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Ken Burns' 'Country Music' is full of high praise and heartbreak, but short on analysis
Of all the broad subjects that master documentarian Ken Burns has taken on in the past four decades, none of the...
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With his new chicken documentary, is Morgan Spurlock part of the solution and the problem?
When you watch Morgan Spurlock tell people he wants to open a fast-food joint, you see skeptic looks and stunned laughs in response. But his half-smiling poker face is ironclad. He's s...
14.09.19
Can cooking serve as a balm for depression? For one British author, it saved her life
Ella Risbridger's new cookbook opens predictably enough: "There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken." Here is the universal emblem of home cooking in ...
14.09.19
At the Toronto International Film Festival, movies grapple with a confounding present by revisiting the past
TORONTO - "Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?" That's a quote from "Joker," which made its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week....
13.09.19
How Jim Watkins took over one of the web's most notorious hate sites
He was an unknown former U.S. Army repairman of attack helicopters when he arrived in the Philippines in 2001, where he would run websites featuring Japanese pornography, tend to a pig farm and pursue his interests in yoga and fountain pens. Jim Wa...
12.09.19
Advisers struggle to obey Trump's Kafkaesque rules
WASHINGTON - In President Donald Trump's renegade orbit, there are unspoken rules he expects his advisers to follow. He tolerates a modicum of dissent, so long as it remains private; e...
12.09.19
California could become the largest state to ban facial recognition in body cameras
California could soon become the largest state to ban the use of facial-recognition technology in law enforcement body cameras, a milestone in the regulation of the fast-developing but...
12.09.19
Purdue Pharma reaches tentative settlement in federal lawsuit and some state litigation
Purdue Pharma, manufacturer of the blockbuster painkiller OxyContin, reached a tentative settlement Wednesday with 23 states and more than 2,000 cities and counties that sued the compa...
11.09.19
Forbes named 99 men and only one woman on its list of 'most innovative leaders'
Forbes Magazine may be best known for its lists of the world's wealthiest billionaires, but its recent ranking of the most innovative CEOs is the one that has been getting the most att...
10.09.19
Google is always listening. Now it's watching, too, with the Nest Hub Max
With the new Nest Hub Max, a smart speaker with a screen, Google is adding an eye to its talking artificial intelligence. When I flash my palm at the device, a camera spots me and imme...
10.09.19
China loves its pork but prices are rising and that could be a problem
BEIJING - The most pressing political problem facing China's leaders this week may not the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. Nor the protracted trade war with the United States. No, it is...
10.09.19
Apple accused of worker violations in Chinese factories by labor rights group
A report released Sunday by China Labor Watch, a nonprofit advocacy group, accused Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn of a litany of labor violations, from withholding bonus p...
10.09.19
50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google
Attorneys general for 50 U.S. states and territories on Monday officially announced an antitrust investigation of Google, embarking on a wide-ranging review of a tech giant that Democr...
09.09.19
With U.S. less of an option, more seek refuge in Mexico
TAPACHULA, Mexico - The idea was to reach the United States. But when the young Honduran mother arrived in Mexico this summer, with only a handful of pesos and a 4-year-old in tow, she...
09.09.19
Microsoft president chides Facebook, warns of weaponization of tech
REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft built its fortune making the tools of technology that billions use every day. But the company's president, Brad Smith, has increasing misgivings about how th...
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