By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A world of hair, makeup and manicurists have been idled by the Hollywood strikes at a time when they were still rebuilding from the covid shutdowns. And many don’t have a Plan B. In more than a dozen interviews with The Associated Press, many fear
Continue ReadingBy TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Some private insurers are balking at paying for the first drug fully approved to slow mental decline in Alzheimer’s patients. Insurers selling coverage in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New York, among other states, told The Associated Press they won’t cover Leqembi with insurance offered on the individual market and
Continue ReadingBy Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services has suspended research studies involving human subjects at a psychiatric institute affiliated with Columbia University after the suicide of a research participant, according to research documents. A spokesperson for HHS told CNN on Thursday the agency’s Office for Human Research
Continue ReadingBy RAF CASERT and MARK CARLSON Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium has a century-old fling with surrealism and is always proud to flaunt it. This year they’re combining it with an annual flower show in Brussels. At the heart of Flowertime is a pipe — a reference to Rene Magritte’s pipe on canvas, subtitled,
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Death from extreme heat once typically struck scorching locations such as Death Valley. Today, no place seems immune from deadly temperatures. While heat can kill, it also endangers health by making existing conditions worse, said Dr. Prabu Selvam, emergency medical officer at Americares, a health-focused relief and development nonprofit
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — A self-conscious effort to build a spy franchise around Gal Gadot, “Heart of Stone” plays like a poor woman’s “Mission: Impossible,” mostly thwarting even its star’s Wonder-ful charisma. Despite solid action moments scattered over its two hours, this Netflix movie plays like an inoffensive but lifeless addition to
Continue ReadingCNN Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — A self-conscious effort to build a spy franchise around Gal Gadot, “Heart of Stone” plays like a poor woman’s “Mission: Impossible,” mostly thwarting even its star’s Wonder-ful charisma. Despite solid action moments scattered over its two hours, this Netflix movie plays like an inoffensive but lifeless addition
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Lincoln Center will present about 60 performances from September through late February, including the U.S. premiere of Les Arts Florissants’ new staging of Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen” and Turtle Island Quartet’s “Island Prayers.” “The Fairy Queen” production, directed by Mourad Merzouki, opens on Aug. 19 at William Christie’s Festival Dans les
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — China’s plans to build a new embassy near the Tower of London have stalled following local opposition to what would be the biggest diplomatic compound in Britain. The borough of Tower Hamlets, the local government council responsible for the area, blocked the project in February, citing concerns
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say Russia fired missiles at western Ukraine that killed an 8-year-old boy. The child died on Friday in a region of Ukraine located some 100 kilometers, about 60 miles, from the Polish border. However, local officials in Kyiv say Ukrainian air
Continue ReadingSARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A man in Bosnia shot and killed his ex-wife while streaming the slaying live on Instagram and then killed two other people while on the run before taking his own life Friday, according to police and media reports. The attack took place in the northeastern Bosnian town of Gradacac, where the
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s plan to house asylum seekers on a barge that’s moored off the south coast of England has run into another hurdle as authorities were forced to evacuate the first residents after legionella bacteria was found in the water system. The development on Friday came just days
Continue ReadingBy Elliott Gotkine, CNN Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — Almost every weekend for more than 30 weeks, tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv to protest against government plans to weaken the judiciary and chip away at the independence of the Supreme Court. Among those protesters marching up Kaplan
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin said that he has been thinking “seriously” about leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an independent. The West Virginia lawmaker, who has raised his national profile as a swing vote on major spending packages in the closely divided U.S. Senate, made the comments on MetroNews “Talkline” on
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — A Paris prosecutor has opened a preliminary judicial investigation for unvoluntary manslaughter aggravated by breach of safety rules after a fire left 11 dead at a vacation home housing adults with disabilities in eastern France. Wednesday’s fire killed 10 adults with slight intellectual disabilities and one person accompanying them. The judicial investigation
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States picked up in July yet still suggested that inflationary pressures have eased this year since reaching alarming heights in 2022. The producer price index — which measures inflation before it hits consumers— rose 0.8% last month from July 2022. The
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Swiss taxpayers are off the hook from a government-engineered rescue plan that doled out billions to help UBS, the country’s largest bank, take over its ailing rival Credit Suisse. UBS said Friday that it’s shut down state support that had made available up to $230 billion to
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Minneapolis (CNN) — US wholesale inflation rose more than expected in July, reversing a yearlong cooling trend, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The Producer Price Index, which tracks the average change in prices that businesses pay to suppliers, rose 0.8% annually. That’s above June’s upwardly revised increase of 0.2%
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle or Balmoral might be the first places that come to mind when you think of British royal family homes. However, there is another royal dwelling, situated on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park in the southwestern Welsh county of Carmarthenshire, that might
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Severe floods in China’s northern province of Hebei brought by the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri this month killed at least 29 people and caused tens of billions in economic losses. Official news agency Xinhua reported that rescue crews were still searching for 16 missing people as of Thursday and the province’s reconstruction
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