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Nick movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street Time: November 9, 1984 Netflix / Amazon / HBO: N/A Duration of the movie: 91 M Trailer:

Porsche adds another hybrid to its its all-conquering Cayenne Porsche has revealed another plug-in hybrid. It's not as blindingly powerful as the 729bhp Turbo E-Hybrid, though is a little more giddy than the entry-level Cayenne E-Hybrid): welcome to the Cayenne S E-Hybrid, aka Goldlilocks. Like its siblings, it’s a bear of a car, available in SUV and coupé bodies replete with a 3.0-litre V6 and a 130kW electric motor that combine to produce a maximum output of 512bhp. That achieves 0-62mph in a swift 4.7 seconds. So far, so Porsche. Since it can manage a respectable 56 miles of pure-electric driving, it’s likely pretty cheap to run around your local area in – not very Porsche at all. What’s more, there's an integrated on-board AC charger supporting power delivery up to 11kW, meaning the 25.9kWh battery can be returned to full in approximately 150 minutes. Or basically the length of any movie by Christopher Nolan. Porsche has tweaked the standard adaptive air suspension tech for the S E-Hybrid giving it benefits in comfort and driving performance, apparently. There's also a set of 20in wheels thrown in, a brushed steel twin tailpipe exhaust system and fancy LED matrix headlight tech too. Those matrix headlights can be Cinemaxed for the HD versions as an optional upgrade. There are more features in Apple CarPlay, while interior upgrades include a new air filtration system and a passenger-side screen with in-car video functions. Dig deep, as prices in the UK start from £87,100 for the SUV and £90,100 for the coupe, and once you’ve piled on the extras and opted for one of Porsche’s (arguably unmissable) sessions at a Experience Centre, you’re looking at a bill north of £100,000. Link

Candidates who didn’t make the cut share how they’ll be passing Wednesday evening instead of duking it out with GOP opponents. Presidential candidates see themselves as stars. But sometimes, they have more in common with the kid stuck watching a game from the sidelines wishing to get substituted in. “I wish I was there,” said Ryan Binkley, a long-shot presidential candidate with no political experience. Binkley said he’ll be watching the second GOP primary debate Wednesday evening at home with his wife in Dallas before he reviews the debate with his campaign team Thursday morning. “We’ll highlight some things that we think were pertinent and important and some things that we can learn from and apply to the messaging a little bit,” Binkley said, explaining what he’ll look to take away from the debate. “Jealous,” long-shot presidential candidate Perry Johnson said when he was asked how he thinks he’ll feel watching the debate on TV. Tucker Carlson sits down for an interview with former President Donald Trump. Johnson, a businessman, will be tuning in with friends and family from his posh estate in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Johnson, who said the Republican National Committee told him he failed to qualify for the first debate at the last minute, described the experience as “the most disappointing moment in my life.” A month on, he is still sour about what he describes as the RNC’s conspiring against him to quash his candidacy — which hasn’t polled above 1% in any public surveys in the last month, according to FiveThirtyEight’s polling database. “Bottom line is they don’t want a guy like me,” Johnson said. E.W. Jackson, a pastor and one of the lowest-profile candidates in the GOP field, says he won’t be watching the debate Wednesday evening. “To me, it would be torture to listen to them pontificate,” said Jackson, who plans to lie low at his home in southeast Virginia. Jackson said he may decide to record a podcast or raise money from donors instead of watch his competitors duke it out. “Without Trump in the debate, based upon the last debate, it is not going to change a thing,” he said. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who was unable to meet the RNC’s polling requirement after having appeared at the first debate, will watch this one privately from Washington, D.C., after having spoken at a news conference in Detroit earlier in the day. Former Rep. Will Hurd of Texas declined to comment on his debate plans. He spent last month’s debate watching from a hotel room in New York City’s Times Square with a reporter from Politico. And last — but certainly not least, when it comes to polling — there is Donald Trump. The former president didn’t attend the first debate, choosing instead to record an interview with Tucker Carlson that went live on debate night. This time, he is skipping the debate and speaking to union workers in Detroit. Link

