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Year: 2024

Inside Kamala Harris’ quiet effort to break through the Biden campaign’s information bubble

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — For some, it’s been a conversation off to the side at the White House congressional holiday party. Others have gathered at actress Eva Longoria’s house in Los Angeles. Still more have huddled on Air Force Two or gathered for a series of Saturday sessions and dinners that Vice President Kamala Harris

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‘Oppenheimer’ wins 7 prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Atom bomb epic “Oppenheimer” won seven prizes, including best picture, director and actor, at the 77th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, cementing its front-runner status for the Oscars next month. Gothic fantasia “Poor Things” took five prizes and Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest” won three.

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US condemns Rwanda’s support of armed M23 rebels in eastern Congo and calls for troop withdrawal

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The U.S. has condemned Rwanda’s support of the armed M23 group in eastern Congo, whose rebellion has caused the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, and called on the rebel group to “cease hostilities.” The U.S. State Department in a statement Saturday strongly criticized “the worsening violence … caused by

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‘Jawbreaker’ is turning 25, but the film’s costumes still represent iconic teen fashion

By Scarlett Harris, CNN (CNN) — “A makeover can’t hide the truth,” laments Rebecca Gayheart’s character Julie in the cult classic “Jawbreaker,” which celebrates its 25th anniversary on February 19. But the film’s candy-colored fashion certainly hides the rot at the core of its plot, which follows members of “the Flawless Four” — high school

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Ukrainian soldiers will soon be able to have children from beyond the grave

By Svitlana Vaslova, Joseph Ataman and Victoria Butenko, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — When Natalia Kyrkach-Antonenko’s husband Vitalii was killed on the frontlines fighting Russia, she was 13 weeks pregnant with their daughter, Vitalina. Despite his death, Kyrkach-Antonenko found some new meaning, hope and purpose with the birth of their child. “My child is my whole life now.

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Israel vows to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza as War Cabinet member threatens a Ramadan deadline for Rafah

By WAFAA SHURAFA, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday brushed off growing calls to halt the military offensive in Gaza, vowing to “finish the job” as a member of his War Cabinet threatened to invade the southern city of Rafah if remaining

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Estados Unidos amenaza con vetar nueva resolución de cese del fuego en Gaza en el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU

Sofía Barruti (CNN) —  La embajadora de Estados Unidos ante las Naciones Unidas, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, advirtió que si la resolución propuesta por Argelia que pide un alto el fuego humanitario en Gaza se sometiera a votación en el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU tal como está redactada, no sería adoptada por Washington. En una

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Hungary’s government declines offer to meet US senators seeking approval for Sweden’s NATO bid

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators has made an official visit to Hungary’s capital to call on the nationalist government to immediately approve Sweden’s request to join NATO. Hungary is the only one of NATO’s 31 members not to have ratified Sweden’s bid. The visiting senators

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La conmoción y la tristeza reemplazan la euforia del Super Bowl en Kansas City, una semana después del gran partido

Sofía Barruti (CNN) —  Fuera del exterior de piedra caliza de la centenaria Union Station en el extremo sur del centro de la ciudad, una ligera nevada lavó la sangre seca del pavimento. La euforia que invadió esta ciudad después de las victorias consecutivas de sus queridos Chiefs en el Super Bowl ahora parecía un

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