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Cannes Day 5: ‘Club Kid’ and ‘Gentle Monster’ Break Out, John Travolta Gets a Surprise
We’ve hit the weekend! The 2026 Cannes Film Festival rolls on, and it appears we finally have a couple of breakout films after a sleepy start to the festivities. Plus plenty of reviews, a surprise Palme d’Or and more. We’ve got it all, let’s break it down. ‘Club Kid’ and ‘Gentle Monster’ Get Warm Receptions…
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Trump’s Visit to China
Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a high-stakes summit in Beijing this week.…
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NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean
NASA satellites are tracking an intriguing patch of colored plumes in the waters off the US’s Mid-Atlantic coast. Swirling with vivid hues of green and turquoise, and tinged with a little brown, the stained waters were first detected by orbital observatories in early April. But they were most intense in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, an area…
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Judge hammers Trump agency for turning arrest into social media stunt
ICE agents turned a protester’s violent arrest at gunpoint into a social media campaign, which a federal judge has now called a “vindictive effort” to punish him, The Guardian reported on Friday. Christian Cerna, 28, a carpenter from Boyle Heights and United States citizen, was targeted by ICE agents after he attended a protest against…
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Southwest Airlines bans robots after humanoid ‘Stewie’ takes a flight
No bots allowed! A 3.5-foot humanoid robot scored a seat on a Southwest Airlines flight to Dallas, but the airline grounded the bot before it could earn frequent flyer miles. Tech entrepreneur Aaron Mehdizadeh, gave the robot, named Stewie, his own seat in coach aboard a May 10 flight from Las Vegas to Dallas instead…
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Nick Lachey claims ex Jessica Simpson flew in first class while her 3 kids sat in economy during 6-hour flight
His mouth was made for talkin’. Nick Lachey revealed that he, his wife Vanessa Lachey, and their three kids sat in first class near his ex-wife, Jessica Simpson, while on a six-hour flight to Hawaii in March. Meanwhile, Nick’s former “Newlyweds” co-star’s children flew in economy, according to the 98 Degrees member. Nick Lachey (pictured…
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Outrage breaks out as analysts get first look at Trump’s financial disclosures: ‘impeach!’
On Thursday, President Donald Trump disclosed a “flurry” of financial transactions he’d made earlier this year, but on Saturday, Bloomberg correspondent Josh Wingrove unpacked those transactions in greater detail, and in doing so, sparked outrage among critics. The financial disclosures revealed this week that Trump or his advisers had made “at least $220 million in…
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Cassidy defiant as Trump’s revenge campaign closes in
As Bill Cassidy fights for his political life, he’s refusing to acknowledge the political gravity surrounding him. Five years after he cast a vote to convict President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial over Trump’s election denialism and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Cassidy is facing a challenge from Trump-backed Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.) and…
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GOP civil war growing as party ‘splinters’ over Israel ties: report
A significant schism is emerging within the Republican Partyover the extent to which the United States should support Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — with a substantial number of MAGA voters showing unwavering loyalty while non-MAGA conservatives increasingly question America’s commitment to the longtime ally. According to Politico, new polling from The POLITICO Poll…
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‘Sheep in the Box’ Review: Japanese Film About Grief and Parenting is a Lo-Fi Stunner
“Sheep in the Box,” Hirokazu Kore-eda’s movie about androids, artificial intelligence and found family, plays out in exactly the ways you might think a Kore-eda film about those subjects would, and is also something uniquely and touchingly unexpected. Kore-eda (“Shoplifters,” “Still Walking”) has always been a humanist filmmaker, one who has no naïvete about our…