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White rice was a luxury when Sunja was a girl.Apple TV Early in the award-winning TV adaptation of Pachinko, Sunja’s mother prepares a special meal for her and her new husband before they depart for Japan. That meal includes a bowl of white rice, a treat that poor families like theirs would rarely enjoy. It’s a celebration of their new life. Food plays a pivotal role in Pachinko, particularly rice, evoking nostalgia and defining identity in scenes throughout the series. A bowl of rice is a precious gift for Sunja and later in the story becomes part of an everyday…
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) issued an apology after posting a video appearing to mock the sacrament of the Eucharist, noting that she “would never do something to denigrate someone’s faith.” In a statement provided to Fox2 Detroit by Whitmer’s office, the governor explained that the video, in which she can be seen wearing a Harris-Walz camouflage hat and placing a Dorito chip on the tongue of Canadian author and journalist Liz Plank, was “supposed to be a video about the importance of the CHIPS Act to Michigan jobs.” “Over 25 years in public service, I would never do something…
Senegalese farmer Mouhamed Oualy has never been to sea, but he is about to embark on a perilous sea journey – one that has turned the Atlantic Ocean into a mass grave.“The boat guys have called me – they said I should get ready. I am asking you to pray for me – the time has come,” he says.BBC Africa Eye has gained unprecedented access to the secretive world of the migrants hoping to reach Europe via the dangerous crossing between West Africa and Spain’s Canary Islands.And Mr Oualy wants to be one of the migrants to reach the archipelago…
“I thought, ‘Here’s ice cream, big gob. Here’s Maya’s face,'” the “SNL” alum said of his latest stint playing President Joe Biden.Dana Carvey saw the opportunity to create a chaotic moment on live television — and he took it immediately.The Saturday Night Live alum, who returned to the show last week to once again play President Joe Biden in a cold open with Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris and Andy Samberg’s Doug Emhoff, revealed that the sketch’s most memorable moment was an act of improvisation.”The ice cream cone was not planned,” Carvey said on his Fly on the Wall podcast, referring…
American officials were stumped on how to respond to swarms of unidentified drones over US own mainland An unidentified fleet of drones intruded into restricted airspace and potentially spied on a US military air base in Virginia for 17 days last December, with the Pentagon powerless to stop them, the Wall Street Journal has revealed.Late last year, swarms of drones were detected flying over Langley Air Force Base on Virginia’s shoreline – one of the select US bases hosting F-22 Raptor stealth fighters – WSJ reported on Saturday, citing dozens of US officials, police reports, and court documents.Former US Air Force General Mark Kelly,…
Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Indonesia’s communications minister said on Oct. 11 that the nation had asked Google and Apple to block Temu from their app stores in a bid to protect small businesses.In this photo illustration, the Temu logo is displayed on a laptop. Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesTemu, a China-based, ultra-low-price e-commerce app, currently operates in only a few Southeast Asian countries. Globally, it’s available in 79 countries. According to a Momentum Works report, its 2023 gross market value was just $100 million in Southeast Asia compared to $16.3 billion in the United States.In the…
In our technological world, it seems that every scientific advance to facilitate our lives comes attached to inherent dangers to our privacy and even our safety. This also applies to house appliances that now are integrated to the so-called ‘internet of things’. It recently arose that robot vacuum cleaners made by Ecovacs have been reported roaming around the home of its owners, shouting expletives at them through the onboard speakers. This happen because the company’s software was revealed to be highly vulnerable to intrusion. Recent reports show that there were multiple episodes across the US in which owners of Ecovacs…
Topline The race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remains a seeming dead heat less than four weeks before the election according to a string of surveys this month, with three new polls showing Harris either tied with Trump or holding onto a narrow lead. Vice President Kamala Harris listens to her husband Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff speak before they … [+] plant a pomegranate tree at the Vice President’s residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory on October 7, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)Getty Images Key Facts Trump and Harris are tied…
Former President Donald Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for saying, “there is not a thing that comes to mind” that she would do differently. During a rally in Coachella, California, Trump referenced comments Harris had made during an interview on ABC’s The View. During the interview, Harris was asked, “If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” Harris responded by saying, “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” noting that she had “been part of most of the decisions that have had impact.” “Kamala Harris said this week she…
(Bloomberg) — Germany is suffering a mild recession and output across the whole of 2024 will be flat, according to a Bloomberg survey — underscoring the malaise in Europe’s largest economy.Most Read from BloombergAnalysts in the poll see gross domestic product shrinking 0.1% in the third quarter, following a surprise contraction of that magnitude in the second. A month ago, they still forecast stagnation between July and September.Their full-year projection also marks a downward revision from the 0.1% expansion previously envisioned. But it’s a tad more optimistic than the government, which last week slashed its forecast to a contraction of…