By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A US appeals court has temporarily blocked an order curtailing federal immigration enforcement in Chicago, arguing the lower court judge overstepped when she imposed strict and wide-reaching restraints on how agents can interact with protesters and journalists. A three-judge panel for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, Katelyn Polantz, Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — The hearing Wednesday morning in the case against former FBI Director James Comey ended with a revelation by prosecutors and a conundrum: if a full grand jury never reviewed the final set of charges handed up against Comey, are they void? The question
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By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — Saudi Arabia is strengthening its ties with American AI companies — announcing a flurry of new joint ventures worth billions of dollars. The country seeks to make its mark in the AI industry as its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, makes his first visit to the
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By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN (CNN) — The United States shared images on Wednesday of joint military exercises in Trinidad and Tobago, as its armed forces amass in the region, building pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The deployment is receiving logistical and diplomatic support from multiple Latin American countries, ranging from limited assistance to open
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By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Wednesday issued an extraordinary broadside against his two colleagues over their decision to publish their opinion in a major redistricting case in Texas before he had a chance to finish writing his dissent, saying they had lost “any pretense of judicial restraint, good faith, or
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — GOP Rep. Nancy Mace announced Wednesday she would seek to censure her Republican colleague Rep. Cory Mills and kick him off his House committees, pointing to several controversies surrounding the Florida congressman. Once considered rare in the House chamber, censure has been used more frequently in recent years and
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By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Nvidia posted strong revenue and profits that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations Wednesday. The closely watched result could prompt a sigh of relief across the stock market following growing concerns about an artificial intelligence bubble. Nvidia’s sales grew 62% year-over-year to $57 billion in the October quarter, ahead
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The latest images of an interstellar comet shared by NASA have captured how an array of spacecraft witnessed a flyby that was truly out of this world, revealing clues to the object’s composition, revealing clues to the object’s composition. Astronomers first detected the rare comet, known as 3I/ATLAS, on
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By Christian Edwards, Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — A Russian spy ship has entered British waters and directed lasers at military pilots, Britain’s defense secretary said Wednesday, as he warned that the country was facing a “new era of threat” from hostile actors. During a speech in London, John Healey said the Yantar spy
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By Samantha Waldenberg, Bryan Mena, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested he would fire Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent if the Federal Reserve doesn’t decrease interest rates. “The only thing Scott is blowing it on is the Fed because the Fed, the rates are too high, Scott. If you don’t get it fixed
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By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Half a dozen members of Congress who previously served in the military or intelligence community are urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by President Donald Trump’s administration. In a video posted on X Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers Sen. Elissa Slotkin,
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The longstanding public health practice of adding fluoride to community drinking water is facing heavy scrutiny in the United States over questions about whether the benefits outweigh the potential risks. But new research challenges recent claims about the risks of fluoride in drinking water — and instead suggests that
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Federal officials unveiled additional charges on Wednesday against a former Olympic snowboarder for Canada who has been wanted for allegedly running a drug trafficking ring. The new charges against Ryan James Wedding include murder, witness tampering, money laundering and drug trafficking, Attorney General Pam Bondi said at
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Kamran Hekmati didn’t have concerns about going to Iran earlier this year for what was supposed to be a brief trip. Hekmati, who is Iranian-American and Jewish, had traveled there numerous times with family, and he isn’t a political person, family members told CNN. But the 70-year old was
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By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump tells a lot of lies. Trump also regularly accuses others of lying. And sometimes he does both at once – telling a lie about something while accusing someone else of lying about it. In other words, the president has been dishonest even about others’ honesty. It’s
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By Ana Nicolaci da Costa, CNN London (CNN) — A high-stakes standoff between China and the Netherlands over control of a crucial chipmaker reached a detente Wednesday after Amsterdam suspended a controversial order that enabled it to take control of Chinese-owned Nexperia. The standoff had threatened to shutter auto plants around the world as Nexperia
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By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard has been missing for over a month after she was last seen with her mother wearing wigs on a cross-country road trip. The mother, Ashlee Buzzard, returned to their California home without Melodee, did not report her daughter missing and has declined to cooperate with law
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By Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that Jessica Tisch accepted his offer to stay at the helm of the nation’s largest police force. The announcement secures the mayor-elect’s highest profile appointment as he prepares to take office in January. It’s a significant compromise for both
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — One of the most hotly anticipated economic reports is finally set to be released Thursday: The long-delayed jobs report for September, originally due on October 3. It marks the reopening of the floodgates for a slew of backlogged economic data that was held up due to the historic government
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By Jack Guy and Joyce Jiang, CNN (CNN) — Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice. Larry Wang, CEO of Singapore-based FoloToy, told CNN that the company had withdrawn its “Kumma” bear, as well
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By Hannah Keyser, CNN (CNN) — When Blake Butera checked his phone after the birth of his first baby, he had about 600 text messages congratulating him on his new job: fatherhood. Well, not just fatherhood. The 33-year-old new dad to a daughter was also named the Washington Nationals’ new manager, making him the youngest
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By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — Larry Summers is resigning from the OpenAI board as he steps away from public commitments, after more emails between the Harvard economist and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released last week by a House committee. “In line with my announcement to step away from my public commitments, I
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By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Christmas is coming early for those who love spending the holidays with the Stone family. Thomas Bezucha, the writer-director behind the 2005 perennial yuletide favorite “The Family Stone,” is working on a sequel to the movie, he tells CNN. Bezucha shared the news during an interview about working with
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — High above the North Pole, in a slice of atmosphere rarely noticed and even less understood, a transformation is underway. Over the next 10 days, changes in the stratosphere will upend weather patterns and set the stage for a cold, snowy December across parts of the Northern Hemisphere. It
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Target’s problems are intensifying. In the latest signal of trouble at the struggling company, Target posted another drop in sales during its latest quarter and cut its full-year profit guidance Wednesday. Target’s stock slipped 1% during pre-market trading. Heading into Wednesday, shares had tumbled roughly 35% this
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — For more than two centuries, the Antico Caffè Greco has been part of the cultural landscape of Rome. Authors and artists, movie stars and princesses — even cowboys — have all made the pilgrimage to Via dei Condotti, at the foot of the Spanish Steps, to soak
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By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 8:36 p.m. ET] Former Harvard president Larry Summers will not finish out the semester in his instructor role as the university investigates his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a Harvard spokesperson told the school newspaper The Crimson Wednesday. CNN has reached out
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By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is calling a federal judge’s order a “win for religious freedom” after Judge Orlando L. Garcia issued a preliminary injunction requiring certain Texas public school districts to remove displays of the Ten Commandments. The order comes in response to a lawsuit challenging
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By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — On Saturday evening, Samantha Surovtsev squinted at her phone, blinking through tears as she rushed to order a set of Eastern European power adapters. Despite the 80-degree North Texas heat, she then drove to Old Navy and bought two bulky winter coats. When the adapters arrived Sunday, she tucked
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Upon the open grasslands of what is now Kazakhstan, there once stood a Bronze Age settlement that may have served as a center of exchange and power around 1600 BC. The settlement — called Semiyarka and nicknamed “The City of Seven Ravines” for its location overlooking a network of
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