SAINT-FRANCOIS LONGCHAMP, FRANCE - AUGUST 02: Pauline Ferrand-Prevot of France and Team Visma | Lease a Bike celebrates at finish line as stage winner during the 4th Tour de France Femmes 2025, Stage 8 a 111.9km stage from Chambery to Saint-Francois Longchamp - Col de la Madeleine 1986m / #UCIWWT / on August 02, 2025 in Saint-Francois Longchamp, France. (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)
It seems like it was only yesterday we were getting leaks from the Elden Ring film set, and now you're telling me Alex Garland and co have wrapped filming? Time sure does fly when you're doing pretty much the same thing day in day out.
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James Gray and Darren Aronofsky are among the big-name filmmakers getting honored at the 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival this August. But the 2026 lineup of the Swiss festival also showcases all sorts of newer and emerging filmmakers from around the globe.
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Russia claimed this week to be advancing into Ukraine’s regions of Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk, as Ukraine installed new political leadership in its defence ministry and a new military leadership in its armed forces.
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This story is part of CNBC Make It's The Moment series, where highly successful people reveal the inflection point that changed the trajectory of their lives and careers.
Victor Riparbelli was almost too early to the artificial intelligence era.
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Brian Entin will pack more shirts next time.
It is a bit morbid to say the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation, which hits the six-month mark(!) on Saturday, has made the NewsNation senior national correspondent a star — but such is the genre Entin traffics in. Also, it’s true. Amid a flurry of in-and-out mainstream media and social media coverage, Entin’s good, old-fashioned (and consistent) shoe leather reporting has stood tall above the conspiracy theories so often amplified by amateur internet sleuths. This was not Entin’s first rodeo; in some ways, the 41-year-old (don’t let the silver hair fool you) has been preparing for it his whole life.
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Published Jul 31, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT
This damp island village is cozy yet nightmarish
Image: Screen Burn / Annapurna Interactive / KonamiAtmosphere is an integral element of any good horror game, and Silent Hill: Townfall nails it. Developed by Glasgow-based studio Screen Burn and published by Konami, the latest installment in the venerated series takes place in a fictional island town in Scotland called St. Amelia during the mid-1990s. If you’ve ever set foot in a small town in the U.K., you’ll marvel at the meticulous attention to detail in Townfall’s environmental design, from the way the moisture hangs in the air to the rubbery texture of the paint on the nobbly stucco buildings. At a preview event in Los Angeles earlier this month, writer-director Jon McKellan and series producer Motoi Okamoto gave Polygon a glimpse behind the process of making St. Amelia a reality.
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Sticker magnate Anthony Constantino has called reporters “scumbags” and his veteran primary opponent a “fucking coward”
A crucial question — maybe the crucial question — for America is just how successful Donald Trump has been in poisoning our collective brains. Are we past the point of no return, or is there a chance of meandering back to something even remotely normal? One place that will provide a clue, come November, is New York’s 21st Congressional District.
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The 2027 Slate Truck is a compact pickup that measures 1.8 inches shorter than a Subaru Crosstrek.
Gaza is suffering from a health crisis caused by a shortage in CT scans and leading to worsening medical issues.
Dalia Al-Hawari stood behind the glass partition in the hospital imaging room, watching in silence as her 10-year-old son prepared to have a CT scan to determine the extent of his injuries.
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