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One of the strangest and controversial Oscar races in recent memory, a polarized film that guarantees plenty of strong opinions online, has inevitably risen. Shawn Baker movie Anora It won five out of eight nominations, including Best Picture, Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Actress by Mikey Madison. It was a strange path to Oscar's glory for a critically sounding film that won the prestigious Palmedore or the Cannes Film Festival last year. The comedy drama suddenly became a fairytale marriage to the son of a Russian oligarch, creating early buzz, but won the backseat for…
It doesn't fall as the most exciting Oscar on record – after all, there was no slap or envelope confusion, but this year's Academy Awards ended an unexpected dissonant awards season with a smooth, disaster-free ceremony in under four hours.The big winner of the night Anorascooped five of the six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress by Mikey Madison (sorry, Demi!). A brutal person He also extended several victories, including one, including actor Slash Gum Throw's Adrien Brody, but some outright political films like Palestinian and Israeli documentaries There is no land for men And anti-author Brazilian…
In January, New York City finally began setting crowd pricing, charging drivers a $9 toll to use Manhattan's busiest streets at peak times. The program aims to reduce traffic by discouraging people from entering cities and by using revenue from tolls to invest in improving public transport. Early data suggests that crowd pricing works as it should, improving commute times and raising nearly $50 million in the first month. But from the start, the program has faced fierce opposition, from New York Republicans to New Jersey's Democratic governors to teachers' unions. And now the Trump administration has joined the chorus.…
Donald Trump expressed his excessive “hatred” for the Ukrainian president on Friday afternoon and expressed inadequate gratitude to the United States.This extraordinary dust-up came at the end of a press conference featuring President Trump, Ukrainian President Voldy Mie Zelensky and Vice President J.D. Vance. Zelensky came to the White House hoping to hone his relationship with the United States by establishing an agreement that gives them financial interests. Instead, Ukrainian leaders were barely secured from his American counterparts beyond public ridiculous laughs.Tensions began to burn as Trump defended his resistance to publicly criticizing Putin, saying Zelensky's “hatred” towards the Russian…
Welcome to the first edition of Good News, a weekly newsletter dedicated to covering the notable and optimistic things happening around us.Now I know what you're thinking: “Good news? In today's environment? Has the author had a head injury recently?”So let's first state this. My brain is currently unharmed, but a lot of bad things are happening. There is a continuing conflict in Ukraine, where wars have continued for over 1,100 days, but Gaza's tenuous ceasefire could be close to collapse. Global democracy appears to have become more obvious than ever in the last 20 years. Thousands of foreign aid…
This is the final story in a series of articles on how factory farming has shaped the US. Find the rest of the series and future installments here, and visit Vox’s Future Perfect section for more coverage of Big Ag. The stories in this series are supported by Animal Charity Evaluators, which received a grant from Builders Initiative.For years, Jeff Simmons — the president and CEO of the large US pharmaceutical company Elanco — ridiculed a seemingly unlikely target on social media: the plant-based meat industry.As startups like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods rose to prominence, Simmons attacked veggie burgers…
This story appeared on the logoff, a A daily newsletter that will help you stay informed about the Trump administration without taking over your life in political news. Subscribe here.Welcome to logoff. Today, I focus on a disastrous meeting with President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President Voldimi Zelenki. The hostile conversations have immediate consequences for Ukraine's war efforts, revealing much about how Trump sees America's new global role.What happened instead? What began as a polite meeting was effectively left to ambush after Russia's Vladimir Putin questioned what would happen to Zelensky if he defeated the ceasefire.…
The judge ruled Thursday that the Trump administration's order to fire tens of thousands of workers across the federal government was illegal. However, it is not yet clear what this means for current employees or employees who have already ended based on the order. The Human Resources Administration (OPM) issued an order earlier this month in an effort to reduce government spending by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency. It targets “probation” workers who have been working in the government for a long time and remain in their current positions for less than two years, including those who…
The Trump administration completely failed the hyped release of “The Jeffrey Epstein Files” on Thursday. This led to a disappointment amongst the loyal Maga admirers, fingering among Trump's aides, and, surprisingly, claims of deep national sabotage.Epstein, a well-connected investor who was charged with a minor sex trafficking girl and died in prison in 2019, believes that for a long time the US government has hidden information relating to powerful people (specifically Democrats and celebrities).In response to these requests, Attorney General Pam Bondy promised that “many information” will soon be released with the emergence of Fox News Wednesday night.Then, on Thursday,…
This time, more layoffs have hit the federal government. This time we will be the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the leading US weather forecaster, and the world's finest research institute for ocean and air. CBS News reports that 880 employees have been cut across NOAA, which is about 7% of the workforce, including Earth's scientists, meteorologists, computer modelers and space weather forecasters. Several features have already been shut down (such as the launch of weather balloons that provide raw data for weather models). What these employees had in common was that they were on probation. This is not a…