“Black Panther” actress Angela Bassett won a supporting actress award on Tuesday at the first Golden Globe awards since a scandal knocked the glitzy Hollywood ceremony off television.

Bassett was honored for playing Queen Ramonda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” a sequel that was rewritten after the death of star Chadwick Boseman.

“We showed the world what Black unity, leadership and love looks like beyond, behind and in front of the camera,” Bassett said as she held her trophy.

Ke Huy Quan was named best supporting actor in a drama film for his role of Waymond Wang in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

Celebrities and broadcaster NBC abandoned the 2022 Globes because of ethical lapses at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the group that hands out the awards.

A larger, more diverse membership and other changes by the HFPA persuaded many of the biggest movie and TV stars to support this year’s ceremony, which provides publicity for winners and nominees and often boosts their chances at the Oscars.

Comedian and host Jarrod Carmichael opened the show joking, “I’m here because I’m black.”

“One day you’re making mint tea at home. The next day you’re invited to be the Black face of an embattled white organization,” he said at the ceremony, which was broadcast live on Comcast Corp’s (CMCSA.O) NBC network and streamed on Peacock.

Big names in attendance included Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis and “Elvis” star Austin Butler, a favorite for a best actor trophy.

A flashy “Elvis” biopic and sci-fi blockbuster “Avatar: The Way of Water” were vying for the top honor of best drama film against Steven Spielberg’s coming-of-age movie “The Fabelmans” and “Tar,” starring Cate Blanchett as a conniving orchestra conductor.

“Top Gun: Maverick” also was in the mix, though the military action film’s chances were likely hurt by star Tom Cruise returning his Globe statues in protest in 2021, awards experts said.

Cruise was reacting to a Los Angeles Times investigation that revealed the HFPA had no Black journalists in its ranks and accused members of soliciting favors from celebrities and movie studios.

“The Banshees of Inisherin,” a darkly comic tale set on an Irish island, was seen as the leading contender for best comedy or musical film.

In TV categories, “Abbott Elementary” racked up the most nominations and was considered a leader for best comedy.

Roughly 200 journalists and others from the international film industry voted on this year’s Globes. Among those voters, nearly 52% are racially and ethnically diverse, including 10% who are Black, according to the HFPA.

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The United States, Mexico and Canada on Tuesday vowed to tighten economic ties, producing more goods regionally and boosting semiconductor output, even as integration is hampered by an ongoing dispute over Mexico’s nationalist energy policies.

U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Mexico City and pledged to beef up supply chains after weathering serious disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lopez Obrador said Mexico would help Biden clamp down on the trade in synthetic opioid fentanyl, which is blamed for thousands of U.S. deaths, as the leaders also promised to reduce their countries’ carbon footprint and tackle inflation.

“We’re working to a future to strengthen our cooperation on supply chains and critical minerals so we can continue to accelerate in our efforts to build the technologies of tomorrow – right here in North America,” Biden said in a joint news conference with his fellow leaders after their meeting.

Lopez Obrador said the region would promote economic development by creating a committee for import substitution to make North America less dependent on other parts of the world.

The White House said the three countries would improve legal pathways for migrants, and Lopez Obrador again urged Biden to press Congress to enact measures that would regularize the migration status of millions of Mexicans in the United States.

The United States said the region would in early 2023 organize a semiconductor forum to increase investment in the strategic high-tech industry dominated by Asia.

The White House said coordination would be needed on semiconductor supply chain mapping to identify needs and investment opportunities in making chips that are used in everything from telecoms to carmaking and defense.

Mexico’s hopes of benefiting from the push to boost semiconductor output have been undermined by the energy dispute, with Washington and Ottawa starting formal dispute settlement proceedings against Mexico’s policies in July.

The spat, which centers on Mexico’s efforts to give priority to its cash-strapped, state-run energy companies at the expense of private investors, was being closely watched at the summit. The leaders did not answer questions on it at the news conference.

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard had suggested energy would not feature prominently in Tuesday’s talks, noting that a resolution process was under way and the three leaders did not want to turn the summit into a dispute panel.

