With Before Night Falls (2000), Schnabel tackled the life of poet-playwright Reinaldo Arenas and his struggles as a gay man in the Cuba of the 1960s and ’70s.
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A.D. Amorosi,
SPIN,
6 Aug. 2026
Ryan Murphy has tackled monsters, legal drama, the beauty industry, and all manner of American horror stories.
Brent crude averaged almost $97 a barrel during the quarter; Aramco captured an additional premium of nearly $11 a barrel by boosting exports of higher-margin refined products, such as diesel and jet fuel.
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Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
4 Aug. 2026
Value Is Forming Before Companies Go Public The AI sector captured roughly 53% of global venture capital funding in the first quarter of 2025, the strongest quarter for AI funding on record at that point.
Decades out of practice, Saxberger is assailed by writer’s block and confused by the machinations of a modern-day publishing industry that wants to turn his rediscovery into a branding exercise.
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
7 Aug. 2026
Trump has personally assailed justices who rule against him in stark terms.
The Green Bay Packers held their annual Family Night Scrimmage Friday night — a practice inside of Lambeau Field where fans were charged $10 to watch the 2-hour, 15 minute session.
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Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2026
In 2020, police charged two Los Angeles-area men and a woman with participating in Tran’s killing.
Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz after the United States and Israel attacked the country in February.
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Sophia Saifi,
CNN Money,
7 Aug. 2026
Yemen’s Houthis declared a blockade of Saudi shipping last month, attacked Saudi oil tankers this week, and are threatening to impose tolls, adding urgency to securing the waterway.
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