President Donald Trump visited U.S. installation at the center of American involvement in the Middle East as he uses his four-day visit to Gulf states to reject the “interventionism” of America’s past in the region.
The president has held up Gulf nations like Saudi Arabia and Qatar as models for economic development in a region plagued by conflict as he works to entice Iran to come to terms with his administration on a deal to curb its nuclear program.
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Trump downplayed Putin’s decision to skip Russia-Ukraine talks: The Russian president sent a delegation to planned peace talks in Turkey. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy had previously said he’d participate only if Putin showed up. But Trump said he was not surprised that Putin was a no-show. “I didn’t think it was possible for Putin to go if I’m not there,” he said in an exchange with reporters.
The president is still eyeing an Air Force One replacement: The president says he’s ready to accept a donated jet from Qatar, despite concerns that it could be less secure, costly to retrofit and a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on foreign gifts.
Trump’s trip could be a turning point for Syria: The president has used his trip to announce plans to recognize the government of Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and to ease sanctions on the war-torn country.
Answers for today’s NYT Mini Crossword are just ahead.
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Before we get to today’s NYT Mini crossword hints, clues and answers, here are Wednesday’s:
Forbes‘NYT Mini’ Crossword Hints And Answers For Wednesday, May 14By Kris Holt
Wondering what direction is opposite of WSW? Not sure what might be like Mini crosswords and a phonetic description of this puzzle? Don’t worry, because I’m here to help you with the answers for today’s NYT Mini crossword.
The NYTMini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper’s larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays.
Unlike its larger sibling, the NYTMini crossword is free to play on the New York Times website or NYT Games app. However, you’ll need an NYT Games subscription to access previous puzzles in the archives.
Here are the NYT Mini Crossword clues and answers for Thursday, May 15:
Spoilers lie ahead, so remember to scroll slowly:
NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers
NYT Mini Across Answers
1 Across: Direction opposite of WSW – ENE
4 Across: Shoot out, as lava from a volcano – SPEW
5 Across: “In what place?” – WHERE
6 Across: Plants you didn’t plant, perhaps – WEEDS
7 Across: Like Mini crosswords … and a phonetic description of this puzzle? – EASY
NYT Mini Down Answers
1 Down: Fencing swords – EPEES
2 Down: Prone to geeking out – NERDY
3 Down: Farm animals that sound like vowels not seen in this puzzle? – EWES
4 Down: Stadium at which the Beatles performed an iconic 1965 concert – SHEA
5 Down: Org. for Hulk Hogan and John Cena – WWE
Completed New York Times Mini crossword for Thursday, May 15.
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It took me 0:41 to complete today’s NYT Mini.
Not a bad time, but I’m never a fan of the Mini being overly self-referential like this with the 7 Across and 3 Down clues. It’s too on-the-nose to be cute, most of the time.
Anyway, I got all of the Across clues on my first try except for EASY because of that annoying self-referential thing. The Down answers were straightforward enough, but I tripped up by going with “nerds” instead of NERDY, which cost me a few seconds.
See you tomorrow for more NYT Mini fun!
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There were mixed fortunes for the 10 most-bought players in Gameweek 36 of Fantasy Premier League as Kevin Schade (£5.2m) and Josko Gvardiol (£6.4m) outscored their more popular team-mates.
Kevin De Bruyne (£9.6m) was the No 1 transfer target, transferred in by more than 770,000 managers for Manchester City’s appealing trip to Southampton attracted by the Belgian’s two double-figures hauls in his previous four appearances. But De Bruyne was unable to continue his good form as the match finished 0-0.
The goalless draw benefitted those who snapped up defender Gvardiol, who recorded his fifth shutout in seven Gameweeks.
There were also encouraging signs at the other end of the pitch as the Croat benefitted from a switch to full-back following Manuel Akanji‘s(£5.3m) return to the Man City back line.
