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ABC In 1966, David Carradine led a TV version of “Shane.” The story of a mysterious gunfighter who joins a homesteading family had been given a celebrated big screen adaptation more than a decade prior. As such, the television version was always going to struggle to outdo … Read more
When the British actor Lisa Riley was preparing to travel to the US last year, she applied online for an Esta so she would not need a visa. After finding the site through a Google search she filled in her passport, bank and personal details and waited for the confirmation, which normally takes just under … Read more
It’s a sad year for Nintendo and LEGO fans, as a large number of collaboration sets reaches the end of its lifecycle. Nintendo and LEGO both market themselves as companies that create experiences for all ages. This means that collaborations between the two didn’t just make sense, they were practically inevitable. The first Nintendo-themed LEGO … Read more
Newly unsealed police body camera footage obtained by CBS News New York shows the moments Altoona, Pennsylvania, police officers placed Luigi Mangione in handcuffs, ending a five-day manhunt following the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside of a Midtown hotel in 2024. The video also captures the property search that followed, and it … Read more
One of the men who helped rescue an 89-year-old from his burning Gisborne home early Saturday morning, before quietly slipping away, says he did not want to make a fuss about it. Local police hailed Tim Morris as a ‘hero’ yesterday after the rescue. The 37-year-old Gisborne man was driving on Aberdeen Road at about … Read more
The expansive library of sci-fi shows is ever-growing, but what has already been brought to TV screens deserves to be acknowledged, especially the series that are incredibly fun to watch. Those extremely fun sci-fi gems use strange futures, aliens, space travel, alternate worlds, advanced technology, and impossible ideas to create plots packed full of humor, … Read more
Every shooting leaves scars — seen and unseen, marking individuals, families, and communities. Every shooting ripples outward across space, and time. It can last years, lifetimes, sometimes for generations. Yet grief and the feelings around survival aren’t linear, said Brandon Wolf, and “they don’t happen the way you expect them to.” Wolf survived the mass … Read more
New York Film Festival: The Oscar-winning writer/director turns his spotlight on a plushly appointed ensemble as the environmental stewards and scholars who tried to solve the climate crisis over one long-winded, futile meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1980.
Debris has been found of a medical jet carrying six people that went missing near Nantucket, Massachusetts, while flying from Bermuda to Boston early Saturday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. A debris field that was confirmed to belong to the missing aircraft was found Saturday night, the Coast Guard said in a statement. The … Read more
In the early hours of Saturday 22 February 2025 the following email landed in the inboxes of the entire US federal workforce: From: HR hr@opm.gov Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2025 Subject: What did you do last week? Importance: High Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and … Read more