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Bodies Bodies Bodies Updates the Old-School Slasher Formula and Ends on a High Note

One of the great pleasures of summer is the purely enjoyable, disposable horror movie, one that comes with no pretention of being “elevated”—a term that demeans the overall genre, anyway. Bodies Bodies Bodies—the English-language debut of Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn,

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How Psychology Can Help Fight Climate Change—And Climate Anxiety

Scientists and activists have deployed many tactics to help combat climate change: expanding technologies like wind and solar power, building better batteries to store that renewable energy, and protecting forests, all the while striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. On

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Russia Bars Exxon and Other Western Investors From Selling Shares in Strategic Businesses

The move targets companies from countries that have sanctioned Moscow for the war in Ukraine, widening the rift between Russia and the West.

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Russia Is Open to Talks on Brittney Griner Prisoner Swap, Kremlin Official Says

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow was ready to discuss an exchange with Washington that people familiar with the matter say could see WNBA star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan traded for a Russian arms dealer.

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Amazon to Buy Roomba Maker iRobot for Roughly $1.7B

NEW YORK — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for approximately $1.7 billion, scooping up another company to add to its collection of smart home appliances amid broader concerns about its market

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Can Sunak catch up with Truss in race for Downing Street?

One month before the new Conservative leader and British prime minister is announced on September 5, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has a commanding lead over ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak among the Tory Party members who decide the outcome – having framed

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‘Only the Paranoid Survive.’ Some CEOs Are Cutting Staff Even as the Labor Market Booms

Earlier this summer, Elon Musk reportedly emailed colleagues at his electric vehicle company Tesla that he had a “super bad feeling” about the economy and that he planned to cut staff at Tesla by 10%, a plan he later executed,

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Relatives of trapped Mexican miners pray for miracle

Relatives of 10 workers trapped in a flooded coal mine in northern Mexico clung to hope they were still alive Friday, nearly 48 hours after a cave-in sparked a major rescue operation. Family members spent a second night waiting anxiously

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Canada to ban handgun imports: minister

Canada announced Friday it will ban the import of handguns beginning on August 19, as part of a wider proposed freeze in the wake of high-profile mass shootings in the United States. Such guns “have one purpose and one purpose

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Statement from President Biden on the Inflation Reduction Act – The White House

Statement from President Biden on the Inflation Reduction Act  The White House

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