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Pharrell Williams’ Louis Vuitton star-studded debut sparked joy

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:49:47 GMT

Paris (CNN) — Pharrell Williams’ debut as men’s creative director for Louis Vuitton was nothing short of spectacular, heralding a new era for the storied French fashion house.The American polymath, whose appointment was announced in February, closed down the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris on Tuesday, where the show was held at sunset with a full orchestra, gospel choir and over 70 looks modeled by some familiar faces including designer Stefano Pilati and Pusha T and No Malice of the hip-hop duo Clipse.The famous faces didn’t stop there — Williams’ celebrity friends cheered him on from the front row. Among them were Rihanna, the brand’s latest campaign model and A$AP Rocky who snuck in late, Jay-Z who performed at the afterparty, Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Jared Leto, Lenny Kravitz who came with Naomi Campbell and brand ambassador Zendaya with former stylist Law Roach by her side.When Williams was named as the successor to the late Virgil Abloh, some debate ignited over the validity of his ...

Adult woman attended Boston schools as student during year, 5 Investigates reports

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:49:47 GMT

BOSTON (WCVB) — Boston police were investigating the fraudulent enrollment of an adult woman who used falsified identification and paperwork to register as a high school student over the academic year, according to a letter from the Boston Public Schools superintendent obtained by 5 Investigates.Sources tell 5 Investigates the woman is in her 30s.According to the letter, at various points during the 2022-2023 school year, the woman attended the Jeremiah E. Burke High School, Brighton High School and English High School utilizing the student transfer process and enrolling under multiple pseudonyms.The district says a Boston Public Schools staff member noticed irregularities in the paperwork on file and reported it to district leadership, who contacted Boston Police.A Boston police report says red flags were raised by administrators at English High School on June 14.According to the report, a man who was not identified went to the school and told administrators that he would be ...

China hits back at Biden: ‘Extremely absurd’ to call Xi a dictator

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:49:47 GMT

China on Wednesday hit back at U.S. President Joe Biden’s recent comment that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was a dictator.“It is a blatant political provocation. China expresses strong dissatisfaction and opposition,” said Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, at a regular press briefing, AP reported.“The U.S. remarks are extremely absurd and irresponsible,” Mao added.China’s response comes a day after Biden, speaking at a campaign event in California, likened Xi to a dictator when referring to the U.S. downing a Chinese spy balloon in February.“The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment is he didn’t know it was there,” Biden said. “That was the great embarrassment for dictators, when they didn’t know what happened.”The row is likely to complicate efforts to improve already strained Sino-American relations. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State An...

EU Parliament VP breaks from national party, with sweeping consequences

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:49:47 GMT

Czech lawmaker Dita Charanzová will no longer run as a member of the European Parliament for the ANO 2011 party of former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. In an interview with a Czech daily newspaper, Charanzová, who’s a Parliament Vice President with the liberal Renew Group, expressed her discontent with the campaign Babiš ran leading up to the Czech presidential elections earlier this year, which he lost to Petr Pavel. “I didn’t identify with that and I couldn’t explain it to my colleagues in the European Parliament,” she said.Babiš himself drew the ire of the ALDE Party, the political party affiliated with the Renew Group, by participating in early May in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Hungary, an offspring of a U.S. event, alongside Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Babiš has been suspended from attending ALDE events. An evaluation of ANO’s commitment to the party’s values is ongoing. “I am a liberal with l...

Air National guardsman charged with leaking classified documents set to be arraigned

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:49:47 GMT

The Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of leaking highly classified military documents will be arraigned in federal court on Wednesday.Jack Teixeira, 21, has been charged under the Espionage Act with unauthorized retention and transmission of classified national defense information.He has not yet entered a plea..Teixeira is accused of sharing highly classified military documents about Russia’s war in Ukraine and other top national security issues in a chat room on Discord, a social media platform that started as a hangout for gamers. The stunning breach exposing closely held intelligence has sparked international concern and raised fresh questions about America’s ability to safeguard its secrets.The Air Force has also taken away the intelligence mission from the Air National Guard 102nd Intelligence Wing based in Cape Cod, where Teixeira served, pending further review.Court records unsealed last week revealed how billing records the FBI obtained from Di...

