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Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of astronaut Fred Haise. Personal Birth date: November 14, 1933 Birth place: Biloxi, Mississippi Birth name: Fred Wallace Haise Jr. Father: Fred Haise Sr. Mother: Lucille (Blacksher) Haise Marriages: Frances Patt (Price) Haise (1979-February 7, 2022, her death); Mary Griffin Grant (June 4, 1954-1978,
Continue ReadingBy David Culver, Joe Merkel and Sean Walker, CNN Black River, Jamaica (CNN) — The air smells of damp earth and drying mud. Smoke from debris fires mixes with a faint tang of fuel from the few generators that still have gas. Every sound carries: the strike of hammers and the scrape of shovels as
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz, Devan Cole, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s personal vendetta against James Comey did not lead to his indictment, the Justice Department said in a court filing Monday, urging a judge not to throw out the charges against the former FBI director over Trump’s extraordinary social media post
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Human remains discovered earlier this year in a remote area of northwestern Washington state are those of an Indigenous woman who had been missing since 2020, police say. Authorities announced Friday they used DNA analysis to confirm the remains matched Mary Johnson. Johnson, an enrolled citizen of the
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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) – A big blue mass of joyous Dodger fans lined the streets of downtown Los Angeles today to celebrate the team’s World Series victory, filling the parade route with confetti and screams of appreciation. More than 200,000 people attended last year’s World Series parade, and officials said even more were expected this
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former US Attorney General Merrick Garland. Personal Birth date: November 13, 1952 Birth place: Chicago, Illinois Birth name: Merrick Brian Garland Father: Cyril Garland, founder of an advertising agency Mother: Shirley (Horwitz) Garland, community volunteer Marriage: Lynn (Rosenman) Garland (1987-present) Children: Jessica and
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By Tami Luhby, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration said Monday that it will provide only half of the normal food stamp benefits for November by tapping into the program’s contingency fund amid the government shutdown. But recipients are not likely to see the payments immediately. Some $4.65 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Two former employees of cybersecurity firms that sold services helping companies combat hackers have been indicted and accused of participating in a conspiracy, outside of their day jobs, to hack multiple US firms and extort them for millions of dollars. The two men are accused of deploying ransomware used
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The event takes place on November 7th and runs through the 9th
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By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump caused alarm across Nigeria over the weekend when he said he was contemplating military action in Africa’s most populous nation in response to what he claimed was a “mass slaughter” of Christians by Islamist insurgents. The reality on the ground, experts and analysts say, is
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By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump littered his new “60 Minutes” interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked. We counted at least 18 inaccurate assertions. Trump told his usual lie that the free and fair 2020 election was stolen from him. He lied again
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department is dispatching federal monitors to polling locations in New Jersey and California, two Democratic states with crucial off-year elections on Tuesday. The announcement put the decadeslong federal monitoring practice under new scrutiny, as some Democrats and voting rights activists worry that this year’s monitors
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By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — There were just 11 minutes between the moment British police received an emergency call about a stabbing on a train heading to London and the moment the suspect was arrested. Eleven victims were hospitalized in the attack, including one railway worker who is in critical but stable condition,
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Kaçkar Mountains, Turkey (CNN) — In the little wooden hut perched high on metal-wrapped stilts, the drone is high, loud and insistent. With his beekeeping suit on, but hands uncovered, Hasan Kutluata squeezes the bellows on his pine-filled bee smoker. Pale wreaths swirl in the air, mirroring the mist that drifts
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By Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Even as Tuesday’s elections hang in the balance, President Donald Trump has bluntly suggested that he is already looking ahead to the 2026 midterm races with a sense of dread. “We’ve had success like nobody, but for some reason, you lose the midterms,” Trump said late last month at
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Ashland, Virginia (CNN) — Only a party going through the Democrats’ identity and existential crises could, nine months into Donald Trump’s second presidency, have Zohran Mamdani and Abigail Spanberger as its front-runners in two of Tuesday’s biggest races. Spanberger is a 46-year-old former CIA officer, the daughter of a nurse and
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Senators are returning to Capitol Hill today as the government shutdown enters its 34th day — with no end in sight. The record for the longest shutdown in US history is likely to be broken in less than 48 hours as Democrats and Republicans show no signs of reaching an
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN Senators are returning to Capitol Hill today as the government shutdown enters its 34th day — with no end in sight. The record for the longest shutdown in US history is likely to be broken in less than 48 hours as Democrats and Republicans show no signs of reaching an end
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