Putting on this year's festival of Palestinian film in the Canadian cultural hub wasn't easy, but the stories kept coming. It’s a typical Wednesday afternoon on King Street West, Toronto’s bustling entertainment district. Wading through busy sidewalks and avoiding the perpetual construction feels a little like swimming upstream, all to the ambient noise of passing streetcars and the screeching tires...
For a director’s project that would come in between an MCU sequel and the latest in the 28 Days… zombie horror series, Ibsen seems an unconventional choice. But in a world that tends to flatten complicated women and their myriad ambitions, it makes perfect sense that Nia DaCosta would turn to the tangled web of ‘Hedda Gabler’ and jolt the classic awake....
While the U.S. government remains in limbo during a shutdown, the White House grounds have been busy this week. Construction workers have begun demolition on the White House’s East Wing, which will be replaced by a 90,000-square-foot ballroom that’s estimated to hold up to 1,000 guests. Taxpayers are not funding President Donald Trump’s $250 million project. Rather, he is using...
Tesla’s record sales quarter has offered the company a reprieve after a terrible start to 2025. But CEO Elon Musk is focused on building a “robot army” and making good on his years-long, unfulfilled promise of self-driving cars — tasks he needs to accomplish if he is to unlock the full value of the $1 trillion compensation package that Tesla...
As the entertainment industry reckons with when and how to use generative AI in filmmaking, Netflix is leaning in. In its quarterly earnings report released on Tuesday afternoon, Netflix wrote in its letter to investors that it is “very well positioned to effectively leverage ongoing advances in AI.” Netflix isn’t planning to use generative AI as the backbone of its...
Each year, more than nine million people in the United States do not take their medicines as prescribed owing to cost concerns. People there pay up to four times as much for new medicines as do individuals in other high-income countries.US President Donald Trump announced a deal with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on 30 September, aimed at improving the affordability of...
Watch: "I don't want to have a wasted meeting", says Trump on talks with PutinDonald Trump has said he did not want a "wasted meeting" after a plan to have face-to-face talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine were put on hold.The US president indicated that a key sticking point remained Moscow's refusal to cease...
PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Prince George County parents are rallying against a new rule that restricts what kids can wear during Parks and Recreation games. On Tuesday, Oct. 14, the county’s board of supervisors voted 3-1 in favor of a set of rules regulating messaging on county-sponsored jerseys. This comes after youth soccer coach Andrew Collins added the...
(RNS) — Rabbi Arthur Waskow, an iconic social justice activist considered the forefather of postwar American Jewish progressivism, died Monday (Oct. 20), one week after celebrating his 92nd birthday. Waskow, who since 1983 led the Shalom Center in Philadelphia, was active in many of the leading social causes of the late 20th century, starting with nuclear disarmament, civil rights, environmental...
A newly developed method that improves the accuracy of ankle blood pressure measurements could transform care for people who are unable to have their blood pressure taken from the arm. Researchers from the University of Exeter Medical School, in a study published in BMJ Open and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), analyzed data from...
