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Warner Bros Discovery chief booed at Boston University graduation, videos show
(Reuters) - Warner Bros Discovery chief executive David Zaslav was booed by students after taking the stage at Boston University to accept his honorary degree and give the 2023 commencement speech, am...
May 21, 2023
‘Firebrand’ puts spotlight on Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife
CANNES (Reuters) - For Brazilian director Karim Ainouz the prospect of making a film about King Henry VIII's court was particularly exciting, partly because it focuses on Catherine Parr, the wife who ...
May 21, 2023
Law firms Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling plan merger
(Reuters) -London-based law firm Allen & Overy and New York's Shearman & Sterling plan to merge, they announced on Sunday, in a deal that would create one of the world's largest legal practices with c...
May 21, 2023
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes offshore Northern California region – EMSC
(Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude struck the offshore Northern California on Sunday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake, which stuck offshore Northe...
May 21, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence-produced Afghan documentary premieres at Cannes
CANNES (Reuters) - While the world watched Kabul fall and the Taliban surge back to power in 2021 following the withdrawal of U.S. troops, actor Jennifer Lawrence and producer Justine Ciarrocchi were ...
May 21, 2023
‘May December’ director: women pay higher price than men for breaking rules
By Mindy Burrows CANNES (Reuters) - Todd Haynes' new romantic drama "May December" shines a critical spotlight on the way women who break society's rules are held to much stricter standards than badly...
May 21, 2023
Fed’s Kashkari open to holding rates steady in June, WSJ reports
(Reuters) - Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said that he could support holding interest rates steady at the central bank's next meeting in June to give officials more time to assess the effect...
May 21, 2023
‘Killers of Flower Moon’ star says Native Americans need allies like Scorsese
CANNES (Reuters) - Lily Gladstone, who grew up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and stars in Martin Scorsese's study of white society's treachery, said the director was a powerful ally in telling t...
May 21, 2023
Explainer-Could Biden use the 14th Amendment to raise the US debt ceiling?
By Andy Sullivan and Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Sunday said he believes he has the legal right to invoke the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to raise the ...
May 21, 2023
Victims of ‘deepfake porn’ and ‘doxing’ could have right to sue under pair of bills
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Victims of "deepfake porn" and "doxing" would have a legal pathway to sue their perpetrators in Illinois under a pair of digital privacy measures that have ...
May 21, 2023
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