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Florence Pugh plays Cathy Ames, and Christopher Abbott is Adam Trask in the Netflix miniseries East of Eden.
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Is our fate pre-destined? A new 'East of Eden' adaptation asks again
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John Steinbeck's 1952 epic was first adapted to film in 1955 by director Elia Kazan. Now, Kazan's granddaughter Zoe has directed a new Netflix miniseries, starring Florence Pugh.
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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert departs the federal courthouse, in Chicago, June 2015.
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Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84
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Ukrainian military medics treat a wounded Ukrainian soldier in the field hospital near the front line in the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia on Sept. 12. The vast majority of casualties take place in the so-called kill zone, a band about 10 to 20 miles wide on both sides of the front line, which stretches more than 700 miles from north to south.
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Drones buzz overhead, troops hunker underground in Ukraine's hellish kill zone
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Imran Khan supporters march in Pakistan to demand his release after talks failed
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