By Chandelis Duster and Daniella Diaz, CNN Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren offered a warning to fellow Democrats on Sunday, saying that if they “don’t get up and deliver” while their party has the majority in Congress, they will lose the 2022 midterm elections. “There is so much we can do. And if we do it
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN The average price of virtually everything is going up — from food to houses, cars, clothes and toys. Now there are growing expectations that the Federal Reserve will soon dramatically hike interest rates in order to put a brake on surging consumer prices. Here’s what else you need to know to
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN Each week, Govonna Ingram has to decide which bills she can afford to pay while she looks for a job. Essentials like food for her two daughters and 1-year-old grandson take priority, so the Chicago resident hasn’t been able to pay her utility bills since 2021. Last month, she received a
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson and Christine Sever, CNN A Florida deputy climbed the outside of an apartment building to rescue a one-year-old girl from a fire early Saturday and the dramatic scene was captured on the deputy’s body camera, officials said. The baby and her mother were struggling to escape after a fire broke out at
Continue Reading By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN The Biden administration’s plans to lift Title 42 are raising concerns in border communities and sparking fierce debate in Washington. Politicians have been sparring over whether it’s the right time to repeal the pandemic public health restrictions. And a federal judge’s decision may have just thrown a wrench in the
Continue Reading By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Investors are gearing up for a week of big ticket economic data, including a first look at economic growth between January and March and more inflation numbers. America’s economic activity, measured by gross domestic product, is forecast to have only grown at an annualized pace of 1% in the first
Continue Reading By Joshua Berlinger, CNN French voters will choose between two very different visions for their country during Sunday’s presidential runoff election, as the centrist President Emmanuel Macron seeks to fend off a challenge from his far-right opponent, Marine Le Pen. Macron, 44, is pitching voters on an innovative, globalized France at the head of a
Continue Reading By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Isa Soares, Madalena Araujo, Sofiya Harbuziuk, Oleksandra Ochman and Marc Seeman, CNN They’ve endured intense battles, brutal airstrikes and unimaginable loss, but this weekend many Ukrainians will attempt to celebrate one of their most important holidays of the year: Orthodox Easter. Traditionally a time of reflection and rebirth, this Sunday will also
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Continue Reading By Lauren Fox and Ellie Kaufman, CNN Military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine could be at risk of being bogged down in the immigration battle brewing on Capitol Hill between Republicans and the Biden administration. The Biden administration is expected to send another supplemental request to Congress this week for Ukraine after warning that money
Continue Reading By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Jonny Hallam and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Kyiv on Sunday. “I don’t think this is a secret that people from the US are coming to us tomorrow, State Secretary Mr. Blinken and
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson, Rebekah Riess and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A 4-year-old girl in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has died after her grandmother forced her to drink whiskey, police say. The girl’s blood alcohol content was 0.680%, a “lethal dosage,” according to the arrest warrant. A level of .25% can cause alcohol poisoning, and anything higher than
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN “This is planet Earth, you’re looking at planet Earth.” So go the lyrics of Duran Duran’s first hit single. While not strictly an Earth Day song, it nevertheless inspires you to think of new beginnings. The holiday in honor of our world cannot be separated from the climate crisis, as CNN’s
Continue Reading By Caroll Alvarado, CNN Dashcam video shows the terrifying moments when a truck driver near Cleveland, Ohio, lost control of his tractor-trailer and nearly crashed into a school bus loaded with students. The incident unfolded Tuesday around 8:25 a.m. as a school bus was finishing its morning rounds on its way to Ralph E. Waite
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, CNN If the Supreme Court reverses its long-standing abortion precedent later this year and lets states ban abortions within their borders, it will unleash a new legal and legislative fight over how far anti-abortion lawmakers can reach to target conduct that happens outside their state lines. A draft majority opinion published by
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Jennifer Henderson, CNN The bodies of a New Hampshire couple were found shot to death in a wooded area in Concord, police say. Djeswende Reid, 66, and Stephen Reid, 67, had been shot multiple times, according to Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Mitchell Weinberg. They had left their apartment to go for
Continue Reading By Jamie Crawford, Jessica Schneider and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN A man who set himself on fire Friday on the plaza in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, has died, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. The man was identified as Wynn Bruce of Boulder, Colorado, an MPD spokesperson said Saturday. Bruce had
