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A ‘mostly true’ tale of 19th-century sisters running from the law is underserved in a production stuffed with superfluous showboating

The new retooled musical Wanted, from writer Angelica Chéri and composer Ross Baum, opens with a blare of excitement: a Greek chorus of sorts, clad in billowing white garments like spirits from the great beyond, lay their scene in 1890s Texas. There, we meet two Black sisters, Mary and Martha Clarke, who will become wanted criminals. The tone of Baum’s music is portentous, its volume high, suggesting that an epic journey is about to unfold. What ensues from there is, sadly, not quite as suspenseful, moving or grand as advertised.

Chéri based this “mostly true” story on two of her great-great aunts, daughters of an emancipated sharecropper whose absent father was white. Mary and Martha are light-skinned and thus figure they can pass in the white world, at least long enough to earn some money that might allow their mother, Tallulah, to buy the cotton-field land she’s been working for decades. It’s a dangerous gambit, and soon devolves into a gun-wielding crime spree in which the sisters rob various deserving targets. But that potentially invigorating spree is reduced to a mere montage, a quick flurry of activity that saps these daring acts of their inherent tension, of any true sense of risk. Despite its dynamic subject matter – marginalized people violently asserting themselves in a repressive time and place – this is a dismayingly tame production, albeit a more muscular one than was staged at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse in 2024.

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Connor Hellebuyck made 23 saves for his first shutout with New Jersey as the Devils blanked the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-0 on Sunday night.

Two US fishermen say they spotted the man treading water around 20 miles (32km) off the Californian coast.

Two US fishermen say they spotted the man treading water around 20 miles (32km) off the Californian coast.

1. Humana-Paredes, Wilkerson secure Olympic beach volleyball berth for Canada  Sportsnet.ca
2. Canada's Humana-Paredes, Wilkerson clinch 2028 Olympic berth in beach volleyball  CBC
3. Humana-Paredes and Wilkerson clinch LA 2028 beach volleyball quota spot for Canada  Canadian Olympic Committee
4. Canada's Humana-Paredes, Wilkerson advance to final of Olympic beach volleyball qualifier  CBC

1. Humana-Paredes, Wilkerson secure Olympic beach volleyball berth for Canada  Sportsnet.ca
2. Canada's Humana-Paredes, Wilkerson clinch 2028 Olympic berth in beach volleyball  CBC
3. Humana-Paredes and Wilkerson clinch LA 2028 beach volleyball quota spot for Canada  Canadian Olympic Committee
4. Canada's Humana-Paredes, Wilkerson advance to final of Olympic beach volleyball qualifier  CBC

Moldovan President Maia Sandu says 'two more power lines to Romania are on the way'.

President Donald Trump admitted that he may have been too "tough" in his immigration enforcement in his first sit-down interview since the midterm elections last week.

Trump spoke to CBS News correspondent Ross Douthat about several topics largely related to the Democratic Party's overwhelming wins in last week's midterm elections, which included victories in Republican strongholds like Texas.

During their conversation, Douthat asked whether Trump's strict immigration and deportation enforcement likely contributed to Republican losses.

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"I think it both helped and hurt," Trump answered. "I think I got an A-plus for closing up the border…I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out."

In the extended interview posted online, Trump added, "We had 25 million people come in through Biden over a four-year period, and many of those people were — as you know, they were from prisons, they were drug dealers, they were from mental institutions."

However, Trump conceded that many illegal immigrants within the country were "good" people, which likely led to his policies facing backlash.

"But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that — that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally. Now, there is a large part of the country that think that they should be put out. And there's a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay if they're good people working in a landscaping company, or working in a hotel, or doing something, right? And in some cases, paying taxes. And there's a large group of people who think that they should be allowed to stay."

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"So you think your deportation policy — went too far?" Douthat asked.

"I think it was — too tough…I think it might be too tough, yeah," Trump responded, adding, "And I think ultimately that hurt me."

The president also suggested an immigration deal with the incoming Democratic Congress could be "doable" outside the more extreme groups who either prefer every illegal immigrant to be deported or prefer not to deport any illegal immigrant.

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Trump also suggested many Democrats are willing to work with him to enforce the border, acknowledging incoming Texas Sen.-elect James Talarico as an example.

