Home of the Dragon Finale: We’re not over but [Spoiler]’s loss of life

In an attempt to intimidate his nephew, Aemond threatened to take out Lucerys’ eye and later went after the young prince on dragon’s back. The situation escalated to a bad one when Lucerys’ dragon Arrax blew fire on Aemond’s dragon Vhagar. This action prompted Vhagar to pursue Arrax with all her might, killing the dragon and Rhaenyra’s son in the process.

Aemond clearly didn’t want that outcome as he yelled at the beast, “Vhagar, no. No!”

Although fans of George RR Martin‘s novel Fire & Blood, which inspired the Game of Thrones prequel series, anticipated that ending, Lucerys’ death was still devastating to watch. The death of Lucerys not only cemented his mother’s decision to fight for her crown and confirmed the bloody Targaryen Civil War (known as the Dance of the Dragons), but also hinted that every member of the Targaryen family could be in danger .

We’re also such fans of the sweet young prince that we’re just sad to see him go.

Moderna and Merck will collectively develop a most cancers vaccine for high-risk melanoma sufferers

Pipettes are seen at Moderna Therapeutics Inc.’s laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, November 14, 2017. Moderna started testing this week

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Modern and note will jointly develop and sell a cancer vaccine personalized for individual patients, the companies announced on Wednesday.

Moderna’s vaccine, based on its messenger RNA technology, is being studied in a Phase 2 study in combination with Merck’s Keytruda to treat patients with high-risk melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. The companies expect to report data in the fourth quarter of this year.

Moderna’s stock rose 16% in morning trade before giving up some of that lead. Shares of the company rose about 10% in afternoon trade.

Moderna’s vaccine is designed to trigger the immune system to deploy killer T cells that target the specific mutations in a patient’s tumors. Merck’s Keytruda is a monoclonal antibody given as an injection that blocks certain cell proteins from preventing T cells from attacking.

The companies originally entered into the agreement in 2016, but Merck is now exercising its option by paying Moderna $250 million. Merck will participate in the development and commercialization of the product. The companies will share all costs and profits equally.

Moderna became a household name during the pandemic after developing one of the most successful vaccines against Covid-19 in collaboration with the US National Institutes of Health.

But the Covid vaccine is Moderna’s only commercially available product. The Boston-based biotech is under increasing pressure to demonstrate how its messenger RNA technology can be used against other diseases.

Moderna expects $21 billion in Covid vaccine sales this year as it introduces new booster shots targeting the Omicron variant.

Keytruda is Merck’s largest drug, accounting for 35% of the company’s total sales in the second quarter. It has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat various types of cancer.

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“Black Adam” made a US debut of $67 million

Dwayne Johnson is Black Adam in Warner Bros.’ latest DC movie “Black Adam”.

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Black Adam stormed into theaters this weekend and grossed $67 million domestically. It’s the first film since then Disney and Marvel Studios’ Thor: Love and Thunder in July to gross more than $50 million on its debut.

That Warner Brothers’ The film also marks star Dwayne Johnson’s biggest domestic premiere as a leading actor.

Premium formats, including IMAX, Dolby Cinema and large-screen cinemas, accounted for about 33% of the film’s domestic ticket sales, the studio reported on Sunday. Often more expensive than tickets sold for traditional screenings, these tickets show that audiences want to see big films on the biggest screen possible.

This bodes well for the film industry, which has seen admissions fall during the pandemic and is currently grappling with a severe shortage of new film releases. Last Sunday, the 2022 box office had more than a third fewer wide releases compared to 2019. According to data from Comscore, this has resulted in a more than 30% drop in box office earnings.

Black Adam is one of only four major releases hitting theaters before the end of the year. The others are all Disney movies: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Nov. 11), Strange World (Nov. 23), and Avatar: The Way of Water (Dec. 16).

The hope for theater owners is that films like Black Adam can drive traffic to theaters beyond their opening weekend.

