Photo Chelsea Manning, photographed in May, will be interviewed at this year’s New Yorker Festival. Credit Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; via Chelsea Manning In previous years, The New Yorker Festival has centered on pop culture luminaries, from David Letterman to Stephen Sondheim. But this year’s festival, from Oct. 6 …

KCNA | Reuters Artillery pieces are seen being fired during a military drill at an unknown location, in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 25, 2016. News reports suggest many U.S. hedge fund managers have simply dismissed the pledge of peace and …

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Next March and April she will be at the Opera Bastille in Paris in “Benvenuto Cellini,” and she will perform a solo concert at Carnegie Hall in New York in early June. Ms. Yende’s rise as one of the opera world’s newest stars has a similar plotline to a dramatic …

Chung Sung-Jun | Getty Images A North Korea Scud-B missile is displayed at the Korea War Memorial Museum on August 26, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea’s defense ministry said in a parliament hearing on Monday it was still seeing signs that North Korea planned to stage more ballistic …

Sergei Karpukhin | Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks to journalists following a live nationwide broadcast call-in in Moscow, Russia June 15, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world. Putin, speaking Friday at …

Photo Jerry Lewis during his telethon in 2005. Credit Jae C. Hong/Associated Press Turner Classic Movies commemorates Jerry Lewis’s Labor Day telethon with a night of some of his best work. And a newly single bisexual woman has plenty of questions in Facebook Watch’s new dramedy. What’s on TV JERRY …

Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images The stars of the European Union (EU) sit on banners flying outside the European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters stands in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, July 20, 2017. With the summer drawing to a close, investors will be turning their attention to the European …

Photo Damien Chazelle at the 2017 Oscars. Credit Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images From the City of Stars to the City of Lights: Damien Chazelle, the filmmaker behind “La La Land,” is making his first foray into television with a new musical drama series for Netflix set in …

But Wells clearly wasn’t happy with that. In the final draft, the narrator is burned, wounded, but he follows the Martians in a way that’s more “get it over with.” Then he goes into a fugue, a kind of three-day dropout. I think Wells was groping for a prediction of …