The tactical change saw Gvardiol register eight touches in the opposition penalty area, his highest total since Gameweek 18, and allowed him to have two shots in the box.
The stats also offer some comfort to De Bruyne’s new owners, despite the blank. Their new signing had five shots and created four chances, both match-high totals.
GW36 most-bought players
Player
Bought by
Pts
De Bruyne
770,732
3
Wissa
656,804
1
Mbeumo
533,942
6
Gvardiol
458,422
6
Wood
451,998
8
Elanga
304,481
7
Cunha
281,178
0
Ait-Nouri
223,592
1
Schade
208,505
11
Sels
188,859
2
Hopes were high ahead of Brentford’s game at Ipswich Town, with Bryan Mbeumo (£8.2m) and Yoane Wissa (£6.8m) the second and third most-bought players respectively.
Mbeumo supplied an assist as the visitors emerged 1-0 winners, which will feel a little disappointing considering his two goals and 15 points in the reverse fixture. But he at least fared better than Wissa, who was yellow-carded and mustered just a single point, his first blank in five outings.
The real winners, however, were those who moved for Schade, with the German registering double digits for the second successive match. Schade scored and received maximum bonus for an 11-point haul.
Elsewhere, it was a day to forget for Wolverhampton Wanderers’ duo Matheus Cunha (£7.1m) and Rayan Ait-Nouri (£5.1m).
Wolves lost 2-0 at home to Brighton & Hove Albion with the pair combining for a grand total of one point. Cunha was subbed off before the 60th minute after picking up a yellow card, while Ait-Nouri lost a point for conceding two goals.
Despite Nottingham Forest’s late setback against Leicester City, both Chris Wood (£7.1m) and Anthony Elanga (£5.5m) delivered for Fantasy managers.
Wood scored his 20th goal of a stellar season and got two bonus points with Elanga, who assisted Morgan Gibbs-White‘s (£6.4m) first half goal.
Although Leicester had failed to score in five of their last six away games, there was disappointment for the 180,000+ Fantasy managers who brought in Matz Sels (£5.2m) for a clean sheet.
GW35 most-sold players
Player
Sold by
Pts
Mateta
374,193
1
Saka
351,829
2
Marmoush
331,866
1
Isak
331,057
2
Salah
314,559
2
He may have recorded more points in a single campaign than any other player in the history of Fantasy, but Mohamed Salah (£13.7m) is the fifth most-sold player for Gameweek 36 and those sellers were justified.
The Egyptian has averaged just 3.7 points per match (ppm) since Gameweek 30, having returned over 10.6ppm across the rest of the season. And Salah blanked for the third time in four Gameweeks at home to Arsenal.
Fellow premium-priced midfielder Bukayo Saka (£10.3m) also blanked at Anfield. Six consecutive blanks have caused managers to feel their money could be better invested elsewhere.
Jean-Philippe Mateta (£7.6m) has failed to recapture the form he showed before his injury in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, scoring just twice in seven appearances compared to nine attacking returns in his eight matches before Gameweek 28.
The Frenchman, who was the most-sold player ahead of GW36, blanked for the fifth time in six Gameweeks. Furthermore, Mateta was substituted before the 60th minute against Tottenham Hotspur to return just a single point.
Alexander Isak (£9.6m) and Omar Marmoush (£7.6m) were also shipped out in large numbers as Fantasy managers reorganised their front lines.
Marmoush was unable to take full advantage of the injury to positional-rival Erling Haaland (£14.8m), with no goals in three outings.
With Haaland named in the starting XI for the first time since Blank Gameweek 29 (BGW29), the security of starts Marmoush enjoyed in the Norwegian’s absence is gone.
He was restricted to a cameo appearance off the bench and one point in the draw with Southampton as he missed a late chance.
Isak suffered a drop in ownership and failed to find the net in Newcastle’s 2-0 win against Chelsea for for his first home blank in five matches. The Magpies visit Arsenal next weekend.
