Month: January 2025

President Trump made good on a campaign promise to ask the Department of the Interior to recognize the Lumbee people of North Carolina — a tribe whose Native identity has long been called into question.

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Eisenberg’s film A Real Pain follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland. Anderson’s role on Baywatch made her a global sex symbol in the ’90s. Now she’s starring in The Last Showgirl.

People get a lot wrong when it comes to paying for vacation, say travel experts, and that can cost serious cash. Here’s how to plan a trip that’s safe, adventurous and under budget.

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It’s Oscar season, a perfect occasion to look at why the Academy Awards gets things wrong so often.

In Steven Soderbergh’s supernatural thriller Presence, a family finds they aren’t alone in their new house. It’s a ghost story told masterfully from the ghost’s point of view.

Feiffer, who died Jan. 17, first published his self-titled comic strip in The Village Voice in 1956. Later syndicated, Feiffer went on to run for more than four decades. Originally broadcast in 1982.

Oscar nominees address big social and political issues, all to varying degrees. And where were the nominations for Challengers and Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths!? Clockwise from left: Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott, The Substance, Emilia Pérez, Hard Truths, Challengers, and Wicked.‘/>

From Emilia Pérez and its 13(!) nominations to the profoundly gross The Substance getting a Best Picture nod, the 2025 Oscar nominees addressed big social and political issues, all to varying degrees.

Emilia Pérez raked in the most nominations Thursday morning, followed by The Brutalist and Wicked. The Academy Awards are scheduled for Sunday, March 2.

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That’s the two of them, in the break room, sharing an inside joke about avocados.