Despite proposing the direct talks in Istanbul, Putin’s name did not appear on a list released by the Kremlin on Wednesday of Russian officials who would be attending the negotiations.
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to weaken limits on some harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water roughly a year after the Biden administration finalized the first-ever national standards.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got into a heated back-and-forth on Capitol Hill Wednesday with Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., during a hearing about his agency's budget for 2026.
Comedian Kathy Griffin lashed out at "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert over a 2018 interview where she claimed he ambushed her with questions about the infamous decapitated Trump photo.
Australian woman, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her house in Leongatha. Follow live updates
What we learned yesterday
While we wait for today’s proceedings to begin, here’s a recap of what the jury heard yesterday.
For the 38-year-old Bradley, who based on his 2011 PGA victory would be qualified to be in the field this week anyway, he still holds onto at least the slight chance of playing well enough to qualify on points as a player for the team he captains.
And now, here Rory McIlroy is this week, about to play the PGA Championship, which begins Thursday at Quail Hollow, without stress or questions that need to be answered about his career or his game.
Ex-"Squad" Rep. Jamaal Bowman endorsed democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani for mayor Wednesday, an embrace from a former two-term congressman who was tossed from office by voters last year after pleading guilty to falsely pulling a fire alarm and bashing Israel amid the war in Gaza.
Customs and Border Protection officers reportedly seized nearly $60,000 worth of illegally imported cigarettes from two cruise passengers in Southern California.
Talks between Moscow and Kyiv will test whether Vladimir Putin is serious about a cease-fire deal, as they'll also test President Donald Trump’s approach to the conflict.
AI bot goes on hours-long fritz, bringing up ‘white genocide in South Africa’, which it is ‘instructed to accept as real’
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok went on the fritz on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses on completely unrelated topics.
Faced with users’ queries on issues such as baseball, enterprise software and building scaffolding,the chatbot offered false and misleading answers.
Bill Belichick's role as the North Carolina Tar Heels football coach received athletic director Bubba Cunningham's backing, while Jordon Hudson faces scrutiny.
Florida Judge Gary Farmer was suspended for alleged misconduct, including biased behavior and inappropriate jokes after a Florida Supreme Court panel investigation.
Tatum underwent surgery for a torn Achilles tendon that he suffered during the Knicks’ Game 4 win over the Celtics on Monday night at Madison Square Garden. He is likely to miss all of next season as a result.
Harvard University battles Trump administration's $2.2 billion funding cuts with pay reductions and a lawsuit, as it refuses to comply with governance demands.
Aaron Judge crushed his 15th home run of the year 444 feet, breaking a tie game and lifting the Yankees to a comeback 3-2 win over the Mariners on Wednesday afternoon at T-Mobile Park.
Public health officials warn of measles exposure in Washington state after a Canadian traveler visited multiple locations, including Seattle-Tacoma Airport, while contagious.
Rahm Emanuel defended his criticism of the Democratic Party's "woke" politics, arguing the party needs to look to the future and not focus on past defeats.
The father of a girl on a softball team spoke out as a transgender player from Minnesota continues to dominate the high school scene amid the uproar over males in girls' sports.
OTTAWA — Elections Canada says the result of a recount in the federal riding of Terrebonne is final, despite a misprint that led to one special ballot being returned to sender. Read More
Cannes film festival Drawn from a suppressed story by gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, Sergei Loznitsa’s haunting film unravels a terrifying parable of bureaucratic evil
An icy chill of fear and justified paranoia radiates from this starkly austere and gripping movie from Sergei Loznitsa, set in Stalin’s Russia of the late 30s and based on a story by the dissident author and scientist Georgy Demidov, who was held in the gulag for 14 years during the second world war and harassed by the state until his death in the late 1980s.
The resulting movie, with its slow, extended scenes from single camera positions, mimics the zombie existence of the Soviet state and allows a terrible anxiety to accumulate: it is about a malign bureaucracy which protects and replicates itself by infecting those who challenge it with a bacillus of guilt. There is something of Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead and also – with the appearance of two strangely grinning, singing men in a railway carriage – Kafka’s The Castle.
Loznitsa moreover allows us also to register that the wretched political prisoner of his tale is a veteran of Stalin’s brutal battle to suppress the Ukrainian nationalist Symon Petliura. And given the nightmarish claustrophobia and disorientation in the scenes in cells, official corridors, staircases and government antechambers, there is maybe a filmic footnote in the fact that Demidov worked for the scientist Lev Landau, the subject of Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s huge and deeply pessimistic multi-movie installation project Dau in 2020.
The first prosecutor of the title is Kornyev, played by Aleksandr Kuznetsov, an idealistic young lawyer, given a startlingly early promotion to a state prosecutor role – his beardless youth fascinates and irritates the grizzled old time-servers with whom he comes into contact.
He has received a bizarre “letter” from Stepniak (Aleksandr Fillipenko) an ageing and desperately ill high security prisoner in Bryansk – written in blood on a piece of torn cardboard (which has escaped the bonfire that prison authorities make of protest letters like these). The letter alleges that the security services, the NKVD, are without reference to the rule of law, using the prisons and judicial system to torture and murder an entire older generation of party veterans like him, to bring in a fanatically loyal but callow and incompetent cohort of Stalin loyalists.
The prison authorities make the politely persistent Kornyev wait hours before being allowed to visit Stepniak in his cell, transparently hoping he will just give up and go away – Loznitsa shows this weaponised inertia is the traditional official approach to petitioners everywhere in the Soviet Union.
Colorado's D49 filed a lawsuit against CHSAA and the attorney general, arguing state laws on trans athletes in girls sports violate federal Title IX obligations.
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