Netflix is teaming with Mattel and Hasbro to turn KPop Demon Hunters into a consumer products line after the animated film’s June debut and more than 325 million views worldwide. The streamer will also release it in theaters twice: a two-day August event and another run next week around Halloween....
Plans for President Donald Trump to meet Vladimir Putin are on hold after a call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, a U.S. official said. The Budapest session had been announced but never scheduled. The Kremlin said there was no urgency and serious preparation is needed,...
As the federal shutdown enters a third week, a partisan standoff over extending enhanced ACA premium tax credits has Americans on edge. Democrats want extensions before reopening; Republicans insist on a clean funding bill first. KFF estimates premiums could more than double in 2026 if the boosts lapse after 2025....
Construction has begun on President Donald Trump's $250m, 90,000 sq ft White House ballroom, even as questions mount over who is funding it. Trump says he'll cover significant costs and hinted unnamed donors could give more than $20m; a donor dinner drew executives from firms. Only YouTube's $22m contribution, part...
The Los Angeles Angels are hiring Kurt Suzuki as manager, sources told ESPN, turning to the 42-year-old former catcher with no coaching experience amid the majors’ longest playoff drought. A 16-year veteran and 2019 World Series winner, Suzuki spent the past three years as a special assistant to GM Perry...
After two months on the run, 23-year-old Jacoby Tillman was captured in Florida over a July 25 trail attack, briefly freed on a $9,500 bond, then had it revoked Tuesday by Judge Vincent Chiu. Investigators say Tillman choked a woman unconscious on the Little Econ Greenway; security cameras allegedly recorded...
Former Rep. George Santos was released from prison after President Donald Trump commuted his federal sentence to time served, eliminating fines, restitution, probation, and supervised release, according to a clemency grant posted by the U.S. Pardon Attorney. Santos had served three months of an 87-month term imposed in April. In...
Plans for a Trump-Putin summit have been put on ice, a White House official said, despite Donald Trump’s claim last week that talks in Budapest were imminent. A preparatory meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Sergei Lavrov was scrapped after a “productive” call. Growing gaps over Ukraine—Kyiv...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces intensifying backlash after describing a “problem in the cityscape” solvable by deportations during a visit to Brandenburg, language critics say echoes the far right despite his pledge to distance his conservatives from the AfD. Asked to retract, he refused, invoking daughters’ safety. Activist and Greens...
The Sundance Film Festival unveiled first programming for its Jan. 22–Feb. 1, 2026 edition — the last in Park City before relocating to Boulder — and promised a festival-wide tribute to founder Robert Redford, who died last month at 89. Plans include a marquee fundraiser, gatherings in Park City and...