Refugees continue to flee Nagorno-Karabakh Every hour, the number of people fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh climbs even further. The official count of refugees is now close to half the po[CENSORED]tion of the enclave. The scenes at the border suggest the region is being emptied of ethnic Armenians. As they come, the aid effort in the town of Goris is intensifying. On Tuesday night, exhausted families slept in cars as they waited to register their arrival. There has been a renewed scramble to help on Wednesday. Local hotels are full, offering rooms for free, and Armenians are posting on social media, offering housing all over the country to refugees. There's talk of turning a school in Goris into a dormitory until something more permanent can be found. But the authorities are adamant they can cope. One senior official told me it was a matter of principle to help Armenia's "brothers and sisters" from Karabakh. Azerbaijan arrests former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Until this week, Tamara was a nurse in a small town hospital just outside Stepanakert, which Azerbaijanis call Khankendi. When Azerbaijan launched its lightning offensive on Nagorno-Karabakh on 19 September, Tamara treated wounded Karabakh fighters and dealt with the dead. "It was scary, there were many injured," she tells me. "Burns. People were hunting for their missing, they couldn't find their children. It was so hard and such a shock for us." Even though Azerbaijan is insisting Armenians can stay in the region they have reclaimed, Tamara didn't dare test that promise. As soon as the route to Armenia reopened after a blockade imposed by Azerbaijan for the past ten months, she and her family packed their lives into a small Soviet-era jeep and began the slow journey across the border. That's when Tamara remembered a young man she had treated in hospital in the previous war, three years ago, and called him. Now she's staying in Goris with his family, who are happy to repay a debt. "It was really hard to get here, it was scary," Tamara says. "But we prayed, we really prayed… Then God helped us." The soldier she helped, then a conscript, now lives in Yerevan. His mother tells me he's recovered physically, although some of the shrapnel that hit him lodged in his head. But he struggles psychologically to cope with what he saw. She mentions the death of many of her son's friends, also young soldiers. That's the context to this refugee crisis. Years of fighting, spilled blood and deep enmity. People have packed all they can into their vehicles It's a similar story in Azerbaijan: hundreds of thousands of Azeris were once displaced from the same disputed strip of land. Many soldiers were killed. There's a lot of history. I tried to talk to ethnic Armenians, now refugees, who fought to defend Nagorno-Karabakh - this month or in wars past. No one wanted to comment in public. One man told me that's because he is ashamed at this defeat, after so many years fighting for the right to live on that land. Everyone I've met thinks they've abandoned the enclave for good. "It feels like everyone is leaving Karabakh now," says Sveta, a woman in her late 60s who has left with two generations of her family. A child's bike is perched on their roof rack, next to big blankets they were given in an aid pack. "I can't stop crying. We've left everything behind. Not only one house - four. Everything." Someone has found the family a room, another four hours' drive away, but they've already spent almost two days on the road and are exhausted. There are minibuses on standby, ready to take people on to temporary housing in other towns and villages. One is full of frail looking pensioners, evacuated from their care home. Many have to be carried by volunteers as they are transferred between buses. There are now food tents and aid handouts in the main square, not far from the stone town church. Some of the produce comes from the local authorities, a lot is donated. "We didn't know what to do and we wanted to help," Maria tells me. She is one of a group of teenage school girls chopping fruit and handing out coffee. "And the arrivals just don't stop," she says. So many people have arrived in Goris now, the authorities are opening a second hub two hours down the road in Vayk. Vehicles full of people are still streaming in, through the mountains of Karabakh. One man had driven all the way in a bright yellow big digger, the scoop filled with his belongings tied down with rope. As the refugees approach, men standing by the roadside wave free sandwiches and drinks, which they then thrust through the car windows. Some take it, hungry and grateful, and drive on. Link

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Nick movie: Black Panther Time: January 29, 2018 Netflix / Amazon / HBO: N/A Duration of the movie: 134 M Trailer:

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Harmless hype or is an actual self-defence mode in the works? It’s Elon, so… That’d be cool, wouldn’t it? A pick-up truck that leaps to your defence at the slightest sign of danger, with a few Bond-style gadgets to see off baddies at the lights. We jest of course. Well, sorta. Remember this is the same car that Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed last year would “serve briefly as a boat”, whatever that means. Our latest nugget of info on the controversial, much-delayed Cybertruck (it was revealed almost four years ago now) is that the boss has tested the rumoured Performance version of the pick-up, and his somewhat partisan verdict is that it “kicks ass next-level”. But of course. Last we heard the Cybertruck might finally end up in the hands of customers before the year is out, although it’s not clear if the Performance model will be available immediately from launch. It sounds as though Tesla will be going for its trusty line-up of single-, dual- and tri-motor variants, with a base car priced from $39,900 and the top-end Performance costing $69,900. Pre-tax, of course. Just like the Model 3 and Model Y Performance, the tri-motor Cybertruck is expected to be rapid: 0-60mph in 2.9 seconds has been mooted, as has a range surpassing 500 miles. Which would be quite the feat given its, er, angular shape. Apparently the Cybertruck Performance will also be capable of towing up to 6,350kg, as well as carry a payload of more than 1,500kg. Those numbers - if achieved - would be mightily impressive. Stick a load of Optimus robots back there and you’ll definitely make your enemies think twice about an ambush… Link

