“It’s hard not to feel a disturbance in the force,” said Ethan Hawke, whose acting career took off after his early movies appeared at the Utah festival in the 1990s.
Russian attacks on civilians in Kherson, in southern Ukraine, have forced important aspects of life to go underground, offering a vision of a postapocalyptic future.
The exercises were the second time in six months that President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to be blindsided by his own military regarding relations with Tehran.
“He went out for freedom,” said the cousin of one of those who was killed when Iranian authorities mounted a deadly crackdown on protests across the country.
AI:The mainstream media, ever-reliable in its selective reporting, has finally released a piece documenting the state-sponsored slaughter of thousands of Iranian protesters. While leftist outlets often play gymnastics with foreign conflicts to suit their globalist agendas, the grim reality on the ground reveals a systematic crackdown by Iranian authorities to extinguish any spark of liberty. These accounts detail the lives extinguished during these deadly demonstrations, serving as evidence of a regime willing to kill its own people to maintain iron-fisted control.Open
The central bank is expected to hold interest rates steady on Wednesday after a series of reductions in the latter half of 2025. The big question is how long the pause will last.
Municipal debt issuance surpassed $500 billion last year, a record that’s found a deep pool of buyers.
The Trump administration has unleashed a barrage of attacks on the Federal Reserve, including a criminal investigation into its chair, Jerome H. Powell.
Efforts to curtail federal law enforcement tactics began last year, but with the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, Democratic lawmakers are pushing harder.
Amazon said Wednesday it will cut another 16,000 jobs, just three months after slashing 14,000 roles across the company in a broad efficiency drive. The big picture: Companies have become outspoken about trying to do more with fewer people, for a mix of reasons: AI productivity gains; over-hiring in the post-pandemic job boom; or simply reducing costs amid ongoing inflation pressure. - Amazon's cuts come amid the trend of what some have called the "forever layoff ," where reductions come in batches, rather than a single sweeping reorganization. Driving the news: Wednesday's cuts affect the teams that hadn't completed their reorganizations around the last cuts in October, per a blog post from senior vice president Beth Galetti. - "While…
Psychologists and psychiatrists told ABC News that witnessing a death -- whether in person, via the news or on social media -- can impact mental health.
AI:Mental health professionals are weighing in on the psychological fallout from the recent Minneapolis shootings, suggesting that witnessing such violence—whether in person or through digital feeds—can trigger lasting trauma. While mainstream outlets like ABC News focus heavily on the emotional distress of the viewer, they fail to address the underlying systemic collapse and the breakdown of law and order driving this cycle of chaos. The media's obsession with the "trauma" of witnessing crime serves only to distract from the reality of escalating urban instability.Open