By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Supreme Court justices on Monday readily put themselves in the shoes of a football coach who wanted to pray at midfield after a game, over those of students who might feel pressure to join him, in an expansive decision focused on the “suppression” of religious
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Business In the wake of the Supreme Court’s controversial decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, people have flooded social media platforms with information about how to access in-person or medication abortions to help those in states that have outlawed the procedure or could soon do so. But the situation could create
Continue Reading By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Kollene Dunn’s abortion a few months after the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling saved her family, she said. Dunn learned she was pregnant from a date rape and her mind quickly raced to her two young children, she told CNN. The single mom realized she did not have the
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration is promising to fight Republican efforts in the House of Representatives to pass a nationwide abortion ban at 15 weeks following the Supreme Court’s historic decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, calling it an attempt to strip away women’s rights. After the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN His face couldn’t be seen, but Kanye West showed up at the 2022 BET Awards to honor Sean “Diddy” Combs. Combs received a lifetime achievement award, which was presented by West and fellow producer/artist Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. “How do we crown our kings?” West said. “How do we appreciate our
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN Business Maria Shriver and Patrick Schwarzenegger are on a mission to educate you on your brain health. Shriver has been an outspoken advocate about Alzheimer’s. Her father, Robert Sargent Shriver, was diagnosed with the disease in 2003. That inspired her to create the nonprofit, The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement. Now she and
Continue Reading By David Goldman and Mark Thompson, CNN Business Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since the Bolshevik revolution more than a century ago. Following reports that Moscow had failed to pay about $100 million in interest on two bonds during a 30-day grace period that expired Sunday, the White House
Continue Reading By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar closed his headline Glastonbury set with an impassioned plea for women’s rights. The Grammy-winning artist, who had initially been announced as part of the lineup for the festival’s 50th anniversary in 2020, finally made his debut on Sunday after delays caused by the pandemic. When Lamar took
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A summer of joy is what we need… now. Like many of us, you may be disheartened — maybe even overwhelmed — by America’s bitter political divides. But with 90 or so days of summer ahead, this season is still an opportunity to grab hold of some goodness. Summer festivals are
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside and Susannah Cullinane, CNN The Powerball jackpot has now grown to an estimated $1.9 billion after no winning tickets were sold in Saturday night’s drawing, according to the California Lottery Association. The winning numbers were 28-45-53-56-69 and the Powerball was 20. The next Powerball drawing is set for Monday. Saturday’s estimated $1.6
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told G7 leaders during a virtual meeting Monday that he wants the war in Ukraine to end by the end of 2022, according to a source familiar with his remarks, as leaders worked to starve Russia of its oil revenues and mitigate the economic fallout of the
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By Clare Sebastian and Anastasia Graham-Yooll, CNN It starts with a raised eyebrow and ends with a door slammed shut. A detail lost in translation, a wrong way to load a dishwasher, an awkward silence followed by a polite request to pack your bags. CNN spoke to half a dozen newly-arrived refugees from Ukraine who
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, CNN Top Biden administration officials will be dispatched across the country this week to reassure Americans that combating inflation remains a top priority for the White House as prices soar and economic concerns mount, a White House official tells CNN. The travel blitz by Cabinet members and senior officials comes as President
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN With its strawberries and cream, grassy slopes, and peaceful setting in a leafy part of London, Wimbledon is a world away from Ukraine, where the bombs still fall four months after Russia invaded. For the Ukrainians competing at SW19, however, the war never truly leaves them. On Wednesday, Anhelina Kalinina will
