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Photos: Highlights from the Winter Olympics opening ceremony
Athletes from around the world attended the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan.
Trump posts racist meme of the Obamas — then deletes it
Trump's racist post came at the end of a minute-long video promoting conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
Hyperpop, poetry, BDSM or a Moroccan rave allegory? Choose your own cinematic adventure
Charli xcx is on more screens this weekend while Pillion tells a sweet BDSM story.
'Pillion' is a wildly entertaining dark comedy about sex and power
A mild-mannered young man enters into a dominant-submissive relationship with the leader of a gay biker gang. Pillion approaches the subject without judgment and with a great deal of sly humor.
Hate them or not, Patriots fans want the glory back in Super Bowl LX
As Bostonians bemoan their long years of suffering without a Super Bowl win, rival fans gripe that Title Town has become Entitled Town.
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We celebrate the Oscar-winning 1976 film by listening back to archival interviews with Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and actors Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks.
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Since his first term, President Trump has wanted to be able to fire federal employees for any reason. A new rule vastly expands his authority to do that. -
The Epstein scandal has spread to the Olympic movement. The top organizer of the Los Angeles Summer Games faces calls to step down because of his past contacts with Epstein collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell. -
Congress allocated $50 billion for initiatives aimed at supporting democracy, scholarship programs, U.S. embassy operations and health and humanitarian programs around the world. -
A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates that 2 million people are incorrectly told they have tuberculosis each year — and clinicians miss diagnosing TB in 1 million people. Why so many misdiagnoses? -
Early Super Bowl spots show advertisers want lots of buzz but not controversy. -
It was a rare attack in the capital of Pakistan as its Western-allied government struggles to rein in a surge in militant attacks across the country. -
The clock is ticking for the Department of Homeland Security. The agency is days away from running out of funding, but Democrats and Republicans remain far apart on changes to immigration enforcement.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., urges his GOP counterparts to "rein in" ICE and discusses his 10-point list of demands to do so. -
In the documents, Homeland Security said the raid "was based on intelligence that there were illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments." There is no mention of criminal gangs or Tren de Aragua. -
Plus: ambiguous mascots, rodents with hard-to-spell names, and three boring photos of buildings. -
For many decades, Olympic Games included "demonstration sports." Some, like curling, became part of the permanent roster. But others, like skijoring, didn't stick around.
