By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Three Democratic senators are sounding the alarm about lucrative contracts and loans the Pentagon provided to companies linked to Donald Trump Jr. In a letter sent Thursday to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the lawmakers – Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Andy Kim and Richard Blumenthal – requested information
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Por Taylor Romine, CNN Tres personas que participaron en una manifestación contra agentes federales de inmigración en una iglesia de St. Paul el domingo fueron arrestadas por cargos federales y permanecen bajo custodia. Es posible que se produzcan más detenciones. Los manifestantes fueron acusados de conspiración para privar de derechos, según el Departamento de Seguridad
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN London (CNN) — Usama Ghanem learned the stifling censorship that shrouded public spaces in Egypt early in life, and still recalls criticizing the “stupid” regime under former President Hosni Mubarak in elementary school. Immediately, his teacher hushed him. “Nobody was allowed to say anything,” Ghanem, now a 22-year-old student in
Continue Reading Por CNN en Español ICE detiene a un niño de cinco años junto con su padre ecuatoriano. Alerta por tormentas invernales en EE.UU. Todas las nominaciones al Oscar. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. Suscríbete aquí para recibir el newsletter cada mañana en tu correo 🎙 Escucha las
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By Hannah Keyser (CNN) — Then there were four. A couple more classics decided in overtime (and a couple more, shall we say, uneven games) in the divisional round have brought us to the conference championships. This weekend will determine who plays in the Super Bowl. Sure, that’s the Big Game, but these tilts decide
Continue Reading Por Isaac Yee, Avery Schmitz, Thomas Bordeaux, Katie Polglase y Allegra Goodwin, CNN en Español La audaz operación estadounidense para derrocar a Nicolás Maduro, presidente de Venezuela hasta su captura, se redujo a un intenso tiroteo final en el que helicópteros estadounidenses estuvieron expuestos a un nivel de riesgo extraordinario al descender a un complejo
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — For Madalin “Cris” Cristea, the danger unfolded in slow motion. Cris and two fellow hikers were descending Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps. The wind was howling, the snow was driving hard, but they were making steady progress toward safety. Then, through the blur of white, Cris
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By Leah Dolan and Barbie Latza Nadeau Rome, Italy (CNN) — Peers, supporters, successors and admirers of the late Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani paid their respects today in Rome at the late couturier’s funeral. Since Wednesday, Valentino (who often went by his first name) has been lying in state at PM23, the arts and
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By Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — Federal officers in tactical gear line up at the driveway of a large block-shaped building wedged between the city limits of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Across from them, a crowd of protesters yell at the officers and sometimes try to block cars driving in and out. The Bishop Henry
Continue Reading Por Gabe Cohen, CNN La Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, por sus siglas en inglés) ha suspendido abruptamente los despidos en curso de cientos de trabajadores de desastres mientras la agencia se prepara para una enorme tormenta invernal que se espera que azote una gran franja del país en los próximos días.
Continue Reading Por Stephy Chung, CNN En 2015, China le devolvió a Ai Weiwei algo de gran valor: su pasaporte chino. Esta medida le permitió al artista disidente viajar por primera vez desde que las autoridades revocaron su documento en 2011, el mismo año en que pasó 81 días en detención secreta del Gobierno por presunta evasión
Continue Reading Por Helen Regan y Daria Tarasova, CNN Los negociadores ucranianos, estadounidenses y rusos mantendrán conversaciones en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos el viernes, lo que marca la primera reunión conocida a la que asistirán los tres países desde la invasión a gran escala de Moscú en 2022. El asesor del Kremlin, Yuri Ushakov, confirmó que Rusia
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By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — More than half of the United States is about to face one of the most sprawling and menacing winter storms in years, one that threatens to deliver a historic blow of snow and ice. The long-lasting storm begins Friday and, by its end on Monday, will have dropped
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — As thousands of protestors demonstrate in Washington, DC, at Friday’s annual March for Life, the Trump administration faces a deadline to explain why it opposes a lawsuit that would achieve a key goal of its allies in the anti-abortion movement by ending the availability of abortion pills
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By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Three people who denounced federal immigration agents in a protest at a St. Paul church on Sunday were arrested on federal charges and kept in custody Wednesday — and more arrests could be coming. The protesters were charged with conspiracy to deprive rights, according to the Department of Homeland
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along its trunk. Seiler, a professor and tree physiology specialist at the university, knew immediately that the scar was
Continue ReadingBy Aleena Fayaz, Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — The City of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration after the National Park Service removed a long-standing exhibit on slavery in the city’s Independence National Historical Park. The lawsuit, filed in federal court Thursday against the US Interior Department, Secretary Doug Burgum, the park service and its
Continue Reading Por Laura Paddison, CNN En las arenosas orillas del lago Michigan, con un denso bosque como telón de fondo, un edificio de hormigón gris de ángulos pronunciados podría ser el rostro de un renacimiento nuclear estadounidense. La planta nuclear de Palisades, a unas dos horas en auto de Chicago, fue desmantelada en 2022, considerada antieconómica
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian, United States and Russian negotiators will hold talks in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, marking the first known meeting to be attended by all three countries since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov confirmed Russia would join representatives from Ukraine and the
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has abruptly halted ongoing terminations of hundreds of disaster workers as the agency prepares for an enormous winter storm expected to pound a large swath of the country in the coming days. In an email Thursday afternoon, obtained by CNN, staff were told that
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