Grab a friend and do a dramatic reading of the first play of today’s game. You can play Dave Sims.
Dave Sims:“Julio going back on the track, looking up, juuuuumps. And. Let’s see. He made! — He did not get it. He did not get it. It’s a home run for Trent Grisham. Grisham, still checking —” Suzyn Waldman:“No, he’s got it. He’s got it!” Dave:“Oh, he did the psych out again?” Suzyn: “Yes, he did.” . . . Dave:“He’s good in front of the camera.” Suzyn:“Evidently.”
Evidently.
Luis Castillo then worked around hits from Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger with a pair of strikeouts to end the first inning without damage. Relying almost exclusively on his four-seamer and slider, Castillo got six whiffs on 17 swings with another five called strikes his first time through the order today.
But that was no match for what Will Warren did in his first time through the order. That started with a line out from Master Bunny (J.P. is day-to-day with “shoulder tightness”) and then struck out five consecutive Mariners (Polo, Julio, Cal, Randy, Rowdy).
By contrast, the second time through went better for Castillo than it did for Warren. The peak came early, with back-to-back strikeouts of Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger, and getting himself up to 12 whiffs. Those strikeouts took a toll on his pitch count though, and he was at 70 pitches before even getting out of the fourth inning.
Warren, meanwhile, picked up another three strikeouts at the cost of his pitch count, but also gave up two runs. Those runs started with a routine grounder between first and second base. But despite this being the second baseman’s ball, Warren ran to cover the bag, causing confusion at first base between him and Ben Rice, both looking around like they’d gotten to a party and were trying to find someone they knew. The second baseman (DJ LeMaheiu) ended up throwing the ball at both/neither of them. Neither really tried to catch it.
That got scored as an E4 despite it being anyone’s fault but LeMaheiu’s because the error rules are dumb and you can’t split errors. After the game, they changed that from an E4 to a hit, which isn’t right either. This is a prime use-case for my proposed “no-fault base,” which would be neither a hit nor an error and could also be used for things like sun doubles. In any event, Jorge Polanco came up next, and, realizing Warren had only thrown one of seven pitches in the zone in his first PA, stood there like a statue the second time for a four-pitch walk.
That brought up the home run robber himself, who very kindly plugged my piece from yesterday by swinging on a first pitch strike for a 104-mph double down the line that scored two. For those who missed that article, the upshot is that Julio is swinging at the first pitch way more than ever, and he is absolutely torching the ball when he does, without sacrificing his contact rate. Perhaps even more impressively, he’s limiting his increased aggression to first pitches that are thrown in the strike zone. His chase rate on the first pitch of an at-bat is only slightly elevated from his career norms; he’s not just up there swinging recklessly on the first pitch. And that’s what Julio did today, swinging on the two first pitches that were in the zone—once for that double—and laying off the two first pitches that were balls. So, for getting the Mariners’ only two RBIs today, showboating an epic home run robbery, and most importantly, for not ruining my narrative, Julio gets today’s Sun Hat Award.
Despite looking like he might have a short day, Castillo came back to rally with relatively breezy fifth and sixth innings. He even outdueled Warren when it came to defense, with the presence of mind to cover first base on what looked like it would probably be either a line out or a routine hit.
Despite giving up more hard contact than you’d like, the only real trouble came in the sixth, when back-to-back doubles from Anthony Volpe and Jasson Dominguez resulted in a run. Overall, Castillo ended his six innings with 17 whiffs and six strikeouts (Judge twice) and just two walks. One of those walks ended on a 3-2 pitch that ought to have been strike three rather than ball four, so let’s call it 7 Ks, 1 BB.
Although Castillo went to his sinker and change up more often after the first time through, he still used his four-seamer and slider 79% of the time today. The slider was particularly good, for which he said, “All credit goes to the work the pitching coach and I did since the last start, correcting the little things that needed to be corrected.” His fastball, meanwhile, though still down a tick in velocity from Prime Castillo, had more life on it today than we’ve seen in a while.
