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Naftali Bennett Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Israel’s former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Personal Birth date: March 25, 1972 Birth place: Haifa, Israel Birth name: Naftali Bennett Father: Jim Bennett Mother: Myrna (Lefko) Bennett Marriage: Gilat Bennett (1999-present) Children: Four children Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, bachelor’s degree in Law

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Summit County Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth presents the state's closing argument in Kouri Richins' murder trial on Monday.

Prosecutors in Kouri Richins’ murder trial couldn’t prove how she poisoned her husband. They didn’t need to

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — During Kouri Richins’ weekslong murder trial, her attorneys repeatedly drove home the crux of their defense – that prosecutors could not prove how the drugs that killed her husband entered his body. Not one of more than 40 witnesses called by the prosecution testified about how Kouri Richins administered

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An aircraft taxis on the runway at Washington Reagan National Airport on January 29.

AI probe of aviation close calls leads FAA to limit how helicopters can fly around busy airports

By Aaron Cooper, Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — Air traffic controllers will now use radar to actively track helicopters when flying through the flight paths of planes taking off and landing at busy airports, the Federal Aviation Administration said in an order published Wednesday. Chopper pilots had been allowed to take responsibility for visual separation

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The US struck what it claimed without evidence was a drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific on March 8

Word of the Week: Denying the enemy ‘quarter’ may sound like tough talk, but it would be a war crime

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — At a March 13 news briefing about the US-Israeli war with Iran, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proclaimed: “We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.” Of the Oxford English Dictionary’s few dozen definitions for “quarter” — covering units of measurement, physical locations and

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A Venezuelan migrant and her daughter stand near the US-Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez

DHS has a nearly billion-dollar plan to get immigrants to ‘self deport.’ 72,000 people have signed up so far

By Audrey Ash, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has heralded a $915 million incentive program and app as key tools to get undocumented immigrants to voluntarily leave the country, part of a broader push his administration credits with getting 2.2 million people to “self-deport.” But a new document shared internally within DHS

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Travelers wait in long lines at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday.

TSA workers face reality of working without pay as passengers unaware of the shutdown see long lines

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — More than a third of the security screeners at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport didn’t show up to work Tuesday, the airport’s general manager said, causing passengers to have to wait in line for up to two hours. Long lines have stretched through different airports this week as

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Cuban president promises ‘impregnable resistance’ to any US attempt to control island

By Patrick Oppmann, Hilary Whiteman, CNN Havana (CNN) — Any attempt by the United States to take control of Cuba would be met with “impregnable resistance,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Tuesday, as power returned to some parts of the island following a nationwide grid collapse. Successive US administrations have sought to isolate Cuba for

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Deputy US Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference at the Justice Department in Washington

Deputy AG Blanche defends DOJ’s work on Epstein case ahead of closed-door Hill briefing

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and asserted it does not have new evidence to prosecute anyone for crimes related to the convicted sex offender, in an interview released Tuesday. “I’m not trying to defend Epstein. I’m not,” Blanche said

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Coachella Valley High School girls’ soccer parade this weekend

Thermal, Calif. (KESQ) – The Coachella Valley Unified School District Champions Parade will honor the Coachella Valley High School Girls Soccer Team this weekend. The Coachella Valley Unified School District, Riverside County Supervisor V. Manuel Perez, Riverside County Office of Education, the Coachella Valley Education Foundation and local partners are hosting a community parade and

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