By Frank Sulkowski Click here for updates on this story RINCON, Ga. (WJCL) — Actions speak louder than words. 7-year-old Beckham Peterson is a little shy around the camera but he’s got a heart of gold. “Beckham and his sitter wanted to work on a service project this summer,” said Brooke Peterson, Beckham’s mom. “When
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By Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Democrats in Congress want to force votes to release the full Jeffrey Epstein files. The party’s candidates are bringing up the Epstein case in campaign speeches. And at least one potential 2028 contender is fundraising off the furor. Some Democrats once decried the promotion of conspiracy theories about Epstein,
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By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced an investment of more than $90 billion from private companies across tech, energy and finance to turn Pennsylvania into a hub for artificial intelligence — a technology that’s expected to upend everything from the economy to health care and education. The announcement was
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By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Education began sending notices to employees that it plans to resume shrinking the department after the Supreme Court said on Monday that President Donald Trump could carry out mass layoffs. A lower court ruling had indefinitely paused the president’s plans, though the Supreme Court’s decision puts
Continue Reading CNN By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Education began sending notices to employees that it plans to resume shrinking the department after the Supreme Court said on Monday that President Donald Trump could carry out mass layoffs. A lower court ruling had indefinitely paused the president’s plans, though the Supreme Court’s decision
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By Arielle Mitropoulos Click here for updates on this story PETERBOROUGH, New Hampshire (WMUR) — A Peterborough resident remains stuck in Canada after he said that he was denied entry back into the U.S. earlier this month. Last week, WMUR-TV reported first that Christopher Landry, a legal U.S. resident who is a Canadian national, said
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CNN By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Hard drives containing Beyoncé’s unreleased music and several other items were stolen from a car that had been rented by her choreographer during a Cowboy Carter tour stop in Atlanta last week, according to police. Officers responded on July 8 after receiving a call regarding a theft from
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By Elinda Labropoulou and Lauren Kent, CNN Athens (CNN) — Police in Greece are searching for the killer of a University of California Berkeley professor who was shot dead on July 4 while visiting Athens to see his children and attend a family custody hearing. Przemyslaw Jeziorski, 43, an economist and professor of marketing at
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By Aaron Cooper, Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — The FAA is investigating after a Sun Country Airlines Boeing 737 returned to Los Angeles International Airport with flames streaking from its right engine on Monday. “We weren’t even in the air 25 minutes and it sounded like lightning had struck the plane or something had exploded,”
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By Mostafa Salem, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Israel has been carrying out strikes on Syria since the fall of the Assad regime last December. This week saw a major escalation, when Israel said it attacked Syria to protect the Druze, an Arab minority at the center of clashes with government loyalists.
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Nominations for the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards – television’s top honor – were revealed Tuesday. The Apple TV+ series “Severance” was the most-nominated series, notching 27 nominations, according to the Television Academy. HBO Max’s “The Penguin” followed with 24 nominations. “The Studio” and “The White Lotus” tied for
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By Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — The top US senator overseeing aviation says he will introduce a bill that “will close the regulatory loophole” that allowed an Army Black Hawk helicopter to operate with key flight tracking technology, called ADS-B out, turned off the night it collided with an airliner near Washington, DC. Sen.
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — We have seen Elmo of “Sesame Street” in a variety of lights, but never as an alt-right supporter. After the beloved character’s X account was hacked, Jon Stewart decided to have some fun with a look-alike puppet of Elmo on the “The Daily Show” on Monday. The talk
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By Joan Murray Click here for updates on this story BROWARD COUNTY, Florida (WFOR) — Broward County Public Schools will no longer provide free lunch to all students, the district announced Monday, citing budget cuts and the expiration of federal pandemic-era funding. Instead, families must now apply for free or reduced-price meals based on household
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By Najahe Sherman Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — The Miami Stingrays, a powerhouse in softball, have dedicated the last 20 years to training talented athletes for competition on both the state and national level. With pride, they share their remarkable achievement, about 300 young women who have passed through
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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United States has reached a trade agreement with Indonesia, after negotiations Jakarta described as an “extraordinary struggle.” The deal will see the US impose a 19% tariff on Indonesia’s exports, a reduction from the 32% Trump had initially threatened to impose on
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By Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — Two men have been sentenced to four years and three months each in prison for felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern England. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, were both found guilty of two counts of criminal damage in May, one relating to the tree itself and
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Chip and Joanna Gaines are responding to backlash over the latest show in their media empire. Chip Gaines took to social media on Sunday to defend their new Magnolia Network reality series, “Back to the Frontier.” The show drew criticism from some Christian conservatives for featuring a gay
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By Andrea Kane, CNN Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small. You can listen to episodes here. (CNN) — Take a walk down the supplement aisle of any local drugstore, and you will be confronted with a floor-to-ceiling wall of
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By Kevin Liptak, Kylie Atwood, Kristen Holmes and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — As President Donald Trump hardens his position toward Moscow and seeks new ways to bring the conflict to an end, he is leaving open the prospect of allowing shipments of longer-range missiles to the country that would allow it to strike deeper
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By Stephon Dingle Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — In the aftermath of a mass overdose that hospitalized 27 people in Baltimore’s Penn North neighborhood, one victim spoke out, and drug recovery advocates are adjusting their strategy to reach people in crisis before it’s too late. Over the weekend, Sapna
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A 46-year-old American man accused of the murders of a 29-year-old woman and her baby has faced a preliminary legal hearing in Rome after being extradited to Italy. The California native, named in an international arrest warrant and by Italian police as Francis Kaufmann, was extradited from
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — US inflation heated back up in June, rising to its highest level in four months, as higher prices — including those from tariffs — packed a bigger punch. Consumer prices rose 0.3% last month, pushing the annual inflation rate higher to 2.7%, the highest since February, according to the
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have recovered ancient proteins from a fossilized rhinoceros tooth, breaking new ground in the study of ancient life on Earth. The 24 million-year-old tooth, which was unearthed in the Canadian Arctic, contains proteins that are 10 times older than the most ancient known DNA. Using the sample, scientists
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By Tyler Ory, CNN (CNN) — Texas. North Carolina. Illinois. New Mexico. New York City. Flash flooding has surged into the spotlight this summer with record-breaking flood events occurring nearly back-to-back across the country. Slow-moving thunderstorms in Texas unleashed more than an entire summer’s worth of rain on July 4, sending water surging over river
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By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — More than 75 former federal and state judges on Tuesday called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the nomination of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, to a prestigious appeals-court judgeship. “Mr. Bove’s egregious record of mistreating law enforcement officers, abusing power,
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Americans’ unpaid medical bills will remain on their credit reports after a federal judge last week annulled a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that would have removed such debt. Judge Sean Jordan of the US District Court of Texas’ Eastern District found that the rule exceeded the
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By Hanna Park, Andy Rose and Zoe Sottile (CNN) — Elderly residents – some in wheelchairs and some dependent on oxygen tanks – were blinded by deadly smoke as they tried to escape an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, which caught fire Sunday evening. Calls to 911 reporting the fire at Gabriel House began
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By Kyle Feldscher, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — The hottest topic in Atlanta ahead Tuesday’s Major League Baseball isn’t a player, a coach or a manager. It’s not even human. For the first time, the midsummer classic is going to be using automated technology to allow pitchers, catchers and batters to challenge balls and strikes –
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CNN By Chris Lau and Kristie Lu Stout, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Sporting his signature blue suit and red tie, the figure of US President Donald Trump steps into the spotlight on a Hong Kong stage, sparring with a man dressed as Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. The two quarrel over the Ukrainian leader’s outfit
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