Day: March 27, 2024

Kansas’ Republican-controlled legislature has advanced a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors to the governor’s desk. The Senate voted 27-13 on Wednesday after the House voted 82-39 earlier in the day to advance the measure. The measure now awaits a decision from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, who vetoed a similar measure last year. GOP lawmakers were then unable to…

The Republican operative who accused American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp of sexual assault last year received a significant financial settlement in exchange for dropping his lawsuit against Schlapp, multiple sources familiar with the case told CNN. The $480,000 settlement was paid to Carlton Huffman through an insurance policy, according to a source familiar with the details. Schlapp’s legal team did…

Congestion pricing is coming to New York soon with transit officials officially approving the toll structure at a hearing on Wednesday. The controversial plan, which advocates and lawmakers say will mitigate traffic and help fund repairs to key infrastructure, is the first of its kind for a major US city. New York City will soon…

The US Food and Drug Administration has settled a lawsuit over some of its posts about ivermectin, including what may have been one of its more popular pandemic-era social media campaigns. Related article ACLU sues on behalf of inmates who say they were given Ivermectin to treat Covid-19 without consent In August 2021, to discourage…

Sean “Diddy” Combs once traced his success back to a pair of shoes. One day, when he was a child, he asked his mother for a new pair of sneakers, but she couldn’t afford them. He recalled in a 2016 CNN interview that his mother almost began to cry upon hearing his request. That day,…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told a group of US members of Congress that “victory” in Gaza and “getting” Hamas’ senior leadership in the enclave are just “a few weeks away.” Speaking to a bipartisan group from Congress on Wednesday, Netanyahu said: “We’ve killed many senior leaders [of Hamas], including number four in Hamas,…

There are “reasonable grounds” to believe Israel is “committing the crime of genocide against the Palestinians as a group in Gaza,” the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories has said. Francesca Albanese made the remarks Wednesday following the submission of her latest report called “Anatomy of a Genocide” to the UN Human…

March 28, 2024 Today on CNN 10, we head to London where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues to performance extradition to the US in an effort to avoid espionage charges. We explain why his case is a performance between free speech and national security and what the UK High Court’s recent decision means. Then, we…

Christina Applegate is detailing the day-to-day adversities she faces living with multiple sclerosis, and how laughter and friendship are often the best medicine. “This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me in my entire life,” Applegate said on this week’s episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast. “I hate it so much and I’m…

One day after the Supreme Court heard arguments in the first abortion-related case since Roe v. Wade was overturned, retired Justice Stephen Breyer told CNN that the justices will be forced to consider abortion “more and more and more.” In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Breyer chided the conservative majority for believing that the “harmful”…

A Latino-focused internship program at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino now states the program is “equally open to students of all races and ethnicities” following a lawsuit settlement with the American Alliance for Equal Rights. The internship was the subject of a lawsuit against the director of the National Museum of the American…

Germany’s beloved sausage dog, the dachshund, could be under threat in the country, its national kennel club said Wednesday, citing a new draft law that looks to prohibit the breeding of dogs with “skeletal anomalies.” The draft bill, published in February and currently being considered by the authorities, was introduced as part of the Animal…

For sale: A brand new luxury electric SUV for the holy-grail price of $25,000. There just might be a slight catch. The California-based electric SUV company Fisker faces a real possibility of bankruptcy, and its stock is hovering just over 2 cents a share, far below its 2021 peak of $28.50. And even though production…

Yeehaw! Beyoncé’s new album is almost here. The singer revealed the tracklist for “Act 2: Cowboy Carter” on Instagram Wednesday. In addition to the already released singles “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages,” there are several other tracks, including a previously speculated cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” “Smoke Hour Willie Nelson,” “Dolly P” and “The…

The family members clutched each other and wailed as attendants pulled small bundles out of the funeral van. Remains so degraded that a handwritten card identified each victim of the cult. “I did not believe to see my people the way they are. The condition is very bad,” Francis Wanje told CNN. “It has been a…

It appears Caitlin Clark isn’t just getting interest from the WNBA. Clark, the Iowa Hawkeyes superstar projected to be the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA draft on April 15, has received an offer to join the Big3, a 3-on-3 professional basketball league founded by Ice Cube that has employed several former NBA players. The Big3 didn’t provide…

Kari Lake, a Republican Senate candidate from Arizona who has advanced election conspiracy theories, is asking a judge to decide whether she must pay damages to a top county election official who sued her for defamation – after opting not to defend her statements in the case. Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer last year sued…

American gamer and Twitch superstar, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, revealed he was diagnosed with melanoma, a form of skin cancer. The 32-year-old, who boasts 19 million Twitch followers, shared his diagnosis in a post on X on Tuesday. “I’m still in a bit of shock but want to keep you all updated,” he said in the…

A Paris apartment owned by the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has sold for €10 million ($10.8 million). The futuristic abode, which sits on the Seine River in central Paris with views of the Louvre, went under the hammer Tuesday morning, according to real estate broker Groupe Althémis, which sold the property. Located on Quai…

A years-long fight between Walt Disney and Florida is set to end after the two parties agreed to a settlement. In a meeting Wednesday morning members of the board of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, a body that governs the special tax district Disney is located in, approved a settlement to end a legal…

