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Movie Review: Wonder and war in 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' 12/16/2025 09:00am • When I came down with a cold the day after I saw the third and latest ���Avatar��� film, ���Fire and Ash,��� I half-wondered if I had picked it up on Pandora. The promise of Cameron���s 3D trilogy has always been immersion: immersion in a science-fiction world, in technological wonder, in a maybe fu No. 13 Vanderbilt visits Memphis following Nickel's 30-point game 12/16/2025 04:42am • Vanderbilt Commodores (10-0) at Memphis Tigers (4-5) Memphis, Tennessee; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: No. 13 Vanderbilt plays Memphis after Tyler Nickel scored 30 points in Vanderbilt's 83-72 win against the Central Arkansas Bears. The Tigers are 4-1 on their home court. Memphis gives up 76.9 US Army names 2 Iowa National Guard members killed in attack in Syria 12/15/2025 11:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend attack in Syria that the U.S. military blamed on the Islamic State group were identified Monday and remembered as dedicated soldiers. The U.S. Army named them as Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt. Wil Grand Canyon to reopen hotels on the South Rim after water pipeline repair 12/15/2025 07:39pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Hotels and lodges will welcome back visitors to the Grand Canyon's South Rim after the national park halted overnight stays for more than a week because of multiple breaks in a water pipeline, the park said Monday. Starting Wednesday, visitors can stay overnight at El Tovar, Bright Brian Walshe found guilty of murdering his wife, who disappeared nearly 3 years ago 12/15/2025 07:35pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Brian Walshe was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the grisly death of his wife, whom he was accused of killing and dismembering nearly three years ago while he awaited sentencing in an art fraud case relating to the sale of two fake Andy Warhol paintings. Ana Walshe, a r Jalen Brunson's memory of the Knicks' 1999 Finals lineup is pretty much spot on 12/15/2025 07:25pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� It took Jalen Brunson some time to remember the New York Knicks' starting lineup in the 1999 NBA Finals against the San Antonio Spurs. It took him no time to remember who didn't start those games. ���Not Rick Brunson,��� he said. Rick Brunson ��� a current Knicks assistant, and Ja Rob Reiner's son Nick arrested after the director and his wife were found dead at their home 12/15/2025 06:53pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The 32-year-old son of Hollywood icon Rob Reiner was arrested on suspicion of murder and held without bail Monday in the stabbing deaths of his parents in their Los Angeles home, authorities said. The case will be given to prosecutors on Tuesday as they consider formal charges a Crews use sandbags to shore up levee breach near Seattle after failure prompts flood warning 12/15/2025 06:43pm • TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) ��� Crews used sandbags to shore up an earthen levee south of Seattle on Monday after a small section of it failed following a week of heavy rains, prompting an evacuation order covering parts of three suburbs, officials said. The evacuation order from King County in Washington s Execution set for this week in Georgia put on hold for now 12/15/2025 06:39pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia's parole board on Monday put an execution scheduled for Wednesday on hold, but it was not clear how long that would last. The order suspending the execution of Stacey Humphreys, signed by State Board of Pardons and Paroles Chair Joyette Holmes, does not provide any reason fo Small plane crashes in central Mexico, killing at least 7 people, official says 12/15/2025 06:31pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� A small plane crashed in central Mexico while trying to make an emergency landing Monday, killing at least seven people, Mexico State Civil Protection Coordinator Adri��n Hern��ndez said. The accident took place in San Mateo Atenco, an industrial area three miles (5 kilometers) School buses crash in Idaho with several kids hurt, including 1 flown to hospital 12/15/2025 04:51pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� A school bus rear-ended another as it was picking up kids on a rural eastern Idaho highway Monday morning, sending four students and both drivers to the hospital, authorities said. One child had to be flown by air ambulance to Utah for treatment, the Idaho State Police said in Trinidad and Tobago will open Caribbean nation's airports to US military as Venezuela tensions grow 12/15/2025 04:26pm • PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) ��� The government of Trinidad and Tobago said Monday that it would allow the U.S. military to access its airports in coming weeks as tensions build between the United States and Venezuela. The announcement comes after the U.S. military recently installed a radar system New York City is getting its first 3 Las Vegas-style casinos 12/15/2025 04:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The New York Mets��� ballpark in Queens. A Bronx golf course once operated by President Donald Trump ���s company. A slot parlor on a horse racing track near John F. Kennedy International Airport. The three disparate sites, located far from the tourist hub of Manhattan, will become DC using digital signs to encourage people to slow down along bustling trail 12/15/2025 03:11pm • Cyclists and people riding scooters along the Metropolitan Branch Trail are being greeted with digital messages, either telling them their speed is safe or urging them to slow down. The messages are part of a pilot program D.C.���s Department of Transportation launched in October. It���s an effor Elephant orphans. Goat's milk. This safari reveals the impact of wildlife conservation in Kenya 12/15/2025 02:49pm • RETETI ELEPHANT SANCTUARY, Kenya (AP) ��� We stood at the edge of a dusty corral baked by the equatorial sun and ringed by chest-high posts as thick as telephone poles. On some posts, workers had perched plastic jugs of goat's milk, each holding a couple of liters and equipped with red nipples the s