By REX HODGE and MARISA SARDONIA Click here for updates on this story HAYWOOD COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A social media video of a truck driver engaging with landfill workers in Haywood County has led to massive backlash and concern across the country. The video, which surpassed millions of views on TikTok, has been
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By CNN Meteorologist Briana Waxman (CNN) — Torrential rainfall and flash flooding slammed the mid-Atlantic and Northeast Thursday, wreaking havoc along the Interstate 95 corridor and leaving a child in Maryland dead. This was another serious flood event in a summer that’s been full of them. Heavy storms developed in the afternoon and lasted through
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By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — A senior Trump administration official stated Thursday that President Donald Trump is not currently considering clemency for Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell after the president has repeatedly left the door open on the matter in recent weeks. “No leniency is being given or discussed. That’s just false. The President
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By Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Kamala Harris will release a book in September about her historic campaign for president. “What the world saw on the campaign trail was only a part of the story,” Harris wrote in a social media post about the book’s release. The book — called “107 Days”
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — US consumers continued to spend in June despite tariff-related price hikes. Consumer spending rose 0.3% from May, when spending was flat, according to Commerce Department data released Thursday. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index — the inflation gauge the Federal Reserve uses for its 2% target rate — rose
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CNN By Matt Rehbein, Hanna Park, Martin Goillandeau, Lauren Mascarenhas, Mike Figliola, Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Some passengers were terrified, convinced the plane was going down. One seasoned traveler said it was the roughest flight he’d ever taken. A woman on board felt like she was experiencing an earthquake. Severe turbulence struck a Delta
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By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Canadian swimming sensation Summer McIntosh won her third gold medal of the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore but fell agonizingly short of breaking the 200-meter butterfly world record. The 18-year-old McIntosh, who has already taken victories in the 400m freestyle and 200m medley, looked on course to set a
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By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Susan Monarez will be sworn in as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, and she’s taking the reins at a perilous time for the agency. The CDC has lost nearly a quarter of its staff since January, thanks to massive workforce cuts
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — You know the drill — exercise could help you feel better, prevent disease and live longer. But that knowledge may not always get you motivated enough to head to the gym. Whether you have “gymtimidation” or working out isn’t your thing — you can still start improving your health
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KHBS, KHOG, ARKANSAS STATE POLICE, BROADCASTIFY, FAMILY PHOTO, CNN By Dalia Faheid, Andy Rose, Rebekah Riess, Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — The intense search for a man accused of a grisly double murder in northwest Arkansas over the weekend ended Wednesday when the suspect stopped for a haircut. “I was in the middle of cutting
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s capital Tehran could be weeks away from “day zero,” experts say — the day when taps run dry for large parts of the city — as the country suffers a severe water crisis. Key reservoirs are shrinking, authorities are scrambling to reduce water consumption and residents are desperately
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WABC, BLACKSTONE, UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK, FAMILY HANDOUT, NYPD, LINKEDIN, GATHMAND ETIENNE, FACEBOOK, CNN, Gathmand Etienne/Facebook By Lauren Mascarenhas, Mark Morales, Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — A supervisor at the Las Vegas casino where Shane Devon Tamura worked legally purchased the gun used in the Midtown Manhattan shooting and sold it to him for
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By Joe Yogerst, CNN (CNN) — When the Turkmenistan government announced new streamlined visa regulations in April, people familiar with traveling to the Central Asian nation were unsure what to make of it. Not that there are many such experts — along with North Korea and Eritrea, Turkmenistan has long been considered one of the
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CNN By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A US Navy F-35 fighter jet crashed in central California Wednesday near Naval Air Station Lemoore, according to a Navy press statement. The pilot ejected safely, and the cause of the crash, which occurred around 6:30 pm, is under investigation, the statement said. Video from CNN affiliate KFSN
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid, Andy Rose, Rebekah Riess, Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — The intense search for a man accused of a grisly double murder in northwest Arkansas over the weekend ended Wednesday when the suspect stopped for a haircut. “I was in the middle of cutting his hair when detectives came in and got him,”
