By Brian Fung, CNN House Republicans want Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to hand over a vast array of additional records pertaining to the company’s handling of a 2020 New York Post article containing allegations about Hunter Biden, after Zuckerberg indicated last week that an FBI warning about Russian propaganda contributed to the article’s temporary suppression
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lea Michele was 21 when she first saw “Funny Girl.” She was starring on Broadway in “Spring Awakening,” but all was not well in her personal life. “I had just gone through a horrible breakup,” she recalls. “I didn’t care what was happening for me
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday touted an August jobs report that slightly exceeded analyst forecasts and marked another month of slowing job gains — something White House officials have been hoping for in recent months. White House officials have been anxiously eying the release of August’s job report
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La reforma de una casa en el norte de Inglaterra dejó al descubierto un tesoro de monedas de oro, que podría valer hasta 250.000 libras (US$ 290.000) en la subasta del mes que viene. El hallazgo es uno de los mayores acopios de monedas de oro inglesas del siglo XVIII
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Kanye West returned to Instagram and had some things to say about his family. West said he was going to be the one to decide where his four kids go to school. “I’m the kids father,” he wrote. “Hollywood is a giant brothel Pornography destroyed my family I deal with the
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrial powers have pledged to put in place a system designed to cap Russia’s income from oil sales, an idea the nations’ leaders had promised to explore in June. The aim is to reduce Russia’s revenues and,
Continue ReadingBy LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer VENICE, Italy (AP) — Timothée Chalamet was feeling cut off from the world in the early days of the pandemic. Then Luca Guadagnino, whom Chalamet saw as a father figure while filming “Call Me By Your Name,” called with a new possible project. It would be another young romance
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal, state and local authorities are stressing unity in Jackson, Mississippi, where the 150,000 residents continue to face a crisis with the water system. On Friday, officials outlined numerous challenges and occasional setbacks as they worked to restore running water to homes
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Hundreds of workers from 14 Pennsylvania nursing homes went on strike Friday after contract negotiations failed to produce a deal, frustrating state officials who recently approved an aid package meant to bolster staff recruitment and retention in the long-term care industry. About 700 unionized workers walked off the job in
Continue ReadingCNN By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Labor Day weekend is usually the final goodbye to summer, but for roughly a third of the country, temperatures could reach record levels this holiday weekend. “September is kicking off with scorching temperatures throughout the western US, as highs are once again anticipated to threaten daily and even monthly
Continue ReadingBy Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Labor Day weekend is usually the final goodbye to summer, but for roughly a third of the country, temperatures could reach record levels this holiday weekend. “September is kicking off with scorching temperatures throughout the western US, as highs are once again anticipated to threaten daily and even monthly records
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN) — Incluso el día en que el presidente Joe Biden lanzó su advertencia más estremecedora hasta el momento de que la democracia está en grave peligro, Donald Trump se burló de cómo podría usar un nuevo mandato en la Casa Blanca para erosionar aún más ese derecho de nacimiento fundamental de los estadounidenses.
Continue ReadingBy DITA ALANGKARA and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An initial set of Chinese-made train cars for Indonesia’s first high-speed railway has arrived in Jakarta’s port. The 142-kilometer (88-mile) railway worth $5.5 billion is being constructed by a joint venture between an Indonesian consortium of four state-owned companies and China Railway International
Continue ReadingMILAN (AP) — The Italian soccer league has announced a number of energy saving measures. The Lega Serie A says stadiums will only be allowed to be lit for a maximum of four hours. It also reduced the amount of time floodlights could be fully turned on before kickoff from 90 minutes to an hour.
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — A drug-sniffing dog has led frontier police at a Milan airport to discover some 13 kilograms (nearly 30 pounds) of cocaine stuffed into the upholstery of a motorized wheelchair, whose user was immediately arrested. Financial Guard police said on Friday that the canine unit was on patrol at Malpensa airport to check
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrial powers have pledged to put in place a system designed to cap Russia’s income from oil sales, an idea the nations’ leaders had promised to explore in June. The aim is to reduce Russia’s revenues and,
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Amazon has lost the first round in its effort to overturn a historic union victory at a Staten Island facility. A National Labor Relations Board officer who heard Amazon’s objections recommended that the vote be upheld. In April’s closely watched election, warehouse workers at the Staten Island facility known as
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Cairns, CNN Trundling around the hallways of Hong Kong’s Cyberport innovation hub, the little Rice Robot is on a mission. The stocky white cuboid resembles Star Wars’ R2D2 robot in its build, but has the wide-eyed expression of Pixar’s WALL-E. It’s delivering drinks to patrons of the HFT Life cafe in a compartment
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran says its navy seized two American sea drones in the Red Sea before letting them go, the latest maritime incident involving the U.S. Navy’s new drone fleet in the Mideast. Iranian state television aired footage it said came from the deck of an
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN Adapted from a film short into a movie, “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul” exhibits the strain of the magnification process — as premises go, feeling a little light in terms of the collection plate. The central performances, however, make this dark satire awkwardly watchable, with Sterling K. Brown and
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