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Wolverine is proof that everyone loves Canadians, even when they’re surly murderers. His only powers are always carrying knives and repeatedly coming back from things that should have killed him. That’s not a superhero, that’s a horror movie villain. MarvelUnder that striped jumper Freddy Kreuger was ripped. The Wolverine is his most unexpected resurrection yet….
A while back, hackers linked to the Russian government stole a cache of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta and furnished them to WikiLeaks. One of those emails has generated a lot of interest in conservative circles because — conservatives say — it shows that polls are being systematically biased in Clinton’s favor….
Tens of thousands of people have checked in on Facebook at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation over the past few days. They are expressing solidarity with the protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota, which have faced an increasingly brutal backlash from police. Native American activists on the ground recently told reporters they had…
These days there are three ways you can look at the relative success of a Marvel movie: as a part of the MCU, as an adaptation of the existing character, and as a film in its own right. In the case of Doctor Strange, it’s particularly appropriate that your perception of the movie will shift…
Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before *spoiler alert for TNG Season 4 Epsiode 3, “Remember Me”* (I mean, it’s 20 years old, but if you haven’t seen it yet, far be it from me to be the one to ruin it for you.) Star Trek is no stranger to making radical statements — this…
close story-meta Photo Credit Javier Jaén On Nov. 8, Americans may elect our first female president. While many of us are exhilarated at the idea of this feminist victory, the toll we’ve paid for coming so close to that historic barrier has been the most graphically sexist election in living memory. What this campaign has…
Ad blockers, which Apple first allowed on the iPhone in September, promise to conserve data and make websites load faster. But how much of your mobile data comes from advertising? We measured the mix of advertising and editorial on the mobile home pages of the top 50 news websites – including ours – and found…
Photo: AP On Monday, Donald Trump summoned the most visible members of the press corps—television news reporters and the executives of their networks—to his gilded apartment building, where he sat them in a boardroom and acted out his best version of The Apprentice in an off-the-record meeting from which the New York Post has nonetheless…
Getty Images By Jonathan Swan – 11/03/16 04:09 PM EDT The conservative group Heritage Action is pushing Republican senators to keep the Supreme Court at eight justices if Democrat Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonClinton, Dem women star in ‘Girl Club’ ad Tim Kaine rallies Latino voters with speech in Spanish Report: Beyoncé to campaign for Clinton…
With only a few days before what’s perhaps the most acrimonious election in modern American history, an FBI Twitter account started posting a series of links to documents from its archives. Among them, there were documents on Donald Trump’s father Fred, and files about the Clinton Foundation that had come from an FBI investigation…