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5 things to know for April 23: New Jersey wildfire, Himalayas attack, State Department, Economy, Fertility rate

April 23, 2025 5:40 am CNN Newsource

Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency fired around 280 staffers and reassigned around 175 others — on Earth Day. The employees were tasked with ensuring that federal policies, grants and initiatives protected underserved communities from disproportionately experiencing negative health and environmental impacts from pollution and climate change. Last month, the Trump administration

EU whacks Apple and Meta with $800 million in antitrust fines. Meta calls its penalty a ‘tariff’

April 23, 2025 5:36 am CNN Newsource

By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — The European Union has fined Apple and Meta a combined €700 million ($797 million) in the first enforcement of its landmark digital competition law. The penalties for breaching the Digital Markets Act come amid attacks on the EU by the Trump administration for what it sees as the

Simone Biles says gymnastics rivalry with friend Rebeca Andrade has ‘pushed the sport forward’

April 23, 2025 5:35 am CNN Newsource

By Amanda Davies and Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Simone Biles may be considered one of the greatest gymnasts in history, but the American still credits the impact that her Brazilian rival Rebeca Andrade has had on the sport. The two have grown close while competing against each other on the biggest stages and, in

Prominent role of Pete Hegseth’s wife at Pentagon draws scrutiny

April 23, 2025 5:23 am CNN Newsource

By Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — News over the weekend that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s wife Jennifer was included in a second group chat where he shared sensitive military operations details has focused attention on the prominent role she has occupied at the Pentagon without being formally employed during her husband’s short

LeBron James recorded a double-double in Game 2.

LA Lakers level first-round series against Minnesota Timberwolves behind big Luka Dončić performance

April 23, 2025 5:15 am CNN Newsource

By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Luka Dončić powered the Los Angeles Lakers to a 94-85 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 2 on Tuesday to level their first-round playoff series at 1-1. The Slovenian scored 14 of his game-high 31 points in the first quarter as the Lakers took a commanding 19-point lead

He was the first player ever to be drafted in the NFL, but he never played a professional game

April 23, 2025 5:00 am CNN Newsource

By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — The NFL draft is broadcast live on television every year as millions tune in and hundreds of thousands more attend in person to revel in the hoopla of it all. It’s a far cry from the event’s humble beginnings, when the player picked first didn’t even know it was

People gather in St. Peter's Square as they await the arrival of the body of Pope Francis.

Thousands queue to see Pope Francis’ body ahead of funeral

April 23, 2025 4:33 am CNN

CNN By Caitlin Danaher, Christopher Lamb, Lauren Kent, Antonia Mortensen, Barbie Latza Nadeau and Sebastian Shukla, CNN Vatican City (CNN) — The body of Pope Francis is lying in state in St. Peter’s Basilica, where it will remain for three days until his funeral Saturday, expected to be attended by world leaders including US President

America’s biggest exporter was already on the ropes. Then came tariffs

April 23, 2025 4:30 am CNN Newsource

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — Boeing’s problems the last six years have been legion. Tariffs could be yet another gut punch for the beleaguered company – and, given Boeing’s importance as the top US exporter, for the economy as a whole. Boeing’s jets could get millions of dollars more expensive if other countries impose

Measles misinformation is spreading in the US, and most aren’t sure what they believe, poll finds

April 23, 2025 4:00 am CNN Newsource

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — As a measles outbreak centered in West Texas continues to grow, a new poll finds that a growing share of adults in the United States have heard false claims about the disease and the vaccine to prevent it – and many aren’t completely confident in their conviction. Nearly two-thirds

Video shared by the Beachwood Vol. Fire Department shows a sky filled with smoke over a residential neighborhood on April 22.

Evacuation orders lifted and portion of Garden State Parkway reopens as crews battle New Jersey wildfire

April 23, 2025 3:52 am CNN

KYW, X, @LAKEWOODSCOOP, CNN, X/@LAKEWOODSCOOP By Taylor Romine, Taylor Ward and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Weather conditions are improving Wednesday as firefighters continue to battle a still-growing wildfire that has burned at least 13,250 acres in southern New Jersey since it ignited on Tuesday, prompting about 5,000 evacuations and briefly shut down part of

A photo of former chalet chef Crowther while on the job.

