By Katherine Dillinger, Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — A Washington resident died of complications from an infection with a bird flu strain never before reported in humans, the state Department of Health said on Friday. The patient was an older adult with underlying health conditions who had been hospitalized and undergoing treatment for infection with
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By Sarah Ferris, Kaitlan Collins, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Friday that she will be resigning from office in January, stunning some in her own party after a shocking, monthslong political pivot that catapulted her from one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies to one of his
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By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — She was once cast as a secular heroine, the daughter of a revolutionary leader, whose brutal assassination in the 1970s defined her political ascent. But Sheikh Hasina’s rise to the top of Bangladesh’s politics preceded a stunning fall from power to self-exile in India. A death sentence delivered in
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By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said he and his family are among the Republicans targeted in a wave of threats against state officeholders this week as President Donald Trump pressures Hoosier State lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional maps. At least eight Republican state senators said they had been the
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By Holmes Lybrand, Katelyn Polantz, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey are asking a federal judge to dismiss the charges against him because, they say, a grand jury never approved the final indictment in the case. The motion to dismiss comes after prosecutors, including interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan,
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By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the IRS from giving ICE the home addresses of taxpayers who might be undocumented immigrants — dealing a blow to the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. The ruling is a significant victory for immigrant-rights group and liberal activists who are trying to resist
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By Dana O’Neil, CNN (CNN) — College athletes will still be prohibited from betting on any sport in which the NCAA sponsors a championship after an eleventh-hour push to rescind a proposed rule change reached the necessary two-thirds threshold. Facing a 5 p.m. ET Friday deadline and needing 241 schools to submit paperwork preventing college
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Dolly Parton has had to miss two significant ceremonies as she continues to follow her doctors’ orders amid some “health challenges.” The legendary singer, songwriter and entrepreneur, 79, was unable to attend her recent induction into the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions’ Hall of Fame. That
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By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — The holiday season can be intense. People are traveling, hosting family and friends, and going to events — all the while keeping up other responsibilities of work and caregiving. All this activity has me thinking about the importance of keeping our immune systems healthy. What are some habits that
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By Holmes Lybrand, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton could face more charges, Justice Department prosecutors suggested at a Friday court hearing in his criminal case. The Justice Department continues to go through the large amount of documents recovered in the case, including from Bolton’s home in
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Isidor and Ida Straus are remembered as two of the highest-profile victims of the Titanic disaster, and among the few first-class passengers to perish. The pair, who were depicted in James Cameron’s Oscar-winning 1997 movie “Titanic,” were offered seats in one of the lifeboats but refused to be separated.
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By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The US Coast Guard on Thursday issued a memo that reclassifies swastikas and nooses as “hate symbols,” in a rapid about-face after facing intense scrutiny for a previous policy change which downplayed their display as merely “potentially divisive.” The newest memo expressly prohibits the display of nooses, swastikas or
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By Patrick Sung, Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — Thursday night’s NFL game between the Houston Texans and Buffalo Bills was a rough and tumble affair, featuring injuries aplenty – including to one of the officials. Referee Adrian Hill had to be carted off the field following a non-contact injury in the third quarter of the
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Charlie XCX sees your Brat Summer and raises you. That’s because the pop star is betting she can extend that run with a forthcoming film conceived by and starring her. A teaser trailer has dropped for “The Moment,” an A24 movie which Vanity Fair described as “a revisionist
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Bodrum, Turkey (CNN) — The mountainous Bodrum Peninsula rises over the vibrant blue Aegean Sea, its peak richly forested, its foothills stacked with white flat-roofed homes and hotels. On the peninsula’s exclusive northern coastline, superyachts bob between the ultra-luxury villas and hotels of Paradise Bay. In Bodrum town on the southern
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A copy of the first ever issue of “Superman,” discovered in a Californian attic last year, has become the most expensive comic ever sold, fetching $9.12 million at auction. Three brothers from northern California discovered the issue of “Superman #1” while clearing out their mother’s attic after her death.
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By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — And all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Except me, at age 7. I woke up so excited just as the clock struck midnight that my mother ended up giving me my first Christmas present — the latest Shaun Cassidy album. I can
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — When she used to visit her in-laws during the holidays, Dana Santas and her husband kept to their schedule and went to the gym every day. “They’re on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, in the middle of nowhere,” said Santas, a CNN fitness contributor and a mind-body coach for
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — The holidays are often a time when financial goals are in opposition with showing people love in the grandest of ways. Reining in holiday spending could be the absolute last thing people want to do, but during inflation– and debt-related financial struggles, scaling back is a necessity for many.
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By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are now pushing to make the censure process more difficult after the House weighed three separate complaints against sitting members this week. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday he is “very interested in raising the threshold” of votes to censure a member,
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By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — The holidays are here, as are the parties, happy hours and other get-togethers that often offer abundant mixed drinks, beer and wine. We all know that too much alcohol is bad for us, but how much is too much? Is it better to drink a lot on one day
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By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Fatima Bosch of Mexico has been named Miss Universe 2025 in a scandal-hit competition where she emerged as a fan favorite after she was berated by a Thai pageant director during a pre-pageant meeting, triggering a walk out by contestants. The 25-year-old humanitarian and volunteer was crowned by last
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By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — The holidays can be fun and exciting, but you know they can also be cause for stress and anxiety. Besides the flurry of gift shopping and holiday events, there are the usual illnesses we spread in winter, families struggling with more significant illnesses and financial stressors, as well as
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become the most valuable work by a female artist sold at auction after selling for $54.7 million. “El sueño (La cama)” – “The Dream (The Bed)” – grabbed the title at Sotheby’s in New York, after it surpassed the existing record
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By Monica Haider, CNN (CNN) — Traditionally, the holidays are for spending time with family and friends, perhaps with a varying degree of religious rituals or practices. There’s also pressure not to miss certain family celebrations, but there will be times you can’t make it – whether by choice or circumstance. So, if you’re spending
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By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 82 million Americans are expected to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday, including many of you. As family and friends gather together to share meals, it may be good to remember that foodborne illnesses are on the rise. These are mostly preventable with the right precautions. I want to
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — North Korean operatives created a fake job-application platform targeting applicants to major US artificial intelligence and crypto firms as part of a new effort to steal money and know-how for the Kim Jong Un regime, researchers said on Thursday. It’s a twist on a yearslong campaign to infiltrate Fortune
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department will require its diplomats describe enforcement of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, alleged facilitation of mass migration, and government funding that supports abortion medications as “human rights infringements” in its next human rights report, a senior State Department official said Thursday, as the Trump
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By Ella Nilsen, Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is proposing to open federal waters off the entire coastline of California to drilling, as well as an area off the coast of Florida. Neither state’s waters have been open to new drilling for decades. President Donald Trump’s Interior Department released a five-year offshore
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Friends, family and fans gathered Thursday to honor the late Chadwick Boseman receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Thursday was declared “Chadwick Boseman Day” in Hollywood, and his “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” costar Violas Davis, his “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler and
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