Helen Regan, Wayne Chang, Teele Rebane and Karen Smith, CNN For more than 20 years the “Pillar of Shame” sculpture stood as a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which the Chinese military crushed protests led by college students in Beijing with deadly force. Atop a podium in the University
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By Stella Chan, CNN A woman who punched a flight attendant on a May Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento to San Diego pleaded guilty to interfering with a flight attendant, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. A flight attendant asked Vyvianna Quinonez, 28, to buckle her seatbelt, stow her tray table, and wear her
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Marianna Cerinni, CNN The Middle East nation of Qatar has announced an ambitious plan to expand its public art program as it prepares to play host to the 2022 Fifa World Cup. Leading the initiative, Qatar Museums — the state-run organization under which many of the nation’s cultural institutions sit — says it will display
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By Megan Thomas, CNN Phish has announced they will reschedule their shows in New York City next week, citing concerns over the Omicron variant of Covid-19. “While Phish has played shows this year as the pandemic has continued, this variant’s ability for rapid transmission is unprecedented,” the group wrote in a statement posted to their
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By Megan Thomas, CNN The next “John Wick” film has been delayed. Lionsgate announced Wednesday that the release of “John Wick: Chapter 4” would move from May 2022 to March 24, 2023, according to a video teaser for the project. Keanu Reeves stars in the franchise in the titular role as a hitman with a
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By Chloe Melas, CNN “And Just Like That …” said goodbye to actor Willie Garson and his character Stanford Blatch in the show’s latest episode. The 57-year-old actor died from pancreatic cancer at his home in Los Angeles in September while the HBO Max series was in production. (Like CNN, HBO is owned by WarnerMedia.)
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN After a “Wheel of Fortune” contestant lost out on a new Audi due to a technicality — even though she answered the puzzle correctly — the car company said it would gift her the vehicle instead. Within a few days of her appearance on the long-running game show, Audi located competitor
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By Laura Ly and Jason Hanna, CNN Next week’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be “scaled back,” with fewer revelers and everyone required to wear a mask, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office said Thursday. The celebration in Times Square typically holds around 58,000 people in viewing areas, but this year
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Jacqui Palumbo and Scottie Andrew, CNN Acclaimed American writer Joan Didion, an essayist and novelist who rose to prominence in the 1960s, has died at age 87, her publisher confirmed to CNN on Thursday. “We are deeply saddened to report that Joan Didion died earlier this morning at her home in New York due to
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN After a “Wheel of Fortune” contestant lost out on a new Audi due to a technicality — even though she answered the puzzle correctly — the car company said it would gift her the vehicle instead. Within a few days of her appearance on the long-running game show, Audi located competitor
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Coldplay’s Chris Martin has a major announcement. The frontman of the Grammy-winning band told BBC Radio 2 this week that there’s an end in sight when it comes to new music from the group. “Well I know I can tell you, our last proper record will come out in 2025 and
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Britney Spears is warming up her vocals. The singer took to Instagram to share that she is working on new music and posted a video of herself singing in her bathroom. “I just realized this today guys… after what my family tried to do to me three years ago… I needed
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Amid the rapid spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, a dozen Broadway shows have shuttered their doors this week as cast or crew members test positive for Covid-19 — an unfortunate event during what is usually a busy holiday season for the industry Since Broadway returned following an 18-month hiatus due
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Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN The notion of what the world would look like if humans were to vanish has been explored extensively by scientists, as well as many post-apocalyptic movies. However, French photographer Romain Veillon is making it his mission to capture in pictures the potential result of a planet without people. The 38-year-old has spent
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Leah Dolan, CNN The literary landscape has never been richer or more reflective of our present moment. Compassionate depictions of the ongoing refugee crisis won Zanzibar-British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, while American writer Jason Mott took home the National Book Award for his novel on the racism, police brutality and
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By Melissa Alonso and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A Royal Caribbean cruise ship was denied entry into two island nations after 55 fully vaccinated crew members and passengers contracted Covid-19 only days after the ship had set sail from Fort Lauderdale, the Miami Herald reported Wednesday. Odyssey of the Seas was barred from entering Curacao and
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN If you’re one of the tens of people who have yet to see “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” here’s something that’s new to you: the teaser trailer for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” The trailer, shown to people who stuck around after the credits of the latest Spider-Man film, is
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Tom Holland is a man of his word. He promised a little boy who saved his sister from a dog attack in 2020 that the young Spider-Man fan could visit the “Spider-Man: No Way Home” set and he did just that. Bridger Walker was just 6 years old when he jumped
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By Marianne Garvey “Bachelorette” Michelle Young has chosen between the last two men standing, Nayte Olukoya and Brandon Jones. (Spoilers ahead.) Even though there were some last minute concerns about Olukoya’s level of commitment, including warnings from her mother and her own doubts, Young sent Jones home. “Here I am at the end, madly in
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Bette Midler has apologized West Virginians after a tweet she posted regarding Senator Joe Manchin. On Monday the star expressed her frustration with Manchin, who represents West Virginia, when the Democratic senator announced he would not support President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act. Midler originally tweeted “What #JoeManchin, who
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