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By SYLVIE CORBET and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French actor Judith Godrèche called on France’s film industry to “face the truth” on sexual violence and physical abuse during a live broadcast Friday of the Cesar Awards ceremony, France’s version of the Oscars. “We can decide that men accused of rape no longer
Continue ReadingBy Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — Nvidia joined an exclusive club on Friday morning when its market value topped $2 trillion, just days after the chipmaker reported gangbusters earnings that once again swept Wall Street into an artificial intelligence-induced fervor. But the chipmaker’s stock pared some of its gains later in the day,
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A watch melted during the Aug. 6, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, has sold for more than $31,000 at auction. The watch is frozen in time at the moment of the detonation of an atomic bomb over the Japanese city — 8:15 a.m. — during the closing
Continue ReadingLANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who uses drones to try to locate wounded deer shot by hunters so they can retrieve their carcasses has been convicted of violating state hunting laws. But Joshua Wingenroth plans to appeal the verdicts handed down Thursday by Lancaster County District Judge Raymond Sheller. The case apparently marked
Continue ReadingSARA CLINE BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions that have been paused for 14 years, lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill that would add the use of nitrogen gas and electrocution as possible methods to carry out capital punishment. As red states add execution methods — from
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY, SHARON JOHNSON and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Police said Friday that they are questioning a “person of interest” in the death of a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus after not returning from a run. Police identified the victim as 22-year-old Laken
Continue ReadingBy TERESA M. WALKER and RALPH D. RUSSO AP Sports Writers A federal judge has barred the NCAA from enforcing its rules prohibiting name, image and likeness compensation from being used to recruit athletes. The judge granted a preliminary injunction requested by the states of Tennessee and Virginia. The ruling undercuts what has been a
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Hundreds of migrants were dropped off Friday at a San Diego bus stop instead of at a reception center that had been serving as a staging area because it ran out of local funding sooner than expected, showing how even the largest city on the country’s
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By Andy Rose and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A Minnesota man who was charged in connection with the gruesome killing of a woman who worked as a model and real estate agent in California pleaded not guilty during a court hearing Thursday. Maleesa Mooney, 31, was found dead inside her Los Angeles apartment on
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Juan Carlos Villena, fiscal de la Nación interino de Perú, quien asumió el cargo en diciembre tras la suspensión de Patricia Benavides, invocó a la ciudadanía a “mantenerse alerta” ante un proyecto de ley, iniciativa del congresista Jorge Montoya, del partido Renovación Popular. Durante un video difundido este jueves a través de
Continue ReadingBy Jesse Sarles Click here for updates on this story COLORADO (KCNC) — The three students from the University of Wyoming who died on Thursday in a single-car crash in Colorado have been identified as Charlie Clark, 19, Carson Muir, 18, and Luke Slabber, 21. They were members of the university’s swimming and diving team.
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — My, how they’ve come a long way. Katy Perry was in attendance at one of Taylor Swift’s recent “Eras Tour” concerts in Australia, where she appeared to be having an incredible time alongside famous pal Rita Ora. As seen on her Instagram page on Friday morning, Perry was front
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United will have a three-game U.S. summer tour with matches in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Columbia, South Carolina. Organizers said it’s the first time the three Premier League soccer teams have played together in the United States. The series, called “Rivals in Red,” begins with Arsenal playing
Continue ReadingBy Saira Mueller, CNN (CNN) — In the early hours of July 23, 2023, Twitter — the self-proclaimed digital town square — became X. Or did it? Though it’s been more than half a year since the divisive rebrand, the platform’s web domain is still twitter.com — even x.com redirects to the original link. In billing
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, Dianne Gallagher and Mallika Kallingal, CNN (CNN) — Fallout continues in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling last week that frozen embryos are children – an unprecedented decision that critics say could have a chilling effect on access to IVF treatments in the state. Here are the latest developments: A
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers have advanced legislation aimed at prohibiting universities, schools and public entities from maintaining diversity and inclusion offices or funding initiatives that teach what Republicans labeled as “divisive concepts.” The multi-pronged proposal is one of dozens of bills introduced by Republican lawmakers across the country that would restrict initiatives on
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — February’s full moon, known as the snow moon, is set to peak on Saturday, shining bright around the world in the night sky. The moon will be at its most full at 7:30 a.m. ET Saturday, according to EarthSky, but to the human eye, the moon
Continue ReadingBy Tom Dougherty, Jasmine Payoute, Alan Wheeler Click here for updates on this story MOUNT LAUREL, New Jersey (KYW) — The runaway ram in New Jersey has been caught. Mount Laurel police captured the ram near a house on Horseshoe Drive around 8:45 a.m. Friday. CBS News Philadelphia photographer Alan Wheeler captured video of police
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina isn’t the only state holding a presidential contest this weekend. Republican party officials in two Wyoming counties will meet on Saturday to begin awarding the first of the state’s 29 delegates to the Republican National Convention this summer, but the contest won’t much resemble the
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA LEÓN and CIARÁN GILES Associated Press VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — The death toll in a fire that engulfed an apartment block in the Spanish city of Valencia has risen to nine as questions were raised about whether construction materials caused the fire to spread so rapidly. One person remained missing, according to forensic police,
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