By Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — The US Embassy in Copenhagen has angered Danish veterans by removing flags honoring soldiers killed in Afghanistan from an area outside the building. Video shared by Danish media outlet TV2 showed a security guard removing the flags honoring the 44 Danish soldiers who died in the conflict from planters
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (KESQ) – The Desert Sands Unified School District is responding to a planned student walkout on Friday in response to immigration activity. According to the district, there are flyers on social media and school property being posted by people not associated with DSUSD, calling for student walkouts on Friday. Palm Desert High
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — June 1 began as an ordinary day for Habiba Soliman: Her mother was doing some work in a cafe, her brother Omar was on an afternoon hike with friends, and she was babysitting her 8-year-old sister and 4-year-old twin siblings at home. Then the teenager, 17 at the time,
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THERMAL, Calif. (KESQ) – The Coachella Valley Unified School District reported mold findings at Desert Mirage High School and Toro Canyon Middle School. District officials said they received results indicating positive mold findings in several shared areas of the schools, including the electrical room, library tech room, and the Desert Mirage Attendance Office. The two
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of John Reed, former Citigroup CEO. Personal Birth date: February 7, 1939 Birth place: Chicago, Illinois Birth name: John Shepard Reed Father: name not known publicly – plant manager for Armour & Company Mother: name not known publicly Marriage: Cynthia “Cindy” (McCarthy) Reed (September
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CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Tierney Sneed, Jason Morris, Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — The FBI served a warrant Wednesday at an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, as it probes alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election. A source familiar with the matter told CNN the search is related to an effort by
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Tierney Sneed, Jason Morris, Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — The FBI served a warrant Wednesday at an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, as it probes alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election. A source familiar with the matter told CNN the search is related to an effort by the
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — “We’re not scary,” Elizabeth told me over coffee in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday morning. “We’re not a bunch of extremists.” We’d both just heard the news that a federal agent or agents had fatally shot someone — Alex Pretti, an intensive-care nurse — on Nicollet Avenue, in the Whittier
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By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump tried Tuesday to concoct an alternative reality on the subject of “affordability” – piling lie on top of lie to try to convince Americans that the issue has vanished. “You know, inflation we’ve solved; it’s done,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News during a trip to
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department and federal courts are struggling to keep up with the exponential increase in federal court cases of immigrants in custody who are challenging their detentions – another result of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies across the country. The cases, in which a person can
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By Ed Lavandera, Norma Galeana, Holly Yan, CNN Dilley, Texas (CNN) — The 5-year-old boy who with his father was taken last week by immigration agents from their suburban Minneapolis driveway has appeared depressed and lethargic at the South Texas detention facility where the pair is being held, said a congressman concerned for Liam Conejo
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By Zeena Saifi, Jeremy Diamond, Cyril Theophilos, CNN Ras Ein al-Auja, West Bank (CNN) — Suleiman Ghawanmeh is tired of talking. For over 10 years, he talked himself hoarse until he realized his words could not save his community from being driven out. After his final appeal for help came to nothing, he, too, left.
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Every morning since Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent, Will Stancil has gotten into his car, dialed into a local dispatch call and started driving. As he patrols the streets of his Minneapolis neighborhood, he looks for out-of-state license plates, tinted windows and other telltale signs of
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By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday morning, giving her a high-profile platform in the business world as she seeks to build momentum toward the release of her documentary later this week. The first lady stood on the iconic marble stage,
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN London (CNN) — A man has been found guilty of assaulting a woman in a case in Britain that unexpectedly involved the US president’s son, who told UK police he’d witnessed the attack during a video call last year. Matvei Rumiantsev, a 22-year-old Russian citizen, was found guilty of assault
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By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Hungarian prosecutors have filed charges against the mayor of Budapest, Gergely Karácsony, for his role in organizing the city’s 30th annual LGBTQ+ Pride event despite a controversial ban, the mayor’s office said Wednesday. “The prosecution has filed charges and wants to impose a financial penalty on me without a
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By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — At least five people were killed in a Russian drone strike on a civilian train in northeastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, describing the attack as an “act of terrorism.” Emergency workers were confronted with scenes of carnage at the site of the attack in
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By Brian Todd, CNN (CNN) — As a combat medic with the Army National Guard more than a decade ago, Lauren Feringa says she was exposed to toxins from burning oil fields during the Iraq War. A few years later, as a civilian contractor in Afghanistan, she says she suffered from concussive blasts, including a
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CNN By Eric Bradner, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ignored staffers’ pleas to end a town hall early and get a medical check Tuesday after a man rushed the podium and sprayed a substance at the Democratic congresswoman. Omar, who was not injured in the attack, said after the town hall
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — When the Supreme Court agreed last September to hear a dispute over President Donald Trump’s billion-dollar tariffs on foreign goods, it heeded the administration’s plea that time was of the essence. To Trump, the case is a matter of “LIFE OR DEATH for our Country,” as
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