Skip to Content
By Marianne Garvey Ryan Reynolds keeps getting mistaken for Ben Affleck and he’s totally fine with it. The “Deadpool” star and Canadian national treasure explained the mix up during a conversation on the “Dear Hank and John” podcast. “There’s a pizza place in the East Village in New York that I’ve been going to for
Continue Reading
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man has pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to file fraudulent applications for COVID-19 unemployment relief funds in multiple states using stolen Social Security numbers and other personal information. Federal prosecutors say 29-year-old Courtney Hilaire pleaded guilty Monday to multiple counts of wire fraud, aggravated identity
Continue Reading PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man has pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to file fraudulent applications for COVID-19 unemployment relief funds in multiple states using stolen Social Security numbers and other personal information. Federal prosecutors say 29-year-old Courtney Hilaire pleaded guilty Monday to multiple counts of wire fraud, aggravated identity
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The University of North Carolina and civil rights advocates urged the US Supreme Court on Monday to steer clear of a case designed to end racial affirmative action at state colleges and universities. Lawyers for North Carolina, led by state Solicitor General Ryan Park, contend
Continue ReadingBy Walé Azeez, CNN Business Turkey’s experiment in cutting interest rates to fight inflation has sent its currency crashing to record lows this year. Now, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to prop up the lira with a raft of new unorthodox economic measures. Erdogan said the government would try to protect Turkish savers worried
Continue Reading
By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are rising on Wall Street Tuesday after three days of losses brought on by worries over the spread of the omicron variant and lingering concerns about rising inflation. The S&P 500 rose 1.7%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.5% and the Nasdaq rose
Continue Reading
By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks rose on Wall Street Tuesday after three days of losses brought on by worries over the spread of the omicron variant and lingering concerns about rising inflation. The S&P 500 rose 1.5%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.5% and the Nasdaq rose 1.7%. Small-company stocks rose
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN According to Nicole Kidman, internet backlash over her casting as Lucille Ball in “Being the Ricardos” almost made her step away from the project. But a high-profile supporter helped convince her to stay on, Kidman told “Today.’ “[I’m] a human being, so there’s time when you go, ‘Gosh, maybe I’m
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas If the current state of the world is not intense enough for you, perhaps travel back to the time of the Vikings in “The Northman” trailer. The star-studded cast for the upcoming revenge film features Alexander Skarsgård, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman and Anya Taylor-Joy. Björk also appears in the movie.. It tells
Continue ReadingFOCUS FEATURES By Chloe Melas If the current state of the world is not intense enough for you, perhaps travel back to the time of the Vikings in “The Northman” trailer. The star-studded cast for the upcoming revenge film features Alexander Skarsgård, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman and Anya Taylor-Joy. Björk also appears in the movie..
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has resumed deliberating at the sex trafficking trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. The jury in Manhattan federal court went back to work in a large room where they could spread out for coronavirus safety reasons as soon as all 12 jurors arrived Tuesday morning. They had begun their
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN Multiple independent analyses have found President Joe Biden simply can’t hit his goal of cutting greenhouse gases by 50% by the end of the decade without the clean energy provisions in Build Back Better, the President’s signature economic and climate legislation. After West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin torpedoed the bill, experts
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL, METRONEWS, SENATE TV, NYSE By Ella Nilsen, CNN Multiple independent analyses have found President Joe Biden simply can’t hit his goal of cutting greenhouse gases by 50% by the end of the decade without the clean energy provisions in Build Back Better, the President’s signature economic and climate legislation. After West Virginia Sen.
Continue Reading
CNN By Faith Karimi, CNN Andy Corren could not bring his mother’s far-flung friends and family together for a funeral after her death this month. So the writer and talent manager did the next best thing: He wrote a brutally honest obituary to let them know that his “plus-sized Jewish lady redneck” mom had died.
Continue Reading By AMY FORLITI and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The jury has resumed deliberations in the manslaughter trial of the suburban Minneapolis police officer who says she meant to use her Taser instead of her gun when she shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright. The jury returned Tuesday after meeting for about
Continue Reading
Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El icono del rock Brian May instó al público a vacunarse contra el covid-19, después de decir a sus seguidores en Instagram que lo está pasando “realmente mal” desde que dio positivo en la prueba del virus la semana pasada. En una serie de publicaciones y videos en Instagram, el
Continue ReadingCNN By Diksha Madhok and CNN’s Beijing bureau Chinese live-stream shopping influencer Huang Wei, known as Viya, has been hit with a whopping $210 million penalty for tax evasion and kicked off social media. Viya — also known in China as the “live-streaming queen” — was ordered to pay 1.34 billion yuan in back taxes,
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey “Jagged Little Pill” has closed for good on Broadway due to the omicron variant of Covid-19. Following a number of positive cases among the cast and crew, producers confirmed the show will no longer perform on Broadway. All canceled tickets for the Broadhurst Theater performances will be refunded. “[The] drastic turn of
Continue Reading By KRISTIN M. HALL and JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press The Department of Defense is overhauling how it keeps track of its millions of guns and mountains of explosives, and Congress is requiring more accountability from the Pentagon. Those are two responses to an Associated Press investigation that showed lost or stolen military weapons were reaching
Continue Reading By KRISTIN M. HALL and JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press The Department of Defense is overhauling how it keeps track of its millions of guns and mountains of explosives, and Congress is requiring more accountability from the Pentagon. Those are two responses to an Associated Press investigation that showed lost or stolen military weapons were reaching
Continue Reading