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN The US mask mandate for planes and public transportation has been struck down, Venice is introducing an entry fee for tourists, and Chicago O’Hare International Airport is getting an $8.5 billion makeover. Here are the big stories in travel this week. Masks and mayhem Canceled flights. Understaffed airports. Soaring car rental
Continue Reading By Caroll Alvarado, CNN Dashcam video shows the terrifying moments when a truck driver near Cleveland, Ohio, lost control of his tractor-trailer and nearly crashed into a school bus loaded with students. The incident unfolded Tuesday around 8:25 a.m. as a school bus was finishing its morning rounds on its way to Ralph E. Waite
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine The husband of Sherri Papini, the Northern California woman accused of faking her own kidnapping in 2016, has filed for divorce and custody of the couple’s two children, court records show. Papini, 39, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and making false statements in court Monday. She appeared virtually in the US District
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman, CNN Now that most US cities and states have dropped masking requirements and other precautions against Covid-19, you may be wondering about your chances of getting infected or, worse, being hospitalized or dying if you happen to get sick. Researchers have been digging into that question, and in general, what they’ve found
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman, CNN Now that most US cities and states have dropped masking requirements and other precautions against Covid-19, you may be wondering about your chances of getting infected or, worse, being hospitalized or dying if you happen to get sick. Researchers have been digging into that question, and in general, what they’ve found
Continue Reading By Jay Croft and Steve Contorno, CNN Florida education officials have released four images from some of the math textbooks the state rejected this month, citing what they said were references to critical race theory or other “prohibited” topics. The state Department of Education last week rejected 54 of 132 math textbooks publishers had submitted.
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher, Steve Contorno and Jon Passantino, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed several bills into law, including two measures targeting Disney, legislation that will put new restrictions on how schools and businesses can talk about race and gender, and the state’s new congressional map. The bills targeting Disney were passed by
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Janelle Monáe, the Grammy-nominated performer, actor and author, has confirmed that they identify as nonbinary in interviews tied to their new book. “I’m nonbinary,” Monáe said in an appearance this week on “Red Table Talk,” the Facebook series co-hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith. “So I don’t see myself as a woman,
Continue Reading By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN Since-deleted videos from Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s social media contradict comments the GOP congresswoman made at a court hearing on Friday downplaying her ties to a YouTuber and conservative activist who participated in the January 6, 2021, mob that broke into the US Capitol. Speaking at her
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has been maneuvering behind the scenes to contain the fallout over damning and contradictory conversations he had with other GOP lawmakers about then-President Donald Trump in the immediate aftermath of January 6. The California Republican dialed up key GOP members throughout
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are currently spending their days in a Fairfax, Virginia courthouse. Depp, who testified for three days this week, is suing his ex-wife for $50 million over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed she wrote. How they landed there –13 years after first meeting — is a story of
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2021, following heart disease and cancer, for the second year in a row, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The overall age-adjusted death rate for all causes in the US was
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Now that some mask and vaccine mandates are being lifted, consumers seem ready to spend on travel and other leisure experiences. Call it the “revenge spending” phenomenon. Airline and hotel stocks have been surging this year thanks in part to a spate of long overdue revenge spending, or
Continue Reading Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Contributors: Eliza Mackintosh, Jacqui Palumbo, Max Burnell, Angelica Pursley On the evening of February 24, just hours after Russia launched its full-blown attack on Ukraine, art curator Maria Lanko got into her car and left her home in Kyiv. Unsure of her exact plan, and with a potentially dangerous journey ahead,
Continue Reading By Sara Spary, CNN British pop star Ed Sheeran has revealed he filmed his latest music video in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, just days before Russia invaded the country. The singer-songwriter released the video for his track 2step, featuring rapper Lil Baby, Friday morning on his official YouTube channel. Before the song begins, a written message
Continue Reading By Elissa Garay After two years of navigating relentlessly choppy seas, the cruise industry — one of the sectors of tourism hardest hit by the pandemic — is forecasting significantly smoother sailing ahead. Facing persistent pandemic pressures and increasingly urgent demands around climate action, industry innovation and adaptation has been the name of the game.
