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The fourth haunted house for this year’s Halloween Horror Nights is a throwback to last year’s event at Universal Studios, the theme park announced Monday. Visitors will experience Hatchet and Chains: Demon Bounty Hunters in a larger format in 2025, Universal Orlando says.

“In this Old West town, all hell is breaking loose,” reads a social media description. “Red-hot lava demons are trying to possess everyone, melting everything in their path.”

Universal Studios: ‘M3GAN’ again has moves in theme park

Hatchet and Chains was one of the featured presentations within the 2024 house called Slaughter Sinema 2, which was a round-up maze of (fictional) B-movies. The Hatchet scenes included a saloon, demons and the scent of roses. The original Slaughter Sinema concept debuted at HHN in 2018.

Among other elements of Slaughter Cinema 2 were “Night of the Undead Clowns,” “Mardi Gras Murders,” “Mummy Strippers: Unwrapped” and the Carey Drive-In.

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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s media company plans to buy back up to $400 million of its stock, which have lost 46% of their value this year.

Trump Media and Technology Group, which operates the Truth Social media platform, said Monday that the acquisition will improve its financial flexibility. It will retire the shares after they are purchased, meaning these particular shares can’t be reissued.

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By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes edged higher in May, as stubbornly high mortgage rates and rising prices made homebuying less affordable even as the inventory of properties on the market continued to increase.

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Existing home sales rose 0.8% last month from April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.03 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Monday.

Sales fell 0.7% compared with May last year. The latest home sales fell topped the 3.95 million pace economists were expecting, according to FactSet.

“The sluggish sales activity one can attribute essentially to affordability,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. read more

By TOM MURPHY, AP Health Writer

The nation’s major health insurers are promising to scale back and improve a widely despised practice that leads to care delays and complications.

UnitedHealthcare, CVS Health’s Aetna and dozens of other insurers say they plan to reduce the scope of health care claims subject to prior authorization, standardize parts of the process and expand responses done in real time.

Prior authorization means insurers require approval before they’ll cover medical care, a prescription or a service like an imaging exam. Insurers say they do this to guard against care overuse and to make sure patients get the right treatment.

But doctors say the practice has grown in scope and complication, leading to frequent care delays. The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December prompted many people to vent their frustrations with coverage issues like prior authorization.

Dr. Mehmet Oz called the practice “a pox on the system” that hikes administrative costs during his Senate confirmation hearing in March to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. read more

By STAN CHOE, ELAINE KURTENBACH and BERNARD CONDON, AP Business Writers

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied, and the price of oil tumbled Monday on hopes that Iran will not disrupt the global flow of crude, something that would hurt economies worldwide but also its own, following the United States’ bunker-busting entry into its war with Israel.

The S&P 500 climbed 1%, coming off a week where stock prices had jumped up and down on worries about the conflict potentially escalating. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 374 points, or 0.9%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 0.9%.

The price of oil initially jumped 6% after trading began Sunday night, a signal of rising worries as investors got their first chance to react to the U.S. bombings. But it quickly erased all those gains and swung to a sharp loss as the focus shifted from what the U.S. military did to how Iran would react.

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