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On this week's episode of the IndieWire podcast Screen Talk, we also look toward movies we expect to see at Cannes, and recap the "Project Hail Mary" box office.

Johnson now plans to pass a two-month extension of the Department of Homeland Security spending

Farmers have been hit hard by the president’s tariff policies and rising fuel and fertilizer prices

In parts of the Orthodox world, racist rhetoric has been normalized. Rabbis speaking from the bimah refer to Palestinians as Amalek. Calls to block humanitarian aid are incorporated into divrei torah. One might hear that “Smotrich, Ben-Gvir and their parties speak for the great majority of the religious Zionist community” — a terrifying normalization of... The post The Orthodox world has abandoned its values by abandoning Palestinians appeared first on The Forward.

Bridges blown up.

Philadelphia police are searching for the suspect who stabbed a man in the city's Kensington section.

The astronaut who prompted Nasa’s first medical evacuation earlier this year said on Friday that doctors still do not know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station. Four-time space flier Mike Fincke said he was eating dinner on January 7 after prepping for a spacewalk the next day when it happened. He could not talk and remembers no pain, but his anxious crewmates jumped into action after seeing him in distress and requested help from flight surgeons on the ground. “It was...

A US-based Palestinian-American activist said Friday that the FBI had disrupted an imminent plot to assassinate her, as authorities charged a 26-year-old man with possessing Molotov cocktails he meant to use against her home.

Mary Rand, the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics, dies at the age of 86.

Mary Rand, the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics, dies at the age of 86.

Mary Rand, the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics, dies at the age of 86.

Mary Rand, the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics, dies at the age of 86.