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FLASHBACKS: The source material was so deranged that Jodie Foster refused to come back, but that didn’t stop Hollywood from adapting Thomas Harris’s unpleasant, character-destroying sequel to ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. Tom Fordy looks back on the very difficult making of the most pig-squealing, brain-sautéing blockbuster in film history

Prominent democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was a child stowaway from mainland China who rose to become Hong Kong’s onetime media magnate. Unlike other rags-to-riches tycoons who cultivated ties with Beijing, he chose to become its fierce critic.

Christie O'Sullivan of Florida says her favorite Valentine's Day was spent with a close friend, not her husband

Prolonged detention has become more common in President Donald Trump’s second term, at least partly because a new policy generally prohibits immigration judges from releasing detainees while their deportation cases wind through backlogged courts

Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of Colin Gray, whose teenage son is accused of killing two students and two teachers at a Georgia high school in September 2024

Timothée Chalamet starring as a table tennis wizard in “Marty Supreme” and Charli xcx’s soundtrack to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” are some of the new television, films, music and video games headed to a device near you

The Seahawks defence sacked New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye six times as they won Super Bowl LX 29-13.

Pep Guardiola’s City came from behind to win 2-1 in a chaotic finish.

Supermajority clears path for conservative Takaichi to make sweeping tax and defence reforms