On a Saturday afternoon in Michigan, with the sky still cloudy from smoke from the Canadian wildfires, hundreds of voters packed the opulent 104-year-old Detroit Opera House, rising from their seats to cheer loudly as Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez took the stage. As two of the leading figures on the American
Norwegian director Vegard Dahle’s zombie comedy “Grandmonster” won the top Outpost award and a post-production services award at Fantasia Festival’s prestigious Frontières Co-Production Market, which handed out six awards at its closing cocktail party on July 25. The film, about an American dropout who unwittingly triggers a zombie outbreak in a remote Norwegian nursing home
Members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted to remove Karim Khan as chief prosecutor over alleged sexual misconduct. Elected the ICC’s third prosecutor in 2021, Khan was suspended last month. The decision to dismiss him was adopted with 82 votes in favor. The court’s oversight body found in June that he had committed a
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband will be sentenced in federal court on Thursday. Vance Boelter, 59, agreed to plead guilty in June, nearly a year after the Minneapolis-area attacks, when he stalked and killed House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and
TLC in the UK has ordered a Top Trumps themed panel to be hosted by comedian Katherine Ryan. Based on the card game and tentatively titled “Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack,” it will see Ryan in charge of proceedings as team captains Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson battle it out with classic card showdowns, live
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired the country’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. His dismissal comes just days after the dismissal of popular Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, a move that sparked street protests across the country. Initial rumors that the end of Fedorov’s tenure was related to a conflict between the two men were soon confirmed. Fedorov, 35,