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Where is the next generation of slasher killers coming from? "Halloween Ends" has some ideas.
Supposedly the final "Halloween" movie with Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode — and the third in a latter-day trilogy she made with writer/director David Gordon Green — "Ends" starts with what could be dubbed "The Making of a Maniac." He's a bullied young man named Corey who enrolls in a loose Michael Myers Apprenticeship Program, interning as a serial killer who gets bloody revenge on the people who wronged him. And there are a lot of them.
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Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office was not destroyed by Russian missile strikes in Kyiv. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not purchase 10 million shares in a cannabis company, nor did Reuters report that. The Home Depot did not donate $1.75 million to the U.S. Senate campaign of Georgia Republican Hershel Walker. And Georgia's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams, did not lobby for moving major events out of the state in response to voting and gun legislation backed by Republicans.
Whether a state requires voters to request an absentee ballot or participates in universal mail-in voting, all ballots cast by mail or dropped off at a drop box are vetted to ensure their legitimacy. The ballots are logged when sent out and turned in, checked against registration and, in many cases, checked against voter signatures on file to ensure the voter assigned to the ballot is the one who cast it. Different states have different ballot verification protocols, ranging from a signature only to submitting a copy of your ID with the ballot. Though claims of voter fraud are widespread, research shows it is exceedingly rare.
Where is the next generation of slasher killers coming from? "Halloween Ends" has some ideas.
A top Indiana lawyer has questioned the validity of a lawsuit brought by a group of residents who argue that the state’s abortion ban violates their religious freedoms. A judge heard arguments Friday in an Indianapolis courtroom, spurred by claims from five anonymous residents and the group Hoosier Jews for Choice. They argue the ban would violate their religious rights regarding when they believe abortion is acceptable. The lawsuit cites a state law that then-Gov. Mike Pence signed in 2015 over the objections of critics who said it allows discrimination against gay people.
'I Love You, You Hate Me'
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Japan is set to change a 19th-century law deciding the paternity of a child born after divorce, in a bid to reduce the number of babies who remain unregistered and face difficulty in accessing health care and education.
Prosecutors say no charges will be filed in the death of a man who fell from a Milwaukee drawbridge that was raised as he was walking across it. The county prosecutor's office said in a statement Friday that investigators found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. A 77-year-old man from Providence, Rhode Island, was crossing the Kilbourn Avenue Bridge in downtown Milwaukee on Aug. 15. Richard Dujardin was about halfway across when a remote operator with two camera views of the structure opened it to allow boat traffic to pass. Dujardin fell about 70 feet to the pavement below and died.
Prosecutors in the case of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are calling for an investigation after a juror said she felt threatened by another member of the jury during deliberations that ended Thursday with a life sentence for Cruz. The motion calls for law enforcement to investigate after the unnamed juror told the state attorney’s office “she perceived to be a threat from a fellow juror while in the jury room.” A hearing is set for Friday afternoon on the motion. A divided jury spared Cruz of the death penalty and instead decided to send him to prison for the rest of his life in a decision that left many families of the victims angered, baffled and in tears.
CHICAGO — AT&T Illinois has agreed to pay a $23 million fine as part of a federal criminal investigation into the company’s illegal efforts to influence former House Speaker Michael Madigan.
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Hall of Fame reliever and 1979 Cy Young winner Bruce Sutter has died. He was 69. Major League Baseball and the St. Louis Cardinals announced Sutter’s death on Friday but did not provide the cause of death or where he died. The Baseball Hall of Fame said Sutter died Thursday in Cartersville, Georgia. Sutter is considered one of the first pitchers to throw a split-finger fastball. He played 12 seasons in the major leagues, was a six-time All-Star and ended up with 300 saves over his career. He debuted with the Chicago Cubs in 1976. Sutter won a World Series in 1982 with the St. Louis Cardinals. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
LOS ANGELES — The recent leak of a recording that exposed some of Los Angeles' top officials making abhorrent racist comments, disparaging multiple racial and ethnic groups, has rocked the City of Angels.
