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CNN
2 hours ago
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- CNN
The ‘Pope economy' takes off in Chicago
The 'Pope economy' takes off in Chicago After Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the first American pope in May, Chicago businesses started cashing in on the "pope economy" by selling merchandise, and even beer, to honor their hometown Holy Father. 01:30 - Source: CNN Vertical Trending Now 17 videos The 'Pope economy' takes off in Chicago After Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the first American pope in May, Chicago businesses started cashing in on the "pope economy" by selling merchandise, and even beer, to honor their hometown Holy Father. 01:30 - Source: CNN Crocodile gets caught underneath moving truck A bystander captured video of a crocodile caught underneath a truck driving through high water in Australia at Kakadu National Park. 00:25 - Source: CNN Beyoncé brings out Destiny's Child during final show Beyoncé reunited Destiny's Child during her concert at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, with Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland joining her on stage to perform a medley of the group's biggest hits, as part of her final Cowboy Carter show. 00:45 - Source: CNN Gwyneth Paltrow joins Astronomer as temporary spokesperson Actress and Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in a new ad for Astronomer, the tech firm whose former CEO and human resources chief were caught in an awkward moment on a Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert last week. Paltrow is the ex-wife of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. 00:51 - Source: CNN 'South Park' skewers Trump after signing new Paramount deal In their first episode of the season, the creators of "South Park" mocked President Donald Trump and Paramount after they just signed a new $1.5 billion contract. Paramount is looking to merge with Skydance Media and needs the Trump-influenced FCC to approve the deal. 01:24 - Source: CNN Hot Chinese brands are coming to America Chinese brands like Luckin Coffee, Pop Mart, and HEYTEA are expanding in the United States, despite the ongoing trade war. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich and Marc Stewart report from two different continents on why the companies covet American customers. 02:10 - Source: CNN Fans pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne Fans have gathered in Ozzy Osbourne's hometown to pay tribute to the former Black Sabbath singer, who died yesterday at the age of 76. One of them told CNN's Salma Abdelaziz that Osbourne will 'live on forever in his music.' 01:07 - Source: CNN Metal legend Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76-years-old Ozzy Osbourne, the hellraising frontman of Black Sabbath and reality TV star, has died aged 76. CNN's Stephanie Elam looks back at the legendary career as the Godfather of Heavy Metal. 03:05 - Source: CNN Missing child case from 46 years ago reopened A federal appeals court overturned the verdict of Pedro Hernandez, the bodega worker who was found guilty in 2017 of kidnapping and murdering Etan Patz in 1979. Patz was 6 years old when he disappeared on the first day he was allowed to walk alone to his school bus stop in New York City. 01:50 - Source: CNN Tesla Diner opens in Los Angeles The first Tesla Diner opened on Monday in Los Angeles to a crowd of customers. The restaurant has Tesla chargers, a robot that serves popcorn and a drive-in movie theater. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he plans to build more diners in the future if this location succeeds. 00:58 - Source: CNN Is Coca-Cola with cane sugar healthier? Coca-Cola will launch a new soda in the US made with cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. CNN's Jacqueline Howard looks at the difference between the two sweeteners. 01:29 - Source: CNN Stephen Colbert addresses 'The Late Show' cancellation 'Cancel culture has gone too far,' Stephen Colbert told the audience as he began his first post-cancellation episode of 'The Late Show.' The host went on to fire back at Trump's Truth Social post celebrating the announcement by CBS. The episode also featured cameos by late night talk show hosts including Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, John Oliver and Seth Meyers. 01:24 - Source: CNN Malcolm-Jamal Warner's impact on Black community Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for his role as Cliff Huxtable on 'The Cosby Show,' has died at age 54 in a drowning accident in Costa Rica where he was on vacation with family, according to authorities. Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Department told CNN that Warner was swimming Sunday at Playa Grande de Cocles in Limon province when a current pulled him deeper into the ocean, where the Red Cross later declared him dead. CNN's Lisa Respers France reports. 