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An Ad Targeting Susan Collins’s Opponent, Troy Jackson, Airs in the Wrong Portland

By: John Yoon
12 October 2026 at 21:29
An executive with the Republican super PAC that paid for the ad attacking Mr. Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, blamed its vendor for running the ad in Oregon.

Β© Ryan David Brown for The New York Times

Troy Jackson is trying to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a fifth-term Republican, in Maine.

The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office

12 October 2026 at 21:20
Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg.

As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per Variety, Aaron's Sorkin's follow up to The Social Network only grossed a measly $5.5 million this past weekend against a budget that's somewhere within the $30-42 million range. That would make it a certifiable flop that's costing Columbia Pictures (and Sony) quite a bit of money - especially when you compare it to The Social Network's $22 million opening.

This isn't entirely surprising given how middling reviews for the film have been. It's currently got a 55% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has widely been …

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