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Ese mismo año se casó con su segunda esposa, Anna Maria Torv, entonces periodista en uno de sus periódicos australianos. Esa unión duró 32 años, y tuvieron tres hijos: Elisabeth, Lachlan y James. Todos han trabajado para el imperio mundial de su padre; el año pasado, Lachlan Murdoch fue nombrado único sucesor de Murdoch, convirtiéndose en responsable de dirigir la empresa de medios que su padre empezó a construir a partir de un pequeño periódico local en su Australia natal hace 70 años. Murdoch mantiene un papel emérito.En 1999, cuando Murdoch y Torv se divorciaron, él y su tercera esposa,…

Liberal TV viewers have a new mantra: T.G.I.M.!Monday nights have suddenly broken out in the Nielsen ratings — and in national relevance — thanks to a rare confluence: two TV superstars of the political left who have limited their regularly scheduled broadcasts to that one evening.Jon Stewart, the “Daily Show” host and guiding light of Bush- and Obama-era Democrats who made a surprise comeback in February, now hosts his old show on Mondays at 11 p.m. Rachel Maddow, who stepped back from her nightly MSNBC duties in 2022, retained a dedicated hour every Monday at 9.In a frazzled media age,…

Movies like “Dune: Part Two” and “Challengers” arrived in theaters later than expected because of last year’s actors’ strike, and Hollywood experienced significant production setbacks during the coronavirus pandemic.But “The Primevals,” about a group of researchers who discover gigantic yetis and other prehistoric creatures, made those movie delays look minuscule when it was released in theaters in March.It was filmed in 1994.The live-action movie, which was delayed because of funding woes and then the death of its director, David Allen, incorporates a stop-motion animation technique in which puppets are painstakingly photographed and brought to life through a series of frames,…

Claudia Sheinbaum’s list of accolades is long: She has a Ph.D in energy engineering, participated in a United Nations panel of climate scientists awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and governed the capital, one of the largest cities in the hemisphere.On Sunday, she added another achievement to her résumé: becoming the first woman elected president of Mexico.Ms. Sheinbaum, 61, captured at least 58 percent of the vote in a landmark election on Sunday that featured two women competing for the nation’s highest office — a groundbreaking contest in a country long known for a culture of machismo and rampant violence against…

Ticketmaster confirmed in a federal filing on Friday that it was investigating a data breach after a hacking group known as ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for stealing the information of more than 500 million Ticketmaster customers.In the filing, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, said it had “identified unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment.”Who is behind the breach?ShinyHunters, a hacker group believed to have been formed around 2020, is believed to have been behind the breach.Brett Callow, a threat analyst with the cybersecurity company Emsisoft, said it was a “credible threat actor,”…

In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also watch our collection of more than 150 videos on YouTube and subscribe to our YouTube channel.The following contains spoilers for “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.”A great action sequence may involve pyrotechnics, breakneck vehicle maneuvers and other dazzling stunts, but according to the director George Miller, it may prove hollow without a connection to, and between, the characters.He put a relationship front and center in this sequence from his…

Nationalists are surging and expected to make big gains when voters from 27 nations cast ballots starting this week for the European Parliament. But the prospect of success is already raising the question among far-right parties of how far is too far.That question has become pressing as popular hard-right parties, especially in Italy and France, try to make themselves more palatable to the mainstream, splitting those who have sanitized and gained acceptability from those who are still considered taboo.Today, the hard right is a movement marbled by fissures and shifting alliances.Last year, Marine Le Pen, the French nationalist, seemed to…

Lucy Yu wasn’t sure if she had smoke in her lungs or was having an anxiety attack. She needed fresh air.Five days earlier, on the Fourth of July, she had raced out of her bookstore in Manhattan’s Chinatown as it filled with smoke. A fire had broken out in an upstairs apartment, threatening to destroy all she had built.Now Ms. Yu was back, and had to face it. She had assembled a team of friends to pack up the books that weren’t damaged beyond repair and put them in storage. By the last bag, she had pain in her chest.She…

new video loaded: ‘Furiosa’ | Anatomy of a ScenetranscriptBacktranscript‘Furiosa’ | Anatomy of a SceneThe director George Miller narrates a sequence from his film featuring Anya Taylor-Joy and Tom Burke.Hello, I’m George Miller, director of “Furiosa.” At this point in the movie, we’ve got Furiosa played by Anya Taylor-Joy and we’ve got Praetorian Jack played by Tom Burke arriving at Bullet Farm, where they’re meant to pick up all these munitions and weapons for this battle. However, when they get to the Bullet Farm, there’s something weird going on. When they see the dog with a foot in its mouth, they…

U Tin Oo, a former Burmese armed forces chief and minister of defense who turned against his country’s repressive government to become a leader of the pro-democracy movement there, died on Saturday in Yangon, Myanmar. He was 97.His personal assistant, U Myint Oo, confirmed his death, in a hospital. He said that Mr. Tin Oo had a weak heart and died of kidney failure and pulmonary edema.Once one of the most powerful figures in what is now Myanmar, Mr. Tin Oo founded the National League for Democracy, the country’s main opposition party, with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi during a…