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Germany’s Social Democratic Party wins most seats in federal elections, preliminary official results show

By Frederik Pleitgen, Salma Abdelaziz, Nadine Schmidt, Stephanie Halasz and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Germany’s left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD) has won the most seats in the country’s federal election, preliminary results show, but it will be some time before the makeup of the new government is known. The SPD claimed a narrow victory over the

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Germany’s Social Democratic Party wins most seats in federal elections, preliminary official results show

By Frederik Pleitgen, Salma Abdelaziz, Nadine Schmidt, Stephanie Halasz and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Germany’s left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD) has won the most seats in Germany’s federal election, preliminary results show. The SPD claimed a narrow victory over the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the centrist-right, conservative party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to the “Federal

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GOP senator says he ‘will certainly be voting no’ on Democrats’ plan to combine debt ceiling suspension with government funding bill

By Devan Cole, CNN Republican Sen. Pat Toomey said Sunday that he opposes a Democratic plan to combine a temporary government funding bill with a suspension of the debt ceiling. “So I will certainly be voting no if the Democrats insist on combining the debt ceiling increase or suspension with the continuing operations of the

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Biden decides it would be inappropriate to assert executive privilege in January 6 investigation

By Kevin Liptak and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden generally does not expect to assert executive privilege to shield Trump-era records from being seen by a congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection attempt, the White House said on Friday. “We take this matter incredibly seriously,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in

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Education Department repays Florida school board members whose salaries were withheld for enforcing mask mandates

By Chandelis Duster, CNN The Department of Education on Thursday repaid a group of Florida school board members whose salaries were withheld for implementing mask mandates in defiance of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order that parents, not school officials, must decide how to protect their children in the pandemic. The Alachua County School Board,

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Must-watch videos of the week

By Rachael Scott, CNN Marines’ gesture moves a woman to tears, Nicole Richie’s birthday celebration got hotter than expected, and a “very well behaved” pup interrupts a reporter’s live shot. These are the must-watch videos of the week. ‘The most American thing ever’ A group of Marines came to the aid of a woman and

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Must-watch videos of the week

By Rachael Scott, CNN Marines’ gesture moves a woman to tears, Nicole Richie’s birthday celebration got hotter than expected, and a “very well behaved” pup interrupts a reporter’s live shot. These are the must-watch videos of the week. ‘The most American thing ever’ A group of Marines came to the aid of a woman and

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Must-watch videos of the week

By Rachael Scott, CNN Marines’ gesture moves a woman to tears, Nicole Richie’s birthday celebration got hotter than expected, and a “very well behaved” pup interrupts a reporter’s live shot. These are the must-watch videos of the week. ‘The most American thing ever’ A group of Marines came to the aid of a woman and

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‘We won’: Trump and his allies barrel ahead with election lies despite Arizona review confirming his loss

By Jeremy Herb and Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Cyber Ninjas failed to prove fraud in the Arizona 2020 election, but former President Donald Trump’s election fraud crusade is now proceeding as if they’d won — pushing for more “forensic audits” and restrictive voting in that state and elsewhere across the country. Trump’s allies are already

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Bitcoin plummets after China intensifies cryptocurrency crackdown

By Shawn Deng and Chris Liakos, CNN Business China is intensifying its crackdown on cryptocurrencies. Chinese government agencies including the country’s securities regulator and the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said in a statement on Friday that all cryptocurrency-related business activities are illegal and vowed to clamp down on illicit activities involving digital currencies. The

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More than 40 children with non-Haitian passports deported to Haiti, says International Organization for Migration

By Caitlin Hu, CNN Dozens of children with non-Haitian passports have been sent to Haiti as part of the US government’s massive deportation operation this week, according to the International Organization for Migration. As of Wednesday, the latest figures available, a total of 1,424 deportees from the US had arrived on 12 flights in Haiti,

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A half-century of armed conflict left many Colombians without basic services. This CNN Hero is delivering water, power and sanitation to those who need it most

By Laura Klairmont, CNN Growing up in Barranquilla, Colombia, Jenifer Colpas was mostly shielded from the poverty outside her door. It wasn’t until after college, when she moved to India for a job in information technology, that she appreciated the vast social inequalities people endure. “Something inside me (was) saying, ‘You need to do something

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Brian Laundrie left home without phone or wallet and his parents were concerned he might hurt himself, source says

By Jenn Selva, Dakin Andone and Madeline Holcombe, CNN A source close to the family of Brian Laundrie told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday that Gabby Petito‘s fiancé, who is now the subject of a federal warrant, left his parents’ Florida home last Tuesday without his cell phone and wallet. Laundrie’s parents were concerned that

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Palm Beach County school board sides with latest state quarantine policy in tense meeting that separated those without masks

By Nick Valencia and Maria Cartaya, CNN Dozens of police officers were standing by as the Palm Beach County School Board held a meeting Wednesday evening with masked and unmasked spectators watching from separate rooms, as the board said it would abide with the latest state rule that takes a “symptoms-based approach” to quarantining students.

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Mary Johnson, an Indigenous woman, went missing nearly a year ago. While the FBI recently offered a reward, activists say that’s not enough

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN In the months before Mary Johnson disappeared, her sister said she wasn’t herself. Johnson and her husband, who had been living in the home of her sister Gerry Davis in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, abruptly left and moved to Marysville about 40 miles away, Davis said. She rarely answered her phone when Davis

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‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and its Broadway pedigree get lost in translation

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Despite its Broadway credentials, “Dear Evan Hansen” hits screens faced with an inherent tension: Can its songs and cast, led by Ben Platt reprising his Tony-winning role, overcome the uncomfortable premise and problematic protagonist? The answer is not completely, despite tweaks seemingly made specifically to try softening those edges. Although

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Biden says Democrats are at a ‘stalemate’ as his economic agenda hangs in the balance on Capitol Hill

By Kate Sullivan and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday said negotiations on Capitol Hill over his economic agenda had reached a “stalemate” as sharp disagreements between moderate and progressive members of his party threaten to derail his plans. The President said at the White House he was confident Democrats would ultimately reach

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the world needs to ‘grow up’ and deal with climate change

By Niamh Kennedy, Amy Cassidy and Deborah Bloom, CNN Humanity needs to “grow up” and deal with the issue of climate change, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday. Johnson, a last-minute addition to the speakers’ list that day, slammed the world’s inadequate

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Kamala Harris raises ‘grave concerns’ over treatment of Haitian migrants in call with DHS chief

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris told Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday that she had serious worries about the treatment of Haitian migrants by Border Patrol agents. Videos taken by Al Jazeera and Reuters appear to show law enforcement officers on horseback using aggressive tactics when confronting migrants, who are largely

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Willie Garson died of pancreatic cancer

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Willie Garson’s family has shared how he died. In a New York Times obituary published Thursday, his family wrote that the 57-year-old actor, whose legal name was William Garson Paszamant, died at his home in Los Angeles. “The cause was pancreatic cancer,” the obituary reads. Best known for his role

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