Gal Gadot is set to play another wonder of a woman. The “Wonder Woman” actress will produce and star in a film about a Christian woman who helped save Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust. According to Deadline, Gadot and her husband Jaron Varsano have teamed up with the production company Pilot Wave, with their
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The nightmare for gamers is over: Fortnite is back online with a new chapter. The hugely popular video game came back online Tuesday after a two-day outage while its next iteration was prepped. Users went into a panic Sunday afternoon when the landscape in the game blew up, dragging players into a black hole. They
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday challenged her Democratic primary rivals to release the names of contributors and fundraisers with influential positions on their campaigns, while pledging to champion legislation that would effectively disqualify big-dollar donors from being appointed to cushy diplomatic posts. The requests were written into a series of mostly new proposed campaign finance
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The climate crisis is going to raise the risk that Ebola will spread farther and reach areas previously unaffected by the virus, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The study found that the climate crisis will bring a 1.75 to 3.2-fold increase in the rate at which the deadly virus
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A 4.5 magnitude earthquake rocked California’s Bay Area on Monday. The epicenter of the seconds-long quake, which happened around 10:30 p.m., was in the Pleasant Hill area, less than 30 miles from San Francisco, according to the US Geological Survey. No injuries or significant damage were immediately reported, but residents felt light tremors as far
Continue Reading Yes, being President makes you the most powerful person in the world and puts you in the history books. But it’s also a multi-year commitment that forces you to essentially give up your personal life and any sense of privacy. Plus, it makes about half the country hate you. The Constitution only has three requirements
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Boxer Charles Conwell has written a poignant letter to Patrick Day, who is in a critical condition following their super-welterweight bout on Saturday, saying that he ‘never meant this to happen to you.” Day experienced a traumatic brain injury as a result of a 10th-round knockout his promoter, Lou DiBella, confirmed. The 27-year-old boxer underwent
Continue Reading According to Ronan Farrow’s new book, The National Enquirer’s top editor directed staffers to shred documents when the Wall Street Journal called for comment before publishing the first story about the Enquirer’s “catch and kill” relationship with Donald Trump. Farrow cites editor Dylan Howard as saying he needed to empty the safe and that the
Continue Reading If two political parties are going to continue to dominate US politics, it means only two people have any real chance in the presidential election every four years: the Republican and the Democrat. So while a lot of Americans express frustration with the system and say they’d like more options on Election Day, if a
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The City of El Paso’s Department of Public Health announced a man in his early 60s is the 16th person to be infected with the West Nile Virus this season. Officials said the man has an underlying medical condition. He was hospitalized, but has since been released. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Continue Reading The United States is a democracy, which means everyone gets to vote in US elections, right? Wrong. Who gets to participate and how easy it is for those voters to cast their ballots has been an ongoing fight since the Constitution was written. What exactly does the Constitution say about who gets to vote? Not
Continue Reading Floyd the mastiff went for a hike with his owner up the Grandeur Peak trail near Salt Lake City on Sunday. But when it was time to come down, Floyd was too exhausted and just sat down. Thanks to the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office search and rescue team, the 190-pound dog made it home
Continue Reading Hyundai does not intend to be left behind in the high-stakes race to build mass-market electric and self-driving cars. South Korea’s largest car company said Tuesday that it plans to invest 41 trillion won ($35 billion) into “future mobility technology” by 2025. That massive pledge puts it on par with some of the industry’s top
Continue Reading Air miles programs should be banned and a levy on frequent flyers implemented in order to reduce carbon emissions from aviation, according to new research. The measure is one of a number of recommendations from Richard Carmichael at Imperial College London, who published a report Thursday on how the UK can meet its target of
Continue Reading The Democratic National Committee warned presidential campaigns on Monday of “heightened disinformation and discourse manipulation activity” around the Democratic debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times. CNN has previously reported how Russian government-linked trolls were active online during debate nights in 2015 and 2016, but the DNC’s warning also included what it views
