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US applications for jobless benefits fall, but continuing claims rise to highest level since 2021Oct 24, 2024 8:59 am - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell last week, but the total number of those collecting benefits rose to its highest level in almost three years...
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Putin presides over BRICS summit seeking to expand Russia's cloutOct 24, 2024 7:52 am - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday presided at the closing session of a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, praising its role as a counterbalance to what he called the West's “perverse methods."
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Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart, researchers findOct 24, 2024 7:31 am - Russia has helped amplify and spread false and misleading internet claims about recent hurricanes in the United States and the federal government's response, part of a wider effort by the Kremlin to manipulate America's political discourse before the presidential election, new research shows.
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Israeli strike on Gaza shelter kills 17 as Blinken says cease-fire talks will resumeOct 24, 2024 7:29 am - An Israeli strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering in the central Gaza Strip killed at least 17 people on Thursday, mostly women and children, Palestinian medical officials said.
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Tom Hardy’s double act can’t save ‘Venom: The Last Dance’Oct 23, 2024 4:41 pm - For three films now, Tom Hardy has smushed Jekyll and Hyde into one strange and slimy double act. If “The Last Dance” is the swan song for this spun-off, half-formed franchise, it confirms that the “Venom” films never quite figured themselves out.
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Music Review: Rare hometown recordings, ‘Bird in Kansas City,’ capture Charlie Parker’s playful moodOct 23, 2024 3:28 pm - Listening to Charlie Parker’s saxophone gymnastics on a new album of rare recordings is like watching Simone Biles stretch during warmups. A new collection, “Bird in Kansas City,” captures Parker’s grace and greatness in casual settings.
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‘Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage’ expands ‘Big Bang Theory’ universeOct 23, 2024 3:15 pm - Chuck Lorre is responsible for some of the most successful sitcoms of all time. “The whole thing boils down to great actors and great scripts,” which he feels he has on “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage,” airing Thursdays on CBS.
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A fairy tale gone sideways, ‘Anora’ is a wild rideOct 23, 2024 2:52 pm - Things are going a little too well in “Anora” until a call from Russia and a knock at the door changes the trajectory of the movie. This sequence, deeply stressful and riotously funny at the same time, is reason enough to see Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner.
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Efforts by Russia, Iran and China to sway US voters might escalate, new Microsoft report saysOct 23, 2024 2:13 pm - Foreign adversaries have shown continued determination to influence the U.S. election – and there are signs their activity will intensify as Election Day nears, Microsoft said in a report Wednesday.
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Harris decries Trump after John Kelly says he wanted generals like Hitler’sOct 23, 2024 12:18 pm - Kamala Harris said Wednesday that recently reported comments Donald Trump made to his longest-serving chief of staff offer a window into who the former president “really is" and the kind of commander in chief he would be.