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For people who lost jobs or income during the pandemic, life has been a series of terrifying deadlines. There was July 24, the end of a federal eviction moratorium from government-backed housing, which had protected about one-third of renters. There was July 30, when a program providing an extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits expired,…
The dog days of August were made for exploding-car blockbusters. Unfortunately, prudent movie lovers have been forced to survive the endless-in-a-bad-way summer of 2020 without the consolation of cinemas and their wonderfully aggressive HVAC systems. As if to compensate, a traditionally sleepy month for the small screen instead offered up a cornucopia of delightful, relatively…
Sarah Paulson teams up again with longtime collaborator Ryan Murphy for Ratched, the chilling new horror series he’s producing for Netflix. In the series, which serves as a prequel to Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Paulson stars as the terrifying Nurse Ratched, as she begins work at a psychiatric hospital in the…
Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Amazon is debuting All In: The Fight for Democracy, an original film that looks at voter suppression in the United States. Using Stacey Abrams‘ contested and controversial 2018 gubernatorial race in Georgia as a starting point, the documentary takes an in-depth look at both the long history of and…
(BEIJING) – When police arrested the middle-aged Uighur woman at the height of China’s coronavirus outbreak, she was crammed into a cell with dozens of other women in a detention center. There, she said, she was forced to drink a medicine that made her feel weak and nauseous, guards watching as she gulped. She and…
(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — New labor rules in the energy-rich nation of Qatar “effectively dismantles” the country’s long-criticized “kafala” employment system, a U.N. labor body said Sunday. The International Labor Organization said as of now, migrant workers can change jobs before the end of their contracts without obtaining the permission of their current employers.…
It was just a year ago that the Jonas Brothers sauntered down Asbury Park to a roaring, penned-in crowd for the MTV Video Music Awards. Such a scene would be unthinkable in today’s socially distanced climate—and on Sunday, MTV took on the tall task of producing one of first major U.S. live awards shows of…
New Zealand’s largest city has exited lockdown after the government said a Covid-19 outbreak there has been brought under control and it remains on track to again eliminate the virus from the community. Auckland schools and customer-facing businesses re-opened on Monday and a ban on traveling out of the city was lifted, almost three weeks…
KYIV, Ukraine — Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday in the capital of Belarus, beginning the fourth week of daily protests demanding the resignation of the country’s authoritarian president after an election they call rigged gave him a sixth term in office. The protest at the “hero city” monument honoring Minsk’s suffering and resilience…
A message from actor Chadwick Boseman’s Twitter account announcing the Black Panther star’s death is now the most-‘liked’ tweet of all time, Twitter said. The post, which confirmed that the actor passed away from colon cancer, has been liked at least 7 million times since it was tweeted on Friday. Twitter confirmed on the platform…