By Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — A high-profile lawsuit brought by TikTok users and creators last month challenging Montana’s statewide ban against the short-form video app is being funded by the social media giant itself, the company told CNN on Wednesday. TikTok has been covering legal fees for the group of five TikTok creators, said
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — A high-profile lawsuit brought by TikTok users and creators last month challenging Montana’s statewide ban against the short-form video app is being funded by the social media giant itself, the company told CNN on Wednesday. TikTok has been covering legal fees for the group of five TikTok creators, said
Continue ReadingBy Jill Martin and George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Is Simone Biles making a return to competitive gymnastics? The 26-year-old is listed as an entrant for the US Classic, which is scheduled to be held August 5 in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) said on Thursday that Biles’
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The United States has stressed to Israel that the explosion of tensions with the Palestinians will make it virtually impossible to expand normalization agreements with Arab nations, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday, adding that the Israeli government has taken some escalatory steps, including on settlements. “We
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Jon Hamm está encantado de ser un hombre casado. “Es emocionante porque todo es potencial”, dijo Hamm en el episodio de este martes en el podcast “Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi” de iHeartPodcasts, añadiendo que el matrimonio “es lo que lleva a la siguiente cosa de la vida y
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — El ciclón Adrián, formado como tormenta tropical en la tarde del martes 27 de junio frente a las costas del occidente de México, en el océano Pacífico, se intensificó a huracán categoría 1 este miércoles 28 de junio, según informaron las autoridades mexicanas y estadounidenses. Adrián es el primer ciclón tropical que
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox and Nicky Robertson, CNN (CNN) — Nearly five months after Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville announced his hold on Department of Defense nominees, the tactic has become a major flashpoint within the US Senate as institutionalists inside the body are voicing concerns the hold could have long-term repercussions and are openly warning
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNI By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Tom Cruise – he’s just like us. Speaking in London ahead of the release of “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One,” Cruise shared that, yes, he feels fear. “It’s not that I don’t get scared,” the actor said. “It’s that I don’t mind being scared.” And there
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Idris Elba says he felt “super complimented for a long time” when it came to suggestions he should play James Bond. Until things took a turn. During a recently released conversation on Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett’s podcast “Smartless,” Elba addressed the many times he’s been
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CNN By Jessica Xing, CNN (CNN) — A university janitor who turned off a freezer after hearing multiple “annoying alarms,” ruined more than 20 years of research, according to a lawsuit filed against his employer by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. The janitor, who is not being sued in the lawsuit, was a
Continue ReadingBy Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Washington (CNN) — An exonerated member of the Central Park Five, Yusef Salaam, is poised to win a Democratic primary race for a New York City Council seat in Harlem. Salaam declared victory at a campaign event in Harlem Tuesday night, where he thanked the community for giving him a “second
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A Jupiter-like planet located 520 light-years from Earth may be an unlikely survivor after its host star had a temper tantrum. The gas planet is known as 8 UMi b and was named Halla after its initial discovery by Korean astronomers in 2015. Halla, regarded as a sacred place,
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — An official investigation has been launched by US Central Command into the May 3 drone strike in Syria that reportedly killed a civilian instead of the intended senior al-Qaeda target. A statement from CENTCOM on Wednesday said that the civilian casualty credibility assessment recently completed has become an official
Continue Reading By Shawn Nottingham and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — The Rankin County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi has fired multiple deputies after two Black men filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging six White deputies entered their private residence illegally and tortured them for nearly two hours. “Due to recent developments, including findings during our internal
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — A US judge on Tuesday dismissed the $100 million defamation lawsuit filed by American chess grandmaster Hans Niemann against Magnus Carlsen, among others, in an alleged cheating scandal which has rocked the sport, according to court documents. US District Court Judge Audrey Fleissig rejected Niemann’s claims that Norwegian Carlsen,
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Tres colombianos resultaron heridos en medio de un ataque de un misil en la ciudad de Kramatorsk, Ucrania, por lo que el Gobierno de Colombia expresó su “más enérgica” condena. Se trata de el ex alto comisionado para la Paz Sergio Jaramillo Caro, el escritor antioqueño Héctor Abad Faciolince
Continue ReadingBy Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — The largest US banks have sufficient safeguards in place to weather a severe recession while continuing lending to households and businesses, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday in its annual bank resilience test. The Fed’s stress tests carried extra weight this year after the collapse of three US
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes and Melanie Zanona, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy has scrambled to contain the fallout after he suggested that former President Donald Trump might not be the strongest candidate in the 2024 presidential race – comments that outraged Trump allies and raised fresh questions on the right about why the speaker has
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Two mushroom farms that employed the Half Moon Bay mass shooting suspect were cited for “serious” health and safety violations in an investigation stemming from the January workplace attacks, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health announced in a news release Monday. The two farms
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Here comes the bride. Nicole Scherzinger is engaged to be married. The Pussycat Dolls alum said yes to her fiancé Thom Evans, she revealed on Instagram, adding a picture of the two on the beach. “I said yes,” she wrote. Evans also shared the pictures to Instagram, writing, “My
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