Brothers Ethan and Joel Coen have made 18 movies together, starting with 1984’s Blood Simple to 2018’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, creating an iconic filmography of black comedy masterpieces. Then, without warning or explanation, they split up. Joel made The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021), an austere, black-and-white Shakespeare adaptation that felt as far away…
Women who eat more fiber and high-quality carbohydrates in midlife are more likely to be cognitively and physically healthy in their old age, a large new study suggests. While there’s a lot of evidence showing how diet affects longevity and the risk for chronic diseases, the new study focused on how what we eat influences…
Charlotte Crocker lets us snoop through her kitchen to see what’s cooking… (Picture: Andrew Hasson/Metro.co.uk) Welcome to What’s Cooking, Metro’s food series where we find out exactly what’s going on behind the scenes in the nation’s kitchens. Last time, we kicked off the series by snooping through Jamie Oliver’s kitchen to uncover the ‘filthy’ food…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2011, Lynne Ramsay startled Cannes with her scalding portrait of mother-son relations We Need to Talk About Kevin. Now she returns to the Riviera with the no less incendiary Die, My Love — and…
Ford readies for the impact of tariffs, suspends 2025 financial guidance While Ford Motor Company said its first quarter financial picture was better than expected, Trump tariffs will likely make 2025 difficult. Straight Arrow News Ford has recalled over $273,000 SUVs due to an issue with leaking brake lines that could lead to longer braking…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speak with U.S. President Donald Trump via phone during the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” meeting, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 10, 2025. Reuters Major European powers threw…
Washington — Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska said the U.S. government halted cyber operations against Russia for one day in February as President Trump was trying to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, confirming CBS News reporting at the time and undercutting statements of denial from the Defense Department. “I actually dug into…
The Season 50 finale of Saturday Night Live marked a new milestone for the show, and for Scarlett Johansson: The actress officially became the woman who has hosted SNL the most times, with seven episodes under her belt (not to mention her many cameos). And in the May 17 episode, the Jurassic World Rebirth star brought the versatility and comedic timing that…
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein ‘s assistants kept a list of female “friends of Harvey” to invite to events and sometimes considered them a special category for guest lists, an ex-aide testified Thursday at the former movie mogul’s sex crimes retrial. “A ‘friend of Harvey’ was a woman that he’d meet…