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"Mufasa: The Lion King" sputtered in second place at theaters in the United States and Canada. "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" was No. 1.

Initial reports suggested it was unlikely that those on the plane survived. At least 14 other people were believed to have been injured on the ground.

Short, the host, was accompanied by Paul Rudd, Tina Fey, John Mulaney and others, while the Weekend Update hosts riffed on Luigi Mangione and the drone sightings.

America can't go backward on drug policy.

We cover a new film about the singer-songwriter.

The authorities said they were struggling to understand the motives for the attack with a car in the eastern city of Magdeburg, in which a 9-year-old boy was among the five victims.

We owe it to the right whale -- and to so many other species -- to reconstruct what our own history has taken from them.

It's a source of today's intense political animosity.

It's a simple question with a complicated answer.

You're about to get on a long flight home, and the options seem overwhelming. Here's the strategy our critic recommends.