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There are many reasons Aliens is an important film. It confirmed James Cameron's status as a blockbuster talent after he had directed The Terminator and cowrote Rambo: First Blood Part II . ("The action is mine," he told the New York Times , "the politics is Stallone's.") It turned Sigourney Weaver into a feminist hero. But what makes it a great and eminently rewatchable movie is that it deftly combines horror, action, and science fiction, showcases jaw-dropping practical effects, and weaves in themes of corporate greed, militarism, and motherhood without being preachy or pretentious. In a decade when it was fun to mock sequels Aliens reminded filmgoers why the risk was worth it.

Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon, an avowed Democratic Socialist who owns two homes and raked in at least $270,000 from her jobs and investments last year—in addition to her husband's unpublished income—is lamenting the injustice of having to pay taxes on her outsized income.

Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) have collectively spent thousands of donor dollars at a controversial gourmet Palestinian restaurant whose owner accuses Israel of using food "to starve people and deprive them of their human rights" and posed in a Keffiyeh for a

Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed falsely claimed in a 2012 essay that an Iraqi refugee in California was brutally murdered in an anti-Muslim attack because she had the "courage to wear a Hijab." In truth, Shaima Alawadi's husband killed her in an act of domestic violence that he staged to look like a hate crime.

The Trump Environmental Protection Agency is planning to propose the permanent repeal of federal regulations of power plants' greenhouse gas emissions, asserting that such rules have "virtually no benefit," the Washington Free Beacon has learned. In tandem with that proposal, the agency is finalizing plans to gut other Biden-era climate rules that forced existing coal-fired plants to close down and stymied future gas plant development.

James Talarico, 37, may have finally taken his first step on the road to financial independence. The Democratic candidate appears to have drawn down the checking account he shares with his mommy, Tamara Talarico, according to his latest financial disclosure.

Anthropic's Dario Amodei must be the most annoying CEO in the country. The effective altruist announced on Saturday that "we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models." His colleagues at OpenAI, XAI, and GoogleMind joined him.

As the midterm elections approach, a lot of what appears in the press is best interpreted through a partisan lens. There's already a baseline level of negativity bias as editors and algorithms have optimized toward the tendency of humans to click on bad news. Between now and Election Day, the economic, technology, and geopolitical news will have a particularly grim cast as reporters race to try to convince readers that an economy with 4.1 percent unemployment, consumer spending up 4.5 percent year over year, and robust stock market gains is the second coming of a Great Depression, or at least 1970s stagflation.

When Rep. Greg Landsman (D., Ohio) first ran for Ohio's competitive First Congressional District in 2022, he reported just six stock holdings worth between $90,000 and $300,000. It turns out he'd omitted dozens of positions worth hundreds of thousands of dollars—and failed to disclose them for years.

The Chinese military is investing heavily in technology that would actually control the weather, according to a new report drawn from previously unseen Chinese documents, hoping to outpace the United States in developing the means to "alter precipitation patterns, disrupt agriculture, and create geopolitical instability if misused," the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) reported