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What to stream this weekend: Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills, Emma Roberts in space, 'Bluey' minisodes

Jul. 05, 2024 12:18 PM EDT

Eddie Murphy reprising his role as Axel Foley in “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” and country music star Zach Bryan releasing a new studio album are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as...

Italian fashion influencer Ferragni will donate $1.3 million in a deal to close an antitrust probe

Jul. 05, 2024 10:33 AM EDT

MILAN (AP) — Italian fashion influencer Chiara Ferragni will donate at least 1.2 million euros ($1.3 million) under a deal with Italian antitrust authorities investigating misleading communications that led consumers to believe proceeds from the purchase of Easter eggs with her logo would go to a...

Fireworks light up the skies across the US as Americans endure searing heat to celebrate July Fourth

Jul. 05, 2024 06:26 AM EDT

Millions of people in the U.S. celebrated and suffered under heat warnings Thursday as they flocked to beaches and traveled in droves to toast their nation’s birth with July Fourth parades, cookouts and the always anticipated fiery splashes of color in the evening sky. In...

A bench and a grandmother's ear: Zimbabwe’s novel mental health therapy spreads overseas

Jul. 05, 2024 01:42 AM EDT

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — After her son, the family’s shining light and only breadwinner, was arrested last year, Tambudzai Tembo went into meltdown. In Zimbabwe, where clinical mental health services are scarce, her chances of getting professional help were next to zero. She contemplated...

Cambodia welcomes the Met's repatriation of centuries-old statues looted during past turmoil

Jul. 04, 2024 20:31 PM EDT

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The return to Cambodia this week of 14 sculptures that had been looted from the country during a period of war and unrest is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors, Cambodia’s culture minister said Thursday. The items repatriated from New York’s...

Parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue to buy Neiman Marcus for $2.65 billion

Jul. 04, 2024 16:34 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue has signed a deal to buy upscale rival Neiman Marcus Group, which owns Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman stores, for $2.65 billion, with online behemoth Amazon holding a minority stake. The new entity will be called Saks...

Parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue to buy upscale rival Neiman Marcus

Jul. 04, 2024 13:38 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue to buy upscale rival Neiman Marcus.

Despite hardships brought by war, flowers fill Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities

Jul. 04, 2024 08:01 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — On his way to the Kyiv train station to greet his wife and daughter returning from Poland to Ukraine, Oleksander Tryfonov made a stop. He bought two red roses from one of a half-dozen flower shops lining a dimly lit underpass — something beautiful for the...

Delta flight diverts to New York after passengers are served spoiled food

Jul. 03, 2024 17:04 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A Delta flight from Detroit to Amsterdam was diverted to New York's Kennedy Airport on Wednesday after passengers were served spoiled food, airline officials said. The redeye flight took off from Detroit around 11 p.m. Tuesday and landed in New York at 4 a.m....

Caesar salad, invented in Mexico by Italian immigrants, is still pleasing palates after 100 years

Jul. 03, 2024 14:39 PM EDT

Caesar salad has something to celebrate: It’s turning 100. Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini is said to have invented the dish on July 4, 1924, at his restaurant, Caesar's Place, in Tijuana, Mexico. It was a steamy night, and Cardini was struggling to feed an influx of Californians...