By Joshua Mellin, CNN Is this heaven? No, It’s Iowa. It’s the place where dreams came true for baseball fans, as the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees emerged from the cornfields to play the first official Major League Baseball game in the state on Thursday night on a specially built field next to
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN No one can say John Cena doesn’t pay attention to the internet. The actor and wrestler shared a photo of bodybuilder and trainer Brendan Cobbina that has been making the rounds on social media because of his resemblance to Cena. Cena posted the photo on his verified Instagram account without
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN The Kunis-Kutcher kids took a shower, you guys. We know that thanks to a funny video Ashton Kutcher posted Wednesday on his verified Instagram account of wife Mila Kunis standing in the bathroom as their children were cleaning up. (The video is kid safe.) This matters because the couple kicked
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN The Kunis-Kutcher kids took a shower, you guys. We know that thanks to a funny video Ashton Kutcher posted Wednesday on his verified Instagram account of wife Mila Kunis standing in the bathroom as their children were cleaning up. (The video is kid safe.) This matters because the couple kicked
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Brendan Fraser feels the love. The actor appeared on TikTok with video from a virtual meet and greet. Lindley Key, who has shared videos of her cosplaying Rachel Weisz as Evelyn O’Connell in Fraser’s hit film “The Mummy,” posted video of a conversation she had with Fraser. “The internet is
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Answer: This person not being selected to host “Jeopardy!” has caused a bit of outrage. Who is LeVar Burton? Burton fans are not happy that he didn’t snag the gig to replace beloved longtime host Alex Trebek who died in November 2020 at the age of 80 after battling pancreatic
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Answer: This person not being selected to host “Jeopardy!” has caused a bit of outrage. Who is LeVar Burton? Burton fans are not happy that he didn’t snag the gig to replace beloved longtime host Alex Trebek who died in November 2020 at the age of 80 after battling pancreatic
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Jack Guy, CNN A slice of cake from Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s 1981 wedding has been sold for the “unexpected” price of £1,850 ($2,565) at auction. Weighing about 28 ounces, the slice comes from one of the 23 cakes made for the royal wedding, according to Dominic Winter Auctioneers, in Cirencester, western England. It
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By Katia Hetter, CNN As Covid-19 cases are surging across the United States again, daily infection rates are at their highest levels since February, due in large part to the very contagious Delta variant. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has once again urged a return to indoor mask-wearing, citing that even vaccinated
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By Ben Westcott and Carly Walsh, CNN New Zealand will open its doors to vaccinated travelers from low risk countries from early 2022, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday, signaling a tentative relaxation of the country’s strict pandemic border controls. In a speech on Thursday morning, Ardern said the government would ramp up New Zealand’s
Continue Reading By Nicola Ruotolo and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Any budding lifeguards might want to work on their doggy paddle this holiday season, after a group of 14 people struggling in high wind and waves at sea were rescued with the help of Italy’s lifeguard dogs. The animals helped to rescue bathers who got into difficulty around
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By Faith Karimi, CNN Dolly Parton sings, funds vaccines and provides children with free books. Now she’s writing her own novel. The country music queen has teamed up with bestselling author, James Patterson, to publish a novel that they co-wrote, they announced Wednesday. Set in Tennessee, the novel titled “Run, Rose, Run” is about a
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Jennifer Hudson has Aretha Franklin to thank, in part, for her career. Hudson first came to fame in 2004 as a finalist on “American Idol.” She auditioned for the reality singing competition with Franklin’s song, “Share Your Love With Me.” Fast forward to 2021 and Hudson is now a Grammy
Continue Reading Nominees for the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards were revealed Wednesday. Justin Bieber leads this year’s list of nominees with seven, followed by Megan Thee Stallion with six nods. Billie Eilish, BTS, Doja Cat, Drake, Giveon, Lil Nas X and Olivia Rodrigo, a first time nominee, each earned five nominations. Voting in the 14 gender-neutral
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN The flower children of hip hop are coming to a streaming service near you. De La Soul announced Tuesday during an Instagram Live that their music will be released on streaming. “We have finally come down to a deal between ourselves and Reservoir Media to release our music in 2021,”
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By Shawn Deng and Amy Woodyatt, CNN China will create a “blacklist” of karaoke songs, banning those that contain “harmful content” from entertainment venues. According to interim rules outlined by the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, karaoke must not endanger national unity, sovereignty or territorial integrity, incite ethnic hatred or undermine ethnic unity, promote
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN A boat, Italy and a ring has made Sophia Bush a very happy woman. The “One Tree Hill” alum shared the news that she and her entrepreneur boyfriend Grant Hughes are engaged in a post on her verified Instagram account Tuesday. The actress, who is currently starring on “Good Sam,”
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By Rob Picheta, CNN Chet Hanks has posted a rant against coronavirus vaccines and told sufferers of the virus to “get over it,” a year after his parents, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, were hospitalized with severe cases of Covid-19. Hanks shared a video on Instagram in which he initially pretended to encourage followers to
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN Chet Hanks has posted a rant against coronavirus vaccines and told sufferers of the virus to “get over it,” a year after his parents, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, were hospitalized with severe cases of Covid-19. Hanks shared a video on Instagram in which he initially pretended to encourage followers to
Continue Reading By Chris Dwyer, CNN Inflight dining was far from its glory days even before Covid ensured everything was plastic-wrapped and pre-ordered. On long-haul international flights, the question “chicken or fish” is often met with resigned acceptance of a nuked, tiny meal in an aluminum foil tray. A limp salad — with half a cherry tomato.
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