By Issy Ronald, CNN Paris Hilton has announced the birth of her first child with husband Carter Reum. Sharing a picture of a baby’s hand clutching a woman’s thumb, the media personality and heiress wrote on Instagram Tuesday: “You are already loved beyond words,” alongside a blue heart emoji. Hilton’s representatives confirmed the announcement to
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN “Sesame Street” co-creator Lloyd Morrisett has died at age 93, Sesame Workshop announced Monday. “Lloyd leaves an outsized and indelible legacy among generations of children the world over, with ‘Sesame Street’ only the most visible tribute to a lifetime of good work and lasting impact,” Sesame Workshop tweeted. “Sesame Street” was
Continue Reading Toyin Owoseje, CNN One of Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period paintings is at the center of a lawsuit between a Jewish family and New York’s Guggenheim Museum. The heirs of Karl Adler and Rosi Jacobi want the repatriation of the artist’s 1904 masterpiece “Woman Ironing (La repasseuse),” which they claim the couple sold under duress as
Continue Reading Francesca Street, CNN Carolyn Mazzie arrived at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in September 1971, excited to embark on a three week tour of Europe. Carolyn, then 30, worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad, an American train network that’s since been absorbed into the Union Pacific rail company. 50 years ago, Southern Pacific Railroad had several thousand
Continue Reading By Paul P. Murphy, CNN Actor Jeremy Renner was trying to stop his snow-removal tractor from sliding and hitting his grown nephew when he was pulled under the vehicle and crushed on New Year’s Day, according to a Nevada sheriff’s office incident report. The parking brake was not engaged and would have stopped the snowcat
Continue Reading Stephy Chung, CNN A young man stands grinning in Beijing’s Forbidden City. It’s the dead of winter, and one of his hands is buried deep into the pockets of his long overcoat to protect it from the chill. The other grasps the unmistakable contours of a glass Coca-Cola bottle. Today, Coke is the world’s most
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The full entertainment lineup for the 2023 Super Bowl has arrived. In addition to Rihanna’s highly anticipated halftime show performance, a number of additional Hollywood heavyweights are joining the major sporting event as pre-show performers. The NFL announced on Tuesday that Emmy-winning actor Sheryl Lee Ralph will perform “Lift Every Voice
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN While it’s true that everyone enjoys a good comeback story, it would be simplistic to say that’s the only reason people are loving on Brendan Fraser so much right now. Yes, it’s lovely to see him continue to get accolades and recognition for his emotional turn in last year’s somber drama
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN The last three years have been big ones for Paul Mescal. The Ireland-born actor received his very first Academy Award nomination on Tuesday for his role in “Aftersun,” Charlotte Wells’ debut feature about a single father who tries to bond with his adolescent daughter (Frankie Corio) during a trip to Turkey.
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Scheming “White Lotus” besties Mia and Lucia have moved onto their next gig: a Skims fashion campaign. Kim Kardashian’s shapewear and apparel brand has tapped Italian actors and real-life friends Simona Tabasco and Bea Grannò to model limited-edition bras and underwear from its forthcoming Valentine’s Day Shop. Kardashian shared the news on
Continue Reading Oscar Holland, CNN Balkrishna Doshi, one of the Indian subcontinent’s most celebrated architects, has died at the age of 95. Doshi passed away on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson from the Pritzker Prize. He was India’s first — and to date, only — winner of the award, the profession’s equivalent to the Nobel Prize. Throughout
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Paris Haute Couture Week is in full swing with dramatic runway shows and surreal, lavish looks worn by front-row A-Listers — with an unrecognizable, red-crystal-covered Doja Cat lighting up the internet earlier this week. On Wednesday, the label Viktor & Rolf (literally) turned fashion-upside down. At the Spring-Summer 2023 show, models walked
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN The faces may look familiar, but the nominations are brand new. When the nominations were announced Tuesday for the 95th Academy Awards, there were 16 first-time nominees across the four major acting categories: Austin Butler, Hong Chau, Kerry Condon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ana de Armas, Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, Brendan
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Khloe Kardashian wrote a touching tribute to her former partner Tristan Thompson’s late mother, Andrea Thompson. A funeral was held for Thompson, also grandmother to the former couple’s 4-year-old daughter True and their 5-month-old baby boy, last week. The reality star paid tribute through photos on Instagram and wrote, “I have
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN The party is over for Panic! At the Disco. The band’s frontman, Brendon Urie, announced on social media Tuesday that the group will go their separate ways after shows in Europe and the UK in February and March. Urie also explained that he will soon be a dad. “Sometimes a journey
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN When a teenage boy died 2,300 years ago in Egypt, he was mummified and adorned with 49 protective amulets and a golden mask to guide him in the afterlife. Researchers discovered the amulets placed on and inside the body of the mummified “golden boy” when they used computerized tomography scans to
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN All hail the Queen! Angela Bassett’s powerful performance as Queen Ramonda in the “Black Panther” sequel “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” earned her a best supporting actress nomination Tuesday for the 95th Academy Awards. While it was not her first nomination, (Bassett was received a best actress nomination for her portrayal
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Remember when Issa Rae was presenting the Oscar nominations for best director in 2020 and quipped “Congratulations to those men”? It’s déjà vu. In a year that saw many critically acclaimed films helmed by female directors, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is again taking heat for failing
Continue Reading By Andi Babineau, CNN The Dallas Zoo is working with the Dallas Police Department to increase security on the zoo campus following a string of incidents involving several animals and enclosures, zoo officials said. “On Saturday morning, the animal care team discovered one of our lappet-faced vultures dead in its habitat,” zoo President and CEO
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Shailene Woodley says she had a tough time filming last year because of what she was going through personally. In a recently published interview with “Porter,” the actress talked about her experience working on “Three Women,” the Showtime adaptation of Lisa Taddeo’s New York Times bestselling study of the sex
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