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A “hybrid” solar eclipse is set to darken the skies over Australia and Indonesia on Thursday in a rare occurrence. According to timeanddate.com, the eclipse will begin at 9:34 pm on April 19 and end almost 5 hours later at 2:59 am. A hybrid eclipse, also known as an annular-total eclipse, a “beaded” solar eclipse, or a “broken” annular eclipse, is a mixture of two other types of eclipse: an annular eclipse and a total eclipse. Stock image of a total solar eclipse in 2017 during the diamond ring phase....

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free What makes the perfect sex scene? The pure eroticism? Its emotional undercurrents? The shift and flow of the camera? Of course, there’s no real answer. Our concept of how sex should work on film speaks to so many variants: what personally gets us hot under the collar, whether we seek the fantastic or the realist, or how these scenes should tie in emotionally with the...

Sign up to our Evening Headlines email for your daily guide to the latest news Sign up for our free US Evening Headlines email DOmnion Voting Systems on Tuesday agreed to settle its defamation lawsuit with Fox News for $787.5m – but its legal battle is far from over. While the Fox News case made most of the headlines, Dominion filed defamation lawsuits against right-wing networks, lawyers and media personalities in the months leading up to the 2020 election. Everyone here is being prosecuted by the Dominion. mike lindell Mike...

“This building has so many unique features to it. But one thing I love is, at the end of the day, I’ll come into the lobby, the lights are low, and I’m in front of a 20-foot-tall digital wall waiting to go down Standing in the parking garage. It’s usually showing some kind of beautiful landscape, a place in the world you can travel to. It’s really a lovely way to end my workday. Lynne Oberg, EVP and CFO at Marriott International Courtesy of Marriott International That’s what Lynne Oberg,...

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Parent Chat! Robert De Niro Asked Sebastian ManiscalcoK’s daddy for tips before taking on his role in an upcoming film about my father, The comedian, 49, said his father, Salvo, didn’t fully believe the 79-year-old Oscar winner would take on the role until he received a phone call from the man himself. “Robert called my dad and said, ‘I’d like you to come to Oklahoma where I’m shooting a movie, because I’d like you to help me analyze this script and maybe teach me some Italian and How do you...

Jerome Powell has taken a lot of abuse over the years. The Federal Reserve chairman was blamed for mischaracterizing the rise of inflation in 2021 as “fleeting”, a move that prompted him to keep interest rates close to zero after the COVID recovery. And even after Powell admitted that he had miscalculated the trajectory of inflation, he went back on that “fleeting” line and turned to interest rate hikes to fight consumer price increases in March last year. He could not pat his critics on the back. A new group...

AleLast weekend, around a community pool near Sacramento, flippers were being unbuckled, glittery bubble crowns were secured with wigs, and dazzling eye makeup was applied: The annual American meeting of mermaids was underway . Hundreds gathered for the California Mermaid Convention: a three-day celebration of the increasingly popular practice of “mermaiding.” Part cosplay, part athletic endeavor, the hobby ranges from casual attire to certified divers who strap on “monofins” and float together in a pool or open ocean. Above all, mermaids are an inclusive community working to maintain their magic...

Peter Moore made footwear an art form.  Paired with a young sports star whose ascendancy defied gravity, Moore’s art form inspired a pop-culture phenomenon.  Moore designed the original Air Jordan sneakers.  MEET THE AMERICAN WHO LED 77 MINUTEMEN AGAINST 700 REDCOATS AT BATTLE OF LEXINGTON: CAPTAIN JOHN PARKER They were first worn by Chicago Bulls rookie basketball star Michael Jordan in 1984 and then released to the public before the end of the NBA season in the spring of 1985.  The sneaker biz has never been the same. “The Air...

IAnn March, 19 Republican governors issued a statement Warned of a “direct threat to the American economy, individual economic freedom, and our way of life”. The threat in question was not one of the classic objects of conservative concern, such as high taxes, government regulation or social medicine. Instead, it was a bugbear of a more recent vintage: ESG investing. ESG, which stands for “environmental, social and governance,” allows investors to put their money into companies that care about not only their bottom line, but their impact on the world....