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‘The Mummy’ sequel with Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz gets title: ‘Book of the Dead’
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz's fourth "Mummy" adventure has a new title: "The Mummy: Book of the Dead," which will be released in October 2027.
MS NOW retracts report that FBI Director Kash Patel landed in Russia
MS NOW retracted a report that FBI Director Kash Patel had landed in Russia, after the FBI showed he was at a law enforcement event in Lynchburg, Virginia, when the claim aired.
71 things to do in (and around) Washington, D.C. this weekend: October 16-18
There's a little urgency to Washington's arts calendar this weekend, and not just because Halloween is getting closer.
Billy Joel says he’s ‘not allowed to drive’ as doctors weigh whether he can perform again
BILLY JOEL doesn't know whether he will perform again, saying doctors have barred him from driving and warned that live shows could harm his health while he undergoes further testing.
5 questions about the cyberattack on European supermarkets
Hackers remotely took control of refrigeration systems in hundreds of French supermarkets, driving temperatures to 50 degrees Celsius and spoiling food, while a Dutch grocery giant also shut down systems after a cybersecurity incident.
Bill Gates plans bigger AI safety push, leaning on CEOs, sources say
Microsoft co-founder BILL GATES is preparing to sharply expand his campaign for tougher AI safeguards, personally pressing business leaders and weighing a major commitment of his resources.
Ben Affleck warns that piling on Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ will breed ‘homogenized’ Hollywood
Actor-director BEN AFFLECK is warning that the public glee over Tom Cruise's box office flop "Digger" could push Hollywood toward safer, more uniform movies: "Guess what you're going to get? A bunch of s--tty homogenized movies."
Apple, Nvidia, Comcast among donors in $333 million ballroom fundraising
Comcast committed $7.5M toward President Trump's new White House ballroom, among other donors such as Apple and Nvidia.
Eagles’ Jalen Hurts out Sunday with blood clot in calf after cleat injury
Jalen Hurts will not play Sunday against Carolina. The Eagles quarterback has a blood clot in his calf, and the team is still deciding on treatment.
Joe Rogan, who backed Trump in 2024, faults Iran war, ICE bonuses
JOE ROGAN on Trump: "What Trump stood for, some of it turned out to not be real. Like 'no wars.' We're at a war with Iran, so that wasn't real. And it's nuts to just give someone a $50,000 ICE signing bonus, you train them for seven weeks and then give them guns, and you have a militarized force running through the f---ing city streets. It seems crazy."
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters blasts Metallica’s Hetfield as ‘a nobody’
ROGER WATERS lashes out at Metallica frontman James Hetfield, days after Hetfield told a Las Vegas crowd that the band does not use its concerts to push politics. "Can we stop talking about this prick?" Waters said. "I'm so bored with him. He's just showing that he's a complete prick. He's got an IQ of about three, and why we're talking about him, I honestly don't know, because he's a nobody."
Elle Duncan says WNBA culture wars are ‘open season’ on Black women; critics fire back
Sports anchor ELLE DUNCAN: "To have [the WNBA] deduced to a culture war is disgusting ... It sucks because it's not getting any better. It sucks because we thought three years ago, when this started, it will die down. They will see themselves out; like, everything will regulate, and we are still here."
Obama Presidential Center’s cost hits $1 billion, roughly triple original estimate
The Obama Foundation says the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago will cost about $1B to build, roughly triple the original estimate. At its current cost, the project would be the most expensive presidential center in U.S. history.
Is Harris running in 2028? She’s not saying, but she leads the Dem field and sounds a bit like Trump
Kamala Harris declined to discuss 2028 in Seoul but said allies must step up on defense. See where she did and didn't align with Trump.
Four in five new U.K. payroll jobs went to non-Britons, report finds
REPORT: Foreign nationals accounted for roughly four-fifths of the net increase in payroll jobs recorded in the United Kingdom between 2014 and the end of 2025.
Chinese company Anta is top shareholder of parent of Wilson, Louisville Slugger
Chinese sportswear company Anta Sports is the largest shareholder in Amer Sports, the corporate parent of Wilson Sporting Goods and Louisville Slugger.
Mark Ruffalo accuses Newsom of siding with billionaires
Actor MARK RUFFALO criticizes Gavin Newsom: "[He] sells out the working class people for the billionaires again and again."
Golden Corral closes at least six restaurants this year, says six more are in the works
Golden Corral has closed at least six restaurants this year, in Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio and Texas, but the buffet chain says it is still growing and expects to keep expanding into 2027.
The case for putting data centers in orbit, and why it probably does not work yet
A refrigerator-size satellite carrying four Google AI chips reached orbit Oct. 1. It is the first flight test of Google's plan to someday run artificial intelligence data centers in space.
Rob Lowe, James Franco star in Ben Shapiro-penned ‘Confession’
Rob Lowe and James Franco are starring in a new Daily Wire movie written by Ben Shapiro. "Confession," a Stalin-era prison drama, premieres Thursday at the Warsaw Film Festival. Lowe also serves as a producer on the movie.
