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Cillian Murphy jumped to act in “Oppenheimer,” even before reading writer and director Christopher Nolan’s script. The decision paid off. Murphy won a Golden Globe for the role and he’s nominated for an Oscarfor the first time in his decades-long career. There have been six Nolan films for Murphy. “It’s always paid off for me, you know, in every film …

“I cannot get over the feeling that something terrible is going to happen to this city,” said Mystislav Chernov, in his documentary, “20 Days in Mariupol.” Something terrible did happen to the Ukrainian city, and Chernov, of the Associated Press, was there to witness it. “What I did not expect is that the bombardment will be so intensive,” he told …

A cougar attacked a group of five cyclists on a trail in Washington on Saturday afternoon, sending a woman to the hospital, officials said. The bikers were on a trail northeast of Fall City, located about 25 miles east of Seattle, when they were attacked around 12:50 p.m. local time, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said. Officers with …

In the most scenic corner of the Pacific Northwest, Hilary Swank is in her element. She has a lot of memories growing up here: “This lake right here is what I considered my best friend, because I spent every single sunny day in that lake,” she said. These days, the two-time Oscar-winner is staying on familiar ground, in her life …

The month after the presidential election in 2020, Democratic and Republican electors representing the candidate who won the popular vote in their states gathered across the country to formally cast electoral votes for president. But in seven states that Joe Biden won, Republican electors got together anyway and cast phony votes for Donald Trump. They’ve become known as fake electors. …

By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles Snow and ice kept me trapped inside for weeks last month, but I didn’t mind, because I had great new books to read, like these: Forty years ago, a demonstration took place outside the Libyan Embassy in London. As students shouted protests against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, suddenly, from the embassy’s windows, shots …

BURNSVILLE, Minn. — Two police officers and a paramedic were shot and killed in a Twin Cities suburb Sunday morning, authorities said, and the man who shot them is also dead. Superintendent Drew Evans with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Burnsville police officers were called to a home at about 1:50 a.m. on 33rd Avenue South and East …

Inside his home studio in New Orleans, artist Michael Deas can spend months working on a single oil painting. But collectors need only spend a few cents to own a print of his most popular works. His portraits sell for pennies. Deas has created 25 stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. “I have a friend who likes to call me …

Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, is warning that it would be unwise to think of the Houthis as a ragtag group. Though Yemen, where the Houthi militia is based, is the poorest country in the Middle East, the terrorist group has been backed, supplied and trained by Iran for years, Cooper said. It’s enabled the …

The Rusty Nail is one of those Nashville bars where songwriters come to celebrate songwriters. Country music is, after all, about stories, and Ashley McBryde had notebooks full of hopefuls. “When you’re playing in places like this, you’re trying to find out where you are in the pack,” she said. She was good! Unafraid to write lyrics that both struck …