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By Lisa Respers France, CNN

(CNN) — Brian Tyler remembers being in a hospital bed when the music for “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” came to him.

While in his music studio in August 2025, the composer suffered a major medical incident: a double subarachnoid brain hemorrhage — bleeding in the space between the brain and the membrane covering it.

“It just happened out of nowhere,” said Tyler, 53, speaking from his home in Los Angeles. “It’s like lightning striking and I was touching the void, facing the blackness.”

Many people with such a hemorrhage die suddenly, according to Cleveland Clinic. Among those who make it to the hospital, one-third die while hospitalized. Another third survive with a disability.

Tyler said the cause of the hemorrhage wasn’t clear. He went on to spend three weeks in the hospital undergoing treatment.

Soon, he found himself beating the odds. He put pen to paper, continuing the movie compositions he had been working on when he suffered his aneurysm — for both “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” and “Nuremberg,” which came out last year.

“It was like a cathartic kind of way to come back and it gave me a goal and a sense of where I was headed,” he said.

Now, with “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” having garnered more than $747 million globally at the box office and on track to be one of the year’s highest grossing films, Tyler is feeling grateful.

He quipped that his score was responsible for “99%” of the film’s success. It may have been a joke but to many superfans of the film — a sequel to 2023’s hugely successful “Super Mario Bros.,” which Tyler also composed for — the music is a key component.

“The music is such an important part of Super Mario Bros. and I wrote it all as one piece,” Tyler said. “The goal was to write something beautiful, epic and really impassioned.”

Tyler has had a storied career, composing music for dozens of major films including “Rambo,” “Crazy Rich Asians” and “The Iron Man 3.” He has also composed the theme for the U.S. Open Golf Championships and Formula 1.

Tyler also worked on the music for “Nuremberg” in the wake of his massive medical emergency, the critically acclaimed 2025 film starring Rami Malek as a US Army psychiatrist who evaluates Nazi leaders including Hermann Göring, played by Russell Crowe, ahead of the post-WWII trials. “’Nuremberg’ was such an important film historically, and it needed to really capture that era of time,” Tyler said.

Tyler saw a thread between his own experience and the two films he worked on.

“It happens to be that there’s these parallel lines with the story where you’re rising up, you’re enduring and you’re searching in both movies,” he said. “So, for me, it was like I was able to really write music for the experience I was just in.”

At the moment, though, it’s all “Super Mario Galaxy” all the time. The film, directed by Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Pierre Leduc and Fabien Polack and starring Brie Larson and Jack Black among others, is based on the lege

By Tal Shalev and Dana Karni, CNN

(CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quietly underwent treatment for prostate cancer, he said Friday as he publicized the results of his annual medical examination.

It is the first time the longest-serving leader in Israel’s history has acknowledged that he was diagnosed with cancer.

Netanyahu, 76, underwent surgery for an enlarged prostate in December 2024, an operation the Prime Minister’s Office had disclosed publicly at the time. In the latest check-up following the surgery, Netanyahu revealed in a statement on social media that doctors discovered a malignant tumor in his prostate of less than a centimeter.

The Prime Minister’s Office also released two letters from his doctors to accompany the revelation on social media. “This is an early detection of a very small lesions, with no metastases, as all other tests confirmed beyond any doubt,” one letter said.

He does not reveal when the last check was, but an Israeli source familiar with the matter told CNN that the cancer was diagnosed several months ago. Netanyahu began undergoing radiation therapy about two and a half months ago, according to the source, and had recently completed the treatment.

Netanyahu says he made the decision to undergo targeted radiation therapy and “the spot disappeared completely.”

“Thank God, I am healthy,” Netanyahu said on social media. “I had a minor medical issue with my prostate that was completely treated.” He says he delayed the release of his annual medical report – which revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer – by two months so that it wouldn’t be used as propaganda by Iran.

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Happy Friday! It'll be a cool morning with a few areas of dense fog developing along major highways. Overcast skies kick in after lunch and cooler temperatures arrive. Highs rise into the 60s and low 70s. No watches, warnings or advisories to worry about. Marine waters and winds remain calm.

Low pressure develops along the boarder of Nevada and California. This system will drudge up showers and thunderstorms. This brings rain chances up to 50% for most of the area! Expect erratic and fast moving showers to arrive after midday. Any rain amounts will be dismal and impacts should be minimal other than the fair forecast. Skies hold overcast and highs rise into the 50s and low 60s, this is the coolest day of the period.

We hold with a 20% chance of showers Sunday. Some light rain may pop up in the morning before we dry by the evening. Drying conditions arrive Monday through next week, until Wednesday Thursday where 20% chances arrive again. Highs this entire weekend into next week hold in the 60s and low 70s. Winds will need to be monitored each day.

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By Brian Stelter, CNN

(CNN) — In the same way that President Donald Trump’s second term is like any other, this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner will be unlike any other.

Trump will be attending the gala for the first time as president and speaking before thousands of journalists and politicos — leaving attendees to wonder what he’ll say and how the room will react.

Will the president use a dinner dedicated to the First Amendment to attack journalists and air his well-worn grievances? Or will he deliver the barbs with a lighter touch, perhaps in the joking, back-slapping manner he sometimes adopts around reporters?

A wide range of critics say the soirée risks normalizing Trump’s anti-democratic assaults on the press. Trump’s presence at the event is “a profound contradiction of its purpose,” a petition signed by 250-plus veteran journalists and several media advocacy groups said earlier this week.

