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“Weapons” had no trouble retaining its top spot at the box office on Friday, but there’s another release still chasing after it. With movie theaters getting quiet as the summer season winds down, Netflix’s animated streaming smash “KPop Demon Hunters” may actually end up winning the weekend, with a two-day release of a sing-along version. It’d be quite the turn of events for Netflix, which has consistently opted out of playing movie theaters, to the point of the company’s CEO calling them “outdated” back in April. “KPop Demon Hunters” has already been on Netflix for over two months. It’s still…

NPR’s Scott Simon and sports writer Howard Bryant discuss the week in sports (DRAFT)

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers that serve the tightly packed apartment buildings in major cities. And while they bring the relief of cool air, these contraptions also create the conditions for dangerous bacteria to multiply and spread.One particularly nasty bacteria-borne illness is currently spreading in New York City using those enormous cooling units as its vector: Legionnaire’s disease. The bacterial pneumonia, which usually recurs each summer in the US’s largest city, has sickened…

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Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini made mocking remarks toward French President Emmanuel Macron Thursday about the potential deployment of European troops to Ukraine. France responded Friday by summoning the Italian ambassador, a diplomatic source said, marking the latest of a series of incidents heightening tensions between Paris and Rome.  

Social networking startup Bluesky has made the decision to block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with a new age assurance law. In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn’t have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law’s broad scope and privacy implications. Mississippi’s HB 1126 requires platforms to introduce age verification for all users before they can access social networks like Bluesky. On Thursday, U.S. Supreme Court justices decided to…

It is clear, as we look forward to this autumn’s new films, that a crimewave of sorts is happening. Whether cosy or brutal, true-crime-ish or fictional, filled with forensic crime scenes and hazmat-suited people shuffling out of despoiled apartments, or with twinkly-eyed character actors sampling cake and making coppers look like chumps, or with stylish lone women menaced by a criminal mystery that only they can solve … crime is everywhere, and showing it’s a solid bet at the movies.True crime and cold crime podcast fanciers are being catered for, and lovers of genteel murder mysteries, and those who might…

The No. 22 Iowa State Cyclones kick off their 2025 season against the Big 12 Conference rival No. 17 Kansas State Wildcats in a Week 0 matchup in Ireland on Saturday. Iowa State shared the regular-season Big 12 championship, while Kansas State shared eighth-place in the conference with West Virginia. The Wildcats (5-4, 9-4), who were 2-1 against ranked opponents a year ago, had a plus-97 point differential. The Cyclones (11-3, 7-2), who were 9-2 against unranked foes, were plus-114 in point differential. This is the first ranked matchup between these programs since 2002.Kickoff is set for noon ET at Aviva Stadium…

“When it comes to human stuff, I’ll take anything, pretty much,” says Henry Scragg. “As long as it’s been ethically sourced, may I add.”Speaking from his macabre curiosities shop in Essex in a recent YouTube interview, Scragg wears a shabby bowler hat, has tribal-style face tattoos and a ginger beard that descends into three pendulous dreadlocks.The shop, Curiosities from the 5th Corner, provides a backdrop that could be plucked straight from a Victorian penny dreadful: a foetus of conjoined twins floats in a large medical jar at Scragg’s elbow, shelves of human skulls and a hybrid animal skeleton loom behind.…

In this image released by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Kilauea volcano spews lava on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. M. Zoeller/AP/U.S. Geological Survey hide caption toggle caption M. Zoeller/AP/U.S. Geological Survey HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea’s 31st display of molten rock since December, an appropriately high frequency for one of the world’s most active volcanoes. The north vent at the summit crater began continuously spattering in…