Continue Reading Was your Yahoo account among the 3 billion struck by multiple data breaches between 2013 and 2016? You might be eligible for a $358 payout or two years of free credit monitoring. If the settlement is approved by California courts, Yahoo could divvy up more than $117.5 million among users whose names, email addresses and
Continue Reading It’s completely unfair to the other 48 states, but Iowa and New Hampshire always get to pick first in the presidential primary process. It’s especially unfair since these two states are not representative of the United States. Like, at all. They both have small populations that are more than 90% white — whereas the US
Continue Reading President Donald Trump likes to brag that his 2016 victory was historically large — even though he lost the popular vote by about 3 million ballots, an inconvenient fact he explains away with wild and unfounded allegations of mass voter fraud. But a divisive presidency and a lack of support among independent voters doesn’t mean
Continue Reading With his arms outstretched and defiance in his eyes, Moise Kean’s celebration in front of the Cagliari fans that had been racially abusing him became one of the defining images of European football last season. After the incident, one of a growing number that have blighted Italian football in recent seasons, it felt as though
Continue Reading Chipotle will pay for its employees to get business or technology degrees at certain colleges, the company said Tuesday. The new program, which kicks off on November 15, is the restaurant chain’s latest effort to attract and retain talent in a highly competitive labor market. Employees who have been at the company for at least
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A seven-city tour to secure the future of funding for state and local parks is underway and pulled into the Franklin Mountains on Monday. Anna Farrell-Sherman is part of a group that is currently hiking their way through 13 parks to promote Proposition 5. Proposition 5 is a constitutional amendment to dedicate funds from the
Continue Reading Salma Hayek had a pointed response to hitting a milestone on Instagram. The actress/director posted a revealing photo of herself in celebration of having reached 12 million followers. Hayek is seen laying, apparently nude, with acupuncture needles in her back. The caption on the photo began “I’m very grateful to all of you for your
Continue Reading WeWork has a new problem: It’s taking 2,300 phone booths out of service at its rental offices in the United States and Canada because they may have elevated levels of the chemical formaldehyde. The startup said it performed tests on phone booths after a tenant complained of eye irritation and discovered “potentially elevated levels of
Continue Reading Former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden said he used “poor judgment” in serving on the board of a Ukrainian gas company because it has become a political liability for his father. “I did nothing wrong at all,” he said in an interview with ABC News recorded over the weekend at his home in
Continue Reading From “Big Little Lies” to a not-so-little role. Zoe Kravitz has reportedly been cast to play Catwoman opposite Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader in the eagerly awaited “Batman” film. The movie’s director, Matt Reeves, seemingly confirmed the reports in the same way he did when there were reports that Pattinson would play Batman — Reeves tweeted.
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Por tercer año consecutivo, España lidera el Informe Competitivo de Viajes y Turismo 2019 del Foro Económico Mundial. Y Barcelona es una de las grandes atracciones de viaje. Sin embargo, este lunes, cientos de viajeros no pudieron llegar —ni salir— de la capital de Cataluña. Las largas sentencias que dictó el Tribunal
Continue Reading Fiona Hill, President Donald Trump’s former top Russia adviser, raised concerns about Rudy Giuliani’s role in US foreign policy toward Ukraine, telling lawmakers on Monday that she saw “wrongdoing” in the American foreign policy and tried to report it to officials including the National Security Council’s attorney, according to multiple sources. “She saw wrongdoing related
Continue Reading Sub-Saharan Africa has, on average, the worst healthcare in the world, according to the World Bank. It accounts for nearly a quarter of all disability and death caused by disease worldwide, yet has only 1% of global health expenditure and 3% of the world’s health workers. Infrastructure is poor, making access to even the most
Continue Reading Next year’s recovery in the global economy will be slightly weaker than expected, and US growth will continue to slow, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. The IMF trimmed its global growth forecast for 2020 by 0.1 percentage points to 3.4%, saying that rising trade and geopolitical tensions had put economies in a “precarious” position.
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