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Neill Blomkamp Is Making It Look Like AI Is the Last Resort for Filmmakers With Failing Careers
For director Neill Blomkamp, “District 9” must feel like an eternity ago. The 2009 sci-fi action film used a quasi-documentary style to tell a thrilling tale of a man fighting for survival against government-backed mercenaries while his body fused with alien DNA — even if, let’s be real, it was an extremely clunky allegory for…
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Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,000 people
BUNIA, Congo — More than 1,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in Congo, according to Africa’s top health body, a grim toll as conflict, community resistance and an uneven response fuel its spread. Speaking at a health summit in Ghana on Wednesday, Dr. Jean Kaseya, director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention,…
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Billion-dollar BBC lawsuit threatens to expose Trump’s executive privilege claims
President Donald Trump’s $10 billion BBC defamation lawsuit threatens to expose his repeated legal losses to attorney and former special counsel Jack Smith during sealed grand jury proceedings. The BBC filed a reply brief Wednesday, asking Chief Judge James Boasberg to unseal rulings from the Smith investigation in which courts uniformly rejected Trump’s attempts to…
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Trial date set for Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro in U.S. drug trafficking case
NEW YORK — Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife will go on trial on drug trafficking charges next June, a judge said, as their lawyers continue to object to the U.S. military action that snatched them from power. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein set the June 1 trial date at the request of lawyers on both…
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Trump’s ‘fix is in’ rhetoric is about to boomerang back and hit MAGA: ex-adviser
President Donald Trump’s “fix is in” rhetoric could compel his biggest fans to skip voting, a new analysis contends. Miles Taylor, chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security during the president’s first term, argued Thursday that Trump’s constant pushing on the SAVE America Act is fundamentally flawed. That’s terrible news for GOP candidates…
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Microseries Economy Valued at $150 Billion Outside of China as AI-Generated Shows Take Off
The microseries economy is now valued at $150 billion globally, and that’s excluding its biggest market in China. Holywater Tech and Owl & Co.’s released their first-ever State of Microdrama report on Thursday, with research stemming from in-product data from Holywater’s MyDrama and MyMuse apps as well as a user survey of 2,737 respondents. The…
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Knicks fans can marvel at the NBA championship trophy — now on display at the Museum of Natural History
HOOP, there it is! What’s bigger than a T. rex, at least according to New Yorkers at the American Museum of Natural History? The New York Knicks‘ NBA Championship trophy, a 29-pound hunk of hard-won metal that will soon go on display at the Upper West Side landmark. Starting this Monday, July 27, the NBA’s…
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‘Mormon Wives’ star Layla Taylor confirms identity of girlfriend
“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Layla Taylor is dating Kelsie Chesser. The reality TV star confirmed their relationship status when Chesser shared a TikTok video on Tuesday, which she captioned, “When I slid into my girlfriend’s DMs just hoping she was into girls.” Chesser, who sang along to Beyoncé’s “Partition” in the video,…
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Trump says Saudi nuclear pact requires kingdom to normalize Israel relations through Abraham Accords
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Thursday that a new agreement reached with Saudi Arabia for a civilian nuclear program will require the kingdom to normalize relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords. In a post on social media, the Republican president said the deal does not allow for enrichment of uranium. Nonproliferation experts have raised concerns that…
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‘Demented old man at the helm’: Trump skewered for Truth Social diplomacy ‘failure’
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Thursday that President Donald Trump has used Truth Social to announce changes to the Saudi nuclear deal, sparking backlash online. Leavitt told reporters during a White House press conference that Trump had made the public comments despite the fact that he had not consulted them this time.…