Seth Meyers and Kristen Stewart had a blast in a “Day Drinking” segment in New York. The two imbibed at Boxers NYC, where Stewart was put through a series of acting exercises with ridiculous lines like, “Your father, he’s had a fart attack.” Meyers and Stewart kicked the day off with a cocktails inspired by…

Talks over a hostage deal and a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas have reached another stalemate but are not over, according to three people familiar with the negotiations. A diplomat described the talks as “stuck but ongoing,” saying that there continues to be “proposals going back and forth.” A second source confirmed the parties are…

Editor’s Note: Tim Hubbard is an assistant professor of Management and Organization in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. Shortly after taking over Boeing from Dennis Muilenburg — who was fired for abysmal performance following two fatal 737 Max 8 crashes — David Calhoun said,…

The new Netflix series “3 Body Problem” isn’t really about China’s Cultural Revolution or US culture wars. The science fiction epic, adapted from Liu Cixin’s Hugo award-winning novel, is more concerned with big theoretical questions, like how humanity might respond to an impending extraterrestrial invasion. But that hasn’t stopped viewers from drawing parallels between the…

Two relatives of Israeli hostages abducted on October 7 were arrested during a protest outside the defense ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv Tuesday evening, according to one of the groups that participated. Protesters had gathered to voice their anger following media reports that an Israeli delegation holding indirect hostage negotiations with Hamas was leaving the…

North Korea’s state broadcaster, KCTV, has blurred out a pair of jeans worn by veteran British TV host Alan Titchmarsh as part of the country’s censorship of foreign fashion and culture. KCTV carried an episode of Titchmarsh’s show “Garden Secrets,” originally aired on the BBC in 2010, on Monday. At one point he can be…

Members of the Utah women’s basketball team have been left “deeply troubled and shaken” by what team officials called “hateful and disturbing” racial abuse ahead of their NCAA tournament opening game. The team has filed a police report and is now releasing more details of what it says occurred in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on Thursday…

More than 1 billion meals are wasted across the world each day while nearly 800 million people go hungry, a new United Nations report has found. The world wasted 1.05 billion metric tons of food in 2022, meaning about a fifth of the food available to people was squandered by households, restaurants and other parts…

Fallout for lawyers who assisted Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election is coming into focus this week, as one ex-lawyer for Trump will find if he may lose his law license and another attorney is in the middle of a disciplinary trial. John Eastman, a conservative law professor, and Jeffrey Clark,…

For many people, being diagnosed with breast cancer, and undergoing surgery, brings about a period of grief for the loss of their figure as they’ve known it — among other things. But Vanessa Gonzalez faced their double mastectomy with a calm certainty, and eventually even came to celebrate it. Gonzalez, who is nonbinary, told CNN…

Eva Mendes has opened up about her transition from actress to full-time mom to her kids with actor partner Ryan Gosling. “It was like a no-brainer,” the “Hitch” star said in an interview aired on NBC’s “Today” show on Tuesday. “I’m so lucky. And I was like, if I can have this time with my…

The Spanish day is famously long. Lunch doesn’t start until two in the afternoon. Work often ends after seven in the evening and dinner begins at half past eight, at the earliest. To the delight of some tourists keen to experience a different way of living, many restaurants close well after midnight, sending staff home…

A controversial Texas law that allows state officials to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally will remain blocked while legal challenges to it play out, a federal appeals court said Tuesday. In a 2-1 vote, the court said the law, known as SB 4, will continue to be blocked while…

Inflation has touched nearly everything these last few years — even Trader Joe’s 19-cent bananas. But Costco is holding the line on its hot dog-soda combo price. Costco’s hot dog deal, sold at its food courts, is still priced at $1.50 — exactly what it cost in 1985, before the Great Recession, the housing crisis,…

Attorneys for Hunter Biden and special counsel David Weiss are set for a courtroom showdown Wednesday over the future of his felony tax indictment. Weiss charged President Joe Biden’s son in December with nine tax offenses. Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers have since lodged several bids to throw out part or all of…

The FTC is investigating TikTok over alleged violations of children’s contact privacy rules that require companies to notify parents and obtain consent before collecting data from kids under 13. The probe presents another complication for the social media platform, which is already facing an existential threat in the US. Here’s what else you need to…

A Nigerian woman who wrote an contact review of a can of tomato puree is facing imprisonment after its manufacturer accused her of making a “malicious allegation” that damaged its business. Chioma Okoli, a 39-year-old entrepreneur from Lagos, is being prosecuted and sued in civil court for allegedly breaching the country’s cybercrime laws, in a case that has gripped the…

Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. She is a weekly opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a columnist for World Politics Review. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN. From the moment Vladimir Putin started…

Anthony Davis and Austin Reaves helped power the LeBron James-less Los Angeles Lakers to a furious fourth-quarter comeback and a 128-124 double-overtime road win against the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday. Trailing by as many as 19 points with eight minutes to go in the final frame, Davis and Reaves helped drag the Lakers back to…

After 48 games of the women’s tournament at March Madness, just four perfect brackets remain intact of more than four million entries, According to the NCAA, three brackets are left on ESPN while there is one on Yahoo. There were 1,300 perfect brackets heading into the second round and then just 18 after Monday’s games. And…

In Nashville, one year after a shooting at a private school took six lives, thousands will come together to honor victims of gun violence and provide a visible demonstration in support of reform. About 13,000 people are expected to form a four-mile human chain Wednesday beginning at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt where…