Indie director Jim Jarmusch took home the top prize for his film Father Mother Sister Brother, at the 2025 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony in Venice, Italy, on Saturday. Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP VENICE, Italy — “Father Mother Sister Brother,” Jim Jarmusch’s quietly humorous relationship triptych, won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival Saturday. …
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The Hyundai Motor Group factory in Ellabell, Ga., on Friday. A day earlier, federal agents detained 475 people at the automaker’s manufacturing complex. Parker Puls/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Parker Puls/Bloomberg via Getty Images South Korea’s foreign minister is considering a trip to the U.S. to meet with the Trump administration after hundreds of South Korean nationals …
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Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson laughs before a game against the Miami Marlins at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 22, 2013. The All-Star second baseman, who won the World Series twice with the Baltimore Orioles as a player and managed the New York Mets to the title in 1986, has died. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption toggle caption Susan …
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Jake Gyllenhaal, left, as Jack and Heath Ledger as Ennis in Brokeback Mountain, which turns 20 years old this year. kpa Publicity Stills/Alamy hide caption toggle caption kpa Publicity Stills/Alamy I was in my 20s when I read the original Annie Proulx short story “Brokeback Mountain” in The New Yorker; I was floored by it. First, because it was a …
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National Guard Military Police watch as trains arrive and depart during rush hour at L’Enfant Plaza station on Sept. 4 in Washington, D.C. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Kent Nishimura/Getty Images North America Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans are preparing for the potential arrival of National Guard troops — in what may be the latest set …
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The Intel logo is displayed on a sign in front of Intel headquarters on July 16, 2025 in Santa Clara, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America In the capitalist American economy, markets pick winners, and the federal government typically stays out of the way of business. But during times of crisis …
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A case against Anthropic AI brought by a group of authors was settled on Friday. Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images In one of the largest copyright settlements involving generative artificial intelligence, Anthropic AI, a leading company in the generative AI space, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle …
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Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., questions Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. during a Senate Finance Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington D.C. The committee met to hear testimony on President Trump’s 2026 health care agenda. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy …
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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson testifies on Capitol Hill on May 15, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America The Federal Trade Commission is moving to vacate its rule banning noncompete agreements, reversing what was seen as a signature accomplishment of the commission under President Biden. Noncompetes are …
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Thriller novelist Andrea Bartz is photographed in her home Thursday in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Richard Drew/AP hide caption toggle caption Richard Drew/AP NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its …
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