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The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has unveiled the main Tiger competition lineup and Big Screen competition program for its 2026 edition. The titles revealed on Tuesday include new movies from the U.S., China, Portugal, and many other parts of the world.  IFFR organizers also revealed that the fest will open with the world premiere of the Portuguese feature Providence and the Guitar by João Nicolau. The closing film will be the world premiere of crime comedy Bazaar (Murder in the Building) from French filmmaker Rémi Bezançon. Inspired by a short novel by Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr…

We’re 10 days away from the next installment of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, and Netflix has released a new trailer for what it’s calling Volume 2. This will cover episodes five through seven, with the final episode comprising Vol. 3. (Spoilers for Season 5, Vol. 1 below.) Season 4 ended with Vecna—the Big Bad behind it all—opening the gate that allowed the Upside Down to leak into Hawkins. We got a time jump for S5, Vol. 1, but in a way, we came full circle, since those events coincided with the third anniversary of Will’s original…

Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) said Monday that President Trump changing marijuana’s classification would be ill-advised. “I think rescheduling marijuana is wrong. The fact is, marijuana is a gateway drug. Most of the people who end up using hard substances start out on marijuana,” Lawler told host Blake Burman on NewsNation’s “The Hill.” The president…

Mahmood Mamdani, a Columbia University professor, draws on his experiences of exile and statelessness in Uganda to examine how colonial legacies continue to shape political power. Chloe Aftel hide caption toggle caption Chloe Aftel Mahmood Mamdani is often described as the father of Zohran Mamdani, NYC’s next mayor. But long before his son’s political ambitions, Mamdani was a prominent scholar whose work examined colonialism and anti-colonialism in Africa. That scholarship is rooted in his own experience as a Ugandan citizen of Indian origin who was twice rendered stateless due to political turmoil in East Africa during the 1970s and 80s.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Are out of holiday gift ideas for those on your list? Perhaps you have procrastinated because some people are simply difficult to buy Christmas gifts for.Seniors are often on this list, as are those who insist that any book they receive come from only the highest level of writing.Then there are people fighting through difficult circumstances in their work or home lives, moments when they are under enormous pressure to lead and lead wisely, or times when they appear to be — and probably actually are — well, miserable. They need some…

Indonesian filmmaker Joko Anwar has been awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, receiving the prestigious cultural honor at a ceremony held at the French Ministry of Culture in Paris. French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati presented the award, recognizing Anwar’s two-decade career and his impact on both Indonesian and international cinema. The honor places the director among a distinguished list of recipients that includes Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Pedro Almodóvar, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Miyazaki Hayao. “He established a unique artistic signature, exploring collective fears, social tensions, myths, and…

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Last Updated: Dec. 15, 2025 at 10:45 p.m. ETFirst Published: Dec. 15, 2025 at 6:12 p.m. ETBroadcom’s steepest three-day drop in over five years has the chip maker falling down the ranks of the largest U.S. companies. Shares of Broadcom AVGO lost 5.6% on Monday, capping a 17.7% three-day slide that’s their worst such stretch since March 18, 2020, according to Dow Jones Market Data. That persistent pressure meant that it only took a fractional Monday gain for Meta’s stock META to put the Facebook parent company back in the No. 6 spot among the largest U.S. companies by market capitalization.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., called those concerned about whether she married her brother “sick” after the far-left lawmaker was approached by Fox News Digital about border czar Tom Homan, signaling that federal officials have started digging into records pertaining to the matter.Homan said last week that records and files related to Omar’s potential immigration fraud were being pulled and looked at after President Donald Trump revived the years-old scandal amid an ongoing debate over the Somali Medicaid fraud scandal taking place in Omar’s state of Minnesota. While Homan suggested that fraud likely took…

Por LORNE COOK BRUSELAS (AP) — A lo largo de 2025, una nueva realidad se ha asentado en Europa. Estados Unidos, durante mucho tiempo su aliado más fuerte, ha debilitado la unidad, las economías, la seguridad e incluso las democracias de la Unión Europea, estableciendo el telón de fondo para una cumbre de la UE esta semana al final de un año excepcionalmente difícil. Después de congelar indefinidamente la semana pasada los activos rusos en Europa, los líderes de la UE enfrentan una nueva prueba de fuerza en la cumbre del jueves. Ucrania se encuentra en una situación financiera desesperada,…