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Willie Nelson Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Grammy Award-winning musician Willie Nelson. Personal Birth date: April 30, 1933 Birth place: Abbott, Texas Birth name: Willie Hugh Nelson Father: Ira Nelson Mother: Myrle (Greenhaw) Harvey Marriages: Ann Marie D’Angelo (1991-present); Connie Koepke (1971-1988, divorced); Shirley Collie (1963-1971, divorced); Martha Matthews (1952-1962,

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Antonio Guterres Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Personal Birth date: April 30, 1949 Birth place: Lisbon, Portugal Birth name: Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres Father: Virgílio Guterres Mother: Ilda Cândida de Oliveira Marriages: Catarina Vaz Pinto (2001-present); Luisa Melo (1972-1998, her death) Children: A

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Police respond after shots were fired near the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl LVIII victory parade on February 14

Mass Shootings in the US Fast Facts

By Janie Boschma, Curt Merrill and John Murphy-Teixidor, CNN A dangerous pace of mass shootings escalated in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and has persisted since then. Last year, the United States recorded 503 mass shootings, the lowest total in a year since 2019, before the pandemic began. 2021 remains the worst year for mass

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Students and faculty from the City University of New York (CUNY) hold a rally in in lower Manhattan Friday in support of international students who have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration.

More than 1,000 international students and graduates in the US have had their visas revoked or statuses terminated

By Caroll Alvarado, Javon Huynh and Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has revoked hundreds of student visas in nearly every corner of the country as part of a vast immigration crackdown – and few universities know why. More than 1,000 international students and recent graduates at more than 130 schools in the

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US envoy Steve Witkoff meets French presidential adviser Emmanuel Bonne at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on Thursday.

US, Ukraine and European officials hold ‘excellent exchange’ in Paris, in highest level talks in weeks

By Christian Edwards, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Pierre Meilhan and Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — European and Ukrainian officials met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff in Paris on Thursday after weeks of being sidelined in US President Donald Trump’s push to end the war in Ukraine through direct talks with

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DHS threatens to revoke Harvard’s eligibility to host foreign students amid broader battle over universities’ autonomy

CNN By Taylor Romine, Nouran Salahieh, Hanna Park and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has significantly dialed up its pressure on Harvard University, not only freezing $2 billion in federal funding but now threatening its eligibility to host international students after school leaders refused to make key policy changes the White House

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Harvard University is locked in a battle with the Trump administration over its funding. But experts caution much more is at stake if the US government stops funding academic research.

iPhones and GPS owe their existence to US government-funded research. What’s at stake with Trump cuts to university funding

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Imagine a world without the internet, or GPS, MRNA vaccines or the touchscreen on your iPhone. The science and technology that have become integral to our daily lives may never have existed, experts say, were it not for research funded by the federal government at American colleges and universities.

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A tower on one of the Harvard University buildings in Cambridge

DHS threatens to revoke Harvard’s eligibility to host foreign students amid broader battle over universities’ autonomy

By Taylor Romine, Nouran Salahieh, Hanna Park and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has significantly dialed up its pressure on Harvard University, not only freezing $2 billion in federal funding but now threatening its eligibility to host international students after school leaders refused to make key policy changes the White House also

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