News The Mummy Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz Are Really Truly Returning to The Mummy in 2028 One more reason to count the days until 2028 By Molly Templeton | Published on February 11, 2026 Screenshot: Universal Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Universal Sometimes, getting your hopes up works out. Back in November, The Mummy stars Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz were in talks to return to the beloved franchise with a new film. Now, it’s official: Variety brings word that Universal Pictures has sealed the deals and dated the movie for a 2028 release. At present, 2028 does not feel like a real year, but I’m sure it’ll be here sooner than any of us are ready for it. The as-yet-untitled fourth Mummy film will be directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who work under the name Radio Silence and are also the directors of Ready or Not and the upcoming Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. The screenplay is by David Coggeshall, which seems like an odd choice. Coggeshall is the writer of the films The Family Plan and its sequel, the horror films Orphan: First Kill and The Deliverance, and 65 episodes of the 2000s TV series Watch Over Me. The plot of the new film is being kept under wraps (sorry, but one must make at least one mummy joke when writing about The Mummy). The Mummy, as I surely don’t need to tell you, is a widely adored bisexual awakening film that swept into theaters in 1999 and almost certainly led to more than one person emulating Rachel Weisz’s character’s move of tipsily standing up and announcing “I am a librarian.” Weisz plays Evelyn, who along with her brother Jonathan (John Hannah) travels with treasure hunter Rick O’Connell (Fraser) on a quest to find the Book of Amun-Ra. It is all a lot more complicated than that, and many scary things happen, including booby traps and biblical plagues. Oded Fehr also stars as Ardeth Bay. Much of the cast returned for The Mummy Returns, which marked The Rock’s movie debut (he was still The Rock back then; now he’s Dwayne Johnson). A third film, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, lacked Weisz and was generally somewhat less beloved. But this new film is being referred to as the fourth Mummy film, so it’s not like they’re trying to pretend it doesn’t exist. We’ll learn more before The Mummy returns again on May 19, 2028.[end-mark] The post Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz Are Really Truly Returning to <i>The Mummy</i> in 2028 appeared first on Reactor.

Featured Essays Stephen King How a Stephen King Character Becomes an Unlikely Source of Hope Holly Gibney embodies the ethos of “do no harm but take no shit.”  By Zack Budryk | Published on February 11, 2026 Photo credit: Bob Mahoney Comment 0 Share New Share Photo credit: Bob Mahoney A lot of Stephen King’s most iconic characters feel all too relevant to our current moment, be they the toxic fan who escalates to far worse, the entity that feeds on a community’s fear and prejudice or the frustrated family man who lets his demons turn him into a monster. His 1977 school-shooter novel Rage, written under his pulpier nom de plume Richard Bachman, was found in the personal effects of so many real shooters that King had his publisher take it out of print. It seems far rarer for a King character to provide us with a guide to navigate this terrible American moment. His protagonists tend to be varying shades of admirable or sympathetic, but they’re often stuck reacting to the horror with which they’re confronted. This is blessedly not the case, however, with one of his newer creations, the neurodivergent private investigator Holly Gibney. Holly made her debut as a supporting character in King’s 2014 mystery Mr. Mercedes, enlisted as an assistant to retired cop Bill Hodges as he hunts the titular killer who, in another bit of ominous resonance, killed eight people in a car attack at a job fair. Since then, she’s appeared in the rest of the Hodges trilogy (End of Watch and Finders Keepers) as well as the novels The Outsider, Holly, and Never Flinch and the novella If It Bleeds. Holly is introduced in a position far too many autistic and neurodivergent people will recognize: despite her latent skills at the kind of observation and deduction a detective needs, she’s borderline reclusive and under the thumb of her mother Charlotte, who has conditioned Holly to believe she can’t function in the world or offer it anything. However, under