Cannes shakes off major power outage as Palme d’Or ceremony gets underway

The Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) in California hosted a board meeting Thursday amid a controversy over a transgender cross country runner at Martin Luther King High School and students being reprimanded for protesting the athlete’s participation. The board meeting will address recent allegations in a lawsuit that school administrators… Read Details ⇢

Vijayawada, India – As soon as Meda Ramana was elected the head of Garapadu village council in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, several residents complained to her of being wrongfully excluded from government welfare schemes. About 50 villagers – mostly women of the Dalit, Indigenous and religious-minority communities –… Read Details ⇢

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers. Enjoy playing word games? You can also… Read Details ⇢

Mufasa and Taka in ‘Mufasa: The Lion King,’ directed by Barry Jenkins. DISNEY ENTERPRISES LE MONDE‘S OPINION – WHY NOT Among the many Disney productions, we can’t help but be transfixed by the evocative power of The Lion King (1994), the studio’s most profitable animated film, which has an ever-renewed… Read Details ⇢

The US House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly rejected a Republican-led funding bill aimed at averting a government shutdown, with federal agencies due to run out of cash on Friday night and begin closing down at the weekend. The contentious bill would have suspended the country’s borrowing limit for President-elect… Read Details ⇢

A former CNN pundit has offered a mea culpa for shrugging off concerns about President Biden’s mental decline.  Chris Cilizza, who served as CNN’s editor-at-large before leaving the network in 2022, spoke candidly about his lack of journalistic curiosity about Biden’s condition to serve following a pair of damning reports… Read Details ⇢

Tech giant accused of using illegally mined metals in iPhones and other products sold globally. The world’s most valuable company – Apple – is being sued by the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The tech giant has been accused of using illegally mined minerals in products like iPhones. Apple denies… Read Details ⇢

OpenAI’s introduced new features for the ChatGPT macOS app. Advanced Voice Mode enables users to engage with ChatGPT through voice commands. ChatGPT’s “Working with Apps” feature allows it to interact directly with coding and notetaking apps. For Day 11 of the 12 Days of OpenAI, the company moved from the… Read Details ⇢

Nigel Farage, a British MP and the leader of the Reform UK party, attends the cocktail hour of the New York Young Republican Club’s annual gala at Cipriani Wall Street, New York City, USA, December 15, 2024. DAVID DEE DELGADO / REUTERS The mood was lighter than usual in the… Read Details ⇢