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Perseverance rover just witnessed a unique kind of eclipse while sitting on the surface of Mars — and the robotic explorer captured video of it. And although it looks like the rover was watching the shadow of a potato cross the red Martian surface, that’s actually Phobos, one of Mars’
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has been maneuvering behind the scenes to contain the fallout over damning and contradictory conversations he had with other GOP lawmakers about then-President Donald Trump in the immediate aftermath of January 6. The California Republican dialed up key GOP members throughout
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi and Bear Hutchison, CNN Anoosheh Ashoori points on a computer screen to the location of a makeshift shelter in the yard of Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. “I used to sit here during winter and even when it was snowing,” Ashoori says in an interview with CNN’s Becky Anderson. It was here that
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Andy Rose, CNN The family of a 24-year-old woman last seen in Houston on April 15, is pleading for help in finding her after her bloody cell phone was discovered near a park in West Houston following her disappearance. According to community activist Quanell X, who is the leader of the
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Nicolas Cage appears to have a great time spoofing his career in “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” but unlike many movies about Hollywood, audiences should have tons of fun too. Flanked by a very funny Pedro Pascal, the movie nearly buckles under its own weight at times but possesses
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Russian opposition leader. Anti-corruption campaigner. Assassination attempt survivor. Prisoner. Alexey Navalny’s crusade against the Kremlin has brought many labels. And with the eyes of the world now trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his brutal invasion of Ukraine, Navalny’s message of resistance is finding new weight inside and outside of
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Russian opposition leader. Anti-corruption campaigner. Assassination attempt survivor. Prisoner. Alexey Navalny’s crusade against the Kremlin has brought many labels. And with the eyes of the world now trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his brutal invasion of Ukraine, Navalny’s message of resistance is finding new weight inside and outside of
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN It’s been more than a year since adults first got Covid-19 vaccines, but about 18 million children under 5 in the US are still waiting — and will probably have to wait until the summer, despite some predictions that shots would be available in the first part of 2022. While Moderna
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN It’s been more than a year since adults first got Covid-19 vaccines, but about 18 million children under 5 in the US are still waiting — and will probably have to wait until the summer, despite some predictions that shots would be available in the first part of 2022. While Moderna
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you saw a shooting star last night, it might have been from the Lyrid meteor shower — a collection of bright and fast meteors that reached its peak overnight. For those who missed the exciting moment, we have good news! You may have an opportunity to catch an even better
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN If you saw a shooting star last night, it might have been from the Lyrid meteor shower — a collection of bright and fast meteors that reached its peak overnight. For those who missed the exciting moment, we have good news! You may have an opportunity to catch an even better
Continue Reading By Lauren Fox, CNN New audio of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy released on Thursday night reveals he did consider asking then-President Donald Trump to resign in the days after the January 6 riot — contradicting his office’s earlier denials of New York Times reporting that he had done so. In the audio, which was
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Russian opposition leader. Anti-corruption campaigner. Assassination attempt survivor. Prisoner. Alexey Navalny’s crusade against the Kremlin has brought many labels. And with the eyes of the world now trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his brutal invasion of Ukraine, Navalny’s message of resistance is finding new weight inside and outside of
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Russian opposition leader. Anti-corruption campaigner. Assassination attempt survivor. Prisoner. Alexey Navalny’s crusade against the Kremlin has brought many labels. And with the eyes of the world now trained on Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his brutal invasion of Ukraine, Navalny’s message of resistance is finding new weight inside and outside of
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Philadelphia will lift its mask mandate, less than a week after it was reinstated due to a rising Covid-19 case count. The city’s Board of Health voted to rescind the mandate, which went into effect Monday, citing leveling numbers of cases and decreasing hospitalizations, the Philadelphia mayor’s office said in a
Continue Reading By Tara John, Oleksandra Ochman and Sandi Sidhu, CNN When Russian troops invaded Ukraine and began closing in on its capital, Kyiv, Andrii Dereko begged his 22-year-old stepdaughter Karina Yershova to leave the suburb where she lived. But Yershova insisted she wanted to remain in Bucha, telling him: “Don’t talk nonsense, everything will be fine
