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Cooper Lutkenhaus competes in the 800-meter final at the USATF Outdoor Championships last month.

After the ‘craziest’ race of his life, 16-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus will make history at the World Athletics Championships

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — More than 2,200 elite track and field athletes are descending on Tokyo for the upcoming world championships, but Cooper Lutkenhaus might be the only one to pack homework. The 16-year-old from Texas is the youngest person in history to make the US team for the World Athletics Championships, taking

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The US Capitol in Washington

GOP goes nuclear in Senate, changing rules to speed confirmation of Trump nominees after negotiations with Democrats collapse

By Ted Barrett, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Republicans jammed through a change to Senate rules on Thursday that will allow them to more quickly confirm many of President Donald Trump’s nominees. The move came over the objections of Democrats after bipartisan negotiations collapsed. The rules change will allow nominees to be considered en bloc,

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A session during the final phase of the trial of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro convicted of plotting coup, sentenced to over 27 years in prison

By Julia Vargas Jones, Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been found guilty of attempting to overturn the country’s 2022 election with a plot prosecutors say included plans to assassinate the president-elect in a bid to cling to power. Four out of five justices on a Brazilian Supreme Court panel

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson walks to the House floor on Thursday.

‘We need to do better’: A shaken Washington struggles to come together after Kirk’s death

By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — In a Washington still reeling from the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk, Republicans and Democrats are deeply splintered and fearful that violent threats to political figures will be a regular feature of the country’s bleak new normal. In the 24 hours since Kirk’s death, President Donald

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American children often eat refined grain cereals with added sugar

MAHA’s ‘Make Our Children Healthy Again’ guidance ignores real causes of poor childhood health, experts say

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — The average American’s diet is nutritionally disastrous and hurting children’s health, according to the Make America Healthy Again Commission’s latest action plan released Tuesday by the White House. Exposure to dangerous chemicals, overmedication, a lack of physical activity, poor sleep, too much screen time and stress are the other

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The Federal Trade Commission is examining the potential harms of AI "companion" platforms to young people.

FTC investigating AI ‘companion’ chatbots amid growing concern about harm to kids

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into seven tech companies around potential harms their artificial intelligence chatbots could cause to children and teenagers. The inquiry focuses on AI chatbots that can serve as companions, which “effectively mimic human characteristics, emotions, and intentions, and generally are

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