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‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ nets $80M in opening

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:06:01 GMT

NEW YORK — After a globe-trotting publicity blitz by star Tom Cruise, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” launched with a franchise-best $80 million over five days, though it came in shy of industry expectations with a $56.2 million haul over the three-day weekend, according to studio estimates.The Paramount Pictures debut was boosted by strong overseas sales of $155 million from 70 markets. But while a $235 million worldwide launch marked one of the best global openings of the year, “Dead Reckoning” couldn’t approach the high-speed velocity of last summer’s top film, “Top Gun: Maverick.”“Dead Reckoning Part One,” the seventh film in the 27-year-old series, had been forecast to better the franchise high of the previous installment, “Fallout,” which opened with $61 million domestically in 2018. Instead, it also fell short of the $57.8 million “Mission: Impossible II” debuted with in 2000.T...

Ticker: Advertising on Twitter has dropped, Musk; UPS  training managers in case of strike

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:06:01 GMT

Elon Musk says Twitter is still losing cash because advertising has dropped by half.In a reply to a tweet offering business advice, Musk tweeted, “We’re still negative cash flow, due to (about a) 50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load.”“Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else,” he concluded over the weekend.Ever since he took over Twitter in a $44 billion deal last fall, Musk has tried to reassure advertisers who were concerned about the ouster of top executives, widespread layoffs and a different approach to content moderation. Some high-profile users who had been banned were allowed back on the site.Twitter got a new competitor this month when Facebook owner Meta launched a text-focused app, Threads, and gained tens of millions of sign-ups in a few days. Twitter responded by threatening legal action.UPS  training managers in case of strikeUPS said it has started “business continuity“ training for manag...

Tornado watch issued for most of Massachusetts, flash-flood warning until 5:30

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:06:01 GMT

Keep your eyes to the sky today!An “atmospheric river” first brought the state a tornado warning today — one at 9:15 a.m. again at 10:30 a.m. — and a tornado watch for most of Massachusetts until 3 p.m. and a flash-flood warning until 5:30 p.m.Today’s tornado watch (NWS)According to the National Weather Service, all of Connecticut and sections of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and southern Maine fall under that watch. The rain has now moved into Suffolk County.The rest of Massachusetts and Vermont — basically the whole northeast — is under a thunderstorm and flood watch on and off into tomorrow. That’s a mix of “torrential rainfall,” hail, wind suddenly gusting and driving that could be perilous.That unyielding atmospheric river is moving northeast with western Mass, Vermont and New Hampshire in for more misery. (Now it has triggered another tornado warning for the Fitchburg area until 10:30 a.m.)Related ArticlesCrime & P...

CP NewsAlert: 17th victim dies from June bus crash in Manitoba

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:06:01 GMT

RCMP in Manitoba say a 17th victim, a 79-year-old woman, has died in hospital from injuries sustained in a bus crash last month in Manitoba.Seniors were on a minibus taking a trip to a casino in Carberry in southwestern Manitoba on June 15 when the bus drove into the path of a semi-trailer truck on the Trans-Canada Highway.More coming.The Canadian Press

California’s Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:06:01 GMT

Long the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley put a sizzling exclamation point Sunday on a record warm summer that is baking nearly the entire globe by flirting with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, meteorologists said.Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, were forecast to reach 128 degrees (53.33 degrees Celsius) on Sunday at the aptly named Furnace Creek, the National Weather Service said. The hottest temperature ever record was 134 degrees (56.67 degrees Celsius) in July 1913 at Furnace Creek, said Randy Ceverny of the World Meteorological Organization, the body recognized as keeper of world records. Temperatures at or above 130 degrees (54.44 degrees Celsius) have only been recorded on Earth a handful of times, mostly in Death Valley.“With global warming, such temperatures are becoming more and more likely to occur,” Ceverny, the World Meteorological Organization’s records coordinator, said in an emai...

Editorial cartoonists’ firings point to steady decline of opinion pages in newspapers

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:06:01 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Even during a year of sobering economic news for media companies, the layoffs of three Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists on a single day hit like a gut punch.The firings of the cartoonists employed by the McClatchy newspaper chain last week were a stark reminder of how an influential art form is dying, part of a general trend away from opinion content in the struggling print industry.Losing their jobs were Jack Ohman of California’s Sacramento Bee, also president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists; Joel Pett of the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky and Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. Ohman and Siers were full-time staffers, while Pett worked on a free-lance contract. The firings on Tuesday were first reported by The Daily Cartoonist blog.“I had no warning at all,” Ohman told The Associated Press. “I was stupefied.”McClatchy, which owns 30 U.S. newspapers, said it would no longer publish editorial cartoons....

CP NewsAlert: firefighter in NWT dies battling wildfire near home community

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:06:01 GMT

FORT LIARD, N.W.T. — A firefighter has died while battling a wildfire near his home community in the Northwest Territories.The territorial government issued a statement saying the firefighter from Fort Liard died from an injury sustained while battling a nearby blaze on Saturday afternoon.Wildfire Information Officer Jessica Davey-Quantick says the firefighter was involved in combatting a fire that started July 7 and is currently about 11 kilometres southwest of Fort Liard.More coming.The Canadian Press

3 people injured, another arrested in West Hill shooting

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:06:01 GMT

Three people have been injured and a suspect has been taken into custody after a shooting in West Hill.Police were called to Morningside Avenue and Danzig Street at 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon for reports of a shooting.Paramedics tell CityNews three adult victims suffering from gunshot wounds are being taken to hospital in serious, non-life-threatening condition. Two of the victims are men and the other victim’s gender is unknown.Residents in the area should expect a significant police presence.More to come

European Union and Tunisia announce progress in building economic and trade ties, and on migration

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:06:01 GMT

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — European leaders and Tunisia’s president announced progress on Sunday in the building of hoped-for closer economic and trade relations and on measures to combat the often lethal smuggling of migrants across the Mediterranean Sea. The leaders of Italy, the Netherlands and the European Commission made their second visit to Tunis in just over a month. They expressed hope that a memorandum newly signed with Tunisia during the trip would pave the way for a comprehensive partnership.On their last visit in June, the leaders held out the promise of more than 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in financial aid to rescue Tunisia’s teetering economy and better police its borders, in an effort to restore stability to the North African country and to stem migration from its shores to Europe.This time, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte didn’t detail the full monetary value of E...

Death toll from Manitoba bus crash rises to 17

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:06:01 GMT

The death toll from last month’s fatal bus crash in western Manitoba has risen to 17 after a woman who was in critical condition died of her injuries in hospital Sunday.Manitoba RCMP confirmed the 79-year-old woman’s death in a brief update. Seven patients remain in hospital.A minibus was carrying a group of seniors from Dauphin, Man., and the surrounding area to a casino on June 15 when it went into the path of an oncoming semi-trailer truck. Twenty-five people were on the bus.LATEST ON MANITOBA BUS CRASH:Winnipeg charter operator says more regulations needed in wake of Carberry crashForensic mechanical analysis will be ‘very extensive’ for Manitoba crash: ExpertRCMP release names of those killed in Carberry crashThe crash happened on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry, west of Winnipeg.