The truth about the ‘chalet girls’ who look after the needs of Europe’s wealthy skiers

April 23, 2025 3:50 am CNN Newsource

By Jack Hillcox, CNN (CNN) — It’s 7 a.m. on a freezing January morning in Les Gets, a ski resort in the French Alps. The sun won’t rise for another hour, but Sophie Crowther, having slept through her alarm, is sprinting up winding icy mountain lanes to make breakfast for 25 high-paying guests. It’s her

Trump dice que los aranceles a China “bajarán sustancialmente”, insinuando un posible cambio de rumbo

April 23, 2025 3:28 am CNN Newsource

Por Nectar Gan y Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, insinuó un posible cambio de rumbo en su guerra comercial con China en medio de la continua volatilidad del mercado, diciendo que los elevados aranceles sobre los productos chinos “bajarán sustancialmente, pero no serán cero”. Las declaraciones de Trump, realizadas este

One thing the modern Supreme Court can agree on is disagreeing over religion

April 23, 2025 3:00 am CNN Newsource

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Alliances among the nine Supreme Court justices can shift back and forth, as in recent cases over President Donald Trump’s mass deportation of migrants. But religion is different. The fundamental irreconcilable conflict on today’s Supreme Court was laid bare during an intense courtroom drama Tuesday over

El cuerpo del papa Francisco permanecerá en la basílica de San Pedro durante tres días antes del funeral

April 23, 2025 2:54 am CNN Newsource

Por Caitlin Danaher, Christopher Lamb, Lauren Kent, Antonia Mortensen y Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN El cuerpo del papa Francisco yace en la basílica de San Pedro, donde permanecerá durante tres días hasta su funeral este sábado, al que se espera que asistan líderes mundiales, incluido el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump. Su cuerpo fue

Under a basilica’s splendour, thousands gather for a final glimpse of a pope who led a simple life

April 23, 2025 2:02 am CNN Newsource

By Caitlin Danaher, Christopher Lamb, Lauren Kent, Antonia Mortensen, Barbie Latza Nadeau and Sebastian Shukla, CNN Vatican City (CNN) — In the splendour of St. Peter’s Basilica, with the sunshine glinting across the bronze canopy that towers over the main altar, thousands of Catholic pilgrims streamed in to glimpse the body of Pope Francis on

Harvard’s fight with the Trump administration is just getting started. The cost is already high

April 23, 2025 2:00 am CNN Newsource

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — A picture of Dr. David Walt, a pioneering scientist whose research helped significantly lower the costs of DNA sequencing, greets visitors to Harvard University’s website right next to a large headline: Research Powers Progress. But since Harvard has become embroiled in an ideological battle with the Trump administration, Walt

Cómo la presidencia de Trump puede ser un fracaso rotundo y un éxito asombroso a la vez

April 23, 2025 1:09 am CNN Newsource

Análisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN Según los parámetros convencionales, la segunda presidencia de Donald Trump ya se está hundiendo en el caos, en medio de un marasmo legal, errores autoinfligidos y una enorme brecha entre su enorme ambición y su capacidad para hacer realidad esa visión. Sin embargo, las decenas de millones de partidarios de

Es improbable que Trump despida a Hegseth, pero preocupa la confusión en el círculo íntimo del jefe del Pentágono

April 23, 2025 12:28 am CNN Newsource

Por Kaitlan Collins, Natasha Bertrand, Jake Tapper y Kevin Liptak, CNN El martes por la mañana, un desafiante secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth, se presentó en la cadena de televisión donde solía trabajar como presentador para abordar las consecuencias de las revelaciones de que discutió planes militares en un segundo chat grupal de Signal, esta

Cómo la vida temprana del papa Francisco en Argentina arroja luz sobre su tiempo en el Vaticano

April 22, 2025 11:51 pm CNN Newsource

Por Claudia Rebaza, CNN El 13 de marzo de 2013, Oscar Crespo estaba viendo la televisión en su natal Buenos Aires cuando vio el humo blanco apareciendo sobre la Capilla Sixtina en el Vaticano: se había elegido un nuevo papa. Al igual que millones de católicos en Latinoamérica, tenía curiosidad por saber quién sucedería al

Trump says China tariffs will ‘come down substantially,’ hinting at potential U-turn

April 22, 2025 11:31 pm CNN Newsource

By Nectar Gan and Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN Hong Kong/Washington (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has signaled a potential U-turn on his trade war with China, saying the high tariffs on Chinese goods will “come down substantially, but it won’t be zero.” Trump’s remarks, made at a White House news event Tuesday, appear to mark

