CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Panthers have picked up the fifth-year option in defensive lineman Derrick Brown’s contract, keeping him with the team through the 2024 season. The deal will pay Brown $11.66 million for the 2024 season. The Panthers didn’t pick up the fifth-year option in cornerback C.J. Henderson’s contract. Brown was the
Continue ReadingTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s president has told visiting ex-U.S. national security adviser John Bolton that her country is willing to deepen cooperation with the U.S. and “other like-minded partners” to safeguard peace, as the self-governed island faces increasing military threats from China. President Tsai Ing-wen also expressed hopes to Bolton, a potential Republican presidential
Continue ReadingBy TERRY TANG Associated Press Six months after she was immortalized with a U.S. quarter, Asian American Hollywood trailblazer Anna May Wong has received another accolade affirming her icon status — her own Barbie. Mattel announced Monday the release of an Anna May Wong doll for Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month. The figure
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN The greatest heroism often resides in the actions of ordinary people in extraordinary situations and times, and so it is with “A Small Light,” which tells the story of Anne Frank through the eyes of Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide her and her family. Slow starting at eight
Continue ReadingCNN Review by Brian Lowry, CNN The greatest heroism often resides in the actions of ordinary people in extraordinary situations and times, and so it is with “A Small Light,” which tells the story of Anne Frank through the eyes of Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide her and her family. Slow starting at
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN Watergate meets “Veep” in “White House Plumbers,” an at-times-surreal HBO limited series that occasionally feels a little too over the top, mostly because the real-life characters actually were. At its best, it’s a lightweight companion to “All the President’s Men,” presenting the flip side of all that planning and frantic
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Stefanos Tsitsipas came through in the clutch moments to earn a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 win over 31st-ranked Sebastian Baez and secure a spot in the last 16 of the Madrid Open. Daniil Medvedev also advanced after twice rallying from a break down in the last set
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have celebrated 35 years of marriage with a heartfelt post on social media. “35 years of marriage. April 30, 1988. Love is everything,” Wilson wrote in a post on Twitter and Instagram. Hollywood actor Hanks and actor, singer and film producer Wilson have two children, Chet
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN A year after filing for divorce from her now ex-husband Billy Ray Cyrus, congratulations are in order for Tish Cyrus. Over the weekend, she shared the news of her engagement to “Prison Break” actor Dominic Purcell. “A thousand times…. YES,” read the caption on a pair of photos of Cyrus
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Accionistas de Adidas presentaron una demanda colectiva contra la marca, acusándola de no advertir a los inversores sobre el antisemitismo y el “comportamiento extremo” exhibido por Ye, el rapero anteriormente conocido como Kanye West, antes de que terminara su asociación el año pasado. En la demanda, presentada el viernes en
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Designer Karl Lagerfeld said many provocative things during a career that lasted more than half a century. But the new spring fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, launched by Monday’s splashy Met Gala, focuses on Lagerfeld’s work, not his words. The gallery walls
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who was experiencing premature labor put her life in jeopardy and violated federal law, a first-of-its-kind investigation by the federal government has found. The findings, revealed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, are
Continue ReadingBy ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press OMMEREN, Netherlands (AP) — An officially sanctioned hunt for a stash of precious jewelry looted by the Nazis during World War II and purportedly buried in a sleepy Dutch village has — like many previous searches — failed to unearth any treasure. Archeologists and historians called into
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in a department store’s dressing room two decades before he became president acknowledged Monday that she never followed her own advice to readers that they report sexual attacks to police. E. Jean Carroll told
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump has traveled to Scotland to open a new golf course at his resort near Aberdeen. Trump and his son Eric were greeted on Monday by two pipers, a red carpet and a 10-vehicle motorcade as they stepped off his private jet with an American flag painted on
Continue ReadingBy Natasha O’Neill/CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Could artificial intelligence help us grieve lost loved ones by recreating their voices and likeness after death? Tech experts and grief therapists are debating that idea after a suggestion that technology designed to emulate dead people could soon be
Continue ReadingCNN By Gabe Cohen, CNN Desperate to find educators amid a nationwide shortage, an Arizona school district is breaking ground on an unusual recruitment tool: tiny homes for teachers. Chino Valley Unified School District is using federal money to build 10 studio units, each 400 square feet, on a vacant lot behind an elementary school,
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones/CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Almost half of Canadians reported that they didn’t use all their vacation days in 2022, with more than half says that they feel deprived of vacation time, according to a new report. The data comes from the 2023
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Adidas shareholders filed a class-action lawsuit against the brand, accusing it of failing to warn investors about the antisemitism and “extreme behavior” exhibited by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, before their partnership ended last year. In the lawsuit, filed Friday in a federal court, shareholders allege that Adidas
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Headlines were bleak when results from the test known as the “Nation’s Report Card” came out last year. Local newspapers around the country documented their districts’ declining scores. Editorials warned that US schools had failed students during the pandemic. Officials described the exam as an alarming wake-up call. But one
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