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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — About 575,000 protesters participated in demonstrations across France on Thursday, according to government estimates, marking the biggest single day of protests since a wave of unrest began in September to coincide with a nationwide strike. Despite the scale of these protests, and the violence which marred similar marches on
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By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Two years into his second term, President Donald Trump is still trying to wipe his 2024 felony conviction from the books. A panel of New York appellate justices on Thursday heard Trump’s legal challenges to his conviction on falsifying business records to cover up hush money
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By Dalia Faheid, Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he is commuting every death sentence in his state to a sentence of life in prison without parole – nearly eight years after declaring a moratorium on executions. “My decision today comes after nearly three decades of openly opposing state-sanctioned
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By Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, CNN Israeli President Isaac Herzog said it was “like a bolt from the blue” when President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday, the day of the midterm elections, that he would end US aid to Israel. Herzog brought up the issue during a meeting with the Yashar party, led by Gadi
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By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump hosted representatives from the highest levels of Russia’s and Ukraine’s governments at the White House on Thursday to celebrate the conclusion of a localized ceasefire — a humanitarian breakthrough, albeit limited, that came as President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war have so
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By Logan Schiciano and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Democratic socialist Nithya Raman will defeat incumbent Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayor’s race, CNN’s Decision Desk projects. Raman, a city councilmember, overtook Republican Spencer Pratt in June’s nonpartisan primary to set up what was arguably a tougher race for Bass, a Democratic former congresswoman.
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Harmeet Dhillon has resigned from her post as the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, making her the first senior official to leave the administration since the midterms. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced her resignation in a social media post, saying that she has “led
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By Sophie Tanno, Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of flights and several media organizations across Europe this week have been impacted by a string of hoax bomb threats which have disrupted travel plans and left authorities scrambling to identify the culprit. Fresh disruption hit several European airports and flights on Friday while Ireland’s national
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By Gonzalo Zegarra, Michael Rios, Anabella Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Paraguay’s senate has voted to impeach President Santiago Peña, who is facing a criminal investigation and is under house arrest following the collapse of a major bank he had business links to. The country’s Senate voted to remove him from office on Friday with 44
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Timeline November 22, 1963– 11:37 a.m. – Air Force One arrives at Dallas’ Love Field with the President and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John B. Connally Jr. and his wife, Idanell Connally.
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome, Italy (CNN) — “My name is Rexal Ford,” the man born under the name Charles Francis Kaufmann told an Italian courtroom, in English, at the start of his double-murder trial in February. “I am not a killer. I am a film producer.” The former Kaufmann, a 47-year-old American, did
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By Andy Rose, Elizabeth Wolfe, Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — Investigators are still searching for a motive after a US Postal Service employee was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of two of her co-workers Thursday at a large post office near downtown Des Moines, police said. A third person – also a Postal
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By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — The coalition that helped return Donald Trump to the presidency two years ago is beginning to fracture, CNN Voter Poll data shows, with Democratic Senate candidates peeling away voters to win seats in deeply Republican territory this cycle. In five races won by Democrats in states where Trump voters
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By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN London (CNN) — British actor, comedian and media personality Russell Brand faces a lengthy prison sentence after he was found guilty in a London court on Thursday of raping a young fan and sexually assaulting three women. Brand, 51, was convicted of raping the 21-year-old admirer in 2009 after they met
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CNN By Joe Sutton, Ray Sanchez, Taylor Galgano, Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — A man who owed $2,500 to Citibank crashed a car into the bank complex near Tampa on Wednesday and fatally shot the first employee he saw, before being stopped by a security guard in an exchange of gunfire, law enforcement said Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy Charlotte Reck, Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — Bomb threats forced the diversion of a series of flights across Europe on Thursday, just two days after at least seven flights received similar threats. There was no claim of responsibility for Tuesday’s alerts and officials did not attribute blame. On Thursday, Aer Lingus said a flight
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 4 miles separated a piece of a Learjet’s tail from the burning crater gouged into the pavement where the aircraft came down. The plane, carrying nine people including a couple with children, plunged 35,000 feet, nose-first, into a South Florida roadway on Sunday afternoon. The aircraft was reduced
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance’s seemingly straightforward path to succeeding President Donald Trump suddenly looks much murkier. The Republican shellacking in Tuesday’s midterm elections has quickly triggered a public reckoning within the GOP over Trump’s place in the future of the party — one that threatens to complicate Vance’s efforts
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – The Palm Springs City Council has appointed Michael McCulloch to the Mount San Jacinto Winter Park Authority (MSJWPA), the governing body of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. McCulloch returns to the MSJWPA after previously serving in the same capacity from 2008 to 2015. He also served as a member of
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KESQ) – An 80-year-old man and a 45-year-old man suspected of distributing psilocybin gummies to at least 15 trick-or-treating children between 1 and 6 years old in a San Diego neighborhood were taken into custody Wednesday following a search operation. Multiple bags of psilocybin-infused gummies were left on a residence’s porch around
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