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United StatesRNS While the number of US Catholics is increasing, the total number of Catholic parishes nationwide declined nine per cent between 1970 and 2020, according to a new report by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. In 10 of the 11 dioceses studied, those closures are disproportionately happening in Black and […]
Comment on this storyComment After years of promises of new climate funding, the developing world is coming to grips with a disappointing reality: Money still isn’t coming through fast enough to address the mounting challenges of climate change.
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON – Lower income households and Black and Latino communities will be hit hard when a confluence of U.S. economic events kick off next week, including a sharp drop in childcare funding, economists, analysts and government officials said. About 12.4%, some 41 million, of the U.S.’s 333 million people live at or […]
July 20 (Reuters) – Florida’s board of education has approved new guidelines for teachers on how Black American history should be taught despite sharp criticism from some educators and civil rights groups. Among the new
Canadian wildfire smoke live updates: Poor air quality, haze hits East Coast The Washington Post Source link
2h ago / 1:00 AM EDT Poor air quality could last for a few days in the U.S. because of fires The northern part of the U.S. near the Great Lakes could have poor air quality for “the next few days” thanks to a low-pressure system, the National Weather Service said tonight. The forecast area […]
Photos: YouTube Screenshots WASHINGTON—With the stark theme of “Poverty = Death”, the Poor People’s Campaign is renewing its drive to put poverty eradication atop the U.S. agenda. In a day-long Moral Poverty Action Congress in D.C. on Juneteenth, a June 20 rally on Capitol Hill, and lobbying lawmakers in between and the day after that, […]
At an April 14 news conference in Washington, DC, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) chief Anne Milgram sounded the alarm about the country’s latest appointed public enemy number one: four Mexican guys known as “Los Chapitos”, the sons of imprisoned Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Declaring El Chapo’s offspring “responsible for the massive influx” […]
People suffering from heart and lung disease have been advised to stay inside. May 21, 2023, 12:02 PM ET • 6 min read Several regions in the U.S. are suffering from poor air quality as the smoke from the wildfires burning in Canada make its way south. A large portion of the of the U.S. […]
Poor Things is a sexually liberated black comedy stirring with emotion and topical commentary: Brisbane International Film Festival Review
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November 6, 2023
Like his previous works that celebrate their fantastical, absurdist nature with a certain gravitas, Yorgos Lanthimos grounds Poor Things, an undeniably wild, oft-offensive, sexually liberated black comedy, with a stirring sense of emotion and topical commentary. In 19th century London – or what such a time period looks like within Lanthimos’ vivid imagination – the […]