Bill’s guidance, and later through her friendship with her neighbors, siblings Jerome and Barbara Robinson, Holly comes to understand her own strength and capability and starts an investigatory career in her own right. To see yourself in a fictional character often comes with the corollary of wishing you had more of their strengths and fewer of your weaknesses. Generations of teens have been captivated by Spider-Man, for instance, because he shares their frustrations and struggles but also has superhuman powers. Holly is aspirational in subtler ways—her detective skills aren’t presented as the trope of disability as a superpower or clairvoyance, which even King himself has not been immune to. Holly doesn’t have Will Graham-esque visions that help her get to the bottom of things, she’s just astute, patient, and smart enough to let people underestimate her. Holly is also, not incidentally, perhaps the single kindest character King has created. Much of modern fiction runs on the assumption, often by male writers, that a strong female character must be relentlessly snarky, violent, and antisocial. Holly is the exact opposite—her friendships with the Robinsons and Bill are a major part of her characterization, and her fierce loyalty and gratitude for them is instantly recognizable to any neurodivergent person who’s worried they might never find their people. She’s got a spirit of bruised but indefatigable optimism that gets her through what she experiences, referred to as “Holly hope” by both her and her friends. That’s not to say she can’t scrap, of course—every King book featuring Holly has climaxed with her dispatching the antagonist in self-defense, including El Cuco, a murderous, shapeshifting supernatural entity, in The Outsider. She embodies the ethos of “do no harm but take no shit.”  One of my single favorite Holly moments comes in 2023’s Holly, in which she finds herself investigating a string of disappearances that ultimately lead to two elderly married academics who believe in the restorative power of cannibalism (it’s still Stephen King, after all). What ultimately leads Holly to realize the victims have all been snatched up against their will is that all of them had a community, something to live for, loved ones that they wouldn’t have left behind: a college professor who loves his job and boyfriend, a woman who has nominally returned to her family in Georgia despite their having disowned her for being a lesbian, the son of an alcoholic mother who’d been making real progress in getting her drinking under control. Holly has known a life with these ties and without them, and her empathy and gratitude are what make her realize what doesn’t add up.  I’ve loved Holly since I first encountered her, only compounded by Cynthia Erivo’s and Justine Lupe’s performances in the TV adaptations of The Outsider and Mr. Mercedes, respectively. King himself admits to an infatuation with writing the character, saying “I wish she were a real person.” But after the last few weeks, when the news has been wall-to-wall images of a campaign of state terror in Minnesota and its targets standing in solidarity, I appreciate her even more. The streets of the Twin Cities have been filled with Fargo-accented moms and the “helpers” Fred Rogers famously spoke of, not just protesting on the front lines but providing more low-key, behind the scenes mutual aid. Like Holly, they’re not action heroes or revolutionaries–they’re people who love and dare defend their community with whatever talents they have. The state has already extra-judicially murdered two of them, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and it hasn’t made their neighbors more violent, it’s only made them braver. To draw on fiction for solace against real evil can become a crutch—witness the popularity of Harry Potter analogies in the first Trump presidency, made awkward by Trump and Harry’s creator having identical views on trans rights. But at their best, fictional heroes can be not just power fantasies but something like secular saints, figures we use as a sort of lantern in the dark to help find a path through uncharted territory. I don’t know if anyone protecting their community in the Twin Cities, or Chicago, or Los Angeles, or Iran, is a fan of Holly Gibney, but seeing those communities has reminded me that everything I love about Holly exists in millions of real people too.[end-mark] The post How a Stephen King Character Becomes an Unlikely Source of Hope appeared first on Reactor.

