By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge ripped into the Justice Department on Friday for failing to inform him of the applicability of a law intended to protect journalists from government searches and seizures when it asked him for permission to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home earlier this year. “How could you
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By Alaa Elassar, Bill Kirkos, CNN (CNN) — A driver is dead after he rammed a vehicle through the gate of a power substation in Boulder City, Nevada, on Thursday in what authorities are investigating as a terrorism-related event, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The driver, who was found with a self-inflicted
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – Credit One Bank has agreed to pay just over $10 million to settle a civil consumer protection lawsuit alleging the company or its vendors made repeated, intrusive and harassing debt collection calls, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. The Nevada-based company — which did not admit wrongdoing — was
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By Emily R. Condon, CNN (CNN) — Protesters calling for the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan told CNN they were attacked by security guards protecting the country’s President Ilham Aliyev in Washington, DC on Thursday following President Donald Trumps’s inaugural Board of Peace meeting. Footage circulated on social media shows protesters being thrown to
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By John Fritze, Devan Cole, Elisabeth Buchwald, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law when he unilaterally imposed sweeping tariffs across the globe, a striking loss for the White House on an issue that has been central to the president’s foreign policy and economic
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (KESQ) – The legendary Venus Williams will return to the Indian Wells Tennis Garden later this month. Williams was awarded the first wild card of the 2026 BNP Paribas Open. The tennis icon has received both a singles and doubles wild card entry into the event, where she will make her first
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Skores, Aaron Cooper, CNN Washington (CNN) — It was not a mistake to close the airspace around El Paso, Texas, last week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a news conference Friday afternoon. He declined to share details about what happened and the subsequent finger pointing, saying he would speak to Congress before
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A ransomware attack has forced one of Mississippi’s largest health care systems to close clinics across the state on Friday, raising larger concerns about the cybersecurity of medical facilities across the country. The closure affects all 35 of the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s health clinics, which provide a
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs on Friday, a significant decision that could redirect the course of the administration’s economic and foreign policy agenda. The 6-3 decision, which included both conservative and liberal justices in the majority, had the potential to reset
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BLYTHE, Calif. (KESQ) The Palo Verde Healthcare District Board of Directors has approved a 180-day agreement with Riverside County aimed at stabilizing emergency services at Palo Verde Hospital. The Management Services Agreement, approved during a special meeting Thursday, authorizes leadership from Riverside University Health System Medical Center and Clinics to deploy a county-led strike team
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Some people will go to extreme lengths to avoid paying for regular garbage collection – and sometimes they enlist help from man’s best friend. Authorities in Sicily, Italy, have released footage of a dog carrying garbage to a rogue land dump near Catania. The cunning canine can
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By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The estate of Jeffrey Epstein agreed on Thursday to pay up to $35 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by survivors of the late convicted sex offender. The complaint, which was first filed in 2024, alleges that Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, co-executors of Epstein’s estate, “facilitated” Epstein’s
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By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — Most days, the country’s top newspapers have a wide range of photos gracing their front pages. But on Friday, every image topping the British front pages was identical: A snap of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, slouched in the back of a car, looking shell-shocked on his 66th birthday as he
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By Avery Schmitz, Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — The US military has assembled a massive collection of weapons systems in the Middle East amid diplomatic negotiations between the US and Iran, flooding ships and aircraft to nearby waters and the constellation of US bases in the region. Military planners have told President Donald Trump they
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By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, James Frater, CNN London (CNN) — Slouched in the back of a car, wide-eyed and unnerved, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor makes his way home from the police station. It’s an image that was splashed across pretty much every UK newspaper on Friday morning, a day after the brother of King Charles III was arrested
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By Abby Phillip, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied a request for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. to lie in honor at the United States Capitol, citing past precedent over how the deaths of other high-profile figures were handled, according to sources familiar with the matter. The civil rights
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By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Deborah Polhamus, the maternal grandmother of teenage school shooter Colt Gray, testified Friday that the teen’s father Colin Gray bought him an AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas gift nine months before the shooting. Polhamus initially said she did not remember if the firearm was kept in Colt Gray’s room,
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By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — US Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas is denying that he had an affair with a staffer who died by suicide last year, allegations that have gained new traction in the final days before a March 3 primary election. Attorney Bobby Barrera, who represents Adrian Aviles, said his client’s
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CNN By Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will direct the Pentagon and other federal agencies to release government records related to extraterrestrial life and UFOs. “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the
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By Stephanie Halasz, Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A man has been found guilty of grossly negligent manslaughter after leaving his girlfriend, who was “galaxies” behind him in terms of climbing experience, to freeze to death on Austria’s tallest mountain last year, authorities said. The 37-year-old man, named in local media as Thomas P., was
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