Marvel Studios’ displays at Comedian-Con included a showcase with Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach from the just-rebranded “The Incredible 4: First Steps” — full with their experience, the Fantasticar, one way or the other floating throughout the stage.

That movie is due out July 25, 2025.

One other presentation featured Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford, two of the celebs of the February 2025 launch “Captain America: Courageous New World.”

Ford mentioned he was “proud” to be becoming a member of the opposite actors who’ve been having a lot enjoyable within the MCU, saying: “I wished a bit of the motion.”

He additionally “Hulked” out on stage, in a nod to his character Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross turning into Crimson Hulk within the film.

That movie’s Giancarlo Esposito was additionally there, confirming that he is enjoying the villain Sidewinder.

Marvel’s highlight additionally noticed David Harbour, in character and in costume as his “Black Widow” character the Crimson Guardian, strolling by way of the gang to hype up “Thunderbolts,” his team-up film with different stars who have been there, together with Sebastian Stan, Florence Pugh and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

After a thunderous introduction, Harbour then broke character, saying to his co-stars, “Oh my God, you guys did not costume up?”

Followers in Corridor H have been handled to a tease of that forthcoming movie, as effectively, which is due out Might 5, 2025.

Marvel Studios concluded the ceremony with the shock information of Robert Downey Jr.’s return to the MCU as Physician Doom.

Marvel Studios is owned by Disney, the father or mother firm of ABC Information.

PARIS – Jade Carey, a Mountain Ridge Excessive College alumnus and former competitor at Arizona Sunrays, is again within the Summer season Olympics. That is her second journey to the Summer season Video games after she competed for Group USA within the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the place she received the gold medal within the ground train.

“I’d say it’s actually rewarding and particular,” Carey mentioned. “I by no means thought that I’d even get there as soon as, so to get there twice means that rather more to me.

Carey, 24, has pushed via a troublesome first few days on the 2024 Paris Olympics.

“I simply haven’t been feeling effectively the previous few days and haven’t been in a position to eat or something,” Carey advised Olympics.com.

Carey fell on her final ground train tumbling move, however she bounced again on vault and put collectively a 14.433 common in her two makes an attempt of the second qualifying session.

Carey’s effort on vault will probably permit her to compete within the occasion’s closing. The highest eight finishers in every occasion advance to the ultimate, which is able to happen beginning Saturday. She sits second within the vaulting standings.

The U.S. ladies’s gymnastics crew has continued its dominance and leads all international locations with 172.296 factors. Carey and the remainder of the roster will goal for his or her third gold since 2012 Tuesday.

Carey is with an analogous group because the final Olympics, which incorporates 2020 all-around champion Sunisa Lee and seven-time Olympic medalist and 2016 all-around champion Simone Biles.

It was throughout these 2016 Rio Olympics that Carey realized she may probably turn into an Olympian.

“I really feel prefer it wasn’t till I watched the 2016 Olympics, once I was sitting on the sofa with my dad and simply watching it and realizing that I may do a few of that gymnastics that I used to be seeing,” Carey mentioned. “That sort of made me understand that it was attainable to do.”

Carey’s dad, Brian, has been instrumental in her skilled and collegiate profession. He doubles as her father at residence and her coach within the health club. He’s a former gymnast who’s an assistant coach at Oregon State College – the place Carey competes collegiately.

“We’re actually good at preserving issues separate,” Carey mentioned. “We don’t actually speak about gymnastics if we’re not within the health club. I have a look at him as a coach within the health club and simply as a dad at residence, so actually discovering that stability early and sticking with that’s undoubtedly what’s helped us probably the most.”

The 2020 Summer season Olympics had been distinctive. In March 2020, the world shut down as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. In a matter of days, everybody was hunkered down of their properties to assist reduce the illness’s unfold.

COVID-19 impacted the Olympics, much like different sporting occasions the world over. For the primary time in Olympics historical past, the video games had been rescheduled. The video games occurred throughout the 2021 summer time, though no followers had been current throughout the occasions.

