YouTuber box office boom: ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’ draw Gen Z to theaters
Young audiences turned out in droves to movie theaters around the country this weekend.
U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat kills 3 in the eastern Pacific Ocean in fourth attack of the week
The U.S. military said it carried out another strike on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men in the fourth attack of the week.
Inside the extremist online culture that shaped the San Diego mosque shooters
The San Diego duo responsible for a deadly mosque attack earlier this month were tweens in 2019 when a white supremacist livestreamed himself massacring 51 worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand
Meet Hollywood’s new masters of horror: YouTubers
A24’s “Backrooms” — from 20-year-old Kane Parsons — broke box office records this weekend, marking the latest example of an indie horror hit helmed by a YouTuber.
Graham Platner’s wife ‘angry, disappointed’ her past disclosures of his extramarital sexting were made public
The wife of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said she is “really angry” and “disappointed” about reports that she had told her husband’s campaign last year that he had exchanged sexually explicit texts with other women.“It makes me really angry, disappointed, and I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip instead of talking about real issues that Graham is is running on,” Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, said in a direct-to-camera video released by Platner’s campaign on Saturday night
Claude Lemieux’s brain is being donated to Boston University’s CTE Center, his family says
Claude Lemieux’s brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said Saturday in a statement released by daughter Claudia Lemieux Bishop
After new drug’s ‘unprecedented’ results for pancreatic cancer, doctors look at other uses
The experimental drug daraxonrasib, which doubled survival time in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, may also prove effective for lung, colon and ovarian cancers.
DNC Chair Ken Martin is digging in after fumbling the 2024 ‘autopsy’ report
Despite criticism after mishandling the release of a report on Democrats’ 2024 election loss, DNC Chair Ken Martin is sending signals that he isn’t going anywhere.
Heavy rains threaten to delay search for 2 people missing in Laos cave
Heavy rains threatened to delay the search for two people missing in a flooded cave in Laos on Sunday, after the rescue of five other people.
All missing victims recovered in Washington paper mill explosion
The remains of all missing victims in a Washington state paper mill explosion have been recovered, officials announced Saturday.“Today, on day five of this incident, I can share that we have recovered the ninth and final missing employee of this incident,” Longview Fire Chief Brad Hannig said in a Saturday news conference.