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The future of art is the main theme of “Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinema, Amplified Voices,” a film and video installation that coincides with this year's Venice Biennale. Organized by Qatar Museums and featuring around 40 artists from the region, it speaks to the emergence of the Middle East as a force in various art forms, not to mention the force in changing the narrative on how the region is represented in films and 'art.The future is in the mind of Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, president of Qatar Museums and the Doha Film Institute. Al Mayassa sees this year's Art for Tomorrow conference in Venice, convened by the Democracy & Culture Foundation, with panels moderated by New York Times journalists, as an opportunity to raise the profile of artis...

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the former government scientist celebrated and scorned for his work on Covid, forcefully denied Republican charges Monday that he helped fund the research that sparked the pandemic or hid the possibility that it had originated in a laboratory, calling the allegations “absolutely false and simply absurd.”In an occasionally testy appearance before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Dr. Fauci read aloud a February 2020 email urging a prominent scientist who was then suspicious about a leak from the lab “to determine whether his concerns are validated” and if so, report them “very quickly” to the FBI“It is inconceivable that anyone reading this email would conclude that I was trying to hide the possibility of a lab leak,” Dr. Fauci testified.Monday...

In Georgia, protesters waving European Union flags rallied against what they see as their pro-Russian leaders. Moldova's government is pushing to join the Western bloc, infuriating citizens hoping for closer relations with Moscow. Armenia has also reached out to Europe, angered that longtime ally Moscow is courting its enemy, Azerbaijan.Fueled in part by the war in Ukraine, tensions have risen in some of the former Soviet Union's territories, pitting those who favor closer relations with Russia against those who are more European-oriented.Many of these tensions predate the war, rooted in long-standing internal struggles over power, money and other issues, but have been amplified by geopolitics, with both Russia and the West pushing countries to choose sides to stay.In the former ...

As the speeches dragged on, eyes drifted to screens. Teenagers scrolled Instagram. One man texted his girlfriend. And men crowded around a phone streaming a soccer match while the group’s first female leader spoke.Just about anywhere, a scene like this would be mundane. But this was happening in a remote Indigenous village in one of the most isolated stretches of the planet.The Marubo people have long lived in communal huts scattered hundreds of miles along the Ituí River deep in the Amazon rainforest. They speak their own language, take ayahuasca to connect with forest spirits and trap spider monkeys to make soup or keep as pets.They have preserved this way of life for hundreds of years through isolation — some villages can take a week to reach. But since September, the Marubo have had hi...

For months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to offer a timeline for ending the war against Hamas in Gaza, a reticence that his critics see as a political tactic. But it was put in a bind this weekend by President Biden's announcement outlining a proposed truce.Netanyahu, a conservative, has long juggled competing personal, political and national interests. Now he appears to face a difficult choice between the survival of his tough, uncompromising government and the return home of the hostages held in Gaza, as he sets himself and Israel on a new course away from growing international isolation.The prime minister's critics have painted him as indecisive and say there are two Netanyahus: one who functions pragmatically in the small war cabinet he has formed wit...

In Georgia, protesters waving European Union flags rallied against what they see as their pro-Russian leaders. Moldova's government is pushing to join the bloc, infuriating citizens hoping for closer relations with Moscow. Armenia has also reached out to Europe, angered that longtime ally Moscow is courting its enemy Azerbaijan.Fueled in part by the war in Ukraine, tensions have risen in some of the former Soviet Union's territories, pitting those who favor closer relations with Russia against those who are more European-oriented.Many of these tensions predate the war, rooted in long-standing internal struggles over power, money and other issues, but have been amplified by geopolitics, with both Russia and the West pushing countries to choose sides to stay.In the former Soviet Un...

Listen and follow 'Hard Fork'Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YoutubeThis week, Google found itself in more turmoil, this time over its new AI Overview feature and a series of leaked internal documents. Then Josh Batson, a researcher at AI startup Anthropic, joins us to explain how an experiment that made chatbot Claude obsess over the Golden Gate Bridge represents a major breakthrough in understanding how large language models work. Finally, we take a look at recent developments in AI security, after Casey's early access to OpenAI's new souped-up voice assistant was revoked for security reasons.Guests:Additional reading:Credits“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose AND Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones AND Rachel Cohn. The show is edited by Poyant only. Engineering...

For months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to offer a timeline for ending the war against Hamas in Gaza, a position his critics see as a political tactic. But he was put in difficulty by President Biden's announcement outlining a proposed truce.Netanyahu, a conservative, has long juggled competing personal, political and national interests. Now he appears to face a difficult choice between the survival of his tough, uncompromising government and the return home of the hostages held in Gaza, as he sets himself and Israel on a new course away from growing international isolation.The prime minister's critics have painted him as indecisive and say there are two Netanyahus. One, they say, functions pragmatically in the small war cabinet he has formed with some ...

“Navigator,” the man who had ordered the children to be removed from the church, repeatedly visited the foster home. He would later be identified as Igor Kastyukevich, a member of the Russian parliament from Putin's political party, United Russia.Anna Kuznetsova, deputy speaker of the Russian parliament and Ms. Lvova-Belova's predecessor as commissioner for children's rights, traveled from Moscow to deliver baby products on behalf of the party. “#WeDon'tAbandonOurOwn,” she wrote on Telegram, using a pro-war hashtag to suggest the children belonged to Russia.In interviews with the Times, Russian officials echoed this view, saying the Kherson children were Russian.In May, Putin fulfilled his promise to Ms. Lvova-Belova by issuing a presidential decree easing citizenship req...

Several major networks broke away from former President Donald J. Trump on Friday during an appearance that was promoted as a news conference at Trump Tower that was turned into a rambling and misleading speech.It was the latest example of television journalists having to weigh the journalistic value of a major political moment — in this case, the criminal conviction of a former president — against the challenge of reporting on a candidate who regularly tells falsehoods.Trump's unfiltered remarks were broadcast live by cable news channels and by NBC, which interrupted its usual daytime programming to cover his appearance. In the minutes before he began speaking, MSNBC, CNN and Fox News aired advance camera footage of an empty lectern.Mr. Trump began by speaking in his usual discursive...