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The most expensive film ever made in China and with a budget of $150 million, "The Great Wall" was intended to prove that the world's no. 2 movie marketplace could produce Hollywood-sized blockbusters of its own. Though it ran up $171 million in ticket sales in China, "The Great Wall" pulled in $18.1 million in its North American debut over Presidents Day weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Warner Bros. animated release easily led the box office again with $34.2 million in its second week, sliding only 35 percent. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ketchup maker and packaged food giant Kraft Heinz has withdrawn a $143 billion offer to buy Unilever, backing away after the mayonnaise, tea and seasonings maker rejected the bid as too low. The companies announced the decision Sunday in a joint press release, saying that Kraft Heinz has "amicably" abandoned the offer. [...] acquisitions might not lead to big changes that customers would notice on supermarket shelves, but shifting tastes are partly driving deal-making in the food industry.

Some drivers in King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties are experiencing sticker shock with the latest round of car-tab renewal bills arriving in the mail.

(AP) — A SpaceX rocket soared from NASA's long-idled moonshot pad Sunday, sending up space station supplies from the exact spot where astronauts embarked on the lunar landings nearly a half-century ago. Flight controllers at SpaceX headquarters in Southern California cheered as the 15-story booster landed upright at its designated parking spot at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The company hopes to launch astronauts from this very spot next year, bringing U.S. crew launches back to home soil after a longer-than-intended hiatus. Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump's administration is working to dismantle a complex set of financial rules including the "fiduciary rule," which requires certain financial professionals to act in their clients' best interests when providing retirement advice. The fiduciary rule requires brokers who sell stocks, bonds and other investments to meet a stricter standard that has long applied to registered financial advisers: being considered "fiduciaries" — trustees who must put their clients' interests first. Читать дальше...

Hydro Flask CEO Scott Allan The Bend, Oregon-based maker of colorful stainless steel bottles was founded in 2009 with one product line that was sold at a local market. Scott Allan, Hydro Flask's CEO since 2012, recently spoke with The Associated Press about Hydro Flask's history and how it's managed its fast-paced growth while keeping in touch with its outdoorsy roots. A. A boyfriend-girlfriend team observed that everyone carried water bottles around, but they were not impressed with what was available. Читать дальше...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates' main state oil company has signed a deal giving China National Petroleum Company an 8 percent stake in a major onshore oil project. The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company says CNPC will pay an initial $1.77 billion for the concession operated by the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Petroleum Operations, also known as ADCO.

Since 2002, host Chris Harrison has shepherded 21-ish (one guy only gets partial credit) men through the boy-meets-two-dozen-or-so-girls-on-TV process on The Bachelor. Fortunately for you, we've been keeping tabs on all of them, following their movements like scientists tracking lions prowling the Serengeti.

Season 3, Episode 10, "Got Milk?" -- shows Forte's MacGruber co-star Kristen Wiig showing off some fascinating sartorial choices and some savvy '80s-tastic dance moves. The episode is expected to journey back to how the viral outbreak that decimated so much of the world's population began, and judging by the looks of this preview, we might just see Wiig's character living on both sides of the spectrum. In one scene, she's crawling around town in a trashbag bodysuit with goggles as protective garb -- make fun all ya want... Читать дальше...

The first teaser for HBO's third and final season of The Leftovers wasn't exactly the most joyful thing that ever existed -- the characters' dread over seeing "the end is near" plane-painted in the sky was still quite visible. [...] there was this juxtaposition of the Beach Boys' comforting "Don't Worry Baby" over the top of those silent character pans that might've encouraged a sense of optimism about the fate of the Garvey family and friends, much the way the second season's "Let the Mystery Be"... Читать дальше...

LA, she was in a very precarious position: seemingly about to get her leg sawed off by her onetime therapy buddy Sullivan, aka CIA Agent Ferris (Kurt Yaeger). [...] though the pieces of her story aren't exactly fitting together, everyone accepts it at face value except for Hetty (Linda Hunt), who confronts Joelle and gets her to admit that she's actually a CIA officer, and was lying to Callen the whole time. The guard is pretty ineffective, however, as a would-be assassin manages to sneak into Granger's room... Читать дальше...

Sunday's episode of The Walking Dead, "New Best Friends," introduced yet another new community and location into the mix -- a group of emotionless scavengers who live in a junkyard and have regressed to a primitive form of language in which conjunctions no longer exist. [...] he was able to answer some of our other questions, like confirming that there's definitely a Mad Max influence on this episode thanks to production designer Grace Walker, whose history working on George Miller's postapocalyptic... Читать дальше...

After piling on the misery during the second half The Walking Dead's sixth season and first half of the seventh as Grimes and his crew descended into a Saviors-induced hell where everything was wrong, Season 7's second half is finding them digging their way out. Rick's deal with the taciturn junkyard scavengers in "New Best Friends" is the most significant progress the Alexandrians have made in anything besides gathering canned goods since they met Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) Not coincidentally... Читать дальше...

While The Good Wife was never a ratings powerhouse, and its reputation took a knock in its final couple of seasons, the show remained a brand that still appealed to a certain well-to-do demographic, one that might have the income necessary to subscribe to yet another streaming platform. Spin-offs for the sake of business interests, however, may not always yield the best results, and after the plot synopsis for The Good Fight was released -- Diane (Christine Baranski) loses all her money in a Ponzi... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump's, erm, unique 72-minute press conference last week, mouthpiece Stephen Miller's hair-raising interviews and background details, or the capitalization of Hillary Clinton's buzzy dinner date with the actress who portrays her (and almost everyone else) in the show, Kate McKinnon -- played the first post-election show, hosted by Dave Chappelle with A Tribe Called Quest as the musical guests. For those SNL fans who haven't quite committed the show's programming schedule to memory or, ya know... Читать дальше...

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Arizona (25-3, 14-1 Pac-12) remained on top of the conference standings and won its fourth straight, doing it short-handed with starters Dusan Ristic and Kadeem Allen out because of injuries. Chance Comanche's rebound and dunk with 52 seconds left finally gave Arizona enough of a cushion to hold on in the final moments. Whether it was Ray Smith's season-ending injury, Parker Jackson-Cartwright missing a month, or Trier missing two-thirds of the season due to suspension, the Wildcats have never been whole. Читать дальше...

Tucked away on a south side of Bainbridge Island's Eagle Harbor is one of the Pacific Northwest's most powerful monuments to the Japanese internment.

(AP) — After its home loss to No. 5 Arizona on Thursday, Washington State coach Ernie Kent called out his seniors, and vocalized the team's need for better leadership. Ike Iroegbu finished with 17 points, eight rebounds and seven assists to help Washington State overcome an early deficit and win. Conor Clifford had 19 points, Malachi Flynn 14 points and seven assists, and Hawkinson 14 points and 15 rebounds for the Cougars, who nabbed their first season sweep of a conference opponent since 2011-12. Читать дальше...

The film sees a young Syrian refugee befriending a grouchy Finn, with Kaurismaki's deadpan humor delivering poignant messages about the horrors of war and the current refugee crisis in Europe. The jury also awarded Dana Bunescu a prize for outstanding artistic contribution for her editing of "Ana, mon amour," about a Romanian couple struggling to make their relationship work despite mental illness.

[...] authorities are bracing for a rise in heroin use as the drug further encroaches into an expansive rural state whose borders aren't always easy to patrol. [...] the challenges, he said, are daunting as the meth supply transforms a homegrown substance cooked in clandestine labs to a well-financed out-of-state import that crosses stateliness and national borders. Because we're compartmentalized in separate places, and we all have our separate missions, we sometimes don't work together well. Zoe Barnard... Читать дальше...