That change between the 2020 Olympics and the 2024 Video games is one thing Carey is wanting ahead to experiencing.

“I’m most excited for having a crowd and followers,” Carey mentioned. “It’s going be actually thrilling to have an area full of individuals cheering us on, and in addition simply to have the ability to expertise the Olympic Village.”

Carey skilled a full vary of feelings throughout a 24-hour interval on the Tokyo Olympics.

Throughout the vault finals, she struggled on each vault landings and completed the occasion in eighth place.

She bounced again the very subsequent evening.

She landed all 4 of her tumbling passes within the ground train and earned a gold medal-winning 14.366 rating. Her dad was the primary particular person she embraced after she completed her routine. As soon as she formally claimed the gold medal, she hugged him as soon as extra as her teammates cheered within the stands.

“I can’t even describe it,” Brian Carey mentioned. “She had gone from such a low the day earlier than to such a excessive that day that it was simply an unbelievable stream of feelings. It was actually, actually cool.”

When she returned to america as a gold medalist, she continued to garner assist. Phoenix mayor Kate Gallego proclaimed Aug. 17 Jade Carey Day.

“The town of Phoenix will get our title from a hen that rose from the ashes, and the hope was that individuals from right here would rise from robust circumstances to flourish, and Jade, you might have carried out simply that and made this neighborhood proud,” Gallego mentioned in 2021.

Since her victory on the 2020 Olympics, Carey has competed on the Oregon State gymnastics crew. She made her extremely anticipated debut on Jan. 15, 2022, and immediately dominated the collegiate competitors.

She earned Pac-12 gymnast of the yr in her first two collegiate seasons.

Carey is Oregon State’s chief, which has helped her carry out higher in high-intensity conditions.

“I feel faculty has helped me quite a bit with consistency and type and strain,” Carey mentioned. “I used to be our anchor on each occasion in faculty, so I at all times had some form of strain state of affairs thrown at me, however actually I feel that was all for the perfect and actually helped put together me for these high-pressure conditions.”

Carey earned her second Olympics journey in early July by putting fourth within the all-around occasion, whereas putting first on vault and second within the ground train. Biles, Lee, Jordan Chiles and Hezly Rivera can be representing the crew, whereas Leanne Wong and Joscelyn Robertson are the touring replacements.

By all of it, her father and coach can be there along with her in Paris.

“My dad may be very particular to me, and to have the ability to share these unbelievable experiences with him means quite a bit,” Carey mentioned. “We’ve undoubtedly been via all of it collectively, the nice and the unhealthy, and it’s by no means modified our relationship or how we go about sure conditions, so simply with the ability to have him right here and assist me get to the most important stage on this planet is absolutely particular.”

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Venezuelans are anxiously awaiting the results of a extremely consequential presidential election after casting their votes Sunday, wherein the nation’s longtime strongman, Nicolas Maduro, faces one in every of his biggest political challenges but, say analysts.

Folks started lining exterior polling facilities at daybreak, casting votes all through the day — although it stays unclear when the electoral authorities will announce the outcomes.

As night time fell, lots of these out on the streets voiced issues that the opposition is not going to see a good contest, as Maduro’s authorities controls all public establishments in Venezuela and has been accused of rigging earlier votes, which it denied.

Consultants had stated that opposition get together representatives can be current at every polling station to look at towards vote tampering and to make sure equity. However on Sunday night time, the opposition’s foremost witness stated she and different members had been denied entry to the Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE) because it collates the ends in the capital Caracas.

Delsa Solórzano, president of the Citizen Encounter Occasion, half of a bigger opposition coalition, additionally stated CNE had stopped sending voting knowledge from polling stations to the central authority, to forestall extra votes from being processed. She added that she had tried contacting the CNE, with none response.

CNN has reached out to the CNE, which has not but commented on the allegations.

