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Cannes Proves the Movie Star Isn’t Dead. We Just Have to Look Beyond Hollywood
Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan depart the Fjord —Daniele Venturelli/WireImage via Getty Images We’ve been ringing the death knell for Hollywood for so long—decades, really—that now, well into the age of the big, moneygrubbing streamers, it’s become a tinny clink most of us can barely hear. But whether we care to heed it or not,…
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Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout
After more than 2,000 hours of government-imposed connectivity blackouts, there were signs on Tuesday that Iran’s internet is coming back—at least at very low levels. Iran’s more than 90 million citizens have been without internet for the overwhelming majority of 2026, between the current blackout that began on February 28, when Israel and the United…
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Photos: Garden Grove chemical crisis highlights the danger of living near industrial companies
Thousands of people who live near a damaged hazardous chemical tank in Southern California still can’t return home, even as officials say the risk of a catastrophic explosion had largely passed. About 16,000 of roughly 50,000 evacuees are still waiting for the all clear. The tank contains methyl methacrylate, which is highly flammable. Health officials…
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CA’s toxic tank explosion threat has been contained but remains a public safety concern
The threat of a catastrophic tank explosion in Orange County, California has been eliminated, though the overall situation remains unstable, according to reporting by CNN on Monday. At least 50,000 residents have been displaced following Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national state of emergency. The GKN Aerospace facility in Garden…
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Box Office Slump Averted: 3 Takeaways From a $222 Million Memorial Day Weekend
What do Star Wars, a YouTuber and sleuthing sheep have in common? They all led to a surprisingly robust Memorial Day weekend box office, after it looked as though the second half of May would turn into a slowdown. Studio insiders told TheWrap they were projecting $190 million for the four-day weekend, well below last…
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The Democratic Tradition We’ve Forgotten
—Jon Rehg—Getty Images In 1897, the philosopher William James honored Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment—one of the first African American regiments to fight in the Civil War—by urging Americans to recommit to the ethos those soldiers embodied: “civic courage.” James wasn’t glorifying war. He was pointing to the peaceable,…
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‘May Gray has leveled up’: Southern California can expect a cloudy, drizzly week
A period of dreary, windy, cool weather is settling across Southern California this week, as a cold system from the Pacific Northwest moves south. “May Gray has leveled up,” the National Weather Service’s Oxnard office said in its Tuesday morning forecast discussion, noting that “a low-pressure system will bring cool temperatures, morning drizzle and gusty…
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Trump family member trying to give president ‘an absolute nightmare’ in his own backyard
Donald Trump’s own niece is working against him in his own backyard — and she isn’t being subtle about it. Dr. Mary Trump, the president’s niece and one of his most vocal critics, has thrown her support behind Alex Vindman in Florida’s Senate race, calling a Vindman victory “an absolute nightmare at Trump HQ” and…
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Anthropic Co-Founder Thanks Pope for Raising Alarm on AI: ‘We Keep Finding Things That Are … Unsettling’
Pope Leo XIV sounded the alarm on AI in an open letter published on Monday and, later that day, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah thanked him for doing so. According to the computer scientist, AI is in fact already returning “unsettling” findings and should probably be kept in check. In a response posted to Anthropic’s website,…
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Oops! Domino’s-Partnered Robotics Startup That Was Supposed to Put Human Pizza Chefs Out of a Job Just Shut Down
Picnic, a Seattle-based startup that raised more than $53 million to develop robots capable of putting human restaurant workers out of a job — even partnering with the giant pizza chain Domino’s — has shut down. The startup liquidated all of its assets after becoming insolvent, according to legal documents obtained by GeekWire. All its…