Jan 6 Capitol Riot Committee will not let Trump flip testimony right into a “circus,” says Cheney

Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, during a hearing of the Special Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S., on Thursday, July 21, 2022.

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The House special committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots in the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed former President Donald Trump Friday, and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said Trump will not be able to to turn his testimony into a “circus”.

“The committee is treating this matter with great seriousness,” she told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “It can last for several days, and it is being carried out with a rigor, discipline and seriousness that it deserves.”

The committee unanimously approved the subpoena and is requesting relevant records and Trump’s testimony under oath next month.

“We recognize that subpoenaing a former president is a significant and historic act,” the panel chairmen wrote to Trump in a letter on Friday. The committee’s chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Cheney cited what they called Trump’s central role in a deliberate, “multiple effort” to reverse his loss in the 2020 presidential election.

The subpoena said Trump would be ousted on November 14 after the midterm elections. It is unclear whether he will comply.

Former White House aide Stephen Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison on Friday for refusing to comply with subpoenas from the same committee. He remains at large pending an appeal.

Cheney said the committee has made clear what Trump’s obligations are and plans to act accordingly.

“This won’t be his first debate against Joe Biden and the circus and the food fight that became it,” she said. “This is far too serious a set of problems.”

Charlamagne Says You Screamed Over Pete Davidson’s ’10-Inch Penis’

Charlamagne Tha god told everything on the Gram early Friday morning. The radio show host buckled his little boots and took his bill with a pointed clarification Her.

“I think in life you should always tell the whole story. This story told on @drinkchamps was missing some context so I decided to provide it,” Charlamagne wrote in his caption. “Sending healing energy to everyone who needs it this morning felt petty and might be erased later.”

He posted a snippet of his guest appearance on The Brilliant Idiots podcast. In the video, he addressed a segment of the Yes Drink Champs interview in which the rapper expressed his confusion over Charlamagne’s previous comments Peter Davidsonpenis size.

“Charlamagne, he’s gonna go on air and say, imma paraphrase it, Kim is dating Pete because he’s got a bigger dick,” Kanye West said on Drink Champs. “Why are you talking about another man’s cock on camera?”

Charlamagne says you initiated comments on Peter’s eggplant

According to the Charlamagne storyline, he fell out with the rapper last November. Ye reportedly called Charlamagne to convince him to forsake allegiance to Pete Davidson, but the host hadn’t.

“He’s basically trying to get me on board to give a shit on someone he knows is my friend Pete Davidson,” Charlamagne said.

The radio host said Ye wanted to help save “the new Marilyn Monroe,” meaning Kim. Given the alleged timeframe, the argument definitely went down after Kim and Pete shared their first kiss on Saturday Night Live while Kanye sat among the in-person audience. By early November, the media had reported at least two public outings between Kim and Pete that energized more than just friends.

Charlamagne said he confessed his loyalty to Pete during the heated phone call and doubled down on their friendship. This reportedly angered Ye, and he responded by turning Pete’s bedroom affairs upside down and questioning Charlamagne’s loyalty to the culture.

“Then he finally says, ‘My wife is fucking a white boy out here with a 10-inch penis and you won’t help me, my wife is fucking a white boy out here with a 10-inch penis and you tell me is this your friend? But you’re supposed to be culture? He’s screaming on the phone,” Charlamagne shared. “What am I supposed to do besides laugh about it?”

Host accuses Ye of being ‘a master manipulator’

And the host insists his on-camera rants about Pete’s pickle were sparked by Ye, despite the rapper acting clueless on Drink Champs.

“But the reason I keep mentioning Pete’s penis on the radio is because I know he fucks with it [Ye]’ revealed the host. “Alright? And you told me that. But he walks into the interview and acts like he doesn’t know where this is coming from. The motherf**ker is a master manipulator.”

