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A family walks with their dog during heavy snow near Donner Lake in Truckee in California

Another storm slams California on Christmas Day with flooding rain, high winds and mountain snow

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — After a harrowing and deadly Christmas Eve in California with rescues and evacuations amid widespread flooding and debris flow threats, another storm is battering the state Christmas Day, with more expected into Friday. Already, early on Christmas morning, a line of severe thunderstorms moved into Northern California with wind

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Faithfull attend the Christmas mass at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.

In first Christmas message, Pope Leo decries Palestinians in Gaza being forced to shelter in tents from ‘rain, wind and cold’

By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated the first Christmas since his election by denouncing the suffering of people of Gaza – taking shelter in tents from the “rain, wind and cold” – and by calling for the guns to fall silent in Ukraine. On Christmas Day, the first US-born pope,

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Israelis look at troops standing guard during a weekly settlers' tour in Hebron

Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements condemned by 12 European countries, Canada and Japan

By Lucas Lilieholm, Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Twelve European countries as well as Canada and Japan have condemned Israel’s decision earlier in the month to approve 19 new Jewish settlements in the Occupied West Bank saying the move harmed the prospects for long term peace and security in the region. “Such unilateral actions, as

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Floodwater surrounds homes in Redding

Another storm slams California on Christmas Day with flooding rain, high winds and mountain snow

CNN By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — After a harrowing and deadly Christmas Eve in California with rescues and evacuations amid widespread flooding and debris flow threats, another storm is battering the state Christmas Day, with more expected into Friday. Early Christmas morning, a line of severe thunderstorms moved into Northern California with wind gusts

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends an event as President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office of the White House on October 16

Democratic-led states sue HHS over proposal targeting hospitals that offer transgender care to minors

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Eighteen Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Trump administration policy seeking to bar transgender care for minors at federally-funded hospitals. The new proposal and the legal fight it has provoked is the latest front in the battle over transgender rights and

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Jeffrey Epstein's former home on the island of Little St. James in the US Virgin Islands is seen here in November 2023.

Botched Epstein redactions trace back to Virgin Islands’ 2020 civil racketeering case against estate

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A botched redaction in the Epstein files revealed that government attorneys once accused his lawyers of paying over $400,000 to “young female models and actresses” to cover up his criminal activities Social media users on Reddit and TikTok noticed in recent days that the redacted allegations could be uncovered by simply copying the

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The remains of missing 9-year-old California girl Melodee Buzzard have been found.

Melodee Buzzard’s mother arrested in connection with 9-year-old’s killing after her body is found

KEYT, CNN By Josh Campbell, Michelle Watson, Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — The multi-state hunt for Melodee Buzzard, a missing 9-year-old California girl, came to a close when her remains were discovered in a rural area of southern Utah, authorities announced Tuesday. Members of the sheriff’s office and the FBI arrested Ashlee Buzzard, Melodee’s mother,

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Documents released from Jeffrey Epstein

Exclusive: Justice Department scrambling to find holiday volunteers to redact the Epstein files, internal DOJ email says

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files, in the latest Trump administration push toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Two people emerged unscathed from the Beechcraft Super King Air 200 after it stopped on the runway at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport near Denver

Airplane lands itself after in-flight emergency, in a first for aviation automation

By Pete Muntean, Dugald McConnell, CNN (CNN) — An airplane has, for the first time, automatically landed itself after an in-flight emergency, according to the system’s manufacturer. Two people emerged unscathed from the Beechcraft Super King Air 200 after it stopped on the runway at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport near Denver, according to video posted

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Floodwater surrounds homes in Redding

‘Dangerous scenario unfolding’ in Southern California from potent storm lashing the entire state

CNN, KCAL, KCBS, KRCR, KGO,, CNN, CNN, KCAL/KCBS, KRCR, KGO, By Meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Chris Dolce, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — A powerful storm carrying a strong atmospheric river laid siege to California Wednesday, with evacuations issued because of the risk of life-threatening flooding and debris flows. The National Weather Service is warning of more

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Ghislaine Maxwell is seen here in New York in September 2013.

Email from ‘A’ at British royal family’s residence asked Ghislaine Maxwell for ‘inappropriate friends’

By Kara Fox, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — A person identified as “A” emailed the disgraced former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell from the British royal family’s Scottish residence in 2001, asking whether she had “found me some new inappropriate friends,” according to newly released documents. The email is part of a series of messages exchanged

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Houthi supporters in Sanaa

Yemen’s warring parties agree on biggest prisoner exchange deal so far

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government have reached a new agreement to carry out a large-scale prisoner exchange, marking a significant humanitarian step amid ongoing efforts to de-escalate the conflict. Abdulqader Hasan Yahya al-Murtadha, head of the Houthi National Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, said on Tuesday that

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The Barus & Holley engineering building is seen closed off during the manhunt for the gunman on December 17.

The feds are investigating Brown University’s safety after this month’s shooting. Here’s what’s at issue –– and at stake

By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — With questions swirling about Brown University’s security after this month’s fatal shooting on the Providence, Rhode Island, campus, the Department of Education on Monday announced it would probe whether the school violated federal law. The department said in a news release it would investigate potential violations of the Clery

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