamination, a new report found.
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The Children of the Iraq War Have Grown Up, but Some Wounds Don’t Heal
Twenty years after the U.S. invaded Iraq, a veteran Times correspondent and photographer asked Iraqis about growing up in wartime, and about their hopes now.
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Meta Manager Was Hacked With Spyware and Wiretapped in Greece
Artemis Seaford, a dual U.S.-Greek national, was targeted with a cyberespionage tool while also under a wiretap by the Greek spy agency in a case that shows the spread of illicit snooping in Europe.
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Hulu’s Musical Series Up Here Eventually Finds Its Rhythm
The first few songs in Hulu’s “Up Here” are like a DIY musical in the worst way—they’re earnest and melody-less, the sort of numbers you’d expect from musical theater students at your local community college. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” this is not. But as the series continues, it finds its grove, musically and with its two central…
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True/False 2023: Ebert Fellows on Their Favorites from This Year’s Event
Editor’s note: Earlier this month, as part of their University of Illinois College of Media Roger Ebert Fellowship, the 2022-24 Ebert Fellows undergraduates Lee Beckett, Andrew Stover, and Tania Trejo got an eyeful of nonfiction wonders at the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, MO. Here are their reports. Lee Beckett True/False was the first film…
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The Consummate Professional: Lance Reddick (1962-2023)
It’s clichéd to say this about someone after they’re gone, but a show or movie changed when Lance Reddick showed up. He brought a quiet intensity and refined gravity to everything he did. So when his face appeared on screen, everything was somehow instantly elevated. Think about when he appears late in Adam Wingard’s “The…
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Bitcoin ATM customers hacked by video upload that was actually an app
As the misquote goes, “Once is misfortune…” This is the second time, and you know what Lady Bracknell had to say about that…
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Jury convicts 3 men of murder in death of rapper XXXTentacion
A Florida jury on Monday found three men guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of XXXTentacion, a rapper who was shot outside a motorcycle shop in 2018.
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Is Sean Hannity a journalist? Role of hosts is key in Fox News lawsuit.
It’s an issue that could cut both ways for Fox News in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems,
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Rupert Murdoch, 92, decides to have another go at marriage
Media baron Rupert Murdoch announced his engagement to former model Ann Lesley Smith,66, in the New York Post; it will be his fifth marriage.