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What to Know About Israel’s Strikes in Syria and the Druse Minority
Israel has been bombing Syrian government forces who intervened in clashes in a region controlled by the Syrian Druse minority, which Israel pledged to protect.
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KVIFF 2025: Awards and Wrap-Up
Experiencing it for the first time during its 59th edition, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival proved—at least for this critic—both formidable and revitalizing. The same can be said for the very best of the films that screened all week long in this scenic spa town in the Czech Republic. Still, there was ample energy…
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Our Minds Have Been Colonized: Ari Aster on “Eddington”
It may be about time, or perhaps far too soon, to craft a movie that explores the realities of living through Summer 2020. Regardless, director Ari Aster’s pugnacious and genre-pliant “Eddington” is here, and it offers up the best approximation of the unique hell of that time. Bristling with natural ease, Joaquin Phoenix plays Joe…
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KVIFF 2025: Sand City, The Visitor, Better Go Mad in the Wild
It’s always surprising, when watching films from all over the world at a festival as diverse as this year’s 59th Karlovy Vary International Festival, how strong thematic parallels start to emerge. Between the festival’s main competition, with 12 feature-film premieres competing for the prestigious Crystal Globe, and its sidebar Proxima section, dedicated to bold works…
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New Clue to How Matter Outlasted Antimatter at the Big Bang Is Found
Physicists working at the CERN particle physics lab said they detected a slight but significant difference in how particles of matter and antimatter decay.
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Ceratosaur Fossil Auctioned for $30.5 Million by Sotheby’s
The price paid for the juvenile specimen of the 150-million-year old predatory dinosaur is the third-highest on record.
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This Golden Fungus Is Spreading Wildly in North America’s Forests
The golden oyster mushroom, a tasty species native to Asia, has proliferated in states around the Great Lakes and may crowd out native species, a new study shows.
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Is This Restaurant the Only Thing Democrats and Republicans Agree On?
In polarized Washington, Ama is drawing leaders from both camps with an anti-additive menu and a vow to bar all manner of toxicity.
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Where Do Berlin’s Club Kids Go When They Grow Up? La Maison for a Croissant.
The coffee shop and patisserie in the Kreuzberg neighborhood has became a daytime hot spot in a city known for its nightlife.
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What Is a Coffee Bucket? A Trend has Lattes Going Big for Attention.
Across the United States, cafes are serving jumbo-size coffee drinks in plastic buckets. The gimmick is working.