Ahead of the FBI raid at the Fulton County election headquarters, an agent detailed the probe’s focus on “deficiencies or defects” from the Georgia count in the 2020 election.  “Fulton County has admitted that it does not have scanned images of all the 528,777 ballots counted during the original count or the 527,925 ballots counted during the recount,” FBI special agent Hugh Raymond Evans said in a detailed affidavit in federal district court justifying the search warant.  “Fulton County has confirmed that during the Recount of votes, some ballots were scanned multiple times,” the affidavit continues.  “Ballot images made available in response to public record requests show ballots with unique markings duplicated within the ballot images.” Evans further noted that auditors hand counting the ballots reported inconsistencies, while the Georgia Performance Review Board reported that Georgia Secretary of State investigators confirmed inaccurate batch tallies from the audit.  “If these deficiencies were the result of intentional action, it would be a violation of federal law regardless of whether the failure to retain records or the deprivation of a fair tabulation of a vote was outcome determinative for any particular election or race,” the affidavit says.  FBI-FultonDownload “Seizure of the election records would corroborate the analysis that evinces that election records were destroyed and or the tabulation of votes included materially false votes, either through duplicated scanning of specific ballots, interjection of pristine ballots, or other methods described above,” Evans says in asking the court to grant the search warrant.  The FBI executed the warrant on Jan. 29. This came after a year-long clash between the State Election Board and Fulton County election officials regarding documents.  The affidavit notes that the FBI interviewed two members of the State Election Board, a Fulton County commissioner, a staffer with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office, and a cyber security analyst among others. The names were redacted.  The agent also noted the issues with 315,000 mail ballots that may not have been properly certified.  “During a December 9, 2025, meeting before the State Election Board, Fulton County stated that tabulator tapes accounting for 315,000 ballots were not properly signed,” the affidavit says. “The Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger stated in the media he considered the unsigned tabulator tapes an administrative oversight.”  On Saturday, U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee ordered the court documents in the case to be unsealed by close of business Tuesday.  Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr. argued the unsealed documents show “recycled theories and politically motivated claims.” “The unsealing of this affidavit confirms what many of us feared from the start: that this extraordinary FBI raid was rooted in recycled theories and politically motivated claims that have already been examined and rejected time and time again,” Arrington said in a statement. The post What the FBI Confirmed About Georgia 2020 Vote Counting Before the Raid appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The El Paso airport was closed temporarily and reopened on Wednesday morning due to a drone incursion from Mexican cartels. “Mexican cartel drones breached U.S. airspace,” a Trump administration official told The Daily Signal. “The Department of War took action to disable the drones. The [Federal Aviation Administration] and [Department of War] have determined there is no threat to commercial travel.” Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed in a post on X that the “threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region.” The FAA and DOW acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion. The threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region. The restrictions have been lifted and normal flights are resuming. https://t.co/xQA1cMy7l0— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) February 11, 2026 Early Wednesday morning, the El Paso International Airport in Texas announced that all flights would be grounded for 10 days due to an FAA flight restriction closing the airspace around the El Paso airport. Hours later, the airport announced that the travel restrictions had been lifted. “El Paso International Airport operations have reopened following the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to lift the temporary closure of the airspace over El Paso,” the airport wrote on its Facebook page. According to Reuters, the Pentagon and FAA were determining the risk of military counter measures to commercial aircraft, and that prompted the decision to shut down the airport. Mexico’s cartels began using drones in recent years to monitor Border Patrol activity, according to Customs and Border Protection. “We’re very concerned about, uh, the drone threat,” Interim Border Patrol Chief for the El Paso Sector Walter Slosar told The Daily Signal during an interview at the border in August. The cartels have also reportedly used drones to smuggle drugs into the U.S. Last week, officials from the border city of Chihuahua, Mexico, and the state of New Mexico met to discuss concerns over the cartels’ increased use of drones, according to Border Report. The New Mexico state legislature is currently considering a bill to place restrictions on drones. “We want people to be able to use drones,” New Mexico Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman says. “However, the idea that drones can be used to circle law enforcement to do things that are known to be criminal activity, the idea that you are going to use a drone, fly it over the border from Mexico, drop a package or guide traffickers so they not be detected, that’s a real problem.” The post El Paso Airport Reopens Following Border Cartel Drone Breach   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

