The 64th New York Film Festival, one of the world’s most prestigious cinema events, opens Friday with the first of more than 70 fiction features and documentaries making their world or U.S. premieres, starring such luminaries as Pedro Pascal, Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, and Godzilla. This year’s festival, which runs through October 12,…
Duncan Sheik, the singer behind the ’90s hit “Barely Breathing” and later the Tony Award-winning composer of Broadway’s “Spring Awakening,” has died at 56 years old, his family said Friday. Sheik died Thursday from cardiac arrest, his mother Suzanne Sheik told The New York Times. Sheik’s family said on Instagram he died on Thursday “surrounded by…
It was mid-August at the bar inside the plush Ritz-Carlton hotel in Tysons Corner, Virginia, just outside Washington, and Jack Burkman and his business partner Jacob Wohl were making their latest sales pitch. They were seated at a table with Ammon Covino, a convicted felon, and his wife, Crystal. “With this particular White House,…
Berlin — Sunday’s election results did not give Germany’s controversial AfD party automatic control of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, but what the far-right party achieved wasn’t just an election victory. It was a political landslide. Alternative for Germany (AfD) won 43.8% of the vote in the legislative election, and while that may not be enough to…
The far-right Alternative for Germany party surged to a resounding victory in a regional election Sunday, but fell a little short of winning a majority in its quest to form the country’s first far-right state government since World War II. The party of Germany’s unpopular leader, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, slumped to a disastrous result in…
Gloria Steinem, a co-founder of Ms. Magazine and a trailblazing figure of the women’s liberation movement in the latter half of the 20th century, has died. She was 92. The Gloria Steinem Foundation said in a social media post Thursday that she “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some…
As Tropical Storm Lala continued moving west away from Hawaii on Monday, residents were dealing with the destruction from the heavy rain the storm brought to the islands over the weekend. In the small community of Waiohinu on the southern point of Hawaii’s Big Island, a mudslide swept through and destroyed about a dozen homes….
When Ray Kohn started feeling pain in his knees and elbows in 2015, he attributed it to his work as a stunt driver and mechanic. But as the years went on, he began to notice his body changing in unusual ways: His head grew so much that he needed a larger helmet, and his hands…