In a Fox News voter poll of more than 100,000 registered voters nationwide from Oct. 19 to Nov. 3, 2026, immigration was the only issue that Republicans led Democrats on.

1. Scheifele's winner with 1.6 seconds remaining lifts Jets over Lightning  Sportsnet.ca
2. Scheifele scores with 1.6 seconds left, Jets recover against Lightning  NHL.com
3. Jets' Brayden Yager savours first NHL goal: 'Dream come true  Sportsnet.ca
4. Jets 4-3 Lightning (Nov 8, 2026) Game Recap  ESPN
5. Jets beat buzzer to rescue win after squandering three-goal lead  Winnipeg Free Press

1. Scheifele's winner with 1.6 seconds remaining lifts Jets over Lightning  Sportsnet.ca
2. Scheifele scores with 1.6 seconds left, Jets recover against Lightning  NHL.com
3. Jets' Brayden Yager savours first NHL goal: 'Dream come true  Sportsnet.ca
4. Mark Scheifele nets game-winning goal for Jets with 1.6 seconds remaining  CBC
5. Jets beat buzzer to rescue win after squandering three-goal lead  Winnipeg Free Press

The PPI for October came in at 5.7%, compared to the 5.3% expected by economists polled by Reuters.

A drone attack has halted production at the Khor Mor gas field in northern Iraq, causing widespread power outages.

1. Pope Leo delivers stinging rebuke of Milei’s austerity measures during Argentina visit  The Guardian
2. Pope Leo urges President Milei, a Trump ally, to ‘safeguard democracy’ on arrival in Argentina  CNN
3. Pope Leo XIV visits San Martín monument in Buenos Aires  Vatican News
4. A Missionary Pope Faces a Chain Saw-Wielding Populist in Argentina  WSJ
5. Pope Leo in 'pretty good health' as he starts Latin America tour  BBC

1. Pope Leo delivers stinging rebuke of Milei’s austerity measures during Argentina visit  The Guardian
2. Pope Leo urges President Milei, a Trump ally, to ‘safeguard democracy’ on arrival in Argentina  CNN
3. Pope Leo XIV visits San Martín monument in Buenos Aires  Vatican News
4. A Missionary Pope Faces a Chain Saw-Wielding Populist in Argentina  WSJ
5. Pope Leo in 'pretty good health' as he starts Latin America tour  BBC

1. B.C. Hydro power outages could stretch into Tuesday as crews continue to repair storm damage  CBC
2. ‘Strong and potent series of storms’ moving through Nanaimo & Oceanside this week  NanaimoNewsNOW
3. Driver dead after tree falls on car in Surrey during busy storm  CityNews Vancouver
4. Some areas to be without power until Monday or Tuesday  Prince George Citizen
5. Second major storm hits B.C., leaving one dead, thousands without power  The Globe and Mail

1. B.C. Hydro power outages could stretch into Tuesday as crews continue to repair storm damage  CBC
2. ‘Strong and potent series of storms’ moving through Nanaimo & Oceanside this week  NanaimoNewsNOW
3. Driver dead after tree falls on car in Surrey during busy storm  CityNews Vancouver
4. Some areas to be without power until Monday or Tuesday  Prince George Citizen
5. Second major storm hits B.C., leaving one dead, thousands without power  The Globe and Mail

Pontiff tells Argentina’s president the economy must benefit all on second stop of 12-day Latin America tour

Pope Leo XIV has delivered a stinging critique of Argentine president Javier Milei’s harsh austerity measures, insisting growth must benefit all in a speech met with rapturous applause in Buenos Aires.

“The economy must be at the service of the people, rather than people being at the service of the economy,” he said on Sunday, shortly after landing in Argentina on the second leg of a Latin America tour.

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Authorities around the world are trying to find the source of a series of bomb threats and cyberattacks. Ramy Inocencio reports from Paris.

Six people were killed when a gunman opened fire in Poland's second-largest city of Krakow. Fifteen others were wounded in what police called a terror attack.

Lawmakers are returning to Washington, D.C., to a stunning new political reality, and President Trump is vowing to fight back against the new Congress after the midterm blowout. He spoke with 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat and Olivia Gazis reports on the lawmakers' return.