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It’s-a-hit: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ box office blasts off with $372.5 million globally

Mixed reviews didn’t dissuade mass audiences from buying tickets to the “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” which scored the biggest opening of the year for a Hollywood movie. The Illumination and Nintendo co-production earned $130.9 million over the weekend and a massive $190.1 million in its first five days in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. Universal Pictures released the sequel globally on Wednesday, capitalizing on kids’ spring break vacations in the week leading up to the Easter holiday. With an estimated $182.4 million from

Backpacks full of explosives found near Serbia-Hungary gas pipeline, leaders say

Inside the mission to recover a downed American airman

Plus-size fashionistas worry GLP1-s will make it even harder for them to shop

Buying clothes has always been challenging for Ann Lindsay.As a plus-sized 41-year-old, she finds many stores’ plus-size offerings too matronly or too expensive.Lately, it’s gotten worse: Last month, she noticed that her local Target in Chicago removed plus sizes entirely. There were significantly fewer options online, too.In the pre-Covid era, big box retailers pushed inclusive sizing with fanfare. (“Whatever the tag says, you’re always a size YES to us,” Old Navy proclaimed in a massive campaign in 2018.)But now plus-size shoppers say inclusive sizing is dwindling, as the rise of G

As the Iran war drags on, Israeli solidarity comes under strain

Missing service member rescued by US forces after jet downed in Iran, Trump announces

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Pope Leo urges those who ‘unleash wars’ to choose peace in his first Easter message

Pope Leo XIV called for dialogue and for those with the power to unleash wars to choose peace, in his first Easter Sunday message since becoming the head of the Catholic Church last year.Speaking from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Leo said: “Let us abandon every desire for conflict, domination and power, and implore the Lord to grant his peace to a world ravaged by wars and marked by a hatred and indifference that make us feel powerless in the face of evil.”“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace impo

Secret Service investigates reports of gunfire near Lafayette Park across from the White House

How Graham Platner is using trivia games and happy hours to help power his Maine Senate campaign

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Bondi struggled to prosecute Trump foes. But will a new attorney general make a difference?

Pam Bondi is out of her job after failing to deliver criminal cases against President Donald Trump's political enemies. But there's no guarantee her successor will have any better success at placating the president. Over the last year, Bondi's Justice Department has encountered resistance from judges, grand jurors and its own workforce in trying to establish criminal conduct by one Trump foe after another. A new attorney general will confront not only Trump's demand for political prosecutions — a constant dating back to his first term in the White House — but

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‘This is a recalibration’: Trump Cabinet worries no one is safe after Bondi and Noem firings

When President Donald Trump ousted his attorney general, Pam Bondi, it sent a clear message to his remaining Cabinet members: The job security they’ve enjoyed until now is no longer guaranteed.Trump has grown increasingly willing to fire top officials who he believes are underperforming, amid deepening frustration with his declining approval ratings and fears of a wipeout in the November midterm elections, a half-dozen sources familiar with the matter told CNN.The president announced he was removing then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in March following months of damaging headlines

Trump’s DOJ tells Trump he can hold onto government docs when he leaves office, contrary to Watergate-era law

Crews battle fast-growing wildfire in windy Southern California that's forced some to evacuate

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How Pam Bondi lost her job

On the short drive from the White House to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Pam Bondi was informed by the president that she was being removed as attorney general.But for 24 hours, Bondi acted the part.She emerged from the car smiling and sat next to Donald Trump during the oral arguments on birthright citizenship. Later, she met with a senior prosecutor from Florida to push for charges against one of Trump’s political enemies, and she attended the president’s address to the nation that evening.Aides insisted that it was “business as usual.”By mid-Thursday, when news of her ouster had l

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Trump wants $152 million to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a secure prison

President Donald Trump is seeking $152 million to cover the first year of costs to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison as a secure facility.The funds, requested as part of the White House’s budget blueprint, would be part of a $1.7 billion proposed boost to the Federal Bureau of Prisons to improve pay and working conditions in hopes of ending a longstanding correctional officer shortage.The White House released the budget proposal on Friday. It amounts to a funding wish list that is rarely enacted in full by Congress, but it provides insight into an administration’s priorities.Now a major

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans an April rally to mark his first 100 days in office

Why Justice Alito was taken to a hospital last month

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3 killed as high winds topple a tree on an Easter egg hunt in Germany

Three people, including a 10-month-old girl, were killed Sunday when high winds toppled a tree in northern Germany during an Easter egg hunt, police said. Around 50 people from a nearby residential facility for new mothers, pregnant women and children were attending the event in woods near the town of Satrupholm at about 11 a.m. when a 30-meter (100-foot) tree fell on the group, police said in a statement. Four people were pinned under the tree. A 21-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl were treated by first responders but died at the scene, while the woman's 10

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Some countries are reducing paths to citizenship. This one’s opening up

In travel news this week: India’s enormous new airport, countries’ shifting citizenship rules and, as gas and jet fuel prices skyrocket, airline prices are on the rise.Paths to citizenshipWhile some countries are reducing pathways to citizenship, others are opening up.President Donald Trump’s push to end automatic birthright citizenship in the United States was met by a skeptical Supreme Court on Wednesday, with justices raising tough questions about the arguments put forward. “This was a blowout of the sort we don’t see very often,” said CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams. Watch he

More than a dozen injured after vehicle hits parade-goers during Louisiana celebration

What we do — and don’t — know about the operation to rescue the US airman

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UConn keeps proving it just knows how to win in big games. A shot at a third title in four years comes on Monday

Minutes after UConn gutted out its 71-62 national semifinal win over Illinois, a panicked staffer came running out of the locker room.“We need a bracket sticker!” he yelled as he peeled around the corner.Of all places you’d think would be ready-made with a sticker to slap on the NCAA tournament bracket, it would be UConn. On Monday, the Huskies will play for their national title in four years, a feat that hasn’t been matched since John Wooden was wizarding his way around Westwood. It is an accomplishment all the more improbable, considering all of the things in college athletics now de

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Hawaii doctor’s testimony in his attempted murder trial makes this a case of ‘she said, he said’

The Hawaii doctor and his wife stood on the precipice one March morning last year.It was her 36th birthday and they were on a picturesque hike on Oahu, in the midst of navigating a rocky patch in their marriage after she admitted an “emotional” affair.She didn’t want to continue on the trail, along the edge of a treacherous cliff. He did. What happened from there landed them in a Honolulu courtroom, the husband charged with attempted murder.Arielle Konig, a nuclear engineer, told the jury her husband, Dr. Gerhardt Konig, an anesthesiologist, pushed her toward a cliff edge, tried to injec