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‘Top Gun 3’ is in the works with Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer
Buckle your seatbelts. Another “Top Gun” movie is in the works. Josh Greenstein, co-chair of Paramount Pictures, confirmed Thursday morning that a sequel to “Top Gun: Maverick” is in development, a film that will reunite actor Tom Cruise with Jerry Bruckheimer. The announcement was made during Paramount’s presentation at CinemaCon, the exhibition industry’s annual trade
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Epstein told accused sex harassment pal to contact to his ‘friends’ at White House: report
A year before convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein died in a prison cell under mysterious circumstances, a friend who was teaching at Arizona State University worried about accusations of sexual harassment and asked for help, which led Epstein to suggest he turn to Donald Trump’s White House. According to Politico’s Bianca Quilantan, the texts and emails
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‘Jackass: Best and Last’: Johnny Knoxville and His Crew Prepare to Say Goodbye
A quarter-century after changing television forever with their legendary MTV show, the original “Jackass” crew is saying goodbye with a fifth and final feature film: “Jackass: Best and Last,” which was featured at Paramount’s CinemaCon presentation. Johnny Knoxville and his band of egoless crash dummies reunited after more than a decade apart in 2022 with
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The DNA Fix for Aging
On his son’s fourth birthday, Michael Prescott had his first heart attack. Prescott, who worked as a civil engineer designing bridges in Tennessee, was in his 30s, and until that day, he had appeared to be in excellent health. But within two years of that first heart attack, he had four more. His doctors, who
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Trump’s budget director defends White House plan for massive boost in military spending
WASHINGTON — An effort to ramp up U.S. weapons production and build more ships, planes and drones will require a massive upfront investment, President Trump’s budget director told a House committee Wednesday. The testimony from Russell Vought jump-starts the White House’s push to increase defense spending to nearly $1.5 trillion in the next budget year, up from
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One Supreme Court Justice’s ‘shame’ won’t stop Trump from being handed big loss: analyst
The Supreme Court is allegedly certain that Donald Trump will lose his case for withdrawing birthright citizenship. In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order stripping certain babies born in the United States of citizenship rights. The order targeted specific categories of births, particularly those involving parents without legal immigration status. The executive order
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The Quiet Way Authoritarianism Begins to Crumble
In the days after Donald Trump won his second term, I called a handful of Hungarian political analysts to ask what the American future might look like. My impulse was not an original one; the analysts had been fielding many calls of this sort. Hungary seemed like a bellwether for the illiberal direction in which
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The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund
The UK government has launched a venture fund for investing in domestic AI startups, part of a bid to minimize the country’s dependence on foreign-made technology. The fund, Sovereign AI, will invest roughly $675 million in homegrown startups in fields ranging from model development, to agentic AI, to drug discovery. In addition, portfolio startups will
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Chris Paul apparently not sad that the Clippers suffered season-ending loss to the Warriors
Four months after being pushed into retirement by the Clippers, future Hall of Famer Chris Paul apparently took delight in the team’s quick exit from the postseason Wednesday night. Paul posted the familiar meme “stopped by my biggest hater’s funeral” on his Instagram story shortly after the Clippers blew a 13-point fourth-quarter lead in a
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An account celebrating an Army Veteran got deleted after MAGA backlash
The U.S. Army shut down its “Soldier for Life” social media accounts after a post celebrating Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth, a Purple Heart recipient who lost both legs in combat, prompted online criticism from a pro-Trump veteran, NOTUS reported. The program, which connects veterans to employment, healthcare, and retirement resources, posted a tribute to Duckworth’s