By Lisa Respers France, CNN Lil Wayne is expanding his connection to the world of sports. The Grammy-award winning rapper has joined the Texas Ranchers Pickleball team as part owner and as a strategic adviser. “Pickleball is the moment and I’m excited to be part of the Texas Ranchers ownership group,” Lil Wayne said in
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Daniel Radcliffe’s newest project is very close to his heart. “David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived” tells the story of Holmes, a gymnast who served as Radcliffe’s stunt double for ten years on the “Harry Potter” films before a 2009 accident on the set of “Deathly Hallows – Part 1”
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Paris Hilton is responding to reaction over a photo of her 8-month-old son, Phoenix Barron. Hilton recently took to Instagram to post pictures of her son with husband Carter Reum. They were visiting New York City together and some people commented that her baby’s head was large. Hilton replied
Continue Reading By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Dante Alighieri was so spellbound that he wrote about it twice: in the “Divine Comedy,” and in another sonnet. Charles Dickens was struck by it when traveling around Italy. And now the medieval Garisenda “leaning” tower in Bologna is sparking very modern publicity, with concern that it might be
Continue Reading By Marnie Hunter, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Georgia’s capital city — home to the world’s busiest airport — can now boast Michelin-star restaurants as another reason to stop and stay awhile. Five Atlanta restaurants were awarded one Michelin star on Tuesday night during a ceremony at the downtown Rialto Center for the Arts. Atlas, Bacchanalia,
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Richard Roundtree, the stage and screen actor best known for his performance as a tough-talking private eye in 1971’s “Shaft,” has died. He was 81. The news was confirmed by Roundtree’s theatrical talent agent Artist and Representatives, who said in an email to CNN that the actor died Tuesday
Continue Reading By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — Hidden under years of dirt and grime in storage rooms, hundreds of precious religious objects have been rediscovered at a monastery in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. Gilded crowns worn by Buddhist priests, halos that once adorned statues of deities and mini stupas gifted by the local community are among the
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Britney Spears is redefining what freedom means to her after over a decade of feeling like she didn’t have control of her own life. “Freedom to do what I want to do has given me back my womanhood,” she writes in her new memoir, “The Woman In Me,” released
Continue Reading By Ann Binlot, CNN (CNN) — Gabriella “Gaby” Aghion would be proud. Amid a flurry of fashion houses appointing White men as their new designers as the Spring-Summer 2024 runways wrapped up, Chloé, the French fashion label she founded seven decades ago, announced Chemena Kamali as its next creative director, a hire true to Aghion’s
Continue Reading By William Emond (CNN) — Travel sickness isn’t just hearsay. Nearly a third of people experience motion sickness – and to this day we don’t exactly know what causes it. The prevailing theory suggests it is triggered by a poor perception of movement. Departure to and return from summer vacations seem moments especially prone to the stealthy advances
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — “Oppenheimer” may have given the Trinity Site a boost of fame this summer, but for many history buffs, making a pilgrimage to the area is a journey years in the making. Nearly 4,000 people flocked to the Trinity Site this past Saturday, according to the White Sand Missile Range
Continue Reading Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The ruins of an “incredibly rare” 5,000-year-old tomb have been uncovered on one of the Scottish Orkney Islands, National Museums Scotland said in a statement on Tuesday. The excavation at Holm, East Mainland, Orkney, revealed a stone structure accessed through a 7-meter (23-foot) -long passage and traces of a cairn
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Tom Bergeron revealed that there was a certain moment he knew his “Dancing with the Stars” job had come to an end. Bergeron hosted the series starting in 2005 and left the show in 2020. He told former “DWTS” pro Cheryl Burke on her “Sex, Lies and Spray Tans”
Continue Reading By Francesca Perry, CNN (CNN) — Recent headlines from South Africa have reported national crises, from rolling blackouts to the highest unemployment rate in the world and housing shortages. But a new photography exhibition shines a spotlight on the rich landscape of innovation and contemporary culture led by young people in the country. In “A Young South Africa,” (at
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Rebecca Loos does not sound happy about her history with David Beckham being revisited. The Netflix docuseries “Beckham” looks back at the superstar soccer player’s life, including a decades-old alleged affair with Loos, who is his former personal assistant. Loos, who is now a married mother of two
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Another day, another Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce story. This time around, Swifties, as the singer’s fans are known, are talking about a photo of her sweetly kissing her presumed beau. Here’s how it all happened. Swift was once again spotted in a suite cheering on Kelce and
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s wax figure is getting a makeover. The Musée Grévin, a museum in Paris, France, that specializes in wax figures of famous people, came under fire recently for a sculpture of Johnson that many found to be too light skinned to represent the actor, who
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift’s latest milestone feels like a complete “fever dream.” “Cruel Summer,” a track off of her 2019 “Lover” album, hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart this week. The music charting site reported the news on Monday, noting that it had previously peaked at No. 3. The
Continue Reading CNN By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Jay-Z has weighed in on a longstanding (hypothetical) internet debate over whether to choose a meal with the man himself or half a million dollars. “You’ve gotta take the money,” the rapper/producer/entrepreneur told Gayle King in an interview with CBS. “You’ve got all that in the music
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Netflix released a trailer for “Squid Game: The Challenge” on Monday, giving the first full look at the hotly-anticipated reality competition show based on the streamer’s 2021 South Korean hit series “Squid Game.” While “The Challenge” is not a matter of life or death, as is graphically depicted in
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