Kevin Costner denied Chris Hemsworth role in new project — cast himself instead

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who oversees the fund, is arguing that Boeing execs shouldn’t get a raise as a result of its handling of the safety issues on its 737 Max 9 aircraft

Tony McFarr, who was the stunt double for Chris Pratt in the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' films, was found dead Monday, The Times confirmed. He was 47.

A past commencement speech given by Harrison Butker is being re-examined in the wake of his controversial address at Benedictine College last weekend. 

NY Post readers discuss President Biden and former President Donald Trump agreeing to two presidential debates.

Detransitioner Prisha Mosley’s lawsuit against the health care providers who pushed “gender-affirming care" on her as a teen was recently cleared by a judge.

The legislation called for creating three new government entities to regulate psychedelic-assisted therapy

Three national issues amount to "deal-breakers" for many American voters ahead of the 2024 election, a Fox News poll shows

A congressional education committee is calling on the university to turn over documents regarding an "inadequate response to antisemitism and failure to protect Jewish students" amid violent clashes on campus.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyOver the weekend, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gave a commencement speech at Benedictine College. He covered a remarkable amount of ground: in just 20 minutes, he attacked IVF, abortion, birth control, Pride Month, Biden, surrogacy, and—in the most viral clip— working women. As he said:“I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you, how many of you are sitting here now about to cross the stage, and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you’re going to get in your career... But I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.”I can’t say I was fantasizing about motherhood as a 22-year-old; personally, I wanted to be the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Headline-chasing Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's vanity project of a trial against former president Donald Trump comes at a high cost for New Yorkers.

Wild video captured from a dash camera shows the moment a semi-truck crashed through the side of a bridge with the cab dangling over the edge.

House Republicans have long been on the front lines of Trump’s attacks on the justice system.

The confrontation between Michael Cohen and Trump lawyer Todd Blanche was the most anticipated moment in the trial, which is now speeding toward a conclusion.

CNN's Paula Reid explains how Trump's defense team tried to use Michael Cohen's testimony about a key phone call discussing the Stormy Daniels hush money payment to undermine Cohen's credibility.

The U.S. government's case in its corruption trial for Sen. Menendez amounts to guilt by association, co-defendants' attorneys in the New Jersey Democrat's corruption trial said.

FX and Hulu have announced that its acclaimed series "Shogun" has been renewed. The story will continue for "likely" two more seasons.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has called out Kansas City officials after Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker was doxxed online in a post shared by the city's social media account.

A raccoon scampered around the field during an MLS game between Philadelphia and New York City. He's been dubbed 'Raquinho' and is featured on a Topps trading card.

NFL player Harrison Butker, who delivered a commencement speech at Kansas' Benedictine College last Saturday, has stirred backlash among some women and pro-choice activists.

The Cardinals may be looking for a new manager.

French authorities in New Caledonia and the interior ministry in Paris said five people, including two police officers, were killed during the protests.

Reba McEntire hosts the 59th annual Academy of Country Music Awards from the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas on Thursday night.

Remember when streaming was supposed to let us watch whatever we want, whenever we want, for a sliver of the cost of cable? Well, so much for that. In recent years, streaming has gotten confusing and expensive as more services than ever are vying for eyeballs. It has done the impossible: made people miss the good old-fashioned cable bundle.Now the bundles are back. Last week, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery announced that, starting this summer, they will offer a streaming bundle of Disney+, Hulu, and Max. Then, on Tuesday, Comcast said that next month it will introduce a streaming bundle of its own, packaging Peacock, Apple TV+, and Netflix. This bundle, called StreamSaver, will be available only to Comcast’s broadband, mobile, and TV customers. Some smaller mini-bundles already exist, but for the most part, the streaming wars had become a battle royale—no alliances, everyone for themselves. Now the combatants have aligned in two blocs, sort of like the Avengers versus the Justice League—except that, confusingly, Marvel movies (Disney) and DC movies (Max) are now part of the same bloc.It’s not cable, but it’s not not cable either. Streaming hasn’t quite come full circle, but it’s three-quarters of the way around. These bundles are ending an entire era of streaming, with its unsatisfying free-for-all of services. This new era may well be better than the one before it. But the dream of streaming as a cheaper, better version of cable is dead.For a while, it did actually exist. When Netflix launched its streaming service back in 2007, the company pretty much dominated the market without much serious competition. You could watch basically everything with no ads, and for less than $10 a month. Then, beginning at the tail end of the 2010s, all of the big legacy entertainment companies tried to get in on the action. “For much of the past four years, the entertainment industry spent money like drunken sailors to fight the first salvos of the streaming wars,” the media-industry analyst Michael Nathanson wrote in November. The current streaming landscape, despite offering unprecedented abundance, is a nightmare to navigate. To watch entertainment now requires wading through a frustrating array of streaming services: Netflix, Prime Video, and Hulu, yes, but also Peacock, Paramount+, AMC+, and others.But this hasn’t brought in the types of profits that companies hoped for. Last year, Disney, Comcast, and Paramount collectively lost several billion dollars on streaming. Making and licensing shows and movies, it turns out, is not cheap. And people are willing to pay for only so many streaming subscriptions. Even when the new services managed to attract subscribers, they weren’t able to hold on to them; in industry parlance, churn was too high. Streaming services have tried to recoup their losses by raising prices, creating ad tiers, and cracking down on password sharing.Going it alone hasn’t worked, so now they’re teaming up. Neither mega-bundle has announced details about costs, but Comcast’s StreamSaver will be sold “at a vastly reduced price” relative to individually subscribing to all three services, the company’s CEO, Brian Roberts, said during the announcement this week. Packaged together and sold at a discount, each streaming service will make less per subscription, but perhaps collectively they will be more competitive and hold on to more of their subscribers. That’s the idea, anyway.For consumers, these bundles are probably a good thing. There’s a reason so many people rejoiced at the prospect of cutting the cord—but cable was simple. With streaming, keeping track of all your accounts and all your passwords and where to watch whatever you want to watch—that is not simple. And then, just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, one of the services you subscribe to informs you that you’ll have to shell out for the premium tier if you want to watch a certain show or movie. If you can convert three separate subscriptions into a single cheaper one, as the new deals will seemingly allow some people to do, that’s a win.The new bundles don’t exactly restore order and sanity. The array of overlapping options is itself confusing. In addition to the Disney+/Hulu/Max bundle, there is also a Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle, which does not include Max. But if you really want to watch sports, you’ll presumably go for the ESPN/Fox/Warner Bros. Discovery bundle, named Venu Sports. And if you’re a Verizon myPlan customer, you can subscribe to a Netflix/Max bundle—even though those two services are part of opposing three-service bundles, as announced over the past two weeks. Making matters even more complicated, some of the bundlers are already themselves bundles. Disney owns Hulu and ESPN. Warner Bros. Discovery owns CNN and Max. Bundles are bundling with bundles.Even more bundles are likely in the works, and they may save people some money. But they will not resolve the fundamental tension in what people want out of cable, or streaming, or whatever it is that serves them up stuff to watch. On the one hand, we like having everything in one place. On the other, we don’t like paying a lot of money for things we don’t use. Cable satisfied the former desire but not the latter. Streaming, after the fleeting honeymoon period when you could find almost anything on Netflix, satisfied the latter but not the former. With the new bundles, the streamers are trying to strike a balance between the total consolidation of cable and the total chaos of streaming. That new balance may well be superior to the status quo, but the trade-off between having things in one place and paying for things you don’t need will remain. As long as it does, we’ll never feel totally satisfied.

