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“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is officially the first film of the year to cross the coveted $1 billion milestone at the global box office. As of Sunday, after 26 days of release, the animated video game adaptation, from Universal, Illumination and Nintendo, has grossed $490 million in North America and $532 million internationallly. It’s only the fifth movie of pandemic times to join the $1 billion club, following “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Jurassic World Dominion” and “Avatar: The Way of Water.

August 1, 2024 8:12 AM EDT Khai Diep, a wealthy Vietnamese American accountant, worries that being on the autism spectrum makes him incapable of feeling true affection. To help dissuade him of this notion, his matchmaker mom recruits Esme Tran, a mixed-race Vietnamese janitor looking for a better life, to stay with Khai for the summer with the intention that they’ll end up married. The latter is an important detail to which her son is not exactly privy.

Amid questions about whether the U.S. has enough medical supplies to confront the spread of COVID-19, the Strategic National Stockpile — the nation’s emergency pharmacy and medical supplies stash — is further stocking up, recently ordering 500 million N95 respirator masks. If that news is starting to sound like something out of science fiction to you, well, you wouldn’t be far off. As Ali S. Khan, a former head of the agency that oversees the stockpile, points out to TIME, it was a novel about a virus that, two decades ago, helped guide President Bill Clinton’s thinking about how prepared the U.

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November 1, 2013 9:00 AM EDT That white females, usually young, are the victims of choice among the killers and monsters that stalk the innocent in horror movies should come as absolutely no surprise to fans of the genre. In fact, it’s been confirmed in data compiled in an conducted by the Huffington Post. By looking at a random sampling of 25 horror films — including the Scream movies, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Jaws, Friday The 13th, and The Exorcist, but not Halloween — we now know that in 52 percent of on-screen slayings, it’s a white female who dies first.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Even as Democrats on Monday gave President Joe Biden the warmest appreciation of his five-decade career and celebrated his decision to forego re-nomination, the sepia-hued nostalgia betrayed the not-so-subtle gnashing of the party’s rank-and-file. The sentiment in Chicago was clear: Democrats are ready for a new raft of leaders.

On May 26, 2022, Joe Garcia died suddenly of a heart attack just two days after his wife, Irma, was killed in the Uvalde, Texas school shooting. The papers reported a Garcia’s family member saying, “I truly believe Joe died of a broken heart.” As a cardiac scientist working in this field, I am regularly asked to comment on tragic cases like these. Sometimes they are celebrities such as Debbie Reynolds, who died soon after her daughter, Carrie Fisher.

This weekend, the much-anticipated movie adaptation of the New York Times bestseller Gone Girl hits theaters, and though the thriller is fictional, it turns out there may be a kernel of truth at the heart of the story: author Gillian Flynn said in a 2012 interview with Entertainment Weekly that, though she didn’t base the novel on any true-crime tale, she did see a parallel between her story and the Laci and Scott Peterson case.

Stefan Lumiere was found guilty earlier this year Lumiere is the ex-brother in law of Visium's founder, Jake Gottlieb, a physician who founded the firm, which became known for investing in healthcare stocks. ADVERTISEMENT At its peak, Visium managed $8 billion, and its shuttering marked one of the most notable insider trading cases in recent years. Sanjay Valvani, a star fund manager overseeing the firm's flagship healthcare fund, committed suicide last year days after he was accused of insider trading.