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Wall Street Journal
2 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
U.S. Crude Oil Stockpiles Fall More Than Expected
U.S. crude oil inventories fell more than expected last week as exports increased, and gasoline stocks declined amid a seasonal pickup in demand, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Commercial crude oil stocks excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell by 2.8 million barrels to 440.4 million barrels in the week ended May 23 and were about 6% below the five-year average for the time of year, the EIA said. Analysts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had predicted crude stockpiles would fall by 600,000 barrels.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
The tragic story of how teen TikTok star Grace Phelan documented her terminal cancer as tributes pour in
The tragic story of how teen TikTok star Grace Phelan documented her terminal cancer battle has left millions heartbroken as tributes pour in. Phelan, 19, captured hearts across social media as she bravely documented her battle with a grade 4 malignant brain tumor. She shared intimate moments of her fight right up until her final days. The inspiring influencer's family announced her heartbreaking death on Friday, May 23, just one week after she posted a gut-wrenching final update about her deteriorating condition. 'Things haven't been good. My tumor grew and it's in the area where I can't breathe and it can't be operated,' she said. 'So, I just want to say thank you for all the prayers. It would take a miracle, but I'm not giving up yet. If you keep praying for me, I think that I'll make it.' 'So we're just going to hope and pray that I get better soon... so yeah, just keep me in your prayers. It will take a miracle, but thank you all.' The teenager's tragic story began last summer when she started experiencing alarming symptoms just days before she was set to begin college. Things got more concerning when she developed numbness on one side of her face and in her leg. This led to the devastating news. An MRI scan revealed a lesion on her brain, and a subsequent brain biopsy confirmed her worst fears - she had been diagnosed with a glioma, a aggressive type of brain tumor. 'I started losing my balance,' she said in one video. 'I started having vision problems in my left eye, my numbness in my face and on my leg is still here. My speech started to seem weird. My head's very foggy.' That's when the nightmare began. She announced her cancer diagnosis in a September 2024 TikTok video. 'This is definitely the hardest news I've ever received. By all means, this is not easy. Just going to trust in the Lord and try and keep pushing forward.' Throughout her heartbreaking journey, the brave teenager gave her followers a close look into her battle. She shared updates about radiation therapy and her worsening symptoms, which included breathing problems and dizziness. In her final, heart-wrenching video, Phelan spoke candidly about how the disease had destroyed her body. 'I don't see very well. I don't walk or shower alone, or eat alone,' she added 'My whole right side is numb... that's pretty much where we're at,' she continued in part. 'I'm not doing cancer pills right now, there isn't [sic] options for me.' Despite her declining health, the teenager maintained her unwavering faith and gratitude for her supporters right until the end. Her family announced her death in a message posted to her social media accounts. 'It is with great sadness to announce that our beautiful daughter, Anna Grace Phelan, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.' 'So many of you have followed her journey through a difficult battle with cancer and bore witness to her powerful testimony of faith,' the statement continued. 'Thank you for the countless thousands of prayers for healing and peace. May we all rejoice with the assurance that she is in Heaven now, and she has been healed.' Per her obituary, Phelan's funeral will be held Thursday at Galilee Christian Church in Jackson County, Georgia, with burial to follow at the church's cemetery. A GoFundMe campaign launched for Phelan after her diagnosis has raised more than $65,000. She is survived by her parents, William 'Buddy' Phelan and Nadine Phelan, her brother Harper David Phelan, and extended family.
South China Morning Post
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Irene Kim's star-studded wedding: the Korean-American model partied with Astro's Cha Eun-woo, Girls' Generation's Jessica Jung and fashion blogger Bryanboy – but who is her new husband?
