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For centuries, mythology looked to gods to explain a disquieting world. But in the new documentary βFolktales,β from βJesus Campβ filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, which follows a trio of jumbled Scandinavian teens to a remote Norwegian school that builds character in the snowy wild, the answer to life may just lie in what…
Roblox, the popular online gaming platform that hosts millions of user-created games, said Tuesday it is strengthening protections for minors.Β Roblox said it will soon require players to use AI-powered facial age-estimation technology to help verify their age. The system, combined with ID-based age verification and confirmed parental consent, is intended to “provide a more…
During President Obamaβs first term, when the U.S. and Cuba initially made attempts to thaw our icy relationship, I visited the island country as part of an educational delegation. We met with government officials including Mariela Castro, the daughter of then-President Raul Castro, as she was working on pro-LGBTQ+ legislation. We visited the burial site…
NEW YORKΒ βΒ What makes life worth living? For hard-core βHarry Potterβ fans with money to burn, it might be getting Broadway tickets to interact fleetingly with Daniel Radcliffe in βEvery Brilliant Thing,β an ingenious and touching solo performance piece written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe on the subject of suicide β or more precisely, on…
On the eve of the release of her 12th album, Taylor Swift received a thank-you note from George Michaelβs estate for including his work in her version of βFather Figure.β βWhen we heard the track we had no hesitation in agreeing to this association between two great artists and we know George would have felt…
The controversial assisted dying bill is still very much alive, having received a second reading in the House of Lords without a vote. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. Day two of debate on the bill in the Lords was just as passionate and emotional as the first, a week earlier. And now comes…
Universal Music Group is investing $80 million for a stake in one of Indiaβs biggest Bollywood production companies, Excel Entertainment Pvt. Universal Music India, a division of Universal Music Group, will acquire a 30% equity interest in the Mumbai-based movie studio. In the deal, announced Monday, the companies will work together on forthcoming films, series,…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ NASA recaptured the worldβs attention with Artemis II, which took astronauts to the moon and back for the first time in half a century. But the agencyβs scientific projects could again be under threat as the Trump administration makes a renewed push to drastically cut their funding β including at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The…
“We will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!” The latest late-night broadside from Donald Trump has torn another strip off the tattered remains of the special relationship Sir Keir Starmer has spent the past year trying to cultivate. Politics Live: ‘PM learning lessons from what went wrong in Iraq’…
The U.S. Justice Department sued California Secretary of State Shirley Weber on Thursday for failing to hand over the stateβs voter rolls, alleging she is unlawfully preventing federal authorities from ensuring state compliance with federal voting regulations and safeguarding federal elections against fraud. The Justice Department also sued Weberβs counterparts in Michigan, Minnesota, New York,…
