Jake Tapper’s Book Club A note from CNN’s Jake Tapper: “Say it plain: that many have died for this day.” I still remember covering President Barack Obama‘s first inauguration and listening to Elizabeth Alexander deliver the poem she wrote for the occasion. On the Capitol’s platform overlooking Lincoln Memorial, she had reached back to Walt
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN An 11-foot hammerhead shark washed up on a beach in southern Florida, much to beachgoers’ surprise. Visitors at Pompano Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale, encountered the shark’s corpse on April 6, according to CNN affiliate WPLG. A team of scientists from the American Shark Conservancy took samples and identified the shark
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN An 11-foot hammerhead shark washed up on a beach in southern Florida, much to beachgoers’ surprise. Visitors at Pompano Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale, encountered the shark’s corpse on April 6, according to CNN affiliate WPLG. A team of scientists from the American Shark Conservancy took samples and identified the shark
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN The images of the wrecked Antonov AN-225 are now an indelible memory for aviation enthusiasts worldwide. Built in the 1980s to ferry the Soviet space shuttle, the plane got a second life after the Cold War as the world’s largest cargo transporter, achieving records of all kinds, before being destroyed at
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By Michelle Watson, CNN Arthur Rupe, a record producer and 2011 inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, died Friday at his home in Santa Barbara, California, according to a statement from the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation. He was 104. His death was also announced by his daughter, Beverly Rupe Schwarz, according to
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Fatou, a western lowland gorilla believed to be the oldest in the world, just celebrated her 65th birthday at the Berlin Zoo. “Our Gorilla lady is celebrating her 65th birthday today, making her the oldest Gorilla in the world,” the zoo wrote on Instagram. “The traditional birthday cake could not be
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Wilsoooon! Fans of “Cast Away,” the 2000 survival drama starring Tom Hanks, must have been happy to see the actor throwing the first pitch at the Cleveland Guardians’ Opening Day on Friday. The film features Hanks as a FedEx systems analyst who washes up on an uninhabited island after his plane
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Harry Styles treated fans at his Coachella concert on Friday to an unexpected guest: Shania Twain. Her appearance didn’t come until the last few minutes of Styles’ set. The iconic refrain of Twain’s “Man, I Feel Like a Woman” began to play as soon as Styles had finished performing a classic
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Zoe Sottile, CNN It’s not just a screen print by the German artist Josef Albers. It’s a screen print by the German artist Josef Albers once owned by late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And now fans of the justice, who was nicknamed RBG and died in 2020 at the age of 87, can
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Julia Buckley, CNN It’s time! Travel restrictions are easing, infection rates are settling, you’re fully vaccinated, and you’re finally thinking about going on vacation. This is the year to make up for the holidays you didn’t enjoy over the past two years. You’ve likely saved for two years to make it a good one. This
Continue Reading Julia Buckley, CNN It’s time! Travel restrictions are easing, infection rates are settling, you’re fully vaccinated, and you’re finally thinking about going on vacation. This is the year to make up for the holidays you didn’t enjoy over the past two years. You’ve likely saved for two years to make it a good one. This
Continue Reading Julia Buckley, CNN It’s time! Travel restrictions are easing, infection rates are settling, you’re fully vaccinated, and you’re finally thinking about going on vacation. This is the year to make up for the holidays you didn’t enjoy over the past two years. You’ve likely saved for two years to make it a good one. This
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers inspecting luggage at Washington Dulles International Airport recently discovered an unusual find: three and a half pounds of bat meat. The charred meat was found in the baggage of a passenger from Maryland arriving from Ghana April 5, CBP said in a news release.
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Harry Styles has broken a Guinness World Record with his hit single “As It Was.” Styles, 28, broke the record for “most streamed track on Spotify in 24 hours (male),” according to a news release from Guinness. The song accumulated over 16 million streams in its first 24 hours on the
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN An old-fashioned courtroom miniseries with a somewhat more modern backdrop of sexual politics, “Anatomy of a Scandal” is a crisply told, nicely binge-able mystery that doesn’t overstay its welcome. Adapted from a novel, the material certainly doesn’t break any ground but proves watchable enough for its various twists, some admittedly
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Liz Sheridan, a veteran stage and screen actress who played Jerry Seinfeld’s mother, Helen, on “Seinfeld,” died Friday morning, her manager and friend Amanda Hendon confirmed to CNN. Sheridan had celebrated her 93rd birthday earlier this week, Hendon said. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law. Though she had dozens
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Kate Springer, CNN For 33-year-old Sarah Richard, life has long revolved around scuba diving. As the founder of Girls that Scuba, billed as the world’s largest scuba community for women, she traveled nonstop to host dive trips and events before the pandemic. It would not be unusual for Richard to spend a few weeks in
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Brett Goldstein paid a visit to “Sesame Street” to talk to kids about the F-word. The “Ted Lasso” actor appeared with some familiar, furry friends to bake and talk about the of the Word of the Day. “Today’s word begins with the letter F,” Tamir says in a video published by Entertainment
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By Dana Bash and Abbie Sharpe, CNN They may be the most famous international superstars you have never heard of, thanks to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis trying to eliminate their very existence. But in the musical “Harmony,” which premiered in New York this week, Barry Manilow and his longtime songwriting partner Bruce Sussman are
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN If you didn’t score tickets for Coachella, it’s all good. The annual music and arts fest held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California runs for two weekends, April 15-17 and April 22-24. This year’s headliners include Billie Eilish, Harry Styles, the Weeknd (who dropped in after Kanye West
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