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The A Quiet Place franchise follows the Abbott family as they struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind monsters with sharp hearing that hunt any sounds. What appeared to be another generic monster horror film turned out to be one of the biggest and most successful films of 2018, as A Quiet Place’s original and fresh story captured many audiences’ attention, and would eventually expand to an even more successful sequel with A Quiet Place Part II (a film that set pandemic records at the time of its release and was met with a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes)....

The early signs are mainly positive. In his first act as prime minister, Koizumi assembled the freshest cabinet Japan has seen in at least a generation, assigning several top posts to women and private-sector professionals, instead of LDP candidates. For foreign minister, he picked Makiko Tanaka, 57, the tough-talking, English-speaking daughter of a legendary former prime minister. But reformist P.M.s with interesting hair and bold plans have risen before in Japan–and fallen just as quickly....

Until lately, things haven’t been much fun for the man once hailed as the auto industry’s rock-star CEO. Back when he turned around a nearly bankrupt Nissan in 2000, Ghosn was so revered that he became the subject of a superhero comic book in Japan. Bill Ford tried to hire him, and last year General Motors’ largest shareholder sought to engineer a marriage with Nissan and Renault (Ghosn is chief of both companies, which hold equity stakes in one another)....

“He broke out of two maximum security prisons,” Womack says. “And if he hits the streets…” Hall’s unnamed character cuts him off. “He’s not gonna hit the streets, Jim. Thirty years ago, he was a highly trained SAS operative. He is my age now, for Christ’s sake. I have to get up three times a night to take a piss.” MORE: MLB’s best 3B? | Should Yankees panic? Mason did wind up hitting the streets, of course, but Hall’s line, delivered when he was 65, is one to remember about A-Rod, for once a urine reference that has nothing to do with drug testing....

So the Yankees are well within their rights not to fork over an extra dime to their designated hitter, especially if you share Brian Cashman’s interpretation of Rodriguez’s $6 million bonus for reaching 660, as reported by The New York Times: “We have the right but not the obligation to do something. And that’s it. It’s not ‘you do this, you get that.’” MORE: Classic images of Willie Mays...

After the court found for the Boy Scouts, conservative groups hailed the decision as a landmark victory for the rights of private associations. Scout leaders expressed relief that their long court fight was over. But while the legal wrangling may be done, the larger gay-rights struggle rages on. “I think that I’ve fought the good fight and I saw my part through to completion,” Dale, 29, told NEWSWEEK. “But maybe now the torch gets passed to somebody else....

Before his 24 years representing New York in the Senate, Moynihan had several other storied careers. He was raised from infancy in New York City, the son of a hard-drinking former newspaperman who abandoned his family when Pat was 10. His mother ran a saloon in Hell’s Kitchen, and young Moynihan shined shoes in nearby Times Square, enlisted in the Navy and graduated from Tufts. At 28 he was a top aide to Gov....

According to the Gun Violence Archive, at least 220 people were shot and killed over the Fourth of July weekend and close to 570 were wounded. What’s more American than not knowing if we’re hearing fireworks or gunshots? To solve gun violence, we need strong federal action—but that’s not coming any time soon. It took a decade of advocacy to convince the Senate to pass even the most incremental of gun safety bills....

In its quest to bring players to feudal Japan with Ghost of Tsushima, the developer left Infamous in the rearview. However, because so much of modern entertainment takes advantage of superheroes, and game design has shifted to more of an open-world focus, 2022’s landscape indicates a game like Infamous would be well received. Not only would it satisfy fans of the series to see a new story for Cole McGrath or Delsin Rowe, but it could also bring something new to a genre dominated by just a handful of companies....

The meeting in London was clearly a triumph for the United States. It was George Bush who had called for the NATO summit in the first place. The 16 heads of state followed an American agenda. In both substance and tone, the final communique marked a revolution in the concept of Western security–and most of the major ideas were American as well. While reveling in his position as the still undisputed leader of the Western Alliance, Bush seemed concerned about the reaction in the East....

RELATED: The 10 Best Horror Movies Of The 21st Century (So Far), Ranked Freddy’s terrible puns and jokes are almost as well known as his iconic striped sweater and claws. The infamous dream killer has made his mark on pop culture history and although his corny dialogue might seem a bit dated, his vicious sense of humor and penchant for imaginative murders continue to set him apart from all other horror movie slashers....

As they drove around Belgrade’s darkened streets, Legija told him a secret. Milosevic had ordered the Red Berets to crack down, he said. “Huge s–t,” he called it. “The orders are extreme.” Legija had decided to disobey, he said. His police would not help Milosevic stay in power. All he asked in return, as Djindjic later told it, was that the protesters refrain from attacking the police. “I promise,” said Djindjic....

Now it’s going to happen. This week Coelho will be sworn into the Brazilian Academy of Letters, an august association of writers, politicians, philosophers, clergy and economists who fancy themselves the guardians of Brazilian culture. For the past 105 years, the Academy has been the bastion of the Portuguese language and a fortress of refined taste and intellectual hauteur. The country’s elite have dreamed, plotted and often brawled for the chance to occupy one of the 40 velvet chairs in the Petit Trianon, the Academy’s mustard-colored neoclassical bunker in downtown Rio de Janeiro....

Landlocked, dirt poor and devastated by civil war, Sudan has never been a priority in Washington. When George W. Bush became president, it was widely assumed that the country’s woes would count for less than ever. Bush had pilloried Bill Clinton for squandering American resources in remote lands with no clear relevance to U.S. vital interests. Nina Shea of Freedom House, a Washington-based human-rights group, describes Sudan as “the perfect example of a situation that candidate Bush indicated the United States would not become involved in....

Lyons can only hope his prayers are answered. The next morning, he sat silently in a Florida courtroom as prosecutors told a jury that the 57-year-old preacher had led a secret double life: Lyons, so respected that admirers sometimes called him ““the black pope,’’ was also, they claimed, a thief and a con artist. In a withering argument, Assistant State Attorney Bob Lewis laid out the theft and racketeering case against him....

Drug prices may be this election year’s hottest issue. Polls routinely show that voters regard escalating drug costs as the most serious problem facing the health-care system, and candidates are responding in kind. Gore and President Clinton are pitching new drug benefits for Medicare recipients. Congressional Republicans–worried about being portrayed by well-organized seniors this fall as heartless conservatives–have also developed plans to ease drug costs. “Their view is that they cannot afford to be against a prescription drug benefit,” said Harvard health-policy analyst Robert Blendon....

The African trip had other moments of carefully scripted spontaneity. There was Charles posing for the cameras at a rock concert as his 13-year-old son, Prince Harry, blissfully held hands with a Spice Girl. Charles at a dinner hosted by President Mandela, praising the charitable contributions of Diana; Charles sharing a few warm words with, of all people, Charles Spencer, Diana’s brother, who had so pointedly criticized the royal family in his eulogy to his sister....

Any future PS5 hardware revisions should address more common issues that would make living with a PS5 easier. Most notably, Sony should make it simpler for gamers to expand console storage, an issue that will get bigger as the PS5 gets older and gamers are forced to expand storage to accommodate their growing libraries. RELATED: PS Plus Tiers Should Add Trophy Support to Retro Games The Problem With the PS5’s Storage Expansion Gamers can upgrade the PS4’s storage, but it can be a tedious process depending on which route is taken....