It happened exactly 11 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was visiting the State Department’s mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi, where the CIA also maintained a nearby Annex. On Jan. 15, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence published a detailed report on the terrorist attack made against these U.S. facilities on the night of Sept. 11, 2012. At 9:42 p.m.–as recorded by a surveillance camera–“armed attackers advanced toward the U.S. compound,” and “a local police vehicle” that had been stationed outside the compound pulled away. Some of these attackers climbed over the mission’s gate and then opened it. “Over the course of the entire attack on the Mission facility,” said the committee’s report, “at least 60 different attackers entered the U.S. compound and can be seen on the surveillance video recovered from the Mission facility.” What did they do there? “Ambassador Chris Stevens was in the residence of the Main Building (‘Building C’), along with a Diplomatic Security agent, and Information Management Officer Sean Smith,” said the report. “The three of them proceeded to the ‘safe area’ in the building.” Then, diplomatic security agents “contacted CIA personnel at the Annex to ask for assistance.” But within three minutes of entering this State Department property, the terrorists had begun to destroy it. “After entering the Mission facility, the attackers used diesel fuel to set fire to the barracks/guard house of the Libyan 17th February Brigade militia, which served as a security force provided by the host nation for the Mission compound, and then proceeded towards the main buildings of the compound.” This is when they started killing Americans. “The attackers used diesel fuel to set the Main Building ablaze where Ambassador Stevens was secured in the ‘safe area,'” said the Intelligence Committee’s report. “Thick smoke rapidly filled the entire structure. The attacks moved unimpeded throughout the compound, entering and exiting buildings at will.” “A DS agent began leading the Ambassador and Sean Smith toward the emergency escape window to escape the smoke,” said the report. “Nearing unconsciousness himself, the agent opened the emergency escape window and crawled out. He then realized he had become separated from the Ambassador and Sean Smith in the smoke, so he reentered and searched the building multiple times.” He eventually “climbed a ladder to the roof where he radioed other DS agents for assistance.” Twenty-one minutes after this attack had started a “CIA security team” headed from the CIA Annex to the State Department’s mission. Seven minutes after that they “made their way onto the compound in the face of enemy fire.'” At 10:30 p.m. that night, additional DS agents arrived at the building where Stevens and Smith had taken refuge. There they found Smith, who had already died. The CIA security team, helped by the Libyan militia that worked at the compound, went looking for the missing ambassador. “During this time, State and CIA personnel re-entered the burning compound numerous times in an attempt to locate Ambassador Stevens, but to no avail,” said the report. They then drove in “armored vehicles” to the CIA Annex, taking Smith’s body with them. When they got there, they were again attacked by the terrorists with “sporadic small arms fire” and “rocket-propelled grenades.” Meanwhile, some Libyans did discover Stevens at the State Department mission and brought him to a hospital. “Despite attempts to revive him,” said the committee report, “Ambassador Stevens had no heartbeat and had perished from smoke inhalation.” And this terrorist attack was not yet over. At 5:15 a.m., according to the report, the terrorists started firing at the Annex again. Security officers “Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed when they took direct mortar fire as they engaged the enemy from the roof of the Annex,” it said. More than 13 years have passed since this evil attack. But now justice may be served on one of its alleged perpetrators. On Feb. 6, Attorney General Pam Bondi held a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel and Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. “We lost four American lives that day, Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, with the State Department, and two CIA contractors, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods,” Bondi said of the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi. “We have never forgotten those heroes, and we have never stopped seeking justice for that crime against our nation.” “Today, I’m proud to announce that the FBI has arrested one of the key participants behind the Benghazi attack,” said Bondi. “Zubayar Al-Bakoush landed at Andrews Air Force Base at 3 a.m. this morning. He is in our custody. He was greeted by Director Patel and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.” “Al-Bakoush will now face American justice on American soil,” said Bondi. “We will prosecute this alleged terrorist to the fullest extent of the law. He will face charges related to murder, terrorism, arson, among others. Let this case serve as a reminder. If you commit a crime against the American people anywhere in this world, President Trump’s Justice Department will find you. It might not happen overnight, but it will happen. “You can run, but you cannot hide,” she said. Two others have already been convicted for their involvement in the Benghazi attack. “The Department of Justice previously charged and convicted two leaders in the Benghazi attack on federal terrorism charges and other offenses,” said a Justice Department press release about the Al-Bakoush indictment. “Ahmed Abu Khatallah, aka Ahmed Mukatallah was sentenced in June 2018 to 22 years in prison and resentenced in September 2024 to 28 years in prison. Mustafa al-Imam was sentenced in January 2020 to nearly 20 years.” Hopefully Al-Bakoush will not be the last alleged participant in the Benghazi terrorist attack to be brought to the United States to stand trial. COPYRIGHT 2026 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Trump’s DOJ Seeks Justice for Victims of Benghazi appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Telegram founder Pavel Durov has said Russia’s latest restrictions on the messaging platform reflect a deliberate attempt by the state to steer citizens toward a government-controlled alternative designed for monitoring and content control. In a public post, Durov stated that “Russia is restricting access to