WASHINGTON — In a normal presidential transition, the president-elect spends weeks carefully considering candidates for the most important jobs in his Cabinet. Potential nominees undergo rigorous private vetting by trusted aides and lawyers, then by the FBI. It’s a painstaking process that often consumes the entire three months between the election and the inauguration. But when […]
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. After getting an early release, “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” is now available to watch on Disney+. Subscribers can stream the first two episodes, as new episodes drop every Tuesday until its series finale on […]
The buyer has pledged to donate the apatosaurus nicknamed Vulcan to a museum. The skeleton of a 22-meter-long dinosaur (70 feet) fetched six million euros ($6.4 million) Saturday, AFP learned from auction houses Collin du Bocage and Barbarossa. An anonymous collector snapped up the vegetarian apatosaurus, which was dug up in the United States, for […]
A skeleton excavated from a Roman-era cremation cemetery in Belgium surprised archaeologists when they found it was actually 2,500 years older than they had assumed. Looking closely at the skeleton, the archaeologists discovered something even more unexpected: It was made up of bones from at least five people who lived three millennia apart. “I think […]
Jude Law stars as Force-user Jod Na Nawood in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. It’s no secret that the new spinoff series, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, was inspired by the 1985 film The Goonies. Executive Producer Kathleen Kennedy (who co-produced The Goonies) has publicly confirmed as much. The latest trailer really leans into that influence: The […]
With all the noise from the lead-up to the 2024 US Presidential election next week, you’d be forgiven for having missed some of the trailers that came out over the last few days. Not to worry; I’ve got you covered for some of the best ones. Squid Game is finally returning for its second season […]
When visiting the New Bedford Whaling Museum in southeastern Massachusetts, you might want to be a little careful standing under their 66-foot-long blue whale skeleton. That’s because these blue whale bones are still leaking oil, despite the cetacean being dead for over two decades. Named King of the Blue Ocean–or KOBO for short–this rare blue […]