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher, CNN A coalition of civil rights groups has filed the first lawsuit in Florida against the recently enacted congressional map put forward by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis that eliminates two districts represented by Black Democrats while giving Republicans the advantage in as many as 20 of 28 seats. The GOP-controlled Florida legislature
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Friday that would eliminate the special legal setup that allows Disney to operate as an independent government around its Orlando-area theme parks. The move comes as Florida’s Republican-led government has taken aim at Disney — the largest single-site employer
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Emma Tucker, CNN Texas executed its oldest death row inmate by lethal injection on Thursday, shortly after the governor of Tennessee granted a temporary reprieve in what would have been the state’s first execution since the pandemic began. Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at 6:39 p.m. CT on Thursday, according
Continue Reading By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Former President Barack Obama on Thursday called on tech companies to provide greater transparency about the way they promote content and for stricter regulation of the industry to combat what he called the “disinformation problem.” Obama, speaking in the heart of Silicon Valley in Stanford, California, has been making the fight
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Steve Almasy, CNN Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday declared a state of emergency in Coconino County due to the 20,000-acre Tunnel wildfire. The blaze started Sunday just north of Flagstaff and is 0% contained, according to the InciWeb website, a national wildfire clearinghouse. At least two dozen buildings have been
Continue Reading By Manu Raju, Alex Rogers and Ali Zaslav, CNN Lt. Gov. John Fetterman swung by the heart of Republican country in Southwestern Pennsylvania, in the reddest of red districts, where then-President Donald Trump trounced Joe Biden by more than 55 points and MAGA signs are still apparent on seemingly every other street corner. But rather
Continue Reading By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails and Scott McWhinnie, CNN Galina Nikolaevna is weeping in the wreckage of her home in the village of Kamyshevakha in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Two days ago, a couple of Russian shells landed on the house and the garage, making it uninhabitable. But Nikolaevna and her husband are
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer and Lauren Fox, CNN Republican Sen. Mike Lee is defending himself against criticism that he obscured what he knew about efforts to overturn the 2020 election in light of newly-revealed text messages showing he communicated for weeks about the effort with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The texts, first reported
Continue Reading By Allie Torgan, CNN When Shirley Raines was named the 2021 CNN Hero of the Year in New York City last December, she wasted no time bringing the honor back to her Skid Row community in Los Angeles. “It’s just a really amazing opportunity for the homeless to be seen, helped … for people to
Continue Reading By Allie Torgan, CNN When Shirley Raines was named the 2021 CNN Hero of the Year in New York City last December, she wasted no time bringing the honor back to her Skid Row community in Los Angeles. “It’s just a really amazing opportunity for the homeless to be seen, helped … for people to
Continue Reading By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Amazon announced Thursday that it will let third-party merchants offer Prime membership benefits such as free and fast shipping directly to Prime customers through their own online stores rather than solely through the e-commerce giant’s platform. The option, called Buy with Prime, will initially be available by invitation only for
Continue Reading By Amir Vera, Jacob Lev and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A junior college baseball pitcher in Texas is no longer on the team after he attacked an opposing team’s baserunner during a game, Weatherford College head baseball coach Jeff Lightfoot said Thursday. The opposing player had just hit a home run Wednesday and was rounding the
Continue Reading By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates continued to rise this week, reaching their highest level in more than a decade. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.11% in the week ending April 21, up from 5% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. It is the seventh consecutive week of increases and is significantly higher
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher, Steve Contorno and Rachel Janfaza, CNN The Florida legislature on Thursday gave final passage to a pair of bills aimed at Disney, weeks into the company’s feud with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over its objections to a new law that limits certain classroom discussion on sexual orientation and gender identity. One of
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher, Steve Contorno and Rachel Janfaza, CNN The Florida legislature on Thursday gave final passage to a pair of bills aimed at Disney, weeks into the company’s feud with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over its objections to a new law that limits certain classroom discussion on sexual orientation and gender identity. One of
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Part “Hamlet,” part “Conan the Barbarian” and a whole lot of “Vikings,” “The Northman” is a gorgeously shot exercise in visceral thrills that goes heavy on atmospherics and very, very light on story. Director/co-writer Robert Eggers (“The Lighthouse”) has sought to make the definitive Viking movie, and while the film