Maduro, who took the mantle of the ruling Chavismo motion after his predecessor Hugo Chavez’s loss of life in 2013, is looking for his third consecutive six-year time period in workplace. Of the 9 different candidates working for the presidency, his greatest challenger is a unified opposition motion that overcame their divisions to type a coalition often known as the Democratic Unitary Platform.

The opposition motion has maintained its momentum regardless of sustained authorities repression, wherein their first-choice candidate, María Corina Machado, was disqualified from working. Machado, an avowed capitalist who has promised privatization of a number of state industries, has since rallied for her alternative, the soft-spoken former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia.

The vote has come at a vital second for Venezuela, which has skilled violent repression below Maduro’s watch and the worst financial collapse of a peacetime nation in current historical past. The oil-rich nation, as soon as the fifth-largest financial system in Latin America, has seen its financial system shrink within the final decade to the equal of a medium-sized metropolis, based on knowledge from the Worldwide Financial Fund. 

Punishing sanctions on the regime by the USA and European Union have didn’t topple the populist incumbent, who argues that Venezuela’s woes are as a result of being a sufferer of an “financial struggle.”

Round eight million Venezuelans have fled the nation amid shortages of important items and hovering inflation, and others will really feel compelled to depart if Maduro wins, says the opposition coalition that has promised to revive Venezuela’s democracy.

Fleeing Venezuelans “would create big strain and destabilization within the area. And naturally, within the south border of the USA, however within the nation,” opposition chief Machado stated Sunday, including that an opposition victory would carry “hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans … again house.”

On Sunday, some voters in Caracas appeared optimistic for change. “[After] 25 years, I see that there’s a actual probability to vary. I see lots of people getting collectively to vote,” voter Mariana Schemel stated.

“I’m doing this for my youngsters and my grandchildren,” voter Amelia Perez informed CNN. She has three sons, one in every of whom resides in Washington, D.C. “I would like him to return again and I don’t need my youngsters to depart. All the remainder of my household already left.”

Voters got here out in droves to vote on Sunday, based on the opposition coalition. Outdoors a polling station in Caracas, Venezuelans chanted “we wish to vote” as they waited for hours in line to get to the poll field. Overseas, Venezuelan expatriates rallied in Miami, Florida, and the Peruvian capital Lima.

Greater than 21 million persons are registered to vote, each within the nation and overseas. The opposition coalition reported in a while Sunday afternoon a 54.8% voter turnout, representing a minimum of 11.7 million voters.

“That is big. If this continues, it will likely be a historic participation determine,” Machado stated in a press release launched Sunday afternoon. “What you’re seeing is a very powerful civic act in our historical past.”

There have been additionally minor “issues” at some voting stations, together with a small variety of stations that couldn’t be arrange and delays in processing voters’ ID playing cards, Machado stated.

And in Caracas, 55-year-old voter Henrique Mendoza informed CNN he was turned away from a polling middle by troopers for carrying cargo shorts, after queuing for hours – regardless of the CNE beforehand saying there is no such thing as a gown code for polling facilities.

When Maduro voted at 6 a.m. within the capital, he urged residents to respect the outcomes of the election. His foremost challenger González stated the opposition coalition is “going to attend for the outcomes from the Nationwide Electoral Council, nonetheless, we even have our strategies and mechanisms to know the progress of as we speak’s electoral course of.”

The election marketing campaign has seen a minimum of 71 individuals arbitrarily detained – nearly all of whom offered some form of service to the opposition – and a dozen on-line media retailers blocked throughout the nation, based on human rights group Laboratorio de Paz.

The federal government has additionally created important impediments for the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans overseas to vote, together with extensively unattainable passport and residency necessities. Solely 69,211 Venezuelans dwelling overseas are eligible to vote on this yr’s ballot, based on knowledge printed by the CNE.

A restricted group of election observers, together with a crew from The Carter Middle – a non-profit group arrange by former US President Jimmy Carter – can be on the bottom. However a number of worldwide election observers have introduced this week that they are going to not journey to Venezuela to observe the vote.

