By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — The suspected shooter who critically wounded two students at Evergreen High School in Colorado during their third week of classes this semester appeared to have been “radicalized by some extreme network,” officials said Thursday. The suspect, a student at the school, took the school bus that morning and brought
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(CNN) — Charlie Kirk, a conservative political activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was killed Wednesday after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University, President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. He was 31.
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By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Charlie Kirk, a conservative political activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was killed Wednesday after being shot at an event at Utah Valley University, President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. He was 31. As Trump remade the Republican Party, Kirk embodied the party’s newfound populist
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined for now to let South Carolina enforce a ban on transgender students using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity. The court denied an emergency request from the state that sought to block a decision from a federal appeals court that barred
Continue Reading CNN By Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Trump ally Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter says. The extent of Kirk’s injuries were not immediately clear. Kirk is one of the most prominent pro-Trump activists and conservative media personalities in the United States. He has
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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A trial date has been set for November 3 in the case against the man accused of throwing a sub-style sandwich at a law enforcement officer in the early days of President Donald Trump’s federal anti-crime surge in Washington, DC. The man, Sean Charles Dunn, pleaded not guilty to
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By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Top House Democrats have privately coalesced around a strategy in this month’s high stakes government funding fight: A public battle with President Donald Trump to extract health care wins, even if it means a government shutdown. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries plans to formally articulate their stance to Senate
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By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff regime is already reshaping global trade and spiking government customs revenue. But these historic import taxes could also push more Americans into poverty, according to new research. An analysis published by The Budget Lab at Yale on Tuesday finds Trump’s tariff hikes
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By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — The NCAA announced three Division I men’s basketball players are permanently ineligible after an investigation uncovered that they were involved in sports-betting game manipulation. “As part of a coordinated effort, the student-athletes bet on their own games, one another’s games and/or provided information that enabled others to do so
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from replacing the US’ top copyright official as the fight over executive branch firings and President Donald Trump’s use of executive power continues. Shira Perlmutter, who had been the register of copyrights since the Librarian of Congress appointed her
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars last year may have potentially been made by ancient life, NASA announced Wednesday. The team has also published a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Nature about the new analysis, though they say further study
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By Holly Yan, Jeff Winter, CNN (CNN) — The suspect in the grisly slaying of a young woman on a Charlotte light rail train now faces a federal charge in a case that has turned into a political lightning rod in the country where she had come to seek safety. Iryna Zarutska fled Ukraine in
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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Laura Nicolosi, sent to Acting BLS Commissioner William Wiatrowski on Wednesday. This comes one day after
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By Ted Barrett, Morgan Rimmer, Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked Chuck Schumer’s attempt to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files, hours after the Democratic leader made a bold procedural move to force a vote on the issue. The Senate voted 51-49 to block the measure, with GOP
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Larry Ellison briefly became the world’s richest person Wednesday before ending the day just $1 billion shy of the lead. The uber-billionaire is still on the verge of becoming the world’s richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, growing his net worth $88 billion Wednesday, briefly
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump reacted Wednesday with a degree of bemusement toward Russia’s drone incursion into Poland, a NATO member that Trump has previously vowed to defend amid heightened tensions with Moscow. “What’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones?” Trump asked in a short post on Truth Social. “Here
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By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump doesn’t mind letting his 30-day takeover of Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department lapse on Wednesday, White House officials tell CNN — mainly because he feels the city has taken steps to cooperate regardless. Those officials argued that the executive order signed by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Now that she’s named her successor as Vogue’s top editor, Anna Wintour seems a bit more relaxed. At the very least, she’s more willing to talk about the hit 2006 film “The Devil Wears Prada.” Based on the 2003 bestselling novel of the same name by Lauren Weisberger,
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — More school-age children and adolescents are now obese than underweight, a new report from the United Nations’ children’s agency, UNICEF, has revealed, with 188 million young people affected. Obesity now exceeds underweight in all regions of the world except sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, researchers found, having studied data
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — US inflation cooled off at the wholesale level in August, bolstering hopes that high tariffs aren’t yet causing prices to spiral out of control, fresh data showed Wednesday. However, economists caution, the better-than-expected reading could be a sign of a slowing economy and that shrinking businesses’ margins could foretell
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By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — UFC fighter Brian Ortega says that he went unconscious for 30 minutes while trying to make weight for his fight in Shanghai last month. Ortega was scheduled to face Aljamain Sterling in a 145-pound featherweight bout at UFC Shanghai, but it was moved to a catchweight of 153 pounds
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN A vaccine used to treat chlamydia in Australia’s koala population has been approved for rollout, in a world-first project. Researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast spent more than 10 years developing a single-dose vaccine to protect the famed Australian marsupial from the effects of chlamydia, which include urinary tract
Continue Reading CNN By Amy Woodyatt, CNN A vaccine used to treat chlamydia in Australia’s koala population has been approved for rollout, in a world-first project. Researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast spent more than 10 years developing a single-dose vaccine to protect the famed Australian marsupial from the effects of chlamydia, which include urinary
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By Saskya Vandoorne, Joseph Ataman, CNN Paris (CNN) — Nationwide unrest broke out across France on Wednesday as protesters blocked roads, set fires and clashed with police, who responded with tear gas, as anger grows against the country’s political class. The interior ministry said 295 people had been detained so far, with 80,000 police deployed
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Elon Musk has lost his title of “world’s richest person” title to Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison. Ellison’s wealth jumped by $101 billion to $393 billion after Oracle’s stunningly strong earnings report Tuesday evening, surpassing Musk’s net worth of $385 billion, according to Bloomberg. Oracle (ORCL) reported surging
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — “In retrospect,” Kamala Harris writes of letting Joe and Jill Biden decide on their own whether the then-president should have tried to run for re-election, “I think it was recklessness.” That is the assessment that the former vice president makes in her forthcoming memoir of her abbreviated 2024 run,
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By Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Mugello, Italy (CNN) — It is a sultry Friday night in high summer on a rolling, cypress tree-lined hillside near the little town of Scarperia e San Piero, in the heart of Italy’s Tuscany region. A bearded man in red fishnet tights and a matching vinyl minidress sways with a beer
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By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — With under a year to go until the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, it’s time for fans to try to book their spot at the global soccer celebration. The tournament is the first ever World Cup to be played in three different countries, with the US, Canada
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By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — The Hyundai battery plant in Georgia that saw 475 workers arrested in immigration raid last week is just the latest example of President Donald Trump’s policies clashing with his goals for the world’s largest economy. The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts have had widespread impacts on the construction industry,
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By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — The story of LeBron James penning an op-ed for Chinese state media, focusing on how basketball could be an avenue for diplomacy amid tensions with the US, was not as it seemed. Multiple Chinese state media outlets this week published an article purportedly written by the Los Angeles Lakers
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