Tom Cruise’s “Top: Gun Maverick” is the box winner of the year so far, and it’s not even close. The long-awaited sequel has earned $617 million and counting at the domestic box office, plus over $1.2 billion so far worldwide. Outside of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and its $1.9 billion gross, “Top: Gun Maverick” has been hailed by many in the press as reigniting the box office after the pandemic woes.
Donald Trump may have conned his supporters out of $250 million in the wake of the 2020 election, as revealed during this week’s Jan. 6 committee hearing, but his son has since resorted to a far more familiar grift. “Until they face consequences, the ex-president’s family is still out there peddling their wares,” Stephen Colbert explained on Tuesday night’s Late Show, “including eldest MAGA son Don Jr., seen here wondering, ‘How come the airplane doesn’t have to flap?
Workers at a Starbucks store in Superior voted Friday to form a union, making it the first Starbucks store in Colorado to back unionizing and the 27th nationally. Employees of the coffee-shop giant across the country have been petitioning to hold elections since December when workers at Buffalo, N.Y., stores approved the first unions. Elections are scheduled at six more Colorado stores, including ones in Colorado Springs and Denver. Those ballots will be counted in May and June.
A surfer has been left in a critical condition after being attacked by a shark off a California beach. The surfer, identified by friends as Eric, was bitten on his thigh while in the sea near Bodega Bay around 9am on Sunday. The man, in his 30s, was with a group of surfers off Sonoma County’s Salmon Creek Beach when the shark bit him on the thigh, according to the Bodega Bay Fire Protection District.
It must be nice to have a friend like Taylor Swift — whose 2022 VMAs look had Twitter head over heels. After Nicki Minaj’s show stopping four song medley and her acceptance of the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards, Swift stood and clapped before turning around and encouraging fellow audience members to join her. That wasn’t the start of the “Red” singer showing her public support for the groundbreaking female rapper, though.