Oscar winner James Cameron during promotion for Avatar: The Way Of Water in 2022 via Associated PressJames Cameron has shared that he was once in the running to direct a screen adaptation of the musical Wicked. Advertisement“I really love the story, I mean The Wizard Of Oz is one of my favourite [films]. Cameron hasn’t ruled out one day overseeing a big-screen musical, though, reiterating that he still considers The Wizard Of Oz to be his favourite film. AdvertisementMeanwhile, Cameron is gearing up for the release of the third Avatar movie, subtitled Fire And Ash, three years after the previous instalment The Way Of Water first hit cinemas. The Way Of Water and Fire And Ash were filmed simultaneously between 2017 and 2018, with fourth and fifth instalments in the Avatar series also planned.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGSeveral Jeffrey Epstein survivors experienced “widespread panic” after the House Oversight Committee released 20,000 files earlier this month without redacting their names, prompting some to believe that the Justice Department is “intentionally” failing to protect their privacy, according to a Wednesday court filing. In a letter to Judge Richard Berman this week, Bradley Edwards and Brittany Henderson, lawyers who have represented hundreds of Epstein victims, said they were contacted by survivors whose identifies were exposed in the Nov. 12 disclosure of files. It can’t be,” one person identified as Victim 1 allegedly said in a message to the lawyers, per the court filing. Advertisement“Several have been approached personally by reporters on the street, and one was confronted in front of her nine-year old son by a reporter asking for her to comment about being an Epstein victim,” the lawyers write. “Given the number of times we have drawn Congress’s attention to this issue, and the fact that victims’ names continue to be produced by DOJ in unredacted form, many of the victims believe this is being done intentionally,” they added.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGMS NOW host Katy Tur said President Donald Trump is “different than he was” in his first term, citing a noticeable decline in his energy, as questions continue to swirl about his health. Advertisement“So what happens with Donald Trump? During the interview, Tur acknowledged that Trump remains active and is one of the most accessible presidents the U.S. has had. “It’s different.”Still, the White House lashed out at Tur over the interview. “President Trump is the most accessible, energetic, and transparent President in modern American history,” White House assistant press secretary Liz Huston told the outlet.

But if you have health goals in mind, a heavy meal like the Thanksgiving feast can bring up conflicting feelings. AdvertisementWe asked a registered dietitian, cardiologist, gastroenterologist and bariatric surgeon about the real health implications of eating to your heart’s content on Thanksgiving. “The foods we eat on Thanksgiving tend to be fried, fatty or processed. How fatty Thanksgiving foods can affect your heart. That said, Heffron emphasized that for the vast majority of people, what you eat during Thanksgiving isn’t going to do any long-term damage to your heart.

Those who wish will be able to start a professional career in the active military, Macron said. AdvertisementThe planned defense budget for the 2026-2030 period includes an additional expenditure of over 2 billion euros for the national service, Macron said. Germany is redoubling its efforts to attract more recruits, notably via a new voluntary military service. It isn’t considering a return to universal military service, but rather a reserve system. Ten EU countries have compulsory military service: Austria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sweden.

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Stranger Things is back for its fifth and final season on Netflix NetflixIf you’re one of those who stayed up until the wee small hours so you could be among the first people to stream the new instalments of Stranger Things, you may have hit a bit of a frustrating stumbling block. At around three o’clock on Thursday morning, Netflix released the first four episodes of Stranger Things’ fifth and final season, with two more drops set to take place on Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve. AdvertisementHowever, as many settled in to catch up with the Hawkins gang, they found that their Netflix was unable to load, as a surge of users worldwide crashed the platform’s servers. pic.twitter.com/lgKm0aKpCl — ang (@IIMMUNITY) November 27, 2025netflix crashing literally one minute before 8pm you got to be kidding me... pic.twitter.com/CXKLtSOpqP — Film Class Guy #1 (@beforekermit) November 27, 2025AdvertisementEveryone going to Twitter to see if Netflix crashed #StrangerThings5 pic.twitter.com/GApRd4QWPs — iregretlikingsports (@Jimmy2424555) November 27, 2025It's not just you... 'Stranger Things' Season 5 has crashed Netflix https://t.co/v7CSlWE9fp — ScreenTime (@screentime) November 27, 2025Creator Ross Duffer also revealed on his Instagram that Netflix had increased its bandwidth “by 30 percent to avoid a crash”, only for the show’s popularity to override it anyway. AdvertisementThe new episodes feature the return of core cast members like Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin and Millie Bobby Brown, with the story picking up 18 months after the dramatic events of season four.

“We will be here for three and a quarter years,” Trump remarked at a White House dinner last week. AP Photo/Julia Demaree NikhinsonEarly polls show Vice President JD Vance as a clear and heavy favorite for the 2028 GOP nomination. Vance said during a Fox News interview this week that he planned to speak to Trump about the 2028 race after next year’s midterm elections. That is, whether intentional or not, that was the legacy of the Republican Party that came before Donald J. Trump. The libertarian 2016 GOP presidential candidate has had an on-again, off-again relationship with Trump.

Some historians say the closest modern parallel, though inexact, is the late President Richard Nixon’s quest for vengeance against political enemies. Comey, who led the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign, was charged after Trump demanded his prosecution. Trump’s retribution campaign is hurting CIA morale and wrecking the bipartisan trust that allows Washington to function, Panetta said. “This kind of political retribution leads to a loss of trust, which ultimately leads to a failure of governing.” The CIA did not respond to a request for comment. But while Trump has conducted his retribution campaign in the open, historians note, Nixon’s enemies list was conceived as a covert tool.

Robert Reich has carved into Trumpworld’s claims that Thanksgiving dinner has become cheaper this year. The former labor secretary laid out the economic reality in a new video and Substack newsletter. Read Reich’s full “Let’s Talk Turkey” email here and watch the video here. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement“Trump doesn’t want you to know any of this,” he argued. Related...Read the original on HuffPost

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGKevin Hassett, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, made an incredible reach in an attempt to justify a debunked claim about the Trump administration reducing the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner. AdvertisementEarlier this month, Trump took credit for what he claimed was Walmart announcing that “Prices for a Thanksgiving Dinner is now down 25% since under Sleepy/Crooked Joe Biden, in 2024.”But as detailed in a HuffPost analysis, Walmart had not made any comparisons to Thanksgiving prices last year. Since the president launched a trade war by slapping steep tariffs on imported goods, inflation has remained stubbornly high. “It’s hilarious to watch Trumpworld tell poor people to stop complaining Trump has made everything more expensive,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) wrote on X. said. Trump has ripped sitting Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, calling the central bank chief a “numbskull” for not cutting interest rates quickly enough.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday’s “heinous assault” on two National Guard members near the White House proves that lax migration policies are “the single greatest national security threat facing our nation.”“No country can tolerate such a risk to our very survival,” he said. With aggressive deportation efforts already underway, his response to the shooting showed that his focus will not waver. AdvertisementThe suspect in the shooting is believed to be an Afghan national, according to Trump and two law enforcement officials. The focus has involved the realignment of resources at federal agencies, stirring concern about potentially undermining other law enforcement priorities. Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.

A few hours earlier, my newborn son had passed away less than 30 minutes after I had given birth. In that hospital hallway, although I’d physically survived, something in me turned off so I could mentally survive. It was explained to me that these terminations weren’t the violent, graphic act often plastered on “pro-life” posters, but merely an early induction and delivery, with palliative care for a baby that wouldn’t survive. Going to work and running errands as a young woman with a baby who will die is torturous. My body was postpartum and confused without a baby, and that in itself was painful and confusing.

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