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Month: June 2024

‘It’s a balance between looking modern and faking youth:’ An audience with Amiri

By Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — Few cities have been so adamantly idealized, mythologized and captured on film and in photographs as Los Angeles and Paris. Inside the majestic botanical garden of “Jardin des Plantes” at the heart of Paris earlier this week, Mike Amiri, founder of the eponymous Californian label, brought these two worlds together in a cinematic

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FDA OKs first menthol e-cigarettes, citing potential to help adult smokers

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the first menthol-flavored electronic cigarettes for adult smokers, acknowledging that vaping flavors can reduce the harms of traditional tobacco smoking. The FDA said it authorized four menthol e-cigarettes from Njoy, the vaping brand recently acquired by tobacco giant

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Manhattan prosecutors say Trump gag order should stay in place to protect jurors and prosecutors

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Manhattan prosecutors are urging the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to keep the gag order that stops the former president from making statements about jurors, prosecutors and their family members in place, arguing threats against prosecutors have increased since the start of the trial. Prosecutors from

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Ukraine claims three oil refinery strikes inside Russia as Moscow says naval attack thwarted

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian security official says that Ukraine’s military struck three oil refineries and a drone launch site inside Russia overnight. Despite improvements in Russia’s air defenses, Ukraine has continued its campaign to strike oil infrastructure across the border, hitting multiple sites in 2024, as part of

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2 brothers accused of stealing mail from homes evacuated because of Calaveras County wildfire

By Jonathan Ayestas Click here for updates on this story     COPPEROPOLIS, California (KCRA) — Law enforcement officials took two brothers into custody who were stealing mail from homes in an area under evacuation orders because of a wildfire, the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office said. Joseph Nobriga, 38, faces charges related to entering a disaster area,

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Trump ally Bannon asks the Supreme Court to delay his 4-month prison sentence on contempt charges

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court on Friday to delay his prison sentence while he fights his convictions for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the attack on U.S. Capitol. The emergency application came after a

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