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For some, cleaning up the yard might require simple tools like a wheelbarrow, a pressure washer, and maybe even some grass seed. If you’re taking out trees, though, a good chainsaw from a reliable brand is a must. Chainsaws are one of the few power tools that really don’t go on sale too often, which is why we were shocked to see that Greenworks is running a limited-time deal right now at Walmart on its 16-inch cordless saw.

The Greenworks 60V 16-Inch Brushless Chainsaw is on sale for $148, which is $120 off its original $268 price tag. It boasts over 250 five-star ratings at Walmart, and shoppers say it’s “easy to use” and has “great power.”

Greenworks 60V 16-Inch Brushless Chainsaw, $148 (was $268) at Walmart

This Greenworks creation features all of the upsides of an electric chainsaw. It’s quieter than its gas counterparts while having the power equivalent to a 38 cc chainsaw. It can produce up to 90 cuts on a single charge, and once it’s out of power, it’ll fully recharge in 50 minutes. This electric saw is also easier to operate than most gas chainsaws, weighing in at a mere 11.5 pounds. Best of all, your purchase includes an extra chain and a charger. The saw itself is a breeze to start, thanks to its quick trigger that requires no priming and no pull cord.

“This is one of the best purchases I have ever made,” one reviewer praised. “One charge lasts forever, and it takes hardly any time to charge again. Cuts through wood like butter. Make sure to add chainsaw oil to keep it lubricated. I can’t say enough good things about it. I’ll never use another gas or any other brand of chainsaw ever.”

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“Powerful, safe, clean, and quiet,” another shopper began. “It’s better than a gas chainsaw because you can make a cut and set it down immediately with no concern of a running blade. Much safer and more powerful than my gas chainsaw…I am now sold on the power and convenience of Greenworks 60V tools.”

The Greenworks 60V Brushless Chainsaw is labeled as a Walmart rollback, so it won’t be on sale forever. Add this yardwork must-have to your cart ASAP before the deal runs out or the full retail price returns.

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Today, Bella Ramsey is best known as the Emmy-nominated star of HBO’s hit series The Last of Us. But not that long ago, they made their onscreen debut as Lyanna Mormont, the pint-sized badass and leader of House Mormont on Game of Thrones. It was during the filming of season 6 on that previous series that Ramsey—then just 11 years old—managed to humiliate their critically acclaimed co-star.

Ramsey sat down with former Game of Thrones co-star Kit Harington for a new feature in Interview Magazine. The two actors reminisced about their Westeros days, including a seemingly awkward moment when Ramsey very innocently tried to help out their scene partner, but left him mortified.

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After discussing how long it has been since the two had seen each other—they figured about seven years—Harington, who played bastard-turned-King in the North Jon Snow, shared his memories of first watching Ramsey in action.

“I’m going to blow a bit of smoke here, so I’m sorry, but there was a real feeling of you being a different entity of child actor. We were like, ‘Oh, they’re good,’” said Harington, which Ramsey found incredibly “sweet.”

“I remember not feeling like a child, but now I see 11-year-olds and realize how tiny they are, so it’s weird to me that I was that size and that young, because I didn’t feel that tiny,” Ramsey shared. Before reminding Harington of a moment they remembered “quite vividly and have some remorse for it now.” In the midst of a scene, Harington apparently got a bit lost in his lines—and Ramsey attempted to come to his rescue by mouthing them to him.

“Now I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, how awful,’” said Ramsey. “But at the time it came from a very innocent place of being like, ‘Kit’s struggling with his line and I know it, so let me just mouth it to him.’”

Harington knew exactly the moment Ramsey was talking about. “I do remember you helping me out and it being quite humiliating,” he said, laughing. “But yeah, thanks for that. I’ve probably chosen to forget it.”

Ramsey offered a joking “You’re welcome” in response, before declaring how “annoying” that must have been. Harington assured them that “It wasn’t at all. If anything I was like, ‘Oh god, I’ve got to up my game. I came here not really being comfortable enough with my lines, in the arrogance of however old I was, thinking I’m just opposite some child. And then that child actor is wiping me off the screen.’”

Harington concluded that while it certainly wasn’t “a competition,” having a pre-teen show him up on set gave him a kick he might have needed. He said that it made him realize he may have gotten “a bit too comfortable in my Jon Snow-ness.”

As companies across the world are beginning to feel the effects of the widespread import tariffs imposed by the Donald Trump presidential administration, one of the United States’ biggest companies is braces for billions of dollars in losses.

