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Capra at Columbia: A Star-Maker Is Born
The Wall Street Journal

Capra at Columbia: A Star-Maker Is Born

A Sicilian whose family immigrated to America in the first years of the 20th century, Frank Capra got into the movies early, and by the end of the silent era was directing everything from comedies to romances to melodramas for scrappy Columbia Pictures.

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February 03, 2025
Key Tax Numbers to Note Before Filing
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Key Tax Numbers to Note Before Filing

A cheat sheet for new brackets, deductions and credits you need to know for filing 2024 taxes and for this year's tax planning

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February 03, 2025
Musk's Allies Seize Control Of Vast U.S. Spending Spigot
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Musk's Allies Seize Control Of Vast U.S. Spending Spigot

Elon Musk's allies are moving swiftly to exert control over vast swaths of the U.S government, as they demand access to sensitive information at federal agencies and lay out plans to block spending they deem excessive.

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February 03, 2025
Canada, Mexico Set Retaliation For U.S. Tariffs
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Canada, Mexico Set Retaliation For U.S. Tariffs

Canada and Mexico prepared to retaliate over tariffs from President Trump, as the U.S. and its neighbors spiraled into a trade war that threatens to hurt American consumers and upend decades of economic integration.

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February 03, 2025
Heroes to Palestinians And Killers to Israelis, Prisoners Now Go Free
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Heroes to Palestinians And Killers to Israelis, Prisoners Now Go Free

The last time Zakaria Zubeidi left prison, it was through a hole he dug with five other convicts, in a brief escape attempt before being recaptured.

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February 03, 2025
Tell-All Author Tries To Rewrite Her Past
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Tell-All Author Tries To Rewrite Her Past

Anna David does not support censoring books. Except when it comes to her own.

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February 03, 2025
HOW TO REDUCE AI CHATBOT HALLUCINATIONS
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HOW TO REDUCE AI CHATBOT HALLUCINATIONS

Some mistakes are inevitable. But there are ways to make it less likely a chatbot won't make stuff up.

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February 03, 2025
CNN Taps a Conservative Pundit To Explain Red America to Viewers
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CNN Taps a Conservative Pundit To Explain Red America to Viewers

Scott Jennings likens his segments at the roundtable on CNN's 10 p.m. show to a bout of roller derby.

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February 03, 2025
Caitlin Clark's NCAA Record Spot Becomes a Shrine to Long Shots
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Caitlin Clark's NCAA Record Spot Becomes a Shrine to Long Shots

As Iowa retires Clark's No. 22 jersey, opponents are trying to match her history-making shot

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February 03, 2025
RFK Jr.'s Ties to Vaccine Suits Complicate His Nomination
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RFK Jr.'s Ties to Vaccine Suits Complicate His Nomination

HHS secretary pick agrees to transfer his financial stake in Gardasil litigation

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February 03, 2025
The Economics of Integration
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The Economics of Integration

No topic was more prevalent around my grandmother's Sunday dinner table than the effect of segregation on black people.

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February 03, 2025
AI HAS SHOWN ME MY FUTURE.IT'S GOING TO BE QUITE A LIFE.
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AI HAS SHOWN ME MY FUTURE.IT'S GOING TO BE QUITE A LIFE.

A new artificial-intelligence tool allowed me to talk to my 80-year-old self. She had a lot to say.

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February 03, 2025
WHY I'M LETTING GO OF MY RESENTMENTS
Spirituality & Health

WHY I'M LETTING GO OF MY RESENTMENTS

The practice of releasing bitterness and animosity just might help you live longer.

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March/April 2025
THE HEALING POWER OF AWE
Spirituality & Health

THE HEALING POWER OF AWE

How one woman found comfort and connection in moments of awe

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March/April 2025
THIS SPRING, BALANCE ACTION WITH REST
Spirituality & Health

THIS SPRING, BALANCE ACTION WITH REST

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist ... most easily succumbs: activism and overwork.—Thomas Merton

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March/April 2025
ITSY-BITSY SPIDER WISDOM
Spirituality & Health

ITSY-BITSY SPIDER WISDOM

“THE ITSY-BITSY SPIDER WENT UP THEWATERSPOUT,” I hear faintly through a brick wall, acacophony of children's voices from the preschool next doorto my husband's art studio. The words catch my attentionbecause they are lodged deep in my memory alongsiderecollections of Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, both of whichhave influenced my perspectives on arachnids.

