The story behind Barbenheimer, the summer’s most online movie showdown | AP News

The story behind Barbenheimer, the summer’s most online movie showdown | AP News

The very online showdown between Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” all started with a date: July 21.It’s not uncommon for studios to counterprogram films in different genres on a big weekend, but the stark differences between an intense, serious-minded picture about the man who oversaw the development of the atomic bomb and a

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11-year-old daughter of top Kashmiri rebel leader issues rare appeal to visit father jailed in India | AP News

11-year-old daughter of top Kashmiri rebel leader issues rare appeal to visit father jailed in India | AP News

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The eleven-year-old daughter of a prominent Kashmiri rebel leader who was sentenced to life in prison in neighboring India issued an emotional appeal on Thursday, urging New Delhi to allow her to meet her ailing father.Razia Sultan, the daughter of Mohammed Yasin Malik, 57, made this emotional demand after she was allowed

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Thousands of UK hospital doctors walk out in the latest pay dispute, crippling health services | AP News

Thousands of UK hospital doctors walk out in the latest pay dispute, crippling health services | AP News

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of senior doctors in England began a 48-hour walkout Thursday to demand better pay and conditions, paralyzing hospitals and leaving only emergency care covered. The severe disruptions are the latest in a wave of industrial action by public sector workers amid U.K.’s ongoing cost-of-living crisis. They come just two days after

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RFK Jr. defends himself against complaints of racist and antisemitic online misinformation | AP News

RFK Jr. defends himself against complaints of racist and antisemitic online misinformation | AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended himself Thursday against accusations that he traffics in racist and hateful online conspiracy theories, testifying at a House hearing on government censorship despite requests from outside groups to disinvite the Democratic presidential candidate after his recent antisemitic remarks.The Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal

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As a child, she sold street tamales. A senator now, she’s shaking up Mexico’s presidential race. | AP News

As a child, she sold street tamales. A senator now, she’s shaking up Mexico’s presidential race. | AP News

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A street-food salesgirl who became a tech entrepreneur and senator is shaking up the contest to succeed Mexico’s popular president and offering many voters the first real alternative to her country’s dominant party.Xóchitl Gálvez, 60, helped her family as a girl by selling tamales on the street. Today the straight-talking opposition

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