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Tony Gilroy's Ambitious Star Wars Mission: Andor Series Success Unveiled
When Tony Gilroy and his Andor star Diego Luna decided to cram half a decades worth of new Star Wars lore into three episodes per year leading up to the events of Rogue One, they knew the task was unbelievably ambitious. In a chat with the Wrap, Gilroy expressed the excitement everyone involved felt over their great big heist of an entry into Lucasfilms Star Wars lore. We kept waiting for it to fail, going, There must be something thats going to bite us here. We kept waiting for a bugaboo that never appeared, he said. I wrote the top...
Unlocking AUKUS: A History of Countries Seeking American Nuclear Submarine Tech
As Anthony Albanese meets with counterparts at the G7 summit in Canada, hoping to shore up the AUKUS alliance against US doubts, its worth revisiting the several other times foreign countries have sought to acquire American nuclear submarine propulsion technology. The AUKUS pact is a historic and controversial project thats been the subject of endless discussions in Australia since it was announced in 2021, but the country is far from unique in its ambitions to acquire so-called SSN submarines. Researchers at the US Library of Congress have noted there have been at least six other countries that have asked the...
Mike Lindell Found Liable for Defaming Dominion Voting Systems Executive: Jury Awards $2.3 Million in Damages
Mike Lindell speaks at CPAC earlier this year. Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images A jury in Colorado federal court found that MyPillow founder Mike Lindell was liable for defaming an executive of Dominion Voting Systems in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Lindell was one of the foremost conspiracy theorists in pushing claims that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. He has been a staunch defender of Trumps, while his company has been a unbiquitous advertiser on Fox News and other outlets. The jury awarded the executive, Eric Coomer, $2.3 million in damages, per the AP. Coomer was the...
