Author: Grace Thompson

Over the holiday weekend, The Walt Disney Company maintained its dominance at the box office. After Pixar's Inside Out 2 and Marvel Studios' Deadpool and Wolverine, Moana 2 became the studio's third 2024 film to surpass the coveted $1 billion mark over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.Last year, no film from any other Hollywood company made over $1 billion. Over the weekend, the business announced that Moana 2 had made $442.8 million at the domestic box office and $567.1 million in overseas markets. Along with Frozen, Frozen II, and Zootopia, it is the fourth Walt Disney Animation production to sell over $1 billion in tickets. Disney, which had trouble gaining popularity with its animated productions in the years following the epidemic, now has another feather in its head thanks to t...

Washington In an unusual decision on Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a death row inmate, allowing an Oklahoma woman convicted of killing her estranged husband to argue that prosecutors improperly brought up her sexual history during the trial. With a 7-2 vote, the court allowed Brenda Andrew to contest her conviction and death sentence. In Oklahoma, she is the only female inmate on death row. The court decided that an appeals court erred in concluding that Andrew's argument that the emphasis on her personal life, particularly how she treated her children, violated her due process rights could not proceed. "Forbids the introduction of evidence so unduly prejudicial as to render a criminal trial fundamentally unfair," the Supreme Court stated in an unsigned ruling, citing the ...

The PresidentAccording to NBC News Peter Alexander and CNBC's Eamon Javers, Donald Trump will announce a joint venture with OpenAI and Oraclean Softbank on Tuesday to spend billions of dollars in AI infrastructure in the US. According to people familiar with the idea, Trump, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, and executives from Oracle and OpenAI will reveal the initiative, known as Stargate, at the White House. CBS News, which originally reported on the anticipated announcement, states that the businesses are likely to invest an initial $100 billion and up to $500 billion in the project over the next four years. According to CBS, Stargate's first joint venture will be a datacenter located in Texas. More from CNBC David Einhorn says we have reached the Fartcoin stage of the market cycl...

At some point, we've all found ourselves having trouble pronouncing the letters E-A-G-L-E-S during an unplanned Eagles chant. Simply said, it wasn't captured on camera. In the hours leading up to the Philadelphia Eagles' win over the Los Angeles Rams in the snowy playoffs, Mayor Cherelle Parker had her chance to muck up the chant during a news conference about weather preparations. Read more from NBC Philadelphia Judge rules NJ teacher accused of having baby with boy can be released Caught on camera: Neighbor steps in to help man during bear attack in Jim Thorpe Eagles' 1st thoughts on facing Jayden Daniels and Commanders again The first-term Democrat declared, "Listen, we have to do this," as he stood outside with municipal officials after deciding th...

The bishop presiding over Tuesday's formal inaugural prayer session called on President Donald Trump to "have mercy" on his citizens, mentioning immigrants and members of the LGBTQ community in particular. The Washington National Cathedral hosted a larger interfaith service following Inauguration Day, which included Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's address. As is customary for presidents of both parties, Trump attended the service sitting in the front row with first lady Melania Trump, vice president JD Vance, and second lady Usha Vance. Looking straight at the president, Budde stated, "In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now." Democratic, Republican, and independent households all have children that are homosexual, lesbian, or transge...

The use of unclaimed bodies for medical study is examined in the series Dealing the Dead, which includes this article. Four months after an NBC News investigation revealed that the University of North Texas Health Science Center had neglected to notify families prior to utilizing their loved ones' corpses for medical research, the center's president is resigning. The University of North Texas System Board of Regents announced Monday that Sylvia Trent-Adams' resignation had been accepted. The three-paragraph statement, which commended Trent-Adams' commitment, moral character, and decency, omitted any reference to NBC News coverage or provided an explanation for her resignation. Messages requesting comment from Trent-Adams and a Health Science Center spokesman were not answered. The first pa...

The Band's outstanding keyboardist and all-around musician, Garth Hudson, has away at the age of 87. He used a wide range of sounds and textures to give rock classics like "Up on Cripple Creek," "The Weight," and "Rage Mama Rag" a conversational touch. Hudson was the oldest and final survivor of the powerful band that had previously supported Bob Dylan. The Canadian Press announced his death on Tuesday, citing Jan Haust, a friend of Hudson's. There were no immediate details provided. Hudson had been residing in an upstate New York nursing home. Hudson, a self-taught Greek chorus and classically trained performer, was a rustic figure with a wide forehead and a long beard. He used horns, piano, synthesizers, and his favorite Lowrey organ to communicate. Whether it was the sultry saxophone on...