By Jennifer Henderson, Caroll Alvarado and Sarah Engel, CNN (CNN) — Passengers on the cruise ship MSC Meraviglia didn’t get the balmy getaway they were expecting. The ship, scheduled to sail to the Bahamas this week, instead headed to New England and Canada “due to unseasonable and rapidly worsening weather that would have made it
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Christmas just got Kenergized. Ryan Gosling and “Barbie: The Album” producer Mark Ronson have remade the blockbuster movie’s hit tune “I’m Just Ken” for “Ken The EP,” which includes three new versions of the song: a holiday version, titled “Merry Kristmas Barbie,” an acoustic version, titled, naturally, “In My
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Chairs are turning for the newest winner of “The Voice.” The competition was down to Team Niall Horan’s singer Huntley and Team Reba McEntire’s singer Ruby Leigh, with Leigh and coach Reba singing a cover of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee. Huntley and his coach Horan performed
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — There was a time when Matthew Perry’s comedy “Friends” and George Clooney’s drama “ER” were back-to-back on NBC’s Thursday night schedule. Clooney reflected on those days and Perry’s recent passing in a new interview with Deadline. Clooney shared that he had known Perry since the “Friends” star was
Continue Reading By Jack Guy and Claudia Colliva, CNN (CNN) — A French court has rejected an appeal by an elderly couple who were paid €150 ($165) for a rare Gabonese mask that later sold for more than €4 million ($4.4 million) at auction. The couple claimed that the art dealer who bought the mask from them
Continue Reading By Silvia Marchetti, CNN Rome (CNN) — A five-year dig into the side of Rome’s Palatine Hill yielded treasure last week when archaeologists discovered a deluxe banquet room dating from around the first or second century BC, featuring a sizeable, intact, and brightly colored wall mosaic. Estimated to be around 2300 years old, the work
Continue Reading CNN Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” comes roaring out of the starting gate like a raging minotaur, before settling into a slower-moving groove that plays a little too much like another Harry Potter wannabe, only for demigods instead of wizards. Still generally fun, the Disney+ series doesn’t quite
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” comes roaring out of the starting gate like a raging minotaur, before settling into a slower-moving groove that plays a little too much like another Harry Potter wannabe, only for demigods instead of wizards. Still generally fun, the Disney+ series doesn’t quite catch
Continue Reading By Rochelle Beighton, CNN (CNN) — Ask Pedro Alonso what he likes about his infamous “Money Heist” (“La Casa de Papel”) character Berlin, and you’re putting him in a bit of a bind. “When I was reading the script, I was wondering, what are people going to think about this guy? He’s an emotional terrorist,”
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — A man has been charged with theft after allegedly stealing more than $23,000 in cash from three fellow passengers while on a budget flight from Vietnam to Singapore. The man was named in court charge sheets as Zhang Xiuqiang, a 52-year-old Chinese national who had been on board a
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was in Tel Aviv on Monday, where he met with freed hostages who have been released by Hamas amid the ongoing war in Gaza between Hamas and Israel. According to a statement posted to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum’s Instagram page on Tuesday, Seinfeld and
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Cameron Diaz wants you to know she “had a blast” working with Jamie Foxx on “Back in Action,” her first movie in 10 years, despite hearing things that seemed to suggest otherwise. “I really hate all of the things that were being said about our set,” Diaz said on
Continue Reading By Christy Choi and Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The term “post-Covid” is a troublesome one — not least for those currently living with the disease or its long-term effects. But while experts still consider Covid-19 a pandemic, 2023 was the year the World Health Organization declared that it was no longer “a public health
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Madonna thanked her lucky stars – and some special friends – during a recent concert in Brooklyn where she took a moment to look back on her June hospitalization, revealing she was put into “an induced coma.” “There are some very important people in this room tonight that were
Continue Reading By Marie Lodi, CNN (CNN) — A time capsule is often a small cache of significant items representing a particular moment in history — newspaper clippings, photographs, memorabilia and other cultural artifacts. But in early 2022, a different kind of capsule (and certainly one much larger than usual) was unearthed, after being hidden away for
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Life wasn’t so “Charmed,” it seems, on the set of that popular series. On a new episode of her podcast “Let’s Be Clear,” Shannen Doherty featured part two of her conversartion with her former “Charmed” costar Holly Marie Combs. As with part one, their costar Alyssa Milano figured
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Planes are going to be crowded. Patience will be tried. Some level of aggravation is all but inevitable, especially after all the recent shutdown-related chaos. Throw in a seat-kicker, a tipsy stranger or someone who’s blissfully barefoot, and the holiday odyssey becomes even more challenging. This Thanksgiving, 6 million
Continue Reading By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — It has been a busy year for bookworms. In 2023, literary heavyweights Bret Easton Ellis, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Attwood and Zadie Smith returned to the scene and published new work, in some cases, for the first time in over a decade. In the summer, authors such as Eliza Clark,
Continue Reading By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — In Rembrandt’s enormous 17th-century masterpiece “The Night Watch,” a troupe of Dutch civilian soldiers gathers in a darkened room and prepares to march out to defend their city. Rembrandt, a master of light and shadow, strategically illuminated his subjects’ expressive hands and faces, while dimness hid the room’s details
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift is known for several of her songs about heartbreak, so it seems only right she’d know how to help a friend recovering from a breakup. Swift sent a personalized breakup playlist to Jessica Chastain after the actress shared she was dealing with a recent split when they
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