Tracking Trends, Breaking News
Actor Ian McKellen was hospitalized Monday after falling off a London stage during a fight scene in a play. McKellen was playing John Falstaff in “Player Kings,” a production of Henry IV, parts one and two, adapted and directed by Robert Icke, at the Noel Coward Theatre. A spokesperson for the producers of the play
Read More
The risk of a heat wave looms over the Paris Olympics. The last Summer Olympics in Tokyo were the hottest in history, but a new report on heat risks at the Paris Olympics warns that this year could be even hotter. Since the last time Paris hosted the Summer Games, in 1924, the average temperature
Read More
LAUSD considering ban on cellphone usage on school campuses LAUSD considering ban on cellphone usage on school campuses 02:14 The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted Tuesday to ban student cellphone usage on campuses during school hours, joining a growing number of school boards to take such action and becoming the largest
Read More
Latest on the 2024 campaign trail Trump courts Black voters in Michigan, Biden teams up with Obama at California fundraiser 04:28 A U.S. Secret Service employee was robbed at gunpoint in Tustin, California, while President Biden was in the state for a glitzy Los Angeles fundraiser Saturday night. The Secret Service member was returning from
Read More
Is pet insurance worth it? Is pet insurance worth it? 07:55 Nationwide will cancel coverage for about 100,000 animals across the country, with the nation’s biggest provider of pet insurance citing the escalating cost of veterinary care in axing the product in some states. The canceling of thousands of coverage plans starts now and will
Read More
While exploring a crater on Mars that may give scientists insights into life that potentially once existed there, NASA said its Perseverance rover made an unprecedented discovery. The rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2021 specifically to probe the ancient Jezero crater, found a mysterious light-toned boulder earlier this month that was the
Read More
A fleet of Russian warships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, left Havana’s port on Monday after a five-day visit to Cuba following planned military drills in the Atlantic Ocean. The exercise has been seen by some as a show of strength by Moscow against the backdrop of tensions as U.S. and other Western nations support Kyiv
Read More
Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, had a ready answer for the question he’s been hearing more lately: Is his state swinging toward former President Donald Trump this November? “I don’t see it on the ground. Donald Trump says a lot of things that aren’t true,” the multi-tasking governor told CBS News while
Read More
The mayor-elect of a small municipality near the crime-plagued Mexican resort city of Acapulco was assassinated early Monday, local prosecutors said — the latest in a series of attacks targeting politicians. Salvador Villalba Flores — who was to take office in October in Copala, a town of about 4,000 residents about 80 miles southeast of
Read More
German investigators seized 39 tons of cocaine worth more than $2.78 billion hidden among vegetables and fruits in several container ships, officials announced Monday. Seven people have been arrested in what investigators called the county’s biggest cocaine bust. Prosecutors in the western city of Dusseldorf said they confiscated the drug last year following a tip
Read More