Latin American leaders, together with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have known as on Maduro to decide to stepping down if he loses. Venezuelan opposition figures have additionally appealed to the nation’s army, that has lengthy supported Maduro and his predecessor, to respect the outcomes. The Venezuelan chief has stated his victory will guarantee “peace” within the nation.

The Biden administration has been monitoring the elections, telling reporters on Friday that the US stands ready to levy further sanctions towards Venezuela if the democratic course of will not be allowed to unfold.

Vice President Kamala Harris stated “the will of the Venezuelan individuals have to be revered” in a submit on X, including that “regardless of the numerous challenges, we’ll proceed to work towards a extra democratic, affluent, and safe future for the individuals of Venezuela.”

How the military reacts to the result could possibly be an necessary consider any situation, however analysts say it unimaginable to parse the place it stands.

“The army is completely key. However I need to additionally say that the army may be very airtight, [and] it is extremely tough to entry details about what it’s considering,” Laura Cristina Dib, the Venezuela Program Director of Venezuela Program on the Washington Workplace on Latin America (WOLA), informed CNN.

With reporting from CNN’s Abel Alvarado, David Shortell and Michael Rios. 

NANTERRE, France — Moments after 1000’s of his countrymen sang a deafening therapy of the French nationwide anthem in La Protection enviornment outdoors Paris, Leon Marchand broke away from a pack of elite swimmers within the males’s 400 meter particular person medley last.

“It was a tremendous time for me,” Marchand stated after the race, by which the 22-year-old scored his first Olympic gold. “I used to be actually residing it within the second.”

Marchand, who competed for Arizona State College and now lives in Austin, Texas, dominated the occasion which mixes freestyle, again, breast and butterfly strokes.

At instances in the course of the race Marchand was to this point forward he gave the impression to be swimming in a special pool.

In a sport the place victories are sometimes razor-thin, he touched the wall greater than 5 seconds forward of Japan’s Tomoyuki Matsushita, who took silver.

The end of 4:02:95 was sturdy sufficient to set a brand new Olympic document, shattering the mark set by Michael Phelps in 2008 on the Beijing Video games.

“I had goose bumps on the rostrum,” Marchand stated. “I felt actually proud to be myself and to be French.”

An emblem of Frenchness who competed for Arizona State College

Marchand, along with his boyish beauty, has emerged as a nationwide icon of those Paris Olympics. After his win Sunday night time, French President Emmanuel Macron referred to as to supply congratulations.

Bob Bowman coached Marchand at ASU earlier than he turned professional this spring and helped put together him for these Olympics.

“That was an ideal swim,” he stated, describing Marchand as the very best ever on this occasion. “He can swim sooner than that. He is bought the velocity, he is bought the endurance.”

American swimmer Carson Foster additionally turned in a robust efficiency within the medley last to seize an upset bronze medal.

“I have never had good races in huge moments, so tonight simply felt good,” Foster stated.

However he too appeared awed by Marchand’s efficiency and by the roaring French crowd.

“It was fairly wild,” Foster stated of the ambiance within the packed enviornment. “It was particular for Leon to have the ability to try this in his dwelling nation. I will be capable of inform my children about that some day.”

Yet one more silver for the U.S. swimmers

In one other come-from-behind upset for U.S. swimmers, Nic Fink surged to a tie with legendary British Olympian Adam Peaty for a silver medal within the males’s 100-meter breaststroke last.

Peaty had been closely favored within the race.

“There weren’t many ideas going via my head,” Fink stated of his shock medal efficiency. “It was simply type of go-go-go. I knew it was going to be actually shut and everybody was inside a fingernail.”

Fink and Peaty completed a fraction of a second behind Italian Nicolo Martinenghi who received the gold medal, his nation’s first at these Video games.

Reporting contributed by NPR’s Becky Sullivan in Nanterre, France.