Henry Cavill is leaving Netflix’s The Witcher after Season 3 the streaming service announced today. Widely regarded as the best thing about the fantasy drama, and a crucial part of its success, the departure will no doubt shock fans of the series. Cavill is being replaced by Liam Hemsworth, brother to Thor actor Chris Hemsworth.…
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Updated Oct 29, 2022, 12:25pm EDT Topline The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and violently assaulting her husband Paul Pelosi early Friday morning reportedly spread QAnon conspiracy theories and defended former President Donald Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen in a slew of rambling online…
When Elon Musk completed his $44 billion takeover of Twitter on Thursday evening, he immediately cleaned house. Among the high profile axes was chief executive Parag Agrawal, the handpicked successor of cofounder Jack Dorsey. All told, Agrawal’s abrupt firing caps off one of the strangest tenures in recent memory for a big tech CEO, and…
Updated Oct 28, 2022, 04:06pm EDT Topline The man who allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, posted on Facebook about conspiracies related to the 2020 election and Covid-19 pandemic, according to reports–the latest example of a disturbing link between extremism fostered on social media and political violence. Key Facts The suspect, 42-year-old…
Apple’s iPhone 15 range is tipped to make big changes externally and internally , but now a truly eye-opening design change has leaked. According to respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo , Apple will replace the physical volume and power buttons on premium iPhone 15 models with solid-state (immovable) buttons that provide feedback via haptic motors. And…
The Ukrainian navy for months has been hunting the Russian navy frigate Admiral Makarov . It seems the Ukrainians finally got a shot at the 409-foot, missile-armed vessel in her home port of Sevastopol, in Russian-occupied Crimea. The Ukrainian government on Saturday released dramatic videos apparently depicting a successful nighttime strike on Makarov or her…
In holdover news, Warner Bros. Discovery’s Black Adam topped again with $7.5 million to bring its cume to $90.939 million. That’s a sharp 72% drop, but it’s frankly par for the course for big-budget DC/Marvel superhero movies that do not set the world on fire. It’s a sharper first-Friday to second-Friday drop than Shazam! (-68%)…
Crude production in western Africa has fallen by one-third since 2010 and will drop again this year.
Hi folks, it’s Kristen, writing from my sunny homeland of Orange County, California, where my whole family is frantically Covid testing before a cousin’s wedding. As we enter sniffle season, I’ve been fielding lots of questions on the best ways to avoid getti…
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