By Athena Kehoe Click here for updates on this story TUCSON, Arizona (KGUN) — What started as a small project in a midtown front yard has turned into an unexpected way for neighbors to connect. Seven years ago, the McKiernans set up a homemade wooden box on their lawn in Tucson’s Dodge Flower neighborhood. At
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By Andrew Kaczynski and Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — A top oversight Democrat sent a letter on Thursday to Fox Corp chairman Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott demanding answers about Fox’s editing of a Donald Trump interview from June 2024 concerning Jeffrey Epstein — an edit they say both misled the
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi toured the former Alcatraz prison on Thursday as the Trump administration pushes the idea of re-establishing it as a prison more than 60 years after it was closed. Bondi was there with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to receive a briefing on the facility, a Justice
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By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump “would not recommend” a special prosecutor to investigate the Jeffrey Epstein case, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday — despite some GOP calls to do so. “The president would not recommend a special prosecutor in the Epstein case. That’s how he feels,” Leavitt told
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By Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — More than two dozen dogs and puppies rescued from the deadly Texas flood zone are ready for forever homes after being flown to a Chicago shelter. PAWS Chicago received 31 pups this week from no-kill organizations that coordinated to move the animals out of the flood-stricken region, including Austin
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CNN By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump was examined for swelling in his legs and has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, the White House announced Thursday. Trump, 79, underwent a “comprehensive examination, including diagnostic vascular studies” with the White House Medical Unit, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, reading a note from
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By Stef Manchen Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (KJRH) — A south Tulsa homeowner found half of a cat discarded on her front lawn. “I just I went into shock at first,” said Shelly Toth. “I walked in my house and I just started screaming and crying and pacing. I didn’t
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By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — A state district judge in Idaho lifted the gag order that largely obscured the case of Bryan Kohberger, who recently pleaded guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students in an off-campus house in November 2022. “At this point, I just don’t think that I can justify the
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By David Close, CNN (CNN) — Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was sentenced to five years probation and 30 days of jail time on Thursday following a multi-car crash last year, according to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. Rice pleaded guilty to third-degree felony charges – collision involving serious bodily injury and
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By Adi Guajardo, Katie Houlis Click here for updates on this story JACKSON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WCBS) — One person was killed and over a dozen others were injured after being struck by lightning in Jackson Township, New Jersey on Wednesday. It happened at the Black Knight Bowbenders outdoor archery range just before 7:15 p.m.
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By Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has hit back at Donald Trump’s tariff threats, saying that his American counterpart was elected as the leader of the United States and “not to be the emperor of the world.” Last week, Trump threatened Brazil with crippling tariffs of 50% starting
Continue Reading CNN By Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has hit back at Donald Trump’s tariff threats, saying that his American counterpart was elected as the leader of the United States and “not to be the emperor of the world.” Last week, Trump threatened Brazil with crippling tariffs of 50%
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By Vannia Joseph Click here for updates on this story LAKE WORTH BEACH, Florida (WPTV) — Benny’s on the Beach is planning major renovations to its Oceanwalk location inside the historic Lake Worth Beach Casino building—and the restaurant is asking the city to temporarily waive rent while the work is underway. The Oceanwalk location will
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By Tyler Hatfield Click here for updates on this story ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Florida (WPTV) — Golfers at Gator Trace Golf Course in Fort Pierce may see something a bit shocking on the green at Hole 3. “We had a lightning strike on Friday afternoon,” Lantie Hughes, the general manager, said. A lightning strike on
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By Molly Reinmann, CNN (CNN) — Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans voted on Thursday to advance the nomination of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, to a federal judgeship, over the loud protests of Democrats. The vote — in which all 12 Republican committee members voted to move Bove’s nomination forward — occurred as
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever recorded, according to new research. A team of astronomers discovered the event, dubbed GW231123, when the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) — a pair of identical instruments
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By Holmes Lybrand and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department is asking that a former police officer found guilty of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor in 2020 – when she was shot and killed by police in her Louisville home – be sentenced to one day in jail. The officer, Brett
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By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Super Bowl-winning linebacker Bryan Braman, who played for two teams across seven seasons in the NFL, has died aged 38 after a battle with a “very rare form of cancer,” his agent confirmed to CNN Sports on Thursday. “Bryan Braman was a warrior in every sense – on the
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Days after Eric Adams won the New York City mayoral primary four years ago, he was invited to Washington by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi to speak to the House Democratic caucus, touted by the chair of the House Democrats’ campaign arm as a model for campaigns around the country, and
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By JT Moodee Lockman Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — The Baltimore County teachers’ union said they reached a tentative agreement Wednesday amid a push for a three-year pay raise. The Teachers Association of Baltimore County (TABCO) indicated that they are not able to share details about the agreement until
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By Mike Hellgren Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — The former Baltimore director of the immigrant advocacy group CASA stood side by side with Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, outside a Nashville, Tennessee, federal courthouse Wednesday, where they are fighting for his release. “Kilmar, thanks to his family
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By Natasha Chen, CNN Anaheim, California (CNN) — For the first time since Walt Disney’s death in 1966, guests at Disneyland can get a lifelike glimpse of the man who started the first animation studios in California, planting the seed that would grow into an international media and entertainment empire. Disney has recreated its founder
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By Gilat Melamed Click here for updates on this story HENRY COUNTY, Georgia (WXIA) — A Henry County father is now in an ICE holding facility after a routine traffic stop, family members said. Eduardo Guzman Garcia’s wife, Amanda Guzman, said her husband has been at the facility in Atlanta since Friday after he was
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CNN By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Connie Francis, a pop singer and actress whose hits such as “Lipstick on Your Collar” and “Who’s Sorry Now?” became a soundtrack for a generation of teens in the 1960s, has died, according to a post from her publicist and friend, Ron Roberts. She was 87. “It
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By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — Americans are still opening their wallets, even as President Donald Trump’s tariffs start to take a bite. Retail sales rose 0.6% in June from the prior month, the Commerce Department said Thursday, rebounding from the steep 0.9% decline in May. June’s number was much stronger than the 0.2%
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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — It’s a Sunday evening, but your work for the week is already cut out for you. You throw your bedsheets in the wash, oil your scalp, smear on a clay mask, dry brush your legs and pour the tallest bottle of ice water imaginable. For this humid, three-hour labor
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By Ibrahim Dahman, Catherine Nicholls, Christopher Lamb, Abeer Salman, Eugenia Yosef and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Israel said Thursday that it “deeply regrets” a deadly strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church, which killed three people. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which has jurisdiction for Latin-rite Catholics in Gaza, said the Holy Family Church was
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Connie Francis, a pop singer and actress whose hits such as “Lipstick on Your Collar” and “Who’s Sorry Now?” became a soundtrack for a generation of teens in the 1960s, has died, according to a post from her publicist and friend, Ron Roberts. She was 87. “It is
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By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Public television stations will be “forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead,” PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Thursday, after the Senate voted in the middle of the night to approve a bill that cancels all the federal funding for the network. Once the House passes
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By Will Noble, CNN (CNN) — Fried breakfast. Sunday lunch. Fish and chip supper. Any member of this holy triumvirate might qualify for the title of Britain’s National Dish. Except that Britain’s real signature plate isn’t served on a plate at all, but from a metalized plastic bag. It doesn’t sizzle or boil, but rustles
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