Universal PicturesThe Fall Guy topped the North American box office with an estimated $28.5 million in its opening weekend. The action comedy, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, was expected to grab between $30 and $40 million, according to Variety.The movie added an estimated $25.4 million at the international box office, for a worldwide total of $65.4 million.Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, rereleased to honor May the Fourth, took second place, earning an estimated $8.1 million. The film, originally released in 1999, earned an estimated $6.4 million overseas, for a global tally of $14.5 million.Third place went to the Zendaya-led romantic sports drama Challengers, which collected an estimated $7.65 million at the domestic box office. Its two-week global tally currently stands at over $52 million.The second of this week s two major releases, the horror film Tarot, debuted in fourth place with an estimated $6.5 million. It added an estimated $3.7 million overseas, for a worldwide to
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speak at a press conference in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on May 1, 2024. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) One Saturday last month, several dozen members of the Alaskan Independence Party, a small, largely unknown political group whose primary goal is to put Alaskan secession from the United States to a vote, gathered in Fairbanks for their biennial convention.Among the topics of conversation: whether to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president.The party ultimately rejected Kennedy, who is running as an independent, after a few outspoken members said they did not want him atop their 2024 ticket, according to John Howe, the party s chairman, who was involved in the discussions."There was serious consideration," Howe, a machine shop owner, told ABC News.The decision to pass on Kennedy was seen as a blow to the candidate "They wanted us to put him on the ballot," Howe said
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Locked in a tight race for the presidency, Donald Trump prevails in trust to handle most issues in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, yet President Joe Biden scores competitively on key personal attributes leaving wide open the question of who ll prevail come Election Day, now six months away.Excluding people who say they wouldn t vote, Trump has 46% support, Biden 44%, in this national survey of more than 2,200 adults. (Nearly all the rest say they d pick someone else.) Among registered voters, it s Biden 46%, Trump 45%. Among likely voters, it s Biden 49%, Trump 45%, again not a significant difference.A five-way contest doesn t change the picture in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates with fieldwork by Ipsos. This finds the race at 42% for Trump and 40% for Biden, with 12% for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2% for Cornel West and 1% for Jill Stein. (That, of course, assumes Kennedy, West and Stein are on the ballot in all states, an
People walk in a camp for displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip by the border with Egypt on April 28, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) As the Israel-Hamas war approaches the seven-month mark, renewed negotiations are underway to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization, as Israeli forces continue to prepare for an apparent invasion of the southern Gaza town of Rafah.Meanwhile, President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in a phone call over the weekend, discussing increasing the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza and plans for a possible military operation in Rafah, according to the White House.Here s how the news is developing:May 05, 11:36 AMHamas says negotiations in Cairo have concludedHamas said Sunday that negotiations in Cairo have concluded and that its delegation will leave Cairo tonight.May 05, 11:02 AMIsraeli defe