But despite Castillo’s performance, the whole game felt like trying to hold back a tidal wave, and the Yankees offense eventually came through after the starters left the game. Gabe Speier and Carlos Vargas pitched symmetrical seventh and eighth innings, each giving up a lead off home run, then each recovering by easily dispatching the next three batters with two strikeouts apiece.
Vargas didn’t do himself any favors by hanging a slider middle-middle to the best hitter of his generation, but even with a better pitch, that shot felt inevitable. After holding him as in-check as anyone can hold Aaron Judge these days, you knew he wasn’t leaving Seattle without any ding dongs at all. His 118-mph shot went 444 feet, the 31st-farthest hit ball at less than 20 degrees in the Statcast Era, a blink-and-you-miss-it laser that went right through the bullpen and into the crowd gathered to watch the relievers warm up. It was Judge’s 11th home run in T-Mobile Park, his most anywhere outside his home AL East. I hate to highlight the Mariners’ back-breaking run, but it’s Aaron Judge. Credit where due.
After last night’s game, the Mariners realized they probably could not beat the Yankees by only scoring one run. So they went ahead and got two. And that was enough last night, but it won’t usually be enough against the 2025 New York Yankees, and it wasn’t today. That wraps up a lousy 1-5 homestand. But don’t let those who try to make other people miserable because they think it makes them sound savvy kill your vibe. I find it hard to take seriously the idea that this six-game sample represents the real offense, whereas the thirty-six games that came before were just a meaningless fluke. Both are real. Neither are real. This is why they have to play 162 of these.
Sitcom viewers in the 1960s were more naive about their favorite comedies in at least one aspect — they believed perfect TV couples like The Dick Van Dyke Show’s Rob and Laura Petrie must be married in real life.
In fact, that’s the reason Mary Richards wasn’t one of television’s first divorcees on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. That was the original plan, but CBS balked, worried that viewers would believe the character (who wasn’t Laura Petrie) had left her beloved Rob. “In 1970, that was a controversial idea,” one of the show’s creators, Allan Burns, told The Hollywood Reporter. “Mary loved the idea, (Mary’s real husband and producer) Grant (Tinker) loved the idea. Both of them were divorced and understood it, but the network had a sort of cardiac episode.”
On the 1969 special Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman, Moore confessed to viewers that everyone still believed she and Van Dyke were married in real life, despite several years passing since they’d been an on-air couple. “Oh boy,” said Van Dyke. “So much so that I often had trouble checking into a hotel with my real wife, Margie.”
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Van Dyke was effusive about his platonic affection for Moore in his memoir, My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business. “What wasn’t to love?” he wrote. “I adored her from the moment we were introduced. I think both of us had each other at hello.”
However, the actor worried that viewers would think he was too old for his TV wife, “the most delightful co-star of my career.” He was 12 years her senior in real life. Carl Reiner convinced Van Dyke that the audience wouldn’t notice — and he couldn’t have been more right.
In a 1965 interview with the Wausau Daily Herald, as reported by MeTV, Moore said she was often asked if she and Van Dyke would ever get married. Moore replied that Van Dyke had vetoed the idea (and amusingly, not because the two stars were married to other people at the time — Moore to Tinker and Van Dyke to “real wife Margie”).
According to Moore, Van Dyke nixed a potential romance because he considered himself a “marshmallow type,” too mushy and pliable for such a formidable woman as Moore.
Moore sounded like she was down for it when she defended Van Dyke. “If Dick is a marshmallow type, it’s over a steel core,” she told Wausau Daily Herald. “He’s one of the strongest men I’ve ever known. But he’s quietly strong.”
Oh, just shut up and kiss already!
Per a Scripps Howard News Service profile, via MeTV, that’s just what Moore wanted to do. “The amazing thing is, we never had an affair,” she confessed. “I always thought it was a terrible waste.”
