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Cannes 2025 Video #5: Chaz Ebert on “Nouvelle Vague” and “Highest 2 Lowest”; Interviews with Elizabeth Guest and Filmmakers of “Average White Band”; Nicole Kidman on Women in Motion Award
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development. In today’s video, Chaz reviews the latest from Richard Linklater and Spike Lee, and talks to “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” filmmaker Elizabeth Guest about shopping her first narrative feature around Cannes, as well as the producer…
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Historic Shipwrecks Come to Light in the Great Lakes
With an underwater drone named Rhody, archaeologists are mapping some of the dozens of sunken vessels in Lake Ontario.
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Why Making an iPhone in the U.S. Would Be So Difficult
Apple has resisted pressure to make its most important product in the United States since 2016, and instead has moved some production to India.
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Trump Threatens 50% Tariff on E.U. and 25% Tariff on Apple
The president threatened both Apple and the European Union with higher tariffs on Friday, saying trade talks with the Europeans had stalled.
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Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on AGI, Innovation and More
Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, says that “we’re quite close” to human-level artificial intelligence. After that, all bets are off.
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Karen Dunn and Other Top Lawyers Depart Paul Weiss to Start Firm
They are leaving a few months after Paul Weiss cut a deal with the White House to avoid an executive order that would have restricted its business.
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National Security Council Staff Will Be Cut by Half
The dramatic restructuring was revealed by Marco Rubio, who is acting as the national security adviser.
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How the Trump Administration Has the Upper Hand Against Harvard
Even against one of the nation’s oldest institutions, the Trump administration holds the levers of power — and it’s using them aggressively.
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Trump’s Order Targeting Jenner & Block Was Unconstitutional, Judge Rules
The decision was nearly identical to another involving the law firm Perkins Coie. Judges in both cases found the orders coercive.
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Supreme Court, for Now, Shields DOGE from Turning Over Records
The chief justice put a temporary hold on a lower court ruling that Elon Musk’s government efficiency team and the Office of Management and Budget turn over internal records.