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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — If you’ve been looking for some peace and quiet in the great outdoors, the marquee names in the US National Park Service might not be the place to do it. They’re continuing to pull in mammoth summer crowds, making them sometimes feel more like an urban excursion complete with
Continue Reading CNN By Flo Cornall, CNN (CNN) — Jack Scott was fed up with the way things were going with his career. Straight out of university with a degree in mechanical engineering, Scott, 24, had spent nine months working for a refrigeration company in a job he didn’t enjoy. Feeling the need to make change, he
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Sam Asghari, husband to Britney Spears since June 2022, has made a statement on social media after filing for divorce from the pop singer on Wednesday. “After 6 years of love and commitment to each other my wife and i have decided to end our journey together,” Asghari wrote
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — In a matter of days, Oliver Anthony’s working-class anthem, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” has gone from viral sensation to legitimate country hit. The song, which channels the previously unknown singer’s anger at working hard and paying taxes just to “waste ‘his’ life away,” has racked up millions of
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Britney Spears and Sam Asghari are getting divorced after 14 months of marriage. Asghari, an actor and personal trainer, filed a petition to end the marriage with the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, citing “irreconcilable differences,” according to a copy of filing obtained by CNN. The date of
Continue Reading By Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — Police in Paris have arrested a man for jumping off the Eiffel Tower with a parachute on Thursday, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV. A man scaled a pillar of the iconic landmark early morning local time, BFMTV reported, citing police sources. The tower’s management company, SETE (Société d’Exploitation de
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Joey King has been among the many familiar faces on picket lines in the SAG-AFTRA strike. The union representing about 160,000 actors has been on strike since July, bringing most film and television productions to a halt. Among other contract points, actors are asking an increase in minimum pay
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Tim McGraw says he knew Taylor Swift was a rare talent from her start. The country singer told ET Canada that he spent a lot of time with Swift as she was beginning her career because the “Cruel Summer” singer opened for him and his wife Faith Hill on
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Universal’s “Strays” is basically the exact opposite of the studio’s big summer hit “Oppenheimer” – namely, short, stupid and (fitfully) kind of fun. Seeking to bring some much-needed laughs to the dog days of summer, it’s a very raunchy riff on what’s amusing about our canine pals, and
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt treated guests at their lavish 2000 wedding like VIPs. Actor Michael Rapaport was a guest on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” earlier this week, where he revealed he was among the roughly 200 invited guests at the Malibu wedding. He had a
Continue Reading By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Business, leisure… or on a quest to find your lost luggage? With summer travel chaos at its height, few people would actively choose to take a flight that wasn’t for work or vacation. But on the busy Fourth of July holiday weekend, Brett Bunce made a flying visit from
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — If you’re in desperate need of some R&R, then Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis might just have the answer. The celebrity couple are listing their Santa Barbara County beach house with its views of the ocean and the Santa Ynez mountains on Airbnb for one night only, offering up
Continue Reading By Amaya McDonald, CNN (CNN) — Throughout the 20th century, fashion influenced — and was influenced by — the culture and social movements of its time, across global and hyperlocal spaces. Today, for instance, we still associate flapper dresses with the Prohibition era, for example, or Kangol hats with the birth of hip-hop. Fashion has
Continue Reading By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Oman has unveiled ambitious plans for a new 100,000-person “smart” city outside its capital, Muscat. Set across 14.8 square kilometers (5.7 square miles), Sultan Haitham City will be roughly equivalent in size to Beverly Hills — but with almost three times as many residents. The plan, which was shared
Continue Reading By Sarah Dean and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Veteran British broadcaster Michael Parkinson has died at the age of 88, his former employer the BBC reported Thursday, citing a statement from his family. “After a brief illness Sir Michael Parkinson passed away peacefully at home last night in the company of his family,” the
Continue Reading By Barry Neild, CNN (CNN) — Rail journeys across the Swiss Alps will take longer for the next few months after a major derailment has left the record-breaking 35-mile (57-kilometer) Gotthard Base Tunnel partially out of action. The world’s longest tunnel was closed last week when a freight train jumped the tracks, derailing 16 carriages
Continue Reading By Miquel Ros, CNN (CNN) — Driving through the tiny village of Nahwa in the United Arab Emirate of Sharjah, you’d be hard-pressed to notice anything unusual. The local architecture and landscape looks pretty similar to that found all over the Hajar mountains, a rocky ridge that runs all along the eastern seaboard of the
Continue Reading By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — A group of investors is suing Sotheby’s Holdings Inc. and others over a 2021 auction and promotion of Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens (NFTs) following a collapse in prices for the celebrity-endorsed collectibles. The four named plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit allege that the auction house “misleadingly
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Bruce Springsteen is taking some time to rest and putting off two concert dates. A message posted to the musician’s social media on Wednesday states he had “taken ill.” The message continued to say that the Boss’ concerts with The E Street Band at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia
Continue Reading By Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — An employee at the British Museum has been dismissed — and the Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation — after a number of items from the museum’s collection were found to be “missing, stolen or damaged,” the museum said in a statement Wednesday. “The British Museum has launched an
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