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The UK is expecting to get a new prime minister — one that Obama has been mentoring for months
04 Jul

The UK is expecting to get a new prime minister — one that Obama has been mentoring for months

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Britons are heading to the polls, as the UK gears up for a radical change in leadership.Polls are predicting a landslide win for the leftwing Labour Party, which would make its leader, Keir Starmer, prime minister and end 14 years of Conservative Party rule."Today Britain can begin a new chapter," Starmer said as voting began Thursday. "A new age of hope and opportunity after 14 years of chaos and decline."But Starmer is often described as lacking charisma.Jill Rutter, a research fellow at the London research group UK in a Changing Europe, told The New York Times he "does look relatively…
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Why the ‘Beverly Hills Cop” director chose to film an actual car falling off a building over using CGI: ‘The stakes are real, and the danger is real.’
04 Jul

Why the ‘Beverly Hills Cop” director chose to film an actual car falling off a building over using CGI: ‘The stakes are real, and the danger is real.’

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In an era when everything from car chases to even kisses in movies can be done with computer-generated visual effects, director Mark Molloy wanted to go against the grain with "Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F" by doing all the action sequences with practical effects.Molloy was set on his stance from the beginning, when he took his first meetings with franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer and got the offer to direct the sequel, which was decades in the making. "I went to Jerry and said, 'I love this but I want to make an '80s action comedy, I want to shoot everything…
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The world’s most popular fighter jet just turned 50, but it still packs a punch
04 Jul

The world’s most popular fighter jet just turned 50, but it still packs a punch

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On January 20, 1974, a runway high-speed taxi test involving General Dynamics' YF-16 accidentally resulted in the first flight of the prototype aircraft that would become the world-famous F-16 Fighting Falcon, the most popular fighter jet.Fifty years later, more than 4,500 F-16s have been sold — with 3,100 still in operation — and 25 countries are using the jet, which has become the poster child of fourth-generation aircraft.The F-16 has cemented its place in aviation history not only for dominating the military jet market, but also for revolutionizing the way military aircraft are designed.A new approach to dogfightingAlex Hollings, a…
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Ukraine is forming new army brigades but is unable to supply them all, military experts say
04 Jul

Ukraine is forming new army brigades but is unable to supply them all, military experts say

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Ukraine is creating several new brigades but it can't arm all of them, military experts said.In an interview with The Economist in May, Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, said that Ukraine planned to create at least 10 new brigades to prepare for a Russian offensive."Ukraine is addressing its manpower challenges and is forming several new brigades, but delayed and insufficient Western weapons deliveries will likely prevent Ukraine from equipping all these new brigades," the Institute for the Study of War said on Wednesday.It added that "timely and appropriate Western security assistance continues to be a…
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I got paid $10,000 to move to Tulsa. My mortgage for a whole house is about what I used to pay to rent one room.
04 Jul

I got paid $10,000 to move to Tulsa. My mortgage for a whole house is about what I used to pay to rent one room.

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jasmine Ball, a 32-year-old financial planner who got paid to move from Los Angeles to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2020 with the Tulsa Remote program. The conversation was edited for length and clarity.I had never heard of Tulsa in my life — of course, I'd heard of Oklahoma, but never Tulsa.A YouTube video from a pastor out of Tulsa was how I heard about Tulsa itself. It piqued my interest.I saw that it had a low cost of living, and then I found out about Tulsa Remote.I was looking for places with…
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