By Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that Jessica Tisch accepted his offer to stay at the helm of the nation’s largest police force. The announcement secures Mamdani’s highest-profile appointment as he prepares to take office in January. It will require significant compromise from both Tisch
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By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Matthew Chance, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has been quietly hammering out a new peace plan with Russia to end its war with Ukraine, a person familiar with the talks told CNN. The president’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who has been at the center of the administration’s talks with
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Target’s problems are intensifying. In the latest signal of trouble, the company reported sales dropped during its latest quarter, and Target cut its full-year profit guidance Wednesday. The company’s sales have stagnated for about four years, and Target said last month that it would cut 1,000 corporate
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN The Trump administration has promised $2,000 tariff rebate checks to millions of Americans next year — but experts question whether the plan is feasible due to several major obstacles. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. 1️⃣ Epstein files A bill
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By Hanna Park, Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Former Harvard president Larry Summers will not finish out the semester in his instructor role, a Harvard spokesperson confirmed, as the university investigates emails from Jeffrey Epstein released last week. “Mr. Summers has decided it’s in the best interest of the Center for him to go on
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By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Denmark’s biggest exports include Ozempic, Carlsberg and Lego. But now, European leaders think it has something more valuable to sell: an immigration system tough and effective enough to neuter the hard right and keep mainstream parties in power. Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, has achieved what many center-left
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Washington (CNN) — The House vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files was, in the end, 427-1. That’s a margin typically reserved for proclamations and post office namings, not for what was perhaps the biggest defeat of President Donald Trump’s second term, a fight that GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene declared
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By Jerome Taylor, Ross Adkin, CNN (CNN) — China has warned there is “no market” for Japanese seafood exports, the latest veiled threat from Beijing as its diplomatic spat with Tokyo escalates over recent comments by Japan’s leader on defending Taiwan. The two neighbors have been engaged in a rapidly spiraling dispute after Japanese leader
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By Betsy Klein, CNN Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina (CNN) — Melania Trump joined second lady Usha Vance on Wednesday for a pre-Thanksgiving visit with North Carolina military families, offering the latest signal that the first lady is more actively engaging with her role after a quiet start to her second term.
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore could be repeated across the country if recommendations aren’t followed, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. The board issued 17 safety recommendations this week to prevent an accident like the one last year, where the 213-million-pound cargo vessel
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By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration admitted it “inadvertently” deported a transgender woman to Mexico this month after a judge ordered she not be removed to the country over fears she may be tortured or violently persecuted. The government has said it will allow Britania Uriostegui Rios, a Mexican national, to return
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By Victoria Butenko, Kosta Gak, Todd Symons and Catherine Nicholls, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Rescuers were still working through the rubble on Friday, uncovering more bodies after a Russian attack hit apartment buildings in western Ukraine earlier this week, killing at least 31 people including several children, according to authorities. Ukraine’s emergency service said
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PALM DESERT, CALIF. (KESQ) — Golden Boy Promotions will kick off its 2026 fight calendar with the first-ever boxing event at Acrisure Arena. The fights are scheduled for Friday, Jan. 16 and will be broadcast exclusively on DAZN. Headlining the card, NABO Welterweight Champion Alexis “Lex” Rocha (25-2-1, 16 KOs) and NABF Welterweight Champion Raul “El
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By Taylor Romine, Priscilla Alvarez, Rebekah Riess, Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Rheba Hamilton was sipping coffee on her porch Saturday morning as she watched the two workers she‘d hired begin draping her front yard tree with lights in a quiet Charlotte, North Carolina, neighborhood. Suddenly, a gray minivan – doors already ajar – made
Continue Reading CNN, POOL, WCCO, WTVD, WCNC, WRAL, WBTV, SEE PREFONTS By Taylor Romine, Priscilla Alvarez, Rebekah Riess, Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Rheba Hamilton was sipping coffee on her porch Saturday morning as she watched the two workers she‘d hired begin draping her front yard tree with lights in a quiet Charlotte, North Carolina, neighborhood. Suddenly,
Continue ReadingBy Ellis Kim, CNN (CNN) — A failed effort in the House of Representatives to censure Democratic Del. Stacey Plaskett over her text exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing sparked bitter recriminations in the GOP on Tuesday, with some conservative lawmakers alleging that a backroom deal was struck to spare one of
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UPDATE 11/18/2025 11:15 P.M. – Northbound lanes on Cook Street were reopened after crews removed debris from the area. PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – Northbound lanes on Cook Street just north of Country Club Drive were closed around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night after a crash involving two cars caused one car to collide into a
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – As the investigation is ongoing into the circumstances of the death on Sunday night of Cathedral City Councilmember Mark Carnevale, News Channel 3 has learned more on what Riverside County Sheriff’s Office found when they responded to a residence in Rancho Mirage. News Channel 3 reached out to RSO to
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By Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto and Abbas Al Lawati, CNN Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Iran is willing to resume nuclear talks with the United States if they are conducted respectfully, a senior Iranian official told CNN on Tuesday, while insisting Tehran will not move from the position it held before the US and Israel attacked
Continue ReadingBy Max Saltman, Isa Cardona, CNN (CNN) — It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…not Superman? No, it’s Super Mustache, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro’s cartoon alter-ego, here to save the South American country from peril. “Super Mustache,” which has aired on Venezuelan state TV since 2021, is just one piece of the country’s propaganda push
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