
'The Walking Dead' takes a big break in its (very) slow-moving 'final season'
CNN
So about that "final season" of "The Walking Dead?" As seemed pretty obvious when the plan was announced, it sure feels like two seasons, moving at a zombie's pace, labeled that way for marketing purposes.
The show wrapped up its first eight-episode block on Sunday. Another 16 episodes -- the length of a usual bifurcated season, broken into similar increments -- will air next year. The show won't return until February, having ended on one of its customary cliffhangers.
While it's easy to understand why AMC would cling to and want to stretch out this long-running franchise as much as possible, the 24-episode "finale" has lacked any real sense of urgency or momentum in terms of building toward a finish thus far.

One year ago this week, Joe Biden was president. I was in Doha, Qatar, negotiating with Israel and Hamas to finalize a ceasefire and hostage release deal. The incoming Trump team worked closely with us, a rare display of nonpartisanship to free hostages and end a war. It feels like a decade ago. A lot can happen in a year, as 2025 has shown.

Botched Epstein redactions trace back to Virgin Islands’ 2020 civil racketeering case against estate
A botched redaction in the Epstein files revealed that government attorneys once accused his lawyers of paying over $400,000 to “young female models and actresses” to cover up his criminal activities

The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help to redact the Epstein files, in the latest internal Trump administrationpush toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The US State Department on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on a former top European Union official and employees of organizations that combat disinformation for alleged censorship – sharply ratcheting up the Trump administration’s fight against European regulations that have impacted digital platforms, far-right politicians and Trump allies, including Elon Musk.