Although that interaction took place in November, Ye had made his grievances with Petey public by February. West verbally attacked Pete online, calling him Skete, Ad**khead and Hilary Clinton’s ex-boyfriend, among other things. In mid-February, Charlamagne took to the airwaves to offer Ye advice and criticize people who backed his tirades. The host claimed Kim is happy with Pete because, after a lifetime of wealth, Pete offers her something money can’t buy: normality.

“It drives [Ye] crazy that he has all the money and she is not interested in any of it right now. Just be a good father to your kids and let marriage be king,” Charlamagne said. “And we also need to stop complaining about dysfunction. If this was someone else and not Kanye West and he wasn’t the rich, successful person that we’re beating around in his shoes you would have all kinds of slander for his lame activity at the moment and for the way he won , don’t leave Kim alone now. So stop it.”

Charlamagne jokes that if Kim can’t handle the 10-inch D, neither can he

Still, Yes’s public calls for the comedian didn’t end in February. His slams continued, especially after Pete and Kim made their relationship official on Instagram in March — a week after Kim was declared legally single. That same week, Pete responded to the rapper’s disses in private messages, which Pete later asked his writing partner Dave Sirus to post on his behalf on Instagram.

In his appearance on The Brilliant Idiots, Charlamagne also sprinkled a bit of humor into his story about Ye.

“When a man yells, ‘My wife is fucking a white boy with a 10 inch penis out here and you’re not helping me,’ what does that even mean? If she can’t handle the 10-inch d**k, I know I can’t,” joked Charlamagne.

White Home Covid tsar urges seniors to get Omicron booster now

Ashish Jha, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, speaks at the daily White House press briefing in Washington, U.S., July 25, 2022.

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A senior White House health official on Monday issued a strong warning to older people about the health risk they face from Covid-19 this fall and winter.

dr Ashish Jha, head of the White House Covid task force, said everyone over the age of 50, and particularly seniors, needed to get an Omicron booster as soon as possible.

“If you are over 50, certainly if you are over 65, you need to get these vaccines because they could actually literally save your life. It’s a difference between life and death,” Jha said during an interview with Yahoo Finance.

Elderly people have been at high risk of becoming seriously ill with Covid since the pandemic began. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an average of more than 330 people still die from Covid every day.

About 70% of people currently dying from Covid are aged 75 and over, Jha told reporters earlier this month. He said people who die from the virus either don’t have their vaccines up to date or don’t receive treatments like the antiviral pill Paxlovid if they have breakthrough infections.

“If you are up to date with your vaccines and treated if you have a breakthrough infection, your risk of dying from Covid is now close to zero,” Jha told reporters at the White House last week.

He said people should get their Omicron booster by Halloween so they’re protected until Thanksgiving, when families and friends gather for the holiday. US health officials expect another round of infections this winter as people spend more time indoors, where the airborne virus is more easily transmitted.

The Food and Drug Administration and CDC are confident that the new boosters will provide better protection against infection because they target the dominant subvariant omicron BA.5, while the first-generation vaccines were developed against the first strain found in Wuhan, China emerged in 2019.

The original recordings no longer offer any meaningful protection against infections and minor illnesses because the virus has mutated so much since the beginning of the pandemic. In addition to omicron BA.5, the new boosters also include the original Covid strain. Health officials believe that because the vaccines cover so many mutations, these bivalent vaccines will offer superior protection even as the virus continues to evolve.

It’s not yet clear how much more effective the new boosters will be in the real world. The FDA approved the recordings without direct human data, relying instead on clinical trials of a similar vaccine targeting the first version of Omicron, BA.1.

Pfizer and BioNTech released the first direct human data on the recordings last week. According to the companies, the boosters significantly increased protective antibodies against omicron BA.5 in adults 18 years and older. Antibodies prevent the virus from entering human cells.

Younger people should also get a booster shot this fall, although they have a lower risk of getting seriously ill, Jha said. The FDA and CDC quickly approved Omicron syringes for children as young as 5 last week. Jha said the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks for young people.

