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As Hollywood's summer movie season winds down over Labor Day weekend, the box office results can be summed up in one word every studio executive wants to hear: up. But a season that saw more than its share of surprise hits also had a handful of surprise misses -- and proved the only reliable trend is the bankability of superhero blockbusters. Here's a look at five lessons learned from the biggest flubs and triumphs of the season.

“We were in combat immediately with no experience,” Sam Folsom, 98, told Stars and Stripes recently. “Green as can be – very few of us had any real flight experience." He would ultimately leave Guadalcanal with three air-to-air kills.

In the spring of 1967, Johnnie Ashe, a Marine counting down the days left of his time at war in Vietnam, realized that if he went home, his older brother, who had 15 months left in the Army, could be shipped off to Vietnam.

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced Friday that a superlift of a combined structure of 19 smaller units resulted in the completion of that work 14 months earlier than it had been on the USS Gerald R. Ford.

Damien Chazelle’s last movie, “La La Land,” was about a man clinging to nostalgia. His new one, “First Man,” doesn’t merely flirt with the past. It throttles back in time.

Russia has delayed the transit of hundreds of commercial ships near a key Ukrainian port, a move that some analysts say amounts to a de facto blockade in an increasingly volatile region.

In a private interview with lawmakers this week, Bruce Ohr also said he learned that a Trump campaign aide had met with higher-level Russian officials than the aide had acknowledged, according to multiple people familiar with the encounter.

Aretha Franklin's funeral began Friday with tributes, prayers and songs, as pink Cadillacs filled the street outside a Detroit church where the guests included former President Bill Clinton, former first lady Hillary Clinton, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson.

The nation’s largest veterans organization passed a resolution during a weeklong national conference in favor of returning church bells that were seized by U.S. troops after a battle with Philippine rebels in 1901.

A former associate of Paul Manafort agreed to cooperate with U.S. prosecutors as part of a guilty plea for failing to register in the U.S. as a foreign agent for his work lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian political party.

Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday that she will seek clemency from President Donald Trump, in light of his tweet last week that her sentence of five years and three months in federal prison for leaking classified information is “so unfair.”

Canada’s foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, met with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Friday morning, taking a more subdued tone in discussing the status of the negotiations.

“Donut County” is an upbeat game about being a callous worker, someone entitled and destructive who thinks he is a good guy. For most of the game you upend the lives of people and ruin different environments with rollicking abandon.

Tibet. Nepal. Bhutan. The names rolled of my tongue like a timeless Himalayan mantra. I was itching to go, but after decades of solo rambling, I was done with handling tricky logistics. Let someone else -- preferably an established tour company -- arrange flights, guides, hotels, baggage and, most important, assorted visas and travel permits. Globe-trotting friends suggested Road Scholar, a do-it-all company targeting travelers of baby-boomer age and older, which is how I spent 16 days last spring in and around the capital cities of Lhasa... Читать дальше...

The six-term Republican senator, who lived and worked in the nation's capital over four decades, is lying in state under the U.S. Capitol rotunda for public visitation following a memorial service attended by family, friends, lawmakers and guests.

National Guard personnel are authorized to remain on the U.S.-Mexico border for another year, the Defense Department confirmed Friday.

The family stepped warily onto Bourbon Street and hurried past a burlesque joint, an absinthe bar and neon signs touting "Leather Lingerie Love Toys" and "Hunk Oasis Male Strippers." Heather and Chad Bruton, a clean-cut couple from Texas, didn't want to visit this historic city for the first time without witnessing its famed promenade of debauchery. But with three young children in tow, they didn't want to see too much. "How come that guy died on the street?" 3-year-old Cooper said as he spotted a barefoot man passed out on a sidewalk. Читать дальше...

Eminem has a surprise for his fans. At midnight on Friday on the East Coast, the rapper announced on Twitter the release of a new album, "Kamikaze."

At the dawn of the campaign sprint to the midterm elections, a news Washington Post-ABC News poll finds a majority of the public has turned against Trump and is on guard against his efforts to influence the Justice Department and special counsel Robert Mueller’s wide-ranging probe.

Wildcats hoping that revamped stadium, added talent and renewed effort will lead to a special season.

A combined 51 flags flew during the contest; Kadena had three touchdowns called back due to penalties.

Far from the packed beaches of Sicily’s busy coastlines, there’s a quieter and wilder world in its high mountains. In more dangerous times, this was where much of Sicily’s population settled, building castles, towns, monasteries and churches on steep slopes and the tops of mountains as protection against invaders and pirates.

The Trump administration has reinterpreted a 2008 agreement with Vietnam in which Vietnamese citizens who arrived to the U.S. before the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1995 would not be “subject to return.”