Continue Reading Story by Reuters Thousands affected by a deadly earthquake in eastern Afghanistan are in need of clean water and food and are at risk of disease, an Afghan health ministry official said on Sunday, days after a United Nations agency warned of a cholera outbreak in the region. At least 1,000 people were killed, 2,000
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Although the Supreme Court issued the two most important opinions of the term last week, upending near 50-year-old precedent on abortion and expanding gun rights for the first time in a decade, this blockbuster term is not over. Still to be decided are four disputes, and new
Continue Reading By Kelly McCleary and Holly Yan, CNN Abortion rights activists across the country are sending a clear message after the overturn of Roe v. Wade: They’re not backing down. From Minnesota to California to Florida, more than a dozen protests are planned Monday to denounce the Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the nearly 50-year-old federal
Continue Reading By Andy Rose and Kiely Westhoff, CNN A grandmother was killed and an 8-year-old boy was among four others injured when they were struck by a vehicle fleeing police Saturday night, officials in New York City said. New York Police Department officers had attempted to stop the vehicle around 7:10 p.m. because it had mismatched
Continue Reading By Ramishah Maruf, CNN The overturning of Roe v. Wade is “one of the most important stories of our lifetime,” CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said on “Reliable Sources” Sunday. But in 1973, the day after the decision came down, the main headline on many major newspapers was that former president Lyndon B. Johnson
Continue Reading By Joshua Berlinger and Tim Lister, CNN Ukrainian forces are withdrawing from Severodonetsk, effectively ceding the city to Russia and putting the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk almost fully under Russian control following months of grueling and bloody fighting Severodonetsk was one of the last major Ukrainian strongholds in the area. Serhiy Hayday, a top
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN Allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin to succeed in his invasion of Ukraine would have “absolutely catastrophic” consequences for the world, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned in a CNN interview on Sunday. Speaking to Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” hours after Russian missiles hit Kyiv, shattering what had
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Gregory Krieg, CNN Efforts to protect abortion rights are underway in some states — and were ramping up among Democratic leaders and lawmakers on Sunday — following the US Supreme Court’s ruling eliminating the federal constitutional right to an abortion, with Saturday marking the first full day without the nationwide protection
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Gregory Krieg, CNN Several states are working to protect abortion rights — and efforts were ramping up among Democratic leaders and lawmakers on Sunday — following the US Supreme Court’s ruling eliminating the federal constitutional right to an abortion, with Saturday marking the first full day without the nationwide protection in
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Julia Kesaieva, Salma Abdelaziz, Pierre Bairin and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with a series of missile attacks Sunday, as leaders of the G7 nations gather in Germany for the first day of their annual summit. One person died and at least six were wounded in a
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Nicole Chavez, CNN Civil and reproductive rights groups say the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is yet another attack on communities of color which will leave millions of Black and brown women without access to abortion care. Since the ruling became public Friday, leaders of Black, Latino,
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN She’s massive, invasive and covered in scales: A record breaking 215-pound, 18-foot-long Burmese python has been captured in Florida. The python is the heaviest ever captured in the state, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced on Wednesday. The huge reptile was captured by the conservancy as part of its invasive Burmese
Continue Reading By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Chief Justice John Roberts has long piloted America’s highest court, securing majorities on controversies over religion, race, voting rights and campaign finance regulation. But on fundamental abortion rights and in the defining case of his generation, Roberts came up short. Friday’s decision in Dobbs v.
Continue Reading By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Chief Justice John Roberts has long piloted America’s highest court, securing majorities on controversies over religion, race, voting rights and campaign finance regulation. But on fundamental abortion rights and in the defining case of his generation, Roberts came up short. Friday’s decision in Dobbs v.
