Tag: shows
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Film on haenyeo, Korea’s ‘mermaids,’ shows women who fight to preserve sea and sisterhood
South Korea’s “haenyeo,” or women divers, say that they’ve become inseparable from their deep blue environment. In Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s first executive-produced film, she explores the divers’ world, most of them now in their 60s, 70s and 80s and living on Jeju Island, 80 miles off the Korean Peninsula. The women are…
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Video shows fire coming from Frontier flight after landing in Las Vegas
Video showed flames coming from underneath a Frontier flight that made a hard landing in Las Vegas after reports of smoke in the cockpit Saturday, officials said. Flight 1326 was on its way from San Diego to Las Vegas when “the pilots detected smoke and declared an emergency,” Frontier said in a statement. There were…
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Chappell Roan pulls out of All Things Go music festival shows
Chappell Roan — who faced a dayslong backlash online for her recent comments about the November presidential election — announced Friday that she is dropping out of the All Things Go music festivals. The pop star, 26, was scheduled to perform at the festival Saturday in New York City, and Sunday in Columbia, Maryland. In a…
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Apparent Trump plot suspect Ryan Routh wrote ‘This was an assassination attempt,’ court filing shows
The man charged in connection with an apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Florida this month dropped off a box at a person’s home that included a letter that declared, “This was an assassination attempt,” a court document revealed Monday. The note came to light in a U.S. District Court filing asking that Ryan…
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Black swing-state voters overwhelmingly back Harris — with key divides on age and gender, Howard poll shows
An overwhelming majority of Black likely voters in battleground states said they’ll vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November — though she needs to close the deal with some skeptical undecideds to reach President Joe Biden’s 2020 margins among Black voters. The data, from a new Howard University Initiative on Public Opinion poll of 963 likely Black voters in…
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Video shows robbers drop into check cashing store from ceiling in $150,000 heist
Atlanta police on Tuesday continued to search for two robbers captured on video dropping into a check cashing store from the ceiling and grabbing stacks of cash from a safe. Police believe the pair, working with the help of a suspected lookout, cut into the roof of the one-story store with power tools before the…
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New data shows how many Americans are going without homeowners insurance
For thousands of homeowners in Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish, where 94% of homes were left without power after Hurricane Francine crossed its shore Thursday, any storm damage could have been catastrophic. One out of 4 of the 31,000 homeowners in the coastal parish live there without homeowners insurance — one of the highest percentages in the U.S.…