By Andrew Torgan, CNN (CNN) — Pope Francis gave the traditional Easter blessing earlier today, appearing from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in front of delighted crowds in what marks his highest-profile appearance since being discharged from the hospital after falling ill with double pneumonia. The 88-year-old pontiff has not led the main Holy
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WRAL, WXIA, CNN Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — Saturday was the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. The attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building claimed the lives of at least 168 people, including 19 children, and was the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history. Among the victims was former Secret
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Democrats’ panic over what they stand for and whether they can credibly compete beyond the bluest states is already erupting in the rush to recruit Senate candidates across the country for next year — a desperate effort to dig out from years of losses that have them far from
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A 20-year-old Florida State University student and son of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy is accused of killing two people and wounding five others on campus with a handgun that belonged to his mother. The tragedy on the university’s campus in Tallahassee on Thursday occurred just over a year
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CNN By Christopher Lamb, CNN The Vatican (CNN) — Pope Francis gave the traditional Easter blessing on Sunday, appearing from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in front of delighted crowds after a brief meeting with Vice President JD Vance in what marks his highest-profile appearance yet since being discharged from hospital. The 88-year-old pontiff
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Lamb, CNN The Vatican (CNN) — Pope Francis gave the traditional Easter blessing on Sunday, appearing from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in front of delighted crowds after a brief meeting with Vice President JD Vance in what marks his highest-profile appearance yet since being discharged from hospital. The 88-year-old pontiff has
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By Victoria Butenko, Helen Regan, Kosta Gak, Sophie Tanno and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine accused Russia of breaching the Easter truce that was announced without prior warning by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accusing Putin of only being interested in PR. In a surprise move on Saturday,
Continue ReadingBy Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Sue and Rick Townsend first met Anne Marie Hochhalter in March 2000 at a Bruce Springsteen benefit concert in Denver for Columbine High School shooting victims. Anne Marie used a wheelchair after being left partially paralyzed by two gunshot wounds in the April 20, 1999, attack, when two
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CNN By Victoria Butenko, Helen Regan, Kosta Gak, Sophie Tanno and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine accused Russia of breaching the Easter truce that was announced without prior warning by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accusing Putin of only being interested in PR. In a surprise move on
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INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) — With weekend two of Coachella underway, businesses in Indio see a decline of shoppers compared to weekend one. Last week, Downtown Indio thrived with a few local music events like “Indie-o” and “Chella” going on during festival hours, drawing in locals and visitors. But one business says they notice a decrease
Continue ReadingBy Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Canada is heading into federal elections, where Prime Minister Mark Carney is vying for a chance to continue leading the country, as tensions grow with its closest neighbor. The former central banker’s main competition in the April 28 vote is Pierre Poilievre, Canada’s Conservative party leader whose political capital
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong’s oldest and largest pro-democracy political party is moving to disband as Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on the city leaves even moderate opposition groups with no room to operate. The Democratic Party, one of the leading voices of opposition in the semi-autonomous city for the past three
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar and Kristin Chapman, CNN (CNN) — A national day of action against President Donald Trump and his administration has united an outpouring of protesters across the country who are rallying in defiance of what they describe as a relentless assault on democratic institutions and civil liberties. Over 80 protests were held at
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Harvard University has been in an escalating battle with the Trump administration heightened last week by a letter it received from the administration that outlined a slew of demands tied to federal funding – like reforming its curriculum and admissions programs, discontinuing DEI practices and additional
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By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to use a controversial 18th century wartime authority to speed deportations, the issue has rocketed back to the justices in a second short-fuse appeal with enormous potential consequences. The situation was entirely foreseeable. After
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By Dana Karni and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue the war in Gaza in the face of growing opposition to Israel’s ongoing military campaign. In a pre-recorded video Saturday night, Netanyahu said Israel has “no choice” but to keep fighting “for our very own existence until victory.”
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By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US Naval Academy canceled a lecture that author Ryan Holiday was scheduled to give to students there last week after he refused to remove slides from his planned presentation that criticized the academy’s decision to remove nearly 400 books from its main library. Holiday, a writer and philosopher
Continue Reading By Kosta Gak, Catherine Nicholls, Victoria Butenko and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a brief Easter ceasefire in his war with Ukraine, a declaration met with skepticism in Kyiv as the war enters a crucial phase and US-led negotiations stall. Putin said “all hostilities” would halt between 6 p.m. Moscow
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Comedian Tim Dillon isn’t expecting a certain member of the British royal family to stream his newly released stand-up special on Netflix. And he thinks the same logic should apply to Democrats who may fault him and other entertainers for President Donald Trump’s return to power. “You can’t go
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — For Billy Moges, the fight with a Washington, DC-area school district over the reading of LGBTQ+ books in elementary school is a matter of faith. “We have no hate for anyone,” said Moges, one of the Christian parents who sued Maryland’s largest school district over the policy in a
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