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“The Last of Us” is an action-horror series as much as it is a drama, so this episode’s writer-director, Craig Mazin, does not let all the relationship complications run on too long before shifting to a few good scares. Ellie and Dina join a patrol, checking into the increased presence of the infected in the area. The mission leads them to a crumbling old grocery store, with a gutted bear and several dismembered corpses out front.We get a good taste of Ellie and Dina’s dynamic during their trip into the Wyoming wilds. They talk about their love lives, with Dina…

Teddi Mellencamp is remaining hopeful as she fights Stage 4 cancer despite doctors warning she has a 50% chance of survival.The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star was hospitalized with multiple brain tumors earlier this year. During a procedure to remove the masses, doctors found two additional tumors in her lungs. Mellencamp, 43, admitted that life expectancy rates for cancer patients has been on her mind while she’s undergoing immunotherapy for treatment.‘REAL HOUSEWIVES’ STAR TEDDI MELLENCAMP’S SCARY SYMPTOM THAT LED TO BRAIN CANCER DIAGNOSIS Teddi Mellencamp admitted doctors gave her “50/50” odds of surviving cancer. (Getty/Teddi Mellencamp Instagram)”I learned this isn’t…

Bitcoin could hit $250,000 as early as this year with technology giants such as Microsoft and Apple entering the cryptocurrency space, industry veteran and founder of the Cardano blockchain Charles Hoskinson told CNBC.Crypto markets have been hammered amid a sell-off of risk assets stoked by U.S. President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” on countries across the world. Bitcoin traded below the $77,000 mark on over the last week, but on Wednesday spiked above $82,000 as Trump dropped levies to 10% for 90 days for most countries to allow for trade negotiations.Sill, bitcoin has fallen far from its more than $100,000 record…

David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, testifies during a Senate Banking Committee hearing at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 6, 2023.Win Mcnamee | Getty ImagesGoldman Sachs is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings before the opening bell Monday.  Here’s what Wall Street expects:Earnings: $12.35 per share, according to LSEGRevenue: $14.81 billion, according to LSEGTrading Revenue: Fixed Income of $4.56 billion and Equities of $3.65 billion, per StreetAccountInvesting Banking Revenue: $1.94 billion, per StreetAccountGoldman Sachs may prove to be a beneficiary of the recent market environment.On Friday, rivals JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley each topped expectations for…

HOUSTON — An Astros fan was relocated to different seats after ripping a baseball out of Mike Trout’s glove on a foul ball that went into the first row of the right-field seats.The play was eerily reminiscent of the infamous foul ball incident during Game 4 of the 2024 World Series, when a New York Yankees fan took a ball from the glove of Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts.“I just didn’t know what was going on,” the Astros fan, Jared Whalen, told The Athletic from the Daikin Park concourse while flanked by security. “I didn’t realize it was…

Two West Aussies joined the millionaires club at the weekend — and they don’t even know it yet.No one has come forward to claim either $1.6 million prize in Saturday’s Lotto draw.The winning tickets were sold at Northam Central Newsagency and The Lucky Charm Pinjarra.It means there are now three outstanding Lotto jackpots to be claimed in WA, with a ticket bought at Warnbro News And Gifts scooping $1.2 million in last Saturday’s draw.“There are now three division one prizes, each worth more than $1 million, somewhere in WA and we are waiting to welcome the owners of these tickets…

HANOI: Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned on Monday (Apr 14) that protectionism “leads nowhere” and that a trade war would have “no winners”, state media said, as he was due to kick off a tour of Southeast Asia with a visit to Vietnam. Xi’s first overseas trip of the year will see him visit Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia as Beijing seeks to tighten regional trade ties and offset the impact of huge tariffs unleashed by his US counterpart Donald Trump. He will meet his three Southeast Asian counterparts on a tour that “bears major importance” for the broader region, Beijing has…

Rory McIlroy ended his long wait for a Masters title with a birdie on the opening hole of a sudden-death playoff to beat Justin Rose and claim the career Grand Slam after a nerve-racking final round. After missing a 5-foot par putt at the 18th in regulation that forced the playoff on Sunday, McIlroy made sure he did not let his latest chance at major glory slip away and returned to the same hole in the playoff, putting his approach 2 feet from the cup. When the winning putt dropped, McIlroy raised his arms towards the clear sky and let…

On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: U.S. trade representative Jamieson GreerNeel Kashkari, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of MinneapolisAnthony Salvanto, CBS News director of elections and surveys Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat of CaliforniaDr. Peter Marks, former head of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and ResearchClick here to browse full transcripts from 2025 of “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”   MARGARET BRENNAN: I’m Margaret Brennan in Washington.And this week on Face the Nation: President Trump’s multifront trade war whipsaws markets, and China fires back. What’s next, as the world’s two biggest economic powers clash?(Begin…

The Trump administration on Sunday evening doubled down on its assertion that a federal judge cannot force it to bring back to the United States a Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador last month.In a brief legal filing, the Justice Department reiterated its view that courts lack the ability to dictate steps that the White House should take in seeking to return the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to U.S. soil, because the president alone has broad powers to handle foreign policy.“The federal courts have no authority to direct the executive branch to…