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By Kyle Feldscher, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas was arrested Wednesday and is accused by the Department of Justice of being a part of a high-stakes illegal gambling ring that ran out of one of his California homes. Arenas, 43, is facing a federal indictment on a count of conspiracy to
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CNN, POOL VIA KMGH, POOL VIA KUSA, FAMILY PHOTOS|FACEBOOK, ARAPAHOE COUNTY CORONER’S OFFICE, ARAPAHOE CO DISTRICT COURT, KUSA, AURORA POLICE DEPT. By Melissa Gray, CNN (CNN) — Former Colorado dentist James Craig was convicted of murder Wednesday after a trial that lasted nearly two weeks, found guilty of killing his wife and the mother of
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By John Liu, CNN (CNN) — Just a few years ago, Samsung Electronics stood as a leading force in the global semiconductor race, dominating one chip sector and eyeing Taiwan’s TSMC in the battle for supremacy in another. But recent stumbles – including its failure to capitalize early on the artificial intelligence boom – has
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CNN By Lauren Fox, Katelyn Polantz, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats are using an arcane procedural tool to try to force the Department of Justice to release additional files from the Jeffrey Epstein case – the latest gambit to keep the issue front-and-center as lawmakers prepare for their month-long August recess. In a
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By Max Saltman, Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — Canada has joined France and Britain in announcing plans to recognize a Palestinian state in September as international pressure builds on Israel over the ongoing starvation crisis and war in Gaza. The move leaves the United States increasingly isolated from some of its closest allies on the
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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced a new trade deal with South Korea, which calls for 15% tariffs on goods from there. “The Deal is that South Korea will give to the United States $350 Billion Dollars for Investments owned and controlled by the United States, and selected by myself, as
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By Kylie Atwood, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is targeting Iran’s oil sales by sanctioning a vast shipping empire that is run by the son of a top political adviser to the country’s Supreme Leader, ramping up pressure on Iran following the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites last month. “Today, Treasury
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By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — If Meta investors had concerns about the company’s huge spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure and talent — and its ambitious “superintelligence” goal — they’re likely to be assuaged by its blockbuster earnings report on Wednesday. The results, as one analyst put it, indicates that “AI is becoming
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By Nicky Robertson, CNN (CNN) — Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley voted with Democrats Wednesday to advance his bill to ban US lawmakers from stock trading, over the opposition of other Republicans on the panel and drawing the ire of President Donald Trump. The question of whether lawmakers should be allowed to trade stocks has
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By Betsy Klein and Ethan Schenker, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has reached a multimillion-dollar agreement with Brown University to restore federal funding – its second major deal with an elite university after last week’s $221 million settlement with Columbia University. In return for Brown agreeing to several measures aimed at dismantling certain diversity,
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By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is quietly discussing plans to host the 2026 G20 summit, a forum of the world’s largest economies, at his Doral golf club in the Miami area, a White House official told CNN. The idea has been discussed for weeks, the official said. CNN previously spotted an
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By David Close, CNN (CNN) — Former NFL star Shannon Sharpe, who has been one of the faces of ESPN’s morning sports debate show “First Take,” is no longer with the network, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN. The breakup between the podcast star and the media outlet comes less than two
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By Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — The first of the National Transportation Safety Board’s three days of investigative hearings is underway to help determine what caused the deadly midair collision on January 29 between an Army helicopter on a training mission and American Airlines flight 5342 landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National
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By Angelica Franganillo Diaz (CNN) — Twelve Democratic members of Congress have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing it of unlawfully obstructing their efforts to visit federal immigration detention centers. The complaint, filed Wednesday in Washington, DC, argues that a new Department of Homeland Security policy that requires seven days’ notice and limits
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By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday kept interest rates unchanged for the fifth consecutive meeting as it remains under intense pressure from President Donald Trump and his allies to lower borrowing costs. The central bank left its benchmark lending rate at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, where it
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