Seattle Mariners center fielder Julio Rodríguez robbed New York Yankees leadoff hitter Trent Grisham of a home run with a spectacular over-the-wall catch to start the game at T-Mobile Park on Wednesday.
Rodríguez jumped when he reached the left-center field wall and reached well over it before making the snag.
There was then a moment of confusion. Rodríguez came down and didn’t immediately show the ball, so Grisham rounded second base and headed toward third like it was a home run. Then Rodríguez pumped his fist and threw the ball back into the infield.
It came against Luis Castillo’s 95.7 mph fastball in a 2-2 count.
Grisham hit a pair of home runs over Rodríguez’s head in Game 1 of the series on Monday — one of Grisham’s blasts that day actually deflected off Rodríguez’s glove.
The Yankees and Mariners split the first two games of the series.
Grisham’s power has been on full display this season. His 12 homers are tied for the fifth-most in the majors. He hit just nine last year.
Rodriguez is considered one of the best defensive outfielders in baseball. His 5 Outs Above Average placed him within the 97th percentile of players going into Wednesday.
While it’s a core pillar of so many PC games, MOBAs like League of Legends have never got on board with WASD movement controls. The strategic traversal of the Summoner’s Rift has always lent itself to the classic point-and-click method, and using your mouse to move in the heat of complex and intense skirmishes is a skill all of its own. However, a new datamine appears to show that Riot is ready to add the option to play LoL with WASD controls in what would be a pretty major change to the status quo.
League of Legends has dabbled with WASD movement once before, but this was resigned only to its 2024 limited-time mode, Swarm. However, this never really seemed like Riot seriously experimenting and testing it for its application in the main game. Swarm was a PvE mode that played more like a bullet heaven, rewriting the gameplay of the MOBA and featuring a small group of playable champions such as Jinx, Seraphine, and Yasuo.
Now though, it seems that there’s scope for WASD controls to make their way into LoL at a much wider scale. According to a datamine yesterday of the latest PBE patch by ‘SkinSpotlights,’ there was a line of code hinting at the addition of WASD options. But today, after diving in even deeper, they’ve uncovered more details, including actual menu screens.
In the images shared by SkinSpotlights, you can see presets for ‘Classic Controls’ which still use your mouse for movement and ‘Modern Controls’ for WASD movement. It’s worth noting that even if you enable WASD, you’ll still be able to use your mouse for movement as well. SkinSpotlights has also found that “Flash has 3 settings, ‘Cursor,’ ‘WASD with Cursor Enhanced,’ [and] ‘WASD with Cursor Fallback.'” There are also two tick-box ‘advanced’ options that read: ‘Bind auto attack move to left click’ and ‘Instant cast spells use the character move direction.’
A shift to WASD movement controls could genuinely be one of the biggest gameplay changes Riot has ever made to League of Legends, but it may also prove divisive if it turns out to be an easier or more effective way to play the game – those that have been mastering mouse movement for many years may have to retrain if WASD becomes the new norm.
Some have wondered whether this is actually a universal setting for LoL or whether WASD movement is simply being added for new spinoff game modes, like we saw in Swarm. All I’ll say is this – I don’t think there’d be full-blown options menus being built for it if it was just for a limited-time mode. However, Riot hasn’t officially revealed this feature or mentioned that it plans to change movement in a significant way. Even though this datamine is very strong evidence that it’ll hit the game in the future, it’s still worth taking with a grain of salt.
If you’re diving into the new patch, check out our LoL tier list to see which champions are ruling the Rift right now. If you’re in need of a break from League, check out some of our favorite free PC games instead.
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In-N-Out Burger has announced a major menu switch, changing the ingredients of a few of its beverages.
“As part of our ongoing commitment to providing our customers with the highest-quality ingredients, we have removed artificial coloring from our Strawberry Shakes and Signature Pink Lemonade,” Patty Pena, a spokesperson for the California-based burger joint, confirmed to Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
It is unclear which specific dyes have been removed by the popular fast-food restaurant or if the coloring will be replaced.
