Disney has a long history of dog movies — “Old Yeller” still gets you every time — and dips back into that well with “Togo,” a hard-to-resist movie for Disney+. Willem Dafoe plays the man in this fact-based story about the famous Alaska serum run, but it’s a Siberian husky who steals the show and
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Click here for updates on this story Seattle, WA (The Seattle Medium) — Just last week, Mary Wesley, owner of Flowers Just-4-U, found herself in a quagmire. She was two months behind in her rent, and received a 14-day eviction notice from her landlord. Wesley, who is in her 70s and has been in business
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President Donald Trump has fulminated over House Democrats’ impeachment efforts — and repeatedly taken aim at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — though in 2008, he suggested it would have been “a wonderful thing” had the speaker pursued impeachment against then-President George W. Bush over the Iraq War. In an October 2008 interview with CNN’s Wolf
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Boeing will halt production on its bestselling jet next month. That’s bad news for the American economy. The aircraft manufacturer Tuesday announced its decision to stop building the 737 Max jet, which has been grounded worldwide since March following two fatal accidents within five months. The 737 Max is by far Boeing’s most in-demand plane.
Continue Reading “A Christmas Carol” remains one of the most oft-adapted stories in literature, and there have been numerous attempts to do something different with it. Few, however, have gone as dark or dreary as a new three-part production from the BBC, which FX is presenting as one (very) long movie that should be of interest to
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(CNN) — “Cats” no es el desastre absoluto que algunos temían, o esperaban perversamente, pero no es buena, ya que ofrece una adaptación mayormente incoherente del famoso musical. Una lista ecléctica de estrellas que logra algunos pocos buenos momentos, pero lo que respecta a experiencias cinematográficas, este es un recuerdo que es mejor olvidar. Para
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Optimism over a “phase one” trade deal between the United States and China is pushing stocks to record highs in the final days of the year. But Wall Street banks still believe trade is one of the biggest risks for markets in 2020. That theme, which drove markets in 2019, seems hard to shake. Although
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When director Rian Johnson visited Ireland’s Skellig Michael, where Luke Skywalker made his self-imposed exile in “The Last Jedi,” the craggy island was so overrun with puffins he had to take care not to step on them. Instantly he knew the island, called Ahch-To in the film, would also be home to the Star Wars
Continue Reading Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, one of President Donald Trump’s most visible allies on Capitol Hill, is not seeking reelection in 2020, he announced in a statement Thursday. “After prayerful consideration and discussion with family, today I’m announcing that my time serving Western North Carolina in Congress will come to a close at the end of
Continue Reading For eight years, Kati Morton, a mental health expert, has used YouTube to discuss sensitive issues ranging from eating disorders to anxiety. But Morton’s own well-being took a hit from the demands of her work on the platform. At one point, she was uploading videos five times per week while maintaining her day job as
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Watching television makes viewers more likely to prefer thinner female bodies, a new study shows. Scientists measured the relationship between TV consumption and body preferences among people from a number of remote villages in Nicaragua, in Central America. While those who had very limited access to TV preferred women with a higher Body Mass Index
Continue Reading Nice to see everyone, now get out of my house. So you made the mistake of inviting everyone over to your place for a holiday gathering. But now it’s late and you want to go to bed. No one is getting the hint. Big giant yawns and mentioning the time aren’t working. Ryan Reynolds has
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Residents have less than a month to give their input on the name of a new El Paso park. The park will be on the city’s east side at 13501 Jason Crandall Drive. The first phase is set to open in 2020 and once it’s fully developed it will be the largest city-owned park. The
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No expense was spared. A $50 billion statement of intent that in hosting the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Russia was back as a major player on the sporting stage. Four years later, Russia staged another landmark spectacle in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Billions of eyeballs on Russia during a month-long jamboree of soccer. Such
