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Was This Artifact From King Tut’s Tomb? It’s for Sale Anyway.
A London auction house says there is “no documented evidence” that an intricately carved grasshopper is from the boy king’s tomb. Its estimated price is up to $675,000.
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“King of the Hill” Slides Right Back into Confidently Funny Rhythms
Other than a few major changes, including the age of one beloved character and the occasional reflection of the culture battles facing the country today, the reboot of “King of the Hill” picks up not far at all from where the Fox hit left us in 2009. The Mike Judge comedy was written off by…
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Fantasia 2025: Mother of Flies, The Virgin of the Quarry Lake, Foreigner
While yesterday’s dispatch also included a host of young women seeking solace in the supernatural, it’s a journey rife for exploration here at Fantasia: Witches, curses, folkloric tapestries woven through all the hormones, pain, and uncertainty of adolescence. So here we are, with another trio of tales designed to manifest the conjoined pains of lust,…
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Cinema Femme Short Film Festival 2025: Highlights & Hope for the Future of Film
For five full days, the Cinema Femme Short Film Festival gathered audiences to celebrate and support female, trans, and non-binary filmmakers. In its seventh edition of exhibiting short films, Cinema Femme reached new spaces, nourished new and existing communities, and curated programming both on and off the screen. Although anchored in Chicago, Cinema Femme showcases films…
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Project Veritas Withdraws Lawsuit Against The New York Times
The conservative group accused The Times of defamation over an article published in 2020.
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Behind Trump’s War With Powell: A Battering Ram With 3 Million Followers
The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency has made the removal of the Fed chair his personal mission.
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He Placated Regulators to Buy Paramount. But Can He Fix the Business?
Paramount’s cable business has cratered. The news division is in turmoil. A.I. is coming for movies. And those are just the obvious challenges facing David Ellison as he takes control.
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Citing New Rules, Meta Says It Will End Political Ads in E.U.
Meta said political advertising would end in October, citing a forthcoming E.U. regulation that it said presented “unworkable requirements.”
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Russia Again Cuts Interest Rates as Its Economy Slows
Falling inflation has persuaded the central bank in Moscow to continue relaxing the country’s record borrowing costs.
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Republicans Begin Effort to Sell Tax Law in Trump Policy Bill to Las Vegas Voters
With lawmakers out of Washington for a five-week summer recess, a field hearing in a swing state gave G.O.P. lawmakers a controlled environment for pitching a measure that polls show is unpopular.