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The top U.S. intelligence officer for North Korea warned on Friday the country sees diplomacy only as a means to advance its nuclear weapons development, even as the new Biden administration says it will look for ways to bring Pyongyang back to talks. President Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Tuesday the new administration planned a full review of the U.S. approach to North Korea to look at ways to increase pressure on it to return to the negotiating table.
Greek filmmaker Christos Nikou marks his directorial debut with “Apples,” an accidentally timely pandemic movie that captured imaginations at the Venice Film Festival, where it opened the respected Orrizonti section, and has since gone on to represent Greece in the international feature film Oscar race. The film wasn’t actually shot during the COVID-19 crisis, but […]
A duo of tech snags sank the Dow and the S&P 500 Friday, but the Nasdaq hit a record closing high. The Dow fell 179 points. The S&P 500 shed 11. But the Nasdaq eeked out a 12-point rally, capping the strongest week for the index in more than two months. But that gain for the Nasdaq masked big drops for two struggling tech names. IBM was a big loser after it missed sales estimates and posted the fourth consecutive drop in quarterly sales. That stock slumped 10 percent. Intel was the other drag. The chip giant's incoming CEO seemed to back away from the company's previous to start outsourcing the production of some of its chips. The uncertainty overshadowed better-than-expected quarterly results. Intel tumbled 9 percent. For some on Wall Street, the heavy selling seen in those two tech names added to belief that this market is due for a pullback. Peter Cardillo, chief market economist, at Spartan Capital Securities is in that camp. "It's just a matter of time before we see a pullback of maybe eight percent. This market is really stretched out. And, you know, so far the news has been good. In fact, the macro news has been improving. The earnings got off to a good season. And, of course, we'll be seeing and hearing more about earnings next week. There are over 700 companies reporting." Some key names to report results in the coming week include tech bellwethers: Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. Economic releases on Friday were mostly upbeat. U.S. factory activity surged in January to its highest level in nearly 14 years, according to a private survey. And home re-sales ended last year with a bang. Full-year sales grew 22 percent from the year before, fueled by record-low mortgage rates and an exodus from urban centers.
In today’s TV news roundup, Amazon Prime Video sets the release date for Robert Kirkman’s “Invincible,” and the Savannah College of Art and Design announces their lineup for the 2021 aTVfest. DATES Amazon announced that Robert Kirkman‘s new, hour-long animated series, “Invincible,” will premiere the first three episodes on March 26, with each subsequent Friday […]
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The son of a couple killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue attack that killed 11 worshippers is suing the National Rifle Association, arguing the group’s inflammatory rhetoric led to the violence. Marc Simon, the son of Sylvan and Bernice Simon, filed the wrongful death lawsuit Thursday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court against the NRA, the gun maker Colt’s Manufacturing Co., and accused shooter, Robert Bowers, news outlets reported.
Kylian Mbappe says he is still "thinking about" whether to agree to a new contract at Paris Saint-Germain, with the France superstar's existing deal set to expire at the end of next season.
Jerry Shapiro, a 78-year-old pharmacist from Los Angeles, is at the top of the list of Californians now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, but more than a month after the state began inoculations, he has yet to receive one. Shapiro said he has spent hours calling multiple health agencies and making fruitless computer searches, an experience familiar to many people across the United States, as the days-old administration of President Joe Biden races to bring the country's slow, chaotic vaccine rollout up to speed. The United States is the nation hardest-hit by COVID-19, with 24.51 million cases and 409,987 deaths by early Friday morning.
Slavery in Brazil did not automatically erase the diversity of African origins and reduce people to one racial category—"Black". It happened over time.
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A version of this story about “Sun Children” first appeared in the International Film Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. The films of director Magid Magidi have represented Iran at the Oscars more than the work of any other director — six times in total, beginning with the 1998 nominee “Children of Heaven.” Like that movie, his latest film, “Sun Children,” focuses on young people — in this case, a group of street kids and child laborers who do jobs around the city and are kept under the control of men who only pretend to be benevolent. At 2020’s Venice Film Festival, teen actor Rouhollah Zamani won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for an emerging performer for his performance as a desperate kid who sees a way out when his boss tells him to locate treasure that’s been hidden beneath a local cemetery. But the only way to reach the tunnels that lead to that treasure is by infiltrating a special school for at-risk children — a ploy that slowly starts to change his outlook. Also Read: Oscars International Race Breaks Record With 93 Entries Why did you want to tell this story? All of my movies have been about children, and the problem of working children is one that interests me now. I’ve had it in my heart, and I’ve been waiting for an occasion to work on a film about the abuses that they are living. In Iran now, we are surrounded by countries that are very vulnerable, and we have so many immigrants, especially from Afghanistan but also from Pakistan and Iraq — and they are in dire straits financially, psychologically, emotionally. And of course, we have Iranian kids, too. How did you find the kids you cast in your movie, and how did you get such terrific performances from them? One of the main challenges was to find the kids, as you can imagine, because I wanted to have working children. Finding them in these communities was really a hard task. It took months to find them, and I interviewed so many of them. But I’m very happy with the result — I have to admit that these kids were impressive beyond my imagination. Once you choose the right kids, 50% of your work is done. The rest comes from experience. I’ve been working with children for 25 or 26 years, so I know how to direct them and how to handle them. Also Read: Oscars International Entries, 2020: The Complete List Can a movie like this change people’s perceptions of a problem like child labor? Definitely. I’m a firm believer of the influence that art can have on a society. Even now, we are dealing with corona and we can’t have public screenings, but even considering all these problems, I think the film has had the influence I wanted. Already in my own country, people are coming forward to contribute to construction of special schools for these kids. If we don’t make the kids’ lives easier, if they don’t get educated, we are destroying our own future. Read more from the International Film Issue here. Read original story Iranian Oscar Entry ‘Sun Children’ Cries Out Against Child Labor At TheWrap
New first lady Jill Biden took an unannounced detour to the U.S. Capitol on Friday to deliver baskets of chocolate chip cookies to National Guard members, thanking them “for keeping me and my family safe” during President Joe Biden's inauguration. “I just want to say thank you from President Biden and the whole, the entire Biden family,” she told a group of Guard members at the Capitol. “The White House baked you some chocolate chip cookies," she said, before joking that she couldn't say she had baked them herself.
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