By Royale Da Click here for updates on this story NEW MEXICO (KOAT) — The recent Netflix movie “Rez Ball” is a recent example of Indigenous talent making a notable influence in Hollywood. The movie not only showcases Navajo culture and the significance basketball has had on this community, but it predominantly features a talented,
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Australian actress Nicole Kidman has debunked the widely held theory that one of her most famous memes features the moment she finalized her divorce from Tom Cruise. The revelation came during an interview with British GQ magazine published Monday, in which the Hollywood star was asked if she could
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Though Cher and Sonny Bono’s marriage lasted less than a decade, their musical hits endured. Yet Cher details in her new memoir that the success of her creative partnership with her late husband wasn’t equally shared. Debuting this week, “Cher: The Memoir – Part One” centers on her
Continue ReadingBy Arit John and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Just two weeks after a bruising presidential election, the race to lead the Democratic Party has begun in earnest, with Minnesota Democratic party chair Ken Martin and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley entering the race this week. Martin and O’Malley have kicked off a roughly three-month
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan and Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday he has selected former congressman and recent Fox Business co-host Sean Duffy to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Transportation. Duffy served in the US House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019, representing Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District. He
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Delta Air Lines’ newest dining option for first class passengers isn’t anything fancy. In fact, it’s the exact opposite, because it’s fast food. The airline announced a “first-of-its-kind partnership” with Shake Shack to serve the chain’s cheeseburgers in first class on long-distance domestic flights beginning December 1
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CNN By Caroll Alvarado, Michelle Watson, Maria Aguilar Prieto and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — It’s been more than a week since Hannah Kobayashi missed a flight connection in Los Angeles. After a series of suspicious texts from her phone, the 30-year-old Hawaii woman has gone silent – and her family now fears she may
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A court in Romania on Tuesday ruled that prosecutors’ indictment against influencer Andrew Tate contains multiple irregularities and gave them less than a week to amend or withdraw the case of alleged human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The ruling by the Bucharest
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Reuters has hired Sally Buzbee, former executive editor of The Washington Post and The Associated Press, to be its top news editor in the United States and Canada. She will replace Kieran Murray, who will run the news agency’s live events business. Buzbee left the Post in June rather than carry
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Building the current crop of artificial intelligence chatbots has relied on specialized computer chips pioneered by Nvidia, which dominates the market and made itself the poster child of the AI boom. But the same qualities that make those graphics processor chips, or GPUs, so effective at creating
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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — A 17-year-old who is not allowed to speak in public in her own country has won a prestigious international award for advocating for the rights of Afghan girls. Nila Ibrahimi won the International Children’s Peace Prize on Tuesday, an award that has recognized luminaries including climate activist Greta Thunberg
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20th Annual CVEP Summit to provide new details on Coachella Valley economic outlook We’re learning more about the Coachella Valley’s economic outlook with the release of a new economic report made during this year’s annual Coachella Valley Economic Partnership Summit in Rancho Mirage. 2024 marks the 20th straight year of the annual CVEP Summit, presented
Continue ReadingBy Auzinea Bacon and John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — A banana duct-taped to a wall first sold in 2019 for $120,000. It could fetch up to $1.5 million this week during a Sotheby’s auction. More than 1,600 auction lots this week are estimated to fetch more than $1 billion — including Maurizio Cattelan’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press VIENNA (AP) — Iran has defied international demands to rein in its nuclear program and has increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, according to a confidential report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog seen Tuesday by The Associated Press. The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency said that
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Police say a dog fatally attacked a woman and bit two police officers in a Boston neighborhood. The Boston Police Department says that it responded to a report of a dog attack Monday evening and found a woman with life-threatening injuries and a second person injured in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A powerful gang coalition has launched a new attack on Haiti’s capital. Gunmen targeted an upscale community in Port-au-Prince where they clashed with residents who fought side-by-side with police. Tuesday’s attack was led by the Viv Ansanm group. Its leader is former elite police officer Jimmy Chérizier. He had
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — Este martes comienzan las finales de la Copa Davis 2024 en Málaga, España. Con estos partidos, se definirá al país campeón del mundo del tenis este año. Desde este martes 19 de noviembre y hasta el domingo 24 de noviembre, ocho países disputarán la competición desde la fase de cuartos de
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Figuring out what to do with a small business when an owner is ready to retire can be difficult, but it’s best to have a plan well in advance of making a big change. Most people in the U.S. retire in their 60s, and about 51% of small
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Ferris and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Hakeem Jeffries nearly became House speaker. Instead, he’s steering the Democratic Party through an identity crisis and hoping to avoid an ugly intraparty civil war. Even without the gavel, many Democrats across Washington say House Minority Leader Jeffries — a 54-year-old New Yorker with centrist roots
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized. It is not immediately clear whether Lumumba’s remains which are a single gold-capped tooth were damaged or stolen. A mausoleum curator told the national press agency that the glass doors had been smashed Monday and
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