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Epic Games says Apple has terminated its developer account, derailing its plans to bring the Epic Games Store to iPhone just weeks after Apple reinstated it. In a press release, Epic stated "We recently announced that Apple approved our Epic Games Sweden AB developer account. We intended to use that account to bring the Epic Games Store and Fortnite to iOS devices in Europe thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA). To our surprise, Apple has terminated that account and now we cannot develop the Epic Games Store for iOS.…

As all eyes watched every word filed by Donald Trump and federal prosecutors ahead of next week’s crucial arguments on immunity, a third party slipped in the side door with a brief that may dramatically foil the former president’s efforts to leverage the issue for maximum delay.The watchdog organization American Oversight, which is not a party to the case, successfully petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to accept its friend-of-the-court brief on the ground that it provides a “unique…

Thelma & Louise remains one of Hollywood’s most treasured classics, but the film was nearly derailed at every turn. First was the task of getting it made in the first place. The screenplay behind the iconic 1991 release, written by Callie Khouri, floated around Hollywood for several years before finally getting picked up, and was referred to by its many dismissive detractors as simply “two b*tches in a car.” Nice. The task of casting was also a massive hurdle, and saw a huge number of names considered, and even…

Guttural screams, every 15 minutes. That’s become the tragic routine of H.R., the mesmerizing singer of influential hardcore band Bad Brains. Since 2014, H.R. has been suffering from an excruciating type of rare head affliction known as SUNCT headaches that leave him all but devastated. “I have sharp, stabbing pains every couple of minutes in my brain for a couple of hours,” H.R. tells Rolling Stone. “Then it goes away — and then it comes back.” The pain is so severe that the 67-year-old, born Paul Hudson,…

After several years of hard-won sobriety and reported stability, long-troubled TV star Heather Locklear is drinking again, acting erratically and using Ozempic to rapidly lose weight, leaving her family “very worried” and feeling “helpless,” the Daily Mail is reporting. Sources close to Locklear’s family are expressing these concerns after the Daily Mail published photos of her last week, which showed her looking haggard and as if she’s in a world of her own. The photos show the once luminous “Melrose Place” star outside…

Several train cars are immersed in the Yellowstone River after a bridge collapse near Columbus, Montana, on Saturday, June 24, 2023.Photo: Matthew Brown (AP)A bridge that crosses over the Yellowstone River in Montana collapsed onSaturday morning, dropping parts of a freight train into the river below, authorities said. Several of the train cars were carrying molten sulfur and hot asphalt, according to an alert from the Stillwater County Disaster and Emergency Services. In response, local officials shut down drinking…

A Norfolk Southern train traveling in Calhoun County, Alabama derailed early Thursday morning. Thirty-seven train cars jumped off the tracks around 6:50 a.m. ET, according to local news reports.The incident is at least the freight company’s fourth derailment in just over a month—starting with the disastrous East Palestine, Ohio derailment in early February. That earlier accident forced the evacuation of thousands of people, polluted the local environment, killed an estimated 43,000 animals, and has led to ongoing health…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Technology nearly derailed the conclusion of the 2023 presidential elections in Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission could not fulfill its promise to transmit election results from the polling units on its result viewing portal (IReV). This led to calls by some political parties for cancelation and fresh elections. The Conversation Africa asked political scientist Abiodun…

via 20th Century Fox If there was a genuine answer to the question “how many failed YA literary adaptations does there have to be for Hollywood to take the hint?,” we’d have found out long ago. In fact, there are so many that it might come as a surprise for many people to discover that The Darkest Minds was in fact a motion picture that was made and released as recently as the summer of 2018. Kung Fu Panda director Jennifer Yuh Nelson made the leap into live-action filmmaking to helm the novel of Alexandra…

A man takes photos as a black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern train, Feb. 6, 2023.Photo: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar (AP)This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.Nearly two weeks after a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in rural Ohio, questions still linger about the lasting effects of the incident and the speed at which residents were returned to their homes.Around 9 p.m.…