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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By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — What began as a Gen Z-led social media movement against the lavish lifestyles of “Nepo Kids” led to the ousting of a prime minister and the deadliest social unrest Nepal has seen in years. Now comes the complicated question of what happens next. Plumes of dark smoke towered above
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By Karina Tsui, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Every year, in the middle of summer, hundreds of Hong Kong construction workers and engineers walk up some 200 steps to Ching Lin Terrace in the seaside neighborhood of Kennedy Town. There, in one of the city’s temples, they gather and pay their respects to Lo Pan,
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By Dan Berman, Bryan Mena, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge late Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. The Trump administration said Wednesday it will appeal to the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals. “President Trump has not identified anything related to Cook’s conduct or job performance
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By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego will soon offer a resolution to block the Pentagon from offering military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran and pro-Donald Trump rioter who was shot and killed after breaching a sensitive area of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to
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By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Susan Monarez, the former head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will testify to Congress following her abrupt ouster last month amid a clash with US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy. The Senate’s health committee announced Tuesday that
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By Donald Judd, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump dined at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab in Washington, DC, Tuesday evening, his first foray to an outside eatery in the district since taking office in January. Trump has eschewed the capital’s restaurant scene since returning to Washington, choosing instead to dine
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans are gearing up to consider more than a dozen bills that would further limit Washington, DC’s self-governance, impose tougher punishments and roll back criminal justice reforms in the wake of President Donald Trump’s federal crime crackdown. The House Oversight Committee will take up the bills
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CNN By John Fritze, Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear arguments over President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, taking up a fast-moving appeal that deals with the centerpiece of the administration’s economic agenda. In the meantime, the tariffs will remain in place while the court hears the case. Trump is pressing
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By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN (CNN) — Beleaguered President Emmanuel Macron has appointed outgoing defense minister Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, handing him the daunting task of trying to find consensus in a divided parliament and pass the 2026 budget. Earlier on Monday, outgoing Prime Minister François Bayrou submitted his resignation, which Macron accepted. He was
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By Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s strategy to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ includes investigating vaccine injuries and pharmaceutical practices but stops short of new regulatory action, for now. US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled the MAHA strategy on Tuesday, joined by Agriculture Department Secretary Brooke Rollins, Environmental
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Two Supreme Court justices – a conservative and the court’s senior liberal – appeared to shut down talk of a third term for President Donald Trump in separate appearances this week, with both suggesting that the two-term language included in the 22nd Amendment is clear. The 22nd Amendment was
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Americans’ median household income rose less than 3%, or about $2,150, during the Biden administration, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. Former President Joe Biden had to contend with the aftermath of the economic upheaval wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic and a period of soaring inflation. Median household
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By Pete Muntean, CNN Washignton (CNN) — Members of the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Monday that would force the Federal Aviation Administration to make a sweeping overhaul of what critics call antiquated pilot mental health rules. The Mental Health in Aviation Act of 2025 is the most significant move yet in
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Children ages 6 to 12 are experiencing a dramatic increase in instances of self-harm –– and they are using common items available around the house, according to a new study. The rate of instances reported to poison control centers of children being exposed to substances has risen by more
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Neuroscientists from 22 labs joined forces in an unprecedented international partnership to produce a landmark achievement: a neural map that shows activity across the entire brain during decision-making. The data, gathered from 139 mice, encompass activity from more than 600,000 neurons in 279 areas of the brain — about
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By Michael Williams, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Two key figures in the Iran-Contra affair quietly married last month, nearly 40 years after the scandal rocked US politics and President Ronald Reagan’s administration. Oliver North married his former secretary, Fawn Hall, on August 27 in Virginia, according to a copy of the marriage certificate
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Cracker Barrel announced that it’s suspending the renovations of its restaurants following a disastrous logo rollout that sent shares lower. “You’ve shared your voices in recent weeks not just on our logo, but also on our restaurants,” the chain said on X. “If your restaurant hasn’t been
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By Tal Shalev, Mostafa Salem, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Israel carried out an attack targeting Hamas leadership in Qatar on Tuesday, in an unprecedented strike on a key mediator in the Gaza conflict that threatened to derail renewed peace efforts and further inflame tensions in the region. A senior Israeli official told CNN that
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By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced Tuesday that he will run for reelection in 2026, seeking a second term in a deep-blue state even as the rising Democratic star sparks speculation about a potential 2028 presidential bid. “While we stand up for middle-class Marylanders, the president of the United States
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, are fighting with the company’s parents about the independence of the brand they created nearly 50 years ago. The pair, which no longer controls the company they created, wrote an open letter Tuesday addressed
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Producers for a Broadway revival of “Cabaret” have announced that the show will soon be shutting down after its leading man, Billy Porter, contracted a life threatening condition. The show will end on September 21, following Porter falling ill. “Due to a serious case of sepsis, Billy Porter
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — If you love the smell of commercialism in the morning, here’s something to drink up. Brad Pitt – everyone’s favorite 61-year-old actor, producer and beard-grower – is the star of a new espresso machine ad for De’Longhi from Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi. The gig is not new for Pitt,
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By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Attacks on Africa’s critical infrastructure are not uncommon. This year, insurgent militant groups led to a temporary shutdown of a tin mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo and fighting in Sudan’s civil war caused a blaze at the country’s largest oil refinery. Disruptions like these not only threaten
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The best way to sneak into a fashion show is to be confident and friendly — at least according to Dan Bassini, who has been photographing New York Fashion Week for almost a decade, without being on the guest lists. You might catch the New Jersey-based photographer on the
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By Brenda Goodman, Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Florida’s surgeon general said Sunday that he had not weighed the cost – in terms of infections, hospitalizations or deaths – of ending vaccine mandates in the state. But scientists who have done those calculations say those costs may be high. “Absolutely not,” Dr. Joseph Ladapo told
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By George Ramsay, Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Philadelphia Phillies fan Drew Feltwell wants people to lay off the woman who harangued him and his son over a home run ball at a game last week. During the fourth inning of the Phillies’ game against the Miami Marlins at LoanDepot Park on September 5, Feltwell
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