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Gloria Steinem, the indefatigable feminist and journalist whose activism revolutionized the personal and professional lives of women, has died. She was 92. Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her,” a post on…
Prime Video is doubling its investment in Japanese original content over the next two years, according to three of the streamer’s top executives, who detailed a slate led by a documentary on boy band Arashi‘s reunion tour and subsequent conclusion from Kore-eda Hirokazu, in an…
In 2025, AI deepfakes flooded Tinder. According to the company, 98 percent of the content-moderation actions on the app were focused on combating fake accounts, scamming, and spam, pushing the company to expand its moderation efforts for its 60 million global users. The problem is…
Evan Rachel Wood appeared to shade her original “Practical Magic” co-stars Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock by revealing in an Instagram story (via Entertainment Weekly) that no one involved in the 1998 cult classic reached out to her when she was not invited back to…
WASHINGTON — An American journalist has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for acting as an agent of a foreign government within the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said. Thomas Weir Pauken II, 51, pleaded guilty earlier this year and is not…
LIVINGSTON, Texas — Texas authorities rescued dozens of people from stranded cars, homes surrounded by floodwaters and an assisted living facility Wednesday as former Tropical Storm Edouard lingered over rural parts of the state and dumped nearly 2 feet of rain in some places. Heavy…
NEW YORK — Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife asked a judge on Wednesday to dismiss the drug trafficking indictment against them on the grounds that they have immunity as the leader and first lady of a foreign country. In papers filed in…
NEW YORK — Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer has died. She was 70. Dubbed America’s best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice, which expanded the boundaries of traditional blues-based jazz and…
It’s been two and a half years since Guy Ritchie ushered viewers into the dazzling, violent criminal underworld of his Netflix series “The Gentlemen.” Now, in an even darker and more volatile second season, audiences are reentering this world, with a very different Eddie (an…
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (also known as PÖFF), the largest and only A-list festival in the Baltics, is turning the spotlight on Baltic Cinema, with the backing from the Estonian Film Institute, National Film Centre of Latvia and…