On Thursday morning, General Motors released a statement annoumcing that it believes the company will lose between $4 billion and $5 billion as a result of the import tariffs on imported cars and auto parts, which will obviously eat into its profits.

However, that does not necessarily mean that prices will rise on the consumer end.

During a recent interview with CNN, General Motors CEO Mary Barra said that the company does not expect to raise its pricing as a result of the tariffs, saying that prices on vehicles will remain “at about the same level” despite the massive losses.

“We believe …pricing is going to stay at about the same level as it is,” she told CNN’s Erin Burnett Thursday.

However, she did indicate that the company was going to “respond to the market,” which could mean price increases in response to other manufacturers raising their prices.

“Pricing changes in our industry at least monthly, and sometimes more frequently. We’re going to respond to the market.”

GM is the first major company to provide a clear estimate of just how much the tariffs are expected to cost the company. So far, others have simply walked back their earnings forecasts in response to the uncertainty in the market.

We’ll have to see whether or not these predictions hold true for GM as the future of many industries throughout the United States is so uncertain.

Avid fans of the John Wick movie franchise have even more reason to be excited after recently learning that John Wick 5 is officially in development.

An upcoming behind-the-scenes documentary entitled Wick Is Pain is set to release on May 9, and with that comes an intriguing trailer that offers never-before-seen footage in what can probably be best described as “chaotic” about a beloved Keanu Reeves film that almost never happened.

The trailer for the documentary features some pretty eye-opening commentary from John Wick director Chad Stahelski, as well as key producers who faced budget issues that appeared to have the movie’s fate hanging by a thread.

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One of the more telling quotes from the trailer regarding whether or not the movie would even resonate with audience, let alone be made, came from Reaves himself.

“Is this f—— terrible?” Reaves asks at the 1:43 mark of the clip, right after a producer had discussed the Hollywood “no-no” of killing a dog in a movie.

First trailer for ‘John Wick’ documentary ‘WICK IS PAIN’
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“We were a tiny little movie,” a producer stated at one point in the trailer. “We were shut down. I don’t know how you find six-and-a-half million dollars by Monday.”

The whole trailer is well worth the watch, but even in the relatively brief video—as compared to the documentary’s full running time of 80 minutes—the stress in making the film feels very much conveyed.

“We have never worked harder on any movie than we have on the John Wick series,” said producer Basil Iwanyk. “Producing a movie is always long hours and stressful times, but John Wick turned that up to the max — and because we survived, that’s what made the movies so gratifying.”

Iwanyk saying the actors and crew “survived” making John Wick kind of sums up everyone’s stress-cooker of an experience throughout the trailer, paired with the glaring last-minute budget concerns.

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But fellow producer David Leitch added some sprinkles on top, driving home Iwanyk’s words.

“It’s safe to say that John Wick changed our lives, for everyone involved,” Leitch shared. “We had been waiting for the opportunity to show our vision of what action filmmaking could be, and this film and this character gave us that opportunity. Thank you, Mr. Wick.”

The Wick is Pain documentary is already available for pre-order purchases on platforms like Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube, Fandango, among others, but otherwise will be digitally released on May 9 following its exclusive screening at “Beyond Fest” at the American Cinematheque on May 8.

“I’m excited to share and be a part of taking fans behind the curtain on the extraordinary journey of making the John Wick films,” Reeves said of Wick is Pain.

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McDonald’s is one of many American companies to get off to a sluggish start to 2025.

On Thursday, McDonald’s reported its quarterly sales for Q1 of the new year, and the numbers are not good. According to NBC News, the fast food corporation saw same-store sales fall 3.6%, the worst drop since plummeting 8.7%. in Q2 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 3.6% decrease was more than twice the projected decline, which had been 1.7%. Overall, McDonald’s is just the latest chain restaurant to report declining sales as consumers spend less.

“People are just visiting less,” McDonald’s said.

One specific portion of the company’s call with investors raised eyebrows. Per NBC, McDonald internal surveys have detected “an uptick in anti-American sentiment, particularly among diners in northern Europe and Canada.”

“We have seen … an increase in people in various markets saying they’re going to be cutting back on purchases of American brands,” the company said.

While McDonald’s says it hasn’t noticed its own brand in particular being docked by anti-American sentiment, the reported findings are worth keeping an eye on. 

The beginning of 2025 has marked a period of economic volatility, and coupled with the uncertainty of President Trump’s threatened tariffs, has likely contributed to any negative feelings toward American brands abroad.

