By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall turned 90 on Wednesday—and to mark the occasion, 90 female photographers have put their work up for sale for 90 days. A young woman positioned as a blooming night flower, polar bears seemingly hugging but actually play-fighting, and snow geese blasting off from a pond
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Beyoncé is keeping busy. On Thursday, the superstar singer dropped a new “Pony Up Remix” for “Texas Hold ‘Em,” the first single from her newly released “Act II: Cowboy Carter” album. The song features elements of Bounce music, which is native to New Orleans. (As referenced in her
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — “Finding Your Roots” has found another celebrity connection. Michael Douglas discovered on a recent episode of the PBS series that he is the “DNA cousin” of actress Scarlett Johansson. “Are you kidding?” Douglas replied when host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed the connection. “Oh, that’s amazing. All right. This
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Gillian Anderson sounds like she’s thawing to the idea of another return as Dana Scully. During an appearance on “Today,” talk turned to the potential reboot of her ’90s series following news that “Black Panther” and “Creed” director Ryan Coogler is developing a fresh spin on the show.
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The tiny, remote Italian island of Alicudi is home to only around 100 residents and, ideally, about 100 wild goats. This year, however, the ratio of humans to animals has become wildly unbalanced. The island has been overrun by six times its desired number of
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why a Southwest Airlines plane veered off course and had a close call with an air traffic control tower during an attempted landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, the agency said Thursday. The incident happened around 1 p.m. on March 23 when
Continue Reading By Natasha Chen, CNN Glendale, California (CNN) — Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, the “wildest ride in the wilderness,” sits at one edge of Disney World’s Magic Kingdom park, the most visited theme park in the world. But park visitors can one day expect to see much more beyond that wilderness at the iconic park in
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Breathing strange new life into an old genre, “Sugar” makes overt connections to the detective movies of the 1940s and ‘50s, casting Colin Farrell as a modern private eye with a case that drags him through the seamy underbelly of Hollywood. Yet even that description belies a series
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Moving slowly, indeed almost hypnotically, “Ripley” takes a few episodes to kick in, but once it does there’s no turning back. Adapting the novel that yielded “The Talented Mr. Ripley” a quarter-century ago creates a compelling showcase for Andrew Scott, graduating from his “hot priest” “Fleabag” persona to
Continue Reading By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The deadly 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan on Wednesday and left at least 9 people dead, also damaged more than 100 buildings across the island, according to the National Fire Agency (NFA). About half of them were near the epicenter in Hualien County, where four structures partially collapsed.
Continue Reading By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The basic design of commercial airplanes hasn’t changed much in the past 60 years. Modern airliners like the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 have the same general shape as the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8, which were built in the late 1950s and solidified the “tube and
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — For the first time since the pandemic, China is allowing foreign climbers to access Mount Everest via Tibet. Adrian Ballinger, who has summited Everest eight times, is one of the Western guides who prefers the Tibet route to the top of the world’s tallest mountain (from the north), as
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Two people were injured when a Southwest Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence on Wednesday morning and had to make an emergency landing in Tampa, Florida, according to a spokesperson for Tampa International Airport. Southwest Flight 4273 was traveling from New Orleans to Orlando when the captain declared an emergency after
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — To nobody’s surprise, “Saturday Night Live” cast member Sarah Sherman has a sense of humor when it comes to people commenting on her – and her castmates’ – physical appearance. “Just found out i’m not hot,” Sherman wrote on her X page on Monday. “Please give me and my
Continue Reading By Dhruv Tikekar, CNN (CNN) — When New Zealand’s populist Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters strode out to address a political convention in the city of Palmerston North in March, the sound of British punk band Chumbawamba’s iconic song “Tubthumping (I Get Knocked Down)” blared over the speakers. And while this wasn’t the first time
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — One of the most storied love affairs in hip-hop history has come to an end. Chance the Rapper and Kirsten Corley announced Wednesday that they are divorcing, sharing a joint statement on their respective social media accounts. “After a period of separation, the two of us have arrived
Continue Reading By Lisa France, CNN (CNN) — A former employee of Kanye West has filed suit accusing the controversial artist of harassment, discrimination and retaliation, among other allegations. Trevor Phillips filed the lawsuit Tuesday against the rapper, whose legal name is Ye, as well as his Yeezy company and his Los Angeles-based K-12 Christian private school
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Red pill or blue pill, anyone? The beloved “Matrix” movie franchise is expanding with an upcoming fifth installment, with the film’s original co-writer and co-director Lana Wachowski leading the charge as executive producer. According to a press release from the film’s studio Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group sent on
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Kiernan Shipka paid tribute to her “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” costar Chance Perdomo, who died in a motorcycle accident last week. In a post on Instagram, Shipka said her friend “was a one of a kind soul.” “Just the most fiery, creative, loving, connected, and caring force you could
Continue Reading By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — A New Orleans restaurant featuring a modern Senegalese tasting menu and an Ethiopia-born chef who studied psychology before turning to a culinary career are among the restaurants and chefs named as finalists for the coveted James Beard Awards. The finalists for the Restaurant and Chef Awards were announced Wednesday
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