Four minutes for Flag Day. Five minutes for Aline. Nine minutes for The French Dispatch.The Cannes Film Festival, which concludes today, has long held an unusual reputation for its lengthy standing ovations. The tradition—which perhaps reached an apotheosis when Pan’s Labyrinth received 22 minutes of applause in 2006—has at times attracted mockery.
On the basis of its advertising, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the indie film Pig is nothing more than the latest over-the-top entry in Nicolas Cage’s bewildering Hollywood career. He’s developed from promising young talent to Oscar winner to action star to, well, living meme.
Senator Bob Corker had just gotten out of a hot-yoga session with his wife on a Sunday morning in 2017 when his phone started blowing up. President Donald Trump was tweeting about him, falsely claiming that the Tennessee Republican supported the Iran deal (he did not) and that he had begged Trump for a reelection endorsement (Corker says he never did such a thing).
There’s a heatwave, and they’re overreacting!
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As Europe was recovering from the Second World War, the philosopher Josef Pieper was wondering about leisure. “A time like the present,” he admitted, “seems, of all times, not to be a time to speak of leisure. We are engaged in the re-building of a house, and our hands are full.
Critics said the decision was out of character for Francis.
They had a child together. Their kid deserves my help more.
New? Used? The car market may not sort itself out for a while.
It started out as a modern, unisex alternative to both the barbershop and the beauty salon.
Andy Slavitt, who helped the task force, said that of all the informal advisers, Luntz was “among the best.
The 18-year-old singer partnered with the White House on Wednesday to encourage young people to get vaccinated.
Health officials and experts worry that the pandemic has sapped the political will to tackle the drug crisis.
I have plenty of reason to doubt them.
School officials received constant harassment, and metal detectors had to be installed at school board meetings.
She’s had fertility troubles, but her obsession with my pregnancy is out of hand.
Teachers advise on childhood bullies, summer reading, and standardized testing.
Both the Fed and the Biden administration have said rapid price increases are being stoked by temporary factors.
Americans are hitting the road as strong economic growth pushes up oil prices, and Republicans are trying to pin pump prices on Biden’s energy policies.
The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled a sharp increase in the number of people going hungry worldwide, along with conflict and the impacts of climate change. A new report on the state of food security and nutrition in the world found about one-tenth of the global population were undernourished last year, more than 2.5 billion people did not have access to sufficiently nutritious food, and one in five children now face stunted growth.
Trump reportedly asked if “Mike” was OK while praising insurrectionists and ripping Pence for lacking the “courage” to overturn the presidential election.
State Republicans backed off a similar plan months ago after the Justice Department warned such activity could be considered voter intimidation.
For the first time in months, the U.S. is reporting more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 every hour as the delta variant spreads nationwide. The increase in cases comes at a time when the number of people being vaccinated is decreasing and the rollout of vaccinations has slowed, the Associated Press reports.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday restored the ability for immigration judges to press pause on the certain deportations, including cases considered low priority or where an immigrant has a petition pending and shouldn’t be deported while that’s decided. The decision, which reverses policy by Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, could significantly slash the immigration backlog, the American Immigration Lawyers Association said.
In June, Donald Trump and Bill O’Reilly announced that they were teaming up for a “history tour” at arenas across the nation. The promise is that Trump and O’Reilly will take the stage so that the disgraced former Fox host can interview the disgraced former real estate scammer, with the later promising to provide a “never-before-heard inside view of his administration — which will be historical in and of itself.
Ex-president, who never served in the military, rips chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top military official in the nation, as a “general who didn’t have a clue.
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By any historical measure this country should not be where it is right now, politically speaking. The worst pandemic to strike this nation in over a century has begun its slow but inexorable transformation into an event now comprehensible in hindsight rather than experienced in the immediate moment.
The immigration program for “Dreamers” must be suspended, a federal judge in Texas ruled.
Thank Democrats for the hottest meme this side of Cannes.
The officials say packaging Covid shots in smaller vials would help, but administration officials believe that poses too many challenges for now.