“I wouldn’t imagine it’s a major issue in today’s summit,” he told Mexican radio, while noting Trudeau was likely to raise the matter in separate talks with Lopez Obrador on Wednesday.

The Biden administration has focused much of its attention with Mexico on containing illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border, and policy analysts argue Washington is often reluctant to let other issues complicate dealings on migration.

On Monday, Canadian International Trade Minister Mary Ng put across her country’s concerns about Mexico’s energy policies and their potential effects on Canadian investments in a meeting with Mexican Economy Minister Raquel Buenrostro.

Ng said it was important to find a “mutually acceptable resolution” to the dispute, and also flagged concerns about the treatment of Canadian mining companies in Mexico.

Biden and Trudeau met earlier on Tuesday, and the U.S. leader said he would visit Canada in March, according to the White House. As their meeting started, Biden said the region should aim to be “the clean energy powerhouse in the world.”

Biden also stressed “strengthening our supply chains so that no one can arbitrarily hold us up.”

Under the North American Drug Dialogue (NADD), the three countries would adopt an “updated strategic framework” to address threats posed by banned narcotics, the White House said. This would include greater information-sharing on chemicals used to make drugs including fentanyl.

The White House said the three were also committed to curbing methane emissions from solid waste and wastewater by at least 15% by 2030 from 2020 levels.

They would also create a virtual platform to give migrants streamlined access and information on legal ways to enter Mexico, the United States, and Canada and make them less likely to rely on smugglers, it said.

The US Navy claimed that a wooden sailboat near the Gulf of Oman was carrying rifles meant for Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

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• The US Navy said Tuesday it had seized 2,116 “AK-47 assault rifles” from a sailboat near the Gulf of Oman.
• A US admiral accused Iran of trying to send the weapons to Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
• The Houthis seized Yemen’s capital in 2014, forcing out the country’s Saudi-backed government.

A modest wooden sailboat with six crew members was hiding more than 2,000 assault rifles destined for Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the US government alleged Tuesday, claiming the weapons were sent by Iran.

In a statement, the US Navy said its service members on January 6 confiscated 2,116 “AK-47 assault rifles” after spotting the sailboat in international waters near the Gulf of Oman. The vessel had been sailing “on a route historically used to traffic illicit cargo to the Houthis,” the Navy said.

The US Navy did not share evidence linking the recent arms cache it uncovered to Iran. However, in a statement to the Associated Press, a Navy spokesperson asserted that the sailboat’s six Yemeni crew members “corroborated the origin” of their cargo.

The US Navy said it had seized more than 2,100 “AK-47” assault rifles.

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In February 2022, the United Nations Security Council, including Russia, voted to extend an arms embargo on the Houthis, who for nearly a decade have been locked in a bitter war against the country’s internationally recognized government.

In late 2014, Houthi rebels seized the capital of Yemen. A civil war ensued, with Saudi Arabia, armed and supported by the United States, intervening against what it claimed was an Iranian-backed movement. Tens of thousands of people have since died in the conflict, many in Saudi-led airstrikes, although a relative peace — amid widespread hunger — has been enjoyed in recent months, despite the expiration last October of a ceasefire agreement.

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a message for the media as part of the ‘2023 North American Leaders’ Summit at Palacio Nacional on January 10, 2023 in Mexico City, Mexico. President Lopez Obrador, USA President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gather in Mexico from January 9 to 11 as part of the 10th North American Leaders’ Summit. The agenda includes topics on the climate change, immigration, trade and economic integration, security among others.

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• President Joe Biden said he was “surprised” that classified documents were found in his old office.
• Biden also said that he did not know what the documents contained.
• His attorneys confirmed the discovery on Monday, saying they were complying with the DOJ.

President Joe Biden told reporters Tuesday that the news of classified documents being found in his old Pennsylvania office “surprised” him, but he and his lawyers are “cooperating fully” with the review being done by the Justice Department and the National Archives and Records Administration.

