Hello all, welcome back to the Edit Bay! This weekly feature takes a dive into the edit of the latest Survivor episode, analyzing the key stories, main characters, and top winner contenders.

While intended as a condensed version of Edgic, for this season, I will be including my ratings for each castaway at the end of the article.

OVERVIEW

With just two episodes of the season left, the top contenders and end-game stories are becoming clearer. While this episode had a lot of…

“Axe and Grind” begins a bit differently, though it ends on a similar note. We are back in Nebraska, only this time Kim is the one in trouble, rather than her mom. She has been caught shoplifting a pair of earrings from Svensen’s department store. This is wildly out of character for her as a girl, which even the store manager, Mr. Pearson, can tell. Kim’s squeaky-clean presentation, along with Pearson being charmed by (and/or attracted to) her mom, gets her out of the jam. And her mom even…

White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha issued a dire warning Thursday that the U.S. will be increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus this fall and winter if Congress doesn't swiftly approve new funding for more vaccines and treatments.

In an Associated Press interview, Jha said Americans' immune protection from the virus is waning, the virus is adapting to be more contagious and booster doses for most people will be necessary — with the potential for enhanced protection…

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul defied leaders of both parties Thursday and single-handedly delayed until next week Senate approval of an additional $40 billion to help Ukraine and its allies withstand Russia's three-month old invasion.

With the Senate poised to debate and vote on the package of military and economic aid, Paul denied leaders the unanimous agreement they needed to proceed. The bipartisan measure, backed by President Joe Biden, underscores U.S. determination to…

War was not the only thing brewing this week; love bubbled to the surface.

On Legacies Season 4 Episode 17, we got doused in romance. Nearly every character was somehow entangled with the likes of a lover.

With all its heartfelt moments, this episode felt like the beginning of the end, storylines starting to tie themselves up, though there's still much to be sorted.

We sadly did not see Jed this week, so his relationship with Ben wasn't mended. I fear reconciliation…

here is a scene in the second episode of Antonio Campos’s coolly ferocious new mini-series The Staircase (May 5) that haunts everything that comes after. It is a suggestion that the much-publicized 2001 death of wealthy Durham, North Carolina business executive Kathleen Peterson was, as her husband Michael Peterson still insists, an accident.

We watch as the actor playing Kathleen, Toni Collette, heads back inside the house after a night of gentle carousing with Michael (Colin Firth)…

The official synopsis for the upcoming Episode is currently unavailable, but there’s quite a bit we can see of it in the official promo that dropped a day ago. With the title “Inheritance,” the show seems to be pivoting to a story on the sidelines involving Kwan Ha. The fans haven’t exactly been positively receptive to the character.

It does raise some questions as to why the show is diverting its focus on Kwan instead of Chief. With only three more installments to go in the First…

Marvel shows on Disney+ have largely delivered great finales so far. Final episodes have given us the first appearance of Sam Wilson as Captain America, He Who Remains warning Loki and Sylvie about the incoming Kang the Conqueror, and the Watcher forced to intervene against an Infinity Stone-powered Ultron.

Marvel Studios is will soon bring the sixth and final episode of Moon Knight, the MCU's sixth full series on Disney+ and the first new project of 2022. After five episodes of…

Rumors of a second season for Moon Knight took Twitter by storm after an eagle-eyed fan spotted a very important change to a promotional tweet made by Marvel.

Twitter user kellie_dixon shared two screenshots of the Marvel Studios tweets promoting the upcoming sixth episode of Moon Knight, pointing out that Marvel changed the description from "the epic series finale" to "the epic season finale" — possibly signalling that viewers will get a second season of the Oscar Isaac-led show…

A handful of EU countries say they have adequate reserves to wean themselves off Russian energy.

But a bloc-wide embargo on Russian supplies is a long way off and must be unanimously backed.

Germany, Poland, and Bulgaria have all signaled moves away from reliance on Russia for energy.

As EU countries scramble to wean themselves off Russian energy, a trickle of member states have signaled that they are finding alternative sources of oil, coal, or gas and won't need to…

Officials have signed a contract to build a new state prison – part of a $1.3 billion construction plan partly using pandemic relief funds – but have not released many of the details. A spokeswoman for Gov. Kay Ivey confirmed the state signed a contract with Caddell Construction Co., effective April 15, for construction of a specialized men’s prison facility in Elmore County “that will provide enhanced medical and mental health services.” “The new facility will create a safer security…

Good afternoon and welcome to Wide World of Sports' coverage of round eight action. We've got two matches tonight, with Souths to face Manly live and free on Nine from 7:30pm (AEST).

First up it's defending premiers Penrith travelling north to face Gold Coast at Cbus Super Stadium, as the Panthers look to continue their unbeaten start to the season.

History favours the visitors, who have won seven of their last eight matches against the Titans.

Many eyes will be on Gold…

For many people, there's only one name that is synonymous with The Flash: Wally West. The original Kid Flash, this ginger-tressed youth would go on to replace his uncle and mentor Barry Allen as the Fastest Man Alive. What resulted from this passing of the torch was one of DC's best ongoing comic books.

Even if Wally is the "real" Flash for many readers, there's still a lot that some don't know about him, especially as Barry Allen has raced back into the limelight. With Wally now back…

Not only is Michael Keaton reprising his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in the upcoming DC Extended Universe film The Flash, but he's also bringing at least one of his classic lines with him.

Warner Bros. Pictures debuted new footage from The Flash at CinemaCon. While said footage is not yet available to the general public, DiscussingFilm reports that in it, Keaton's Batman addresses Ezra Miller's Barry Allen/the Flash, saying, "You wanna get nuts? C'mon, let's get nuts!"

This is,…

A million-acre feet of water won't save Lake Powell. But the deal is still a win.The seven Colorado River basin states have a plan to temporarily stabilize Lake Powell.

It contains some pain and not a lot of gain.

Yet no one balked. And that’s a win.

That should signal how dire the circumstances have become.

The U.S. Department of the Interior noted in an April 8 letter to the basin states that the reservoir is dangerously close to hitting 3,490 feet of elevation,…

"Warmer weather has arrived, along with a widespread return of in-person events — though this is good news for most, it may spell trouble for streamers," the research team at Thinknum stated. "With Netflix’s April 19 announcement of a drop in subscribers, page views will continue to be a metric to watch."

Thinknum's data shouldn't be a total shock.

Shares of the streaming media giant crashed nearly 40% on Wednesday as the company delivered another disappointing quarter,…

In a video posted to Twitter by New Zealand reporter Henry Cooke, the two large mascots, known as the “Kiwi Brothers,” are seen swaying to a somber violin song in a room full of suited men. The cute mascots, depicted as a golden and green kiwi with large cartoonish eyes, were a part of a marketing event by New Zealand’s Zespri, the world’s largest kiwi distributor.

Ardern, who has not been on an overseas trip in more than two years, began her visit to Japan by attending the…

North Korean hackers who last month carried out one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts ever are still laundering their haul more than a week after they were identified as the thieves.

The cybercriminals' continued access to the money, more than $600 million stolen from the Axie Infinity video game, underscores the limits of law enforcement's ability to stop the flow of illicit cryptocurrency across the globe. The hackers are still moving their loot, most recently about $4.5 million…

Former President Barack Obama took the stage at Stanford University on Thursday to deliver a keynote addressing disinformation and the dangers it poses to democracy.

Obama, whose campaign successfully used social media to raise awareness of his agenda, touched on everything from social networks and their algorithms to the First Amendment and the war in Ukraine.

"Not all problems we are seeing now are an inevitable byproduct of this new technology," he said. "They’re also the…