By Zoe Sottile, CNN As tasty as it might look, you should refrain from licking the Sonoran desert toad, the National Park Service has warned. On Tuesday, the NPS used Facebook to warn passerby to use caution around the Sonoran desert toad, also known as the Colorado river toad. The amphibian is one of the
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Welsh environmental officials have asked dedicated Harry Potter fans to please stop leaving socks on the grave of Dobby the house elf. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One” was released in 2010. The film, half of the conclusion to the fantasy series, features the tragic death of Dobby, a
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas and Emma Tucker, CNN Aaron Carter, a former child pop singer and younger brother of Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter, has died, a source close to the family told CNN. He was 34. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told CNN they responded to a call for help at Carter’s
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas and Emma Tucker, CNN Aaron Carter, a former child pop singer and younger brother of Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter, has died, a source close to the family told CNN. He was 34. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told CNN they responded to a call for help at Carter’s
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN If you’re running in the New York City Marathon Sunday, watch out — you might just be running alongside actor Ashton Kutcher. Kutcher, 44, is using the marathon as an opportunity to raise funds for Thorn, the organization he founded alongside Demi Moore in 2012 to combat child sex trafficking, according
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Drake’s newest album includes jabs at multiple other artists and public figures — and some have their own choice words for the Canadian rapper. Drake released “Her Loss,” a 16-track collaboration with 21 Savage, on Friday. On one song, “Circo Loco,” he seems to imply that Megan Thee Stallion’s allegations that
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Questions of propriety about the fifth season of “The Crown” premiering two months after Queen Elizabeth II’s death are largely eclipsed by other issues, as the Netflix series reloads with new prestige talent in key roles and old troubles, while feeling more disjointed than usual. The result is an uneven
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN “Stranger Things” superfans can now live in the very same house where Season 4 villain Vecna first developed his supernatural powers, if they dare. Warning: there are spoilers for Season 4 of “Stranger Things” ahead. Vecna, the antagonist of Season 4 of Netflix’s hit series “Stranger Things,” started off as a
Continue Reading Francesca Street, CNN It feels like the summer of travel chaos only just subsided, but the holiday travel season is now upon us. More than four million Americans are set to take to the skies for US Thanksgiving, kicking off one of the busiest stretches of the year for travel. Navigating the world of airports
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN Top-tier frequent flyer Rick Hubbard spends a lot of time squeezing into airplane seats and has noticed it’s a tighter fit. “Either that or I’m getting bigger and bigger, but I don’t think so,” Hubbard told CNN recently near a baggage claim. “I can’t imagine seats or aisles
Continue Reading By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN HBO is pulling the plug on its futuristic drama “Westworld.” In a statement praising creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, HBO lauded the show for taking viewers on “a mind-bending odyssey, raising the bar at every step.” (HBO, like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.) “We are tremendously grateful
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Wearing matching glittery unicorn hats, rainbow tutus or white furry boots, a troupe of 30 senior women have built a reputation across Southern Florida with choreographed dances to pop songs. Called the “Calendar Girls,” the dancers aren’t professionals, but put on 130 shows per year — and do their own makeup and
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Nick Cannon is adding to his family, and Ryan Reynolds is having some fun with it. Model Alyssa Scott on Thursday shared some maternity photos on her Instagram account. Scott and Cannon are featured in a bathtub in the images, where he both touches and kisses her pregnant belly. Reynolds
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Chadwick Boseman did not read the script for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” before his death in 2020, according to the film’s director. Ryan Coogler told “Wakanda Forever: The Official Black Panther Podcast” that he offered Boseman a chance to read the script, but, at the time, the actor declined. Host Ta-Nehisi
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” certainly earns its title, operating, appropriately, not as an actual movie biography but an outlandish parody of one, filled with comedy cameos and bizarre flights of fancy. Starring Daniel Radcliffe and produced and co-written by Yankovic himself, like its namesake’s songs, it’s at times little
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN In the most deeply personal aspect of “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me,” the singer-actor reads excerpts from her journal filled with self-doubt and anxiety, including lines like “I have to stop living like this” and “I want to know how to breathe again.” Opening up about her bipolar disorder
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN More than a few people have said they were leaving Twitter after Elon Musk bought the company, but his former girlfriend, Amber Heard, appears to have actually split with the social media platform. Her handle, @RealAmberHeard, is no longer listed. She announced via her verified Facebook page on April 10,
Continue Reading Oscar Holland, CNN | Manveena Suri, CNN A disgraced American antiquities dealer accused of running a multi-million-dollar looting network via his New York gallery was this week sentenced by an Indian court to 10 years in prison for smuggling offenses. Subhash Kapoor was convicted alongside five accomplices on charges including criminal conspiracy, burglary and the
Continue Reading Oscar Holland, CNN Actor Johnny Depp is set to appear in Rihanna’s new Savage X Fenty fashion show, sparking online outrage and calls to boycott the singer’s lingerie brand. The 59-year-old actor, who claimed he was backlisted by Hollywood amid his high-profile legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard, has already filmed his cameo in the
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN Jimmy Kimmel claims he was ready to walk out on his longtime late-night hosting gig if his bosses at ABC asked him to stop making jokes about then-presidential hopeful Donald Trump. The comedian, who has been hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on the network since 2003, said on the most recent episode
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