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March/April 2025
An Intrepid Tastemaker
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An Intrepid Tastemaker

Parisian gallerist Berthe Weill is the focus of a revelatory exhibition

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February 03, 2025
Luka Doncic Traded to Lakers In a Deal Nobody Saw Coming
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Luka Doncic Traded to Lakers In a Deal Nobody Saw Coming

It is, by every conceivable measure and near-universal consensus, the most shocking trade in the history of the NBA.

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February 03, 2025
Co-Pilot of Helicopter in Fatal Crash Identified
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Co-Pilot of Helicopter in Fatal Crash Identified

The Army released the name of the third crew member who died Wednesday when the helicopter she was co-piloting collided with an American Airlines jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

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February 03, 2025
Budget Pick to Partner With Musk's DOGE
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Budget Pick to Partner With Musk's DOGE

The billionaire Elon Musk has served as a disrupter and change agent in the private sector. Russell Vought, a longtime budget hawk and Washington insider, has spent years pressing to dismantle the administrative state.

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February 03, 2025
Trump Says Venezuela to Accept Deportees
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Trump Says Venezuela to Accept Deportees

U.S. envoy who set deal with Maduro Says no concessions made to strongman

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February 03, 2025
The Right Kind of White Noise Is Music to the Ears at Bedtime
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The Right Kind of White Noise Is Music to the Ears at Bedtime

Some of our favorite nightstand and in-ear products for blocking annoying sounds

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February 03, 2025
OBITUARY: Former MLB Head Fay Vincent, 86
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OBITUARY: Former MLB Head Fay Vincent, 86

Fay Vincent, who became an unexpected baseball commissioner in 1989 following the death of A. Bartlett Giamatti and then was forced out three years later by owners intent on a labor confrontation with players, has died.

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February 03, 2025
Panama Balks at Ceding Canal
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Panama Balks at Ceding Canal

Country offers key concessions on China role, in Rubio's first overseas stop

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February 03, 2025
UPS Is Pressured by Unhappy Investors—Its Own Retirees
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UPS Is Pressured by Unhappy Investors—Its Own Retirees

UPS boss Carol Tomé is under pressure to reverse a long slump in the company's stock price, especially from employees and retirees, who have outsize say under UPS's unique shareholder structure.

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February 03, 2025
OpenAl Learns the Meaning Of Karma From DeepSeek
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OpenAl Learns the Meaning Of Karma From DeepSeek

The following is a totally real letter to OpenAl from the people who create the stuff that fills the internet.

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February 03, 2025
Hamas Releases Three More Hostages in Less-Chaotic Style
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Hamas Releases Three More Hostages in Less-Chaotic Style

Hamas released three more Israeli hostages on Saturday, including the first American in this round, in a relatively subdued procession after a chaotic handover earlier in the week sparked an outcry that threatened to snarl the exchanges.

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February 03, 2025
Biden's Clemency Moves Stirred Anger Within DOJ
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Biden's Clemency Moves Stirred Anger Within DOJ

Most commutations in the drug cases didn’t follow official recommendations

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February 03, 2025
Inside Chick-fil-A's Quest To Make Fast Food Faster
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Inside Chick-fil-A's Quest To Make Fast Food Faster

The booming chicken chain aims to reinvent the drive-through with drones, 'game films'; revamping the cockpit

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February 03, 2025
Centrist Florida Democrat Taunts and Trolls His GOP Colleagues
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Centrist Florida Democrat Taunts and Trolls His GOP Colleagues

With Democrats shut out of power for at least the next two years, Rep. Jared Moskowitz is carving out his own survival strategy: work with Republicans when he can-and troll them over their perceived excesses when he can't.

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February 03, 2025