Kaouther Ben Hania, the director of last year’s Oscar-nominated docudrama “The Voice of Hind Rajab” — about the killing of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza by Israeli forces — has rejected the news that Israel is launching an investigation into Rajab’s death, describing it as “a smokescreen.” On Wednesday, the Israeli military admitted that
This is an as-told-essay based on a conversation with Joslyn Kelly, owner of J’s Breakfast Club in Gary, Indiana, which experienced a major power outage following a derecho, or a widespread, long-lived wind storm, on August 11. As of Thursday evening, over 57,000 customers remained without power, according to Northern Indiana Public Service Co. This
The captain of a boat that capsized near New York Harbor this month, killing a 27-year old mother and her 5-month-old daughter, has been detained by immigration agents for entering the country illegally, officials said. Manuel Hernandez was first arrested earlier this month, and charged with reckless endangerment leading to death. He was later released
The US is nearing its $41.1tn debt ceiling, with debt forecast to climb to about $64tn by 2036, according to the Congressional Budget Office. But the situation is not yet critical, say economists. The US’s position as the world’s largest economy and the dollar being the world’s reserve currency gives the US a “much longer
“The Marching Band” blasts through more story in its first 12 minutes than many films now manage in two hours. In those first 720 seconds we meet Thibaut (Benjamin Lavernhe), a well-heeled classical music conductor in Paris, who discovers that he will need to find a blood marrow transplant as he has leukemia; he learns
The world does not need any more AI productivity tools. We’ve evaluated such tools running well into triple digits in the past 12 months alone, and believe that the vast majority of those are destined for the graveyard. We’re in the most exponential cycle of innovation, and therefore value creation, the world has ever seen.