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An influential Iranian filmmaker has died. How the art world gets “Brexit” all wrong. And helpful advice for George Lucas on how he might actually get his museum of narrative art built. Plus, President Obama’s library architects, the Orange County Museum of Art moves forward with move plans and...

Video games have a representation problem. Last month at the biggest show in the video game industry (E3), just 3% of the featured games had exclusively female protagonists, while 41% had exclusively male protagonists.

Twitter is turning to internet entrepreneur and former Facebook exec Bret Taylor to juice up its board.

Known for its romantic, old world charm, Paris is often defined by its well-known monuments like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre.

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MONTREAL, July 5 (UPI) -- A Montreal drone enthusiast put his hobby to practical use by using his quadcopter to barbecue a steak on his grill.

Stephen Curry surprises basketball campers by impersonating a Girl Scout and a pizza delivery man.

A day after making the biggest possible splash of free agency by reaching a contract agreement with seven-time All-Star Kevin Durant, the Warriors on Tuesday continued trying to make waves by canvassing the market for minimum-contract bargains. Considering all goes as planned with Durant and center Zaza Pachulia, who agreed to a one-year, $2.9 million deal, when the NBA moratorium ends Thursday, the Warriors will have 11 players locked up and will have to fill out the final three or four roster spots with minimum contracts. Читать дальше...

Clinton has faced scandal for months over her email.

It was December 2007, and the last session of Congress before Christmas recess was winding down. With little fanfare, the Senate approved H.R. 2640, a bill intended to improve the federal background check system for gun sales. Moments after the bill passed, its sponsor, former Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, spoke on the floor about what the legislation meant to her. Credit: CSPAN … Click to Continue »

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is defending his management of Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal casino, which is in the fifth day of a strike by unionized workers. [...] striking workers say their beef is with Icahn, not with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. According to a statement from her campaign, Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, intends on Wednesday to highlight Trump's management of Atlantic City casinos in the 1980s and '90s, including three bankruptcy filings under his reign.

Snyder spokeswoman Anna Heaton says Tuesday that the "payments are necessary for the long-term financial stability of the retirement system teachers rely on for health care benefits." The state appeals court ruled last month that initial salary deductions were improper.

NEW YORK — It turns out the bombs bursting in air over Washington for PBS’ presentation of “A Capitol Fourth” were, at least in part, reruns. The public broadcasting service said Tuesday that it should have informed viewers that footage from previous years’ fireworks displays were used on its ostensibly live program the night before.

Minutes of the Federal Reserve’s June meeting could shed more light on whether the central bank was alarmed by the weakness in the May job report.

The sparks just keep flying in the Kardashian family.  While Khloe Kardashian was getting cozy with Trey Songz in Las Vegas this holiday weekend, Kendall Jenner and basketball...

– Soji Adagunodo, the chairman of the Osun state chapter of the PDP, has said that the agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war is to suppress the party – He also said the war against corruption is to boost the chances of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2019 general election – Adagunodo said […]

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I don't know why but I can't stop watching this video of Joe Jonas wearing very patriotic clothes (assumably purchased from Walmart) while smoking a cigar with an American flag tied around his neck.

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It's so aggressively Ameribro that I should know better than falling into this fratboi trap...

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...BUT INSTEAD I'M SEEING STARS AND JOCKSTRAPS. Читать дальше...

For over two years, music publishers and songwriters have petitioned the Dept. of Justice for changes to the 75-year-old rules they were governed by...

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If anyone is still making Harry Potter jokes about Daniel Radcliffe, they won't be after seeing the British actor in the first trailer for "Imperium."

The thriller, which is inspired by a true story, features Radcliffe as Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent who goes undercover to take down a white supremacist terrorist group.

Radcliffe, sporting an American accent, plays Foster as squeamish and nervous in his undercover role, which drives the nonstop intensity of the trailer. Читать дальше...

Tarvaris Jackson has apparently secured representation, and that representation has done its first job. According to TMZ, the former Seahawks quarterback has pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, after he allegedly pointed a gun at his wife and threatened to kill her. The plea was reportedly filed Friday. Jackson’s request for a…

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History is no prologue – sometimes. It’s different for stock markets, though.

Earlier this year, we wrote about the “January barometer.” This suggests that stock market performance in January foreshadows market performance for the full year. So if markets are up in January, there’s a good chance they will end the year positive. But if January is negative, the odds are that markets will end the year negative.

We analysed whether stock market performance... Читать дальше...

A TV news reporter was robbed in Brooklyn while covering the fatal shooting of a career criminal by an off-duty police officer.

London investment banks have a simple message for staff: just be glad you have a job.

Welcome back to Takeover Tuesday, where each week Billboard taps charting artists and tastemakers to compile their very own playlist...

In “Schooled,” the San Francisco Mime Troupe argues that the purpose of education is to build citizens, to prepare young adults to make informed decisions in their civic life. The company’s free summer show of its 57th season also makes a compelling case that art is foundational to a healthy democracy. In “Schooled,” the evil corporation is Learning Academy of Virtual Achievement, or LAVA, which seeks to “spread” to Eleanor Roosevelt High School. The set for all this bravado is, if anything, even... Читать дальше...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Just a few years ago, Islam al-Bayed spent seven months in an Israeli prison for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli troops. [...] the 26-year-old Palestinian man has become an unlikely symbol of tolerance after rescuing an Israeli family whose car crashed following a deadly roadside shooting by Palestinian militants in the West Bank. Israel has responded by imposing a closure around the city of Hebron and beefed up its troop presence in the volatile area. [...] al-Bayed... Читать дальше...