Hanan Okal, 22, prepares tea for her children using an open fire inside a classroom at the Jabaliya Preparatory Girls School in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Egypt-born Anne Aly has been promoted to Cabinet, making her the government’s most senior Muslim. She is minister for small business, international development and multicultural affairs.Albanese’s second-term administration is the first Australian government since 2010 to have no Jewish Cabinet minister.
Most of the government’s most senior ministers have portfolios that are unchanged or slightly varied.Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles remained defense minister. Home Affairs Tony Burke’s portfolio has been expanded to include the Australian Federal Police and the nation’s main domestic spy agency, Australian Security Intelligence Organization.Tim Ayres, the former assistant trade minister, was promoted to Cabinet to take Husic’s portfolio.
Dreyfus was replaced by Michelle Rowland, who had been communications minister in the government’s first term.Immigration and civil rights advocates have renewed concerns that immigrants detained at Guantanamo Bay are being held in extreme isolation, cut off from meaningful access to legal counsel or candid communication with relatives, according to a new court filing Saturday.
In a lawsuit brought on behalf or two Nicaraguan immigrants held at the U.S. Navy base on Cuba, attorneys say there is a climate of “extreme fear and intimidation” that interferes with constitutional rights to due process and legal counsel.
The revised lawsuit asks a federal judge in Washington to intervene on behalf of all future immigrants at Guantanamo, which authorities have used as a way station for immigrants whom President Donald Trump calls “the worst,” with final removal orders, as his administration seeks to ramp up mass deportations.That said, there’s a wide array of comic talent throughout Stoller’s film that enlivens it. That includes Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Rory Scovel, Leanne Morgan and even, briefly,
This should be a showcase for Viswanathan, the talented star of “Blockers” and “Bad Education,” but her character, while primary, doesn’t give her much to work with beyond shedding an overly dependent dad. The highlight of the cast, really, is Weston, who is so good as a hard-to-impress matriarch that you could just as easily drop her into a family drama.Ferrell, who has made unadjusted fathers a specialty since
finds more ways to make Jim a compelling comic character than most anyone could. Having the chance to see him in a big studio comedy has gotten so foolishly infrequent that “You’re Cordially Invited” is worth RSVP’ing to for that too-rare opportunity, in itself.Somewhat surprisingly, “You’re Cordially Invited” doesn’t culminate in a big comic set piece but puts much — maybe too much — of its energy into talking through Jim and Margot’s hang-ups. There’s a clever, self-aware theme of honesty: too little of it in Jim and Jenni’s performative dynamic, and too much of it in Margot’s cynical family relationships. That all of this hangs together is a testament, most of all, to Witherspoon deftness as a performer. In a movie in which Ferrell wrestles an alligator and