By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It may be time to get out those fairytale ballgowns. The theme of the next Met Gala has been unveiled: It’s “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Wednesday revealed the theme of its spring 2024 exhibit, which
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) — A Republican candidate who refused to denounce a local Moms for Liberty Chapter that used a quote by Adolf Hitler in a newsletter earlier this year has won the election for mayor of Carmel, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis. While Sue Finkam condemned the use of
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The Environmental Center’s Garden for Every School program has announced that its annual garden grants are open and accepting applications for school garden projects.
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Los tres pandas gigantes dan vueltas en su recinto en el Zoológico Nacional Smithsonian en Washington, masticando brotes y hojas de bambú, trepando ramas y, en general, luciendo adorables. Para el flujo constante de visitantes, fue la última oportunidad de ver a Tian Tian, Mei Xiang y su cachorro
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Putting together a collection of Bush’s greatest hits was relatively easy. Convincing frontman Gavin Rossdale to do it was harder. He thought it sounded like a farewell. Rossdale relented and that’s why we have “Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023,” a 21-song set that includes such
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Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Gwyneth Paltrow has been on a bit of an acting hiatus, but she has a former costar who may be able to lure her back to set. In an interview with “Entertainment Tonight” this week, Paltrow revealed who that would be. “Well, it would be very hard for
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has expressed disappointment with election results that allowed Democrats to take control of both the Virginia House and Senate, but pledged to work with the party’s new legislative majority on bipartisan priorities. Youngkin struck an optimistic tone as he told reporters gathered
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has announced he will require private concessionary railway companies to offer passenger service. If the companies refuse, the government will schedule its own trains on tracks that are currently used almost exclusively to carry freight. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has denied any notion that his decree, to be
Continue ReadingBy JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A Texas businessman at the center of the scandal that led to the historic impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton has been charged with additional federal crimes. The new indictment of Nate Paul alleges that he defrauded business partners. It adds to earlier charges that the
Continue ReadingBy ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s intelligence agency has claimed responsibility for a car bombing that killed a member of the Russia-backed authority in the illegally annexed Luhansk region. Mikhail Filiponenko was a member of the local legislature and previously served as police chief. He survived a car bombing in February
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Citibank illegally discriminated against Armenian Americans for years by singling them out on credit card applications based on their surnames, a federal regulator alleged on Wednesday. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that from at least 2015 through 2021, Citi “targeted” retail services credit card applicants whom employees associated
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Retail pharmacy workers have told CNN that their employers have left them severely overworked and understaffed. These harsh working conditions, they say, make it difficult to safely fill prescriptions, which could put the health of their customers at risk. Now a formal unionization effort, backed by the
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Washington (CNN) — Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester is set to retire from her post next year, the bank announced Wednesday. Mester, one of the US central bank’s most “hawkish” voices, is finishing her term on June 30, 2024. Hawkish is a term used to
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press After Ohio voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment protecting the right to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care, advocates on both sides of the issue are looking at how they can get support on 2024 ballots in at least a dozen states. Since the U.S. Supreme Court
Continue ReadingBy KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Citigroup intentionally discriminated against Armenian Americans when they applied for credit cards, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Wednesday. According to the agency, Citibank argued internally that Armenians were more likely to commit fraud and referred to applicants as “bad guys” or affiliated with organized
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving vehicle subsidiary, has recalled all 950 of its autonomous vehicles for a software update. Late last month, Cruise paused all its public testing operations while it investigated the incident that led to the recall. GM had announced Monday that it was pausing production of test
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The owners of a Colorado funeral home were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma on charges linked to the discovery of 190 sets of decaying remains at one of their facilities, including some that apparently had been languishing there for four years. Investigators entered
Continue ReadingBy Hayley Crombleholme Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO, Florida (WESH) — A former teacher at an Orlando Christian school is facing charges, including sexual activity with a 16 or 17-year-old by a school authority figure, after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student for years. The former teacher, Harriet
Continue ReadingBy Gul Tuysuz and Christian Edwards, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Ukraine said it was responsible for the assassination of a Russia-backed official with a car bomb in the occupied eastern city of Luhansk on Wednesday. Mikhail Filiponenko, a lawmaker in the Kremlin-installed assembly, was a former head of the army of the so-called Luhansk People’s
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