Some conservatives say they won't vote for a short-term bill to keep the government open. If Speaker Kevin McCarthy wants to avoid a shutdown, he'll likely need Democrats' help. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks with reporters about the debt ceiling negotiations at the Capitol on May 24. WASHINGTON — Kevin McCarthy faces an unenviable choice this week: keep his job as speaker, or team up with Democrats to keep the government from shutting down. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and other conservative hard-liners are threatening to overthrow McCarthy, R-Calif., if he works with Democrats to pass a short-term, stopgap measure to keep the government open. But McCarthy may have to do just that, putting a continuing resolution, or CR, on the floor in the coming days if he wants to stave off a highly disruptive shutdown when money for the federal government runs out at midnight Saturday. A shutdown would have far-reaching consequences, halting paychecks for hundreds of thousands of troops, border agents and other federal workers. “He has a career-altering decision to make,” explained one House Republican lawmaker. Asked if he was prepared to team up with Democrats to keep the lights on, McCarthy suggested he’s not quite ready to go there yet: “I believe we have a majority here, and we can work together to solve this. It might take us a little longer, but this is important. We want to make sure we can end the wasteful spending that the Democrats have put forth.” We’d like to hear from you about how you’re preparing for a possible government shutdown and whether you might be out of work or feel the effects of shuttered services. We're also interested to know if you're a member of the military who could miss out on paychecks. Please contact us at tips@nbcuni.com or reach out to us here. With just five days before a shutdown, McCarthy frantically worked through the long Yom Kippur holiday weekend on a new GOP strategy, after two previous attempts to move a key military appropriations bill were blocked by conservatives on the floor. The strategy, first pitched by Gaetz and moderate Rep. Marc Molinaro, R-N.Y., would package four individual appropriations bills — funding the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Agriculture, as well as state-foreign operations — under a single rule, though each bill would get its own vote on the floor. The four bills would cut billions of dollars in spending, something McCarthy hopes conservatives will view as a down payment in exchange for supporting a CR that would keep the government open temporarily and buy Republicans more time to pass the rest of their spending bills. But there’s no guarantee McCarthy can round up enough GOP votes to pass either that funding package or a short-term bill to keep the government open — a scenario that would almost certainly force him to rely on Democrats to pass a “clean” CR to avoid a shutdown. McCarthy, in short, faces a stark dilemma: shut down the government and keep it closed, or risk losing his speakership — the pinnacle of a two-decade career in elected politics — by striking a deal that Democrats can support. “Kevin’s going to have to make that choice for himself,” Rep. Wiley Nickel, D-N.C., said during an appearance on MSNBC on Monday. “But it’s obvious that he’s not going to be able to fund the government if he’s working with the likes of Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene.” Working with Democrats to fund the government, however, would almost certainly trigger a motion to vacate, which would force a vote on whether to oust McCarthy as speaker. Conservative Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said Sunday on CNN that he won’t support a short-term bill — and that if McCarthy passes one relying on Democratic votes, he would “look strongly at” overthrowing him. “Our financial ship is sinking,” he said. “The curtain’s off. We need to do our duty.” On Monday, the speaker made clear he didn’t want a shutdown but acknowledged the political reality: Because of the GOP’s razor-thin majority, just a handful of conservatives have the power to bring the floor to a standstill. And they have the backing of former President Donald Trump. “You have to keep the government open. If people want to close the government, it only makes them weaker. Why would they want to stop paying the troops or stop paying the border agents or the Coast Guard? I don’t understand how that makes you stronger. I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make,” McCarthy told reporters. But he added: “There’s always a handful of people who can stop anything. That same handful stopped us earlier in the year from doing anything on the floor.” Greene, despite emerging as a central McCarthy ally this year, slammed the new McCarthy approach, saying it includes $300 billion in Ukraine aid that she opposes. “The rule is the first step of advancing the blood money in Congress,” the Georgia Republican said in a blistering statement, referring to the four-funding-bill package. “Voting yes on the rule means more money for Ukraine. It’s that simple. No one who wants peace should vote yes on the rule to advance the bills. That’s why I’m a HARD NO on the rules package and a blank check for Ukraine!” Gaetz, of Florida, has been the most outspoken in opposition to a short-term funding bill, publicly threatening to file a motion to vacate if McCarthy brings any CR to the floor. And Gaetz has