By Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — The Dallas Mavericks selected Duke University forward Cooper Flagg with the No. 1 overall pick in Wednesday’s NBA draft in Brooklyn, New York. The 18-year-old is the second youngest player ever to be drafted No. 1 overall. Only LeBron James was younger when he was selected by the Cleveland
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By Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday said in a statement that the agency had obtained “a body of credible evidence [that] indicates Iran’s Nuclear Program has been severely damaged” by recent strikes, underscoring a broad intelligence community effort is ongoing to determine the
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CNN By Ana María Cañizares, Abel Alvarado and Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador’s most wanted man and leader of the Los Choneros gang, Jose Adolfo Macias, was captured on Wednesday, according to the country’s President Daniel Noboa. Macias, known as “Fito,” escaped from a prison in Guayaquil in January 2024 while serving a 34-year
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By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — A century ago, one of the biggest safety concerns about vaccines involved bacterial contamination. In 1916, four young children died in South Carolina after receiving typhoid vaccine that had been contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Twelve years later, 12 children in Queensland, Australia, died from tainted immunizations against diphtheria.
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By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The head of the White House budget office on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s push to enact sweeping cuts to federal funding, even as some Republican senators voiced concerns and raised questions about the breadth of them. In opening remarks in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Office of
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN Noordwijk, Netherlands (CNN) — President Donald Trump and his top national security officials spent much of their day in the Netherlands working to rebut an early intelligence report that assessed weekend US strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Ashley Tisdale’s toddler may have gotten swept up in the magic of her one of her mom’s movies, and honestly, we get it. The “High School Musical” star opened up about how her young daughter Jupiter, born in 2021, got a little confused as to who her parents are
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, an alleged senior leader of the Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua has been added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Ten Most Wanted list. Known as “El Viejo,” the old man, Mosquera Serrano is the first member from the gang on the FBI’s top
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By Melissa Wright Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (KMTV) — As temperatures soar across the metro, local volunteers are stepping up to protect the city’s most vulnerable residents. With extreme heat gripping Omaha, a team of medical professionals and community workers is taking action—bringing relief directly to those without shelter. On
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department has charged a man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a group of people demonstrating in Boulder, Colorado, in support of Israeli hostages with committing hate crimes. The indictment comes days after a federal judge in the state said the department could proceed with hate crimes
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By Greta Goede Click here for updates on this story SOUTH OMAHA, Nebraska (KMTV) — Robert Elkins, an 80-year-old master gardener, has spent thousands of hours planting, weeding, and caring for the garden beds along South 24th Street. “I was retired, sitting around the house doing nothing, bored to death,” Elkins said. The 69 garden
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By Bri Pacelli Click here for updates on this story TUCSON, Arizona (KGUN) — Monsoon rains may bring relief from the heat, but they also bring out a hidden danger to pets: poisonous toads. They’re known as Sonoran Desert toads or Colorado River toads; these amphibians emerge from underground once storms roll in. While they
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CNN By Paula Reid, Casey Gannon and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Emil Bove, was pushed to repeatedly deny several accusations of corruption – one made by a whistleblower at the Justice Department – during his confirmation hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I am not anybody’s henchman,”
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By Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) – So long as you’re not made of wax, right now is a great time to visit Las Vegas. Part of this is on Mother Nature; summer temperatures can hit a beastly 115 in the Mojave Desert, a harsh reality that can literally fry an egg on Las Vegas Boulevard
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By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — At the first meeting of a controversial new group of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the committee announced new plans to study established vaccine guidelines. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will create new work groups to study the cumulative effects of the
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By Tom Allen Click here for updates on this story TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (WVTM) — Gas up The Mystery Machine. It looks like the Tuscaloosa Police Department has another mystery on its hands. Tuscaloosa Police are searching for a Scooby Doo suit-wearing burglar. At 3:45 in the morning on Sunday, the cartoon clad criminal broke into
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By DeAndria Turner Click here for updates on this story LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — More than two years after the murder of a Louisville mother, her killer was sentenced to decades in prison. Kierrea Stone-Gonzalez was shot and killed, and her child was left abandoned in her Rangeland Road apartment by Jeremy Thompson in September
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By Kyndall Jones Click here for updates on this story MADISON COUNTY, Mississippi (WAPT) — Days after conflict with Iran began involving Israel, Iran and the United States, nearly one dozen Iranian nationals in the country illegally have been detained. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 11 Iranian nationals living in the United States illegally
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — There is much to unpack with the portion of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding invitation that was leaked to the world. The explicit request for no gifts — the only option, really, for the one of the world’s richest individuals; along with the donation pledge to UNESCO’s Venice
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KMBC By Brian Johnson Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KMBC) — Kansas City Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce are giving fans a first look at their new upscale steakhouse, 1587 Prime, set to open later this summer. The two-floor, nearly 10,000-square-foot restaurant is located at the base of
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By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — The S&P 500 is on the cusp of a record high. That’s a remarkable change of events, since the index was on the brink of a bear market just two months ago. US stocks on Wednesday were mixed, with a new high for the S&P 500 less
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift has won numerous awards, but she probably deserves one for most supportive girlfriend of a football player. The pop star thrilled folks with a recent surprise performance in Nashville, where Tight End University is taking place. Swift’s beau, Kansas City Chiefs football player Travis Kelcie, was
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By Claudia Garcia Click here for updates on this story Texas (KRGV) — Agriculture specialists with U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted ‘first in nation’ pests from different shipments at the Pharr International Bridge in recent weeks, according to a news release. The news release said the first interception occurred on May 16 when a
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By Angela Rozier Click here for updates on this story INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Florida (WPBF) — A Vero Beach man is accused of falsely reporting an airboat accident and is facing charges. According to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office, night staff units responded to the Blue Cypress Lake area after receiving a distress call
Continue Reading WPBF, INDIAN RIVER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, CNN By Angela Rozier Click here for updates on this story INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Florida (WPBF) — A Vero Beach man is accused of falsely reporting an airboat accident and is facing charges. According to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office, night staff units responded to the Blue Cypress
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN New York (CNN) — The moment Andrew Cuomo said he had called Zohran Mamdani to concede the race, Kal Penn stopped mid-sentence. The actor and activist is also a family friend who has known Mamdani since he was 14, and he was speechless. The crowd at Mamdani’s Election Night party wasn’t.
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By Celeste Springer Click here for updates on this story COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (KRDO) — The suburbs aren’t exactly where you expect to see a moose, and that’s exactly why Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) was called out to the Cottonwood Creek Park area on Tuesday. Newly-released video shows CPW officers safely relocating a massive
Continue Reading KRDO, COLORADO PARKS AND WILDLIFE, CNN By Celeste Springer Click here for updates on this story COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (KRDO) — The suburbs aren’t exactly where you expect to see a moose, and that’s exactly why Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) was called out to the Cottonwood Creek Park area on Tuesday. Newly-released video shows
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By Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump stepped up attacks on his handpicked Federal Reserve chairman on Wednesday, claiming Jerome Powell has “low IQ” and suggested that he has narrowed down the list of potential replacements to three or four people. “He’s an average mentally person…Low IQ for what he does,” Trump said
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By Sadie Buggle Click here for updates on this story PARKER, Colorado (KRDO) — A dog that went missing from his Colorado foster home over the weekend is now home safe after he was discovered trapped eight feet deep in a trench at a Parker construction site, rescue crews say. Just before 4 p.m. on
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