Congratulations are in order for Korean-American model Irene Kim , who tied the knot with her non-celebrity boyfriend John, after surprising fans on Instagram with a heartfelt wedding announcement in January this year. 'Current status: emotionally unstable but glamorously dressed,' Irene Kim captioned this photo of herself in one of her wedding dresses. Photo: @ireneisgood/Instagram 'This isn't just a story about a ring or a question; it's about a love that has grown through precious little moments that have built the foundation of something so special. I feel so blessed to have met the man I want to spend the rest of my life with,' Kim wrote. 'I can't wait to share more with you in a way that aligns with my comfort and happiness. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for always supporting me and for celebrating this special era of love with me.' Advertisement Irene Kim is keeping her new husband's identity under wraps, even going so far as to crop his face out of their wedding pics. Photo: @ireneisgood/Instagram The wedding, held on May 23 in South Korea, was a grand affair attended by K-pop stars Cha Eun-woo and Jessica Jung as well as fashion week front-row fixtures Bryanboy, Molly Chiang, Yoyo Cao and Declan Chan. Here's everything to know about Irene Kim's big day. La Mer for her skin Days ahead of the wedding, Kim shared her wedding day skin prep routine and the secret behind her bridal glow – La Mer. 'Bridal shower flea market' Unlike most brides-to-be who host elaborate bridal showers, the Fashion Institute of Technology graduate took a unique approach by hosting a 'bridal shower flea market' ahead of her wedding. 'Still floating from the love, laughter and unforgettable moments at my bridal shower flea market!' Kim wrote on Instagram, sharing snaps and videos of the day in an Instagram post. Wedding photo shoots
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Review
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning opens in theaters Friday, May 23. For nearly 30 years, the stunts and action sequences of Mission: Impossible have been synonymous with big-screen spectacle. And as expected, the franchise's newest entry finds Tom Cruise's alter ego Ethan Hunt risking life, limb, and the fates of millions, this time in pursuit of stopping The Entity, the evil A.I. introduced in 2023's Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. But the way I see it, the sequel – which stopped being Dead Reckoning Part Two sometime in the last two years – might be trying a little too hard to top the IMF's greatest hits. First thing you should know about me is that I've always been a huge mark for James Bond movies. I've got a lot of formative movie memories from growing up with those films. So I was, frankly, thrilled to see all the things I loved about Bond captured perfectly in 2016's Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the first of now four Ethan Hunt adventures written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Rogue Nation nails the combination of go-for-broke practical stunts, grinning self-awareness, and just the right touch of believability that make up the most important parameters for a successful IMF mission – Fallout nails it slightly less, and I think Dead Reckoning misses by a wider margin. The Final Reckoning, unfortunately, has gone farther afield. My biggest takeaway from the eighth and very evidently not final film starring Cruise as fate's chosen lucky boy is that it's extremely sober. The Final Reckoning veers into melodrama whenever there is story to be told. The cast, which is an assembling of familiar franchise faces and newcomer cameos, whisper-talk their way through soap-opera levels of tension. Nearly every scrap of dialogue is invested in no less than the end of all life on the my first litmus test for these movies is how serious they treat Ethan Hunt getting the mission. Rogue Nation was a flirty encounter at a record shop, Fallout's knock on the door woke him up from a dream where a nuclear blast interrupted his wedding, and Dead Reckoning was some kind of dramatic poetry slam with the IMF Oath and a new recruit. The Final Reckoning features a lo-fi delivery method thanks to the Entity's infiltration of all things digital – and it's honestly kinda fun. But the message is the most dire and serious thing. This is a story point introduced by Dead Reckoning: The Entity as a villain capable of literally every bad thing imaginable, like a laundry list of vague shorthand threats – any one of which could've been enough to carry a movie. Instead, they've all been lumped together in the form of a nebulous digital boogeyman, and reiterating that in the 'this message will self destruct' section of the movie sets a very somber tone for everything that follows. Save for a few bits of humor here and there, it's never shaken (or stirred). Absurdly astronomical stakes are one of the biggest issues with The Final Reckoning. A good-old fashioned nuke or biological weapon – those live in Mission: Impossible's sweet spot: life-and-death at a massive scale, while also real enough to be relatably scary. But all life on planet Earth is just too much to plausibly wrap your head around, particularly with how seriously everyone takes everything else compared to say, Rogue Nation or Fallout. I know I keep swerving away from The Final Reckoning and back into the rest of the franchise but, for better and worse, this is a part eight that's very aware that it's a part eight. You can't call a movie The Final Reckoning without delivering some degree of, well, finality, and oh boy does this one try. It's not merely planting Easter eggs from the earlier films so much as picking entire story points – largely unnecessary ones, I would argue. It's a nice nod to the diehards, but when you consider the nearly three-hour run time and the relative lack of importance these moments have to the overall movie, I'm not sure what McQuarrie and Cruise were