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MGM+ Releases Trailer for Four‑Part A Tale of Two Cities Starring Kit Harington

A four‑episode adaptation foregrounds Dickens’s love triangle through its portrait of political unrest, premiering Sept. 6 on MGM+.

National Motor Museum to Leave Beaulieu After 60-Year Lease

State Lists Identify Coldest Augusts in Oregon and Colorado

Warner Bros. Discovery Confirms Theatrical Game of Thrones Movie Aegon's Conquest

Netflix Releases Seven Episodes of Final Block of One Hundred Years of Solitude

Fifty-Six Delegates Signed the Declaration on August 2, 1776

Biographer Says Trump’s Death Would Recast His Legacy Rather Than Spark Uprising

Lil Wayne Says He Watches Ancient Aliens and Recounts J‑Rod Tale on Podcast

UNESCO to Decide on Adding Berlin’s ‘Papageiensiedlung’ to World Heritage

Paris Moves Major Bastille Day Festivities to July 13 and Keeps July 14 for Nice Attack Commemoration

State-by-State Lists Show Recent Months Dominating Hottest and Coldest Rankings

Twelfth Parades Underway Across 18 Northern Ireland Locations

Ranabaali Teased by Leads as Film Nears Final Production

West Bengal Replaces Khela Hobey Divas With Ayushman Divas

Spain Readies for One-Month Countdown to August 12 Total Solar Eclipse

Poland’s President Urges Legal Ban on UPA Red-and-Black Flag

Dáil Told Christian Brothers Hid 1970 Confession by Limerick Brother

Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Renames Jalalabad to Parshurampuri

Lady Henrietta Stanley Marries Alexander Reviakin at Knowsley Hall

World Zoonoses Day Remembers Pasteur's First Rabies Treatment