But the journalists who invited him, the board of the White House Correspondents’ Association, say they are glad Trump is ending a years-long boycott of the dinner and embracing a tradition that dates back one hundred years. The association has been inviting the sitting president to the dinner ever since President Calvin Coolidge attended in 1924.

Members of the association, which says it exists to “facilitate robust coverage of the presidency,” note that the black-tie function doubles as an award ceremony for the association and a fundraiser for its scholarship program.

This year’s president of the WHCA, Weijia Jiang, senior White House correspondent for CBS News, said “there is no confusion about what this dinner is about.”

“Everyone in attendance has chosen to be there knowing that it is a dinner dedicated to recognizing the importance of the First Amendment,” she told CNN. “Especially as we mark America’s 250th birthday, our decision to gather — as journalists, newsmakers and the president in the same room — is a reminder of what the free press means in this country.”

Jiang will give remarks about the essential role of the press corps, as is customary for the association’s president. Attendees will likely be watching the president’s face carefully for his reactions.

In past years, the association president has been followed by the commander-in-chief, and then a headliner, usually a comedian who roasts everyone in the room. This year, the association booked mentalist Oz Pearlman rather than a comedian, partly to sidestep the potential backlash a comedic performance can cause.

“My job is to bring us together,” Pearlman told NPR.

The parties and the protests

The dinner, which will be televised live by CNN and other channels, is the centerpiece of the weekend’s social calendar, surrounded by more than a dozen brunches, ceremonies, receptions and late-night parties.

Attendees generally say the gladhanding and networking can be valuable in a city that runs on tips and leaks. But the appearance of reporters and politicians yukking it up together generates criticism every year, all the more so this time because Trump is attending.

Ron Fournier, a former DC bureau chief of The Associated Press, acknowledged the tension in a recent essay.

“Yes, the industry’s best reporters will be honored Saturday night with prizes for their work uncovering wrongdoing inside the Trump administration, and the dinner raises money for college scholarships. This is the good work of the WHCA,” Fournier wrote. “But why celebrate journalism alongside a man whose concept of news travels the narrow range between ‘Trump is a great president’ to ‘Trump is the greatest president ever’? Why cel

Análisis por David Goldman, CNN

Las gasolineras están racionando el combustible. Los hospitales se están quedando sin suministros médicos. La gente está acaparando bolsas de plástico y las fábricas se enfrentan a la escasez de envases.

Todo eso está ocurriendo ahora en Asia.

Eso podría convertirse en un problema para Estados Unidos: aproximadamente la mitad de los productos que compran los estadounidenses provienen de Asia.

Si las fábricas asiáticas están sufriendo escasez de suministros, ¿deberían los estadounidenses esperar también escasez?

Posiblemente, pero no todavía. Al menos no de forma generalizada ni grave. Pero cuanto más tiempo permanezca cerrado el estrecho de Ormuz, más difícil será para Estados Unidos evitar que los problemas se acumulen en otros lugares.

Sin duda, las señales de alarma están apareciendo.

La guerra con Irán ha amenazado el suministro mundial de aluminio, plásticos y caucho en particular.

Medio Oriente exporta cerca del 25 % del polipropileno mundial y el 20 % del polietileno, dos de los plásticos más utilizados. Además, representa una cuarta parte del azufre mundial y el 15 % de sus fertilizantes.

“Se habla mucho del petróleo crudo y de sus repercusiones en el diésel y la gasolina, pero también hay escasez de materias primas y productos petroquímicos”, afirmó Angie Gildea, directora global de petróleo y gas de KPMG.

Varios productores petroquímicos importantes, entre ellos Yeochun de Corea del Sur y PCS de Singapur, han declarado “fuerza mayor”, señaló Stephen Brown, economista jefe para Norteamérica de Capital Economics. Esto significa que no pueden cumplir con sus compromisos con los clientes.

Otras empresas afirman que se están quedando sin envases de plástico para sus productos. Un fabricante de preservativos declaró el martes que los precios se dispararían debido a la falta de acceso a las materias primas para su fabricación.

El indicador global de escasez de suministro del S&P 500, una medida clave de los informes de las grandes empresas sobre las limitaciones de existencias, se ha disparado en las últimas semanas, superando su promedio a largo plazo por primera vez en tres años.

“En Estados Unidos estamos más expuestos de lo que creemos”, declaró Ross Mayfield, estratega de inversiones de Baird.

A diferencia de los aranceles, que Trump anunció con meses de antelación, la guerra sorprendió a muchas empresas y les dio poco tiempo para prepararse, especialmente a aquellas que dependen en gran medida de los productos asiáticos.

“La administración impuso aranceles y podría revocarlos”, señaló Mayfield. “Es mucho más difícil sacar a Estados Unidos de esta situación sin complicaciones”.

Los repetidos contratiempos en las negociaciones entre Estados Unidos e Irán sugieren que no se vislumbra una solución al cierre del estrecho de Ormuz. Kpler pronostica que las pérdidas de suministro de petróleo derivadas del cierre de la vía ascenderán a 700 millones de barriles para finales de abril.

Según Gildea, esa escasez de petróleo podría provocar una falta de productos estadounidenses en el futuro.

Por ejemplo, la menor disponibilidad de combustible en Asia podría impedir que los empleados de las fábricas lleguen a sus puestos de trabajo, comentó Gildea, lo que podría ralentizar la producción para la exportación.

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