By Paradise Afshar, CNN Swastika Mountain, located within Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest, may get a new name later this year — partly thanks to one Eugene resident. “I thought ‘this is crazy,’” Joy McClain, 81, said when she saw the mountain’s name in a local paper and felt called to action. “I decided maybe I
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN Hong Kong’s Peak Tram, one of the city’s most recognizable tourist attractions and the oldest funicular in Asia, will reopen to the public on August 27 following a year-plus-long closure. The tram, which has been ferrying locals and tourists alike to Hong Kong island’s highest spot since 1888, is now in
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Joe E. Tata, who played Nat, the kindly owner of the Peach Pit on “Beverly Hills, 90210,” has died, according to his daughter. He was 85. Kelly Tata shared the news Thursday in a statement on a GoFundMe page she had started earlier this year in relation to her father’s care.
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Mike Tyson’s story hardly suffers from a lack of media exposure, so an effort to create a new limited series around the former heavyweight champ entered the ring facing a high bar. Despite a knockout performance by Trevante Rhodes, “Mike” doesn’t consistently clear it, offering an episodic, occasionally too-irreverent tone
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN One of the New Kids on the Block is newly off the market. Jonathan Knight, one-fifth of the New England-based boy band, revealed he recently married his longtime partner Harley Rodriguez in a new interview with “Entertainment Tonight.“ Knight initially played coy when “ET” host Lauren Zima asked him if he
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN NASA is gearing up for its most consequential launch in decades, launching a rocket built to carry humans on an uncrewed test flight around the moon. It’s the first major step for the space agency’s Artemis program that aims to one day return astronauts to the lunar surface. To commemorate the
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey “Gilmore Girls” actor Scott Patterson says a Season 3 scene left him feeling “uncomfortable” and “pissed off” because he felt he was being objectified. Patterson, who played Luke Danes, talked about one episode in particular in which two characters talk about his butt. “I didn’t feel comfortable doing it, and it pissed
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN Two roads diverged in a wood, and I … I shake it off. The University of Texas at Austin is giving students a chance to study Taylor Swift lyrics alongside works by such literary icons as Shakespeare, John Keats and yes, Robert Frost. The school is offering an undergraduate course —
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN When it comes to fashion, street style has as much cachet as runway style — in fact, there are dozens of blogs and Instagram accounts dedicated to chronicling the best streetwear looks. That’s because urban chic has always started in the street, where people from all kinds of classes and backgrounds
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson and Claudia Dominguez, CNN More than a year after a Pennsylvania woman filed a lawsuit against comedian Horatio Sanz, SNL Studios and NBCUniversal, she’s filed a proposed amended complaint seeking to add Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Fallon, and “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels as defendants, arguing they enabled Sanz’s alleged misconduct. In
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN NASA is gearing up for its most consequential launch in decades, launching a rocket built to carry humans on an uncrewed test flight around the moon. It’s the first major step for the space agency’s Artemis program that aims to one day return astronauts to the lunar surface. To commemorate the
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Olivia Wilde has shared how she felt about being publicly served legal documents in a new interview. Wilde was introducing her upcoming directorial project, “Don’t Worry Darling,” to an industry audience at CinemaCon in April when she was delivered a manila envelope on stage. She opened it to discover they were legal
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Nick Cannon is going to be a dad again. The actor and television host is set to welcome his ninth child, his third with model Brittany Bell. The duo already share two children, son Golden and daughter Powerful Queen. Cannon revealed the news with a behind-the-scenes look at a maternity photoshoot with
Continue Reading By Amarachi Orie, CNN Dramatic lightning strikes, extreme climate events, icy spectacles and sublime sun scenes are among the stunning images shortlisted for the Weather Photographer of the Year 2022 competition. The 22 pictures, a selection of which feature in the gallery above, showcase some of nature’s most artistic moments. This is the Royal Meteorological
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Barbie Ferreira is leaving “Euphoria.” Ferreira, who plays Kat on the show, revealed the news on her Instagram Story on Wednesday, saying she will not be returning to the HBO drama ahead of its third season. “After four years of getting to embody the most special and enigmatic character Kat, I’m having
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN Photographer Tim Page, whose images and exploits from the Vietnam War made him a legendary figure of journalism in the 1960s, died Wednesday in Australia at the age of 78, fellow journalist Ben Bohane confirmed to CNN. Page had cancer, according to Bohane, who said he spent Page’s last week with
Continue Reading By Jacopo Prisco, CNN On an average day, more than 200,000 flights take off and land across the world. That includes commercial, cargo and charter planes — which account for about half of the total — as well as business jets, private aircraft, helicopters, air ambulances, government and military aircraft, drones, hot air balloons and
Continue Reading By Amy Cassidy, CNN A 17-year-old has become the youngest person to fly around the world solo in a small aircraft on Wednesday after first taking off on March 23, according to Guinness World Records (GWR). British-Belgian national Mack Rutherford touched down earlier in the day in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, where his journey
Continue Reading By Amy Cassidy, CNN A 17-year-old has become the youngest person to fly around the world solo in a small aircraft on Wednesday after first taking off on March 23, according to Guinness World Records (GWR). British-Belgian national Mack Rutherford touched down earlier in the day in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, where his journey
Continue Reading By Sonia Moghe, CNN Chef Mario Batali has settled two lawsuits with women who accused him of touching them inappropriately in separate incidents in 2016 and 2017. Alexandra Brown sued Batali in 2019 for allegedly kissing her, touching her on her thigh and reaching under her skirt and touching her vagina without her consent at
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