CNN By Devon M. Sayers, Pete Muntean, Dianne Gallagher, CNN STATESVILLE, NC (CNN) — Six people have died after a small private jet crashed shortly after takeoff in Statesville, North Carolina, a source briefed on the crash tells CNN. The crash happened shortly after 10:15 a.m., Iredell County Chief Deputy Bill Hamby told CNN. Preliminary
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN President Donald Trump announced the first-ever “Patriot Games,” a youth athletic competition celebrating America’s upcoming 250th anniversary. Some Democrats have mocked the idea, comparing it to “The Hunger Games” — the dystopian book and film franchise in which children are forced to fight to the death in televised arenas. Here’s
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CNN By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — A judge in Dedham, Massachusetts, called the acts of Brian Walshe “barbaric and incomprehensible” before sentencing him Thursday to life in prison without parole for killing his wife, dismembering her body and discarding her remains in dumpsters. The sentencing comes after a jury on Monday convicted Walshe
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CNN By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — A bloc of House GOP centrists just made the ultimate hardball play against Speaker Mike Johnson — agreeing to help Democrats effectively seize control of the Republican agenda by forcing a vote on their own bill on the looming Obamacare subsidies cliff. The stunning blow to
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CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted strikes against three alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 8 people, according to US Southern Command. “On Dec. 15, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels
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CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Retiring Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Monday her engagement to Brian Glenn, a pro-Trump pundit who works for the far-right news network Real America’s Voice. “Happily ever after!!!” Greene posted on X. Glenn, who is chief White House correspondent for the MAGA-aligned network, also shared
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WALT DISNEY PICTURES, UNIVERSAL PICTURES, LIONSGATE, GKIDS, CNN By James Legge and Joyce Jiang, CNN Beijing (CNN) — Qi Weihao recently welcomed a new family member – a beautiful, highly venomous, blue snake. The 21-year-old from central Jiangxi province bought the Indonesian pit viper for 1,850 yuan ($260) two days after the release of Disney’s
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CNN By Victoria Butenko, Christian Edwards, Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s domestic security service, the SBU, said Monday that it had carried out an attack on a Russian submarine in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, causing critical damage to the vessel and effectively disabling it. In a statement, the SBU said the operation,
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Palm Springs Police Chief Andy Mills was part of a news conference Monday morning with the FBI and DOJ. Mills said PSPD was in a supportive role for the operation, making sure the FBI had what it needed. Mills expanded on that in an interview with News Channel 3, adding that Palm Springs police played
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CNN By Karina Tsui, Cheri Mossburg, Holly Yan, Sandra Gonzalez, TuAnh Dam, and Danya Gainor Nick Reiner, a son of legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner, is being held on suspicion of murder following their deaths, according to Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell. “We have our robbery/homicide
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CNN By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Donald Trump’s return to the White House set off a gold rush on Wall Street and in the crypto world. Companies and crypto projects linked to Trump and his family exploded in value as traders bet they would benefit from the president’s return to power. A
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CNN By Sandra Gonzalez, TuAnh Dam, Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — Robert Reiner, the celebrated actor, director and producer, was found dead with his wife Michele at their home in Los Angeles on Sunday, a spokesperson for the Reiner family said. He was 78. Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department were investigating an apparent
Continue Reading CNN, KCAL, KCBS, COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION, GETTY IMAGES, COLUMBIA PICTURES, 20TH CENTURY FOX, KCAL/KCBS By Sandra Gonzalez, TuAnh Dam, Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — Robert Reiner, the celebrated actor, director and producer, was found dead with his wife Michele at their home in Los Angeles on Sunday, a spokesperson for the Reiner family said. He
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CNN By Lauren del Valle, Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Dedham, Massachusetts (CNN) — A jury in Dedham, Massachusetts, convicted Brian Walshe of first-degree murder Monday morning in the 2023 killing of his wife, Ana Walshe, whose body was never found. The panel deliberated for around six hours before returning its decision. Walshe is expected to be
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CNN By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — For nine hours, students at Brown University crouched under desks and behind locked door, making panicked phone calls and sending “I love you” texts that felt dangerously close to goodbyes. An active shooter was on campus — and police were still searching for a suspect. Late Saturday night
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CNN By Jessie Yeung, Kristie Lu Stout, Karina Tsui, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s shrinking freedoms under Beijing’s rule. Self-made billionaire
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CNN By Curt Devine, John Miller, Evan Perez, Allison Gordon, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN (CNN) — The person of interest detained in connection with the Brown University shooting, identified by law enforcement sources as Benjamin Erickson, is a decorated soldier who had served in a position at Arlington National Cemetery, according to his LinkedIn profile. Erickson,
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CNN By Hilary Whiteman, Angus Watson, CNN Sydney, Australia (CNN) — At least 11 people were killed in a terror attack on Sunday targeting the Jewish community celebrating the first night of Hannukah at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach. Around 1,000 people had gathered on a grassy area at Archer Park when at least two gunman
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CNN By Jim Sciutto, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The US special forces veteran whose rescue team spirited Nobel laureate María Corina Machado out of Venezuela has begged her not to return to the country, after a perilous extraction mission that lasted nearly 16 hours and was carried out largely in the middle of the
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CNN By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — Fired University of Michigan head football coach Sherrone Moore faces charges of a felony count of home invasion and multiple misdemeanors related to his arrest on Wednesday just hours after he was dismissed. Moore was charged with third-degree home invasion, which is a felony. He was also charged
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