“I have encouraged all my family to get vaccinated, all my friends to get vaccinated, my nieces and nephews and children all got vaccinated because for them the benefits outweigh the risks,” Jha said.

During last January’s massive omicron surge, there was a surge of children hospitalized with Covid. Doctors are also concerned that children and young people, even with a mild infection, could long contract Covid.

Young men and adolescent boys are at increased risk of a type of heart infection called myocarditis, usually after the second dose of Pfizer and Moderna shots. But the CDC said the risk of myocarditis is higher after a Covid infection in a study published in April.

The autumn booster campaign has gotten off to a slow start since the introduction of vaccinations in September. About 15 million doses have been administered to date, according to CDC data. Jha said he expects more people to get the boosters this month.

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Hans Niemann is suing Magnus Carlsen and others for $100 million over chess dishonest claims

Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann filed a $100 million lawsuit against world champion Magnus Carlsen and others for allegedly defamatory statements alleging that Niemann cheated in the competition.

The lawsuit alleges that the defendants, including Chess.com, inflicted “devastating damage” on Niemann by “outrageously defaming him” and “unlawfully conspiring” to ban him from the professional chess world.

“My lawsuit speaks for itself,” Niemann said in a Twitter post on Thursday.

Niemann, 19, has twice admitted to cheating, once when he was 12 and a second time when he was 16. But he denied claims that he cheated in an over-the-board match against Magnus Carlsen earlier this year.

Carlsen withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup in September after losing to Niemann, eventually coming forward with concerns that Niemann had cheated in the match in which he had defeated Carlsen.

“When Niemann was invited to the 2022 Sinquefield Cup at the last minute, I seriously considered withdrawing before the event. I ultimately decided to play,” said Carlsen, 31, in a statement posted to Twitter in late September. “I got the impression that he wasn’t tense in critical positions or even fully focused on the game while he outplayed me as a black player in a way that I think only a handful of players can do.”

The lawsuit alleges that Carlsen’s comments were an attempt at retaliation to stop Niemann from tarnishing his reputation.

“Angry that young Niemann, a full 12 years his junior, dared to disregard the ‘King of Chess’ and feared that the young prodigy would further soil his multi-million dollar mark by beating him again, Carlsen punched viciously and maliciously back against Niemann,” alleges the lawsuit, which was filed in Missouri’s Eastern District, where the game took place.

World chess champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway poses with the FIDE World Chess Championship trophy after defeating the challenger.

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Chess.com then banned Niemann after it was reported that an internal investigation uncovered evidence of more cheating than Niemann’s public statements had suggested.

“We have provided him with detailed evidence supporting our decision, including information that contradicts his statements about the amount and severity of his cheating on Chess.com,” Chess website officials wrote in the “Hans Niemann Report” published in early October. “We have asked Hans to provide an explanation and response in hopes of finding a solution where Hans can participate on Chess.com.”

Niemann’s lawsuit alleges conspiracy between the defendants, including Chess.com, popular Chess.com streamer Hikaru Nakamura, and Carlsen, whose “Play Magnus” platform Chess.com is set to buy. In the “Hans Niemann Report,” the website denies that Carlsen requested or influenced the closure of Niemann’s account.

Chess.com’s report found no evidence of cheating in Niemann’s over-the-board matches, including the match against Carlsen, although the site notes that its cheating detection is primarily used for online matches.

However, the report claims Niemann likely cheated in over 100 online chess games, including several prize-money events. It also shows that Chess.com’s “Strength Score” is in the range of over a dozen anonymous grandmasters who have admitted cheating. The report also notes that Niemann is by far the fastest rising player in over-the-board classical chess in terms of annual gains.

Niemann’s lawsuit for defamation and collusion calls him an “American chess prodigy,” but Chess.com casts doubt on that claim. The report states that of the 13 grandmasters under the age of 25, Niemann is the only one who became a grandmaster after the age of 16. He is generally referred to as “statistically extraordinary”.

