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Actress and filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal complained about a lack of female directors at the Venice Film Festival after directing one of this year’s biggest bombs. “I guess it’s finally become clear that men make better movies than women do,” she said. “There’s a systemic problem. It’s harder for women to get films financed,” Gyllenhaal said during a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, responding to a question about the lack of female directors in this year’s competition lineup, according to a report by Variety. “Could it be possible that women, having had a different experience of being alive in the world, want…

House Republicans’ national campaign arm is joining with embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller to buy TV airtime as allegations of domestic abuse against him put the previously safe north Ohio seat into play.The NRCC is planning a joint three-week ad buy with Miller’s campaign starting Sept. 7 and totaling more than $150,000. Miller, who represents parts of the Cleveland suburbs, is not among the NRCC’s “Patriots” — the most vulnerable members who typically get the bulk of its spending.”Democrat Brian Poindexter backs a radical far-left agenda that’s completely out of touch with northeast Ohio,” NRCC spokesperson Zach Bannon said in…

Federal agents have arrested Los Angeles-based leftist podcaster Benjamin Azariah Southworth at his Westlake home Thursday on a grand jury indictment charging him with threatening to kill President Donald Trump, cyberstalking, and making harassing interstate telephone calls. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced that the 40-year-old is accused of posting videos calling for the president’s assassination, then targeting the family of Trump’s personal attorney by publishing a home address and phone numbers and leaving voicemails that justice would “come to your door.” Benjamin Azariah Southworth, 40, of Los Angeles has been indicted by a grand jury on federal charges…

OSLO, Norway (AP) – Norwegian authorities seized a Russian vessel in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on Wednesday at the request of Ukraine’s Naftogaz as part of a global effort to enforce a $4.22 billion arbitration award. Naftogaz is trying to recover the multibillion-dollar arbitration award stemming from Russia’s 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea and its seizure of Ukrainian energy assets, including gas fields and pipelines. In 2023, an arbitration tribunal in The Hague ordered Russia to pay the $4.22 billion to the Ukrainian state-owned energy company for unlawfully seizing its assets in Crimea. After Russia’s refusal to pay the…

The DOJ filed a brief siding with OpenAI in its copyright lawsuit with the New York Times, arguing that training AI systems on copyrighted material counts as fair use. The DOJ’s brief does not completely align with the Trump Administration’s AI framework released earlier this year. Politico reports that the DOJ brief, filed Tuesday in New York federal court, is the first time the federal government has weighed in on copyright lawsuits over AI training. The Times sued OpenAI over what it calls mass theft of its journalism, and the case could shape a wave of similar lawsuits from news and…

President Donald Trump blasted Democrats’ U.S. Senate candidate in Texas, James Talarico, as one of the worst candidates he has ever seen when asked about Talarico bashing capitalism as oppressive and saying it needs to be dismantled. Trump’s comments came Wednesday in the Oval Office in response to a question from Breitbart News. “Well, that’s one of the least of the bad things he has said. He’s said a lot of bad things. I mean, they have a name, a nickname for him. I don’t want to use it, but the name happens to be ‘Talafreako’ because he is one…

A fierce internal battle is developing among House Democrats for a job that might not even be open next Congress.Reps. Sara Jacobs of California and Lauren Underwood of Illinois are expected to seek the caucus vice chair post. The job is currently held by Rep. Ted Lieu of California, who is expected to step aside only if Democrats prevail in the midterms — allowing Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to become speaker and other members of the party leadership to step one rung up the ladder.Lieu would be in line to become caucus chair in that scenario, and the vice chair…

Male jails in England and Wales are more than 98% full, with only around 1,500 spaces reportedly available The British government’s plan to turn prison laundries and other unused spaces into cells will not solve the country’s jail overcrowding crisis, former MP Andrew Bridgen has told RT.The Ministry of Justice has fast-tracked £110 million ($149 million) from existing budgets for the conversions, saying this week it could create between 200 and 900 additional places.The adult male prison estate is operating at more than 98% capacity, with around 1,500 places reportedly available at the start of September, the lowest level this…

The jury in the Lindsay Clancy jury sent the judge a fourth note on Thursday afternoon on day six of deliberations. Clancy’s defense team requested to remove one juror who “refused” to abide by reasonable doubt, but Judge William Sullivan denied the motion. One juror is reportedly holding the line as the other 11 wan If the jury cannot come to a unanimous decision, the judge will declare a mistrial. BREAKING: The jury in the Lindsey Clancy trial has just sent its fourth note to the judge after roughly 36 hours of deliberations, and the big question now is whether…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called on artificial intelligence (AI) and data center companies to improve their messaging in comments at the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, saying they, “Have done a horrendous job of explaining themselves to the American people.” At the three-day meeting with world finance leaders, Bessent praised the promise of what AI and large language models (LLMs) can do, pointing to how small business startups are increasing on main street but offered warnings that the companies must do better to ensure the U.S. is the global AI superpower. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at…