Telegram to force its citizens onto a state-controlled app built for surveillance and political censorship. This authoritarian move won’t change our course. Telegram stands for freedom and privacy, no matter the pressure.” His remarks were published as Russian regulators prepared to further limit access to the service. The comments followed reports from Russian media that enforcement actions were imminent. According to the RBC news service, the federal communications regulator Roskomnadzor plans to begin formally restricting Telegram this week, citing unnamed individuals familiar with the matter. The same outlet reported that technical measures to slow the service had already begun. Durov placed the Russian effort within a broader pattern of state behavior, pointing to earlier attempts by Iranian authorities to marginalize the platform. “8 years ago, Iran tried the same strategy — and failed. It banned Telegram on made-up pretexts, trying to force people onto a state-run alternative,” he wrote. “Despite the ban, most Iranians still use Telegram (bypassing censorship) and prefer it to surveilled apps. Freedom prevails.” Russian policy now pairs access restrictions with the promotion of Max, a state-run “super-app” modeled on China’s WeChat. Max combines messaging with government services, document storage, banking tools, and other public and commercial functions. By design, this consolidation routes communications and personal data through infrastructure overseen by the state, aligning convenience with administrative control. Pressure on Telegram has been building since late 2025, when authorities began selectively limiting features such as voice and video calls. The approach mirrors earlier actions taken against other foreign platforms. In November, Russia moved toward fully blocking WhatsApp, owned by Meta, following months of service degradation. Regulators alleged the app was used to organize terrorist attacks and recruit participants, claims cited as grounds for enforcement. Other services have already been removed or curtailed. Russian authorities have banned Facebook, Instagram, and X, while limiting access to YouTube. These measures intensified after President Vladimir Putin ordered the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, as the government moved to narrow the range of information channels available to the public. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Russia Restricts Telegram Access to Push Citizens Toward State-Controlled Max App, Pavel Durov Says appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Brazil is preparing to put a woman on trial for words she typed online nearly five years ago, a case that illustrates how speech regulation now functions through judicial interpretation rather than legislation. Isadora Borges, a resident of Paraíba, is accused of committing the crime of “transphobia” after posting comments on social media in November 2020 about sex, biology, and gender identity. Her full name is Isadora Borges de Aquino Silva. She is 34 years old, a veterinary student, and is a self-described feminist. Federal prosecutors argue that those posts warrant criminal prosecution. If convicted on all counts, Borges could receive a prison sentence ranging from four to ten years. The posts appeared on X, then operating as Twitter, during a period of intense online debate over gender theory. One message stated that “transgender” women “were obviously born male.” Another said: “A person who identifies as transgender retains their birth DNA. No surgery, synthetic hormone, or clothing change will change this fact…” The remarks were widely shared and circulated beyond Borges’s own account. After the posts gained traction, a complaint was filed with federal police by Erika Hilton, a politician and transgender woman, who has been central to other similar free speech cases. That complaint initiated a criminal process that remained dormant for years. Borges learned in September 2025 that prosecutors had formally charged her with two counts of “transphobia,” each carrying a possible sentence of two to five years. Her first court hearing is scheduled for tomorrow, February 10. She is being represented with the support of ADF International. Julio Pohl, legal counsel for the organization, said the case reflects a deep problem in how Brazil now treats political and social expression. “No one should face a decade behind bars for expressing an opinion on a matter of public concern,” he said, in a press statement sent to Reclaim The Net. “Weaponising Brazil’s expansive ‘transphobia’ laws to punish peaceful expression is a profound violation of freedom of speech.” Borges has spoken publicly about why she addressed the subject in the first place: “I commented on the issue because I care about the truth and protecting women. No one should ever fear going to prison for recognizing biological reality. I hope that my case can serve as a turning point in fighting censorship in Brazil. Brazilians deserve the freedom to speak openly without punishment.” Federal prosecutors argue that publishing and amplifying those views constitutes criminal conduct. A conviction would bring fines and incarceration. Even without a guilty verdict, the legal process itself imposes high financial and personal costs. The charges rely on a legal structure created by Brazil’s pro-censorship Supreme Court rather than by Parliament. In June 2019, the court voted 8 to 3 to reinterpret an existing anti-racism statute so that it also covered sexual orientation and gender identity. The original law addressed discrimination in areas such as employment, housing, and public accommodations, and also criminalized defamation and insults. Through judicial extension, it now applies to a broader category of speech. Because no statute passed by Congress defines “transphobia,” prosecutors and judges determine how the concept applies, often years after the speech occurred. That arrangement leaves boundaries undefined and enforcement unpredictable. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Brazil Charges Woman for 2020 Social Media Posts Under Court-Defined “Transphobia” appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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