Rose Byrne Hits the Motherlode

Rose Byrne Hits the Motherlode

Her comedic pivot would have to wait, though. After a stint living in London, she moved to New York to co-star with Glenn Close in “Damages,” the FX legal drama, which débuted in 2007 and ran for five seasons. Byrne played a dewy but sharp junior associate drawn into Close’s power-hungry machinations. Like Elisabeth Moss…

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The Safe Space of “Good Hang with Amy Poehler”

The Safe Space of “Good Hang with Amy Poehler”

Amy Poehler may be the most-liked woman in Hollywood. Her latest project, the mega-popular podcast “Good Hang with Amy Poehler,” certainly encourages that impression. It’s perhaps her biggest platform since the hit series “Parks and Recreation,” in which she played the idealistic bureaucrat Leslie Knope, went off the air a decade ago. And while many…

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A Cartoonist’s Journey to the Scene of a Riot

A Cartoonist’s Journey to the Scene of a Riot

The Maltese-born Joe Sacco is the rare cartoonist with a journalism degree (and, maybe just as rare, a cartoonist with masterful journalistic chops). Sacco’s latest book, “The Once and Future Riot,” coming out this month from Metropolitan Books, focusses on the aftermath of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots in Uttar Pradesh, in northern India. The book…

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France’s Macron expected to name new prime minister on Friday

France’s Macron expected to name new prime minister on Friday

French President Emmanuel Macron is likely to name a new prime minister on Friday, his office said. Speculation is running high in Paris over who will take the job. French media have floated Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure and former Socialist prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve, as well as centrist politician Jean-Louis Borloo, who served in…

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German coalition reaches key agreement on electric vehicles, benefits

German coalition reaches key agreement on electric vehicles, benefits

Germany’s ruling coalition has reached important agreements on electric vehicle subsidies, pensions and a new basic income support scheme, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday. After a marathon eight-hour session of deliberations in the Chancellery that lasted well into Wednesday night, a deal was sealed between Merz’s conservative bloc and the centre-left Social Democratic Party…

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