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Following the election of President Donald Trump, U.S. multinationals wasted little time in purging mentions of the climate from their websites. Breakthrough Energy, a joint venture between Bill Gates and a handful of other climate-conscious billionaires, recently laid off a significant portion of its staff. Some $4 billion in U.S. pledges for the U.N. Climate

Remi Gabriel (“Barbie Boy”), Carmela Murphy and AJ Dubler (“A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian”) are among this year’s 2025 Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant recipients, Variety can exclusively reveal. Since 2023, the partnership with Frameline has focused on supporting LGBTQ+ filmmakers with financial support. This year’s filmmakers will receive $15,000

“31 Candles,” a romantic comedy from “Exmas” director Jonah Feingold, has been acquired by Level 33 Entertainment. The film will hit theaters in North America later this year. Level 33 will also represent “31 Candles” for international sales at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. “31 Candles” follows a 30-year-old New Yorker named Leo Kadner (Feingold),

Polish President Andrzej Duda has expressed support for Poland to benefit from both NATO’s nuclear umbrella and France’s independent nuclear deterrent, viewing them as complementary measures to bolster national security. “I believe we can accept both solutions,” Duda stated in an interview with Bloomberg on April 18, 2025. “These two ideas are neither contradictory nor

WASHINGTON — DARPA is seeking proposals for a small lunar orbiter that could be used to test operations in very low orbits while prospecting for water ice. DARPA issued a program solicitation April 14 for a mission concept called Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter (LASSO). The agency is seeking proposals for design studies that

During my childhood in the Midwest, I briefly possessed—with my parents’ hesitant blessings—an Eastern milk snake as a pet. One day, the snake escaped from its terrarium in the garage. It didn’t try to hide or make a jailbreak to the great outdoors. We found it lying in the one small square of sunlight on