Every ‘Rocky’ movie, ranked
Stacker ranked all eight “Rocky” movies according to a Stacker score, which is weighted evenly through IMDb user rating and Metascore. Ties were broken by IMDb votes.
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Best anime movies of all time
Stacker looked at all animated movies on IMDb with at least 12,500 votes and narrowed the list down to the top 25 anime movies, with ties broken by votes.
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Best minigolf in every state
Using 2022 data from Tripadvisor, Stacker compiled a list of the highest-rated minigolf courses in all 50 states including Washington D.C.
Continue ReadingPutin arrives in Iran for first trip outside former Soviet Union since his invasion of Ukraine
CNN By Rob Picheta, Anna Chernova, Uliana Pavlova and Chris Liakos, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Iran on Tuesday for his first international trip beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union since launching his invasion of Ukraine, which effectively ruptured ties with the West. Putin met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in
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CNN By Jessie Yeung, Jack Guy, Hafsa Khalil, Ed Upright, Aditi Sangal and Adrienne Vogt, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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Every Marilyn Monroe movie ranked
Marilyn Monroe is still an icon 60 years after her death. Stacker used IMDb to rank the movies that made her a star, and every role has an unmissable sparkle.
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Top-grossing movies that never got a wide release
Stacker consulted box office data on The Numbers and ranked the top 50 highest-grossing movies that never got a wide release, despite their success.
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Best anime TV shows of all time
Beyond “Cowboy Bebop” and “Dragon Ball,” Stacker lists the 25 best anime series using IMDb to examine votes and narrow down the results.
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WNBA’s Griner heads back to Russian court after guilty plea
MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner was due back in a Russian court Thursday for trial after she pleaded guilty last week to drug possession charges. In Russia, a guilty plea doesn’t automatically end a trial. Griner’s defense may put forward arguments during the next hearing to mitigate the punishment, or a verdict
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WNBA’s Griner heads back to Russian court after guilty plea
MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner is due back in a Russian court Thursday to resume a trial that was jolted last week when she abruptly pleaded guilty to drug possession charges. With the U.S. government under pressure at home to do more to secure her freedom, the guilty plea could be an
Continue ReadingAll missing people have been found after severe flooding in Virginia
By Aya Elamroussi, Michelle Watson and Alaa Elassar, CNN Everyone has been found after reports of more than 40 people missing in a rural Virginia county inundated by a torrential downpour that tore homes from their foundations and damaged roads and bridges. Crews worked overnight and through the morning in the flooded areas to help
Continue Reading10 Kansas City Royals players are reportedly ineligible to play in Toronto due to being unvaccinated against Covid-19
By Jacob Lev and Travis Caldwell, CNN Ten Kansas City Royals players have been placed on the restricted list and will be ineligible to play in the team’s four-game series this week against the Toronto Blue Jays, team manager Mike Matheny said on Wednesday. All 10 are unvaccinated against Covid-19 and ineligible to play in
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By Jessie Yeung, Jack Guy, Hafsa Khalil, Ed Upright, Aditi Sangal and Adrienne Vogt, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
Continue Reading Nations discuss coordinating Ukraine war crimes probes
By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has called for an international “overarching strategy” to coordinate efforts to bring perpetrators of war crimes in Ukraine to justice. Karim Khan made the appeal on Thursday as he opened the Ukraine Accountability Conference in The Hague.
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Sri Lanka troops barricade Parliament against protesters
By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Military troops were moving Thursday to secure Sri Lanka’s parliament building against a takeover by protesters infuriated by the country’s economic collapse and the embattled president’s failure to resign a day after fleeing the country. With the country sinking into political chaos, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Continue Reading Sri Lanka troops barricade Parliament against protesters
By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Military troops were moving Thursday to secure Sri Lanka’s parliament building against a takeover by protesters infuriated by the country’s economic collapse and the embattled president’s failure to resign a day after fleeing the country. With the country sinking into political chaos, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Continue Reading NHL free agency: Johnny Gaudreau makes Blue Jackets a winner
By LARRY LAGE AP Hockey Writer Judging success and failure in NHL free agency just hours after the market opened can be tricky, looking into the future to predict which moves will pan out — or not. Looking back at the slew of signings on Wednesday, it seems relatively easy to identify at least one
Continue Reading Reviled and revered Russian arms dealer is back in spotlight
By JIM HEINTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian arms dealer labeled the “Merchant of Death” who once inspired a Hollywood movie is back in the headlines with speculation around a return to Moscow in a prisoner exchange. If Viktor Bout, 55, is indeed eventually freed in return for WBNA star
Continue Reading In Ukraine war, a race to acquire smarter, deadlier drones
By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Never in the history of warfare have drones been used as intensively as in Ukraine, where they often play an outsized role in who lives and dies. Russians and Ukrainians alike depend heavily on unmanned aerial vehicles to pinpoint enemy positions and guide
Continue Reading In Ukraine war, a race to acquire smarter, deadlier drones
By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drone camera footage defines much of the public’s view of the war in Ukraine: grenades quietly dropped on unwitting soldiers, eerie flights over silent, bombed-out cities, armor and outposts exploding into fireballs. Never in the history of warfare have drones been used as
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