“We believe McDonald’s can weather these difficult conditions better than most,” McDonald’s Chairman and CEO Chris Kempczinski told investors Thursday. “However, we’re not immune to the volatility in the industry or the pressures that our consumers are facing.”

Despite some Q1 struggles, McDonald’s is still planning on opening 2,200 locations and projecting sales growth to be over 2% for the year.

As Sinners continues to take the box office by storm, the vampire pic is making its grand return to the IMAX screens.

For one week only, Sinners will have limited re-release screenings in nine select IMAX 70mm theaters across the United States.

“Audiences have spoken and we listened. If ever a film needed to be experienced in this incredible larger-than-life format, it’s ‘Sinners,’” Warner Bros. Pictures president of global distribution Jeff Goldstein said in a statement.

Sinners marks the biggest debut for an original film since 2019, grossing $48 million during its domestic opening weekend. The film has gone on to gross over $160 million globally.

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Written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Coogler, Sinners sees Michael B. Jordan inhabit the dual roles of Smoke and Stack, twin brothers who return to their segregated Mississippi Delta town of Clarksdale in the 1930s with the sole ambition of opening up a juke joint. However, there plan quickly goes awry when they are confronted by vampires. Jordan leads Sinners alongside Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller and Delroy Lindo.

“Ryan has delivered a film that has been embraced by fans who appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into creating a film for this screen-filling format and we wanted to give everyone the opportunity to see it — or see it again — in 70mm IMAX,” Goldstein continued.

Sinners will screen in IMAX 70mm at the City Walk Stadium 19 + IMAX (Los Angeles), Irvine Spectrum and IMAX (Irvine), Lincoln Square 13 + IMAX (New York), Metreon 16 + IMAX (San Francisco), Indiana State Museum (Indianapolis), Arizona Mills IMAX (Phoenix), Autonation Imax (Ft. Lauderdale), Webb Chapel IMAX (Dallas) and Colossus Imax (Toronto).

Mass layoffs are rippling across industries this May, as nearly 130 companies notify employees of impending job cuts, according to new data compiled from WARNTracker.com.

Under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), businesses must alert employees and government officials ahead of mass layoffs. These notices offer early insight into shifting economic tides, and May’s data shows widespread turbulence.

Companies cutting jobs this month span a broad range of sectors, from household names like Amazon, Starbucks, and FedEx to tech, healthcare, education, and retail. In some cases, firms cite cost-cutting amid inflation and lower demand. In others, layoffs appear to be tied more to profit protection than necessity, Newsweek reported.

Among those announcing cuts:

• FedEx
• Macy’s
• JP Morgan Chase
• Mattel
• Chewy
• Wells Fargo
• The Cheesecake Factory
• Southern California Edison
• Starbucks
• American Medical Response

Even large educational and non-profit institutions like Johns Hopkins University, Catholic Charities of Orange, and the American Bar Association are trimming staff.

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The number of layoffs per employer ranges from a handful to hundreds, and no region appears untouched. While some companies are still navigating post-pandemic restructuring, others are reacting to persistent inflation, rising labor costs, and shifting consumer behavior.

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The layoffs also come as job openings decline, wage growth slows, and uncertainty lingers over interest rate policy. For many workers, job security is starting to feel less certain again, despite a still-low national unemployment rate.

Whether this wave marks the start of a deeper employment correction or a short-term recalibration remains to be seen. For now, thousands of workers across the U.S. are bracing for difficult transitions this month.

Amid a potential United States-led tariff war, one major airline issued a significant threat to avoid American airplane manufacturer Boeing.

On Thursday, May 1, Ryanair threatened to cancel orders for hundreds of Boeing aircraft if a trade war sparks materially higher prices. The company even suggested it would take its business elsewhere, potentially to Chinese manufacturer COMAC, according to a report from Reuters.

A source told Reuters the threat may be difficult to follow through with considering COMAC isn’t yet certified in Europe while fellow rival Airbus maintains it’s sold out through the rest of the decade. 

Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said the tariffs “could threaten 330 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that his airline has on order, which have a list price of more than $30 billion,” according to Reuters.

“If the U.S. government proceeds with its ill-judged plan to impose tariffs, and if these tariffs materially affect the price of Boeing aircraft exports to Europe, then we would certainly reassess both our current Boeing orders, and the possibility of placing those orders elsewhere,” O’Leary said.

