(CNN) — The artist Jeff Koons’ famous sculptures might look like they’re made from balloons — but the works are actually fragile, as one art fair attendee found out when she knocked over a $42,000 Koons piece Thursday, causing it to shatter. A blue balloon dog sculpture created by Koons broke into tiny shards when a visitor
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(CNN) — A man was taken into custody in connection with the shooting death of a Catholic bishop renowned for his work as a community “peacemaker,” the LA County Sheriff’s Department announced Monday. Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell was found dead in his home in the Hacienda Heights neighborhood Saturday in what is being investigated as
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Originally Published: 20 FEB 23 12:55 ETBy Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — Around 7 p.m. ET on Saturday night, President Joe Biden was out in Washington on a Valentine’s week date-night, lingering over rigatoni with fennel sausage ragu before returning with his wife to the White House.The next time he was seen in
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Starting May 1st, Amazon will require thousands of office employees to work in person at least three days a week. It marks the end of the e-commerce giant’s remote and hybrid-friendly policy. The move is part of Amazon’s continuing shift away from its pandemic posture, which led the company to double its fulfillment centers in
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Twitter is making some security changes. Twitter Blue subscribers will be the platform’s only users able to use text messages as a two-factor authentication method, Twitter announced Friday. Twitter says it will make the change March 20th. Twitter Blue, which costs $11 a month for iOS and Android subscribers, adds a blue checkmark to the account
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(CNN) — Six people are dead in Tate County, Mississippi, after a series of shootings on Friday, according to reporting from CNN affiliate WMC. The shootings all happened within the Arkabutla community, Tate County Sheriff Brad Lance told WMC. One shooting incident occurred inside a store on Arkabutla Road where a man was shot and
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Originally Published: 17 FEB 23 13:25 ETBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN (CNN) — A major US food sanitation company illegally employed at least 102 children between the ages of 13 and 17 in jobs that had them using caustic chemicals to clean razor-sharp saws.Packers Sanitation Services paid $1.5 million in civil penalties for employing minors in hazardous
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Originally Published: 17 FEB 23 12:01 ETBy Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Recovery operations have concluded for the suspected Chinese spy balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month, the US military said in a statement Friday.The recovery effort ended after “U.S. Navy assets assigned to U.S. Northern Command successfully
Continue Reading (CNN) — Four US troops were wounded in a helicopter raid in Syria that killed a senior ISIS leader on Thursday night, according to the IS military. The US troops, as well as a working dog, were wounded during the raid in an “explosion on target,” US Central Command said in a statement. The raid
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The James Webb Telescope is giving astronomers a look into the distant past. The powerful space telescope was able to see three clusters of galaxies in the region merging to form a “mega cluster.” It’s known as Pandora’s cluster. That merging action creates a giant magnifying glass for objects behind it. It’s called gravitational lensing,
Continue Reading (CNN) — President Joe Biden will speak Thursday on “the United States’ response to recent aerial objects,” according to the White House, following the US military’s downing of a Chinese spy balloon and other unidentified high-altitude objects over North American airspace in recent weeks. The speech is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. ET
Continue Reading (CNN) — The nation’s top aviation official talked about the safety risks of “complacency” in a Senate hearing Wednesday, and said the Federal Aviation Administration is juggling three competing systems of controlling US airspace. Billy Nolen, the acting FAA administrator, appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee to address the software outage that halted flight departures nationwide last
Continue Reading (CNN) — The Justice Department has informed lawyers for at least one witness that it will not bring charges against Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz after a years-long federal sex-trafficking investigation. Senior officials reached out to lawyers for multiple witnesses on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN, to inform them of the decision not to
Continue Reading (CNN) — The Arizona Department of Public Safety is maintaining a shelter-in-place order to a one-mile perimeter around the hazardous spill of liquid nitric acid on Interstate 10 in Tucson. The crash led to evacuation orders which were lifted Tuesday night, expanded to a three-mile radius Wednesday morning, and then reduced, authorities said. “While crews
Continue Reading (CNN) — Duangphet Phromthep, one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded Thai cave after a weekslong operation that drew global attention in 2018, has died in the UK, British and Thai officials announced Wednesday. Phromthep, who was enrolled in a soccer academy in Leicestershire, England, died after being rushed to hospital on Sunday, Leicestershire Police said
