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3 “Halloween Kills” may be available to watch at home, but the latest installment in the Michael Myers saga is making a killing at the North American box office in its first weekend in theaters. The David Gordon Green-directed horror scared up $50.4 million from 3,705 locations, according to studio estimates Sunday. Universal’s “Halloween Kills” far surpassed expectations, which had the film pegged for a more conservative debut in the $30 million range. It also easily bested its main competition, which included the James Bond pic “No Time to Die,” in its second weekend, and Ridley Scott’s medieval epic “The Last Duel.” Both are playing exclusively in theaters. The film picks up where Green’s 2018 “Halloween” left off, on the same bloody night, with Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie Strode. Some were surprised when the studio made the decision to release “Halloween Kills” simultaneously in theaters and on NBC Universal’s Peacock for premium subscribers, …

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Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) would do anything that former Donald Trump told him to do, “no matter how wrong or unethical.” Schiff said, “One of the most frequent questions I get from my constituents around the country is what do they really say. And this story of this chance meeting on a plane with Kevin McCarthy and him going off to completely misrepresent a conversation, you can see how duplicitous so many of my colleagues are. That conversation was in 2010. It was long before Donald Trump, but he was really made for an hour like this. When his party is led by someone who believes that the truth isn’t truth and you’re entitled to your own alternate facts. And in my view, there’s nothing more corrosive to a democracy than the idea that there’s no truth.” He added, “You cannot allow someone with that little regard for the truth to get anywhere near the speaker’s …

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Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump was pushing the Department of Justice to do “horrific things.” Anchor Jake Tapper said, “Let’s turn to the January 6 committee. I want to take a listen to what President Biden said on Friday. In a video, a reporter asked, “What’s your message to people who defy congressional subpoenas?” Biden said, “I hope the committee goes after them and holds them accountable.” A reporter said, “Should they be prosecuted?” Biden said, “Yes.” Tapper said, “The Justice Department later clarified that they would make their decisions based only on the law and on the facts. Do you think it’s appropriate for President Biden to say that? Does it make your job on the committee more difficult?” Kinzinger said, “I think it’s appropriate. The president has every right to signal. I think he has every right to make it clear where the administration stands. God knows, the prior …

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(CNN) The new trailer for "The Batman," the latest reboot of the iconic movie franchise, features a recognizably dark and gritty Gotham and previews the return of several of the superhero's most infamous enemies. Warner Bros. and DC Comics debuted the trailer Saturday at the DC FanDome event, where the comics giant also released new trailers for "The Flash" and "Black Adam." (Warner Bros. is owned by WarnerMedia, CNN's parent company.) The trailer for "The Batman," directed by Matt Reeves, reveals a bullet-proof Robert Pattinson in the titular role, grunting and scowling in the superhero's now-familiar style as he beats up on a series of darkly lit, anonymous grunts. "When that light hits the sky, it's not just a call. It's a warning," a voice intones over a shot of the Bat Signal. A wig-wearing Zoë Kravitz arrives in her role as Selina Kyle aka Catwoman, and the trailer also offers early looks at Paul Dano as the Riddler and a nearly …

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By Alicia Wallace , CNN Business Updated 1532 GMT (2332 HKT) October 17, 2021 San Francisco (CNN Business) Pork, much like everything else these days, has gotten more expensive due in part to the supply chain issues and inflationary pressures spurred by the pandemic. And now comes another wildcard: The pork industry's ability — and desire — to adapt to a new animal welfare law in California, its largest US market. The voter-approved measure taking effect on January 1 requires pork products sold within the state to adhere to standards that mother pigs are given at least 24 square feet of space each and kept out of gestation crates — 7-by-2-foot stalls where their movements are severely restricted. Pork producers are already warning that the new law brings added costs throughout the supply chain that will ultimately leave Californians and other shoppers in the US with fewer and more expensive options. The bacon battle brewing in California has some believing …

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5 It was at the townhouse with the black welcome mat - a skinny beige building on South Floyd Street - where Alex Sprague managed to collect Signature No. 4. "I'm starting a petition to get this street renamed. Is that something that interests you?" the 25-year-old asked upon ringing the doorbell, clipboard in hand. The man standing inside, barefoot and in sweatpants, was halfway through shutting the door before curiosity got the best of him. "What are you renaming it to?" he asked. "And why?" Like many of his neighbors, the man had given little thought to the namesake for this quiet, four-block strip in Alexandria's Seminary Hill neighborhood: former Virginia governor John Buchanan Floyd, a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. But as Sprague explained, Floyd is not the only Confederate whose name appears on nearby addresses. At least 40 other streets in this Northern Virginia city also honor Confederate leaders, largely …

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10 WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of protesters marched Sunday in two Polish cities in solidarity with migrants and asylum-seekers at the Poland-Belarus border who have been pushed back by Polish authorities. Several thousand people marched in Warsaw and others protested in Krakow under the slogan “Stop torture at the border." Marchers accused Polish authorities of cruel behavior for pushing the migrants back and for imposing a state of emergency at the border that has prevented human rights workers from going there to aid people. “How many bodies lie in the forest?” read one sign in Warsaw, referring to several deaths that have occurred in the border region's forests and swamps. Many carried flags made of emergency foil, a reference to the blankets the migrants trapped outdoors at the border need now as temperatures fall to freezing at night. For about two months, large numbers of people from the …

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9 CHICO, Calif. - Mike Erickson had been living in the trailer park for 341 days when he saw the new sign. It was unmissable, a blue billboard at the entrance to what had become a place of last resort for families made homeless by the worst wildfire in California history. Its message was unmissable, too. In 12 days, the site would be closing and everyone would have to be out. Mike knew who had put it there. The same agency that had carved this trailer park from nothing after the 2018 fire, transforming a 13-acre field between a cemetery and a set of train tracks into a haven for survivors to start rebuilding their lives: the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Nearly a hundred families lived at the site at one point, but one by one they had been moving away until on this day in September only a handful were left. Mike's trailer was at the farthest end. There were no streets here and no addresses, just small …

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Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Retailers We write about hundreds of products a week. Here, in our version of the Sunday circular, we’ve plucked out some of our favorites — expert-recommended essentials, life-changing stuff you didn’t know you needed, newly launched gizmos, and the very good deals we uncovered while trawling through the vast online-shopping universe this past week, including a “life changing” oracle deck, Katya Zamolodchikova’s makeup-removing dish detergent, and a kettle that doubles as an objet d’art. Earth Breeze Liquidless Laundry Detergent Sheets $17 $17 Strategist writer Chloe Anello, who interviews lots of celebrities, has been “enthralled” by some products folks tell her they can’t live without. “But it takes an especially persuasive celebrity to convince me to actually buy something, because as a Strategist writer, I’ve honestly seen it all,” she writes. These liquidless laundry detergent …

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Christian Aid Ministries’s office in Berlin, Ohio. Photo: Tom E. Puskar/AP/Shutterstock A group of 17 mostly American missionaries and their family members was kidnapped by gang members in Haiti on Saturday, according to multiple reports. Details about the alleged kidnapping — which comes amid an unprecedented wave of kidnappings in the deeply troubled country — remain sparse as of Sunday. Below is what we know so far. A group of 17 Christian missionaries, including three children, were reportedly kidnapped on Saturday while traveling by bus outside Port-au-Prince. The victims include 16 Americans and one Canadian, according to a Haitian human rights group that monitors kidnapping in the country. Two Haitian nationals may have also been kidnapped, a “person familiar with the abduction” told the Washington Post . All the missionaries are associated with the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries, which apparently sent out a “prayer alert” audio recording to other religious …

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