It’s a change of tone from O’Leary, who said in March that Boeing executives had privately expressed confidence that aircraft would be exempted from the tariffs. However, a Reuters source claimed contracts with Boeing and Airbus don’t include a provision for tariffs while major airplane manufacturers are “reviewing the wording of contracts for future deals on the assumption that trade turbulence will remain for some time.”

In the letter O’Leary admitted the Irish airline hasn’t had discussions with COMAC since 2011, but would “of course” consider the Boeing and Airbus alternative if they were 10-20% cheaper.

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Jim Lampley is pulling no punches as he gets ready to make his ringside comeback. The 76-year-old broadcasting legend is adamant, like most boxing purists, that HBO made a big mistake in abandoning the sport.

Lampley can’t fathom how HBO reached that decision. For more than four decades, HBO and boxing were synonymous entities. When it all came to a close, Lampley delivered an emotional farewell on Dec. 8, 2018. More than six years later, there’s still pain in Lampley’s voice when he talks about the business decision he calls puzzling and a mistake.

Lampley, who makes his ringside comeback on Friday for Ring Magazine‘s outdoor triple-header live from Times Square on DAZN PPV, tells Men’s Journal he’s befuddled as to how a network that aims to create the best dramatic television could quit a business that delivered the best kind of human drama. And live drama, at that.

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“Maybe they can point to balance sheet evidence or some other indicator that says, ‘Aha, we did exactly the right thing to get rid of boxing.’ But I don’t believe that,” Lampley tells Men’s Journal. “I think that it was an important characteristic of HBO. I think it was an important touchstone for the viewer. It was drama. It was unpredictable live drama. It was exactly what a drama-based television network should have. It was different from all of the conventional team sports that we see so much of on all of the other networks.

“It was something that both paid cable networks, Showtime and HBO, built around and promoted around because they recognized these are human dramas. They are cellular in nature. They are not like anything else in sports, where it’s far more organizational and institutional.”

Lampley called some of the most iconic boxing matches for HBO in his 30-year career as the blow-by-blow commentator. From Buster Douglas knocking out Mike Tyson to George Foreman knocking out Michael Moorer to become the oldest heavyweight champion at 46. He was the voice behind entire boxing careers, from Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to Oscar De La Hoya and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin.

He was also the voice behind boxing’s iconic trilogy, Micky Ward and Arturo Gatti, a rivalry that personified the best boxing has to offer.

“This is about two human beings who go into the ring and breathe on each other and taste each other’s sweat and blood and try to prove minute-by-minute “I’m more [of a]man than you are,'” Lampley says. “There’s nothing like that. And to have wiped it off the face of the television screen to the degree that they did, I don’t get it. And I never will.”

Read Men’s Journal’s full interview with Jim Lampley here.

The U.S. Army, which has a fiscal year budget of close to $200 billion, is reportedly planning a “massive” change.

A report from the Wall Street Journal states that the U.S. Army is planning its biggest overhaul since the end of the Cold War in 1989. The U.S. Army is planning to dive deeper into the world of drones and technology.

The U.S. Army, which has about 450,000 active duty soldiers, is planning on equipping each of its divisions with a huge increase in drones. The U.S. Army is reportedly planning to give each of its divisions about 1,000 drones.

With the influx of more drones, outdated weapons are being pushed aside.

The U.S. Army has 10 active duty divisions. Those divisions would be using the drones for surveillance, moving supplies and the carrying out of attacks, according to the Wall Street Journal.

This has been in the works for a while, though according to the report, the U.S. Army’s decision was influenced by what has happened during Ukraine’s war with Russia. The Ukraine military has been praised for its use of drones in warfare. The U.S. Army believes that it can learn from Ukraine.

Training has been taking place for about a year.

Col. Donald Neal, the commander of the U.S. 2nd Cavalry Regiment, made it clear that drone usage is the future of the battlefield. 

“We’ve got to learn how to use drones, how to fight with them, how to scale them, produce them, and employ them in our fights so we can see beyond line of sight,” he said. “We’ve always had drones since I’ve been in the Army, but it has been very few.”

Military-grade drones are not cheap. Estimates suggest that they can cost as low as $700,000 and as high as several million dollars. Still, if they can help save lives, they’re priceless. 

But Gen. Randy George, the Army chief of staff, said that the U.S. Army isn’t asking for more money. It’s just trying to spend the money it has in a better way.

“We aren’t going to ask for more money,” George said in an interview. “What we want to do is spend the money that we have better.”

It sounds like more drone usage is a big part of those plans.