Continue Reading Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his annual news conference Thursday that US President Donald Trump’s impeachment was based on “made-up reasons,” and expressed doubts that Trump will be removed from power. The House of Representatives voted almost exactly along party lines Wednesday to impeach Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump
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Herman Boone, the tough, no-nonsense high school football coach played by Denzel Washington in “Remember the Titans,” has died. He was 84. Boone was the former head coach of the T.C. Williams High School 1971 championship football team in Alexandria, Virginia. Boone passed away Wednesday after a battle with cancer, surrounded by friends and family,
Continue Reading Shortly after midnight Pacific time on October 6, 2010, a new app built by a small team went live on Apple’s App Store. Right away, they noticed people abroad signing up for the app, called Instagram; by 6 a.m. the startup was so overwhelmed with traffic that its servers reportedly melted down. Instagram racked up
Continue Reading An eight-year-old boy who reviews toys on YouTube has been named by Forbes as the platform’s highest earner in 2019. Ryan Kaji, whose channel Ryan’s World has 22.9 million subscribers, earned $26 million in 2019 — up $4 million from his earnings in 2018, when he also gained the highest-earning YouTuber spot. Forbes estimates that
Continue Reading (CNN) — La presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, no se comprometió el miércoles a enviar los cargos de juicio político al Senado, diciendo en una conferencia de prensa posterior a la votación de juicio político: “Esa habría sido nuestra intención, pero veremos qué sucede”. Algunos progresistas han instado a los líderes demócratas
Continue Reading 2019 was another bruising year for many American retailers, despite healthy consumers and a strong economy. This year, US retailers announced 9,302 store closings, a 59% jump from 2018 and the highest number since Coresight Research began tracking the data in 2012. Bankruptcies in the retail sector intensified this year and many struggling chains cut
Continue Reading IAC is consciously uncoupling with its stable of dating websites and apps. Match Group, which owns Match.com and popular dating apps Tinder and Hinge, is being spun off from IAC’s remaining websites. IAC, the tech and media holding company that owns a controlling stake in Match, originally announced it intended to spin off Match earlier
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Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was on his way out of office when he dropped a huge batch of pardons and commutations of sentences of hundreds of Kentuckians. Bevin’s final actions in office didn’t become public until the Louisville Courier Journal reported on the high volume of pardons. Governors and presidents pardon people throughout their
Continue Reading Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was on his way out of office when he dropped a huge batch of pardons and commutations of sentences of hundreds of Kentuckians. Bevin’s final actions in office didn’t become public until the Louisville Courier Journal reported on the high volume of pardons. Governors and presidents pardon people throughout their
Continue Reading After a long-awaited ruling from a US appeals court on the fate of the Affordable Care Act, this much is clear: the wait will only be longer, and uncertainty over the future of the law that provided new coverage for millions of Americans will only linger. The New Orleans-based court ruled unconstitutional the individual insurance
Continue Reading The Transportation Security Administration estimates 42 million passengers will go through security checkpoints across the country this holiday season — and that means you need to plan ahead. The traffic from December 15 to January 5 will see an increase of 3.9% from last year, according to a TSA news release. That volume increase could
Continue Reading UK regulators are looking into the unauthorized use of audio feeds from Bank of England press conferences that could have given traders access to market-sensitive remarks by policymakers seconds before the rest of the world. The Bank of England said Thursday that an audio feed of some of its press conferences had been leaked to
Continue Reading Happy Thursday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. After nearly five years of negative interest rates, the oldest central bank in the world has had enough. Sweden’s Riksbank hiked its key interest rate back to 0% on Thursday,
Continue Reading Over the weekend, Ryan Matthews — a loving dad, husband and a “gentle giant,” as his family describes him — graduated college. Fifteen years ago, such a joyous occasion seemed unlikely. Matthews was a death row inmate in Louisiana. After he was exonerated and released, he set out to rebuild a life after death row.
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Samuel Little has been drawing sketches of the dozens of the women he confessed to killing over several decades. Authorities in Mississippi are now asking for the public’s help identifying two of the women he says he killed after picking them up in the Gulfport area. The Harrison County Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi released a
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