New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

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Director Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed Girl (now on Netflix) arrives with the muscle of newly minted Oscar honoree Sean Baker – the filmmaker behind Anora – behind it. Tsou and Baker are longtime ...

The filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou tells a sensitive story of a mother and her two daughters struggling to get by in Taiwan. By Natalia Winkelman When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

They bayed, they hollered, they hooted, they cheered. After a miserable 18 months, in which they had ranged from dejected to mutinous to feral, Labour mps finally had something to shout for when ...

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman has said that left-wing figures and commentators on the social media platform Bluesky are crueler than those associated with the Make America Great Again (MAGA) ...

In the age of MAGA, ideological lines that once distinguished left from right have blurred. Republicans who said they were willing to die for the market now support a president who tells the ...

Have you seen stories about 'Chucky,' 'Scream,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 'The Boys,' 'Vanderpump Rules,' or any of 'The Real Housewives' franchises? That's probably a Britta DeVore-curated piece of ...

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ...

Instagram is back with a new feature that will allow users to "tune" their algorithm to only display the content they prefer to see, which will be first made available to Reels. The feature is still ...