The forthcoming coming-of-age movie inspired by Green Day has a new title, drawing on a name from the band’s past. The film was previously called New Year’s Rev, and follows the adventures of three high school friends who set off on a road trip after mistakenly being led to believe their band has been booked
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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Kuomintang party chair Cheng Li-wun in Beijing on Friday, the first encounter between Xi and a sitting Taiwanese opposition leader in nearly a decade. In a readout released by Chinese state media, Xi said Beijing “welcomes any proposals conducive to the peaceful development of cross-strait relations.” That’s according to
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BEIJING — China’s ties with countries such as Iran and Russia have raised expectations of a bigger diplomatic role, but Beijing remains focused on protecting its own domestic interests, including global exports. That stance underpins Beijing’s circumspect acknowledgment of reports that it pushed Iran toward this week’s temporary ceasefire. A New York Times report cited
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Find Some Stillness You don’t have to call it meditation. And you don’t even have to do it regularly to see all the benefits. But sitting in stillness has been proven to increase blood flow to the brain. Aim for quiet contemplation, bringing awareness to your breath. A 2020 study found that doing it for
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Chris Hemsworth in ‘Extraction’. Photo: Netflix. Preview: Chris Hemsworth will return as Tyler Rake in ‘Extraction 3’. Director Sam Hargrave is back behind the camera. Idris Elba and Golshifteh Farahani are also set to return. Even though Chris Hemsworth‘s Tyler Rake seemed to die at the end of the first ‘Extraction’ movie back in 2020,
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Every shark movie owes a debt to the sacred mother Jaws, but the thriller about bitey creatures spreading carnage and mayhem in bad weather that Thrash most resembles is Alexandre Aja’s superior nail-biter, Crawl. (By the way, where is that sequel we were promised?) Instead of voracious alligators preying on Florida locals trapped by a Category 5 hurricane, this
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Kevin Warsh, Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2017. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The expected nomination hearing for Federal Reserve chair candidate Kevin Warsh has been delayed, a person familiar with the
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People gather at the Magic Kingdom theme park before the “Festival of Fantasy” parade at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, U.S. July 30, 2022. Octavio Jones | Reuters Disney is planning to begin its next phase of cost cutting, which will include as many as 1,000 layoffs, according to a person familiar with the
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Philadelphia, 1837. On six occasions, twelve-year-old tomboy Rian Krieger has escorted self-emancipated fugitives to the next station on their flight from enslavement. When Rian’s father, factory owner Otto Krieger, learns that she is a conductor on the Underground Railroad, he renews his plans to send her to a finishing school in Switzerland. This is a
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Afrika Bambaataa, the pioneering hip-hop DJ and founder of the Universal Zulu Nation, has died from complications relating to cancer, TMZ reports. He was 67. Born Lance Taylor in 1957, Bambaataa gained notoriety in New York’s early hip-hop scene for the block parties he threw in the South Bronx. In 1973, he co-founded the Universal
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