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Sébastien Lecornu’s abrupt resignation as the French prime minister on Monday after less than a month in the role marked the latest clash between France’s stretched public finances and its polarised politics. Lecornu was the latest prime minister to try and fail to cobble together a package of spending cuts and tax rises that would…
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3473.18, down 2.6% (-93.07) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. None of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: XRP (-1.6%) and POL (-1.8%). Laggards: AAVE (-10.1%) and BCH…
OpenAI’s Sora app for AI videos is a viral hit, despite being invite-only for now and limited to users in the U.S. and Canada at launch. On its first day, Sora saw 56,000 downloads, and is now ranked as the No. 3 Top Overall app on Apple’s U.S. App Store, according to new data from…
They are far into the lethal zone. Three people who are being held in prison on charges connected with the protest group Palestine Action have been on hunger strike for 45, 59 and 66 days. A fourth prisoner, Teuta Hoxha, ended her strike this week, after 58 days. She could suffer lifelong health effects. The…
André SnellingsDec 15, 2025, 12:38 PM ET Close Dr. André Snellings is a senior writer for men’s and women’s fantasy basketball and sports betting at ESPN. André has a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Michigan. He joined ESPN in 2017 after a 16-year career as a neural engineer, during which time he was also a…
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Michael B. Jordan made headlines in 2023 when, during the press tour for “Creed III” (a movie very much inspired by action anime), he shared his list of must-see anime, and people quickly noticed the titles all have one thing in common — they were rather long shows with hundreds of episodes each. Absurdly high…
Now here is something rare: good news. It was announced earlier this year that, after 26 years, the beloved film festival Ebertfest, founded by iconic film critic Roger Ebert and currently run by his widow Chaz Ebert and festival director Nate Kohn, was coming to a likely end at its longstanding home at the Virginia…
Editor’s Note: “Orwell 2+2 = 5” originally debuted at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. It opens at the IFC Center in New York City on Thursday, October 2 and the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles on October 9. On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. took to X (then Twitter) to declare that his father’s…
In the polarised climate of British politics, irritation with Liberal Democrats is one of the few things that Labour and Tory MPs have in common. Parliament’s two biggest parties see each other as arch enemies – status that affords some mutual respect. The Lib Dems are treated more like pests, ideological shapeshifters, wheedling their way…
