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What’s on TV Friday: ‘Ozark’ and ‘Descendants 2’

Photo Jason Bateman and Laura Linney in “Ozark.” Credit Jackson Davis/Netflix Still longing for the middle-age male angst of “Breaking Bad”? Check out “Ozark,” starring Jason Bateman as an angry money launderer. “Dunkirk,” a BBC docudrama on BritBox, looks back at the World War II escape by British soldiers. And …

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Comedy in NYC This Week

Photo The stand-up comedian Joe Pera will try out material for coming TV specials in three shows at Union Hall in Brooklyn next week; see listing below. Credit Lloyd Bishop/NBC Our guide to stand-up, improv and variety shows. MO AMER at Gramercy Theater (July 21, 8 p.m.). Mr. Amer has …

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Film Series in NYC This Week

Photo Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in the Oscar-winning “A Place in the Sun,” which will show at the Metrograph on Monday, the first screening in a yearlong partnership between that movie theater and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. See listing below. Credit Paramount Pictures Our guide …

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Art and Museums in NYC This Week

Photo A gelatin silver print from 2000 of Irving Penn’s “Girl Drinking (Mary Jane Russell), New York, 1949,” included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art retrospective “Irving Penn: Centennial.” The exhibition will close on July 30; see listing below. Credit Irving Penn, Condé Nast and Metropolitan Museum of Art Our …

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No Korean military talks after North snubs South’s call

KCNA | Reuters North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reacts during the long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 (Mars-12) test launch in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 15, 2017. South Korea’s Defense Ministry was expected to issue a statement at 0130 GMT …

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Alan Moore Is Preparing a Six-Part Finale for Extraordinary Gentlemen

Watchmen was serialized from 1986 to 1987 and became a perennial best seller as a collected edition. But the series soured his relationship with DC Comics, who retained control over the characters, and who in 2012 rolled out a companion series, Before Watchmen. Mr. Moore did not support of the …

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Burundi teenage robotics team missing after competition in DC

Alex Wong | Getty Images Participants at the First Global International Robot Olympics, an international robotic challenge, on July 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. Six teenagers from a Burundi robotics team have been reported missing after an international competition in Washington and two of them were seen entering Canada, police …

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MSFT, V, EBAY & more

Andrew Burton | Getty Images News | Getty Images A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the afternoon of May 7, 2014 Check out which companies are making headlines after the bell: Shares of Capital One rose more than 4 percent in extended trading. …

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‘Confederate’ Poses Test Over Race for ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators and HBO

“Racial history in this country is a very open, sensitive wound,” said Dodai Stewart, the editor in chief of Fusion, a social-justice culture and news site. “Nothing’s settled, nothing’s healed,” Ms. Stewart said. “I want to believe that this will be handled sensitively. But it’s an emotional subject, and for …

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A ‘beautiful’ move has one trader betting on a bounce for Halliburton shares

Crude is now 10 percent up from its 2017 low in June, and while the commodity is struggling to bounce back to the important $50 level, Todd Gordon still thinks there’s one energy stock that’s set for a rally. Commodities as a whole “have actually been acting very strong,” Gordon …

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