Continue Reading By Dianne Gallagher and Steve Contorno, CNN Florida lawmakers gave final approval on Thursday to new congressional boundaries for the next decade, adopting a map put forward by Gov. Ron DeSantis office that controversially eliminated two districts represented by Black Democrats while giving Republicans the advantage in as many as 20 of 28 districts. The
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Just because incidents of political interference within the United States’ top health agencies are not reported, does not mean they don’t happen, a new federal report finds. The US Government Accountability Office released a report Wednesday detailing how four public health agencies that were reviewed — the US Centers for Disease
Continue Reading By Judson Jones, Monica Garrett, Chad Myers and Brandon Miller, CNN Meteorologists Fierce winds across drought-stricken areas will bring the highest fire danger Friday to the Southwest and High Plains, while the same system triggers severe storms with possible isolated tornadoes in the central and southern Plains and a snowstorm across the northern Rockies and
Continue Reading By Kristen Rogers, CNN If you’re wondering how your child might fare on a vegetarian diet, a new study offers some factors to consider. Children eating a vegetarian diet and children who ate meat were similar in terms of growth, height and nutritional measures, but vegetarian children had higher odds of being underweight, according to
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A Florida bride and her wedding caterer have been arrested and accused of lacing wedding food, including lasagna, with marijuana and causing several guests to become sick, according to their arrest warrant affidavits. Bride Danya Shea Svoboda, 42, and caterer Joycelyn Montrinice Bryant, 31, have been charged with
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and former attorney to ex-President Donald Trump, was unmasked on Wednesday’s episode of Fox’s “The Masked Singer.” Giuliani’s appearance on the show comes as no surprise. Back in February, it was reported that two judges had walked off during the taping of the episode
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden said Thursday the US will send an additional $800 million in military assistance to Ukraine as Russia’s war enters what he called a “critical window,” but warned congressional action is necessary for further shipments as the war grinds on. The speech was Biden’s first public
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The head of the federal agency charged with the care of unaccompanied migrant children is stepping down, according to a Health and Human Services Department spokesperson. Cindy Huang, who helmed the Office of Refugee Resettlement, is transitioning out of her role through the end of the month as the Biden administration
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette and Jason Hanna, CNN A Connecticut state trooper has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in the 2020 death of a carjacking suspect he shot after a high-speed chase, a state official’s office said Wednesday. Trooper Brian North’s arrest comes after investigators concluded that his shooting of Mubarak Soulemane “was not justified,”
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business After two years of massive losses, US airlines are about to start reporting profits once again. Both American and United reported first-quarter losses but expect to book record revenue in the current period, just two years removed from a near halt in air travel caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. American
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Actor Johnny Depp concluded his testimony in his defamation trial against Amber Heard in a Fairfax, Virginia court on Monday. His fourth day on the stand, Depp was cross-examined by Heard’s attorney, Ben Rottenborn. He was asked about audio recordings of arguments with Heard and whether she was the only person who
Continue Reading By Zeena Saifi, CNN A recent spike in violence at some of Jerusalem’s key holy sites has left Jordan in a difficult position vis-a-vis its nearly century-old custodial obligations in the city. Israeli police have clashed with Palestinians on the al-Aqsa mosque compound in recent days in unrest that has left more than 200 wounded,
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Investors have quickly turned on companies like Netflix that were growing fast during the recovery from the pandemic but are now sputtering. Yet Tesla, which skeptics have long said is overvalued based on rosy projections for the future, is experiencing a much softer landing. What’s happening: Tesla shares have dropped
Continue Reading By Kaitlan Collins, Alex Marquardt, Barbara Starr and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The White House has brought on a retired three-star general to help coordinate the hundreds of millions in military assistance that the United States is sending to Ukraine. Two administration officials say Terry Wolff recently joined the National Security Council to help coordinate the
Continue Reading By Joseph Ataman, CNN French President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen clashed Wednesday night in a TV debate that laid bare their differences, as they prepare to face off in the presidential runoff Sunday. The centrist incumbent beat a familiar tune of heavy investment in French industry and an uncompromising commitment
Continue Reading By Omar Jimenez, CNN Craig and Kelly Robinson said they were shocked to receive a letter informing them their children would not be allowed back as students at the prestigious University School of Milwaukee (USM). “We cannot continue a relationship with your family,” is what part of the enrollment termination letter read, sent at the
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau The shouts of locked-down residents demanding basic necessities, the cries of babies separated from their parents in quarantine, the pleas of a son repeatedly rejected by hospitals to treat his critically ill father, and the sobs of an exhausted local official who admits there is “no good policy”
