By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The Academy of Country Music (ACM) on Tuesday announced the nominations for the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards. Luke Combs led the nominations with eight, followed by Megan Moroney and Morgan Wallen with six nods each. Cody Johnson, Chris Stapleton and Lainey Wilson all have five nominations.
Continue Reading By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — It’s been deemed the end of Adidas Sambas. Once hailed as the favorite shoe of Harry Styles, Kaia Gerber, Bella Hadid, Paul Mescal and even Rihanna, just to name a few, it’s now apparently all over for the 1950s three-striped sneaker. Why? Because UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was seen
Continue Reading Reuters Spain will scrap its so-called “golden visa” program granting residency rights to foreigners who make large investments in real estate in the country, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told reporters on Monday. Ending the scheme would help make access to affordable housing “a right instead of a speculative business,” Sanchez said. The program awards non-EU
Continue Reading By Steve Bennett, CNN (CNN) — When you think Caribbean, you think beaches. When you think Trinidad, though… not so much. This is the land of soca and Carnival, a booming oil sector and Nicki Minaj. Beaches? You travel elsewhere in the Caribbean for that. But should you? Trinidad’s beaches are, in actuality, as stunning
Continue Reading By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — In one photo, Julo stares down the camera dressed in a tie-dye t-shirt, dreadlocks and a red snapback cap. In another, Adbul wears low-waisted jeans, a motorcycle jacket and a decadent fur scarf. Candace is pictured in a pair of Nike Air Jordans, her long platinum hair stark against
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Actor Billy Dee Williams has said there is nothing wrong with performers wearing blackface, because “if you’re an actor, you should do anything you want to do.” Speaking to Bill Maher on the “Club Random” podcast, published Sunday, conversation on the issue began with 87-year-old Williams discussing White actor
Continue Reading By Sarah Royce-Greensill, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of watch afficionados are descending on Geneva, Switzerland this week for the annual Watches and Wonders fair, where 54 watchmaking houses including Rolex, Patek Philippe, Cartier, Chopard and Chanel will unveil their latest creations. The event is where watch news is broken and trends are set or solidified.
Continue Reading CNN By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — As the 2024 Himalayan mountaineering season gets underway, another high-altitude project is in the works: removing tons of trash from Mount Everest. According to the Nepali army, the Mountain Cleanup Campaign collected 110 tons of waste between 2019, when the program started, and 2023. The army, which conducts
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — As the 2024 Himalayan mountaineering season gets underway, another high-altitude project is in the works: removing tons of trash from Mount Everest. According to the Nepali army, the Mountain Cleanup Campaign collected 110 tons of waste between 2019, when the program started, and 2023. The army, which conducts the
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Special prosecutors in New Mexico claim in a new legal filing that actor Alec Baldwin’s behavior on the “Rust” movie set contributed to “safety compromises” that led to the fatal shooting of the film’s cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021. Prosecutors sought to defend their case in a filing Friday after
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Billie Eilish has new music debuting this spring. The “Bad Guy” singer announced on her Instagram page on Monday that her third studio album, titled “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” will release on May 17. Eilish shared a photo of herself underwater, appearing to fall out of an open
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Beyoncé may have proclaimed that her latest project “ain’t a country album,” but someone forgot to tell the charts that. The superstar has made history as the first Black woman to come in at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart with her “Act II: Cowboy Carter,”
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Country music star Jelly Roll has recovered from a flight scare over the weekend. He and his wife Bunnie XO were on their way from California to Austin, Texas for the CMT Music Awards on Sunday, when their private jet was forced to make an emergency landing after experiencing
Continue Reading By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — On January 24, content creator Pelumi Nubi, who grew up in London, set off on a solo drive from the UK capital to Lagos, Nigeria in her beloved purple Peugeot 107. Over two months and a terrifying car crash later, the 29-year-old received a hero’s reception as she arrived
Continue Reading By Jeff Winter and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN (CNN) — Actor Jonathan Majors was sentenced to a 52-week mandatory in-person domestic violence prevention program for the assault and harassment of his former girlfriend during a domestic dispute, a New York criminal judge ruled Monday. Majors will have to give DNA as it’s his first conviction, and
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Hollywood superstar Jackie Chan has addressed fans’ concerns about his health in a social media post celebrating his 70th birthday. “Not so long ago, a lot of friends saw some recent photos of me on the internet, and they were all concerned about my health,” Chan, who is best
Continue Reading By Tree Meinch, CNN (CNN) — The mashup of diverse landscapes begins rolling past your car window within 30 minutes of departing San Luis Potosí, the capital city of the Mexican state of the same name. Sturdy pines grow tall beside desert cacti, poking through a blanket of fog adorning the Sierra Madre mountains. Passing
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa and Jeremy Grisham, CNN (CNN) — Country music star Morgan Wallen was arrested in Nashville late Sunday for allegedly throwing a chair off a downtown rooftop. Wallen was arrested on three felony charges of reckless endangerment, Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in an X post Monday morning. According to arrest affidavit obtained by CNN affiliate WTVF, several
Continue Reading By Joan Kennedy (CNN) — It’s so hard to get your hands on an Hermès Birkin bag that it should be illegal. That’s according to two would-be Birkin buyers who filed a complaint against the French luxury brand in a Northern California district court on March 19. The plaintiffs have accused Hermès of exploiting the
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — A total solar eclipse is one of those rare, almost once-in-a-lifetime, primarily visual spectacles that must be seen to be believed. What better way to get in the mood than by taking pleasure in another visual spectacle – the art of cinema – with these eclipse-themed movies? The below
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