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Jim Carrey to Return to TV as Mr. Pickles on Showtime

Photo Jim Carrey on Monday at the Toronto International Film Festival. He will be starring in a new Showtime series, “Kidding.” Credit Mark Blinch/Reuters Jim Carrey is coming back to television for the first time in two decades. Showtime announced on Thursday that Mr. Carrey would headline a new series …

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Trump says tax reform package will be revenue neutral

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump arrives via Air Force One at Bismarck Municipal Airport in Bismarck, North Dakota, September 6, 2017. President Donald Trump on Thursday told reporters that the tax reform package being crafted by lawmakers will be revenue neutral if economic growth spurred by the legislation …

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Film Series in NYC This Week

Photo Gary Collins and Juleen Compton in Ms. Compton’s “Stranded” (1965). Credit UCLA Film and Television Archive Our guide to film series and special screenings. All our movie reviews are at nytimes.com/reviews/movies. FILM IS LIKE A BATTLEGROUND: SAM FULLER’S WAR MOVIES at the Museum of the Moving Image (Sept. 15-24). …

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How Hillary Clinton and Martin Shkreli both wanted somebody else’s DNA

Getty Images Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signs copies of her new book ‘What Happened’ during an event at a Barnes & Noble bookstore, Sept. 12, 2017, in New York City. Shkreli, 34, last week in a Facebook post, urged his 70,000 or so followers to grab some of …

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Trump again blames both sides for Charlottesville violence

Michael Nigro | Pacific Press | LightRocket | Getty Images White supremacist groups clashed with hundreds of counter-protesters during the ‘Unite The Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Va. President Donald Trump is not backing off his defiant response to violence at a white supremacist rally in Virginia last month. The president …

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Trump ‘respects’ Yellen but is still deciding her fate

Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump replies to a question from the press while boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on September 14, 2017, as he travels to Florida. President Donald Trump praised Fed Chair Janet Yellen during a brief gathering …

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Events for Children in NYC This Week

Photo The children’s author and illustrator Christian Robinson performing his book “School’s First Day of School” at the Brooklyn Book Festival Children’s Day in 2016. Credit Silas Hyde/Brooklyn Book Festival For Children Our guide to cultural events in New York City for families with children and teenagers. BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL …

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Chuck Schumer on hot mic: Trump ‘likes us’

Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., attend a news conference on the Child Care for Working Families Act, which focuses on affordable early learning and care on September 14, 2017. Senate Minority Leader Chuck …

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Glamour and Virtue at Fashion Week Parties

Slide Show Michael Kors, Natasha Lyonne and Charli XCX Close Out Fashion Week Parties CreditRebecca Smeyne for The New York Times New York Fashion Week, with its complementary vodka and seating hierarachy, is a gilded island on a planet that seems to be pirouetting closer to apocalypse by the day. …

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10 must-read books for explosive success

There are plenty of great books out there. But most people have one incredible book that completely changed their perspective and the trajectory of their life. These luminaries share one heck of an Amazon order. 1. Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office by Lois P. Frankel Concerned that my …

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