By Paul Sillers, CNN As we gratefully return to air travel post-Covid, it’s a good time to reflect on the choices we can personally make to reduce our environmental footprint. However, it’s not always easy. While there are plenty of flight carbon calculators offered by airlines and comparison portals, the methodologies can seem opaque and
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Dave Chappelle’s comments about the Jewish community during his “Saturday Night Live” monologue are being slammed as antisemitic. Anti-Defamation League chief executive officer Jonathan Greenblatt took to Twitter on Sunday to criticize the comedian and the NBC late night show. “We shouldn’t expect @DaveChappelle to serve as society’s moral compass,
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN The Neighbourhood have ousted drummer Brandon Fried after he was accused of groping a woman and apologized for it. MarÃa Zardoya, of the band The MarÃas, shared her account of the incident on the Instagram Stories portion of the band’s verified account. “I was at a bar last night, and
Continue Reading Hafsa Khalil, CNN King Charles III is celebrating his first birthday on the British throne with a new photograph and a new role as Ranger of Windsor Great Park. Released on Monday, his 74th birthday, the photograph marks Charles’ appointment as Ranger. The photo shows the monarch leaning against an ancient oak tree in Windsor
Continue Reading By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has donated £17,000 ($20,000) to a mother facing astronomical home energy bills to operate her disabled daughter’s life-support equipment. Carolynne Hunter’s 12-year-old daughter Freya has cerebral palsy as well as other severe health problems and disabilities. She relies on receiving oxygen for chronic breathing problems and receives
Continue Reading By Hannah Sarisohn, Emma Tucker and Pete Muntean, CNN The Transportation Security Administration is admitting multiple failures and is instituting alerts to security officers at airports nationwide after a man got through a checkpoint with two box cutters. The move comes as passengers are expected to flood airports ahead of Thanksgiving. TSA security checkpoint agents
Continue Reading By Hannah Sarisohn, Emma Tucker and Pete Muntean, CNN The Transportation Security Administration is admitting multiple failures and is instituting alerts to security officers at airports nationwide after a man got through a checkpoint with two box cutters. The move comes as passengers are expected to flood airports ahead of Thanksgiving. TSA security checkpoint agents
Continue Reading Zoe Sottile, CNN The Manhattan district attorney’s office has returned 192 looted antiquities with a value of nearly $3.4 million to Pakistan. District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced the repatriation in a press release on Thursday. The return is the culmination of a years-long investigation into the sale of artifacts looted from countries all
Continue Reading Jeanne Bonner, CNN On a visit once to her family’s home in the corner of California where she grew up, Joan Didion opened a drawer crammed full of her old things and took an inventory. “A bathing suit I wore the summer I was seventeen,” she wrote in her essay, “On Going Home.” “A letter
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Henry Winkler credits landing the role of Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli to an accent he made up on the spot during his “Happy Days” audition. Winkler spoke with CNN’s Chris Wallace about his long career in Hollywood and revealed that as a Jewish kid from Manhattan, he was surprised he was
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Henry Winkler credits landing the role of Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli to an accent he made up on the spot during his “Happy Days” audition. Winkler spoke with CNN’s Chris Wallace about his long career in Hollywood and revealed that as a Jewish kid from Manhattan, he was surprised he was
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN Dolly Parton is the latest recipient of the Bezos Courage and Civility Award. “Jeff [Bezos] and I are so proud to share that we have a new Bezos Courage and Civility Award winner — a woman who gives with her heart and leads with love and compassion in every aspect of
Continue Reading By Brian Lowry, CNN “Yellowstone” is one of those mysteries of the TV business, a series that generates major ratings but like the late comic Rodney Dangerfield, doesn’t always get much respect. That dynamic was summed up last year by a Vanity Fair headline that read, “Here’s to Yellowstone, the Most-Watched Show Everyone Isn’t Talking
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN In “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” the aquatic adversary known as Namor wastes no time establishing himself as one of those beguiling but strange characters that can polarize an audience: the ocean-dwelling deity uses conch shells like smartphones and has feathered wings on his ankles. But as portrayed by Mexican actor Tenoch
Continue Reading By Heather Law, Aliza Kassim Khalidi and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN A cruise ship with hundreds of Covid-positive passengers docked in Sydney, Australia, after being hit by a wave of infections. The Majestic Princess cruise ship was about halfway through a 12-day voyage when an outbreak of cases was noticed, Carnival Australia president Marguerite Fitzgerald told
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Dave Chappelle addressed several contentious topics in his latest “Saturday Night Live” monologue, focusing mostly on Kanye West’s recent antisemitic comments. In a lengthy stand-up set, Chappelle name-checked former President Donald Trump and Senate candidate Herschel Walker — and also may have alluded to the negative reaction to jokes he’s made
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Dave Chappelle’s comments about the Jewish community during his “Saturday Night Live” monologue are being slammed as antisemitic. Anti-Defamation League chief executive officer Jonathan Greenblatt took to Twitter on Sunday to criticize the comedian and the NBC late night show. “We shouldn’t expect @DaveChappelle to serve as society’s moral compass,
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN Dolly Parton is the latest recipient of the Bezos Courage and Civility Award. “Jeff [Bezos] and I are so proud to share that we have a new Bezos Courage and Civility Award winner — a woman who gives with her heart and leads with love and compassion in every aspect of
Continue Reading Sophie Tanno, CNN Renowned street artist Banksy has unveiled his latest artwork in an Instagram post — a mural in the liberated Ukrainian town of Borodianka. The artwork shows a female gymnast balancing on a pile of rubble on the side of a building damaged by Russian strikes. The graffiti artist posted three images of
Continue Reading Sophie Tanno, CNN Renowned street artist Banksy has unveiled his latest artwork in an Instagram post — a mural in the liberated Ukrainian town of Borodianka. The artwork shows a female gymnast balancing on a pile of rubble on the side of a building damaged by Russian strikes. The graffiti artist posted three images of
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