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Tom Cruise is back, and doing his own stunts, in<em> Mission: Impossible <em>—</em> Dead Reckoning Part One.</em>

Tom Cruise hangs on for dear life to his 'Mission' to save the movies

Film critic Justin Chang doesn't know if Cruise can save the movies but he never gets tired of watching him try. Cruise does his own outrageous stunts in Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.

Protesters gather in front of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal building in Guatemala City, Wednesday. The tribunal certified presidential election results, sending candidates Sandra Torres and Bernardo Arévalo to an Aug. 20 runoff, while the Attorney General's Office announced that Arévalo's party had been suspended.

A top Guatemalan party is barred, throwing the presidential election into the unknown

Guatemala's already troubled presidential election has been thrown into more chaos and confusion only weeks ahead of a contentious second round of voting.

A view of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

Up First briefing: Defense bill delayed; Threads' news policy; SAG-AFTRA strike vote

GOP House lawmakers want to amend the defense authorization bill. Twitter rival Threads wants to downgrade news and politics. The Hollywood actors union holds a strike vote this morning.

Another defamation suit filed against Fox News — this one over Jan. 6 allegations

Ray Epps is suing Fox for portraying him as an instigator of violence on Jan 6. 2021. He says he believed Fox that former President Donald Trump had been cheated of victory in the 2020 race.

Thursday, July 13th, 2023

Iowa abortion providers are asking a judge to block enforcement of a 6-week abortion ban that’s set to become law on Friday. The youngest son of University of Iowa Basketball coach Fran McCaffery has been cited in a fatal accident. Plus, repeated Mississippi River flooding is threatening prehistoric burial mounds that comprise Iowa's only national monument.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the latest member of the Kennedy dynasty to run for president, regularly shares a dizzying range of falsehoods and conspiracy theories.

RFK Jr. is building a presidential campaign around conspiracy theories

The latest member of the Kennedy dynasty to run for president regularly shares a dizzying range of falsehoods and conspiracy theories on podcasts and at other campaign appearances.

Meta's Threads, which is basically a Twitter clone, minimizes news and politics

Meta's new app Threads aims to be a friendlier alternative to Twitter by deemphasizing news and politics. But for many people, partisan brawls are a big part of Twitter's appeal.

President Biden arrives at a political rally in Philadelphia on June 17. He has increasingly cast his climate program as a jobs program as his reelection campaign heats up.

Biden frames his clean energy plan as a jobs plan, obscuring his record on climate

President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act invests $369 billion to address the climate crisis. But as the president focuses on the law's economic benefits, is his climate win getting lost?

A new civil lawsuit filed Wednesday by families of the Buffalo Tops mass shooting victims targets a number of social media companies, gun retailers, a body armor manufacturer and the mass shooter's parents. Here, a group prays at the site of a memorial for the victims of the Buffalo supermarket shooting outside the Tops Friendly Market on Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y.

New lawsuit says social media and gun companies played roles in 2022 Buffalo shooting

The lawsuit filed in the New York Supreme Court argues that several companies, along with the shooter's parents, played roles in the 2022 shooting that killed 10 Black people and injured three others.

abortion rights supporters fill the state capitol rotunda

Iowa abortion providers sue to block enforcement of 6-week ban

Iowa abortion providers filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block enforcement of a ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. Gov. Kim Reynolds is scheduled to sign the ban into law Friday.

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