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A new exhibition has opened at the Billy Bishop Museum featuring the stories and belongings of Afghan War veterans.

At a time when information flows more freely than ever, the local news industry finds itself at a crossroads.The advertising and subscription model that held up the industry for so long has consistently been chipped away over the past two decades. The...

In the extras documentary accompanying the 2003 DVD release of Alien3 (1992), visual effects legend Richard Edlund recalled with horror the 'sumo wrestling' of photochemical matte extraction that dominated visual effects work between the late 1930s and the late 1980s. Edlund described the hit-and-mi

Truth of whats happening in ukraine to all of us every single day. my colleague, nbc news correspondent, ali arouzi live in lviv, ukraine. ali, youve jumped at an interesting time. i just interviewed congressman jim himes, who was in that meeting today with the ukrainian prime minister, and really, has been on the front lines of trying to rush the precise weapons that helene is describing, that the ukrainians are asking for, to the front lines. when i asked him about what something you and i hav...

Cases just skyrocketing in the places where its transmitting just ahead of the holidays. we also just got news that house majority whip james clyburn has tested positive for covid. he says hes fully vaccinated and boosted. so far asymptomatic. hes 81 years old. dr. craig spencer is director of global health and emergency medicine at columbia university medical center. he recently wrote about his concerns that omicron will overwhelm americas emergency rooms in "the atlantic." and dr. eric topol i...

You have always sort of had a ground truth on what these efforts look like, and i wonder if you could tell us what would happen if these folks are successful. >> it would be akin to putting arsonists in charge of the fire department. i mean, these are people who dont believe in democracy. they are people who dont believe in the rule of law. they are people who have been gaining celebrity by circulating baseless conspiracy theories and some of whom even attended the tragedy at our capitol on janu...

Civil rights and voting rights, we will intervene, but its going to take us a long time to get there and if its not a clear case of civil rights or voting rights protection, the courts will not intervene, and the import of what senate democrats are considering is creating federal statute that prohibits many of the actions now being taken at the state level. that is the failure we are seeing of democrats today. we can isolate the two that apparently have not come along with the democratic party, ...

2022. sorry. >> david jolly -- >> and 2024. >> it all blurs together sometimes. david jolly, where do you think the -- i mean, the ground -- ive spoken to local officials in michigan, in arizona, in wisconsin, in florida, in georgia. the ground truth is the same everywhere. where is the disconnect with washington democrats? >> well, look, i think whats infected politics for a long time is the political golden rule, which is he who has the gold makes the rules. the one in power gets to make the r...

Solutions. all theyre saying every time theres a problem ath is that we just need to go to war at t the behest of the military industrialhef complex when what they should be doing is offering ground truth and saying, hey, we have otherth options here. we have economic power that we can use. they should beey doinge doing eg to prevent us from going to o war as opposed to everypp time defaulting to the onet thing that has never worked and will be absolutely a destructive for not just our country b...

>> facebooks parent company meta blocked access to russian state media in ukraine. this comes after the company announced it shut down fake pages trying to spread propaganda. calling on plat forms to put a lid on russian propaganda altogether. chief media correspondent brian stelter joining me now. we know propaganda is key to putin and putins plans but senator mark warner said to jim sciutto, he said what surprised him is that putin hasnt tried to shut down the internet himself, including acces...