Brooks Koepka has taken a two-shot lead at the LIV Golf Invitational-Jeddah after an 8-under 62 in the first round. The American made eight birdies during an error-free round at the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in King Abdullah Economic City. The former top-ranked player is trailed by Charl Schwartzel at 6 under. Hideto Tanihara, Peter Uihlein and Patrick Reed are a further stroke back.
A state appeals panel has ruled that public housing agencies in Tennessee can no longer include provisions in their leases that bar tenants from having guns in their homes. A three-judge panel of the Tennessee Court of Appeals made the decision unanimously Thursday, saying that the prohibitions violate the 2nd Amendment rights of public housing residents. The Tennessee decision could set up an appeal to the state Supreme Court. The ruling reasoned that public housing is not similar to other types of “sensitive” government buildings where guns can be banned, including statehouses, polling places and courthouses.
LOS ANGELES — Unlike state lawmakers and Los Angeles County supervisors, members of the L.A. City Council have the power to draw the lines for the districts they represent. It's a power to decide not just which voters they will represent, but also which businesses, institutions, parks and ot…
A senior U.S. officials says the Defense Department has gotten a request from SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk to take over funding for his satellite network that has provided crucial battlefield communications for Ukrainian military forces during the war with Russia. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter not yet made public, said the issue has been discussed in meetings and senior leaders are weighing the matter. There have been no decisions. Musk’s Starlink system of more than 2,200 low-orbiting satellites has provided broadband internet to more than 150,000 Ukrainian ground stations. Early Friday, Musk tweeted that it was costing SpaceX $20 million a month to support Ukraine’s communications needs.
An American prostitute who is maybe also a journalist is stuck in South America where she encounters an Englishman who is sexy but shady and they drink lots of rum and have plenty of sex in "Stars at Noon," a kind of formless drama that refuses to go anywhere satisfying or interesting and is…
LOS ANGELES — Nearly 20 minutes into the secretly recorded conversation that would cost Nury Martinez her L.A. City Council seat, she remarked to fellow Councilmember Kevin de León that it was recently his anniversary. Seven years ago, he had been sworn in as the leader of the California Senate.
Drive around Chicago enough and you’ll likely catch sight of a video billboard flashing momentarily on “Till.” Its image of the actors playing Emmett Till and, more prominently and in color, Mamie Till-Mobley, hang in place for a few seconds before being replaced by something else.
Tropical Storm Karl is inching toward Mexico’s coast Friday morning and could lose its tropical storm status before landfall. Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center is monitoring a new threat in the eastern Atlantic.
CHICAGO — Now in theaters, “Till” is the story of a mother, a mother’s son and the horrific 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till, who was visiting relatives in Mississippi at the time of his murder.
At first glance — and it rewards several glances — "Decision to Leave" seems to tell the story of a police detective and the beautiful woman who upends his dull, well-ordered existence. It's a tale of impossible longing, the kind that can undo a marriage, ruin a career and send ordinary peop…
The 15-year-old suspect accused of gunning down seven people — killing five of them — in North Carolina’s capital city Thursday evening was taken into custody with life threatening injuries, according to authorities.
LOS ANGELES — Danielle Deadwyler vividly recalls what went through her mind when she learned that she had landed the lead role in "Till," a new film centered on civil rights advocate Mamie Till-Mobley and her fight for justice following the brutal slaying of her son Emmett Till in the Jim Cr…
Graham Nash is postponing all 11 remaining performances on his fall tour, including his Saturday show at Humphreys Concerts by the Bay in San Diego. A statement released Thursday night on his social media pages cited COVID-19 as the reason.
LOS ANGELES — Sorry, Los Angeles. Looks like Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band won't be coming to the Greek Theatre on Sunday, after all.
Deontay Wilder still has big plans in boxing but needs to accomplish them quickly. The former heavyweight champion turns 37 next week and says he only intends to fight three more years. He tries to start his climb back toward the top on Saturday in Brooklyn against Robert Helenius. It's Wilder's first fight since getting stopped twice by Tyson Fury for the only losses of his career. A victory could put Wilder right back into the mix to get another shot at a belt.
