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CNN, COLUMBIA RECORDS, SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY Toyin Owoseje, CNN Beyoncé has made fashion history as the first Black woman to wear the iconic 128.54 carat Tiffany Diamond. The Grammy-winning performer wears the stunning piece of jewelry, which features one of the world’s largest yellow diamonds, as she and her rapper husband Jay-Z become the faces
Continue ReadingToyin Owoseje, CNN Beyoncé has made fashion history as the first Black woman to wear the iconic 128.54 carat Tiffany Diamond. The Grammy-winning performer wears the stunning piece of jewelry, which features one of the world’s largest yellow diamonds, as she and her rapper husband Jay-Z become the faces of Tiffany & Co’s new “About
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GUADALUPE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a California police officer accidentally killed a bystander over the weekend while shooting at a suspect. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office says the shooting happened Saturday night in the small city of Guadalupe. The incident began when Guadalupe officers spotted someone with an outstanding felony arrest warrant. An
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ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the United States, has died in Minnesota. He was 38. His family said the Ukrainian-born Vovkovinskiy died of heart disease on Friday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. His mother, Svetlana Vovkovinska, an ICU nurse at Mayo, initially posted about his death on Facebook. Vovkovinskiy
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By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose for the second consecutive month in July, though only modestly from a year ago, suggesting the red-hot housing market may be cooling a little. Existing homes sales rose 2% last month from June to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5.99 million units,
Continue Reading By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose for the second consecutive month in July, though only modestly from a year ago, suggesting the red-hot housing market may be cooling a little. Existing homes sales rose 2% last month from June to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 5.99 million units,
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — A British judge ruled Monday that songs by punk trailblazers the Sex Pistols can be used in a forthcoming TV series despite the opposition of former frontman John Lydon. Ex-Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook sued the singer, once known as Johnny Rotten, after he tried to block the music’s
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland plans to build a fence along its border with Belarus and deploy more soldiers there to stop migrants seeking to enter the European Union nation. The government on Monday also offered to send humanitarian aid to a migrant group stuck at the border for more
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Judaism, the monotheistic (belief in one God) religion of the Jewish people. About Judaism Jewish law is rooted in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. According to the Torah, Abraham is the father of Judaism. He was born about
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN The artist behind the world’s first underwater sculpture park has just unveiled his latest subaquatic project — a spectacular sunken forest located off the coast of Pernera beach in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. The Museum of Underwater Sculpture in Cyprus (Musan), which cost €1 million ($1.1 million) to bring to life, is made
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Mariana Toro (CNN) — Las hospitalizaciones por covid-19 en personas no vacunadas le costaron al sistema de salud de EE.UU. US$ 2.300 millones solo en junio y julio, una cifra que probablemente es una subestimación, según un análisis de la Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) publicado el viernes. KFF examinó varias fuentes, incluidos datos de CMS
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By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian soccer association says Liverpool has refused to release Mohamed Salah for the country’s upcoming World Cup qualifying matches because of coronavirus restrictions. Egypt is on Britain’s red list so Salah would be required to quarantine upon his return from Cairo and miss two Premier League
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Eric Stonestreet is engaged to fiancée Lindsay Schweitzer, the “Modern Family” star announced in an Instagram post over the weekend. The couple posed in a series of pictures with Schweitzer showing a stunning ring. Stonestreet captioned the pictures: “She said, ‘She’d have her people call my people.’” The couple’s famous friends
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched the construction of new nuclear submarines and other warships, part of a sweeping military modernization effort amid tensions with the West. He gave orders for two nuclear submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles along with two diesel-powered submarines and two corvettes
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Stacy Lewis is returning to her hometown in Ohio for the Solheim Cup, just not as a player. U.S. captain Pat Hurst filled out her team Monday with four picks, two of them Solheim Cup rookies who have never won on the LPGA Tour. The 36-year-old Lewis was picked
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Pfizer is spending more than $2 billion in cash to buy another drugmaker focused on potential cancer treatments. New York-based Pfizer says it will pay $18.50 for each share of Trillium Therapeutics Inc., or more than double the stock’s 60-day weighted average price. Trillium has no products on the market. Its
Continue Reading By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. gave full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday, potentially boosting public confidence in the shots and instantly opening the way for more universities, companies and local governments to make vaccinations mandatory. The Pentagon promptly announced it will press ahead with plans to
Continue ReadingBy KMOV Staff Click here for updates on this story EAST ST. LOUIS, Illinois (KMOV) — Family and friends gathered Saturday to say a final goodbye to five children killed in an apartment fire. Mourners filled greater St. Mark’s Church in East St. Louis for funeral services for the young victims. The children – all
Continue Reading By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — All New York City public school teachers and other staffers will have to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, officials said Monday, ramping up pandemic protections as the nation’s largest school system prepares for classes to start next month. The city previously said teachers, like other city
Continue ReadingBy Frank Healy Click here for updates on this story RACINE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A 40-year-old Montgomery City, Missouri man passed away after attempting to rescue two kids from Lake Michigan at North Beach in Racine, Sunday, August 22. The Racine County Sheriff’s Office announced that on Saturday, at approximately 3:04 p.m., deputies were dispatched
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