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, Jasmine Wright and Devan Cole, CNN In her first interview since Roe v. Wade was overturned on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Dana Bash that she never believed former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks, whom she voted against in the Senate, would preserve the landmark abortion law. “I never
Continue Reading By John Blake, CNN Both cite the same Bible. Both follow the same Jesus. And both talk about the sanctity of life. And yet both stand on opposite sides of the contentious debate over abortion. Trent Horn, an author, speaker and podcaster, is a Roman Catholic and an opponent of abortion rights. Laura Ellis supports
Continue Reading By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the first major federal gun safety legislation passed in decades, marking a significant bipartisan breakthrough on one of the most contentious policy issues in Washington. “God willing, it’s going to save a lot of lives,” Biden said at the White House as he
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN With Roe v. Wade now overturned, tribal lands are again coming up in conversations on social media and elsewhere as potential safe havens for those seeking abortions. In Oklahoma, which has enacted some of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws, Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt previously warned Indigenous tribes against setting up
Continue Reading By Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN When President Joe Biden received word from his chief of staff in the Oval Office on Friday that the Supreme Court had decided to strip away the nationwide right to abortion, he quickly began to execute a plan his advisers had been crafting for months. Top
Continue Reading By Alta Spells and Natasha Chen, CNN The owner of the only abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi vowed at a news conference Friday afternoon to stay open and continue providing services for women for the next 10 days, hours after the US Supreme Court issued a ruling eliminating the constitutional right to abortion
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner, Gabby Orr and Eva McKend, CNN The fight over abortion moved to the forefront of this fall’s midterm elections on Friday, as Democrats urged voters to view November as their best hope to halt the erosion of reproductive rights set off by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade on Friday
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy and Melissa Alonso, CNN After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, holding that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion, protesters and supporters of the ruling gathered at the high court’s building in Washington, DC, and in other cities nationwide. Similar demonstrations are planned across
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy and Melissa Alonso, CNN After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, holding that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion, protesters and supporters of the ruling gathered at the high court’s building in Washington, DC, and in other cities nationwide. Similar demonstrations are planned across
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN When an Anglo-Saxon warrior king died 1,400 years ago in East Anglia in the United Kingdom, he was placed inside a ship and surrounded by treasures. The 90-foot-long (27.4-meter-long) wooden ship, dragged half a mile (0.8 kilometer) from the River Deben, was buried inside a mound. Archaeologists excavating the mound in
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy and Jennifer Korn, CNN Business After the Supreme Court ruled on Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, corporate giants from a range of industries pledged to provide support and financial assistance for employees — and, in some cases, their dependents — seeking abortions in states that outlaw the procedure. The court’s decision
Continue Reading By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The five-justice Supreme Court bloc that overturned a half century of women’s abortion rights on Friday had coalesced less than two years. But they had found their moment and they seized it. This is America’s new Supreme Court, moving swiftly, rejecting the incrementalism of Chief
Continue Reading By Gabriel Kinder, CNN In 1991, when actor Mila Kunis moved to the United States, her family left their home in what was then the Soviet Union. She was seven and a half; she spoke Russian and says she thought of herself as Russian. “If I said the word Ukraine, no one would know where
Continue Reading By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The overturning of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling by the US Supreme Court comes at an economic cost to the nation, economists have warned. Friday’s decision to end the federal constitutional right to an abortion is widely thought to be more ideologically and politically motivated, rather than driven
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta and Arnaud Siad, CNN Several of the United States’ Western allies responded with anger and dismay after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, condemning the decision as “horrific,” “appalling” and “a big step backwards.” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the move “clearly has a massive impact on people’s
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday urged Americans to elect more members of Congress in November’s midterm elections who will support legislation protecting abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion. The President said the court’s ruling means women’s health is now
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed, Chandelis Duster and Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, holding that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion. The opinion is the most consequential Supreme Court decision in decades and will transform the landscape of women’s reproductive health in
Continue Reading By Jennifer Korn and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Update: This story was originally published on May 6. It has been updated to reflect the Supreme Court’s final decision. The Supreme Court’s Friday ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade is almost certain to spark a wave of new state legislation taking aim at abortion rights, and
