Kathryn Snowdon, CNN Color-blocked rooms, floor-to-ceiling floral patterns and Sherle Wagner marble toilets aren’t obvious style touches for Hollywood’s modern high-end homes. But for one reimaging of a 1960s property, bland has been avoided at all costs, in favor of eccentric individualism. “Call it anti-establishment taste,” Mary Kitchen told Architectural Digest when she invited the
Continue ReadingBy MARCOS MARTÍNEZ CHACÓN Associated Press MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — The industrial hub of Monterrey has long been one of Mexico’s most prosperous cities, so its almost 5 million residents were shocked when they lost the most basic of services: water. A combination of an intense drought, poor planning and high water use has left
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors’ electric delivery van subsidiary, BrightDrop, has delivered 150 vans to FedEx, the companies announced Tuesday. This comes after five of the vans were delivered to FedEx last December and it marks BrightDrop’s first sizable delivery of vans. FedEx and GM had previously announced deals for the package delivery
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Bienvenida, Beyoncé. Queen Bey lanzó su nueva canción este lunes y podemos decir que “Break My Soul” cumplió con su parte de “romper” internet. Con una melodía de música house, el sencillo marcó el regreso de la artista, y la Bey Hive ––como se conoce a su devota base de fans–– estaba
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter’s board is recommending that shareholders approve the proposed $44 billion sale of the company to billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Musk reiterated his desire to move forward with the acquisition last week during a virtual meeting with Twitter employees, though shares of Twitter remain far below his
Continue ReadingFEDERAL WAY, Wash. (AP) — A 14-year-old lost his left hand and injured his other hand while reportedly playing with fireworks, South King Fire said Monday afternoon. Firefighters were called to the 33900 block of 19th Avenue Southwest in Federal Way. A firework had blown up in the teen’s hand. A 10-year-old was also injured,
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Dr. Sarah Schaffer DeRoo described in one word how she felt after getting her 7-month-old son vaccinated against Covid-19: thrilled. Her active baby boy sat in her lap at a vaccine clinic hosted by Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, while receiving his first dose of Covid-19 vaccine. The shot was
Continue ReadingEVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Police say two people were killed in Everett and two people were killed in Seattle in separate shootings on Monday and early Tuesday. Everett Police said two men were fatally shot and a man in his 40s was hospitalized on Monday afternoon, The Seattle Times reported. Officers found the three men
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has held talks with France’s main party leaders after his centrist alliance failed to win an absolute majority in parliamentary elections. The meetings at the Elysee presidential palace come after Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne formally offered her resignation Tuesday, in line with
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Kellogg is splitting into three different companies in a major shakeup for the 116-year-old company. The first company will include Kellogg’s North America cereal unit, which includes Raisin Bran and Rice Krispies, its snacking unit will become a second company, including Cheez-Its and Pringles. And, lastly, a new “pure-play plant-based
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s security chief on Tuesday said Moscow will respond to Lithuania’s decision to bar rail transit of goods subject to European Union sanctions from Russia to Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad. The ban was announced by the Lithuanian authorities earlier this month and prompted a flurry of angry retorts from Moscow, with
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La prohibición del matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo en Japón no es inconstitucional, según dictaminó un tribunal, asestando un golpe a las parejas homosexuales y a los activistas que buscan mayores derechos para la comunidad LGBTQ. El tribunal del distrito de Osaka desestimó este lunes una demanda en la
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT and DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writers Kellogg Co., the maker of Frosted Flakes, Rice Krispies and Eggo, will split into three companies focused on cereals, snacks and plant-based foods. Kellogg’s, which also owns plant-based food maker MorningStar Farms, said Tuesday that the spinoff of the yet-to-be named cereal and plant-based foods companies
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU, JOHN LEICESTER and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks are laying down a curtain of fire across areas of eastern Ukraine where pockets of resistance are denying Moscow full military control of the region. A regional official told The Associated Press on Tuesday that “everything that can burn
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU, JOHN LEICESTER and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks are laying down a curtain of fire across areas of eastern Ukraine where pockets of resistance are denying Moscow full military control of the region. A regional official told The Associated Press on Tuesday that “everything that can burn
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of railway workers have walked off the job in Britain, bringing the train network to a crawl in the country’s biggest transit strike in three decades. Tuesday’s action could be a precursor to a summer of labor discontent. About 40,000 cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau After days of mounting public pressure, Chinese police have finally issued an update on the investigation into a brutal restaurant attack in Tangshan — but the statement has done little to quell public outrage, or address concerns for the victims. The assault, which took place in the early
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Han pasado casi dos meses desde que las fuerzas rusas comenzaron su asalto a la ciudad de Severodonetsk. Pero, a pesar de su abrumadora potencia de fuego, Rusia todavía no puede desalojar la decidida resistencia ucraniana, ni cortar las líneas de suministro que proporcionan a los defensores restantes de la
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN The global governing body for rugby league has banned transgender women from playing in women’s international matches until further notice. The International Rugby League (IRL) joins a growing list of governing bodies that have recently restricted male-to-female transgender athletes from competing in women’s divisions, including the International Swimming Federation (FINA) and
Continue ReadingCNN By Hadas Gold, CNN The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, voted Thursday to dissolve itself, triggering new elections. On Friday, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will officially take over as caretaker prime minister under the terms of a coalition agreement made between outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Lapid last year. Because Lapid — a former
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