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“What’s he done now?” My parents live in Cairo and I’m in New York City. We FaceTime once a week and that question is like a game we play. My parents ask about Donald Trump and I ask about Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, whom Trump calls “my favourite dictator”. Aren’t we Egyptian-Americans lucky – a dictator […]
Charlie Brooker can’t help but go there. The Black Mirror creator is wrapping up a story about testing the reflexes of self-driving taxis by stepping in front of one — “Disappointingly, it didn’t try to kill me” — when I bring up a more recent rideshare innovation. Protector, a car service with armed . . […]
Fearing legal repercussions, online harassment and professional consequences, student journalists are retracting their names from published articles amid intensifying repression by the Trump administration targeting students perceived to be associated with the pro-Palestinian movement. Editors at university newspapers say that anxiety among writers has risen since the arrest of the Tufts University graduate student
Co-Directed and Co-Produced by Two-Time Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker Oscar Corral MIAMI, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Interstate, a powerful new documentary by two-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Oscar Corral, exposes the overlooked consequences of the U.S. Interstate Highway System and its devastating impact on Black communities. The film reveals how the 1950s push for a nationwide highway […]
Astronomers have uncovered a treasure trove of feeding black holes at the heart of dwarf galaxies — small, faint galaxies containing thousands to several billions of stars but very little gas. The discovery, made with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), contains several “missing link” intermediate-mass
Figure skating mourns victims of US plane crash The close-knit world of figure skating was in mourning on Thursday after a passenger jet carrying athletes and coaches, including former Russian world pairs champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, crashed into Washington’s Potomac River.The plane carrying 64 collided midair with a military helicopter as it was […]
At first glance, it was easy to wonder whether Melania Trump had dressed for a funeral instead of her husband’s presidential inauguration Monday, but her very dark-looking coat, pencil skirt and wide-brimmed hat were actually navy, not black. Still, there were lots of dark-looking colors donned by the women in Donald Trump’s family at his […]
Remedy Entertainment’s critically acclaimed Alan Wake 2 is one of the best-looking and most immersive games released to date. Alongside the availability of GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, it’ll get even better with the release of an update that adds several new NVIDIA RTX technologies, multiplying performance and enhancing image quality. Alan Wake 2 will […]
TikTok is reportedly back online for many US users after the social media app went dark early Sunday when a new law banning the app took effect at midnight. The Chinese-owned service welcomed users back after a 12-hour shutdown, CNN reported, after . . .
Wow! That escalated quickly. Last time I filed my supposedly funny column, only two weeks ago, Los Angeles wasn’t on fire; Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg hadn’t abandoned the guardrails that restrict neo-fascist lies, or “free speech . . .