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Movie Review: Disenchantment under the sea in live-action ���The Little Mermaid��� 05/26/2023 02:31am • It���s not Rob Marshall���s fault that Disney���s latest live-action retread doesn���t really sing. ���The Little Mermaid,��� a somewhat drab undertaking with sparks of bioluminescence, suffers from the same fundamental issues that plagued ���The Lion King,��� ���Aladdin��� and ���Beauty and the Bea Bring your snarfblatt and dinglehopper! The live-action 'Little Mermaid' takes us back 'under the sea' 05/26/2023 02:07am • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpGo2_d3oYE It's really hard to imagine in hindsight, but Disney Animation was sinking fast in 1989, struggling to regain its Golden Age footing after Walt's untimely death in 1966 with embarrassing flops like "The Black Cauldron" (1985). Thankfully, "The Li Stock market today: Asian markets mixed as US government debt talks push toward brink of default 05/26/2023 12:14am • Asian markets were mixed Friday as a deadline loomed for Congress to reach a deal on the U.S. government debt or face a potentially calamitous default. Tokyo and Seoul rose while Shanghai and Sydney fell. Hong Kong was closed for a holiday. U.S. futures slipped and oil prices also declined. Talks Loudoun Co. middle school students host 'fight clubs' with help from parents 05/25/2023 10:33pm • A fight among students at Loudoun County, Virginia's, Lunsford Middle School led administrators to the alarming discovery of elaborate fight clubs, some involving betting and tournament-style brackets, according to the school's principal. In a message to parents, Lunsford Principal Carrie Simms s The 10 Most Valuable Car Companies in the World 05/25/2023 08:00pm • As the enthusiasm for electric vehicles, or EVs, heats up, Tesla Inc. (ticker: TSLA) has moved into the top spot as the most valuable automobile company in the world. Driver motivators are rapidly changing as new generations emerge with different values than previous generations. New consumers are s 3 people killed when house explodes in South Dakota 05/25/2023 07:18pm • FORT PIERRE, S.D. (AP) ��� The South Dakota State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating a house explosion that killed a baby and her grandparents and left two young children hospitalized with burns. The house about 11 miles (about 18 kilometers) southwest of Fort Pierre exploded around 10:20 a.m. GOP leaders in Kansas back off threat to sue Democratic governor over education funding 05/25/2023 07:17pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� Leaders of Kansas' Republican-controlled Legislature backed off a threat to sue the state's Democratic governor for vetoing parts of a GOP education funding bill, saying Thursday that they still doubt the legality of her actions but now question whether a court challenge would Amanda Gorman's poem for Biden's inauguration barred for younger children by Florida school 05/25/2023 07:16pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� A poem written for President Joe Biden's inauguration has been placed on a restricted list at a South Florida elementary school after one parent's complaint. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, poet Amanda Gorman vowed to fight back. Her poem, ���The Hill We Climb��� was ch Target on the defensive after removing some products aimed at LGBTQ+ 05/25/2023 06:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Target once distinguished itself as being boldly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community. Now that status is tarnished after it removed some products aimed at LGBTQ+ and relocated Pride Month displays to the back of stores in certain Southern locations in response to online complaints a Victims' families settle wrongful death suit against quadruple killer, his parents 05/25/2023 05:20pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� The families of four young men killed and buried on a Pennsylvania farm have settled their wrongful-death lawsuits against the man who confessed in the killings and his parents Cosmo DiNardo, who was 20 at the time, admitted luring four young men ages 19 to 22 to the family���s Murder, cruelty charges dismissed in Georgia toddler's hot car death 05/25/2023 05:11pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A father from Georgia will not face another trial over his toddler's death in a hot car, prosecutors said Thursday, after the Georgia Supreme Court last year reversed his murder and child cruelty convictions. Justin Ross Harris, 42, was found guilty in November 2016 on eight counts Delaware woman pleads guilty to killing 3-year-old daughter, dumping remains on softball field 05/25/2023 03:58pm • DOVER, Del. (AP) ��� A Delaware woman is facing decades in prison after pleading guilty to killing her 3-year-old daughter and dumping her burned remains on a softball field. Kristie Haas, 31, pleaded guilty Thursday to murder by abuse or neglect, abuse of a corpse, and three counts of endangering t Kids could fill labor shortages, even in bars, if these lawmakers succeed 05/25/2023 03:49pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� Lawmakers in several states are embracing legislation to let children work in more hazardous occupations, for more hours on school nights and in expanded roles, including serving alcohol in bars and restaurants as young as 14. The efforts to significantly roll back labor rules Tina Turner, 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' whose triumphant career made her world-famous, dies at 83 05/25/2023 03:44pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and ���70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping "What's Love Got to Do With It," h East Texas teenager charged with murder in killings of parents and siblings 05/25/2023 03:14pm • NASH, Texas (AP) ��� Authorities in east Texas have jailed an 18-year-old man on capital murder charges in the shootings of his parents, sister and brother. Police in the small town of Nash say officers responding to a report that a man had harmed his family and was threatening to kill himself on Tu