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Lead Director Dan Trachtenberg’s live‑action follow‑up to 2022’s Prey reframes the Predator mythos by centering the story on a Yautja hunter rather than human prey. Predator: Badlands, which opens November 7, follows Dek (Dimitrius Schuster‑Koloamatangi) as he hunts the nearly indestructible Kalisk on the lethal planet Genna and is joined by a Weyland‑Yutani synthetic, Thia … Read more
Lead: On Nov. 4, 2025, the Senate again failed to advance a House-passed continuing resolution, marking a 14th unsuccessful procedural vote and leaving the federal government in a prolonged funding lapse. The collapse of the motion in a 54–44 tally keeps many agencies partially shuttered and raises immediate operational risks, including potential restrictions on parts … Read more
Lead: On 4 November 2025, a team led by Matthew Graham (Caltech) reported the most energetic flare yet recorded from a supermassive black hole, a burst that briefly emitted light equivalent to about 10 trillion suns. The transient originated from a black hole roughly 300 million times the mass of the Sun located about 11 … Read more
Jakobi Meyers has been traded from the Las Vegas Raiders to the Jacksonville Jaguars, a move reported on Tuesday by ESPN’s Adam Schefter ahead of the NFL trade deadline. The Raiders will reportedly receive a fourth- and a sixth-round draft pick in return. The deal follows a 30-29 Jaguars victory over Las Vegas in Week … Read more
Lead California Governor Gavin Newsom is poised to claim a politically significant victory on Proposition 50 after lawmakers placed a redistricting measure on the November 4, 2025 ballot. Prop 50 would suspend the state’s independent redistricting commission and let the legislature redraw congressional lines, a move designed to create five additional Democratic House seats. The … Read more
Lead Left-hander Shota Imanaga is set to become a free agent after the Chicago Cubs declined a club option and Imanaga turned down a $15 million player option for 2026, a decision confirmed by league sources on Nov. 4, 2025. The Cubs may extend a qualifying offer for 2026; if he rejects that and signs … Read more
Lead Former Vice President Dick Cheney, 84, died Monday night, his family said, after complications of pneumonia and long-standing cardiac and vascular disease. He was surrounded by his wife Lynne and daughters Liz and Mary when he passed. Cheney spent nearly four decades in Washington across roles as White House chief of staff, congressman, defense … Read more
Lead Actor Sydney Sweeney told GQ that the widely discussed American Eagle jeans ads earlier this year did not personally unsettle her, even as the campaign sparked national debate and drew comments from high-profile political figures. The ads — built around the tagline linking “great jeans” to a pun on “great genes” — prompted online … Read more
Scientists working in Mexico documented orca pods hunting juvenile great white sharks in the Gulf of California and removing their energy-dense livers. Drone and vessel cameras captured multiple events in August 2020 and August 2022, including one August 2020 incident where five female killer whales shared a shark liver. A study published in Frontiers in … Read more
U.S. equities slid in today’s trading session as the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped roughly 400 points while Palantir Technologies shares plunged after the company’s latest earnings release, prompting broad investor reappraisal of technology exposure. The move unfolded amid ongoing corporate results and mixed economic signals, with traders citing earnings reactions and guidance as immediate … Read more
Lead: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment on Nintendo Switch 2 delivers a canon Zelda prequel that blends high-octane musou combat with a story rooted in Hyrule’s early history. Captured on Switch 2 in both docked and handheld modes, the game targets a smooth 60fps in single-player and 30fps for two-player co-op. The developers at Koei … Read more
Polls in New York City are open from 6am to 9pm local time on election day; initial tallies begin shortly after closing and will trickle in overnight. Historical precedent from 2021 shows most ballots were reported before midnight, with the Associated Press declaring Eric Adams the winner around that hour. Aggregated polls from The New … Read more
Lead: Californians will vote on Proposition 50 on Tuesday in a high-stakes decision that could reshape congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterms. If approved, the measure would pause California’s independent redistricting commission and vest the state legislature with authority to redraw districts, a move proponents say could create five additional Democratic-held U.S. House seats. … Read more
Broadcaster Sinclair Media privately contacted Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, during the brief suspension of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel to ask whether an apology or other gestures might address the fallout. Erika disclosed the outreach in an excerpt of an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters that will air in full on Wednesday, … Read more
Lead Former vice president Dick Cheney, a central architect of the United States’ post-9/11 national security posture and a driving force behind the 2003 Iraq invasion, has died at 84, his family announced on November 4, 2025. Family members said he died of complications from pneumonia and longstanding cardiac and vascular disease, and that his … Read more
