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On Sunday, the right-wing Alternative for Germany party, known as the AfD, won nearly forty-four per cent of the vote in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD beat the second-place finisher, the center-right Christian Democratic Union, by more than twenty-five points, and gave itself the chance to govern…

Logo text John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein were looking forward to filming a pivotal scene in Mayday when they got some bad news. To re-create a Soviet-era May Day parade, the duo had enlisted 1,000 extras and 1,000 crewmembers. Their costume designer, Debra McGuire, created 1,000 period-accurate military uniforms,…

commentary Germany blames Russia for drone strike in Leipzig. It's a new phase in an overheating cold war Published September 7, 2026 9:00AM (EDT) Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sept. 1, 2026. (Peter Kovalev/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) It’s always been a cop-out to blame the sinister influence of Vladimir Putin for…

Welcome to your Xbox games roundup for September 7-11! We've got a few big releases on the way over the next few days including Halloween: The Game, Mewgenics and EA Sports NHL 27, while Xbox Game Pass is treating us to three new additions highlighted by Call of Duty: Black…

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While he may not be known as an action star, Kenneth Branagh absolutely wanted to give it a go for “Mayday,” his upcoming Apple TV Cold War action-comedy in which he co-stars with Ryan Reynolds. He just needed to find out how best to get involved. “I asked the directors,…

NVIDIA is investing to up to $105 billion to secure land, power and shell (LPS) capacity for the massive PORTS-Pike Technology Campus planned on the site of the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, a long-shuttered uranium enrichment facility near Columbus, Ohio. The project includes a planned 10-GW data center campus…

Last weekend The Washington Post published an article reporting that Donald Trump wants the Navy to redesign the Gerald R. Ford-class of aircraft carriers to better meet his sense of aesthetics by moving the island control tower closer amidships. The reason is reportedly that it would make the carriers look…

1 of 5 | Jeff Daniels star in "The Brink of War," in theaters Friday. Photo courtesy of Angel Studios NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The Newsroom and American Rust alum Jeff Daniels says The Brink of War, his new Cold War-era nail-biter, which tells an extraordinary true story,…

Daniels and Harris are impressive in their respective roles, delivering believable performances that allow you to get lost in the story. Still, the dialogue can be a bit confusing if you begin the movie knowing little to nothing about U.S.-Soviet relations – much less about things like SDI, ICBMs (intercontinental…