vowed that he and a handful of other hard-right conservatives will oppose a CR no matter what. “I’m giving a eulogy to the CR right now,” Gaetz told reporters last week. “I’m not voting for a continuing resolution, and a sufficient number of Republicans will never vote for a continuing resolution.” If it comes to a motion to vacate, Democrats would have to decide whether to help oust the speaker or team up with McCarthy's GOP allies and bail him out. So far, Democrats from across the spectrum are staying mum on whether they’d save a GOP leader who supported Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and more recently launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Moderate Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., sidestepped a question about it on CNN, saying: “All we’re focused on is keeping the lights on this week.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said Democrats would “cross that bridge when we get to it.” “Speaker McCarthy has been very weak. I think that he has also engaged in just absolutely terrible decision-making for the American people,” she said, adding: “That is something that the Democratic caucus would also have to come together on and decide how we want to navigate as a collective as well.” Nickel, the House freshman from North Carolina, also suggested that Democrats are beginning to think about whether to save McCarthy’s political career. “Katherine Clark, our whip, has made it clear that there’s certainly a discussion to be had and that there will be concessions if we do that,” Nickel said. “But I think that’s a good conversation. We ought to have those conversations, but they have not started at all.” Privately, House Democrats' aides have voiced misgivings about the idea. One said Democrats “should not be a cheap date” and should only move to save McCarthy if he is willing to keep the government funded at the levels they agreed to in this year's debt ceiling fight, fund Biden’s requests on disaster aid and Ukraine money, end his “impeachment bulls---” and “stop letting the craziest members of his conference set the agenda.” A second aide said that if Democrats come out publicly for saving McCarthy, it would only strengthen his far-right detractors. The aide acknowledged that Democrats, by voting to protect McCarthy, could make his position within the GOP untenable either way. Gaetz, in a testy exchange Sunday with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, a McCarthy ally, blamed the whole debacle on the speaker for failing to act on spending bills until the last minute. “We knew Sept. 30 was coming all year. And Kevin McCarthy has been dilatory. He’s been fiddling like Nero as Rome burns,” Gaetz told the host, adding that the House is taking up individual appropriations bills now “because we are making them." "They’re doing it with a political gun to their head," Gaetz said. "And you are welcome, America.” Link

Thousands have been subject to rigorous checks at the Armenia-Azerbaijani border Nearly 30,000 ethnic Armenians have fled Nagorno-Karabakh - a quarter of the po[CENSORED]tion of the enclave which Azerbaijan seized last week. Hundreds of cars are backed up on the one road leading into Armenia, the destination of those leaving. Azerbaijan says residents will be safe, but Armenia's prime minister says "ethnic cleansing" has started. Nagorno-Karabakh - recognised as part of Azerbaijan - had been run by ethnic Armenians for three decades. The mountainous region in the South Caucasus has been supported by Armenia - but also by its ally, Russia. At least 200 ethnic Armenians and dozens of Azerbaijani soldiers were killed as Azerbaijan's army swept in. As part of a ceasefire deal, separatists have agreed to surrender their weapons. The Azeris have said they want to treat ethnic Armenians as "equal citizens" but a limited amount of aid has been allowed through and many residents are fleeing. On Monday, a massive fuel blast killed at least 68 people attempting to leave. Nearly 300 more were injured and 105 are missing. It is not yet clear what caused the explosion on Monday evening near the main city of Khankendi, known as Stepanakert by Armenians, but many were refilling their cars. As they crossed the border on Tuesday, thousands of ethnic Armenians were subject to rigorous checks from Azerbaijani border control. Azerbaijani authorities claimed to be looking for "war crimes" suspects, and one government source told Agence France Presse news agency that the country intended to apply an "amnesty to Armenian fighters who laid down their arms in Karabakh". "But those who committed war crimes during the Karabakh wars must be handed over to us," they said. Hundreds of cars and buses are trying to reach the town of Goris across the border. A BBC team saw families crammed into cars, boots overflowing and roof-racks piled high with belongings. Convinced they are leaving their homes for good, people are squeezing as much of their lives as possible into their vehicles. Inside Goris, a small town that is the same dusty brown as the jagged mountains that surround it, the narrow streets are filled with more cars and more families. One has arrived in a car held together with little more than sticking tape, its side badly dented and dotted with shrapnel holes, and windows smashed. The owner tells the BBC it was hit by mortar fire when Azerbaijan launched a lightning assault to take control of the region last week. "But it still got us here," he smiles, surrounded by small children. A family made the journey from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia in their