Sony Pictures’ “Across the Spider-Verse,” the multi-verse spinning animated Spider-Man spinoff, sailed way past expectations, according to studio estimates Sunday, riding terrific reviews.
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U.S.-China handshake fails to stem Asia’s fear of another Ukraine
The back-and-forth between the U.S. and China at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue was always expected to be fraught, particularly after President Biden’s administration declined to remove sanctions placed on Li in 2018 over his role in purchasing a Russian missile defense system.
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Woman, toddler fatally shot, father found dead near river bank in New Hampshire
The man, Jamie Bell, 42, was seen fleeing a home in Franklin on Saturday afternoon, Assistant Attorney General Adam Woods said.
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Ukraine says inspections found nearly a quarter of its air-raid shelters locked or unusable
The Ukrainian interior ministry said through its press service Saturday that of the ‘over 4,800’ shelters it had inspected, 252 were locked and a further 893 ‘unfit for use.’
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3 Israeli soldiers, Egyptian officer killed in gunbattle at the border
Israel and Egypt have been at peace for over 40 years and have strong security cooperation. Fighting between the sides is extremely rare.
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Key suspect in Natalee Holloway’s case moved to new prison ahead of extradition to U.S.
The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is being transferred to a prison near Peru’s capital ahead of his pending extradition to the United States to face charges linked to her vanishing
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U.S. defense secretary says Washington won’t stand for ‘coercion and bullying’ from China
The U.S. has been expanding its activities around the Indo-Pacific to counter sweeping territorial claims from China, including regularly sailing through and flying over the Taiwan Strait and in the South China Sea.
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Biden signs debt ceiling bill that pulls U.S. back from brink of unprecedented default
The bipartisan measure, passed by the House Wednesday and the Senate Thursday, averts the potential of an unprecedented government default that would have rocked the U.S. and global economies.
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Chickadee soon may become endangered on Maine license plates
Lawmakers heard testimony Wednesday on a bill to replace the chickadee plates with a version of the 1901 Maine flag that features a navy blue star and green pine tree.
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Health insurer hack means questions but still few answers for Mainers
A cyberattack discovered in April could affect 79,000 state residents with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care coverage. But there’s little information about the information at risk.