Democratic state Sen. Jen Jordan is leading with her advocacy of abortion rights as she challenges incumbent Republican Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr. The two candidates also disagree over who would best protect Georgians from crime and the best approach to protect consumers and encourage businesses. Jordan says she would support those challenging Georgia’s six-week abortion ban on state constitutional grounds. Carr says it would be a dereliction of duty if the state's attorney general refused to defend its laws. Carr has focused on talking about his office’s newfound powers to prosecute gang members. Jordan says Carr has a lax approach to consumer protection.
Boston Marathon winner Diana Kipyokei has been suspended after testing positive for doping at the 2021 race she won. She's also suspected of obstructing an investigation. Track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said Kipyokei’s sample after winning in Boston in October last year had traces of triamcinolone acetonide. It is a glucocorticoid prohibited at races when an athlete does not have permission to use it as a medication. The AIU says 10 Kenyans have tested positive for triamcinolone since the start of 2021. The 28-year-old Kipyokei faces a four-year ban and disqualification from the Boston win.
A French and a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization have filed a complaint for alleged “complicity in war crimes” against TotalEnergies. They accuse the French oil giant of having operated a gas field that allegedly makes kerosene used by Russian warplanes in Ukraine. TotalEnergies denied producing kerosene for the Russian military. The Paris counterterrorism prosecutor’s office confirmed on Friday that it formally received the complaint and is going to examine it. In a statement, TotalEnergies denounced “outrageous and defamatory” accusations which “are an insult to the integrity of our teams and go against our values.” The director of Ukrainian NGO Razom We Stand, Svitlana Romanko, said “we are very determined to hold Total accountable.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says his country wants to strengthen ties to Mongolia, citing the country’s wealth of key commodities such as copper and rare earth metals. Speaking after a meeting in Berlin Friday with Mongolia's prime minister, he said the two leaders had agreed to “deepen and also expand cooperation between our two countries.” Scholz said combating climate change and transforming the energy sectors would be the focus of a meeting in Mongolia next year, adding that the country has “enormous potential when it comes to wind and solar power.” Germany, meanwhile, is keen to strike deals to import more commodities from the landlocked Asian nation, thereby reducing its reliance on countries such as Russia and China.
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker will meet Friday night for their only debate in Georgia’s marquee Senate contest. The 60-minute session comes just days before in-person early voting begins and after reports that Walker paid for a girlfriend to have an abortion in 2009 before later fathering a child with her. Additionally, the matchup could force both men to answer other attacks — personal and political — that have flooded voters’ television screens and social media feeds for months. The outcome of their race will help determine which party controls the U.S. Senate for the final two years of President Joe Biden’s term.
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CHICAGO — Haddonfield, Illinois, does not exist.
The Cleveland Police Department will continue to be overseen by a federal monitor for at least two more years. U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver decided Thursday to extend the consent decree the city has been under since 2015, rejecting Cleveland’s attempt to end it. Citing the latest semiannual report issued by the independent monitoring team and other information, Oliver said it's clear the city has made substantial progress but “has not yet achieved substantial and effective compliance at this time.” The city and the U.S. Justice Department reached an agreement on reforms in late 2014 after a Justice Department investigation found Cleveland officers had engaged in a pattern or practice of using excessive force and violating people’s civil rights.
The European Union’s energy commissioner says natural gas from undersea deposits in the eastern Mediterranean can help replace Russia’s supply of the fossil fuel to Europe at an “accelerated pace.” Commissioner Kadri Simson told a conference in the Cypriot capital on Friday that the region can play an increasingly important role as a short- to medium-term supplier of gas either in liquefied form or through pipelines to EU markets. She pointed to a June deal for Israel to send more gas to EU countries through Egypt. The EU has been successful in recent months in weaning itself off Russian gas, which from as much as 40% of its supply now amounts to less than 10%, said Simson.
UnitedHealth trumped third-quarter expectations and hiked its 2022 forecast again as one of the largest U.S. health insurance providers moved deeper into delivering care. The health care giant said Friday that it booked 17% revenue growth from its Optum segment, which runs doctors offices and clinics as well as one of the country’s biggest pharmacy benefit management operations. That helped UnitedHealth’s bottom line soar nearly 29% to $5.26 billion in the quarter. Total revenue grew about 12% to $80.89 billion. The company's total health insurance enrollment grew 2% compared to last year on gains in Medicaid and Medicare Advantage coverage.