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Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a ban on petroleum-based synthetic dyes within the nation’s food supply, citing health concerns.
Petroleum-based synthetic dyes are used to add color to food and drug items.
“We have removed artificial coloring from our Strawberry Shakes and Signature Pink Lemonade,” an In-N-Out Burger spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital. (iStock)
The dyes are commonly found in breakfast cereals, candy, snacks, beverages, vitamins and “other products [that are] aimed at children,” according to an article titled “The Artificial Food Dye Blues,” shared by the National Library of Medicine.
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The FDA recently announced the approval of three natural-source colors in food items: Galdieria extract blue, butterfly pea flower extract and calcium phosphate.
Pena told Fox News Digital the chain will be making a major change to a staple condiment as well.
In-N-Out Burger’s menu changes include removing artificial dyes from beverages and using real sugar in ketchup.(iStock)
“We’re also in the process of transitioning to an upgraded ketchup, which is made with real sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup,” Pena said.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called out sugar during the agency’s announcement on the artificial dye ban.
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“Sugar is poison,” Kennedy said at the time. “And Americans need to know that it is poisoning us.”
California-based certified nutritionist Courtney Swan of Realfoodology told Fox News Digital that high-fructose corn syrup needs to be examined.
“We’re also in the process of transitioning to an upgraded ketchup, which is made with real sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup,” an In-N-Out Burger spokesperson added.(Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
High-fructose corn syrup is a processed sweetener derived from corn starch, which Swan classifies as an “ultraprocessed, refined sugar.”
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The syrup is “so far removed from its original source that it’s not even recognizable as something that would be considered food anymore,” Swan said.
Fox News Digital followed up with In-N-Out Burger for additional comment.
Alison Brie and her husband, Dave Franco, show up together in a lot of things — including a recently filed copyright infringement lawsuit over their upcoming horror film, Together.
The movie, the first feature from director Michael Shanks, stars Brie and Franco as Millie and Tim, a fictional married couple who are drifting apart. But as the story progresses, they become closer than ever in a literal, physical sense. The film, in theaters July 30, sold for a reported $17 million after a bidding war at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
However, in a suit filed on Tuesday, producers Jess Jacklin and Charles Beale allege that Together is a “blatant rip-off” of their 2023 independent film, Better Half, stealing several plot and thematic elements, including the central concept of a couple who “wake up to find their bodies physically fused together as a metaphor for codependency.”
Although Better Half was written and directed by Patrick Henry Phelan, Jacklin and Beale’s production company, StudioFest, is the only plaintiff named in the suit.
“My client’s original work was stolen,” Jacklin and Beale’s lawyer Dan Miller said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday. “The similarities between the two works are staggering and defy any innocent explanation. We intend to hold the defendants accountable, and look forward to trial.”
Dave Franco and Alison Brie attend the world premiere of ‘Together’ on March 7, 2025.
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Better Half ‘s synopsis describes the film as “a surreal, satirical comedy about a man and a woman who have a one-night stand and wake up to see that they have become literally and physically attached — an attachment that seems to be progressing toward total connection/immersion unless they figure out how to reverse it.”
The suit claims that Brie and Franco were pitched Better Half in 2020 but that they and their agents at William Morris Endeavor turned it down. In emails reviewed by EW, the casting director sent a script and synopsis to Franco and Brie’s agents at WME in August 2020.
After clarifying whether the note was an offer for the couple to star in the movie together, Franco’s agent responded, “Dave is going to pass, but thank you for thinking of him.”
The lawsuit alleges that the defendants rejected the initial offer “because they wanted to produce the film themselves and have WME package the project with one of the agency’s own writers.” It highlights several alleged similarities between the two films.
“In both Better Half and Together, the main characters struggle to navigate daily life as their physical attachment progresses and they start to control each other’s body parts,” the suit states. “While at first they desperately search for ways to detach their bodies — from medical intervention to chainsaws — by the end, they resign themselves to their conjoined existence.”
