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A spy hunts for a rat—who could be his own wife.Steven Soderbergh’s second movie of this young year turns out to be “precisely the sort of adult, big-budget, star-driven affair that Hollywood has largely forsaken yet desperately needs,” said Nick Schager in The Daily Beast. Michael Fassbender and Ca...
A murder in the White House kicks off this new series, a waggish whodunit starring Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black) as a brilliant D.C. detective called in to determine who killed the White House’s chief usher during a state dinner. The star-studded cast includes Giancarlo Esposito as the victim,...
“I have long been fascinated by the Japanese take on wine,” said Elin McCoy in Bloomberg. Japanese and Japanese-American winemakers are making their mark from Sonoma County to Burgundy, France, and many of those vintners “have a special affinity for making pinot noirs in a delicate, subtle style wit...
by Omar El AkkadOmar El Akkad’s new best-seller about the war on Gaza is “damn hard to put down,” said Dina Nayeri in The Guardian. “Powerful, angry, but always compelling in its moral logic,” it’s the anguished cry of a celebrated novelist and disillusioned U.S. citizen who has followed the daily h...
The glam rocker who was a godfather of punkSporting platform boots, red patent leather, and lipstick, David Johansen was a flashy pioneer of proto-punk. As frontman for the New York Dolls—a short-lived, off-the-walls, gender-bending band of the early 1970s—Johansen put a New York City spin on the bu...
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Talking Point Oil-based wealth fund is intended 'for future generations of Norwegians', but Putin's war poses an existential threat
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Talking Point Disability benefits are at risk of cuts as the government hunts for funding
Under the Radar The painting in question is currently in a Spanish museum
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Speed Read The Democrats end the threat of government shutdown
Speed Read Former Florida congressmen Dr. Dave Weldon was nominated to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speed Read Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE team face a big setback in their efforts to shrink the federal workforce
Speed Read Robert Morris, former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, is accused of sexually abusing a child
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