‘Animal Farm’ Review: George Orwell, Lost in the Mud

A confusing adaptation of Orwell’s political novel seems blissfully detached from its source’s clarity.

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‘Departures’ Review: Finding Levity Amid the Pain

This tragicomedy from Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Neil Ely balances a mordantly funny deconstruction of romance with the harsher realities of gay life.

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‘Dances With Wolves’ Actor Is Sentenced to Life in Prison

Nathan Chasing Horse had been convicted of charges including the sexual assault of women and girls and the possession of child sexual abuse imagery.

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Could At-Home Brain Stimulation Reduce Psychiatry’s Reliance on S.S.R.I.s?

A headset recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses a weak electric current to shock the brain. Some researchers hope it could challenge the current pill-centric paradigm.

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The Obamas, Kim Kardashian and Other A-Listers Are Now Broadway Co-Producers

The latest trend on Broadway is celebrity co-producing: A-listers who now have credits as backers of plays and musicals.

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U.S. Government Will Stop Paying for Test Strips to Detect Deadly Drugs

In a letter to states and other grant recipients, the Trump administration says the strips encourage drug use.

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Supreme Court Appears Divided Over Roundup Weedkiller Case

The case could help determine the future of thousands of lawsuits against the maker of a popular herbicide over claims that it causes cancer.

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