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By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Since Netflix launched into original films, the streaming service has been an annual force in Hollywood’s awards season. On Saturday, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, it will play host, too. The 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards will for the first time stream live on Netflix, beginning at 8
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A balloon the US was tracking across the country has now left US airspace and was likely a “hobby balloon,” NORAD said in a statement Saturday. NORAD had initially intercepted the balloon with fighter jets but ultimately continued to track it through ground-based radar systems. “After
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois judge who sparked outrage by reversing a man’s rape conviction involving a 16-year-old girl has been removed from the bench after a judicial oversight body found he circumvented the law and engaged in misconduct. The Illinois Courts Commission removed Adams County Judge Robert Adrian from the bench Friday after it
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A helicopter that was carrying the CEO of one of Nigeria’s largest banks and five others left a shallow crater and a trail of debris when it crashed in Southern California’s Mojave Desert earlier this month, according to investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board. The agency on Friday released a
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — A helicopter that was carrying the CEO of one of Nigeria’s largest banks and five others left a shallow crater and a trail of debris when it crashed in Southern California’s Mojave Desert earlier this month, according to investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board. The agency on Friday released a
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Football is back in full force this weekend. Sorry, the other one. Saturday marks the beginning of Apple’s second year of streaming Major League Soccer matches, a decade-long, $2.5 billion deal that’s part of an ambitious effort to attract more fans and money to the 28-year-old league,
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Paulina Nares (CNN) — El cuerpo del opositor ruso Alexey Navalny fue entregado a su madre más de una semana después de su muerte, según declaró este sábado la portavoz de Navalny, Kira Yarmysh. “El cuerpo de Alexey fue entregado a su madre. Muchas gracias a todos los que exigieron esto con nosotros”, publicó Yarmysh
Continue ReadingBy BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A court in Tunisia has sentenced former president Moncef Marzouki to eight years in prison in absentia as part of the country’s crackdown on opponents of President Kais Saied. The charges against Marzouki stemmed from remarks he made that authorities said violated laws prohibiting incitement
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — High-ranking Israeli Cabinet members were expected to meet Saturday with a delegation that returned from talks in Paris with negotiators from the United States, Egypt and Qatar in search of a deal on pausing the fighting in Gaza, an Israeli official
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has highlighted the achievements of his ruling African National Congress, which has ruled the country for all of its 30 years of democracy, as it heads into a tight race in May’s election. Ramaphosa delivered the party’s manifesto to thousands
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — It has been a remarkable week for Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya, who began it having just qualified for the Dubai Tennis Championships and ended it playing in the tournament’s final after defeating world No. 1 Iga Świątek and US Open champion Coco Gauff along the way. By stunning Świątek 6-4
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K.’s governing Conservative Party has suspended ties with one if its lawmakers after he accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan of being controlled by Islamists as tensions over the Israel-Hamas war roil British politics. The party said on Saturday that Lee Anderson was suspended after he refused
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — La campaña presidencial de Nikki Haley lleva semanas mirando hacia las primarias republicanas en Carolina del Sur, su estado natal y donde fue elegida gobernadora dos veces. Tras perder ante el expresidente Donald Trump en Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada y las Islas Vírgenes de Estados Unidos, la candidatura de Haley a
Continue ReadingPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Officials say six members of a religious congregation in Haiti and a teacher have been kidnapped while gathered in front of a school in the capital. The members are men from the Congregation of Brothers of Sacred Heart. Religious officials said in a statement Friday that the school where the kidnapping
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Las autoridades recibieron llamadas de socorro a las 4:39 a.m. y enviaron 20 camiones de bomberos al lugar, según CCTV. El incendio quedó extinguido a las 6:00 a.m. En una rueda de prensa celebrada a primera hora del sábado, el alcalde de Nanjing, Chen Zhichang, se inclinó ante el público
Continue ReadingBy CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS has lifted travel, commercial and economic sanctions imposed on Niger which were aimed at reversing the coup staged in the country last year. A senior official announced at the bloc’s meeting on Saturday that the sanctions are being lifted
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Anoka, Minnesota (CNN) — In the thick of a Minnesota winter, it’s not uncommon to see dogs — especially those of the short-haired, sinewy or small variety — sporting outerwear on their neighborhood strolls or jaunts around the state’s many lakes. While the idea of canine couture may conjure images of
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Professional bowler Brandon Novak is facing child pornography charges after he was reportedly arrested midway through a tournament earlier this month. Novak, 35, was extradited from Indiana to Ross County jail in Ohio on multiple counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material and pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor, according to
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the eastern Caribbean said they were trying to locate two people believed to be U.S. citizens who were aboard a yacht that was hijacked by three escaped prisoners from Grenada. The Royal Grenada Police Force said in a statement released on Friday
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The body of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been given to his mother more than a week after he died, Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said on Saturday. “Alexey’s body was handed over to his mother. Many thanks to all those who demanded this with us,” Yarmysh posted to
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