By Amanda Musa and Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — San Diego’s newest giant pandas are set to make their public debut Thursday in the San Diego Zoo’s reimagined Panda Ridge habitat. The pair, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, are the first giant pandas to enter the United States in 21 years, according to the zoo.
Continue Reading By Will McGough, CNN (CNN) — On August 8, 2023, an out-of-control wildfire fueled by winds from Hurricane Dora ripped through the town of Lahaina on Maui’s west coast. Ua Aloha Maji, a lifelong Lahaina resident, was at his house in Lahainaluna, about a mile inland of the town center when the fire began. From
Continue Reading By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Jen Barnett has wanted to live abroad since first grade, when cafés lined her Birmingham, Alabama, school’s hallways during a week dedicated to all things French. She and her husband started talking about it soon after they met in 2015 and batted the idea around through two stressful US
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Spanish authorities are investigating a man who allegedly damaged cave paintings that are thousands of years old by pouring water on them in order to take better photos for social media. A 39-year-old man from Los Villares, in Jaén province in Andalucia, southern Spain, uploaded photos of the wet
Continue Reading By Victoria Woodcock, CNN (CNN) — “The lack of queer visual history compelled me to produce what was missing,” says Zanele Muholi of their creative practice. For more than two decades, the 52-year-old South African photographer has turned their camera on the country’s LGBTQ community, bringing the stories of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Steve Martin has finally weighed in on all the online speculation about whether he will play newly minted vice presidential candidate Tim Walz on “Saturday Night Live.” The comedian and actor told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published on Wednesday that he was approached regarding the possibility
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Rapper Nelly was arrested early Wednesday morning at a St. Louis casino relating to an active warrant for a previous years-old traffic charge, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol. During a search at the time of the arrest, authorities say they found the musician to be in possession of
Continue Reading CNN By Isaac Yee, Jessie Yeung and Samra Zulfaqar, CNN (CNN) — Tiffany Kidd, a 41-year-old nurse from Arizona, had never left the United States – but Taylor Swift was worth it. She bought her ticket last summer, and since then has gotten her first passport, sewn several Swift-inspired outfits and spent $5,000 to fly to Vienna to
Continue Reading By Zahid Mahmood, Jessie Yeung and Issac Yee, CNN (CNN) — Organizers have canceled three Taylor Swift concerts in Austria after authorities said they foiled a terror attack planned for the Vienna leg of her blockbuster Eras tour. The extraordinary decision – which could come at significant cost to Vienna’s businesses – has devastated fans
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Tenacious D is on a break but will be back, according to Jack Black. At the premiere of his new sci-fi feature “Borderlands” on Tuesday night, Black spoke about cancelling the remainder of his band Tenacious D’s tour after bandmate Kyle Gass, made a much-criticized remark about the assassination
Continue Reading By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — What do sport hunters and fans of breakout queer pop star Chappell Roan have in common? Well, not much, perhaps. But now you can add at least one item to that list: Kamala Harris’ and Tim Walz’s new campaign cap. The pair’s first joint merch offering was unveiled Tuesday,
Continue Reading By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — Scott Mayerowitz grew up in New Jersey in a household with resentment toward Germany, his family’s motherland. He has ancestors who were killed in the Holocaust, and his Jewish grandparents were forced to flee their homes there in the 1930s because of the Nazis. “There was always this sense
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Colin Farrell is hoping to give back to families like his. Farrell’s 20-year-old son James has Angelman syndrome, a rare neurogenetic disorder. Diagnosed as a child, James is nonverbal and receives live-in care, according to Farrell, who opened up for the first time in depth about his son’s
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — Two years ago, Metro Boomin suddenly lost his mother. The Grammy-nominated rap producer – who has collaborated with Travis Scott, 21 Savage, Drake, The Weeknd and is currently on tour with Future – was raised by a single mother and knew he had to give back in her memory.
Continue Reading By Ana DeOliva, CNN (CNN) — Imagine boarding a flight without showing your passport, ID or ticket even once at the airport. By 2025, that might be the case at Abu Dhabi’s Zayed International Airport. The airport is known for its hi-tech infrastructure and was recently praised by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the words “US
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Connie Chiume, the veteran South African actress who starred in the 2018 Marvel movie “Black Panther,” has died aged 72. Her family confirmed her death at a Johannesburg hospital in a short statement published on social media. In a brief announcement on Instagram on Tuesday, they said: “The Chiume
Continue Reading By Jack Guy and Gawon Bae, CNN (CNN) — K-pop megastar Suga has apologized after being caught riding an electric scooter while under the influence of alcohol. The singer, who is a member of Korean boyband BTS, said he was “heavy-hearted and sorry” in a post on online fan community platform Weverse. “Last night, I
Continue Reading By Simon Usborne, CNN (CNN) — Few things appear to soothe the existential anxieties of the super rich like a bunker designed to withstand anything short of total nuclear Armageddon. Yet it’s no longer enough for the security-conscious billionaire to stick an impenetrable safe room in the basement where it might sit empty forever. In
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — The nominations for MTV’s Video Music Awards (VMAs) were announced on Tuesday, and Taylor Swift leads among nominees. Swift garnered ten nominations, mostly for her whimsical black-and-white music video for the lead single “Fortnight” off her album “The Tortured Poets Department.” Her featured artist on that track, Post Malone,
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Brandon Sklenar came for a press day to promote his new movie and ended up in the hot seat. Sklenar, who costars with Blake Lively in the film “It Ends with Us,” was surprised in an interview by Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds. The “Deadpool & Wolverine” star shared
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