“Promising Young Woman” combines a promising star and timely premise into a provocative but less-than-satisfying thriller. A darkly comic #MeToo revenge tale, the film is elevated by Carey Mulligan’s mesmerizing performance but winds up feeling undercooked in developing the narrative surrounding what’s basically a feminist vigilante.
Young leaders ask incoming Biden administration for a seat at the table
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Washington, DC A cohort of youth-led organizations has asked the incoming Biden administration to create official positions aimed at engaging younger Americans. The groups have drafted a memo asking the Biden adminis...
The oldest living Marine, a North Carolina woman, has died at age 107
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Dorothy "Dot" Cole was the oldest living US Marine veteran when she died on January 7. She was 107 years old. Cole, who was born in 1913 and grew up in Warren, Pennsylvania, suffered a heart attack in the home they ...
Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte says the presidency is no job for a woman
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Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday declared the presidency was no job for a woman because of their emotional differences to men, and dismissed speculation his daughter would succeed him next year. "My dau...
Russian woman who swam under Siberia’s ice may have broken the world record
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Wearing nothing but a bathing suit, a swimming cap and an underwater mask, the 40-year-old woman plunged into a carved-out section of a frozen Siberian lake, before diving under the ice to swim in water estimated to...
‘Outside the Wire’ stars Anthony Mackie in a sci-fi movie that thinks inside the box
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Before suiting up as Marvel's Falcon again on Disney+, Anthony Mackie produces and stars in "Outside the Wire," a futuristic action vehicle that thinks inside the box and feels as generic as its title. Netflix has f...
A Black man who wrongfully served 26 years on death row in the killing of a White woman is now free
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Eddie Lee Howard was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1994. Now, after decades of fighting, he has been exonerated. Howard, who is Black, was sentenced to death in 1994, after being wrongfully convicted for the murd...
Egyptian TikTok stars acquitted after charges of ‘violating family values’
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An Egyptian appeals court has overturned prison sentences for two well-known TikTok influencers, in a high-profile public morality case, state news outlet Ahram Online reported on Tuesday. Haneen Hossam and Mawada...
Sister of Black woman killed by US Capitol police angered by response to white rioters
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Watching rioters storm the US Capitol reopened old wounds for Valarie Carey. Carey's younger sister, Miriam Carey, was fatally shot by Capitol police and US Secret Service officers more than seven years ago after l...
China keeps promising its African allies that coronavirus vaccines for the continent are a priority. But where are they?
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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi concludes a five-day tour of Africa this weekend without making a single concrete vaccine commitment to a continent hoping a benevolent Beijing will help inoculate its population out...
Police hunt for man who allegedly injected woman, 92, with ‘fake Covid-19 vaccine’
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Police in the UK are searching for a man who allegedly injected a 92-year-old woman with a fake Covid-19 vaccine -- and charged her £160 ($ 217) for it. The City of London Police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit ...
New Zealand woman, 19, dies after suspected shark attack
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A 19-year-old woman died Thursday after a suspected shark attack in New Zealand's North Island. According to local police, the woman was injured while in the waters off Waihī Beach late on Thursday afternoon, and di...
Indian priest and ‘disciples’ arrested for alleged gang rape and murder of woman
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New Delhi A Hindu priest and two of his male followers have been arrested for the alleged gang rape and murder of a 50-year-old woman in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, local authorities said. Police arrested ...