By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — After taking a few years off the music scene, Justin Bieber feels like he is fully back. Following releasing “Swag” on July 11, which contained the viral hits “Daisies” and “Yukon,” the 31-year-old singer has announced he will be dropping “Swag II” at midnight Friday. It’s his second
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s halting, gruff speaking voice, which at times can make him hard to understand, was front and center during Thursday’s contentious Senate Finance Committee hearing. The Health and Human Services secretary’s halting delivery was frequently interrupted by senators anxious to get their points across during their
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By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump made rare public remarks on Thursday, calling on private and public sector leaders to prepare children for the growth of artificial intelligence, at a Thursday event at the White House. “The robots are here. Our future is no longer science fiction,” Trump said as she
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By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — He was a delightful charmer known as a little “ladies’ man.” A gregarious Houston boy who loved cooking as much as he adored sports and video games. But instead of playing soccer with his friends, 11-year-old Julián Guzman will be laid to rest Saturday – exactly one week after
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By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department is designating two Ecuadorian criminal organizations as foreign terrorist organizations, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in the country’s capital, Quito, on Thursday. The designations of Los Lobos and Los Choneros “brings with it all sorts of options in the United States to
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By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN There’s nothing like shutting the bathroom door, maybe even locking it and hiding away from one’s family, even just for a few minutes. The toilet has long been a sanctuary to catch up on some light reading and, for the harried parent, a spot for some rare “me time.” But the
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By Marvin Hurst Click here for updates on this story DALLAS, Texas (KTVT) — A North Texas couple wasn’t sure what to do after finding a homeless man using their outside spigot to shower. It wound up sparking community debates about compassion and boundaries. Kelvin Simpson said he had to develop a system to survive
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By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Washington, DC, officials are suing the Trump administration, accusing the president of violating the Constitution and federal law by sending thousands of National Guard troops into the city without consent from local leaders. The lawsuit, filed Thursday by DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb, claims the troops – many from
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By Marissa Sulek Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — More than 90 cars were reported found in the Chicago River system on Wednesday. CBS News Chicago rode along Wednesday with Chaos Divers, the dive crew searching for the cars. The Chaos Divers team travels the country looking for cars involved in
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By WABC News Staff Click here for updates on this story VERONA, New Jersey (WABC) — The Verona Police Department says someone is leaving tacks and tire spikes along a dirt trail. The trail runs along the wooded area behind Brookdale Avenue School, parallel to Sunset Avenue. The police department believes they were left there
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By JT Moodee Lockman Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — Howard County police will share an update Thursday on a cold case that dates back to 1971. The Jane Doe murder is the department’s oldest case, officials said. According to police, the woman was found in a field off Route
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CNN By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The women’s draw at the 2025 US Open has been full of shock results and dominant displays. And it has left us with two fascinating semifinals, both which bear similarities to one another. Both matches have a multiple-time grand slam winner looking to add to their collection facing
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By Kati Chitrakorn, Jacopo Prisco (CNN) — Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died at the age of 91, the Armani Group announced on Thursday. The designer is credited over his decades of practice with curating a quintessentially Italian aesthetic in his clothes, as well as taking Hollywood’s red carpets to new heights. “Il Signor
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By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The man accused of ruthlessly killing two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, DC, earlier this year, chanting pro-Palestine slogans during his arrest, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to the nine charges against him, some of which could carry the death penalty. The federal indictment against Elias Rodriguez, who prosecutors
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By Molly Reinmann, Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration has taken aim at a series of elite colleges and universities during his second term, marking a key effort to exert control over higher education — and one that has required targeted schools to respond accordingly. While the schools targeted with canceled federal
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Warning signs have been flashing for months that the US job market has been losing steam. That became starkly clearer in July, and the early data for August isn’t looking much better. New metrics released Thursday showed that first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose to an 11-week high; that
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Harrods, the high-end London department store, has applied to local authorities for permission to remove sculptures of disgraced former owner Mohamed Al Fayed from its interior. The renowned business, which started life as a grocery store in 1849, has submitted detailed plans to overhaul its Egyptian-themed hall and a
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The worlds of art, luxury and design have long fixated on the elusive “young collector” — Gen-Z and millennial buyers whose shopping habits and status signifiers will drive spending for decades to come. The matter of where to reach them — online — is self-evident. Beyond that, however, lie
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By Ben Morse, Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Ethan Pritchard, a linebacker for the Florida State (FSU) Seminoles football team, was shot in the back of the head on Sunday and remains in hospital, his father has said. Speaking to CNN affiliate WFTV, Earl Pritchard said that his son was shot when driving his aunt
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Opinion by Dr. Josh Green (CNN) — As a father, a physician and a governor, it is my responsibility to protect every community in my state – especially the most vulnerable – from threats to their health and safety, and to advocate for the public health of the entire country. That is why I am
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By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Stephen Miran, the White House economist President Donald Trump nominated to the Federal Reserve’s top ranks, just got an earful about the importance of the central bank’s independence – just as the Trump administration actively defends removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook from her post. The Senate Banking Committee
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Brace yourselves, workers. Your health insurance at the job could cost you a lot more in 2026. Although overall inflation is more muted than a few years ago, employers are preparing for the steepest increase in health benefit costs in 15 years, according to Mercer’s National Survey of Employer-Sponsored
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By Nectar Gan, Yoonjung Seo, Yong Xiong, CNN (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un have pledged to deepen strategic coordination in their first formal summit in six years, after they put on an unprecedented show of unity against the West alongside Russia’s Vladimir Putin at a massive military parade.
Continue Reading By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The women’s draw at the 2025 US Open has been full of shock results and dominant displays. And it has left us with two fascinating semifinals, both which bear similarities to one another. Both matches have a multiple-time grand slam winner looking to add to their collection facing an
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By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has said it plans to “immediately appeal” a judge’s ruling restoring more than $2 billion in federal research funding for Harvard University, signaling that the White House will aggressively continue its efforts to take on elite higher education. While a federal judge offered Harvard, the only
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By Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged in April that there would be answers on the causes of autism this month. Since then, he has ousted public health officials, publicly rebuked studies showing no link between vaccines and autism, and said “interventions” are “almost certainly”
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By Megan Williams, CNN London (CNN) — Throughout the 20th century, fashion shoots took place almost exclusively in an indoor photography studio, or in a public space like a bustling city street. But nowadays, you are just as likely to see a campaign or magazine shoot staged in someone’s bedroom, lounge or kitchen, alongside their
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By Sam Peters (CNN) — Abu Dhabi has many of the things that surfers hunt for in their quest for perfect waves: warm weather, year-round sun and clear water. The only thing it did not have was waves. That changed in October 2024, when Surf Abu Dhabi opened. Offering the longest artificial wave in the
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By John Fritze, Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to step into the fray over his emergency tariffs, putting the centerpiece of his economic agenda in the hands of the justices who have mostly backed his sweeping view of executive power, according to a copy of the
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By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday to ban stock trading for members of Congress as pressure has escalated for elected officials to weed out corruption and restore public trust in Congress. House and Senate lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have long traded stocks
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