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A library board in New York reversed its decision to remove all LGBTQ-related displays from its children’s section in four of its libraries during Pride month after the removal was criticized. On Tuesday, four out of seven Smithtown Library Board of Trustees had voted to remove all Pride material displays from
Continue Reading By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Geena Davis is not someone to stay silent on important matters. In fact, she’s built an research empire of sorts through her Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media and founded a film festival that both aim to empower underrepresented voices in Hollywood. But on this day, beaming in via Zoom
Continue Reading By Marnie Hunter, CNN Many air travelers this summer have already run into delays and cancellations, and there’s no sign of disruptions letting up anytime soon. Delta Air Lines expects customer volumes that it has “not seen since before the pandemic” over July 4, and the airline has issued a waiver for the holiday period
Continue Reading By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Americans are cutting back at the gas pump — and not just the amount of fuel they put in their tanks. Consumers are also changing the way they fill their grocery bags with rest-stop food and other essentials. The trigger: soaring inflation. The average price of gas is hovering around
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN A tiny spacecraft with big implications for lunar exploration has launched. The miniscule satellite, called a CubeSat, is about the size of a microwave oven and weighs just 55 pounds (25 kilograms), but it will be the first to test out a unique, elliptical lunar orbit. The CubeSat will act as
Continue Reading By Carma Hassan, Jacqueline Howard and Jen Christensen, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration has ordered Juul Labs Inc. products to be removed from the US market as the agency issued marketing denial orders for its vaping devices and pods. “As a result, the company must stop selling and distributing these products. In addition,
Continue Reading Julia Buckley, CNN It’s finally here: the end of fee-free travel to the European Union. The EU has announced the launch of its long-awaited visa waiver scheme, ETIAS, to debut in May 2023. While ETIAS is not the same as a visa — it is quicker, done online, and requires no biometric information — there
Continue Reading By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN A broad majority of Americans did not want to see Roe v. Wade overturned, according to polling taken before the Supreme Court ruled Friday that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion. Here’s a recap of the latest data on the public’s views of abortion and how
Continue Reading By Priya Krishnakumar and Daniel Wolfe, CNN Dr. Judette Louis recalls a time when she treated a patient who was hemorrhaging from her pregnancy — and how she had to wait to obtain permission before she was allowed to terminate the pregnancy for the health of the mother. “I was standing there watching her hemorrhage
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Clearly, this isn’t your father’s RadioShack. The zombie retailer’s Twitter account contains a stream of explicit comments, vulgarities and a bunch of drug references. Many companies have edgy social media presences, but not like this. So what’s going on? RadioShack is trying to sell you cryptocurrency — with an attitude.
Continue Reading Rachel Fadem, CNN | Ken Olshansky, CNN and Emmet Lyons, CNN The past two years have been a whirlwind for Japanese Breakfast’s lead vocalist Michelle Zauner. She’s headlined music festivals, performed on Saturday Night Live, landed two Grammy nominations and her 2021 memoir, “Crying in H Mart,” is a New York Times bestseller and is
Continue Reading By Lauren Fox, CNN Thursday night, both Sens. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer had reason to celebrate. After decades of inaction on gun legislation, the two men were able to achieve something that neither had imagined possible just weeks before: a compromise on gun safety legislation brokered by four members they’d each given their blessing
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN Arthur Ashe may have been most known for his tennis success, but it was his activism that set him apart off the court. When not winning major tennis championships and breaking barriers in one of the most lily-white sports at the time, Ashe was a vocal advocate for civil rights, even
Continue Reading By Jeremy Harlan, CNN Through the entirety of a five-course dinner, three NBA stars said little about basketball. There was barely a mention of an NBA title the Golden State Warriors had won the night before; no talk of which jersey they’d wear next season; hardly a word about a likely induction into the sport’s
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Covid patients aren’t directly overwhelming hospitals right now, but ripple effects of the pandemic are keeping beds full and patients away from the care they need. Most nursing homes are limiting new patients because of staffing shortages, driving the average hospital stay up to be longer than it was pre-pandemic. In
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson and Annie Grayer, CNN President Joe Biden will sign a bipartisan bill to address gun violence into law Saturday before departing for Europe, the White House announced Friday. The bill amounts to the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades and marks a significant bipartisan breakthrough on one of
Continue Reading By Claire Colbert and Michelle Watson, CNN A black bear in Sevierville, Tennessee, died after it got into an unlocked car in search of food, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency said Thursday in a news release. Sevierville is about 30 miles from Knoxville in East Tennessee, just north of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Thinking of traveling to Europe next summer? If so, get ready to pay a fee before you enter. The European Union has announced the launch of its long-awaited visa waiver plan. Under the new system, EU residents are exempt and have the freedom to spend as much time as they want
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN Business Two people died this week when a Nio electric car crashed to the ground from the third floor of a parking lot in Shanghai. One member of Nio’s staff and an employee from a partner company were killed in the accident, the Chinese electric carmaker said in a statement Thursday.