Continue Reading (CNN) — The 19-year-old White man who killed 10 people in a racist mass shooting at a grocery store in a predominantly Black area of Buffalo last May cried and said he regretted his actions as he was sentenced to life in prison during an emotional court hearing Wednesday. “I’m very sorry for all the pain I
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The studio behind “Rust” says the film will resume production this spring. Most of the original crew and creative team will return to finish the film after the cinematographer was killed in a shooting on the New Mexico set. The team is adding additional crew members who will be specifically responsible for safety. Matthew Hutchins,
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The winner of the historic $2 billion Powerball lottery has been revealed. The California lottery says Edwin Castro is the single ticket holder in Altadena, California who won November’s jackpot. The $2.04 billion prize Castro won is the largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history, it carries a cash value of $997.6 million. Castro declined to appear
Continue Reading By Jean Casarez and Lauren del Valle, CNN Brian Laundrie’s mother wrote a letter to her son that included references to getting a shovel and burying a body, an attorney representing the parents of Gabby Petito said during a court hearing Tuesday. The Petitos are suing the Laundries for emotional distress in connection with Gabby’s
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, CNN Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced on Tuesday that she will not run for reelection in 2024, a major moment for a historic political career as the fight to succeed her is already under way. “I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024 but intend to accomplish as
Continue Reading CNN, WILX, WDIV By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday highlighted federal government support for the investigation into a deadly shooting at Michigan State University in which three students were killed and five others were injured. Biden also took time to call on lawmakers to take steps to reduce gun violence. “I want
Continue Reading CNN, WIS, WMUR By Kate Sullivan and Terence Burlij, CNN Former South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley announced Tuesday in a video that she will run for president in 2024, becoming the first major rival to challenge former President Donald Trump for the GOP nomination. “The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and
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GLENDALE, Arizona–Rihanna didn’t introduce a new song during her Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show performance Sunday night but she did introduce a new pregnancy. A representative for Rihanna confirmed that the superstar is pregnant. At the start of the show, Rihanna descended onto the field from a floating stage, she opened her red-hot tracksuit to reveal a seemingly
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(CNN) — The White House announced Friday that President Joe Biden ordered the military to down what it described as a “high-altitude object” hovering over Alaska earlier in the day. “The Department of Defense was tracking a high-altitude object over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours,” National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby told
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Coca-Cola is partnering up with Grammy-award-winning singer Rosalia on the limited-edition flavor- which will be called move. Like Starlight, Byte and Dreamworld before it, Move doesn’t have a traditional flavor, such as cherry. Instead, the beverage is supposed to represent a mood or idea — in this case, transformation. A spokesperson says it will be a unique blend of bold
Continue Reading (CNN) — The parents and sister of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who was shot and killed during a rehearsal on the ‘Rust’ film set in 2021 are suing actor Alec Baldwin, the movie’s production company and others over her death. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges the defendants caused intentional infliction
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, CNN The House of Representatives voted to pass a resolution condemning China’s use of the suspected surveillance balloon that was shot down by US jets over the weekend. The resolution is a symbolic rebuke of the Chinese government and is not binding legislatively. The resolution condemns “the Chinese Communist Party’s use of
Continue Reading (CNN) — Burt Bacharach, the acclaimed composer and songwriter behind dozens of mellow pop hits from the 1950s to the 1980s, including “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “(They Long to Be) Close to You” and the theme from the movie “Arthur,” has died, a family member of Bacharach confirmed to CNN. He was 94.
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Congress wants to know what led to Southwest Airlines’ massive meltdown around Christmas. Congress is set to receive new evidence Thursday of internal chaos at Southwest Airlines over the Christmas holiday meltdown. The Senate Commerce committee is set to question Southwest executive Andrew Watterson, alongside Southwest pilot union president Casey Murray, Sharon Pinkerton of the Airlines for America
Continue Reading (CNN) — Authorities in Quebec said two children have died and six others were taken to area hospitals with injuries after a city bus drove into a daycare center in a Montreal suburb Wednesday morning. During a briefing Wednesday, a spokesperson for Laval Police said the driver of the bus, a 51-year-old man who is
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