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Iran Urges Users to Delete WhatsApp

Iran’s state television urged people to delete WhatsApp, saying without evidence that the app was sending user information to Israel.

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A cafe in Tehran in December. Iran’s state broadcaster has urged people to remove WhatsApp from their phones.

Israel Strikes Iran State Broadcaster, Widening Attacks

Israel’s escalated offensive indicates that its aims go beyond dismantling Iran’s nuclear program.

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Smoke rising after an Israeli strike on Tehran, the capital of Iran.

Documentary Series Goes Inside Trump’s Bubble

Advance episodes of “Art of the Surge” offer a rare behind-the-scenes look at the adulatory environment in which Mr. Trump has moved since regaining power.

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President-elect Donald J. Trump during the Army-Navy football game in December, with Senator John Thune to the left of him and Speaker Mike Johnson to the right. The documentary filmmaker Justin Wells can be seen in the background, holding up a mobile phone.

Philippe Labro Dies at 88; Restless Chronicler of the French Condition

As an author (often blurring the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction), a film director, a lyricist and a host of TV and radio shows, he sought to capture his epoch.

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Philippe Labro, 2004. “He wrote our popular, French, and universal history,” President Emmanuel Macron said in a tribute posted on X.

Another ‘Gomorrah’ TV Series About the Mob? Some in Naples Say, ‘Basta.’

With another “Gomorrah” spinoff being filmed, some Neapolitans say they’re fed up with all the shows portraying the “malavita,” or the lawless life. “Why must only bad things be said about us?”

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Tourists visiting Vele di Scampia, a cluster of public housing towers, now undergoing demolition, in Naples, where much of the early seasons of “Gomorrah” were filmed.

Erin Brockovich Lawyer and ‘Real Housewives’ Husband Gets 7 Years in Prison for Embezzlement

Known for winning a record settlement for the environmental activist Erin Brockovich, he was found guilty last year of embezzling millions of dollars of his clients’ settlement money.

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Tom Girardi in Los Angeles in August.
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