As the search through debris at Champlain Towers South continues, there are lingering questions about the safety of its sister building, Champlain Towers North, with a nearly identical design. CNN’s Brian Todd has an inside look at Towers North.
Continue ReadingBy CHUCK MORRIS Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Storyville Gardens, an interactive theme park with attractions inspired by books and stories from the four corners of the world, will locate in the Middle Tennessee area with construction slated to begin in mid-2022, developers announced Tuesday. Storyville Gardens will be
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By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, he was lauded as a regional peacemaker. Now, he is presiding over a protracted civil war that by many accounts bears the hallmarks of genocide and has the potential to destabilize the wider Horn of Africa region. In
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN A member of the Oath Keepers has cut a plea deal with prosecutors and is testifying secretly against others in the right-wing group, according to a criminal case unsealed Wednesday in Washington, DC. The newly public case is the latest known move by the Justice Department to prosecute the extremist group
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Dunham Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — From oils and creams to capsules and gummies, there appears to be countless online ads for cannabidiol (CBD) products, with many exploiting household names in an effort to defraud unsuspecting consumers. In early May, Tricia was perusing Instagram when she saw
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Allison Mack, former “Smallville” actress and high-ranking member of the cult-like group Nxivm was sentenced to 3 years in prison Wednesday. Mack is also required to have 3 years of supervised release after serving prison term, plus a has to pay a $20,000 fine.
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is now a book. Two years after the theatrical release of the movie, director and writer Quentin Tarantino has turned the story into a novel. “Hollywood 1969 … You shoulda been there!” is the tagline of the book, which looks like a pulp novel. “Once
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Didi went public Wednesday in the biggest US share offering by a Chinese company since Alibaba debuted in 2014. Stock in China’s biggest ride-hailing service started trading in New York at about $16.65, a nearly 20% jump from its initial public offering price of $14 a share. Didi raised $4.4
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN Three years after Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the paintings have arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the former President and First Lady had their very first date. On display there through mid-August, the artworks by Brooklyn-based Kehinde Wiley and Baltimore-based
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN Three years after Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the paintings have arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the former President and First Lady had their very first date. On display there through mid-August, the artworks by Brooklyn-based Kehinde Wiley and Baltimore-based
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La mujer que presuntamente sostuvo un cartel que provocó el choque de decenas de ciclistas durante la primera etapa del Tour de Francia el pasado sábado fue identificada y está siendo sometida a un interrogatorio policial, informó la fiscalía de Brest a CNN.El accidente se produjo a 45 kilómetros de la
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A 70-foot rocket blasted off from beneath the wing of a Boeing 747 over the Pacific Ocean Wednesday, marking the second successful orbital flight for rocket startup Virgin Orbit. The plane, nicknamed Cosmic Girl, took off from California Wednesday just before 7 am PT, and about an hour later, the
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — “¿Quién es la nena de mamá?”, pregunta Sameque Gois, de 22 años, mientras juega con la manita de su bebé en uno de los muchos videos que le mostró a CNN. En las imágenes, la pequeña Sarah tiene pocos meses de nacida, pero ya se puede ver que tiene una personalidad
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Consumer Reports and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety have once again given their thumbs up to the Tesla Model 3 after it passed a test of its new automatic braking system. As of May 1, Tesla switched from a radar-based system to a camera-based system it dubbed Tesla Vision
Continue ReadingBy Dan Merica and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Republican governors across the country are deploying state law enforcement officials to the US-Mexico border, giving each governor the opportunity to emphasize their fealty to former President Donald Trump while simultaneously lambasting President Joe Biden’s administration. The deployments, which have come from states ranging from South Dakota to
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it is committing more than $2 billion to gender equality initiatives, including economic empowerment and woman’s health. “The world has been fighting for gender equality for decades, but progress has been slow,” Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Gates Foundation, said in
Continue Reading By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business It’s the half-way point of the year and President Joe Biden’s stock market has quite the rally to show for itself: The S&P 500 has already reached the target some analysts set for the entire year. The index, the broadest measure of the US stock market, is up more than
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Courteney Cox may want to rethink letting her pal Ed Sheeran crash at her Los Angeles pad. Sheeran revealed during an appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” this week that he has repeatedly played the same prank on Cox, who he knows through Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid, Cox’s
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN)– El multimillonario mexicano Carlos Slim pagará todos los gastos necesarios para reconstruir el paso elevado del metro de Ciudad de México que provocó la muerte de 26 personas al derrumbarse el 3 de mayo, dijo el presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, durante su rueda de prensa diaria de este miércoles.
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Una nueva demanda colectiva contra la asociación de apartamentos Champlain Towers South fue presentada en relación con el colapso mortal de la semana pasada en Surfside, Florida. La demanda, presentada el lunes en nombre de Raysa Rodríguez, una residente que vive en el noveno piso del edificio Champlain Towers South,
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