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By Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi, in some of her first moves on the job, is shifting the Justice Department’s national security priorities away from initiatives that have been a source of irritation for President Donald Trump and his allies. Bondi is limiting criminal enforcement of a foreign agents registration law
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Watch Live below: Thousand Palms, Calif. (KESQ) – Coachella Valley Giving Day 2025 kicked off with a special event Thursday morning at Acrisure Arena. This year’s inaugural event was hosted by News Channel 3 First Alert Chief Meteorologist Patrick Evans. The kick-off promises to be an inspiring start to the giving campaign, highlighting the importance of
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders Thursday, one targeting the International Criminal Court and a second on “anti-Christian bias.” The ICC action places financial and visa sanctions on “individuals and their family members who assist in ICC investigations of US citizens or our allies,” according to
Continue ReadingCNN By Tami Luhby, Alayna Treene and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge paused Thursday’s deadline for federal employees to accept the Trump administration’s deferred resignation offer while more proceedings on the program’s legality play out. The administration sent an email to employees just after 5 p.m. ET informing them of the court-ordered
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Prosecution testimony began Wednesday in the trial of a Desert Hot Springs man accused of shooting more than three dozen bullets at four young men standing outside a Palm Desert mall, causing damage but no injuries. Daniel Joseph Santacroce was arrested in 2023 following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the attack at
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is seeking to overhaul and shrink the federal workforce. President Donald Trump has issued multiple executive actions that affect federal workers, including requiring them to return to the office full time and making it easier to lay off certain career civil servants. The administration also has
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration sued officials in Illinois, Chicago, and Cook County on Thursday over policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement authorities, accusing them of obstructing its immigration crackdown. It’s the first major challenge from the administration against Democratic-led cities and states that have opposed
Continue ReadingBy Mick Krever, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted US President Donald Trump a golden pager during their meeting in Washington on Tuesday, an Israeli political source told CNN. The gift was an allusion to a deadly September operation carried out by Israel in Lebanon, which targeted pagers used by members of
Continue ReadingCNN By Joan Biskupic and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has spent recent days alongside several Trump administration Cabinet officials – making them official. In the process, he and his wife, Ginni, have drawn exceptional attention from President Donald Trump himself. On Wednesday morning, Thomas swore in Doug Collins to be
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has spent recent days alongside several Trump administration Cabinet officials – making them official. In the process, he and his wife, Ginni, have drawn exceptional attention from President Donald Trump himself. On Wednesday morning, Thomas swore in Doug Collins to be secretary
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Bell, Sarah Dean and Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou, CNN Örebro, Sweden (CNN) — Shattered glass and a broken door covered with police tape mark the entrance to the apartment where the reported suspect in Sweden’s worst mass shooting is believed to have lived as a recluse. Citing police sources, the Swedish national broadcaster and
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Danny Freeman, CNN (CNN) — A father who was inside his car when a medevac jet crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood last week was among seven killed in the incident, a medical examiner’s office says, meaning those seven have now been publicly identified. And his young son who was also in
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Park, Lauren Mascarenhas and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — The man accused of killing two people in a mass shooting at an Ohio warehouse Tuesday night said in court Thursday he did not resist arrest and was ordered held on a $20 million bond. Bruce Reginald Foster III, 28, was arrested at a
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz and Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system. The ask was so out of line with how
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for criminal charges to be filed and arrests to be made after an autopsy report determined Black inmate Robert Brooks’ fatal beating at the hands of correctional officers in December to be a homicide. Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old man
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Living in Australia means you might have to accept coming across a snake or two on your property at some point. But one Sydney homeowner got more than he bargained for when a snake catcher unearthed 102 of the slithery reptiles hiding in his garden. David Stein had spotted
Continue ReadingBy Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Guatemala has pledged a 40% increase in deportation flights carrying Guatemalans and migrants of other nationalities from the United States, President Bernardo Arévalo announced Wednesday during a press conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Guatemala has also agreed to create a task force for border control and
Continue ReadingBy Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said. UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Seif Magango told CNN
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Skores, Hanna Park, Andy Rose and Holly Yan, CNN Washington (CNN) — Investigators trying to determine what caused last week’s deadly midair collision between a US military Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines plane near Washington, DC, briefed lawmakers Thursday on what they’ve learned after combing through data from both aircraft and
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, Alex Marquardt and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s rapid moves to dismantle the US Agency for International Development have left thousands of workers scrambling to figure out what comes next and scores of those posted in dangerous hotspots around the world afraid for their safety. CNN spoke with numerous
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