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Carmen Sevilla, a beguiling actress, singer and dancer who became one of the biggest stars of mid-century Spanish cinema, then gained a wider audience playing Mary Magdalene — opposite matinee idol Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus — in the 1961 Hollywood epic “King of Kings,” died June 27 at a hospital…

Comment on this storyComment Protests in France continued Thursday, possibly portending another night of violence after a police officer fatally shot a 17-year-old boy in the Parisian suburbs on Tuesday. The Interior Ministry said it had deployed 40,000 officers across the country, and cities suspended public transportation and announced curfews….

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — The Intelligence Community’s 2023 Annual Threat Assessment released in March, found that the Chinese Communist Party constitutes the “most consequential threat” to U.S. national security, particularly with regard to its aggressive pursuits in cyber and quantum technologies. But just a few months later, with a growing…