trying to accomplish. This is all to say, The Final Reckoning is impossible to review out of the context of the other seven Missions: Impossible, which is why I keep recapping my feelings for the franchise as a whole. One of the callbacks that I really did enjoy, though, is a guy we've seen in the trailers for The Final Reckoning: William Donloe (Rolf Saxon), the poor bastard working in the CIA black vault whose nose Ethan stole the NOC list out from under way back in the '90s. His part in The Final Reckoning is spot on. He's a meaningful character for Ethan and the IMF to encounter who also speaks to the themes of the movie: Our lives are the sum of our choices. He's fun, which is short supply here, and I would've loved it if he'd have been the only bit of retconning this movie tried to do. But I've been talking a lot about the things I didn't like – it's important to note that there are some things The Final Reckoning very much did right. The action is predictably excellent, with the highlight being Ethan's infiltration of the Sevastopol, the MacGuffin of a submarine that sank at the start of Dead Reckoning. It is incredibly tense and intricate and claustrophobic and all the other nail-biting things you want from a thriller. More than that, there's clearly a huge chunk of the reported $400 million budget on screen, and Christopher McQuarrie is getting all the nautical miles he can out of it. The set is equal parts Avatar and the hallway fight from Inception. The fight choreography is also elevated from previous entries, as other countries send their most special forces after the same prize Ethan is after. The fights are a little more brutal and legitimately feel like the IMF could lose. At this point in the franchise, that's a difficult tightrope to walk, and McQuarrie and Cruise deserve a lot of credit for that. They also deserve a fair bit of credit bringing the team together again. I felt that was one part of the Mission: Impossible formula that was a little absent from the last film. The climax of The Final Reckoning gives every team member a job – it's reminiscent of Fallout in that respect, and very important for the IMF. Because it's less fun when Ethan is running around doing everything himself. An abiding trust in his team is part of Ethan's allure – in addition to being, as Shea Whigham's Jasper Briggs puts it in Dead Reckoning, a mind-reading, shape-shifting incarnation of climactic biplane sequence is great, too. It's thrilling in parts, funny in others, and most importantly, all the effort and planning that goes into a stunt like that is apparent. The only question I have about it is, would The Final Reckoning be worse if it were a stunt double walking out on the wing of that plane instead of Tom Cruise? Or would it just have one less interesting thing going for it? A lot of how I feel about this movie, though, comes down to that subtitle. The Final Reckoning can't be officially final with the way it ends, and I don't think there are any of us who believe Tom Cruise is done risking his life for our entertainment. So it's either the best subtitle for this movie, or the worst. Maybe they completely missed the mark on the 'Final' part of the equation, and it's not a representative title at all. Maybe its not-entirely-successful attempt at tying a neat and all-encompassing bow is the Final Reckoning for the franchise and the path it laid out across 8 movies. From a real world perspective, maybe a messy and self-serious capstone to an otherwise iconic franchise is exactly what they deserve and it's a perfect subtitle. For my part, because again, I'm a big fan of this kind of movie, I'm rooting for the latter. Threads have been picked up and tugged on in different directions throughout the course of these eight films. That's just the cost of doing business with a 30-year juggernaut of a franchise. Their mission now, should they choose to accept, is to take the clean slate they've created with all those threads tied up, however clumsily, and get back to what Mission: Impossible does best: not take itself so seriously.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Social Media Star Dead at 19 After Battle With Brain Cancer
Rest in peace. Anna Grace Phelan, a social media personality known for making videos about her battle with stage 4 brain cancer, has died. She was 19 years old. Phelan's mother, Nadine Phelan, took to TikTok to share the heartbreaking news. 'It is with great sadness to announce that our beautiful daughter, Anna Grace Phelan, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So many of you have followed her journey through a difficult battle with cancer and bore witness to her powerful testimony of faith,' the post began. 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 'Thank you for the countless thousands of prayers for healing and peace. May we all rejoice with the assurance that she is in Heaven now, and she has been healed,' the post continued. 'Let us also remember that the only path to the promised kingdom of Heaven is through salvation in Jesus Christ." In addition to the post on social media, Phelan's obituary was also shared online. According to the site, the teenager died on Friday, May 23. Phelan shared news of cancer via Instagram in September 2024, writing, 'Hi, everyone, I am Anna Grace Phelan. I am 18 years old. I was just diagnosed with a grade 4 glioblastoma brain tumor, and it is inoperable. I will be undergoing radiation and other treatments in the future. This is a GoFundMe set up to help me and my family with medical bills and care. If you would like to donate, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much for all the love and support.' Per the obituary, Phelan is survived by her parents, brother, maternal grandparents, paternal grandparents, and 'a host of aunts, uncles, and cousins, who love her very much.' Social Media Star Dead at 19 After Battle With Brain Cancer first appeared on Parade on May 25, 2025
