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Month: June 2023

Teacher allegedly posed as 17-year-old on social media to get photos, videos from teens

By WPVI Digital Staff and Bryanna Gallagher Click here for updates on this story     LOWER MERION TWP., Pennsylvania (WPVI) — A teacher in Lower Merion was arrested for allegedly enticing minors to engage in illicit sexual contact on social media. Officials say that 31-year-old Jeremy Schobel of Philadelphia created fake social media profiles to obtain

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Fernandez and Townsend beat Gauff and Pegula to reach French Open women’s doubles final

PARIS (AP) — Leylah Fernandez and Taylor Townsend reached the women’s doubles final at the French Open by beating second-seeded Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula 6-0, 6-4. The Canadian-American pair will face unseeded Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan and Wang Xinyu of China in Sunday’s final. Hsieh and Wang upset sixth-seeded Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez

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Putin says Russian tactical nuclear weapons to be deployed to Belarus next month

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Moscow will deploy some of its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus next month, a move that the Belarusian opposition described as an attempt to blackmail the West. Putin said during Friday’s meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that work on building facilities for the nuclear weapons

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‘Flamin’ Hot’ tells a chips-to-riches story in Eva Longoria’s feature directing debut

CNN Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — First-time directors rarely overshadow their stars, but Eva Longoria’s narrative feature debut serves as the main headline around “Flamin’ Hot,” a crowd-pleasing, chips-to-riches story (how true it is having been the subject of debate) premiering in the crowd-free environs of Disney+ and Hulu. Playfully presented, it’s the

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‘Flamin’ Hot’ tells a chips-to-riches story in Eva Longoria’s feature directing debut

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — First-time directors rarely overshadow their stars, but Eva Longoria’s narrative feature debut serves as the main headline around “Flamin’ Hot,” a crowd-pleasing, chips-to-riches story (how true it is having been the subject of debate) premiering in the crowd-free environs of Disney+ and Hulu. Playfully presented, it’s the kind

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Erdogan’s new central bank chief signals hope for Turkey’s economic turnaround

By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president has appointed a former U.S.-based bank executive to head the central bank. The appointment Friday is sending the strongest signal yet that Recep Tayyip Erdogan might pivot from his unusual economic policies that many blame for a worsening cost-of-living crisis. The 41-year-old Erkan is

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