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FAA ends emergency order mandating flight reductions at 40 airports during government shutdown, officials say

CNN, FAA.GOV By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Flight reductions at 40 airports mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration earlier this month are set to come to an end Monday morning, according to a joint statement from United States Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford. The cuts, which began on November 7,

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FAA ends emergency order mandating flight reductions at 40 airports during government shutdown, officials say

By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Flight reductions at 40 airports mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration earlier this month are set to come to an end Monday morning, according to a joint statement from United States Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford. The cuts, which began on November 7, reduced air

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Lawmaker calls for accountability over timing of fellow House Democratโ€™s retirement: โ€˜Election subversion is wrongโ€™

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez said Sunday that โ€œelection subversion is wrong no matter whoโ€™s doing it,โ€ as she criticized Democratic Rep. Chuy Garcรญa over the timing of his decision to retire, which meant that his hand-picked successor was the only person registered to run for his seat. During last

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Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez being interviewed by Jake Tapper on CNN

Lawmaker calls for accountability over timing of fellow House Democratโ€™s retirement: โ€˜Election subversion is wrongโ€™

CNN By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez said Sunday that โ€œelection subversion is wrong no matter whoโ€™s doing it,โ€ as she criticized Democratic Rep. Chuy Garcรญa over the timing of his decision to retire, which meant that his hand-picked successor was the only person registered to run for his seat. During

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Preservationists sue over Trumpโ€™s latest plans to refashion a federal building to match his aesthetic

By Piper HudspethBlackburn, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Historic preservationists sued President Donald Trump over his plans to paint an ornate office building housing his staff next to the White House, warning the structure could be โ€œirreversiblyโ€ damaged.โ€ The suit, filed Friday by the DC Preservation League and Cultural Heritage Partners, asks the US District

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to attendees at the inaugural Sunday Dinner event

Rev. Jesse Jackson remains hospitalized after receiving care to stabilize his blood pressure, sources say

By Abby Phillip, CNN (CNN) — Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson remains hospitalized and has been receiving care to manage his blood pressure, sources close to Jacksonโ€™s family told CNN on Sunday. In a statement released late Sunday afternoon, the family said he is breathing on his own without the assistance of machines and

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The receding waters of Latyan Dam reveal a dry riverbed near Tehran

Iran turns to cloud-seeding as historic drought causes driest fall in 50 years

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — To combat a severe water crisis, Iranian authorities have begun cloud-seeding operations to induce rainfall, Iranโ€™s state-run IRNA news agency reported on Saturday, amid the driest fall in half a century. Iranโ€™s National Weather Forecasting Center of the Meteorological Organizations said Saturday that rainfall across the country has decreased

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This screengrab from a video posted by the US Southern Command shows a strike on a vessel on November 15

US military carried out 21st strike on alleged drug boat, killing 3

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon on Saturday conducted the 21st known strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat, US Southern Command announced Sunday. โ€œIntelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics,โ€ Southern Command posted on social media. โ€œThree male narco-terrorists aboard

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene presides over a hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee at the US Capitol in Washington

โ€˜Humbly, Iโ€™m sorryโ€™: Marjorie Taylor Greene says sheโ€™s turning a new leaf after years of divisive comments

By Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Sunday she will stop using โ€œtoxicโ€ rhetoric, marking what would be a dramatic shift in a political brand hallmarked by derogatory comments. The commitment comes amid a rift with Donald Trump that has spilled into public view, with the president attacking the Georgia

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Ecuador's Minister of the Interior John Reimberg posted this photo after Wilmer Geovanny Chavarrรญa Barre

Alleged leader of Ecuadorian drug trafficking gang Los Lobos arrested in Spain

By Rocรญo Muรฑoz-Ledo and Ana Marรญa Caรฑizares, CNN en Espaรฑol (CNN) — Wilmer Geovanny Chavarrรญa Barrรฉ, known as โ€œPipo,โ€ the alleged leader of drug trafficking gang Los Lobos โ€“ Ecuadorโ€™s most powerful and violent criminal organization โ€“ has been arrested in Spain, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced on Sunday. โ€œToday we captured โ€˜Pipoโ€™ Chavarrรญa, the

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Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh holds a press conference in Tehran on May 9

Iran nuclear sites left ruined in US and Israeli strikes but program โ€˜intact,โ€™ deputy foreign minister tells CNN

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Iranโ€™s deputy foreign minister Saeed Khatibzadeh has described his countryโ€™s nuclear program as still โ€œintactโ€ despite admitting that US and Israeli strikes badly damaged facilities earlier this year. In an exclusive interview with CNNโ€™s Frederik Pleitgen Sunday, Khatibzadeh said Iranโ€™s โ€œpeaceful nuclear program is intact, as we are speaking,โ€

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