SATURDAY PM: Sony’s Bullet Train will have a softer second weekend ease than expected at -56% with $13.3M at No 1 in a low wattage August frame that is around $64M for all movies, -2% off of the same weekend a year ago. Even worse, this is the lowest grossing weekend of summer 2022 so … Read more
The largest climate spending package in US history aims to change how Minnesotans drive, heat and cool our homes, grow our food and manage our forests. The Inflation Reduction Act passed by Congress last week puts $373 billion toward the climate crisis. Despite concessions to fossil fuel companies, the legislation is projected to cut climate … Read more
Russia’s military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive to try to take back an occupied southern region, striking the last working bridge over a river in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, Ukrainian authorities said Saturday. A Russian rocket attack on the city of Kramatorsk killed three people and … Read more
A visitor holds a weapon during the Shot Fair Brasil, an arms exhibition held at the Expoville Conventions and Exhibitions Center in Joinville, Santa Catarina state, Brazil, on Aug. 5. Albari Sosa/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Albari Sosa/AFP via Getty Images A visitor holds a weapon during the Shot Fair Brasil, an … Read more
Two years ago, Sasha* was organizing election rallies to try to oust the only post-Soviet president Belarus had ever known. The Minsk native is now fighting against Alexander Lukashenko dragging her country into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Belarusians just want to live peacefully, earn some money and develop their lives and families — this is … Read more
Salman Rushdie believed his life was “very normal again” and that fears of an attack were a thing of the past, he had told an interviewer just two weeks before he was stabbed on stage in New York on Friday. The novelist, who remained in hospital on Saturday, was stabbed several times, including in the … Read more
SPOILER ALERT: THE FOLLOWING STORY CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM SEASON 3 OF NETFLIX’S NEVER HAVE I EVER. Netflix’s Never Have I Ever dropped its third season on Friday and with it, an explosive cliffhanger of an ending that will have to satisfy fans— who will no doubt have theories to keep them busy with—until the series … Read more
Last August, as the Taliban stormed Kabul and took control of Afghanistan, they shuttered the Elimination of Violence Against Women Court that Amini headed, fired all its judges and, she said, froze their bank accounts. At the same time, the group took control of key prisons and released thousands of inmates, including some of the … Read more
Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNNChicago, USA Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that split a nation. For 15 years, she has made artworks based on the partition of British India into an independent India and … Read more
Last November, Britney Spears scored a landmark victory when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny opted to end her conservatorship. After years of work from Spears herself, demonstrations from her most devoted fans, a harrowing documentary from The New York Timesand, ultimately, the singer’s heart-shattering testimony in court, it appeared Spears had finally won … Read more