By Alexandra Peers, CNN Mother’s Day is one of the busiest days for the American restaurant industry, presenting a massive operational challenge to restaurants. That’s why it gained a reputation among waiters and restaurant staff as one of the most grueling days on the calendar. “Every server knows that working on Mother’s Day is hell.
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Elon Musk on Friday named longtime media executive Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter, months after he promised to step back from the role. “I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” Musk wrote in a tweet on Friday. He said she “will focus
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military commanders said Friday that their troops had recaptured more territory from Russian forces at the scene of the war’s longest and bloodiest battle, for the eastern city of Bakhmut, but it wasn’t clear if this marked the start of Kyiv’s long-expected counteroffensive. Russia’s Defense
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN A large international team of researchers has identified nine groups of newly described butterflies, and one colorful genus broke the mold with its striking wing patterns — earning itself a name inspired by the Eye of Sauron, a blazing symbol of the main antagonist Sauron the Dark Lord in J.R.R. Tolkien’s
Continue ReadingLauren Fox, CNN After a week of meetings on the debt ceiling, Congress, the White House and the country still do not have a clear path forward to avoid a cataclysmic default with just four days when both the House and Senate are scheduled to be in session before June 1, when the US could
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Schlachter, CNN Dogs taking over a front office, Josh Allen becoming a paperboy, and Angela from “The Office” starring alongside Peyton Manning can only mean one thing — the NFL schedule has just been released. The entire NFL 2023 season schedule was released on Thursday, and once again teams from across the league
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers Elon Musk has confirmed that the new CEO for Twitter, will be NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino, an executive with deep ties to the advertising industry. Musk said that Yaccarino “will focus primarily on business operations” while he plans to center on product design and new technology at
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Dolly Parton took a moment during the 2023 ACM Awards to remember two of her friends. The superstar singer, who co-hosted the awards show with fellow country star Garth Brooks, paid honor to Loretta Lynn and Naomi Judd, who both died in 2022. Parton sang an a cappella version of
Continue ReadingCNN, SPECTRUM NEWS NY1, WCBS By Steve Almasy, John Miller and Kara Scannell, CNN Daniel Penny, a US Marine veteran who held homeless street artist Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York subway train earlier this month, has surrendered to police to face a second-degree manslaughter charge. Penny, 24, left the police
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN “STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie” is a remarkable accomplishment, making brilliant use of film clips to seamlessly illustrate and augment reenactments and the actor’s narration of his story, having spent more than 30 years living with Parkinson’s disease. Nostalgic without becoming overly sentimental, it’s an ode to Fox’s life,
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN As the stalemate over addressing the debt ceiling continues and the threat of default looms larger, President Joe Biden has resurfaced the controversial idea of using the 14th Amendment as a way to lift the borrowing cap without Congress. How could a 145-year-old change to the US Constitution that gave citizenship
Continue ReadingZURICH (AP) — A FIFA fund to compensate for unpaid wages helped 225 players in the latest round of payments. The governing body of soccer says 61 were with clubs in Portugal and 50 in Greece. The $16 million FIFA Fund for Football Players was created in 2020 with the FIFPRO player union. Some clubs
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French authorities say a French citizen and another holding dual French-Irish nationality have been freed from an Iranian prison. Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said Friday that Benjamin Briere and Bernard Phelan, who both had been held in a prison in Mashhad, in northeast Iran, were heading to
Continue ReadingBy JAMES ROBSON AP Soccer Writer MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford could miss Saturday’s game against Wolverhampton with a leg injury. That could hurt the team’s chances of earning a Champions League place. United manager Erik ten Hag says it is “more than doubtful” his leading scorer would be available for
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is heading toward presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. President Recep Tayyip has dominated Turkish politics over the past two decades. But he has never appeared more vulnerable to an opposition challenge. The president has tightened his grip on power and steered the country toward
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The fight between NASCAR and its teams over a new revenue model led the owners of 16 organizations to send a letter to NASCAR’s board of directors asking for “meaningful dialog” regarding the franchise model system. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the
Continue ReadingFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — McDonald’s and a franchise holder are at fault after a hot Chicken McNugget from a Happy Meal fell on a little girl’s leg and caused second-degree burns, a jury in South Florida found in a case reminiscent of the famous hot coffee lawsuit of the 1990s. A second jury will
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Just ahead of what could be a record-breaking summer travel season, pilots from one of the nation’s biggest airlines marched in picket lines at major airports on Friday as they push for higher pay. The United Airlines pilots have been working without a raise for more
Continue ReadingBRIENZ, Switzerland (AP) — Stragglers packed up belongings in cars, trucks and a least one pickup truck before a looming deadline on Friday to evacuate a village in eastern Switzerland that is facing an urgent rockslide threat. About 2 million cubic meters of rock on an Alpine mountainside overhead could soon come crashing down. As
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Daniel Penny, un ex infante de la Marina de EE.UU., que estranguló al artista callejero sin hogar Jordan Neely a bordo de un tren subterráneo de Nueva York a principios de este mes, se entregó a las autoridades este viernes por la mañana. Penny fue acusado de homicidio sin premeditación,
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