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By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist who was a granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, died on Tuesday, her family announced. She was 35. “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the family said in a statement posted on social media by the

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge said Tuesday that the Trump administration must keep funds flowing to the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, rebuffing its latest gambit to shut down the regulatory agency that has long been a target of conservatives. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who previously halted President Donald

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Roughly two dozen ISIS operatives have been killed or captured in Syria by US and partner forces since US airstrikes earlier this month, which were carried out in response to the killing of two American service members. “Nearly 25” operatives were killed or captured between December 20 and 29,

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge declined Tuesday to make an immediate decision about whether the suspected 2021 Washington, DC, pipe bomber, Brian Cole Jr., will be held in jail as he awaits trial. “I’m sensitive to the urgency of the issue and I do intend to get a ruling out expeditiously,”

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration will feature Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the two most prominent leaders of the Democratic Party’s progressive movement. Mamdani, who will be publicly sworn in at a City Hall inauguration ceremony on New Year’s Day, will be introduced by

CNN By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration will feature Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the two most prominent leaders of the Democratic Party’s progressive movement. Mamdani, who will be publicly sworn in at a City Hall inauguration ceremony on New Year’s Day, will be introduced

CNN By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country. The drone strike, the details of

By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country. The drone strike, the details of which

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s Monday meeting in Florida with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu generated plenty of warm words — but no clear progress in their peace plan for Gaza. The leaders held a private lunch at Mar-a-Lago aimed at working out a series of issues in the Middle East,

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted a strike against an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing two people, according to US Southern Command. “On Dec. 29, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a

CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted a strike against an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing two people, according to US Southern Command. “On Dec. 29, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on

By Kevin Liptak, Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said the United States took out a “big facility” last week as part of a pressure campaign against Venezuela but provided few additional details on the action. “We just knocked out — I don’t know if you read or you saw — they have

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — In the year 1998, Bill Clinton was facing impeachment proceedings, “Titanic” was cleaning up at the Oscars and most households still had landline phones. Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines and asked them for their best predictions about a year in the distant future: