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Meryl Streep isn’t just promoting a movie. She’s sparking a movement. The 76-year-old Oscar winner is making headlines after wrapping a global press tour for “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” with experts saying her bold fashion choices and candid remarks are challenging how women over 50 are seen in Hollywood. ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA While promoting The Devil Wears Prada 2 in Japan, Meryl Streep didn’t shy away from addressing the reality of aging in Hollywood. “You don’t see many 70-, almost 77-year-old women playing parts like this in any movie or under any circumstance,” she told reporters, as shared by…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has proposed a redistricting map to try to pick up four more Republican House seats. It’s the latest state to join the major parties’ redistricting battle. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is pushing his state to join the nationwide redistricting battle that President Trump started last year. DeSantis has laid out a new congressional map that could dent Republicans up to four more seats in Congress. Here to tell us about it is NPR political correspondent Ashley Lopez. Hey.ASHLEY LOPEZ, BYLINE: Hey there.SUMMERS: So, Ashley, what do we know so far about Florida’s proposed…

Rogers has released its first-quarter financial results and provided some interesting details on the company’s financial state, alongside its widely reported sports portfolio. According to Sportico, the telecommunications giant provided an update on the 2025 purchase of Bell’s stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE), which currently owns and operates the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs, the NBA’s Toronto Raptors, among others. This purchase increased Rogers’ stake to 75 per cent. Separately, Rogers also owns the MLB’s Toronto Blue Jays. Rogers Communications CEO Tony Staffieri said on the Q1 2026 earnings call that the company expects to complete the purchase of the…

So much information, streaming out in so little time. And still: Within minutes, conspiracy theories flooded the internet. The shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner attended by President Donald Trump on Saturday night played out in front of some of the nation’s most powerful reporters and editors who snapped into action in real time to provide detailed accounts from the scene. What resulted was a steady stream of facts from myriad reputable media outlets – hardly an information vacuum. Despite this, unfounded conspiracy theories from both the left and the right proliferated, chief among them that the shooting was…

State, federal and local governments began coordinating civil protection strategies last week following Wednesday’s presentation of the 2026 hurricane forecast by Mexico’s National Meteorological Service (SMN). The SMN is predicting from 18 to 21 storm systems in the Pacific Ocean (including 4 or 5 major hurricanes) and between 11 and 15 storms in the Atlantic Ocean (up to 2 major hurricanes).  Erick, a Category 3 hurricane, caused extensive damage along the Oaxaca and Guerrero coasts last June. Mexico’s Pacific coast can expect four or five more such major hurricanes during the upcoming hurricane season, according to an official forecast. (Semar/Cuartoscuro)…

Perceptions of insecurity in Mexico have fallen to their lowest level since President Claudia Sheinbaum took office, but around six in ten Mexicans still consider their city an unsafe place to live, according to the results of the latest National Survey of Urban Public Security (ENSU). Conducted by the national statistics agency INEGI between Feb. 23 and March 13 with adult residents of 27,300 households in 91 urban areas across Mexico, the first quarter ENSU found that 61.5% of respondents consider their city an unsafe place to live. That figure declined 2.3 percentage points compared to the fourth quarter of…

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed divided Monday over whether to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the maker of the weedkiller Roundup failed to warn people it could cause cancer. The case came before the justices after a tidal wave of litigation that included some multibillion-dollar verdicts against the global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer, which owns Roundup maker Monsanto. Several justices seemed sympathetic to the company’s argument that it can’t be sued under state law because federal regulators have found Roundup likely doesn’t cause cancer. Others, though, grilled attorneys about whether that wrongly stops states from responding to changing research. Roundup…

By Darragh McDonald | at April 27, 2026 3:12pm CDT The Mets announced that they have claimed infielder Eric Wagaman off waivers from the Twins and optioned him to Triple-A Syracuse. Minnesota had designated him for assignment last week. The Mets had a 40-man vacancy and don’t need to make a corresponding move. The Mets also announced that they have signed outfielder Austin Slater and designated outfielder Tommy Pham for assignment, moves that were reported yesterday. More to come.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal racketeering convictions Monday of imprisoned former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-lobbyist Matt Borges in the state’s long-running $60 million bribery scheme With his last legal option exhausted, Householder will return to his efforts to seek a presidential pardon, his attorney said. The high court’s ruling leaves in place a unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati last May. Householder and Borges had appealed to justices after the lower court denied their requests for an en banc hearing before all…

As a legislative committee met at Queen’s Park to study a government bill that would significantly water down the role of school board trustees, Education Minister Paul Calandra began grilling union leaders about his own legislation, leading to criticism that he was “rude,” “disrespectful,” and “inappropriate.” On Monday, MPPs began public hearings on Bill 101, the law that would create the role of a Chief Education Officer in the province’s English public and Catholic school boards, entrusted with the power to set the budget and co-sign decisions made by trustees.While trustees can hire the CEO, only the minister of education…