U.S. stocks edged back from their record heights after the Dow Jones industrial average briefly topped the 40,000 level for the first time.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre revealed that Attorney General Merrick Garland asked President Biden to assert executive privilege over his Hur interviews.

The series is not only played on the ice, it is also played between every player’s ears.

The organization was forced to shut off the livestream just a few days into its planned six-month run after an OnlyFans star flashed the screen.

President Biden marked the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision.

The House Education and the Workforce Committee is bringing in the heads of Northwestern, UCLA and Rutgers for a public hearing next week.

No Dice! Voters who reside in or near Times Square overwhelmingly oppose putting a casino pushed by partners Sl Green/Caesars/Jay-Z/Roc Nation in the "The Crossroads of the World", a survey found.

Ranking the top 20 moves of the MLB offseason, including the Dodgers signing Shohei Ohtani and the Yankees acquiring Juan Soto.

Tom Williams/Getty ImagesThe Biden administration on Thursday announced its support for the Justice Department to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug under federal law, loosening the currently strict regulations on the substance.Under the reclassification, marijuana would join the same category as prescription drugs including ketamine, anabolic steroids and testosterone. It would no longer be classified alongside Schedule I substances like heroin and LSD.In a video posted to X, President Biden called the move “important” for “reversing long-standing inequities.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

In Panama President-elect Jose Raul Mulino's first cabinet selections, he has pulled an economist and business leaders into his ranks; he promised an administration 'friendly to the private sector.'

“For Charles and William, it's as if Meghan and Harry are saying, 'We don't need your permission to be working royals – we will do it on our own terms whenever and wherever we like.’”

The governors of Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Virginia wrote a letter Tuesday asking the territory to show mercy to the Americans arrested on the island.

The House passed a bill Thursday that would force President Biden to swiftly send US weapons to Israel amid its war with Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip — in the face of a pause on the shipment and a looming veto threat from the commander in chief. The lower chamber voted 224-187 for the...

The House of Representatives has voted to advance a bill blocking the Biden administration from stopping Israel arms shipments that were approved by Congress.

Some Texas towns are nearing a breaking point, with one key reservoir at record lows, and another approaching them.

Sen. Mitt Romney argued that President Joe Biden's lack of success on the border and inflation are two massive vulnerabilities for his bid at a second term in the presidency.

1 ounce contains 160 calories, 8 grams of protein, 14 grams of fat, 4 grams of carbohydrates, and 2 grams of fiber.

It's Penelope's time to shine this season!

Turks and Caicos police have arrested five Americans since February, including Ryan Watson, Bryan Hagerich, Tyler Wenrich, Sharitta Grier and Michael Lee Evans.

As the weather warms and the days lengthen, many among us head to the nearest body of water — and reach for the booze when we get there.

SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty ImagesTexas Governor Greg Abbott pardoned a man Thursday who had been convicted of shooting and killing a protester at a 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstration.After a year-long investigation into the case, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended that Daniel Perry be pardoned on Thursday, a decision which Gov. Abbott immediately approved. In May 2023, Perry was found guilty of murdering Garrett Foster, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.Read more at The Daily Beast.

The boater accused of piloting the vessel that killed 15-year-old ballerina Ella Adler is the longtime president of a "leading" company and lives in a mult-imillion-dollar waterfront mansion on a private lake with its own boat dock.

The man, Daniel S. Perry, was convicted of killing a protester during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Austin.

“My door has always been open."