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Director David Ayer and Brad Pitt team up once again, but instead of showcasing the horrors of war like they did in Fury, they’re offering a much smaller-scale movie in The Heart of the Beast. Pitt may be the lead actor, but it’s his canine co-star who steals the movie in this surprisingly good survival movie.  As mentioned, Pitt stars as James Belmont, a retired Green Beret who ventures into the Alaskan wilderness with Odin, a retired combat German Shepherd who is also James’ best friend. We don’t get too much backstory on James, enough to know that both he…

The process of trial and error, by its very nature, is an exercise in accepting that the results will not always be perfect, to the point that U.S. men’s national team head coach Mauricio Pochettino has preached patience at the start of a generational shift. Unevenness is to be expected and three days after a lopsided win against Peru, the growing pains began to show. As the USMNT navigated a chaotic match against Chile on Tuesday, though, they managed to keep the vibes high in a 4-2 win that threw a new series of challenges at a youth-focused version of…

Ed Cumming and Natasha LeakeSeptember 30, 2026 — 11:21amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAGreenfield, Massachusetts: Until last week, few people outside this sleepy US city had thought much about its lesbian bar, Last Ditch. Since it opened last year as a space for “dykes, transsexuals, gender freaks, workers and their friends”, it had become popular with the local queer community, hosting drag shows, live-music karaoke, film screenings and other events. But a global news story it was not.That all changed when The Boston Globe published a startling investigation into…

This is Naked Capitalism fundraising week. 928 donors have already invested in our efforts to combat corruption and predatory conduct, particularly in the financial realm. Please join us and participate via our donation page, which shows how to give via check, credit card, debit card, PayPal. Clover, or Wise. Read about why we’re doing this fundraiser, what we’ve accomplished in the last year,, and our current goal, funding bonuses for our terrific writers. During the recent conflict involving Iran and the United States, rumors began circulating that Iran possessed electromagnetic weapons capable of disabling American warships, and some accounts went…

NATO has shaped Europe’s security since 1949. But now, tension between the U.S. and the rest of the alliance has grown as the Trump administration pushes a "NATO 3.0" idea that Europe should take the lead on its own conventional defense and the Department of War has launched a six-month review that could lead to the biggest U.S. drawdown in Europe since the 1990s. Today, we head to Spain, one of the countries that’s been a big Trump critic, to take stock of Trump’s impact on NATO.

Nearly every person who breaks the shaft of a thighbone releases fat into the bloodstream. Only a small fraction become sick from it. A case published this month suggests that the size of an injury may not always be what matters most, and a growing body of research points to body weight as one factor that helps decide who crosses the line.In Frontiers in Medicine, doctors at Liaocheng People’s Hospital in China reported a 43-year-old man with a body mass index of about 45 who developed fat embolism syndrome after surgery for crush injuries to his index finger and thumb.…

Questions of trust and safety hovered over the event. The evening before the new products were launched, OpenAI apologized for its agents’ hacking of an Australian government website. “We are sorry and working to do better in the future,” it said in a blog post.The incident, which occurred in June, involved an internal model under development, which accessed nonpublic information related to Australia’s public health insurance program. On Tuesday, Altman and OpenAI leadership stressed that the episode — and other major incidents of OpenAI’s systems’ going rogue or acting in unintended ways — all involved models that were not meant…

The Heartwarming Legacy of Professor Cris HassoldCris Hassold, a beloved art history professor at the New College of Florida, created lasting bonds with her students over her 50-year career. Known for her passion and unique teaching style, her influence was felt deeply by many who stepped into her classroom.After her passing in 2020 at the age of 89, many former students received stunning news—they had inherited parts of her $2.8 million estate. Ranging from $26,000 to $560,000, the distributions were thoughtfully allocated, reflecting her cherished relationships with each student.Professor Hassold’s former students have since shared how this unexpected financial windfall…

More than two decades of US military presence in Iraq comes to an end.The last remaining US troops have left Iraq. The US military was first deployed to Iraq back in 2003 to depose its leader, Saddam Hussein.It later faced a series of crises that ensued after the ousting of Hussein. Iraq became embroiled in a cycle of violence that considerably weakened the country.While the US may have prevented the collapse of the state, it’s also accused of contributing to the subsequent chaos that engulfed it.The Iraqi government will now be dealing with a new reality.Is it up to the…

Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez’s clash with Christian Mbilli has officially been confirmed for October 31 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The contest was originally scheduled to headline a September 12 card in the Kingdom, but was postponed after Alvarez had to deal with personal family matters that delayed the start of his training camp. Ring Magazine’s Turki Alalshikh has now confirmed the Halloween date for the fight – which will be broadcast globally on DAZN pay-per-view – weeks after Canelo had revealed it. Confirmation that the event remains in Riyadh puts an end to speculation that organisers might look to move the…