By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Disney+ just got a little more adult. The streaming service added its first R-rated films in the US on Friday with “Deadpool,” “Deadpool 2” and “Logan.” The movies star Marvel superheroes, but as their ratings suggest, they’re decidedly not kid-friendly. That’s a notable shift in the content strategy for Disney+:
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un robot que jugaba al ajedrez le rompió un dedo a un niño durante una partida en Rusia la semana pasada, según declaró el presidente de la Federación de Ajedrez de Moscú a la agencia de noticias estatal TASS. Sergey Lazarev dijo que el incidente ocurrió en el Abierto de
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Associated Press It turns out millennials haven’t strayed very far from the areas where they grew up. A study released Monday by Harvard University and U.S. Census Bureau researchers found that by age 26, more than two-thirds of millennials lived in the same area where they grew up, 80% had moved less than 100 miles
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By Kevin Liptak and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden is “feeling great” as his symptoms from Covid-19 begin to wane, he said Monday, projecting a relatively simple bout with a disease that continues to infect millions of Americans. “I had two full nights of sleep all the way through,” he told reporters, who posed
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By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business In early March, after two ultra-fast delivery startups shut down in New York City in a single week, a self-proclaimed pioneer in the space appeared to see an opportunity for some media attention. Getir, a Turkish startup founded in 2015, had recently raised $768 million in funding valuing it
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By Toyin Owoseje, CNN British socialite Tamara Ecclestone is offering a £6 million ($7.2 million) reward for information that leads to the recovery of jewelry worth tens of millions of dollars which was stolen from her London home. In December 2019, thieves raided the house of the 38-year-old socialite, who is the daughter of ex-Formula
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — Mientras miles de residentes tuvieron que escapar de un amenazante incendio forestal fuera del Parque Nacional Yosemite en California durante el fin de semana, algunos se enteraron de que sus casas colapsaron por completo y quedaron convertidas en cenizas y escombros. Incendio en California arrasa con más de 2.000 hectáreas y obliga
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By Brian Fung, CNN T-Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million to settle multiple class-action suits stemming from a data breach disclosed last year affecting tens of millions of people. In the proposed settlement announced Friday, T-Mobile also agreed to spend an extra $150 million on cybersecurity through the end of 2023. Court documents outlining
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LONDON (AP) — More than 100 former rugby players are taking legal action against World Rugby and the national governing bodies of England and Wales over what they say was a failure to protect them from permanent injury caused by repeated concussions during their careers. The players in the group include former internationals Steve Thompson
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Keke Palmer has shut down any talk of comparing her to fellow actress Zendaya. A tweet went viral over the weekend in which the Twitter user wrote, “I’d like someone to do a deep-drive on the similarities and differences between Keke Palmer and Zendaya’s careers.” “This may be one of
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By Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden and White House officials are continuing to downplay recession fears, even as they brace for a highly anticipated report that could show the economy shrinking for a second consecutive quarter. “We’re not going to be in a recession, in my view,” Biden told reporters on
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By Melanie Zanona, CNN Two key moderate senators — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — announced Monday that they have tested positive for Covid-19. “This morning I tested positive for COVID-19,” Manchin tweeted. “I am fully vaccinated and boosted and am experiencing mild symptoms. I will
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By Masha Angelova and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN A chess-playing robot broke a boy’s finger during a match in Russia last week, the president of the Moscow Chess Federation told state news agency TASS media. Sergey Lazarev said the incident occurred at the Moscow Chess Open after the boy rushed the robot. “A robot broke a
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By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to a low security federal prison in Florida to continue serving her 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, Bureau of Prison records show. Maxwell, 60, has been assigned to Tallahassee FCI, described on its website as a “low security federal correctional institution with a detention center.” She
Continue Reading By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Is $790 million worth $2? That’s a good question, given it costs $2 to buy a Mega Millions lottery ticket that could pay off with an estimated $790 million prize, the nation’s fourth-largest jackpot, after the game’s next drawing Tuesday night. ISN’T IT AN OBVIOUS
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin Washington (CNN) — Es un momento confuso, una vez más, en la pandemia de covid-19. Considera esto: los casos de covid-19 están aumentando en Estados Unidos, impulsados por la variante más transmisible del coronavirus hasta ahora. Las reinfecciones también están aumentando, y pueden incrementar la probabilidad de nuevos problemas de salud. Incluso
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Adele is returning to Las Vegas. After postponing her concert residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace a day before it was to start back in January, the singer announced Monday that she has officially rescheduled her shows. “Words can’t explain how ecstatic I am to finally be able to announce
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Firefighters are investigating the cause of an overnight fire at a Jefferson City commuter parking lot. The Jefferson City Fire Department responded to the 900 block of 4th Street around 2:10 a.m. Firefighters said crews found smoke and fire coming from a pavilion in the parking lot. The pavilion suffered heavy
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By Nectar Gan, CNN The United States is no stranger to China’s angry responses over its support for Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing claims as its own territory. But last week, China’s warnings against a potential high-stakes trip by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taipei appeared to have caused concern in
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By Lisa Respers France and Stella Chan, CNN Actor Jason Momoa was involved in a traffic collision with a motorcyclist on Sunday morning near Calabasas, California, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP). The rider, identified as Vitaliy Avagimyan, “was riding his motorcycle westbound on Old Topanga Road, when his motorcycle crossed over the double
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