By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — An image of a rare hyena standing in front of an abandoned building in a former diamond mining town in Namibia has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 award. Shot by South African photographer Wim van den Heever in the town of Kolmanskop, “Ghost Town Visitor” is
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By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, saying he was entering the late conservative activist’s name “into the roster of true American heroes.” Erika Kirk, Kirk’s widow and now the CEO of Turning Point USA, accepted the award on her husband’s behalf
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By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — An Arkansas father who killed his teen daughter’s alleged abuser has announced a bid for county sheriff, saying he’s running to fix a justice system that failed to protect her. Aaron Spencer faces a second-degree murder charge in last October’s fatal shooting of a man accused of grooming and
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By Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — Former New York Jets All-Pro center Nick Mangold said Tuesday he has been battling chronic kidney disease for nearly 19 years and is undergoing dialysis. Mangold addressed his health situation in a plea posted on social media where he appealed for a kidney donor. “This isn’t an easy message
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By Bill Kirkos, CNN Chicago (CNN) — Attorneys for a Chicago TV station employee detained by federal agents Friday dispute accusations from the Department of Homeland Security that she was taken into custody because she threw objects at a Border Patrol car, instead saying she was simply walking to a bus stop on her way
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — When former FBI Director James Comey was charged last month, prosecutors weren’t ready or willing to turn over the criminal case file to his lawyers. As of Tuesday, after days of disputing what case documents they have to provide, prosecutors handed his lawyers what they needed to, a person
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the activist who championed transgender rights and protested in the historic Stonewall rebellion that galvanized the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement, has died. She was 78. Griffin-Gracy died October 13 “in the comfort of her home and surrounded by loved ones in Little Rock, Arkansas,” according
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A man who worked as a Pentagon contractor and State Department adviser has been charged with removing classified information from a government facility after investigators found over a thousand documents with classified markings at his house in Virginia. Some of the documents that Ashley Tellis, an expert in South
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — New car buyers can expect to shell out an average of more than $50,000 for the first time, according to a report from Kelley Blue Book. The average price customers paid for a new vehicle in the US was $50,080 in September, a reflection in part of
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By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted yet another strike on a boat alleged to be trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people on board, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday. Trump said that the vessel was “affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization” but did not name any organization or
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — D’Angelo, whose cool tunes and one hot music video made him a legend of neo-soul music, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 51. “The shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life,” his family said in a
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By Saskya Vandoorne, CNN (CNN) — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s government will live to see another day. After a high-stakes policy speech and the unveiling of his draft budget on Tuesday, the Socialist Party (PS) said it would not join efforts to topple the government, handing the 39-year-old premier – reappointed on Friday after
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By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Federal Reserve is doing a difficult balancing act, trying to tamp down inflation while lifting up the job market, Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday. “There is no risk-free path for policy as we navigate the tension between our employment and inflation goals,” Powell said in prepared remarks
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let users browse and make purchases directly through its popular chatbot ChatGPT, as the world’s largest retailer looks to use AI to leapfrog rival Amazon in online shopping. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said in an announcement Tuesday that the retailer’s current
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Alec Baldwin has a “whale” of an explanation about how he and his brother, fellow actor Stephen Baldwin, ended up crashing their car into a tree in the Hamptons. The “30 Rock” star explained in a video shared to social media that he and his younger brother were
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined an appeal from Alex Jones on Tuesday, brushing aside the right-wing conspiracy theorist’s effort to overturn a $1.4 billion libel judgment a lower court ordered against him over his false comments about the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre. Jones has faced mounting legal pressure after
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An unusual double-ring structure spotted in space with the help of citizen scientists has turned out to be a cosmic rarity. The celestial anomaly, captured by a radio telescope, is an odd radio circle, one of the scarcest and most mysterious objects in the universe, said Dr. Ananda Hota,
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By Ana Nicolaci da Costa, CNN London (CNN) — Higher US tariffs have so far had a smaller impact globally than expected, but it would be “premature and incorrect” to conclude they have had no effect on economic growth, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday. The IMF slightly upgraded its expectations for global and US
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — What makes a passport “powerful”? Well, a clear measure is travel openness, the ability to slip into destinations around the world with a breezy wave of your passport, no visa required. The Henley Passport Index is one of several rankings measuring passport potency in this regard and, for the
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s luck appears to be turning, as the company notched a second straight successful test flight of the Starship launch system — the most powerful rocket ever constructed — on Monday evening. The test mission, which kicked off around 7:23 p.m. ET at SpaceX’s facilities in South Texas, marked
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By Jen Rose Smith (CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a group of paranormal fans at Pennhurst Paracon, an event exploring the sprawling institution that closed in 1986 and has
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By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Instagram is further cracking down on what millions of young people can see on the platform, aligning its “Teen Accounts” safety settings with the guidelines for PG-13 movies. The Meta-owned platform launched teen accounts last year, its most dramatic effort yet to protect young people following years
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By Amir Vera, Eric Levenson, Melissa Gray, Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — For 87 years, the Murdaugh family name came to represent a legal dynasty in coastal South Carolina, where three successive generations controlled the local prosecutor’s office. But the family is now closely connected to a bloody tragedy, embezzlement and a bizarre murder-for-hire plot
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By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Running back Bijan Robinson had a career performance as the Atlanta Falcons toppled Josh Allen and the Bills 24-14 on Monday Night Football, inflicting a second straight defeat on Buffalo. Robinson rushed for a joint career-high 170 yards on 19 carries and produced a spectacular 81-yard touchdown run in
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By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell produced such an impressive performance that even the other team’s manager lauded him after LA took a 1-0 lead in the National League Championship Series (NLCS) on Monday. The Dodgers eventually held on for a 2-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers, courtesy of
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s cancellation of the largest solar project in the United States has sparked confusion and concern among Republicans and Democrats alike. Known as the Esmerelda 7, the collection of seven solar projects in rural Nevada was set to generate up to 6.2 gigawatts of energy when complete,
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By Tami Luhby, René Marsh, Annie Grayer, Sunlen Serfaty, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Douglas Jackson, a service-disabled veteran who was laid off during Friday’s federal government layoffs, couldn’t believe it when he heard the vice president say the Trump administration was being forced to choose between Americans and “federal bureaucrats.” “I’m an Orlando veteran.
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KUSA, DEPARTMENT HOMELAND SECURITY, CNN By Alexandra Skores, Hanna Park, CNN Washington (CNN) — Major US airports from New York to Oregon and North Carolina to Nevada have refused to play a “public service announcement” from Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem at security checkpoints in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdown.
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By Brandon Griggs, CNN (CNN) — In 2011, schoolteacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead on the kitchen floor of her Philadelphia apartment with some 20 knife wounds and numerous bruises. A city medical examiner ruled her death a suicide – a finding rejected by the 27-year-old’s parents, who were convinced she’d been murdered. Their fourteen-year
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By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Virtually every news outlet is rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. The Pentagon Press Association, a body that represents the beat reporters, says the new policy
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