Lynne Ramsay is not the kind of director to shill for a franchise and then watch the residuals roll in. Her intensely watchable studies of damaged people are big beasts revered by her peers and the actors she works with time and again. Jennifer Lawrence petitioned her to make Die My Love at Martin Scorsese’s suggestion, sowing the seed for a $24 million bidding war, a six-minute Cannes ovation and Lynne’s signing on with Hollywood’s biggest agency. Even with five starry projects in the works, the Glaswegian blue-collar intellectual, 56, swears she is still indie at heart.

Doron Zeilberger is a mathematician who believes that all things come to an end. That just as we are limited beings, so too does nature have boundaries — and therefore so do numbers. Look out the window, and where others see reality as a continuous expanse, flowing inexorably forward from moment to moment, Zeilberger (opens a new tab) sees a universe that ticks. It is a discrete machine. In the smooth motion of the world around him, he catches the subtle blur of a flip-book. To Zeilberger, believing in infinity is like believing in God. It’s an alluring idea that flatters our intuitions and helps us make sense of all sorts of phenomena. But the problem is that we cannot truly observe infinity, and so we cannot truly say what it is. Equations define lines that carry on off the chalkboard, but to where? Proofs are littered with suggestive ellipses. These equations and proofs are, according to Zeilberger — a longtime professor at Rutgers University and a famed figure in combinatorics — both “very ugly” and false. It is “completely nonsense,” he said, huffing out each syllable in a husky voice that seemed worn out from making his point.

UAE signalling intent to pursue independent economic policies and reshape Gulf oil politics.

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—has been transferred to a different state to continue his work with the agency, as the FBI continues to supress an investigation into him. PunchUp, The Daily Beast’s new Substack, reported that Jonathan Ross, who was only placed on three days of administrative leave for shooting Good in the arm, head, and chest, is back in both an administrative and investigative capacity, facing virtually no consequences for killing an innocent woman in broad daylight.

Justices rule in landmark 6-3 decision that Louisiana will have to redraw its congressional map

California's DMV is sharing data about 1 million unauthorized immigrants so its driver licenses will still be accepted at airports.

Police were questioning a man in Japan on suspicions he disposed of his wife’s body using an incinerator at a zoo he works for, local media have reported.

A cryptosporidium outbreak has been declared at the Butterfield Acres Petting Farm in Calgary. Provincial health authorities released the information Tuesday, saying those who visited the farm on or after April 9 might have been exposed. In a statement on its website, Butterfield Acres said one of two twin calves acquired in late March was carrying cryptosporidium. The farm described cryptosporidium as “a diarrhea-causing parasite common in cattle.” The province says spread occurs “when someone comes into contact with infected feces and then touches their mouth, usually with unwashed hands.”

It was the first thing I said as I lay on the floor. Here’s what I now believe.

Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted Tuesday over a photo of seashells that officials said threatened President Donald Trump, marking the administration’s second attempt to prosecute one of his largest political opponents, three sources first told CNN.

A beekeeper has been jailed for six months after she set swarms of her insects on sheriff’s deputies attempting to carry out an eviction at a friend’s house. Rebecca Woods insisted she only released her truckload of hives to allow the bees to enjoy the “lovely, flowering landscape” near the home of an elderly friend and cancer patient. But a district court in Springfield, Massachusetts, heard that Woods, 59, admitted under questioning that she was trying to save him from eviction by freeing the bees in the presence of the deputies who had shown up to serve papers.

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afternoon.

Wisconsin state Rep. Dean Kaufert (R-Neenah) announced his retirement three days after Heartland Signal asked his office about an investigation into inappropriate sexual comments he allegedly made about underage girls in 2019. Wisconsin Rep. Dean Kaufert (R-Neenah) announced his retirement days after Heartland Signal inquired about a 2019 investigation into inappropriate sexual comments.

Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people. On Saturday night, a lone gunman attacked the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, sending off the predictable wave of condemnations of political violence by U.S. public officials, from federal legislators to state officials. As Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin put it, “Political violence has no place in America.” But there seems to be plenty of room for violence of the apparently nonpolitical sort: federal immigration agencies have used the recent push for mass deportations to accelerate their long and violent history with high-profile murders on the street and in their detention centers; as of April 23, the U.S. military has killed at least 186 people in a consistent campaign of bombings in Latin American waters; and there were 121 mass shootings in the first 112 days of the year, making mass shootings of the kind attempted at the Correspondent’s Dinner a statistically daily occurrence. Public officials are appalled, then, to live in the same world the rest of us do. The presumed exemption from violence of the elite rests on a broader bedrock of delusion that exists in its most virulent form on the ascendant American right. Last summer, U.S. Representative Madeleine Dean wielded the most unlikely of rhetorical weapons in a debate on the congressional floor: a banana. Across her sat Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, attempting to defend the Trump administration’s tariff policy. After confirming with Lutnick that the president’s baseline 10 percent tariff applied to banana imports, Dean explained that the price of bananas at Walmart had risen 8 percent. To which Lutnick replied: “If you build in America, there is no tariff.” This exchange did not exactly soar to the heights of the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates, but it was no less illuminating of the basic political conundrum of our era: that a critical mass of the political leadership of the United States appears to sincerely believe in magic.

Authorities say haul hidden in false-bottom luggage at country’s main gateway

How does this even happen?

For the first time, declassified documents confirm the CIA carried out tests on North Korean POWs and planned for much more invasive experimentation.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla are visiting the US - the first British state visit to the country since Queen Elizabeth II's visit in 2007. The trip, which comes as the US approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence from Britain, is meant to celebrate the strong relationship between the two countries. State visits are taken when a head of state is invited for a formal stay by another country, in this case the US. As heads of government, British prime ministers conduct "official visits" or "working visits", but not state visits.

The event was interrupted by loud bangs and immediate commotion as the president and first lady were escorted out