heavily damaged car On the main town square, people mill around, unsure what to do next. Volunteers hand out some basic food and blankets. Evacuees are registered and there is the occasional bus to move people on to another town or village. But few seem to have a plan, beyond getting this far. For two days last week, Malina and her family all huddled in their cellar as their village was under fire. After the Karabakh forces surrendered, Malina says the local authorities told everyone to leave for Armenia, for safety. Their village in the Martakert region of Nagorno-Karabakh is now empty. Malina says her family left because - whatever the assurances - they would not feel safe under Azerbaijani rule. Malina says she and her grandchildren fled to seek safety That sentiment is echoed by many others watching the situation unfold. On Tuesday, US Secretary of state Antony Blinken urged Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev to provide "unconditional protections and freedom of movement for civilians", and called for "unhindered humanitarian access to Nagorno-Karabakh". UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres also called for both sides to respect human rights. So far, only one aid delivery of 70 tonnes of food has been allowed through since separatists accepted a ceasefire and agreed to disarm. Azerbaijan announced that another aid convoy, with 40 tonnes of flour and badly-needed hygiene products, was on its way to the enclave. Ethnic Armenian leaders say thousands are without food or shelter and sleeping in basements, school buildings or outside. The Armenian health ministry said it was sending helicopters to evacuate patients from the region's strained hospitals. Azerbaijan also said it had sent medical supplies. On Tuesday, envoys from Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Brussels for European Union-backed talks. It was the first time diplomatic negotiations have been held between the two countries since Azerbaijan seized the enclave last week. Azerbaijan has also started separate negotiations with Karabakh's ethnic Armenian authorities about the region's future. Link

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“I have no interest in being in the United States Senate,” Christie said in an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press." Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday that he has "no interest" in running for the recently indicted Sen. Bob Menendez's seat if his presidential run is unsuccessful. "No, I have no interest in being in the United States Senate," Christie, who's running for the 2024 GOP nomination, told NBC News' Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press." “I had a chance to appoint myself to the United States Senate" after Sen. Frank Lautenberg died in 2013, Christie said. "If I didn’t appoint myself, the easiest way to get there, I sure as heck am not going to run for it,” he said. Christie, a former federal prosecutor, commended the Justice Department for indicting Menendez, the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair, on what he described as "horrific" allegations. Menendez, a Democrat, and his wife were charged Friday, accused of having accepted “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in cash, gold bars and more in return for his influence to enrich three New Jersey businessmen and benefit the Egyptian government. Numerous Democrats, including N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy and Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, have called for Menendez, who has denied any wrongdoing, to resign. Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., who has also called on Menendez to resign, said Saturday he plans to challenge him for his seat. “Not something I expected to do, but NJ deserves better,” Kim wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Menendez has been defiant, and he has said he has no plans to step down. "It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat. I am not going anywhere,” he said. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said on CBS' "Face the Nation" that she also believes Menendez should resign. Asked about his discrimination claim, she said: "As a Latina, there are absolutely ways in which there is systemic bias, but I think what is here in this indictment is quite clear." Christie appeared on "Meet the Press" shortly after NBC News released a poll that showed him lagging with Republican primary voters. Asked whom they would vote for if the primary were held today, only 4% said Christie. The poll showed him in fifth place among primary candidates, and 55 points behind the front-runner, former President Donald Trump, a Christie foe. Christie shrugged off the poll results. “The fact is that national polls don’t matter. We don’t have a national primary,” he said. He said that if he can beat Trump in New Hampshire, "and I plan to do so," the "sense of inevitability" around Trump "will go away." "Momentum is everything in this race," Christie said, vowing that he'll show that after New Hampshire. He also offered some support for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who's trying to find a consensus within his small majority to avert a government shutdown while fending off threats to his speakership from hard-line Republicans. He's "managing a very difficult caucus under very difficult circumstances" and "doing the best he can," Christie said. Asked whether he thinks McCarthy will survive attempts to oust him, Christie said yes and predicted he'd remain speaker through at least the 2024 election. Link