By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — LGBTQ dating app Grindr ended its remote work policies and forced employees to relocate. Nearly half of its staff left. In early August, Grindr announced a return-to-office mandate. The policy gave workers two weeks to choose between relocating to their respective team’s newly assigned “hub” city to
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities say they plan to reopen the main commercial crossing to Gaza after it was closed earlier this week, harming producers across the embattled territory. They say the crossing will be reopened on Sunday. It was closed on Monday because Israel said explosives were found in
Continue ReadingBy Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — One day you’re in, the next you’re… showing at New York Fashion Week. During the finale episode of “Project Runway: All Stars,” which aired Thursday night, the show’s judging panel awarded the big win to Baltimore, Maryland-based designer Bishme Cromartie. Cromartie, who previously competed on the show’s 17th ‘regular’
Continue ReadingBy Danny Freeman, Kelly McCleary, Ray Sanchez, Samantha Beech and Brynn Gingras, CNN (CNN) — The police officer who fatally shot Eddie Irizarry during a traffic stop last month was charged with murder, the Philadelphia district attorney said Friday after releasing body camera footage of the”extremely violent” encounter. The unedited footage shows Officer Mark Dial
Continue ReadingBy Jon Kipper Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — A Black man in Holly Hills tells First Alert 4 that he’s had his house vandalized and has been verbally attacked with racial epithets. He also lives two doors down from a church that was vandalized by ‘White Lives Matter’
Continue ReadingBy SIAN WATSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Beloved British electronic duo the Chemical Brothers released their tenth album on Friday, arriving over three decades into their career. But does it get any easier with time? Not according to one half of the outfit, Tom Rowlands. “I think it’s just more complicated,” he told The
Continue ReadingBy Arielle Argel Click here for updates on this story Lahaina, Hawai’i (KITV) — As Lahaina students temporarily learn in new schools in other parts of the island, they are placed into new environments. This is on — top of dealing with the massive change they’ve already had to go through, after the wildfires. The
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Life appears to be smelling pretty sweet for Johnny Depp these days. The 60-year-old actor stars in a new ad for the Dior fragrance, Sauvage. In the ad, you hear Depp saying, “The blazing sun high in the ozone blue sky. A trail of cold wind stirs a
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say an employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence service and an acquaintance have been charged with treason for allegedly passing secret documents to Russia. The intelligence officer was arrested in Berlin last December. The second suspect is a self-employed German businessman. He was arrested at Munich airport
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS announced on Friday it is launching an effort to aggressively pursue 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes. IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said that with a boost in federal funding and the help of
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is making a new digital ad buy highlighting former President Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates’ hardline abortion stances, according to a Biden campaign aide, as the campaign looks to find its footing in the 2024 race. The latest push to spotlight Republican
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Spanish climate activists sprayed red paint across a superyacht owned by billionaire Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie in Barcelona on Friday, the second time the yacht has been the target of protests in the past two months. Two activists from the climate groups Scientist Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion accessed
Continue ReadingBy Kathryn Doorey Click here for updates on this story HILO, Hawaii (KITV) — Hawai‘i Island police have arrested a teen for making threats via social media. The 17-year-old was arrested and charged with second-degree terroristic threatening after a reported threat he made using social media towards a Waiākea High School student in Hilo. The
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese judicial officials say authorities in Beirut have questioned two people at Turkey’s request on suspicion of being involved in the 2019 escape of auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn from Japan to Lebanon. The news came a week before a hearing over the $1 billion lawsuit that former
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — “Virgin River” is back with a new season on Netflix. The series, follows Mel, a heartbroken nurse played by Alexandra Breckenridge, who moves from Los Angeles to a fictional Nothern California town to start over after the death of her husband Mark (Daniel Gillies), (Spoilers ahead.) Viewers of the
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Mark-Paul Gosselaar says it can be hard to watch outdated episodes of “Saved by the Bell.” Gosselaar, who played Zack Morris on the series, joined the “Pod Meets World” podcast, where he cited some scenes in the ’90s teen sitcom that particularly bother him. He said that in the
Continue ReadingFRANKFORT, Ind. (AP) — A man who fatally shot a former girlfriend and her grandmother outside an Indiana automotive seating plant was sentenced to 110 years in prison. The judge called the killings “brutal and heinous.” Gary Ferrell II was sentenced Thursday. He had avoided a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to two murder
Continue ReadingBy Denise Pridgen Click here for updates on this story CHEROKEE, North Carolina (WLOS) — The polls on the Qualla Boundary have closed and members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians voted overwhelmingly in favor of legalizing marijuana for recreational use. The unofficial 2,464 to 1,057 vote Thursday does not directly legalize marijuana use
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Although the final episode aired 10 months ago, “The Walking Dead” was too valuable a commodity for AMC to let the franchise actually die. Instead, the network has splintered off various limbs under that banner, with “Dead City” now followed by “Daryl Dixon,” a slightly undernourished showcase for
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Students and teachers are sweltering in public schools across Puerto Rico and demanding that the government install air conditioners as the U.S. Caribbean territory bakes under record heat this year. But the island’s governor quietly vetoed a bill last month that would authorize the
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