CNN, CNN AIR, POOL, WBBM, SENATE TV, THE WHITE HOUSE By Morgan Rimmer, Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Markwayne Mullin will serve as Donald Trump’s next Department of Homeland Security secretary, elevating the US senator to helm the agency at the center of the president’s controversial immigration enforcement effort and an ongoing shutdown. The Senate
Continue Reading By Morgan Rimmer, Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Markwayne Mullin will serve as Donald Trump’s next Department of Homeland Security secretary, elevating the US senator to helm the agency at the center of the president’s controversial immigration enforcement effort and an ongoing shutdown. The Senate confirmed the nomination on Monday night, less than three weeks
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By Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, CNN (CNN) — Pilots have raised concerns about miscommunication, air traffic control missteps and other hazards at LaGuardia Airport, according to a CNN review of government records for the past two years. “Please do something,” a pilot wrote last summer in one of at least a dozen reports about LaGuardia
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By Kevin Liptak, Kylie Atwood, Zachary Cohen, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — As President Donald Trump was departing Washington last week for Florida, ending the war with Iran appeared the last thing on his mind. “You don’t do a ceasefire when you’re literally obliterating the other side,” he said Friday from the White House South
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Wine, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Five requirements. Seventy-five days. No breaks and no room for mistakes. That’s the premise of the 75 Hard challenge, but experts warn the risks might outweigh the benefits. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. 5 things 1️⃣ Small businesses American
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By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — An already massive gap between Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee finances widened in February, according to new reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. The RNC out-raised the DNC in February, $18.5 million to $10.3 million. And entering March, the RNC reported nearly seven times as much
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By Sharif Paget, Aaron Cooper, Soph Warnes, Alex Leeds Matthews, Gillian Roberts, Curt Merrill, Byron Manley, CNN NEW YORK CITY (CNN) — American and Canadian investigators have launched an investigation at New York’s LaGuardia Airport after an Air Canada plane collided with a firetruck just after landing Sunday night. The pilot and copilot were killed,
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By Tierney Sneed, John Fritze, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared dubious of state laws that allow the counting of mail ballots that arrive at election offices after Election Day as justices heard oral arguments in a challenge to Mississippi’s five-day grace period for mail ballots. Over the course of
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By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The chief district judge in New Jersey appointed Robert Frazer, a career prosecutor, to serve as US attorney for the state, ending for now a dispute over the legality of the office’s leadership that threatened to derail criminal investigations. Frazer is a longtime prosecutor who has worked on violent
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – The City of Indio is preparing for its busy festival season with the temporary closure of Avenue 50 between Monroe Street and Madison Street from March 23 through May 4, 2026. The closure comes as the city gets ready to host the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in mid-April and
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By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars were spent on expenses for hair and makeup artists and a horse for the advertisement showcasing outgoing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in front of Mount Rushmore, according to invoices seen by CNN. Invoices to the Strategy Group, a DHS subcontractor
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By Gonzalo Zegarra, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — At least 69 people were killed and 57 injured after a Colombian military transport plane crashed on takeoff in the south of the country on Monday, according to the country’s armed forces. The C-130 Hercules aircraft broke into pieces on impact and caught fire after going down
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By Lauren Fox, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump was presented Sunday with a potential off-ramp to the more than month-long Department of Homeland Security shutdown: fund every part of the department except enforcement operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, two sources familiar with the conversations told CNN. Senate Majority Leader John Thune
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By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — A consortium of the nation’s top architectural and historic preservation groups is targeting President Donald Trump’s plans to temporarily close and extensively renovate the Kennedy Center, filing a new lawsuit Monday that asks a federal judge to indefinitely halt the project. The complaint filed at a federal court in
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CNN By Karina Tsui, Martin Goillandeau, Lex Harvey, Shimon Prokupecz, Gloria Pazmino, Aaron Cooper, CNN (CNN) — An Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Sunday, killing the flight’s pilot and copilot, injuring dozens and temporarily shutting down the the New York area’s third-busiest airport, officials said.
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CNN By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — British police have arrested two men following a suspected antisemitic arson attack in which several ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer rescue organization were set on fire in north London. The pair, British nationals aged 47 and 45, were arrested at two separate addresses in the capital on
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By Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — The illustration took City Hall by surprise. Rama Duwaji’s artwork depicted the face of a woman drawn in black and white, her eyebrows full and scrunched above a sharp nose, and her almond-shaped eyes sitting above a pair of hands reaching outward. The image was published in
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — As many travelers face long, winding security lines across the US during the partial government shutdown, many may not realize the complicated path money takes to reach Transportation Security Administration officers’ paychecks. There are about 61,000 TSA employees currently caught in the middle as Congress remains locked in a
Continue Reading CNN, POOL, WESH, SENATE TV, RYAN RICHTER, KARIM PINE, KYLE AUFFREY, TREY HOFFMAN, ATL.COM By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — As many travelers face long, winding security lines across the US during the partial government shutdown, many may not realize the complicated path money takes to reach Transportation Security Administration officers’ paychecks. There are about
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RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. (KESQ) – Firefighters carried out two separate rescues Sunday after hikers were injured. Suicide Rock rescue The first incident was reported around 2:51 p.m. in the Suicide Rock hiking area, north of Idyllwild. Crews responded to a report of a hiker with a lower extremity injury. Due to the remote and rugged
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