Day: January 22, 2024

‘Wheel of Fortune’ fans frustrated by misleading puzzle: ‘This country is going to hell’

5:12 pm January 22, 2024

“Wheel of Fortune” fans are taking issue with a puzzle recently featured on the game show. In Friday’s episode, host Pat Sajak introduced a puzzle in the “Rhyme Time” category, and while a contestant was able to correctly solve it with “Absolutely Positively,” viewers took to social media to complain that the words do not […]

Saudi Arabia ramps up pressure on Israel to agree to Palestinian state with fresh demand

5:11 pm January 22, 2024

Saudi Arabia said Sunday it would not normalize relations with Israel without an agreement to create a path to a Palestinian state, something that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected. Saudia Arabia’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, sat down for an interview that aired on Sunday with CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” […]

California man faces 2 life sentences plus 30 years for deadly bombing of ex-girlfriend’s spa

5:09 pm January 22, 2024

A Southern California man was sentenced Friday to two concurrent life sentences, plus 30 years, for blowing up his ex-girlfriend’s spa business with a package bomb in 2018, killing her and seriously injuring two others. Friday’s hearing concluded a case against Stephen Beal, 64, that was fraught with missteps for investigators and prosecutors since the […]

Las Vegas high school students indicted as adults on murder charges in beating of classmate

5:04 pm January 22, 2024

Four high school students in Las Vegas were indicted Friday as adults on second-degree murder charges in the deadly beating of their schoolmate in November, a fight that was captured on cellphone video and had been widely shared across social media. Chief Deputy District Attorney John Giordani said in court that the indictment also charges […]

‘Mean Girls’ pulls in $11.7M in second consecutive weekend topping box office

4:16 pm January 22, 2024

On a quiet weekend in movie theaters, “Mean Girls” repeated atop the box office with $11.7 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, while a handful of awards contenders sought to make an impact ahead of Oscar nominations Tuesday. With a dearth of new releases in cinemas, Paramount Pictures’ Tina Fey-scripted musical “Mean […]