BYD unveils new luxury sports car as carmakers vie for attention at China’s largest auto show

April 22, 2025 11:27 pm CNN Newsource

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Shanghai, China (CNN) — Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD has already beaten out long-standing frontrunner Tesla in sales of electrified vehicles. And now it’s coming for luxury sports cars. BYD’s premium Denza line on Wednesday unveiled the Z, a flashy new deep-blue model that points to the company’s ambitions to rival

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a meeting of the Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias Task Force at the Justice Department in Washington

Trump slams Zelensky for refusing to recognize Russian control of Crimea

April 22, 2025 11:26 pm CNN Newsource

By Todd Symons, Rob Picheta and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump slammed Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday for his comments that Ukraine wouldn’t recognize Russian control of Crimea, calling the remarks “very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia.” “It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that makes it so difficult to settle

The pope called them every night until his final hours. Now, Gaza’s Christians cling to the hope he left behind

April 22, 2025 11:16 pm CNN Newsource

By CNN’s Abeer Salman and Oren Liebermann (CNN) — The final call lasted 30 seconds. Just enough time to say hello and ask if everyone was okay. But for Gaza’s tiny Christian population, the phone call from Pope Francis was a ray of hope that shone through the horrors of war. Every day since the

Palestinian Christians in Gaza mourn the death of Pope Francis

The pope called them every night until his final hours. Now, Gaza’s Christians cling to the hope he left behind

April 22, 2025 11:16 pm CNN

CNN By CNN’s Abeer Salman and Oren Liebermann (CNN) — The final call lasted 30 seconds. Just enough time to say hello and ask if everyone was okay. But for Gaza’s tiny Christian population, the phone call from Pope Francis was a ray of hope that shone through the horrors of war. Every day since

Nearly half of Americans live in an area with a failing grade for air pollution, and the problem is only getting worse

April 22, 2025 11:01 pm CNN Newsource

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Air pollution levels keep getting worse for more people in the US, according to a new report, and experts say the Trump administration’s proposed deregulation plans will make it even harder for people to get clean air. Almost half of everyone who lives in the United States breathes unhealthy

US fertility rate hovers near record low as Trump administration pushes for a baby boom

April 22, 2025 11:01 pm CNN Newsource

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Women in the United States are less likely to have babies than ever before, but key figures in the Trump administration seem keen on changing that – even as federal programs focused on reproductive health face significant upheaval. About 3.6 million babies were born in the US in 2024,

A 19-year-old faces arson charges for New Jersey wildfire, officials say

April 22, 2025 9:25 pm CNN Newsource

By Taylor Romine, Taylor Ward and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — [Breaking news update at 10:10 a.m. ET] A 19-year-old faces arson charges in connection with a southern New Jersey wildfire that has scorched at least 15,000 acres and prompted thousands of evacuations, officials said Joseph Kling has been charged with aggravated arson and arson

Las ganancias de Tesla caen mientras Musk promete que está listo para alejarse de su papel en DOGE

April 22, 2025 9:22 pm CNN Newsource

Por Chris Isidore, CNN Elon Musk dice que regresará a Tesla, alejándose parcialmente de su papel destacado y controvertido en el Gobierno de Trump, al que se le atribuye una caída en las ganancias y las ventas de la empresa. Musk dijo a los inversionistas de Tesla este martes que reduciría sus esfuerzos en el

Trump dice que no tiene “intención de despedir” al presidente de la Fed, Jerome Powell

April 22, 2025 9:19 pm CNN Newsource

Por Ramishah Maruf, Tori B. Powell y Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN El presidente Donald Trump dijo el martes que no tenía “intención” de despedir al presidente de la Reserva Federal (Fed), Jerome Powell. El mensaje es un cambio drástico respecto al día anterior, cuando Trump llamó a Powell un “gran perdedor” en una publicación de Truth

La FDA eliminará gradualmente los colorantes alimentarios a base de petróleo; autorizará cuatro aditivos de color naturales

April 22, 2025 8:22 pm CNN Newsource

Por Jen Christensen, CNN La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) de EE.UU. planea eliminar gradualmente el uso de colorantes sintéticos a base de petróleo en el suministro de alimentos del país debido a preocupaciones de salud, anunció este martes el comisionado Dr. Marty Makary. “Durante los últimos 50 años,