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Going off the grid in a van has its hazards in the half-scary ‘Passenger’
Do we really need reminding, when far from home, not to stop our vehicles in out-of-the-way areas on nights when nobody’s around and even the moon has chosen to hide? Nevertheless, stepping up to drive home this vital public message for four-wheeled wanderers is the new horror film “Passenger” from director André Øvredal (“The Last…
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A frantic two hours as police struggled to assess threat before San Diego gunmen opened fire
SAN DIEGO — The two hours before Monday’s deadly attack at the San Diego Islamic Center were marked by a series of frantic calls by the mother of one of the attackers as short-staffed police struggled to assess the seriousness of the threat and scramble officers to find the gunmen. The mother of 17-year-old Cain Lee Clark…
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The Trump effect has given America PTSD — literally
Friends, I was born just after the end of World War II. The first half of the 20th century marked a particularly difficult, violent era. But the 21st century so far has been, well, one trauma after another. It started with 9/11, followed by the grim wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then the Wall Street…
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Explosive video of US fighter jet shooting down UFO over Michigan revealed in new declassified files
Explosive video released in the Pentagon’s latest UFO dump on Friday shows the moment a US fighter jet took down a mysterious object flying over Michigan’s Lake Huron. The infrared clip captured the moment the F-16 jet zeroed in on the unidentified object after it surfaced over the lake in February 2023. The craft, which appeared to…
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Inside Stephen Colbert’s post-‘Late Show’ plans as talk show comes to a close
Stephen Colbert has big family plans after saying goodbye to his talk show. The comedian recently told People he is “going to [his] brother’s wedding in Washington D.C.” right after wrapping “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” The comedian, who filmed the final episode Thursday night, explained, “My [eight] brothers and sisters and [their] husbands and…
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‘I was not happy’: Trump throws mini tantrum as crowd applauds Fed chair instead of him
President Donald Trump could not hide his bruised ego Friday during the White House swearing-in of his new Federal Reserve chairman — complaining out loud that the crowd’s applause was meant for Kevin Warsh, not him. “I thought that was for me. I was very unhappy,” Trump said, drawing laughs from the assembled dignitaries. “I…
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Trump’s political hitman vows in-house retribution purge is over — now there’s new target
President Donald Trump has finished purging his Republican enemies — and his top political aide says it’s time to go to war with Democrats. James Blair, the man who helped orchestrate Trump’s 2024 comeback and is now running his 2026 operation, told the Washington Examiner this week that the GOP’s bloody primary season is effectively…
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For Tom Hanks, World War II Will Never Be Over
—Randall Holmes Nearly three decades after Saving Private Ryan reshaped Hollywood’s approach to modern war films—and audiences’ understanding of D-Day—Tom Hanks keeps coming back to the conflict that defined his father’s generation. Hanks was 41 when he filmed the 1998 Steven Spielberg-directed drama, which follows U.S. Army Captain John Miller as he leads his squad…
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Democrats’ 2024 Election Autopsy Shows Signs of Sloppy AI Generation
The long awaited Democratic Party “autopsy” of the 2024 election failure has finally been released, and it’s riddled with errors. Facining mounting pressure to release the report, Democratic National Convention chairman Ken Martin finally relented, sharing an “unfinished’ draft with CNN. Though Martin caveated to CNN that the report wasn’t ready for public consumption —…
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‘Star Wars’ at the Box Office: A Crash Course on a $10 Billion Franchise
The history of the modern box office and film industry is permanently entwined with “Star Wars.” While Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” got the ball rolling, the debut of George Lucas’ sci-fi film in 1977 gave rise to the merchandise and sequel-driven economic model that Hollywood has been pursuing for almost 50 years. Over the course of…