🎬“National Cinema Day” on Saturday brought the big screen to moviegoers for a small price -no more than $3- as American theaters looked to fill seats during the late summer lull.

The one-day nationwide promotion was offered on more than 30,000 screens in more than 3,000 theaters, including the major chains of AMC and Regal Cinemas. The Cinema Foundation, a nonprofit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, announced the plan on Aug. 28 and said all major film studios also were participating.

Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters.
After more than two years of the pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Minions: Rise of Gru,” “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Jurassic World Dominion” pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore.

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🎾#USOpen | #SerenaWilliams bids farewell

Last month, Williams signaled she planned to retire after the Open and lost against Tomljanovic in a thrilling 3-hour, 5-minute battle.

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🚙Seventeen states with vehicle emission standards tied to rules established in California face weighty decisions on whether to follow that state’s strictest-in-the-nation new regulations that require all new cars, pickups, and SUVs to be electric or hydrogen-powered by 2035.

Washington, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, and Vermont are expected to adopt California’s ban on new gasoline-fueled vehicles. Colorado and Pennsylvania are among the states that probably won’t. The legal ground is a bit murkier in Minnesota, where the state’s “Clean Cars” rule has been a political minefield and the subject of a legal fight. Meanwhile, Republicans are rebelling in Virginia.

The Minnesota Auto Dealers Association says its reading of state and federal law is that the new California rules kick in automatically in the state, and it’s making that case in court as it tries to block them.

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💧Jackson officials said a treatment plant at the center of water woes in Mississippi’s capital made “significant” gains overnight and into Saturday. According to a news release, the O.B. Curtis Water Plant’s total plant output increased to 86 pounds per square inch, approaching the city’s goal of 87 PSI or better.

“The outlook is very stable,” the city said in the statement. “However, additional challenges as repairs and adjustments are made do leave the potential for fluctuations in progress.”

The city said most customers should have water pressure, and only a few remaining pockets in south Jackson may still be experiencing low or no pressure.

The city said that teams from Georgia and Florida rural water associations are also on-site, assisting with repairing and restoring many automated systems supporting better water production and water quality management.

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🌎 The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) says it does not plan to attempt any more Artemis 1 moon mission launches before Tuesday.

▪️ NASA cancelled the planned Artemis 1 mission launch atop a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Saturday over a hydrogen fuel leak.

▪️ "The team continues to troubleshoot, and plans to return with a variety of options early next week. We are standing down on any launch attempts through the current launch period, which ends Tuesday," NASA said in a statement on social media on Saturday.

▪️ The Saturday launch delay is the second this week for the Artemis 1 moon mission, which is an uncrewed test of the SLS and the Orion spacecraft.

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🤨 Former US President Donald Trump says the raid carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at his Mar-a-Lago resort is something that is typical of a third world country.

🗯 "The entire world is watching, and they are shocked. South American countries, numerous of them, their leaders said, could you imagine if that was ever done in our country, what the United States would be saying about us," Trump said on Saturday, at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

▪️ The rally is Trump’s first in the midterm election season since the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago residence on August 8.

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📍 LIVE UPDATES: Ukrainian missile hits Zaporozhye nuclear power plant unit, authorities say

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😳 📹 Brazen thieves rammed a car into an SUV and stole $20,000 from its disoriented driver during a brazen Upper East Side robbery Saturday, cops and sources said.

😮 In a dramatic scene that seemed like something out of a “Fast and Furious” film, a black Mercedes slammed into a silver Toyota Rav4 as tires screeched and shocked pedestrians jumped for cover, viral social media video showed.

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📹 Eastern Military District Uragan MRLS crews eliminate mock enemy while defending Sakhalin Island as part of Vostok 2022 exercise.

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🤔 The EU must reimburse citizens for the consequences of anti-Russian sanctions, Matteo Salvini of Italy's League party says.

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🤥 One of the BLM leaders, Shalomiya Bowers, has been accused of stealing more than $10 million. It is suspected that he transferred donations for the organization to a personal consulting firm.

▪️ Activists have already filed a lawsuit against him; he denies all charges.

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🇦🇷😷Argentina investigates mystery pneumonia deaths

▪️Three people died this week in Argentina from an unknown type of pneumonia, with nine people affected in total so far. All of the cases were detected around a private medical clinic in northwestern Tucuman province. Symptoms included high fever, body aches and difficulty breathing.

▪️Authorities have already excluded COVID and common types of flu as a cause of the disease. Luis Medina Ruiz, health minister of Tucuman, said that the patients were struck with “a severe respiratory condition with bilateral pneumonia.”

🇬🇧👮‍♂️UK police officers fear hard winter of surging crime and civil unrest

▪️British police are reportedly preparing for a “tidal wave” of violent crime and public disorder against the backdrop of an exacerbating cost-of-living crisis caused by the energy catastrophe in Europe.

▪️Chiefs are reportedly concerned that "economic turmoil and financial instability" has the potential to spark a rise in crime, in particular "acquisitive" offences, a leaked national strategy paper has revealed.

▪️These include shoplifting, burglary and car theft, as well as online fraud, blackmail, and other crimes that “rely on exploiting financial vulnerability."

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“Britain has been through worse in the past - we have the attitude and spirit to get through it”

🇬🇧Liz Truss vowed “immediate” actions to help Britons with energy costs if she is confirmed as Tory leader tomorrow

She appeared on the BBC's new Sunday political show hosted by Laura Kuenssberg, where she warned against predictions of an “Armageddon scenario”, insisting that the UK has weathered tougher situations before.

🗯️Mrs. Truss appealed to the voters and said: “I will be clear with the public about the challenges we face and the tough decisions we need to make…. 'If I'm elected as prime minister, within one week I will make sure there is an announcement on how we are going to deal with the issue of energy bills and of long-term supply to put this country on the right footing for winter.”

However, she refused to say exactly what the support measures will include and even refused to rule out copying Labour's £70 billion plan to freeze the energy cap.

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😉 Former US President Donald Trump has suggested that he may run for the US presidency again in 2024.

▪️ The former POTUS was back on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania on Saturday - his first rally since the FBI's search of his Mar-a-Lago estate last month.

💭 He told his supporters: "We are leading Biden and everyone else, including the Republicans, by record numbers in the polls. So I may just have to do it again. You'll be... stay tuned. I have to do it again. You hear that Oz? (Senate nominee Dr Mehmet Oz) Do it again. May just have to do it again."

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❗Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says 'monstrous' that German weapons are used by nationalists in Ukraine against Russians, condemns Berlin's support for Kiev pro-nazi regime.

‼️ Kremlin: Nord Stream halted over EU violation of maintenance agreements, sanctions

🇬🇧Liz Truss “will be a disaster if she governs how she has campaigned," Scotland’s first minister argued.

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, pitched her view of Liz Truss’ campaign, accusing the conservative of campaigning on the "niche priorities" of Tory members, such as tax cuts.

🗯️“If she governs how she has campaigned over the summer, she will be a disaster - not just for Scotland but for all of the UK… The obsessions of a tiny, tiny number of Conservative Party members are not the right priorities for the country," Scotland's first minister declared.

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⚡️ Europe has made too many mistakes, they will have to pay for it, and they are paying for it now by leaving their comfort zone, Kremlin spokesman Peskov says

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