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Vietnam ends its longstanding 2-child policy
A billboard campaigning for each family to have two children hangs above a street in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Jan. 14, 2024. Jae C. Hong/AP hide caption toggle...
Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay, Shailene Woodley & Annabelle Wallis To Star In Ted Kaczynski Thriller ‘Unabom’; Janus Metz Directing For Netflix
EXCLUSIVE: Russell Crowe (Gladiator), Jacob Tremblay (Sovereign), Shailene Woodley (The Descendants) and Annabelle Wallis (Mercy) have signed on to star in Unabom, a new thriller on domestic terrorist Ted...
Greetings from Mexico City, where these dogs ride a bus to and from school
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world. Mexico City is dog-crazy. Ladies push...
LightBulb Film Distribution Picks Up Trio Of Sundance Movies Out Of Cannes Market
EXCLUSIVE: UK outfit Lightbulb Film Distribution has picked up three Sundance movies out of the Cannes market. From Paris-based WTFilms, the company has acquired Touch Me (pictured above), the...
Steel tariffs double. And, Congress asked to eliminate public broadcasting funds
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To get from experience to emotion, the brain hits ‘sustain’
A study of mice and people looks at how the brain takes an experience and responds with an emotion. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment RF/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment...
BBC Defends Itself & Calls For “Support” From White House After Donald Trump Administration Accuses Broadcaster Of Taking Down Gaza Story
The BBC has been forced on the defensive after Donald Trump‘s White House accused the national broadcaster of taking down a story about the Israel-Hamas war. Yesterday, Trump’s press...
What Trump’s fixation on ‘white genocide’ in South Africa tells us about the U.S. : Code Switch
South African President Ramaphosa meets President Trump amid tensions over Washington's resettlement of white Afrikaners that the U.S. president claims are the victims of "genocide." Jim Watson/AFP via Getty...
Major TV Events Continue In Cologne Despite Huge Evacuation While German City Deals With WWII Bombs
This wasn’t the news the German TV industry was expecting at the start of the week. The largest evacuation since World War II has been taking place in Cologne,...
Ana De Armas Teases ‘Deeper’ With Tom Cruise & Reveals The Lessons ‘Ballerina’ Has Taught Her
Ana de Armas learned a lot on the set of Ballerina and is learning even more for her next project, Deeper, in which she will co-star opposite Tom Cruise....
