Friday, May 9, 2025

James Foley, director of Glengarry Glen Ross, dead at 71

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James Foley, an American journeyman director best known for Glengarry Glen Ross but with a range of other films as well as music videos and TV episodes among his credits, has died. He was 71.   



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/james-foley-obit-1.7531549?cmp=rss

Judge orders release of Tufts student detained by U.S. immigration for op-ed on Gaza

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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to release a Tufts University student from Turkey who has been held for over six weeks in a Louisiana immigration detention facility after she co-wrote an opinion piece criticizing her school's response to Israel's war in Gaza.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/tufts-student-immigration-1.7531299?cmp=rss