By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — An awards ceremony curveball indeed: Emma Stone, winner of the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in “Poor Things,” dealt with a sartorial snafu just moments before she took the stage to accept her trophy. “My dress is broken,” Stone appeared to mouth while en route to receive
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Jack Latham tenía la misión de fotografiar granjas en Vietnam: no las extensas plantaciones o terrazas de arroz del país, sino sus “granjas de clics”. El año pasado, el fotógrafo británico pasó un mes en la capital, Hanoi, documentando algunas de las oscuras empresas que ayudan a sus clientes a aumentar artificialmente
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — There was little mention of politics at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, but there were multiple calls for global peace. Upon winning the Academy Award for best international feature for the Auschwitz-set drama “The Zone of Interest,” filmmaker Jonathan Glazer said in his acceptance speech, “Our film shows where dehumanization leads,
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CNN By Mitchell McCluskey and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Several major news agencies have withdrawn an image distributed by Kensington Palace showing Catherine, Princess of Wales, and her children, saying they believe the photo has been manipulated. The photograph is the first officially released image of the princess since she underwent abdominal surgery in
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans — even as doctors and patients insist the laws’ exceptions are dangerously unclear, resulting in denied treatment to some pregnant women in need. Instead, GOP leaders accuse abortion rights advocates of deliberately
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Oscars host and late night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday called out former President Donald Trump on stage after Trump insulted Kimmel and his hosting on social media. “I was told we have like an extra minute, and I’m really proud of something and I was wondering if I
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s national legislature wrapped up its annual session Monday with the usual show of near-unanimous support for plans designed to carry out ruling Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s vision for the nation. The weeklong event, replete with meetings carefully scripted to allow no surprises,
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The state of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida will be raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from online sports betting this decade, thanks to a compact between the tribe and Gov. Ron DeSantis that gave the tribe exclusive rights to run sports wagers
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — The Oscar telecast always juggles three major objectives: Honoring the year’s best films and those who made them; broadly celebrating and promoting the movie-going habit; and putting on a good show, both for the bigwigs in the theater and the folks at home. The second one of those
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press Pranay Karkale is spending years of savings and $60,000 in student loans to pursue a master’s degree in the United States, yet he considers himself lucky. At home in India, it’s common to hear about families selling off their land to send children to universities overseas. Karkale
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By Vasco Cotovio and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — A center-right coalition won a narrow victory in Portugal’s snap elections on Sunday but fell short of an outright majority, as fledgling radical right party Chega took nearly a fifth of the vote. The Democratic Alliance coalition won 29.5% of the 98.98% of votes counted early Monday, with
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jack Lobel is a college sophomore who will be voting in his first presidential election this fall, casting a ballot for Joe Biden. At 19, he’s six-plus decades Biden’s junior, which isn’t lost on him. But Lobel is spokesperson for Voters of Tomorrow, one of 15 youth
Continue ReadingBy AMY TAXIN Associated Press Disney is seeking approval from local officials to expand its California theme park offerings over the next four decades. The proposal wouldn’t increase the company’s geographic footprint in Anaheim, but would allow for new attractions on unused spaces, including a large parking lot. Disney officials say there isn’t room to
Continue Reading By Caitlin Stephen Hu, Collin McCullough and Helen Regan, CNN Dajabon, Dominican Republic (CNN) — The United States and other diplomatic missions have begun evacuating personnel from Haiti, as gang violence in the Caribbean nation’s capital Port-au-Prince continues to spiral. One evacuation operation carrying staffers from the German and European missions was forced to turn down
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The protest-vote movement over President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war has spread to several states and raised more questions about whether a small but significant number of Democrats angry at Biden might abandon him in November. A week after 101,000 Michigan voters chose “uncommitted”
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Varias agencias de noticias importantes han retirado una imagen distribuida por el Palacio de Kensington que muestra a Kate, princesa de Gales, y sus hijos, diciendo que creen que la foto ha sido manipulada. La fotografía es la primera imagen oficialmente publicada de la princesa desde que se sometió a
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By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Russia appears on track to produce nearly three times more artillery munitions than the US and Europe, a key advantage ahead of what is expected to be another Russian offensive in Ukraine later this year. Russia is producing about 250,000 artillery
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump are battling as though their general election showdown is eight days rather than eight months away. An intense weekend of campaigning, with the rivals both visiting the critical swing state of Georgia, laid out the stakes of their clash – as
Continue ReadingOpinion by Dean Obeidallah (CNN) — Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama delivered the GOP response last week to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union, and America has been ruthlessly delivering its response to Britt ever since. Social media exploded with brutal reviews of Thursday’s speech, mocking everything from Britt’s “acting class energy” to her decision to deliver
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule by the National Labor Relations Board that would have made it easier for millions of workers to form unions at big companies. The rule, which was due to go into effect Monday, would have set new standards for determining
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