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Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock Martin Scorsese is a legend. You don’t need the new Apple TV+ docuseries “Mr. Scorsese” to grasp that truth. Just look at the many artistic accomplishments throughout his nearly 60 years of directing feature-length movies. From Scorsese’s films with Leonardo DiCaprio to making Robert de Niro’s absolutely best movies, the filmmaker has helmed some of the most iconic motion pictures of all time. His accomplishments aren’t just confined to yesteryear, either. Modern classics like “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “The Irishman” show that he hasn’t lost his artistic daring…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Until last week, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was the Israeli army’s top lawyer. Now she is behind bars and at the center of a scandal rocking the country after a bizarre sequence of events that included her abrupt resignation, a brief disappearance and a frantic search that led authorities to find her on a Tel Aviv beach.The soap opera-worthy saga was touched off last week by Tomer-Yerushalmi’s explosive admission that she approved the leak of a surveillance video at the center of a politically divisive investigation into allegations of severe abuse against a Palestinian at a notorious…

U.S. factory activity shrank in October for an eighth straight month, driven by a pullback in production and tepid demand.The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index eased 0.4 points to 48.7, according to data released Monday. Readings below 50 indicate contraction, and the measure has been stuck in a narrow range for most of this year.The group’s production index slid 2.8 points to 48.2, marking the second month in the past three that output has contracted. The weakness is keeping head counts depressed. The ISM’s employment gauge shrank for a ninth straight month, albeit at a slightly slower pace than…

CBS Contains spoilers for “Boston Blue” Season 1, Episode 3 — “History” “History” does something fresh with its “Boston Blue” denizens. It introduces an element of romance into the family drama its predecessor, “Blue Bloods,” mostly enjoyed. Not only does the Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg) and Maria Baez (Marisa Ramirez) romance continue on, audiences get to meet multiple potential partners for members of the sprawling Silver family tree. To wit: Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Green) has begun to embark on a tentative relationship with her former partner, Detective Brian Rogers (Ryan Broussard), now that she’s been…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Just days ahead of the U.N. climate conference to be held in Brazil, a group of 300 mayors gathered Monday in Rio de Janeiro to pledge coordinated climate action and address rising heat that is hurting many of their residents. The summit was organized by C40, a network of mayors from big cities that has pushed to be included in decisions on how to combat global warming and adapt to its effects.Selwyn Hart, the U.N. special adviser and assistant secretary-general for climate change, said at the opening that mayors are on the front lines of the…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom Patna, Nov 3 (PTI) Gloves were off in poll-bound Bihar on Monday, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party general secretary Priyanka Vadra were among those slugging it out on the penultimate day of campaign for the first phase of the elections. Modi addressed rallies in Saharsa and Katihar districts, raising to eight the total number of election meetings held by him, in addition to a road show in the state capital a day ago. The PM continued to fish…

Changpeng Zhao, the multibillionaire founder of crypto exchange Binance, spent four months last year locked in a federal prison. After US president Donald Trump pardoned Zhao in October, the government has recast him as a martyr.Zhao, who goes by CZ, pleaded guilty in November 2023 to failing to maintain an effective anti-money-laundering program at Binance. In parallel, Binance admitted to violating US sanctions and settled with financial regulators, which accused the company of failing to report suspicious transactions involving terror groups, child exploitation networks, and cybercriminals, among other violations. In a particularly incriminating exchange detailed in court documents, one Binance…

Macall Polay/20th Century Studios With the musician biopic omnipresent in modern Hollywood, it was inevitable that Bruce Springsteen would eventually get his equivalent to “Bohemian Rhapsody” or “Elvis.” Such a project finally materialized with “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” which saw “The Bear” veteran Jeremy Allen White lending his soulful pupils and psychologically frazzled aura to Springsteen as he works to create his 1982 album “Nebraska.” But any hopes that “Deliver Me From Nowhere” would score an opening weekend anywhere close to the biggest musician biopics in box office history…

OpenAI has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion worth of AWS cloud infrastructure to train its models and serve its users.The deal is yet another sign of the AI industry becoming increasingly entangled, with OpenAI now at the center of major partnerships with industry players including Google, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD.The AWS agreement is also notable because OpenAI rose to prominence in part through its partnership with Microsoft—Amazon’s biggest cloud rival. Amazon is also a major backer of one of OpenAI’s key competitors, Anthropic. Amazon and Microsoft are currently developing their own AI models to compete…

The thing that gets me, and I’m really curious about your take on this, Brian, as someone with children, that the guides these people that were brought in, they were actually in the room with students helping them with any technological glitches or settling anything that’s happening in the real world. While some had experience as educators, others did not, and not only that, Alpha actually had often targeted individuals without teaching backgrounds, going instead for folks that were in the entrepreneurship space, because nothing screams early childhood education like Series A funding. I’m so confused as to what the…