“This lawsuit is frivolous and without merit,” a WME spokesperson told EW in response to the allegations. “The facts in this case are clear, and we plan to vigorously defend ourselves.”
Brie and Franco, who have teamed up for various projects in the past, recently explained to EW why they would not have wanted to work on Together with anyone else.
“Well, first of all, physically, the movie was very demanding,” Brie said. “There were days that Dave and I were physically attached for several hours, going to the bathroom together. And things like that may have been awkward with people you’re not married to.”
But with his wife, Franco said, “Being literally attached to each other for half the day… was fun.”
“Even when we weren’t attached, the movie is very intense, and we were moving at a really quick speed to shoot the film,” Brie said. “I think the shorthand that Dave and I have together, not just because we’re married, but because we’ve worked together so much, was really helpful in terms of keeping everything moving really quickly and us being on the same page and us being locked into these characters in their relationship.”
“I have a collage of all my injuries from this film,” Franco added proudly. “We documented everything, but I think the worst was the rope burn on my hands where I walked away from that day with bandages over both hands. You don’t realize how much you use your hands until you can’t use your hands. But I definitely got beat up more on this film than anything I’ve ever done before.”
Alison Brie and Dave Franco attend the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2025.
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Director Shanks said he thinks that he and the actors have accomplished something wholly unique with Together. “One of the things I most look for when I watch a film is to see something I’ve never seen before, and there are sequences in this where I truly believe we’ve pulled that off,” he told EW. “There was one sequence where, after each take, I was just hooting and hollering. I literally couldn’t believe anyone let me shoot something so over-the-top and revolting.”
He said he told Brie and Franco that he wanted their characters to go “through hell” in the film. “And when you watch it,” he added, “you’ll understand why.”
The 2025 NFL regular season schedule is set to be released tomorrow night. Will the Lions open the season at home or on the road? Who will travel to Ford Field for the 2025 Thanksgiving Classic? When will the Lions head to Philadelphia for a matchup with the defending Super Bowl Champions? Here are all the ways to watch and follow the NFL’s schedule release.
WHEN
The 2025 NFL schedule will be released on Wednesday, May 14 at 8:00 p.m. EDT.
SCHEDULE RELEASE SHOW
Join us for the Detroit Lions 2025 Schedule Release Show, presented by Ticketmaster. Watch Dannie Rogers, Tim Twentyman and Anthony Bellino break down the new schedule and discuss the most important games on the Lions’ 2025 slate. The Lions Schedule Release Show will premiere at approximately 7:45 p.m. EDT on the Lions’ Facebook and YouTube channel.
TV COVERAGE
The NFL schedule will be released on NFL Network, NFL.com, the NFL app and NFL+ at 8 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 14. The NFL’s show will feature a breakdown of the 2025 NFL regular season schedule, division by division, analyzing the top matchups and primetime games.
LIONS OPPONENTS
We don’t know the order just yet, but we do know the teams the Lions will face this season.
Detroit will play both home and away games against their NFC North rivals:
Chicago Bears
Green Bay Packers
Minnesota Vikings
The Lions will also host the following teams at Ford Field:
Cleveland Browns
Dallas Cowboys
New York Giants
Pittsburgh Steelers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
And travel to take on the following teams:
Baltimore Ravens
Cincinnati Bengals
Kansas City Chiefs
Los Angeles Rams
Philadelphia Eagles
Washington Commanders
CALENDAR SYNC
Add the Lions schedule to your calendar and never miss a game! Head to the schedule page and follow the prompt to add the total schedule to your preferred calendar.
SCHEDULE RELEASE VIDEO
How will the Lions video team reveal the 2025 schedule? Tune in to the Detroit Lions 2025 Schedule Release Show to see what the group’s been working on. In the meantime, you can watch last year’s schedule reveal below!
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