“People know I take classified information seriously,” Biden said, during a North American Leaders’ Summit in Mexico.

Biden explained that, in November of 2022, when his lawyers were cleaning out his old office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy & Global Engagement, documents with classified markings were unexpectedly located. Biden worked at the center, run by the University of Pennsylvania, from 2017 to 2019.

The Washington Post reported roughly 10 documents were found in the office space, citing a person familiar with the investigation.

“They immediately called the Archives, immediately called the Archives, turned them over to the Archives,” Biden said, “and I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office.”  

The President also said that he is unaware of what information the documents contained, and was advised by lawyers not to ask.

A source familiar with the matter told CNN that Biden had been unaware of the documents prior to his counsel notifying him once they found them. The source also told CNN that the president is not being made aware of the contents of the documents out of an abundance of caution, fearing that letting him know would give the impression that lawyers would interfere with the Justice Department review.

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On Monday, Richard Sauber, the special counsel to President Biden confirmed the discovery of the documents, saying that the documents “were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives.” 

Former President Donald Trump, currently under investigation by the Justice Department after dozens of classified documents were discovered in his Mar-a-Lago home by the FBI, took to Truth Social to call for similar scrutiny against Biden.

However, Bradley P. Moss, a national security lawyer, told Insider’s Charles Davis that the two instances were not comparable, pointing out that Trump held onto classified documents even after being asked to return them.

The White House did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.

Bob Chapek (left) implemented policy changes at Disney’s theme parks that were unpopular with some diehard fans. Bob Iger (right) was reinstated as CEO in November.

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• Disney is revising many of the unpopular theme park policies made under former CEO Bob Chapek.
• The company will no longer charge parking for Disney hotel guests and will release more lower-priced tickets in California.
• Current CEO Bob Iger reportedly complained to friends at length about theme park price hikes done under Chapek.

Less than two months into Bob Iger’s return as Disney CEO, the company is reworking some of the most unpopular theme park policies that went into effect under former CEO Bob Chapek. 

According to a letter to Disney employees seen by Insider from the company’s theme parks chairman, Josh D’Amaro, some services that were free under Iger’s initial tenure as Disney CEO would revert back to being complementary, including photo downloads from rides at Disneyland California and parking for guests staying at Disney hotels at Disney World Florida. 

To make visits to Disneyland more accessible, D’Amaro said the company would “significantly” increase the number of days that park tickets sold for their lowest price of $104. 

A former parks executive himself, Bob Chapek angered many of Disney’s most passionate theme park fans by jacking up prices and axing free services at the company’s theme parks while CEO. He was ousted in November and replaced by Iger, Disney’s former CEO of 15 years. 

Late last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that Iger had complained to friends at length about Chapek’s new policies, lamenting that park prices had gotten too high. 

“He’s killing the soul of the company,” Iger reportedly said. 

However, D’Amaro denied that the rollback of price hikes resulted from the CEO leadership change. 

“I have a lot of face-to-face conversations with guests when I’m walking the parks, and I read a lot of their comments online,” D’Amaro told the New York Times on Tuesday. 

During Chapek’s less-than-3-year stint as Disney CEO, he angered many of the company’s most diehard fans: annual theme park pass holders. In 2021, the company mandated the pass holders reserve a spot at the parks, no longer allowing them to drop in when they wanted. The revised policies ease that restriction, allowing annual pass holders in Florida to enter some parks after 2 pm on any day except weekends. 

(NewsNation) — America’s downtowns are the new front lines in the fight against fentanyl, according to groups dedicated to stopping overdoses.

Several months of 2022 saw record numbers for fentanyl busts across the country. The deadly drug is mainly coming in across the border from Mexico.

Just weeks ago in Florida, a police officer suffered a medical emergency after reportedly coming in contact with fentanyl during a traffic stop.

Overdose deaths in the U.S. are happening so frequently that Ashley Perkins of Project Opioid got a text that her friend died from an overdose just before her interview with NewsNation.

