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Top generals from the US and Chinese armed forces met in Washington this week following North Korea’s latest missile provocation.

Judging by her by now voluminous work with arthouse treasure Hong Sang-soo and her outrageous turn in last year’s “The Handmaiden,” Kim Min-hee might be the best actress working in South Korea. Certainly, she is getting the better parts. In Hong’s latest leisurely character study, “On the Beach at Night Alone,” she is Young-hee, a noted actress who is trying to pick up the pieces after the end of an affair with a film director. The film opens Friday, Dec. 1, exclusively at the 4-Star in San Francisco. Читать дальше...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona freshman Brandon Randolph watched the ball rotate to his side of the floor and was late getting out to a shooter on the wing. The Long Beach State player made the open shot and Randolph jogged back on offense. Wildcats coach Sean Miller saw the play unfold and turned a dark shade of red. "What is he doing?!" Miller screamed to one of his assistants, his voice cracking from yelling so loud. "What is he doing?!" The Wildcats returned from a dismal trip to the Bahamas to... Читать дальше...

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli aircraft and tanks struck a number of militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in response to a volley of mortar fire emanating from the Palestinian territory, in a spike of violence a month after Israel demolished a militant tunnel dug from Gaza. Earlier, in an unrelated incident, a Jewish West Bank settler fatally shot a 47-year-old Palestinian villager in a clash that occurred under disputed circumstances. The Health Ministry... Читать дальше...

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• Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is seeking an inspector general investigation into Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) acting director Mick Mulvaney's first moves at the helm of the agency.
• In a letter provided to Business Insider, Warren wrote that those moves represent "a waste of taxpayer dollars and raises questions about whether Mr. Mulvaney has prevented the CFPB from fulfilling its congressional mandate."

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YouTube pulled 150,000 videos of children after lewd comments about them were posted by viewers, as the Google-owned platform sought to reassure advertisers their messages would be kept out of compromising situations.

Shares of Zumiez Inc. fell 5% late Thursday after the retailer reported an earnings and sales beat in the third quarter. Zumiez said it earned $11.9 million, or 48 cents a share, in the quarter, compared with $10.7 million, or 43 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Sales rose 11% to $245.8 million, compared with $221.4 million a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected earnings of 46 cents a share on sales of $241.8 million. The company expects fourth-quarter sales to be in the range of $291 million to $297 million... Читать дальше...

AMMAN —  Minister of Social Development Hala Lattouf last week stressed the need to further strengthen women’s role in the Mediterranean by uniting efforts among all parties to ensure the proper implementation of recommendations that favour women’s empowerment and equality. 

SESTA and FOSTA Are Cut from the Same Cloth. Both Would Be Disastrous for Online Communities

Qualcomm and Apple’s tit for tat legal battle continues yet again this week with a series of new filings from Qualcomm, one of which seeks to ban some iPhone X sales in the US.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Between 400,000 and 700,000 African migrants are living in camps in Libya, often under “inhuman” conditions, the chairman of the African Union Commission said Thursday at the close of a summit of European and African leaders. Moussa Faki Mahamat stressed the urgency of removing the thousands of migrants, including women and children, from the camps as he addressed the summit where migration was a top issue after recent footage of a migrant slave auction in Libya drew global horror and condemnation. Читать дальше...

With the light-shining power of journalism, the scourge of sexual impropriety, and the privileged status of old white men at the forefront of the nation’s consciousness these days, the documentary “Voyeur” arrives at an ideal time. Filmmakers Myles Kane and Josh Koury shadowed octogenarian”New Journalism” god Gay Talese — author of the famous Esquire profile “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” and a handful of acclaimed non-fiction books — as he puts the finishing touches on a story he’d been following in some form or another for 30 years... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Award-winning playwright-screenwriter Israel Horovitz, who faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment, has departed from the Gloucester Stage Company. The Massachusetts-based theater announced Thursday that Horovitz had left after officials there confronted him about a New York Times story detailing on-the-record allegations. Horovitz was Gloucester's founding artistic director and an ex-officio member of the board of directors. In 1993, the Boston Phoenix reported similar allegations. Читать дальше...

Three fighters from forces loyal to the former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh were killed in a second day of clashes with their own allies from the Houthi movement in the capital Sanaa, Saleh's party said on Thursday. A statement from Saleh's General People's Congress Party said three guards were killed when Houthi forces attacked the house of Tarek Saleh, Ali Abdullah Saleh's nephew, adding that they also besieged the residence of Ibrahim Sharaf, a party member and foreign minister of the Sanaa-based government. Читать дальше...

'Lady Bird' wins 2017's best film and best actress for Saoirse Ronan with the New York Film Critics Circle, which voted on Thursday.

La Cour suprême du Canada a accepté d'entendre en appel une affaire qui oppose la liberté de la presse et les pouvoirs d'enquête de la police, et qui met en cause essentiellement la fameuse protection des sources journalistiques .

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• The tax code saw its last significant reform in 1986.
• A lot has changed in the American economy since then, and the tax code needs to be reformed. 

A lot can change in 31 years. 

In 1986, almost no one owned a personal computer, much less a mobile phone. Manufacturing was still the backbone of the American economy, while the seeds of our modern technology sector were only beginning to sprout. The online networks that now instantly... Читать дальше...

Jim Nabors, who created the beloved comic TV character Gomer Pyle and used his surprisingly rich baritone voice on several hit records, died Thursday at the age of 87, his assistant Charisse Gines told AFP.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina State and Dave Doeren have agreed on a five-year deal after the coach had talked with Tennessee officials about the school's opening, a person with knowledge of the situation said Thursday. Financial terms of the deal, which runs through the 2022 season, weren't immediately available and it is unclear if Doeren was formally offered the Tennessee job to replace fired coach Butch Jones. N.C. State officials had said earlier this season they were working on an extension for Doeren. Читать дальше...

The revenue that the city receives from red light camera fines is placed in a reserve fund that is used to pay for road safety upgrades.

“Dealt,” a stellar documentary about one of the planet’s foremost card performers, doesn’t reveal that its subject is blind until after we see him rigorously working out and then performing mind-blowing card tricks before a packed house of admirers. Director Luke Korem could have made a film about card tricks — and there are some good ones here — but instead opted for a multilayered character study that proves quite moving. Richard Turner hates the notion that... Читать дальше...

It still costs $1 trillion after accounting for economic growth.

The Senate tax bill would grow the economy by about 0.8 percent over 10 years, offsetting some of the bill's cost but leaving the overall price tag at about $1 trillion, according to a new report by Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation, the professional staff tasked with estimating the effects of tax changes.

The report flies in the face of confident assertions by Republicans in the Trump administration and in the... Читать дальше...