Amy Woodyatt and Andrew Carey, CNN Author Sally Rooney said she has chosen not to sell the translation rights for her latest novel to an Israeli-based publishing house, citing concerns about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Publishing house Modan has previously published Hebrew versions of Rooney’s two other novels, “Normal People” and “Conversations with Friends.” In a
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Marianne Garvey, CNN Will Poulter is set to play Adam Warlock in the upcoming “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.” The movie’s director James Gunn took to Twitter to announce the news. “As you guys know I often strike down false rumors, so… um…Welcome to the Guardians family, Will Poulter,” Gunn wrote. “He’s an amazing
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By Chloe Melas, CNN What better way to get in the spooky spirit than curl up and watch some scary flicks. From the creepy crawly to family classics, we’ve got you covered this Halloween. “Hocus Pocus” The Sanderson Sisters are the perfect witches to get you ready for Halloween. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and
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By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The world’s largest wine factory from the Byzantine period has been uncovered by archaeologists in the Israeli town of Yavne, after a two-year excavation process. The 1,500-year-old complex was used to produce wine in huge commercial quantities, with the directors of the excavation calculating that around two million liters were marketed
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Kelly McCleary, CNN I’ll take broken winning streaks for $1,000, Mayim. “Jeopardy!” contestant Matt Amodio saw his 38-game winning run come to an end Monday, putting him behind only “Jeopardy!” superstar Ken Jennings on the list of most consecutive wins. Jennings had a 74-game streak. During his time on top of the leaderboard, Amodio racked
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Monday night was a sad one for fans of Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs on “NCIS.” After more than 18 seasons Mark Harmon has left the show. Monday’s episode, titled “Great Wide Open,” served as his exit. In it, Harmon as Gibbs is in Alaska with Special Agent Timothy McGee
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By Chloe Melas, CNN President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden celebrated their nephew’s nuptials on Monday, Cuffe Biden Owens married former “Real Housewives of Orange County” star, Meghan O’Toole King on Monday at Owens’ family home in Pennsylvania. Owens is the son of Biden’s sister, Valerie Owens, he’s a Los Angeles-based attorney.
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Dopesick” is a major undertaking, exploring the opioid crisis from multiple angles, including the ground-level carnage inflicted by OxyContin addiction, Purdue Pharma’s inner workings and the government personnel seeking to combat it. Scattered in places, in its totality it’s an engrossing eight-part series, made more so by Purdue’s bankruptcy proceedings
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Dopesick” is a major undertaking, exploring the opioid crisis from multiple angles, including the ground-level carnage inflicted by OxyContin addiction, Purdue Pharma’s inner workings and the government personnel seeking to combat it. Scattered in places, in its totality it’s an engrossing eight-part series, made more so by Purdue’s bankruptcy proceedings
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Demi Lovato is standing up for extraterrestrials. The singer and actor who identifies as nonbinary has a docuseries on Peacock titled “Unidentified with Demi Lovato” in which they explore what life there may be beyond this planet. In an interview with Pedestrian, Lovato explained that they do not believe that
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Amy Woodyatt, CNN A pair of carved stone statues used as garden ornaments have sold for more than £195,000 ($265,510) after it was revealed that they were ancient Egyptian relics dating back thousands of years, an auction house has said. The artifacts were acquired from a garden in Sudbury, Suffolk, in eastern England. Mander Auctioneers,
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Megan C. Hills, CNN Lego has announced plans to remove gender bias from its products, after a study commissioned by the brand found that girls are hindered by “unequal and restrictive” attitudes towards creativity and play. Although the Danish toy maker did not outline specific changes to its products or marketing, it announced Monday that
Continue Reading Kelly McCleary, CNN I’ll take broken winning streaks for $1,000, Mayim. “Jeopardy!” contestant Matt Amodio saw his 38-game winning run come to an end Monday, putting him behind only “Jeopardy!” superstar Ken Jennings on the list of most consecutive wins. Jennings had a 74-game streak. During his time on top of the leaderboard, Amodio racked
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Dean Cain, one of the actors who has portrayed Superman, has spoken out about the latest DC comic book character version being bisexual. Cain, who played the superhero in the 1990s TV series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” appeared on “Fox & Friends First” Tuesday and talked
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Fran Bak never read “Eat, Pray, Love.” But when her husband of 30 years passed away in 2018, Bak set off on a not-unlike-Elizabeth-Gilbert spiritual journey that would take her though Bali and India, and end with her being the only tourist given permission to enter the kingdom of Bhutan since
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By Chloe Melas Netflix is defending Dave Chappelle’s new comedy special after it has been criticized as transphobic by some LGBTQ+ advocates, artists and employees. Chappelle’s special, “The Closer,” which debuted on Netflix last week, includes several minutes of jokes about trans people. The comedian says in the special he is “team TERF,” referencing the
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN Your flight is canceled. You have to stay over in a hotel and pay for dinner or scramble to find a rental car. What are you entitled to? It’s a question many frustrated Southwest Airlines customers are asking in the face of thousands of canceled flights over the weekend and into
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Netflix head Ted Sarandos has reiterated his support for Dave Chappelle and the comic’s controversial stand-up special, “The Closer” in an email to company staff. In the email dated Monday and obtained by Variety, the co-chief executive officer responded to the backlash by writing, “We know that a number of
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Alexis Ohanian can’t believe it only took his wife Serena Williams posting a few times about their daughter’s doll, Qai Qai, for the toy to become a social media influencer. Now, the father of four year-old Olympia is using that fame to try and inspire girls to pursue their passions
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Superman’s done a lot since he first appeared in comic books 80 years ago, almost. He’s saved the world more than a few times. He’s died and come back to life. He dodged punches from Muhammad Ali and even faced off against White supremacists. Until this year, though, every comic iteration
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