“It was just, I’m just letting you know we lost another one. That’s it. We don’t even talk about it anymore. ‘Oh what happened?’ ‘Oh what was it?’ We know what it is,” she said.

In Orlando, Florida Project Opioid founder Andrae Bailey suggested the fight against fentanyl isn’t just at the Mexican border but in the nation’s downtowns.

“Wherever young people are, we know there’s gonna be drugs and we know that we’re gonna lose lives every single day,” he said.

Dennis Lema is the sheriff in Seminole county, about 30 minutes outside Orlando. The number of overdoses in his county went down slightly last year, but that was from record highs the year before.

“Just last night, we had someone using marijuana that potentially was laced with fentanyl,” Lema said.

Lema’s deputies carry NARCAN, which is used to reverse opioid doses, on them. For the officers, it’s a matter of when they will need to use the drug, not if.

“They absolutely know within their first year of work it is very likely that they will not only deploy NARCAN, they will do it multiple times,” Lema said.

Project Opioid said overdose deaths in Florida are rising fastest in the central part of the state. Fentanyl-caused deaths in central Florida are up 172% from 2015, the group said.

“Three reasons: fentanyl, fentanyl, fentanyl. This drug is unlike anything we’ve ever seen in American history. It’s everywhere, and in every drug on these streets and in every downtown across the United States,” Bailey said about overdose deaths.

There are tools to reverse an opioid overdose, namely drugs like naloxone. It’s often referred to as Narcan, one of the name brand devices that delivers the drug, which can revive someone suffering an overdose.

This week, Project Opioid let NewsNation join as they went to bars and restaurants in downtown Orlando, handing out boxes of Kloxxado, an overdose reversal spray that’s twice as powerful as Narcan. It’s a new and necessary addition to their first aid kits.

Scott Kotroba owns six businesses in downtown Orlando.

“If we have a fire extinguisher and there’s a fire, we want all the staff to know how to use the fire extinguisher. And this kind of goes right in line with that,” he said.

Drugs like Kloxxado are important in cases where Narcan isn’t enough.

“There was a young lady who we were introduced to. Sixteen years old. She took what she thought was a Percocet and she was overdosing in the spare bedroom at her parent’s house. Law enforcement, paramedics show up and they have to bring her four Narcans to bring her back. Narcan is wonderful. The problem is the drugs are becoming more and more powerful,” Bailey told NewsNation.

Along with more powerful drugs are mounting fears of an opioid crisis that doesn’t seem to be slowing down.

“I don’t want this to be around anymore when my children are born. I know that sounds impossible, but I don’t think it is,” Perkins said.

Last May, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill upping the mandatory minimum sentence for people who traffic fentanyl.

But beyond that, groups like Project Opioid said downtowns like Orlando are the new frontlines. Having bars and restaurants equipped with reversal sprays is the next step when it seems like getting rid of fentanyl altogether just isn’t possible.

In addition to lifesaving drugs, former police officer is advocating for more education programs in schools to make children aware of the lethality of the drug.

“The only way to win this war is to reduce the demand and increase the education,” said Mark Powell, a former San Diego police officer. “There is no one single solution, but one involves a serious drug awareness campaign starting in elementary school and going all the way up.”

The Pentagon on Tuesday rescinded a controversial Biden administration mandate requiring that all members of the U.S. armed forces be vaccinated against COVID-19.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo that military leaders still encouraged all service members to get vaccinated and boosted but would no longer discharge those who refuse on religious, administrative or medical grounds.

“The military departments will update the records of such individuals to remove any adverse actions solely associated with denials of such requests, including letters of reprimand,” Austin said.

Biden in August 2021 ordered all 1.3 million active members of the U.S. armed forces to get vaccinated against COVID-19 over the objections of Republicans. Military officials faced unanticipated resistance among troops to mandatory vaccines.

Republicans pressed for Biden to rescind the mandate as part of a compromise to pass the National Defense Authorization Act that the president signed in December.

According to Defense Department data, 3,717 Marines, 1,816 soldiers and 2,064 sailors have since been discharged for refusing to get vaccinated.