By Catherine Nicholls, Billy Stockwell, Caitlin Danaher, CNN (CNN) — Several people who protested in Iran over the past few days have spoken to CNN about seeing enormous crowds as well as brutal violence on the streets of Tehran, with one woman saying she saw “bodies piled up on each other” in a hospital. A
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WCIV, CNN By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — When Janell Green Smith first announced her pregnancy this past summer, her family was ecstatic. After participating in more than 300 births as a certified nurse-midwife and doctor of nursing practice in South Carolina, with a particular focus on helping Black women give birth safely, she was
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By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday tried to sell Big Oil executives on the promise of an expansive new drilling campaign in Venezuela. But at least for now, the industry isn’t buying it. Trump and his top aides emerged from a lengthy White House meeting without any major commitments from
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By Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — As questions continue to mount about the circumstances that led a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer to open fire and kill a 37-year-old woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis this week, the agent’s potentially traumatic recent history could be as much a point of discussion as his tactics
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CNN By Lex Harvey, Holly Yan, Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Oregon authorities are investigating a shooting by a Border Patrol agent in Portland that wounded two people authorities say are tied to a violent international gang – an incident that renewed questions about the Trump administration’s handling of its immigration crackdown in the city
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By Curt Devine, Thomas Bordeaux, Allison Gordon, Kyung Lah, CNN (CNN) — As he approached Renee Good’s vehicle on a Minneapolis street on Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross held up his phone camera and recorded video. Less than a minute later, he was still recording when he drew his weapon and fatally
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By Holmes Lybrand, Justin Lear, Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — Video captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross gives a raw, up-close perspective of the pivotal moments surrounding his fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. A Department of Homeland Security official confirmed the video, obtained by CNN, was recorded on the agent’s
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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Virginia man accused of planting two bombs in Washington, DC, five years ago pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges of transporting and attempting to use explosives. The DC federal court arraignment for the man, Brian J. Cole Jr., took place over a month after Cole was initially
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — After a record week of flu activity in the US, hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise. About 40,000 people were admitted to the hospital with flu during the week ending January 3, according to data published Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 10% more
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Researchers came to Dr. Chris Knowles’ school in England when he was 18 years old to run an experiment. They wanted to see which novice drinkers responded the most to alcohol and who would later go on to develop a drinking problem. They placed two double vodkas in front
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CNN By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — The food pyramid is getting turned upside down, with protein and dairy gaining more prominence in the suggested American diet. Sugar and processed foods are getting shunned even more with warning labels. It has whiffs of MAHA, as the new dietary guidelines for Americans promote controversial
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By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has limited some of its Imagine image generation features to paid X subscribers, days after international uproar over the AI tool responded to user requests by “digitally undressing” people, including children. The change appears to have occurred between Thursday and Friday. Grok’s X account responds
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By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Anti-government protests in Iran erupted for a thirteenth consecutive day on Friday, in a wave of nationwide unrest that marks the biggest challenge to the regime in years. Authorities cut off internet access and telephone lines on Thursday – the biggest night of nationwide demonstrations so far – leaving
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CNN By Kosta Gak, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Rhea Mogul, Sana Noor Haq, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — Russia fired a hypersonic Oreshnik missile at a target in western Ukraine overnight Thursday, near the border with NATO member Poland, in what has been labeled a brazen “warning” to the wider continent and the United States. It marked the
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By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — A “grand stair” and new spaces for utilities, food service and deliveries are among the newly disclosed details for President Donald Trump’s sprawling East Wing expansion presented to a commission with oversight of the building plans on Thursday. For the first time, a proposal for the addition of a
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The US has seized another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, US Southern Command said on Friday. US troops, in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security, “launched from the USS Gerald R. Ford and apprehended Motor/Tanker Olina in the Caribbean Sea without incident,” the command said in
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — If “Sinners” made you emotional, you have something in common with one of its stars, Michael B. Jordan. In an interview with W, the actor said starring as identical twins Elijah “Smoke” Moore and Elias “Stack” Moore put him in his feels. “I cried during Sinners,” he told
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By Jennifer Hansler, Stefano Pozzebon, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — A US State Department team traveled to Venezuela on Friday for the first time since the ouster of Nicolas Maduro, according to a US official. The visit comes as the US looks to reopen its embassy in Caracas and underscores the administration’s desire to re-establish
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CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN (CNN) — Russia launched an Oreshnik missile into Ukraine overnight into Friday for the second time since the full-scale war began 2022, in a strike that Kyiv and its allies say is meant as a warning for the West. While Russian defense officials did not say where the Oreshnik
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CNN By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Hiring slowed more than expected in December, a sluggish end to what was one of the weakest years of job growth in decades, a dynamic that further amplified America’s affordability crisis. The US economy added an estimated 50,000 jobs last month, slowing from a downwardly revised 56,000 jobs
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By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has said the prohibition on countries violating one another’s borders has been “completely undermined,” in an important speech to diplomats gathered in the Vatican. The first United States-born pope, giving his debut “state of the world” address, expressed his concern about “escalating tensions” in the “Caribbean
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Rapper Fetty Wap has been released early from a federal jail, almost three years after he was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. The “Trap Queen” singer, whose legal name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, was sentenced by a New York court to six years in prison and
Continue Reading CNN, KATU, KPTV, KGW, PORTLAND AREA FIRE AND RESCUE By Lex Harvey, Holly Yan, Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Oregon authorities are investigating a shooting by a Border Patrol agent in Portland that wounded two people authorities say are tied to a violent international gang – an incident that renewed questions about the Trump administration’s
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By Frank Nunns O’Connell, CNN (CNN) — US snowboarding star Chloe Kim confirmed on Thursday that she dislocated her shoulder while practicing in Switzerland, leaving her participation in next month’s Winter Olympics in doubt. The two-time Olympic women’s halfpipe champion posted the video of her injury to Instagram, which took place in Laax – host
Continue Reading By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — The food pyramid is getting turned upside down, with protein and dairy gaining more prominence in the suggested American diet. Sugar and processed foods are getting shunned even more with warning labels. It has whiffs of MAHA, as the new dietary guidelines for Americans promote controversial saturated
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By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — The NHL’s Ottawa Senators say they are “extremely disappointed” and “disgusted” to see rumors about goaltender Linus Ullmark spread online. Ullmark was granted a leave of absence for “personal reasons” last month, with Senators general manager Steve Staios saying at the time that the starting goaltender had the full
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By Nicki Brown, Lauren del Valle, CNN New York (CNN) — Jury selection for Luigi Mangione’s federal trial over the fatal December 2024 shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s top executive could begin in early September with a trial to follow later in the year. The 27-year-old accused killer appeared in federal court Friday for a hearing over
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By Dana O’Neil, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Somewhere between what had been a previously unimaginable football commute from Pasadena, California, to Bloomington, Indiana, the first day of January bled into the second. The Indiana Hoosiers, fresh off eviscerating none other than Alabama at the high holy grounds of the Rose Bowl, pulled up to the
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By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — It could easily have been a tennis match that nobody really noticed. Instead, it became instantly viral online. The first round of the International Tennis Federation’s W35 tournament, played on a clay court in Nairobi, Kenya, wouldn’t normally make much of a splash in the tennis world, but millions
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CNN, X, POOL, COURT DOCS, TYRICE JONES By Holmes Lybrand, Allison Gordon, Jeff Winter, Casey Tolan, Isabelle Chapman, CNN (CNN) — Last summer, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent found himself in a perilous situation. His arm was pinned into the back window of a car as a suspect sped away, dragging him across the
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