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing Bureau The men came after 2 a.m. on Tuesday in the dead of the night, banging on an apartment door in a rundown housing complex in Shanghai. When nobody answered, they pried open the lock and barged in, rousing a 92-year-old woman from her bed. The visitors demanded to
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN A California lawmaker says police in Santa Ana have been playing loud, copyrighted music so that video of them on patrol would likely be taken down if it was posted online. Councilmember Johnathan Ryan Hernandez said at a City Council meeting Tuesday he wants lawmakers to ban the alleged practice after
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN The US saw the highest number of “very unhealthy” and “hazardous” air quality days between 2018 and 2020 than it ever had before, according to a report released Thursday by the American Lung Association. After a steady 23-year decline in US pollution levels through 2017, the American Lung Association’s State of
Continue Reading By Alta Spells and Jen Christensen, CNN The Florida Department of Health is advising against any gender-affirming care for children and adolescents in new guidelines that are contrary to direction from major medical associations and federal health officials. According to the guidance, released Wednesday, children who identify as transgender or gender diverse shouldn’t be offered
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The US will announce a new round of security assistance to Ukraine “in very short order,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday evening, as Russia’s brutal invasion continues. Speaking to CNN+’s Chris Wallace, Psaki said Russia’s test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile would not change the White House’s
Continue Reading By Oren Liebermann, CNN The Ukrainian Air Force has added about 20 more operational aircraft to its fleet because of an influx of spare parts, according to a senior US defense official. Though the official wouldn’t specify which country had provided the aircraft parts, the official said Wednesday that the US and other countries had
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continue to mull over what the future of Covid-19 booster shots might look like — and they acknowledge that entirely different vaccine formulations could be needed. At their meeting Wednesday, the members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
Continue Reading By Brian Fung, CNN Business The European Union is warning Apple about possible antitrust violations after an investigation into the iPhone maker’s dominance in mobile retail payments. The European Commission said Monday that it believes Apple has unfairly blocked competitors from using the wireless communications technology behind Apple Pay’s tap-to-pay capabilities. According to a statement
Continue Reading By Sandi Sidhu, Phil Black, Daria Markina and Victoria Butenkow, CNN Dmitry Nekazakov was walking his dog before he went to work when the Russian shelling started on Hostomel, a city on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv. The sky buzzed with low-flying helicopters from which Russian troops jumped, while rockets rained down. It was
Continue Reading By Emmet Lyons and Claire Calzonetti, CNN Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told CNN that security steps taken by the Israeli government in Gaza and Jerusalem were not politically motivated. “All of my security decisions regarding actions in Temple Mount or with Gaza are not political. I take the decisions on the merit, Bennett told
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The United States on Wednesday unveiled its latest round of sanctions going after Russia over its war on Ukraine, this time targeting a key commercial bank and “a global network of more than 40 individuals and entities led by U.S.-designated Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev.” In a news release,
Continue Reading By Sandee LaMotte, CNN More pets are being poisoned by marijuana plants and edibles than in the past and some even die, a new study finds. A survey of veterinarians found cases of poisoning occurred most frequently in dogs, but cats, iguanas, ferrets, horses and cockatoos also fell victim to the hallucinogenic effects of marijuana.
Continue Reading By Stephanie Elam and Jason Kravarik, CNN Leonardo DiCaprio has made the climate crisis and environmental conservation his life’s work — mainly off screen, though sometimes on. In addition to leading his own environmental foundation, the film star sits on the board of several other organizations, and his advocacy has been celebrated by the United
Continue Reading By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Netflix shares plunged this week after the platform reported its first subscriber loss in more than a decade. One factor the company pointed to as hurting revenue: widespread password sharing. Does this mean the streamer is about to kick millions of viewers off shared accounts? Not quite. But it could
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, Jean Casarez and Lauren del Valle, CNN The Ohio doctor accused of overprescribing fentanyl to his critically ill patients and hastening their deaths was found not guilty of 14 counts of murder on Wednesday. William Husel and his attorney embraced at the defense table after the 14th and final not guilty verdict
Continue Reading By Kristen Rogers, CNN If your friend has recently lost weight, you might want to tell her how great she looks. Maybe you also say that you wish you had her body or self-control or you ask her how she did it. Perhaps you’ve been on the receiving end of such a “compliment” in the
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