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U18 B.C. hockey player didn’t let a scorpion sting cost his team the final

Judge rules against lawmakers pressing for monitor to ensure release of Epstein files

Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges
It leaves in place a ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment.

Supreme Court seems inclined to keep Lisa Cook on Fed board despite Trump attempt to fire her

Kurtenbach: Empty calories, thunderous dunks — the Warriors, Kuminga embrace the art of losing

After Minneapolis, Democrats confront political vulnerabilities to battle Trump on immigration
The party is divided on how to respond to the murder of Renee Good.

Trump’s list of targeted opponents grows longer with action against Minnesota’s governor
Here’s a look at how Trump’s government has pursued his opponents, real and perceived.

Return to Silent Hill review – video game horror series births another middling movie
Director Christopher Gans returns to the haunted town franchise but can’t seem to figure out what to do with itThere’s an admirable loyalty, maybe even poetry, in a film-maker returning to an unpromising, barely there movie series 20 years after his first crack became a minor hit. The horror film Silent Hill, based on a video game of the same name, has garnered a cult following in the decades since its 2006 release, but it’s not exactly a genre classic nor beloved franchise, with a single little-seen 2012 sequel to its name – until now. Return to Silent Hill brings back the first film’s director, Christopher Gans, for a new story set in the same ash-strewn ghost town, this one based on the Silent Hill 2 video game. Characters in these movies tend to wander into a place that is obviously haunted or cursed, refusing to leave even after it becomes clear that they should, and only decide to escape after it’s too late. Maybe Gans can relate.Or maybe he’s the only man for the job because no one else will take it. That could almost describe James (Jeremy Irvine), the hapless protagonist of Return to Silent Hill. After a chance traffic-accident meeting with Mary (Hannah Emily Anderson) that unconvincingly thwarts her attempt to leave home, the two fall in love, and after a time James even moves to Mary’s oddball town; as a painter, he can go anywhere (though if there’s a reason that Mary couldn’t leave, given that she was already ready to hop a bus when they meet, I missed it). Despite the movie skipping over what makes them so instantly compatible, James is all in; someone has to be. Continue reading...

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