内容摘要：Nicole, a Haitian immigrant who works for a meat processing plant, looks for wild flowers outside her apartment, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Nicole, a Haitian immigrant who works for a meat processing plant, looks for wild flowers outside her apartment, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

White has had speaking roles at the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Republican conventions and appeared on stage at Trump’s election victory party in November.Shares of Meta Platforms Inc. rose slightly in midday trading, while shares of TKO Group Holdings Inc. climbed more than 2%.

As they so often do in Marvel Land, worlds collide inBut in this refreshingly earthbound iteration of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the collision isn’t a matter of interplanetary strife. “Thunderbolts” has been touted as the unlikely meeting of two of the dominant forces in 21st century American movies: Marvel and A24.This isn’t a co-production, but much of the creative team and many of the stars have ties to the indie studio. “Thunderbolts” is directed by Jake Schreier, who has directed many episodes of the A24 series “Beef,” and was written by Joanna Calo (also a “Beef” veteran) and Eric Pearson (a Marvel veteran). The connections go further: cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo (“A Ghost Story,” “The Green Knight”), editor Harry Yoon (“Minari”) and a score by the band Son Lux (“Everything Everywhere All At Once”).

Some trailers for “Thunderbolts” have highlighted these connections, perhaps in hopes of a little A24 auteur cool rubbing off on Hollywood’s superhero factory. It’s also a sign of how rough things have gotten for Marvel that, after a string of misfires, it’s leaning on the studio behindfor its latest would-be blockbuster.

Does that make “Thunderbolts” a hipper superhero movie? Can you expect

scenes of Black Widow drinking a glass of milk? The answer, of course, is that “Thunderbolts” has no more indie cred than “Avatar.” What it is, though, is the best Marvel movie in years.Ellie’s husband James found an engineering job. The family bought 192-year-old

with 237 acres (96 hectares) of forest and meadows.“I felt excited to go to a new place and be out of the fire place,” said 10-year-old Soraya Holden, one of five children, as she walked alongside the family’s herd of goats behind an old dairy barn. She ticked off the area’s perks — rock climbing, gymnastics and a climate that’s “not burning hot.”

(AP Video/Rodrique Ngowi)Families are increasingly factoring climate into a move as temperatures and climate-induced disasters rise. Several