00:59 - Source: CNN International visitors to US will pay new fee CNN's Richard Quest explains how the Trump administration enacted a bill that will require international visitors to pay a new 'visa integrity fee' of $250 dollars. The fee will apply to all visitors who are required to obtain nonimmigrant visas to enter the US. 01:36 - Source: CNN Pilot apologizes after making hard turn to avoid B-52 bomber A pilot flying a Delta Air Lines regional jet apologized to his passengers on Friday after making an 'aggressive maneuver' to avoid hitting a US Air Force B-52 bomber, audio shared on TikTok from the incident shows. SkyWest Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the close call. 01:08 - Source: CNN Comparing Scottie Scheffler to Tiger Woods Scottie Scheffler's win at the Open has drawn comparisons to the great Tiger Woods. CNN Sports' Patrick Snell has taken a look at some interesting stats that show Scheffler's on course for greatness. 00:38 - Source: CNN Coldplay's Chris Martin warns concertgoers Coldplay's lead singer, Chris Martin, could be heard warning the audience about cameras at a concert in Madison, Wisconsin. 00:50 - Source: CNN
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fact Check: TikTok Video Labeled "Important Prayer From Pope Leo" Is NOT Authentic
Did Pope Leo XIV issue an important prayer for all Americans on July 25, 2025? No, that's not true: A video originating on TikTok features an AI generated likeness of Pope Leo XIV speaking. The voiceover includes a prayer which does not match recently published public messages from the Pope. The fabricated video first appeared on TikTok account named @prayerswithpopeleo on July 25, 2025 (identical version archived here). This account was deleted from TikTok on July 28, 2025. The post used the following hashtags: #popeleoxiv #god #jesuslovesyou #jesuschrist #jesus #robertfrancisprevost #prayer This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing: On July 25, 2025 Pope Leo XIV posted only one message on the official @Pontifex account on X (embedded below). The social media post contains a link to the full text of his message (archived here) titled, "Message Of Pope Leo XIV For The 111th World Day Of Migrants And Refugees 2025" that was posted on the Vatican website the same day. The text of the authentic July 25, 2025 message from Pope Leo XIV does not contain similarities with the prayer in the AI generated TikTok video. A search in the index (archived here) of partner news sites and wire services for "Pope Leo prayer so all Americans have a good night" returned a link to a reel on Facebook with a copy of the AI-generated @prayerswithpopeleo TikTok video. A search (pictured below and archived here) returned only one result with the exact phrase from the prayer spoken in the TikTok voiceover, "Heavenly Father, tonight I lift up every believer across this great nation from coast to coast. Wrap your arms around your children." That result points to a post on Instagram (archived here) featuring a copy of the AI generated @prayerswithpopeleo TikTok video. No search results pointed to the official @Pontifex Instagram account of Pope Leo XIV or any other official Vatican sources. The video contains several artifacts common to reels that are artificially generated, such as the overly smooth texture of the skin rendering. Absent is the mole on Pope Leo's left upper lip. Another artifact visible in the video is a distortion in the background, which warps as the subject moves. A detail (pictured below) from a screenshot shows the moment at the start of the video when the doorframe appears to bend as the subject's cheek moves in front of it. Lead Stories uploaded a clip from the TikTok video to the AI generated content detection tool HIVE moderation. The results pictured in the composite image below were varied, ranging from 0.0 percent to 11.9 percent likely to contain AI generated content. Despite these low individual results, Hive gave an aggregated score of 99.6 percent, stating: Overall, the video is likely to be AI-Generated. On July 28, 2025 the @prayerswithpopeleo account on TikTok had six videos posted. These videos had similar prayers. Notably, each was dedicated to Americans specifically, and featured a request for people to engage with the post by adding personal information. Four seconds in, the voiceover says: If you are an American drop your name and the state you're watching from in the comments because I wanna pray for you personally. At the time of writing (Mon Jul 28 23:34:44 2025 UTC) the six videos pictured below and the @prayerswithpopeleo account had been unpublished from TikTok. Solve the daily Crossword
Khaleej Times
16-07-2025
- General
- Khaleej Times
Italy sorts vast piles of post for popular Pope Leo
