The country’s anti-graft agencies have taken a cinematic approach to revealing a scandal that has touched President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inner circle.

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Have we been selling her short? Is she paving the way to the after-Trump?

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The former Harvard president has come back from controversy before, but revelations in new Epstein emails are threatening his omnipresence in public life.

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As the former vice president is honored at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, many eyes will focus on who comes — and who does not.

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Economists expect that employment growth was anemic in September, before the government shutdown delayed data collection.

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Just outside Belém, the Amazonian city where the world is meeting to discuss climate change, electricity is a very recent arrival.

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Jonathan J. Pollard, who was convicted of espionage, said in an interview that the meeting, which was highly unusual for a U.S. diplomat to attend, had been friendly.

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As the country music institution celebrates a century of its radio broadcast, listen to how the show defined the culture — and was reshaped by it — decade by decade.

Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.

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Retailers are adding fewer of the seasonal roles that many Americans rely on to make ends meet.

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For years, the state has been nudging its cities to build housing to address a severe shortage. Maybe what they needed was a shove.

A JetBlue pilot’s illness looked like food poisoning, but it was actually an increasingly common tick-borne meat allergy that can be fatal.

The New York City mayor-to-be, Zohran Mamdani, and the head of the Police Department, Jessica Tisch, have gaps to bridge on crime and policing.

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Here’s how you can watch the World Cup play-off draw unfold

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From the latest flagships to budget-friendly bargains, the sale is the best time to upgrade your smartphone

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US lawmakers gave the former prince until 20 November to respond to calls

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A new study finds that thousands of hazardous sites across the U.S. are at risk of flooding due to sea level rise that could pose public health threats to neighboring communities

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At the high-end Metro Private Cinema, a private screening room with a gourmet meal and drinks can reach $200 a person. Will people pay?

On a recent trip to the cinema, I found myself annoyed. The person next to me kept sniffling loudly and, even worse, scrolling Instagram on their phone, dimly visible from the corner of my eye. The former is simply an occupational hazard of being around other people, a thing I usually love to be doing; the latter, though a violation of the theater’s no phone policy, still more preferable to the conflict-averse than confrontation. If only, one sometimes wonders, there was some middle ground between full cinema experience and the privacy of one’s couch.

Enter Metro Private Cinemas, a new upscale theater in Manhattan that caters to cinephiles eager to privatize and glamorize the theatrical experience – for a price. For $50-100 a head, you can book a room at the 20-screen complex in Chelsea for a group sized anywhere between four and 20 people. Pick a film from either current releases or a curated archive, select a drink package for an extra $50 each, choose a 12-13 course gourmet meal off a seasonal menu for another $100 a head, and you have a ritzy night at the movies.

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The PS5 Slim, PS5 Pro and PlayStation Portal are set to plummet in price later this week

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Healthcare premiums set to quadruple for millions as government shutdown ends. Bernie Sanders proposes Medicare for All to combat soaring costs and coverage loss.

Political fallout from AI bubble burst could hurt Republican incumbents, as history shows voters blame party in power for economic downturns regardless of cause.

Former FBI special agent shares insider perspective on Bureau's political weaponization, citing 12 years of service in new book revealing institutional betrayal.

Study finds rising seas could flood facilities handling waste, sewage, and oil and gas – and coastal states most at risk

More than 5,500 toxic sites nationwide could face coastal flooding by 2100 due to rising sea levels, according to new research.

The study, published on Thursday in Nature Communications and led by scientists at the University of California, warns that if heat-trapping pollution continues unabated, rising seas will flood a wide range of hazardous facilities including those handling sewage, toxic waste, oil and gas, as well as other industrial pollutants.

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