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By Marie Lodi, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — It’s been over a century since theater mogul Sid Grauman introduced the concept of the Hollywood red carpet at the 1922 premiere of “Robin Hood.” Ever since, the Tinseltown tradition has seen stars attend film premieres, festivals and award ceremonies bedecked in couture, debuting new looks or
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police and palace guards worked Saturday to retake some streets in Haiti’s capital after gangs launched massive attacks on at least three police stations. Guards from the National Palace accompanied by an armored truck tried to set up a security perimeter around one of the three
Continue ReadingASHTABULA, Ohio (AP) — Two Ohio women have been accused of driving the body of a deceased 80-year-old man to a bank to withdraw money from his account before dropping his body off at a hospital. Karen Casbohm, 63, and Loreen Bea Feralo, 55, were charged Tuesday in Ashtabula with gross abuse of a corpse
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KEALY and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar conceded defeat Saturday as two constitutional amendments he supported that would have broadened the definition of family and removed language about a woman’s role in the home were headed toward rejection. Varadkar, who pushed the vote to enshrine gender
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By Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — Jackson Mahomes, the younger brother of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, was sentenced to six months of unsupervised probation on Thursday after pleading no contest to a simple battery charge, according to court records. “Jackson is thankful for the support of his family and friends during the last
Continue ReadingBy Michele Fiore Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Access to abortion services in Milwaukee increased this week when an independent clinic reopened its doors for the first time in more than a year. Affiliated Medical Services is taking patients by appointment only. When Affiliated was forced to shut down
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing has acknowledged in a letter to Congress that it cannot find records for work done on a door panel that blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight over Oregon two months ago. “We have looked extensively and have not found any such documentation,” Ziad Ojakli, Boeing
Continue ReadingBy Hector Molina Click here for updates on this story MILFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — A life-saving effort by a CrossFit trainer is a big reason why a Milford man is still alive after a cardiac arrest. Dan Wassmer was coaching a class at Milford CrossFit when he heard a call to save a life. Someone
Continue ReadingWFSB, MIKE PAPALE, CNN By Hector Molina Click here for updates on this story MILFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — A life-saving effort by a CrossFit trainer is a big reason why a Milford man is still alive after a cardiac arrest. Dan Wassmer was coaching a class at Milford CrossFit when he heard a call to
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Mexico City was diverted to Los Angeles Friday after an issue with the plane’s hydraulic system, the airline said. It was the carrier’s fourth emergency in a week, including a tire falling off one flight and an engine
Continue ReadingBy Hope Dean Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WANF) — A Gwinnett County police officer is being praised on social media after a body camera video showed him helping a homeless man face bitterly cold nights. Police said they discovered the footage during a recent bodycam footage audit. On Jan. 17,
Continue ReadingBy FERNANDA PESCE and ALEXIS TRIBOULARD Associated Press TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Every year, in the first week of March, hundreds of giant papier-mâché bulls stuffed with fireworks are erected in the front yards of the Mexican town of Tultepec. Thousands of restless fingers carefully cut, pasted and painted the colorful patterns that brought the
Continue Reading By Sebastian Shukla, Alex Marquardt and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — A multi-country prisoner exchange that might have freed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was being discussed and progressing when he died last month, multiple sources have told CNN, and included the direct involvement of a Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich. A two-year stop-start process exploring
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 50 gold pieces of art created by Italian sculptor Umberto Mastroianni were stolen from an exhibition near Lake Garda, Italy, on Wednesday night, the host of the exhibition, the Vittoriale degli Italiani estate, told CNN. Forty-nine pieces of art, worth €1.2 million (more than $1.3 million USD), were
Continue ReadingBy MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Another top donor to the U.N. agency aiding Palestinians said Saturday that it would resume funding, weeks after more than a dozen countries halted hundreds of millions of dollars of support in response to Israeli allegations against the organization. Sweden’s reversal came as a ship bearing
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Thirty years ago, Tom Hanks delivered a performance that reverberated through Hollywood. And it wasn’t in a movie. On March 21, 1994 — at the 66th Academy Awards — Hanks accepted the Best Actor statuette for his role in “Philadelphia,” a drama about a gay lawyer slowly dying of
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — For more than two weeks, a cyberattack has disrupted business at health care providers across the United States, forcing small clinics to scramble to stay in business and exposing the fragility of the billing system that underpins American health care. “We’re hemorrhaging money,” said Catherine Reinheimer, practice manager at the
Continue ReadingBILBAO, Spain (AP) — Spain’s prime minister says he will propose that parliament recognizes a Palestinian state. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Saturday that his position on the conflict in the Gaza Strip is much like his country’s support for Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion. Sánchez joins other European leaders and government officials who have
Continue Reading By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has said she experienced “cruel” online bullying and abuse, the “bulk” of which occurred during her pregnancies. Speaking on stage at an event at the South by Southwest festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, on Friday, Meghan said, “I keep my distance from (social media) right
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes and Andrew Millman, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump heaped praise on Viktor Orbán while hosting the Hungarian prime minister at Mar-a-Lago on Friday night. “There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán. He’s fantastic,” the former president told a crowd gathered for a concert at the Florida resort,
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