Weekend box office silent without ‘Dune: Part 2’
Universal and Blumhouse’s video game adaptation “Five Nights at Freddy’s” topped the North American box office in its second weekend, studio estimates revealed Sunday. “Taylor Swift: The Elus Tour” came in second place. This weekend saw a number of high-profile releases or expanded releases, including Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” and Meg Ryan’s “What Happens Later.” But overall, it’s also one of the slowest weekends of the year. Before the SAG-AFTRA strike, Dune: Part 2 was scheduled to be released this weekend. Warner Bros. and Legendary delayed its release to March 2024 when no other blockbuster came along to take its spot.
Skeleton marching band and dancers in butterfly skirts participate in Mexico City’s Day of the Dead parade
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thousands of people gathered to watch Mexico City’s Day of the Dead parade. On Saturday, costumed dancers, drummers and floats brought revelry down the city’s Paseo de la Reforma Boulevard to the historic colonial main square. A marching band disguised as skeletons and dancers with skeleton face paint performed in indigenous costumes. The scent of traditional resin copal incense wafted throughout the parade. A skeletal drum group pounded out a samba-style beat, and dancers blocks away twirled long skirts painted to resemble monarch butterfly wings. Monarch butterflies traditionally return to winter in Mexico around the Day of the Dead.
Big Weekend: Rich Eisen looks back on NFL Network’s 20th anniversary and Sunday’s game between Chiefs and Dolphins
Rich Eisen has had many memorable moments during his long tenure at NFL Network. However, this weekend could be a difficult result to win. Saturday marks 20 years since NFL Network aired “Total Access” with Eisen anchoring him. On Sunday, Eisen will call one of the biggest games in the first nine weeks, when the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Miami Dolphins in Frankfurt, Germany.
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta CEO undergo knee surgery after being injured during martial arts training
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mark Zuckerberg’s latest martial arts sparring session sent him to the operating table. The Meta Platforms CEO and mixed martial arts enthusiast posted on social media on Friday that he tore one of his anterior cruciate ligaments (ACL) while training for a fight early next year. A photo he posted on Instagram shows the tech billionaire and Facebook founder lying in a hospital bed, his left knee raised high, bandaged and in a brace. There is a picture of him there. Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk made headlines this summer after the two appeared to agree to a fight, but the billionaire brawl didn’t happen.
Turn on red right?US cities consider bans as pedestrian deaths rise
CHICAGO (AP) — Drivers are generally allowed to make right turns on red lights in nearly every major U.S. city, but that may be changing. The dramatic increase in motor vehicle accidents that kill and injure pedestrians and cyclists has led to a myriad of policy and infrastructure changes. The debate over whether to ban the right to red aroused the most intense emotions on both sides. The Washington, D.C. City Council last year approved a red rights ban that goes into effect in 2025, and Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle are also considering it. Most cities in the United States have maintained right-on-red rules since a federal mandate in the 1970s intended to save energy by preventing cars from idling at traffic lights.
Tens of thousands of ancient coins have been discovered off the coast of Sardinia.It could be the spoils of a shipwreck.
ROME (AP) – A diver’s discovery of a metallic object not far from the coast of Sardinia has led to the discovery of tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins. Italy’s Culture Ministry said on Saturday that the diver had alerted authorities and a diver assigned to its art conservation unit was dispatched, along with other divers from the ministry’s underwater archeology division. Coins from the first half of the 4th century were discovered in seaweed. The location is not far from the northeast coast of the Mediterranean island. The ministry did not say exactly when the first diver glimpsed something metallic just off the Sardinian coastline. The exact number of coins recovered is not known as they are still being sorted.
A Norway spruce from West Virginia heads to the U.S. Congress as this year’s Christmas tree.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A 63-foot Norway spruce from West Virginia’s Allegheny Mountains is on its way to the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol as the 2023 Christmas tree. On Wednesday, snow fell on the crew. Trees selected for this holiday season are harvested in the Monongahela National Forest. This tree was chosen by Jim Kaufman, Capitol Grounds Director, for the architect of the Capitol. Over the next few days, the tree will be transported to several cities in West Virginia before arriving at the Capitol in Washington.
Leroy Stover, Birmingham’s first black police officer, dies at 90
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Leroy Stover, Birmingham’s first black police officer, has died. Birmingham police posted about Stover’s death on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday. The department said Stover’s accomplishments and his work with the Birmingham Police Department paved the way for other police departments to follow in his footsteps. Al.com reported that Stover passed away on Thursday at the age of 90. His cause of death has not been disclosed. Mr. Stover said he joined the force in March 1966 and was promoted to deputy chief. News outlets report that he retired in 1998 after 32 years of service. His funeral arrangements are pending.
Phoenix finds shelter for more than 500 people and completes clearing of downtown homeless camp
PHOENIX (AP) — The city of Phoenix helped more than 500 people find beds in shelters and motels, successfully clearing out a massive homeless encampment downtown by Saturday’s court-ordered deadline. The hundreds of tents that once lined the area’s streets for blocks are now gone, replaced by only a few people pushing shopping carts filled with belongings. At its largest, more than a year ago, as many as 1,000 people remained in jumbled temporary housing less than a mile from City Hall, even as summer temperatures soared into triple digits.
Arkansas man arrested for trying to break through gate at South Carolina nuclear power plant
WALHALLA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina authorities say an Arkansas man has been arrested on suspicion of trying to crash through an exit gate at a nuclear power plant in South Carolina. The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office announced that Doyle Wayne Whisenhunt, of Roxburg, Arkansas, was taken into custody Friday night at an abandoned house in Pickens County, South Carolina. He was transferred to the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office. Whisenhunt, 66, was charged with one count each of attempted murder, malicious injury to personal property and trespassing in a confined space in connection with Thursday night’s incident at the Oconee nuclear power plant.
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