Author: News Desk

Republicans upended plans to pass a partisan bill to fund ICE after party infighting over unrelated issues snarled their progress.

NPR’s Steve Inskeep asks Jeff Flake, a former Republican senator, about this week’s GOP pushback against some of President Trump’s priorities.

Anne Hathaway’s dreams of pop stardom in Mother Mary almost turned into a nightmare. The Oscar winner plays the titular character in the recent A24 psychological thriller, which follows a pop superstar’s fractured relationship with her former BFF and costume designer (played by Michaela Coel) while on the comeback trail. Hathaway, 43, sings and dances in the film, but she admitted she nearly walked off the movie after seeing early footage of herself performing original songs written by Jack Antonoff, Charli XCX and FKA Twigs. “This is really bad… I don’t know that I can ask people to come to…

Barcelona bid farewell to Robert Lewandowski last weekend, and this Saturday they will also see two members of their coaching staff depart. After uncertainty over his future, it seems that Thiago Alcantara will leave the club this summer.The 35-year-old began Hansi Flick’s first preseason as part of the coaching staff, working to aid the transition for Flick, and work as a translator across languages. However before Barcelona’s first game of the season, he returned to England for tax reasons. Last summer he returned as an ‘official’ member of the coaching staff, where he has taken on a key role mentoring…

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has long been regarded as a paradise for batters, where packed stadiums, flat pitches, and short boundaries often combine to create high-scoring spectacles. While the tournament has showcased several world-class bowlers over the years, even the best have found themselves under immense pressure in the shortest format.In T20 cricket, one bad over can change the course of a match, and bowlers frequently end up on the receiving end of brutal power-hitting. The ongoing IPL 2026 season has once again highlighted how unforgiving the format can be, with Chennai Super Kings (CSK) pacer Anshul Kamboj entering an…

22/05/2026 – CANNES 2026: The director talks to us about his film, which draws on the documentary-style realism of its characters, about two sisters fighting against their fate in Lebanon(© 2026 Fabrizio de Gennaro for Cineuropa – fadege.it, @fadege.it)Rakan Mayasi, a Brussels-based Palestinian director, unveiled his debut feature film, Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep, in the Un Certain Regard section of the 79th Cannes Film Festival. It is a unique cinematic experience, telling the story of two sisters battling against their fate in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, a land torn apart by man-made violence. Cineuropa: How did the project come about?Rakan…

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When it comes to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Tourism Nanaimo is playing to its strength, with what it describes as a “measured strategy that has stayed focused on realistic travel patterns rather than broad event-driven demand.” In fact, in a update to local operators, Tourism Nanaimo said that it had not forecast FIFA-level compression for Nanaimo; instead, focusing its FIFA-related work on the audiences most likely to align with the destination during the tournament period — including Vancouver residents looking for breathing room during peak event periods; visitors exploring beyond the host city; and travellers considering Vancouver Island before…

Post Malone confirmed Australia and New Zealand as October 2026 stops on his Big Ass World Tour, and he’s bringing Don Toliver along for the Southern Hemisphere leg. The announcement landed on Instagram this week. He kept it direct: “I’m bringing THE BIG ASS WORLD TOUR to you this October with @dontoliver and we can’t wait to see y’all.” No teaser, no slow build. He put it out there and let the excitement do the rest. Fans in Sydney, Melbourne, and Auckland saw the announcement land like a signal flare. The rest of the region took notice too. Specific venues…

Things are only getting better for Michael, the musical biopic focused on the beginnings and solo career of musical legend Michael ‘The King of Pop’ Jackson. Antoine Fuqua directs the film, working from a Joe Logan script, and directs a star-studded cast led by Jackson’s own nephew Jaafar Jackson, alongside Juliano Valdi, Nia Long, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Laura Harrier, Jessica Sula, Mike Myers, Miles Teller, and Colman Domingo. The narrative charts Jackson’s beginning in Motown’s Jackson 5, before breaking away from the group and his father’s grip to become a record-smashing, godly artistic household name who would shake up music and culture, such as releasing the…