SCOTUS to look at law barring accused domestic abusers from buying guns

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:49:47 GMT

(CNN) — As the Supreme Court justices race to finish up the current term, they will meet behind closed doors on Thursday to consider whether they should add a blockbuster Second Amendment case to the docket for next term.The focus is a federal law that bars an individual subject to a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a firearm.It has only been a year since the Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion that marked the broadest expansion of gun rights in a decade. Since then, lower courts have been reconsidering thousands of firearm restrictions.In the case at hand, the conservative-leaning 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals cited the Supreme Court’s New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen decision in holding the domestic violence-related gun law unconstitutional, a move that critics say will make it easier for alleged abusers to obtain firearms.Under ordinary circumstances, once the Supreme Court releases a major opinion, they reje...

Yes, inflation is coming down. That doesn’t mean goods and services will be cheaper

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:49:47 GMT

New York (CNN) — If inflation falls to 2% by the end of this year, that means the cost of everything will no longer be going up, right? Wrong. But that’s what the majority of UK residents think, according to a new survey from polling group Survation.What’s more, almost a third of those surveyed said they think they’ll pay less than they do now.It’s a common misconception that falling inflation equates to falling prices. But the two don’t always go hand in hand.Inflation vs. deflationInflation is the rate at which prices for goods and services across an entire economy are rising over a given period of time. When inflation rises, it means you’ll have to spend more money to buy the same goods and services as you used to.Deflation, in contrast, is when goods and services get cheaper. It means that any money you earn today will stretch even further in the future.China is one of the few countries that’s on the verge of experiencing deflation. Most other countries — wit...

Andrew Tate appears in Romanian court to face rape and human trafficking charges

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:49:47 GMT

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, a social media personality known for expressing misogynistic views online, appeared Wednesday at a court in Romania, where prosecutors have charged him with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women.Tate and his brother, Tristan, who is also charged with the offenses, arrived Wednesday at a court in the capital Bucharest, flanked by six bodyguards.Prosecutors have also filed charges against two Romanian women in the case. Romania’s anti-organized crime agency alleged that the four defendants formed a criminal group in 2021 “in order to commit the crime of human trafficking” in Romania as well as the United States and Britain.The agency alleged that seven female victims were misled and transported to Romania, where they were sexually exploited and subjected to physical violence by the gang. One defendant is accused of raping a woman twice in March 2022, according to the statement.Tate, 36, has resided i...

Howie Carr: It’s just a (Biden) family affair

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:49:47 GMT

The good news for Dementia Joe Biden is that the crooked G-men yesterday broomed all the federal charges against his alcoholic crackhead hooker-grabbing bagman son Hunter.The bad news is, Dementia Joe has to keep going out there every day and showing everyone just how non compos mentis he has become.Non compos mentis – not of sound mind.Let’s consider some of Joe’s remarks from earlier this month. All dialogue guaranteed verbatim.Biden ended his comments in Connecticut Friday afternoon by suddenly shouting, “God save the Queen, man!”On Monday in Palo Alto he said, “I’ve committed that by 2020 we will have conserved 30 percent of all the lands and waters the United States has jurisdiction over.”By 2020 he will have accomplished this feat! May we quote you on that, Mr. President.He announced the largest public-works project in world history:“We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean.”Could we please finish the Sumner Tunnel repairs first? A...

‘Swagger’ review: In Season 2, will these high school seniors see their hoop dreams deferred?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:49:47 GMT

As a genre, sports dramas are wonderfully malleable and serve as a backdrop for all kinds of storytelling that isn’t about athletics. They’re metaphors for what it means to navigate through life. The pressures can be especially stark for young phenoms who are shouldering all kinds of expectations, and “Swagger,” on Apple TV+, looks at what it means to be a kid with the potential to go all the way to the pros. Initially following a group of 14-year-old elite basketball players, the show’s second season catches up with the boys in their senior year of high school, when their hopes for college recruitment are on the line.Loosely inspired by the childhood of NBA player Kevin Durant, the Durant stand-in is Jace Carson (Isaiah Hill, quietly charismatic), a star player in his final year at a ritzy, predominantly white prep school. Everyone is banking that Jace and his teammates will end the season as national champs under the watchful eye of Coach Ike (O’...