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βLong Story Short,β premiering Friday on Netflix, is the sweet, melancholy, satirical, silly, poignant, hopeful, sometimes slapstick cartoon tale of a middle-class Jewish family, told nonchronologically from the 1990s to the 2020s. For all its exaggerations β and unexaggerated portrayals of exaggerated behaviors β it is remarkably acute, and surprisingly moving, about relations between parents…
π Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app π Can Britain afford both welfare and warfare? Beth Rigby takes us inside the row that could define Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership. From that huge Commons rebellion over welfare cuts to the looming pressure on defence spending, how can the government look after…
Newly unsealed and edited video shows TikTok employees and consultants expressing concern that potentially addictive features of the app could harm users’ mental health. The video compilation, which was shared with CBS News by the North Carolina Department of Justice, is part of the evidence in a 2024 lawsuit the state’s former attorney general filed…
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL THURSDAYβS WEEK ZERO RESULTS CITY SECTION Nonleague Granada Hills 50, North Hollywood 16 SOUTHERN SECTION Nonleague Aliso Niguel 38, Beckman 3 Apple Valley 20, Orange Vista 6 Beaumont 58, San Jacinto 14 Big Bear 41, Riverside Prep 7 Bolsa Grande 66, Savanna 0 Chino Hills 40, Glendora 0 Citrus Hill 35, Redlands…
US stocks have fallen for five days running as traders nervously await a speech from Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. Central bankers are gathering for an annual summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where Mr Powell could indicate whether interest rates will be cut soon. The Fed hasn’t reduced the cost of borrowing since December –…
Long before Zack Fox was making scene-stealing appearances in βAbbott Elementary,β releasing music and amassing millions of views on his sweat-inducing DJ sets, he was best known for his Twitter jokes. Fox, a graphic artist and emcee for Atlanta-based indie label Awful Records at the time, was posting absurdly funny tweets under the alias βBootymath,β…
The UK government won’t find much in the latest dump of migration data to back up its claim that it is restoring order to a broken asylum system. In a competitive field, perhaps the most damaging stat is the rising number of small boat crossings – up 38% on 12 months previously and close to…
The future of streaming and movies The future of streaming and movies as “Stranger Things” creators sign with Paramount 03:17 Apple is raising the price of a subscription to its Apple TV+ streaming service for U.S. customers. The technology giant said Thursday that an Apple TV+ subscription will now cost $12.99 a month, up from…
DENVERΒ βΒ When the Dodgers arrived in Colorado on Sunday night they had a golden opportunity to pad their narrow division lead against with the worst team in the majors. Unfortunately, even with Thursdayβs 9-5 win over the Rockies, the Dodgers only managed a split of the four-game series. They now head to San Diego for a…
One of the UK’s last remaining steel companies has been pushed into compulsory liquidation – and will fall into government control. Speciality Steels UK (SSUK), part of the Liberty Steel empire owned by metals tycoon Sanjeev Gupta, employs nearly 1,500 people at sites in Rotherham and several other locations across South Yorkshire. Behind Tata Steel…