Continue Reading By Natasha Chen and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Los Angeles police are searching for a suspect who was caught on surveillance video assaulting an Asian man earlier this week, authorities said. Video footage released by police shows the suspect using his elbow to strike the victim in the face while the two were outside a storefront
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A North Texas school district has updated its dress code for the upcoming school year to ban hooded clothing as well as dresses and skirts for many of its grade levels, reasoning that the change will help students in their future careers. The bans quickly elicited a backlash
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, CNN Shocking images have emerged from New Zealand showing millions of once-velvety brown sea sponges bleached bone white, the worst mass bleaching event of its type ever recorded, marine scientists say. The alarming discovery comes amid a continued rise in ocean temperatures, a trend that scientists say is overwhelmingly due to planet-warming
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN The January 6 select committee’s latest public hearing on Thursday shed considerable new light on former President Donald Trump’s attempts to weaponize the Justice Department in the final months of his term as part of his plot to overturn the 2020 election and stay in power.
Continue Reading By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN PJ Rodriguez‘s 7-year-old son, John, is learning to cope with the loss of his grandmother and great grandmother. He was close to both and at times gets sad that he can’t talk to them, but a therapist has taught him to refocus his mind on happy memories when he gets
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A group of hikers filming a reality show were rescued via helicopter from a trail in Phoenix on Thursday due to heat-related illnesses, officials said. At least eight people needed assistance getting down from the Echo Canyon Trail on Camelback Mountain as temperatures hit triple digits, said Capt.
Continue Reading By Luke McGee, CNN Ukraine’s long-term goal of joining the European Union has received its latest shot in the arm, after the bloc’s 27 member states agreed Thursday that the country should be given candidate status — a significant step on the path to full membership. “Today marks a crucial step on your path towards
Continue Reading By Lauren Fox, CNN Thursday night, both Sens. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer had reason to celebrate. After decades of inaction on gun legislation, the two men were able to achieve something that neither had imagined possible just weeks before: a compromise on gun safety legislation brokered by four members they’d each given their blessing
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden arrived in Europe Saturday for a week of summits, where the grinding war in Ukraine — entering its fifth month and fading from Americans’ attention — will be thrust back to the forefront. The President touched down in Germany late Saturday local time. Biden hopes to announce new
Continue Reading By Kaitlan Collins, CNN Several of Donald Trump‘s closest allies sat for interviews with a British filmmaker during his final weeks as president after being assured they had editorial input over the final product, according to two people familiar with the situation, a claim the filmmaker’s team has denied. Multiple people said they had been
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN A movie theater in Oklahoma has removed a warning sign it initially posted about a same-sex kiss in the new Disney/Pixar film “Lightyear.” The notice outside of the 89er Theater in Kingfisher cautioned parents about a scene that depicts two female characters sharing a brief kiss, according to CNN affiliate KTUL.
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN The January 6 select committee’s latest public hearing on Thursday shed considerable new light on former President Donald Trump’s attempts to weaponize the Justice Department in the final months of his term as part of his plot to overturn the 2020 election and stay in power.
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business The oil industry pushed for an easing of tensions and a dialing back of finger-pointing from the White House during a Thursday meeting with the Energy Department as high gas prices continue to anger politicians and consumers. “Our guys raised concerns about the ongoing tone from the administration. We asked
Continue Reading By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Federal investigators on Wednesday conducted a search of the home of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, people briefed on the matter tell CNN. Clark is the former DOJ lawyer who former President Donald Trump sought to install as attorney general in the days before the January 6 Capitol
Continue Reading By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer For more than a decade, individual Supreme Court conservatives lamented lower court decisions that endorsed gun regulations, as their own court failed to expand a 2008 ruling that said the Second Amendment protects a right to a handgun in the home for self-defense. One of
Continue Reading By Sana Noor Haq, CNN American swimmer Anita Alvarez was rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach at the FINA World Aquatic Championships in Budapest, Hungary, after she lost consciousness. Coach Andrea Fuentes jumped into the pool after she saw the 25-year-old artistic swimmer sink to the bottom at the end of
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav, Lauren Fox and Ted Barrett, CNN The Senate on Thursday night passed a bipartisan bill to address gun violence that amounts to the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades. The final vote was 65 to 33 with 15 Republicans joining Democrats in support of the measure, marking a
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Elvis” has entered the theaters, but in a package that often recalls the excesses associated with his Vegas-residency years: Looking bloated, gaudy and at times bordering on self-parody. Those missteps, courtesy of director Baz Luhrmann and an ill-used Tom Hanks, squander Austin Butler’s brilliant moments in the title role, which
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN The January 6 select committee’s latest public hearing on Thursday shed considerable new light on former President Donald Trump’s attempts to weaponize the Justice Department in the final months of his term as part of his plot to overturn the 2020 election and stay in power.