Leo XIV has not long been pope, yet the American head of the Catholic Church already receives 100 kg of letters a day, faithfully sorted by the Italian post office. Missives from around the world, addressed to "His Holiness" in flowing cursive, in stark block capitals or in scrawls, are sorted into a series of yellow crates in a vast hangar near Rome's Fiumicino airport. Robert Francis Prevost was a relatively unknown churchman when he was elected pontiff on May 8, but vast numbers of the faithful are penning him letters of support and pleas for him to pray on their behalf. "We receive hundreds of letters a day addressed to the pope, with peaks of 100 kilos (220 pounds) per day, or an average of 500 to 550 kilos per week," Antonello Chidichimo, director of the sorting centre, told AFP. "There are many letters written by children, postcards, and it's wonderful to see that in the digital age, many people still use a pen to write to the pope," he noted. Bearing colourful stamps, the day's letters — one of which is decorated with hand-drawn red hearts — arrive from as far afield as Andorra, Brazil, Cameroon, Hong Kong or the US. After being sorted by machine — or by hand if a hand-written address is indecipherable — the mail is collected by a van that delivers it the same day to the Vatican, about 20 km away. Pilgrims and tourists visiting the Vatican can also write to the pope and drop their letters directly — no stamp needed — at the Vatican Post Office, where it is collected four times a day. "Many of those who drop off these letters come from South America or Asia," Nicola Vaccaro, an employee at the central office in St Peter's Square, told AFP. "They mainly write to ask for intercession (prayers) for a sick person or a loved one," he said. Among the letters and packages, Vaccaro has even seen someone post the pope a teddy bear. Behind the walls of the world's smallest state, the mail is centralised and sorted by the Secretariat of State, which performs standard security checks before delivering it to the pope's inner circle. Senders who provide their address can expect a response — from the Vatican or on rare occasions the pontiff himself. Leo's predecessor Pope Francis, who received a bumper postbag as he battled ill health before his death earlier this year, had been known to answer some letters in person. His handwritten notes were scanned by his private secretary who then sent them by email.
Int'l Business Times
16-07-2025
- General
- Int'l Business Times
Italy Sorts Vast Piles Of Post For Popular Pope Leo
Leo XIV has not long been pope, yet the American head of the Catholic Church already receives 100 kilogrammes of letters a day, faithfully sorted by the Italian post office. Missives from around the world, addressed to "His Holiness" in flowing cursive, in stark block capitals or in scrawls, are sorted into a series of yellow crates in a vast hangar near Rome's Fiumicino airport. Robert Francis Prevost was a relatively unknown churchman when he was elected pontiff on May 8, but vast numbers of the faithful are penning him letters of support and pleas for him to pray on their behalf. "We receive hundreds of letters a day addressed to the pope, with peaks of 100 kilos (220 pounds) per day, or an average of 500 to 550 kilos per week," Antonello Chidichimo, director of the sorting centre, told AFP. "There are many letters written by children, postcards, and it's wonderful to see that in the digital age, many people still use a pen to write to the pope," he noted. Bearing colourful stamps, the day's letters -- one of which is decorated with hand-drawn red hearts -- arrive from as far afield as Andorra, Brazil, Cameroon, Hong Kong or the US. After being sorted by machine -- or by hand if a hand-written address is indecipherable -- the mail is collected by a van that delivers it the same day to the Vatican, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) away. Pilgrims and tourists visiting the Vatican can also write to the pope and drop their letters directly -- no stamp needed -- at the Vatican Post Office, where it is collected four times a day. "Many of those who drop off these letters come from South America or Asia," Nicola Vaccaro, an employee at the central office in St Peter's Square, told AFP. "They mainly write to ask for intercession (prayers) for a sick person or a loved one," he said. Among the letters and packages, Vaccaro has even seen someone post the pope a teddy bear. Behind the walls of the world's smallest state, the mail is centralised and sorted by the Secretariat of State, which performs standard security checks before delivering it to the pope's inner circle. Senders who provide their address can expect a response -- from the Vatican or on rare occasions the pontiff himself. Leo's predecessor Pope Francis, who received a bumper postbag as he battled ill health before his death earlier this year, had been known to answer some letters in person. His handwritten notes were scanned by his private secretary who then sent them -- by email. A decidcated sorting area in the technical area of Rome's Fiumicino Airport allows Italian postal workers to handle the pope's huge letterbox AFP Many of the faithful that write to Pope Leo XIV receive replies from the Vatican AFP
News18
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Is Pope Leo XIV Related To Madonna, Justin Bieber And Angelina Jolie? Family Tree Reveals…
Pope Leo XIV also has African-American roots. (File) Pope Leo XIV (Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost), the first American to ascend to the papacy, has an astonishingly celebrity-ridden family tree that links him to some of the most famous names in pop culture— including Madonna, Justin Bieber, and Angelina Jolie. An extensive genealogical study by The New York Times, in collaboration with American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami, has unearthed the fascinating heritage.
