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Woman charged with assaulting Australian senator who shouted at the king

Oct. 28, 2024 00:44 AM EDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A woman appeared in an Australian court on Monday charged with a May assault on the Indigenous senator who shouted at King Charles III during a royal reception last week. The assault allegedly occurred on May 25, when independent Sen. Lidia Thorpe...

Movie Review: ‘Memoir of a Snail,’ a stop-motion charmer, examines the shells we build around us

Oct. 22, 2024 13:02 PM EDT

It’s not your typical stop-motion film when characters name pets after Sylvia Plath and read “The Diary of Anne Frank” — or when the story's inspired by a quote from existentialist thinker Søren Kierkegaard. And it’s certainly not your typical stop-motion film when you...