By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The morning after President Donald Trump declared a “war on fraud” during his State of the Union address, senior Justice Department prosecutor Colin McDonald told the Senate Judiciary Committee and said he would steadfastly follow the department’s tradition to focus only on the evidence. “I am a career federal
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By Associated Press Los Angeles (AP) — The FBI was serving search warrants Wednesday at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s headquarters and the superintendent’s home. Federal officials in Los Angeles served the warrants as part of an ongoing investigation, according to a person familiar with the investigation who spoke to The Associated Press on
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By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — As the search for Nancy Guthrie stretches into its fourth, desperate week, her family has offered up to a million dollars for information leading to her return. The staggering reward is, in some ways, a tacit admission that the investigation is entering a new phase as DNA evidence that
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North Shore, California (KUNA) – De nueva cuenta la comunidad de North Shore enfrenta problematicas relacionadas con la falta de servicios públicos, en esta ocasión los residentes se dicen cansados de lidiar con la basura que miembros ajenos a la comunidad y algunos residentes les tiran en vía pública. Fue durante un recorrido en el
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COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. (KESQ) – You may have noticed higher prices at the pump. According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), within the past month, gas prices have increased by almost 40 cents in California. Officials say the state’s refinery capacity, environmental regulations, taxes and fees are contributing to the rise. This comes as state
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By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine has been drafting military options for potentially striking Iran, a steady stream of top officials from the Army, Navy and Air Force have been quietly summoned directly to his office. Typically, sensitive military operations are debated
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By Nadeen Ebrahim, Charbel Mallo, Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — A “mass escape” took place last month from Syria’s al-Hol camp that holds families linked to the Islamic State following the withdrawal of Kurdish forces, according to Syrian TV, amid reports thousands of people may have fled. Nureddin Baba, a Syrian Interior Ministry spokesperson, was
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of comedian Billy Crystal. Personal Birth date: March 14, 1947 Birth place: Long Beach, New York Birth name: William Edward Crystal Father: Jack, concert promoter and record store manager Mother: Helen (Gabler) Crystal Marriage: Janice (Goldfinger) Crystal (1970-present) Children: Jennifer and Lindsay Education: New
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Weather forecasters at the National Weather Service, The Weather Channel and this very news organization had a name for the kind of storm that upended daily life for residents of the Northeast US this week: It was a nor’easter. A “nor’easter,” or “northeaster,” is a kind of coastal storm
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By Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security may again suspend TSA PreCheck by prioritizing “standard” security lanes at the airport amid the partial government shutdown, Secretary Kristi Noem told CNN. It comes after the department walked back its decision over the weekend to pause TSA PreCheck, which allows travelers to get
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By Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The US embassy in Israel has announced its first-ever event offering diplomatic services in a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The announcement on Tuesday said consular offices would provide “routine passport services” to American citizens in the settlement of Efrat, south of Jerusalem, in
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A sprawling Chinese influence operation — accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official’s use of ChatGPT — focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials, according to a new report from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. The Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT like a diary to
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By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was forced to evacuate his official residence Tuesday night after a bomb threat was made against him by opponents of a religious organization that is banned in China. The prime minister posted a photo of his dog, Toto, inside the Lodge, his residence in
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – Update 2/24/26 The Planning Commission approved a permit to rebuild the American Reproductive Center, a fertility clinic damaged in a deadly bombing in May 2025. In a unanimous vote commissioners signed off on plans to build a new medical office building at 1199 North Indian Canyon Drive. It’s the same
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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Across the world from the expansive US police search for the missing Nancy Guthrie, a family in Australia faced its own disappearance, this time with a tragic ending – an 85-year-old grandfather was kidnapped from his modest home in suburban Sydney and found dead in what police
Continue ReadingBy Alejandra Jaramillo, Lex Harvey, and Rocio Munoz, CNN (CNN) — A Venezuelan opposition leader recently freed from prison reunited with his niece Tuesday during the State of the Union address, as President Donald Trump touted the US military operation that removed President Nicolás Maduro. In his speech, Trump drew attention to Alejandra Gonzalez, who
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping has taken his purge of the country’s military to the very top, targeting his highest-ranked general in a stunning move last month. But Xi’s shake-up cuts across a much wider swath of his armed forces –– with more than 100 officers potentially ousted
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy, Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address drew largely positive marks from a heavily Republican audience, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS. But it didn’t fully convince significant shares of even that friendly audience that he’s focusing on the nation’s most important problems or
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — This article may be meeting you at a very Chinese time in your life. At least, if you’ve spent enough time recently on social media, where the phenomenon of “Chinamaxxing” has swept feeds with videos of people sipping hot water, shuffling around the house in slippers and donning a
Continue ReadingBy Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — For the first hour of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday, Democrats in the House chamber largely stuck to their plan: Sit in stony, defiant silence. But once Trump began to level attacks on immigrants, that strategy went out the window. Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and
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