By Kevin Liptak, Lauren Kent, CNN Washington, DC, and London (CNN) — US President Donald Trump praised British troops Saturday after sustained outrage over comments he made this week downplaying the sacrifices of NATO forces in Afghanistan. “The GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers of the United Kingdom will always be with the United States of
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By Jamie Gumbrecht, Brenda Goodman, Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — As public health departments across the country prepared for a massive winter storm this weekend, notice landed in their inboxes that pivotal grant funding from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was paused. No more money could be spent. Within hours, a US
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By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Beware of the AI chatbot that becomes more than just a friend, or worse, an emotional crutch. Pope Leo XIV has warned about overly “affectionate” chatbots, urging regulation to prevent humans from forming serious emotional bonds with their AI companions. The US-born pontiff, writing in a message ahead of
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By Tim Lister, Ibrahim Dahman and Eugenia Yosef (CNN) — Winter cold and rains as well as malnutrition are still killing people in Gaza, despite the ceasefire being in its fourth month. Ten children in Gaza have died from hypothermia since the beginning of the winter, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Saturday. A three-month
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By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to slap 100% tariffs on Canadian imports if America’s second-biggest trading partner makes a trade deal with China. The comments threaten to deepen the divide between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, after back-and-forth threats to impose tariffs on Canadian goods, including
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By Evan Perez, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Soon after the agent opened the civil rights investigation, she was
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By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Bundled up in his tiny plaid coat and blue knit bunny hat, 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos looks terrified as strangers take him away from his home in Minnesota. A masked federal agent walks behind the preschooler, holding the handle of his Spiderman backpack as Liam gets into a snow-streaked
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By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security officials have urged disaster response staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to avoid using the word “ice” in public messaging about the massive winter storm barreling toward much of the United States, according to two sources familiar with the directive. The concern is that the word
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By Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — It will be a make-or-break test for mayors across the country: A weekend snowstorm so intense that it could hit two-thirds of the American population and shut down schools, roads and critical infrastructure for days to come. For Zohran Mamdani, nearly a month into the job as
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By Jeff Zeleny, Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — The Republican National Committee voted Friday to hold a midterm political convention, launching an unusual GOP festival that President Donald Trump will headline in hopes of rallying supporters to focus on the critical fall fight for control of Congress. To fulfill Trump’s wish of staging a political
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By CNN Lead Meteorologist Brandon Miller (CNN) — A major winter storm, one of the most extreme and expansive in years, is starting to develop over the Plains and will impact much of the United States. Over the next few days, the storm will drop up to a foot of snow and crippling amounts of
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By Kara Fox, CNN London (CNN) — A British man pleaded guilty in a UK court on Friday to drugging and raping his now former wife over a 13-year period. Philip Young admitted 48 of the 56 charges against him, pleading guilty to 14 counts of voyeurism, 11 of rape, and 11 of administering a
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CNN By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Only a few years ago, seeing scores of women strolling around New York City in real animal fur coats would have seemed unimaginable. Fur has been out of fashion for so long that it’s been decades since Vogue’s Anna Wintour was regularly seen wearing it. (In one of
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is expected to deport dozens of Iranians back to their home country as soon as this Sunday, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. It would be the first known deportation flight to Iran from the United States since sweeping anti-government protests broke out in the
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Days after Brooklyn Peltz Beckham exposed the depth of his rift with his parents, David and Victoria Beckham, in a blistering Instagram post, the DJ who performed at his wedding has offered his account of the now-infamous dance that contributed to the feud. Nicola Peltz Beckham, Brooklyn’s new wife,
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By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — A Virginia man on trial for double-homicide will testify in his own defense, his lawyer says. Prosecutors say Brendan Banfield concocted an elaborate scheme to kill his wife, Christine Banfield, and another man, Joseph Ryan, in their family home in February 2023. He faces life in prison if
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By Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Powerful storms like the one expected this weekend can be dangerous, in some instances potentially cutting off heat, power and communication services for days — and sometimes even longer. To make sure you’re best prepared, start with some basics: Learn how to keep your pipes from freezing by opening
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By Amarachi Orie and Pierre P Bairin, CNN (CNN) — France’s famed high-speed rail service TGV INOUI is facing a backlash after introducing a new premium-class carriage that bans children. As of January 8, national rail operator SNCF has been offering “Optimum” class on many TGV INOUI routes to and from Paris, according to the
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By Josh Campbell, Eric Levenson, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and the largest cocaine distributor in Canada, according to officials, has been arrested and is being placed in US custody. Ryan Wedding was one of FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” fugitives, with a $15 million reward for his capture, after being
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By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would “be there” if the United States “ever needed them,” baselessly claiming that the alliance’s troops “stayed a little back” from the front lines in Afghanistan. “I’ve always said, ‘Will they be there, if we ever needed them?’
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, who star as hockey players entangled in a secret romance in the HBO Max smash “Heated Rivalry,” have been named as official torchbearers for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. The duo are among several torchbearers tasked with carrying the Olympic Flame from Rome
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By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Three Democratic senators are sounding the alarm about lucrative contracts and loans the Pentagon provided to companies linked to Donald Trump Jr. In a letter sent Thursday to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the lawmakers – Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Andy Kim and Richard Blumenthal – requested information
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN London (CNN) — Usama Ghanem learned the stifling censorship that shrouded public spaces in Egypt early in life, and still recalls criticizing the “stupid” regime under former President Hosni Mubarak in elementary school. Immediately, his teacher hushed him. “Nobody was allowed to say anything,” Ghanem, now a 22-year-old student in
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By Hannah Keyser (CNN) — Then there were four. A couple more classics decided in overtime (and a couple more, shall we say, uneven games) in the divisional round have brought us to the conference championships. This weekend will determine who plays in the Super Bowl. Sure, that’s the Big Game, but these tilts decide
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — For Madalin “Cris” Cristea, the danger unfolded in slow motion. Cris and two fellow hikers were descending Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps. The wind was howling, the snow was driving hard, but they were making steady progress toward safety. Then, through the blur of white, Cris
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By Leah Dolan and Barbie Latza Nadeau Rome, Italy (CNN) — Peers, supporters, successors and admirers of the late Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani paid their respects today in Rome at the late couturier’s funeral. Since Wednesday, Valentino (who often went by his first name) has been lying in state at PM23, the arts and
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CNN, WSB, WLS, KCTV, WABC, WCHS, NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR’S OFFICE, NC GOVERNOR VIA YOUTUBE By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — More than half of the United States is about to face one of the most sprawling and menacing winter storms in years, one that threatens to deliver a historic blow of snow and ice.
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CNN By Priscilla Alvarez, Chris Boyette, Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — A 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents from the driveway of his metro Minneapolis home Tuesday after returning from preschool is being held with his father at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas, according to school district officials and a family
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CNN By Holmes Lybrand (CNN) — As Republican Rep. Troy Nehls attempted to place blame for the January 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Police officials and not on President Donald Trump, former Washington, DC, police officer Michael Fanone — who was severely beaten by protestors that day — interrupted with a cough and a quick
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along its trunk. Seiler, a professor and tree physiology specialist at the university, knew immediately that the scar was
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