CNN By Brendan Buckley, CNN A beach house is swept into the sea, a 7-year-old steals the show at her first communion, and a Broadway legend takes an audience member to task. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Bottoms up! A 7-year-old surprised the priest — and the whole congregation — when she
Continue ReadingCNN By Brendan Buckley, CNN A beach house is swept into the sea, a 7-year-old steals the show at her first communion, and a Broadway legend takes an audience member to task. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Bottoms up! A 7-year-old surprised the priest — and the whole congregation — when she
Continue ReadingBy Brendan Buckley, CNN A beach house is swept into the sea, a 7-year-old steals the show at her first communion, and a Broadway legend takes an audience member to task. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Bottoms up! A 7-year-old surprised the priest — and the whole congregation — when she chugged
Continue ReadingBy Reuters A 48-year-old Nepali woman scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time on Thursday, May 12, breaking her own record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain by a female climber, her hiking company said. Lhakpa Sherpa last climbed the 8,848.86-meter (29,031.69-foot) mountain in 2018. A fellow Nepali, Kami Rita Sherpa, holds
Continue ReadingBy Sahar Akbarzai, Sara Smart and Forrest Brown, CNN Air traffic control came to a stop for parts of Thursday morning and afternoon in Jamaica, forcing flight cancellations and leaving thousands of frustrated passengers stranded there or unable to reach the Caribbean island. MBJ Airports Limited, the operator of Sangster International Airport near the popular
Continue ReadingCNN By Patrick Oppmann, CNN As Cuba confronts the worst shortages of food and medicine in decades and runaway inflation, a new exodus of the island’s citizens is underway. In March, more than 32,000 Cubans arrived at the US-Mexico border, almost twice the number from the previous month, according to US Customs and Border Protection
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Oppmann, CNN As Cuba confronts the worst shortages of food and medicine in decades and runaway inflation, a new exodus of the island’s citizens is underway. In March, more than 32,000 Cubans arrived at the US-Mexico border, almost twice the number from the previous month, according to US Customs and Border Protection data.
Continue ReadingBy Reuters New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday, May 11, that the country will fully reopen its international borders from 11:59 p.m. on July 31, with cruise ships also welcome back to local ports on the same day. The end-July opening of the border is two months earlier than the government’s previous
Continue ReadingCNN, WPBF By Jamiel Lynch, Dakin Andone and Pete Muntean, CNN “I have no idea how to fly the airplane.” The pilot on his single-engine Cessna 208 had “gone incoherent,” the passenger was telling air traffic controllers Tuesday afternoon, according to audio from LiveATC.net. It was, he stressed, a “serious situation.” Air Traffic Controller Robert
Continue ReadingCNN By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business James Cromwell, one of the stars in “Succession,” superglued himself to a counter of a Starbucks in New York protesting the chain’s surcharge on vegan milks. The incident, which happened Tuesday, was a protest coordinated with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Cromwell is a longtime supporter
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business James Cromwell, one of the stars in “Succession,” superglued himself to a counter of a Starbucks in New York protesting the chain’s surcharge on vegan milks. The incident, which happened Tuesday, was a protest coordinated with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Cromwell is a longtime supporter of
Continue ReadingCNN, WPBF By Jamiel Lynch, Aaron Cooper and Ross Levitt, CNN A passenger with no flying experience safely landed a private plane in a Florida airport Tuesday afternoon, May 10, when the pilot became incapacitated. As the situation unfolded, the passenger can be heard telling air traffic control that he doesn’t know how to fly
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, Dakin Andone and Pete Muntean, CNN “I have no idea how to fly the airplane.” The pilot on his single-engine Cessna 208 had “gone incoherent,” the passenger was telling air traffic controllers Tuesday afternoon, according to audio from LiveATC.net. It was, he stressed, a “serious situation.” Air Traffic Controller Robert Morgan, a
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, Hannah Ritchie and Helen Regan, CNN Warming waters from escalating climate change have caused coral bleaching in 91% of reefs surveyed along the Great Barrier Reef this year, according to new findings from an Australian government agency. Scientists from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) confirmed in March this was
Continue ReadingBy Karol Suarez and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador threatened to boycott next month’s Summit of Americas, saying Tuesday that his participation will not be confirmed unless host country United States invites Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. “Participation in the Los Angeles Summit has not yet been resolved because we are proposing
Continue ReadingBy Maria Santana, CNN Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández on Tuesday pleaded not guilty in US court to federal drug trafficking and firearms possession charges. The indictment in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York charges Hernández with cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy
Continue ReadingCNN, WFIE By Alaa Elassar and Holly Yan, CNN At 56, Vicky White was on the brink of retiring from an illustrious career as a corrections officer. “She was a model employee,” said Rick Singleton, the sheriff in Lauderdale County, Alabama, where Vicky White worked for nearly two decades. “All of her co-workers, all the
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Mondelez is spitting out its gum business. At least, in some parts of the world. Another surprising pandemic casualty, gum sales tumbled in the early days of Covid, as foot traffic at convenience stores slowed and more people stayed home. And who needs fresh breath when you’re wearing a mask?
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Starbucks is adding a new cold beverage as demand for iced coffee continues to grow. Beginning Tuesday, the coffee chain is adding a new chocolate cream cold brew to its menus. The drink features cold brew coffee topped with a “light, sweet and silky” chocolate cream cold-foam and is sweetened
Continue ReadingBy Kristina Sgueglia, Polo Sandoval and Travis Caldwell, CNN Officials are conducting autopsies to learn more about the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three Americans at a Sandals resort on the Bahamas’ Great Exuma island on Friday, according to the Bahamian police commissioner. The pathologist “consented to doing the autopsies” Monday, Bahamas Police Commissioner Paul
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