PARIS (AP) — The French parliament is considering a ban on single-use, disposable electronic cigarettes that are popular with teenagers for their sweet flavors and are under scrutiny as a new source of trash. The legislation aims to protect the health of youths and mitigate the environmental impacts of the increasingly popular disposable products known
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “The Holdovers” marks the long-in-coming reunion of Paul Giamatti and director Alexander Payne, 20 years after “Sideways.” And just as in “Sideways,” their alchemy produces something wry and moving. This time, it may also lead to Giamatti’s first best actor Academy Award nomination. Giamatti has
Continue ReadingBy Russ Reed Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WCVB) — A Massachusetts woman who works as a nurse is back home less than three months after she was struck by lightning while walking on a Boston beach. Thalita Teixeira Padilla, a travel nurse, was released from in-patient care at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Shares of Virgin Galactic, the space tourism venture founded by Richard Branson, are plunging after the British billionaire said he has no plans to invest more money in the company as he says it has “sufficient funds” already. As of the 9 a.m. ET market open on Monday, Virgin
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — “The Gilded Age” is, according to those who watch and discuss it, “the best show on television,” “high camp,” “the most experimental show on TV” or “objectively not good.” No matter where they fall on the spectrum of appreciation, though, many a “Gilded Age” viewer wouldn’t dare miss an
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has ended his 2024 Republican presidential bid. Burgum blames the Republican National Committee for arbitrary debate qualifications in dropping his campaign before the fourth presidential debate on Wednesday in Alabama. The second-term governor and wealthy software entrepreneur was little known nationally
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Julia Roberts is remembering her ex-boyfriend, the late “Friends” star Matthew Perry. In an interview with “Entertainment Tonight,” the actress reflected on the loss of Perry, who died in October at the age of 54. “The sudden passing of anybody so young is heartbreaking,” Roberts said. “I think
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — With a journalist or media worker killed every day on average in the Israel-Hamas war, the head of the global organization representing the profession said Monday that it has become a conflict beyond compare. About 60 have been killed since the Oct. 7 start of the war,
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The former US ambassador to Bolivia has been charged in federal court with acting as a secret foreign agent of Cuba, according to court documents unsealed Monday. Manuel Rocha, the 73-year-old former American diplomat, “secretly supported the Republic of Cuba and its clandestine intelligence-gathering mission against the United States by serving
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Tom Hanks had an interaction with Cher long before he became an Oscar-winning actor. Hanks appeared on “The Graham Norton Show” alongside Cher, Julia Roberts and Timothée Chalamet, where he talked about his time working at a hotel in the 1970s. “I have worked for Cher. I was a
Continue Reading By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum announced Monday he’s suspending his long-shot campaign for president, after failing to gain traction among voters and appearing unlikely to qualify for the fourth GOP debate this week. “Our decision to run for President came from a place of caring deeply about every American and a mission to
Continue ReadingBy JOSHUA GOODMAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A former career American diplomat was charged Monday with serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades in what prosecutors portrayed as one of the most brazen and long-running betrayals in the history of the U.S. foreign service. Court papers alleged
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Singers aren’t the only ones in danger of flying objects. Video shared on social media showed actress Florence Pugh getting hit in the face by something thrown from the audience at a “Dune: Part Two” event in São Paulo, Brazil over the weekend. Pugh was posing for photos
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s former top utility regulator has pleaded not guilty in connection with a $60 million bribery scheme. Former Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chair Sam Randazzo entered his plea Monday in federal court in Cincinnati. The 74-year-old Randazzo, of Columbus, faces 11 counts centered on
Continue ReadingJOHANNESBURG (AP) — The death toll from a mining tragedy last week in South Africa that involved an elevator at a mine has risen to 13 after a worker died at a hospital. The mine operator said Monday that the worker died Sunday from injuries sustained when the elevator plummeted on Nov. 27. It was
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan Majors listened silently, head-cocked and eyes down, as a Manhattan prosecutor and his defense attorney offered competing accounts of a violent confrontation in the backseat of a car that led to assault charges against the film star and put his rapid Hollywood ascent on pause.
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CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is underscoring the profound choice that voters could face next year with expansive claims of unchecked presidential power alongside increasingly unapologetic anti-democratic rhetoric. A weekend claim by the ex-president –- who refused to accept the result of the last election –- that Joe Biden is
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ten of the top albums of the year, as chosen by Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman. It was a blockbuster year across genres, but only a few could make AP’s list. (SZA’s “SOS” released in December 2022, Ice Spice’s “Like…?” isn’t a full-length release,
Continue Reading By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Aviation faces a steep climb towards a greener future. Although it has, like many other industries, committed to slashing its planet-warming pollution by 2050, it is not on track to reach its target — mainly because there are no obvious ways to do so. Although the sector currently accounts
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Londres (CNN) — La noticia de que se realizaron cambios a las obras del exitoso autor de literatura infantil Roald Dahl ha provocado la ira de algunos escritores destacados, entre ellos Salman Rushdie, ganador del premio Booker, quien calificó las modificaciones de “censura absurda”. Dahl, quien murió en 1990 a los 76 años,
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