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Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic ‘One Battle After Another’ reigned supreme at this year’s Academy Awards

Dubai, seen for decades as a safe and serene haven, now finds itself on the Foreign Office no-go – along with Abu Dhabi, just down the road in the UAE, and Doha in Qatar. So what does this mean for the future of tourism in the Gulf? Simon Calder finds out

A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building is asking for leniency ahead of her sentencing in federal court

About 3,800 workers at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants were set to strike in Colorado on Monday morning

A severe weather front sweeping across much of the eastern half of the U.S. has dumped heavy snow around the Upper Midwest, spawned thunderstorms in the South and is threatening several mid-Atlantic states with heavy rain and possible tornadoes

France is ramping up its military push in the Middle East as President Emmanuel Macron calls the effort strictly defensive

Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico – U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup

The US president said it is only appropriate that those who benefit from oil coming through the waterway help to free it

Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara teaming up to star in a new psychological thriller for Apple TV called “Imperfect Women” and fresh music from both BTS and Luke Combs are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

Paul Thomas Anderson’s blackly funny thriller was always considered the safe bet to take home the biggest prize at Sunday’s Oscars, but don’t confuse that for a movie playing it safe, writes Annabel Nugent