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James Gunn Didn’t Want to Make ‘Superman.’ What Changed His Mind?

His hit reboot is meant to kick off years of new projects from the rebranded DC Studios. But for a long time, Gunn couldn’t figure out the character.

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Taking on directing duties while helping oversee a studio has been a challenge for the filmmaker.: “I always want to do more. That’s been difficult, finding at least some boundaries.”

Who Gets to Wear a Mask?

The tension over masked federal immigration agents expanded on Long Island, where police officers are now permitted to mask up — but no one else is.

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Masked federal agents have become a routine sight at immigration courts in Manhattan.

Gaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 Near Aid Site

The latest deaths add to U.N. figures showing that more than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.

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Mourners at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Saturday with the bodies of two people killed near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site.

Trump Administration Requests Release of Epstein Grand Jury Records. What’s Next?

The records are at the center of President Trump’s effort to manage fallout from the Epstein case. But unsealing them is complex and requires a judge to sign off.

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The Justice Department has formally filed two petitions in the Southern District of New York seeking to unseal grand jury records in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Why Are More Than 100 People Still Missing in Texas, 2 Weeks After the Floods?

The number of people unaccounted for dropped this week but remains stubbornly high as some searchers lose hope of finding them.

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Members of the military presented an American flag on Friday to firefighters and relatives of Michael Phillips, the chief of the volunteer fire department in Marble Falls, who is among those missing from the floods.

Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death

An audit being conducted by the D.N.C. is not looking at Joe Biden’s decision to run or key decisions by Kamala Harris’s team, according to six people briefed on the report.

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A Democratic audit of the 2024 election is said to be focusing less on the Biden and Harris campaign and more on how outside groups supported the effort.

How a Sequoia Capital Partner’s Mamdani Posts Dragged the Firm Into Politics

Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.

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Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, in Washington in April. This month, he posted inflammatory statements online about the New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Jane Austen’s Books: A Guide

A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains remarkably relevant, more than two centuries after her death.

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