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«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Willem Dafoe is named artistic director of Venice Biennale's theater department

Actor Willem Dafoe, a frequent red-carpet star at the Venice Film Festival, was named artistic director Monday of the Venice Biennale’s theater department. Dafoe, who lives near Rome with his Italian wife, said the appointment came as a surprise but that he was “born in the theatre” and trained initially as a stage actor. Dafoe co-founded The Wooster Group theatre company in 1977 in New York and performed with it for some 20 years. He is better known though for his film career, including Yorgos Lanthimos’... Читать дальше...

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

All rail cars carrying hazardous material have been removed from North Dakota derailment site

All of the rail cars that contained hazardous materials have been removed from the site of a train derailment in North Dakota, and a CPKC official says all hotspots from the resulting fire have been extinguished. Railroad spokesman Patrick Waldron said in an email that track repairs were completed early Monday, and rail traffic has resumed following track safety inspections. No one was injured in the derailment before dawn Friday that knocked 29 CPKC train cars off the tracks in a marshy area surrounded by farmland. Читать дальше...

TheHill.com 

Read RNC panel-approved, Trump-centric platform

A Republican National Committee (RNC) panel on Monday passed a draft party platform dramatically shifting the GOP’s stance on abortion, mirroring former President Trump’s posture on the issue. The Republican platform committee overwhelmingly approved the new platform, echoing Trump on key issues like trade, immigration and foreign policy while doing away with specific language about...