The report points to Chess.com’s “best” cheat detection, which has garnered cheating admissions from four players in the world’s top 100. The report states that Niemann himself called it “the best cheat detection in the world”.

Kylie Jenner reveals off horny vampy type in new lingerie images

KylieJenner doesn’t need a caption to make a statement.

The 25-year-old set social media on fire on October 22, posting a seriously sexy series of snaps to her Instagram. In the pictures, Kylie can be seen posing seductively on a bed near a window while wearing a black pin-up inspired bodysuit that has been teasingly left open.

The vampy lingerie look was paired with severely flushed cheeks, a trendy wet hairstyle, an edgy lip ring and a Balenciaga handbag sitting next to her. Alongside the photos, the Kardashians star wrote, “I couldn’t think of a caption.”

In the comments, Kylie was inundated with reactions from adoring fans, including one writing, “KING KYLIE IS BACK,” while another commented, “She’s in her Kim era.”

Khloe Kardashian also commented on her youngest sister’s sultry look, adding, “I don’t think I was prepared for that.”

Kylie’s sexy social media appearance comes just over a week after she was in full femme fatale vibes during a date night Travis Scott. The Kylie Cosmetics founder, who was spotted with rapper Sicko Mode at Craig’s in West Hollywood on October 13, opted for a latex little black dress, styled with matching knee-high boots, dark sunglasses and a small black handbag was.

After Steve Bannon’s conviction, sends a harmful message

The only justification for Bannon’s bitterness right now is that he thinks laws either shouldn’t exist or shouldn’t apply to him. Yesterday, Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison, sixty days less than prosecutors requested, and a fine of $6,500, or $193,500 less than prosecutors requested. All of this could have been avoided if Bannon had simply complied with the subpoena and required the Fifth or whatever. Instead, he was found lightly guilty and sentenced to a modest sentence. He then went to Tucker Carlson’s show to slap dangerously and arrogantly:

“The entire Justice Department under Merrick Garland has become radically partisan,” Bannon told Tucker Carlson Friday night. “I have every faith that Merrick Garland will be impeached by the new Congress next year.”

He’ll think of a crime later.

“What do you think this says about our system in general?” Carlson asked. “You say you are being sent to prison for providing political advice to Donald Trump. I mean, that doesn’t sound like a free country for something like this to happen.”

No, he will not go to jail for providing political advice to Donald Trump. Jared Kushner provided political advice to Donald Trump, went and testified, and will not go to jail. Bannon goes to jail for not wanting to talk about his advice.

“Right now it’s not free,” Bannon replied. “The Justice Department is completely out of control, and the FBI is out of control. That’s why I firmly believe in disappointing the FBI. Use the appropriation process to defund these two contraptions until they come to the table and we start cleaning the rat’s nest.

Child trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, cybercrime, all of these must be allowed while we disappoint the FBI because the FBI keeps arresting Trumpers. It would be interesting to hear what Bannon thinks needs cleaning.

But his message is more dangerous than amusing. He, along with Tucker Carlson, continues to delegitimize the only law enforcement agency we have equipped to deal with presidential-level crimes. Also, the FBI, seemingly like everything else, is the agency that protects the nation’s secrets. Yesterday we learned that Trump had classified information about Iran and China in Mar-a-Lago. The FBI is the agency charged with counterintelligence duties, and Bannon wants to further delegitimize the FBI?

He was subpoenaed to answer questions in an inquest. Without any apologies, he continued to ignore the subpoenas. This is the guy who said on January 5, “All hell will break loose tomorrow…” Maybe that’s why he never showed up. But there’s no big deep state conspiracy to bring Steve Bannon here. Jared Kushner has surfaced and doesn’t need to go to jail. Bannon ignored the subpoena and will make a report after his appeal.

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