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen and Ryan Nobles, CNN The documentary film crew subpoenaed by the January 6 committee interviewed former Vice President Mike Pence on January 12, 2021, a day before the House of Representatives voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump for inciting the Capitol riot. In a clip of the documentary from filmmaker
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen and Ryan Nobles, CNN The documentary film crew subpoenaed by the January 6 committee interviewed former Vice President Mike Pence on January 12, 2021, a day before the House of Representatives voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump for inciting the Capitol riot. In a clip of the documentary from filmmaker
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Covid lockdowns in China resulted in a rare drop in production and sales for Tesla in the second quarter. The electric automaker reported that completed sales dropped nearly 18%, to about 255,000 vehicles in the second quarter compared to the first three months of the year. Production fell 15% to
Continue Reading By Ben Church, Zayn Nabbi and Darren Lewis, CNN Former Manchester United and France star Patrice Evra says he wants to use his platform to tackle violence against children after detailing the sexual abuse he says he received as a teenager. In his autobiography ‘I Love This Game,’ Evra writes about abuse that he says
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN Katie Ledecky won a record-extending 17th swimming world title with a comfortable victory in the 1,500m free in Budapest on Monday. With this latest gold medal, Ledecky also tied fellow American Natalie Coughlin for the women’s record of 20 career medals at the world championships. “It’s pretty wild because I feel
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN New York leaders are condemning the US Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to knock down a century-old state law that placed restrictions on carrying a concealed gun outside the home, with Gov. Kathy Hochul calling the ruling both reckless and outrageous. “It is outrageous,” she said on Twitter, “that at a moment
Continue Reading Barry Neild, CNN Drive an hour or so southeast out of the city of Abu Dhabi toward the emirate’s empty deserts and you’ll hit a landscape full of unexpected man-made creations. The region of Al Wathba is home to a beautiful oasis-like wetland reserve created, so the story goes, by an overspill from a water
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Bacteria, viruses, yeast and parasites in your gut? It may sound like the stuff of nightmares, but this collection of microbes is actually a health necessity, experts say. Called the microbiome, it consists of the millions of organisms that live in us and on us, said Elizabeth Corwin, vice dean of
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez and Tina Burnside, CNN Leanna Taylor has long maintained that her ex-husband did not mean to leave their 22-month-old son Cooper to die in the back of a sweltering SUV eight years ago. In 2016, Taylor took the stand at the trial of Justin Ross Harris, the Georgia father sentenced to life
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Continue Reading By Sana Noor Haq, CNN American swimmer Anita Alvarez was rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach at the FINA World Aquatic Championships in Budapest, Hungary, after she lost consciousness. Coach Andrea Fuentes jumped into the pool after she saw the 25-year-old artistic swimmer sink to the bottom at the end of
Continue Reading By Donie O’Sullivan and Whitney Wild, CNN Business Calls for violence against members of the January 6 committee are circulating on some of the same online platforms that helped fuel the lies that led to the insurrection, a new analysis has found. Users on these platforms are openly calling for the execution of committee members,
Continue Reading By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent Before the congressional hearings this month, Franzetta Ivy offered private prayers for the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, hopeful that all Americans would watch the historic proceedings with open minds. “I prayed for the best outcome — that God’s will,
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN You can’t predict the future, but you can do your best to prepare for it. According to a survey of more than 1,100 US retirees, 70% of respondents wished their younger selves would have saved more and started earlier to create bigger nest eggs for retirement. Here’s what you need to
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 appear to escape antibody responses among both people who had previous Covid-19 infection and those who have been fully vaccinated and boosted, according to new data from researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, of Harvard Medical School. However, Covid-19 vaccination is still expected to provide
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa and CNN Sport Staff Dozens of civil and human rights organizations have joined Cherelle Griner, the wife of detained WNBA star Brittney Griner, in urging President Joe Biden to strike a deal for the athlete’s release, according to a letter obtained by CNN Wednesday. Over 40 organizations — including the National Association
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