By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Justin Bieber has sprung a surprise on fans – releasing his first new studio album in four years. “SWAG,” the Canadian singer’s seventh studio album, features 21 tracks, including collaborations with rap artist Gunna, gospel singer Dijon, rapper Lil B, comedian Druski, rapper Sexyy Red, musician Cash Cobain and
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — For the next five years, there will be a much more generous state and local tax deduction available to federal income tax filers, thanks to the recently enacted mega tax-and-spending-cuts law. The new law lifts what had been a $10,000 cap to $40,000 for tax year 2025 and then
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CNN, POOL, X By Samantha Delouya and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s intensifying campaign against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hit a boiling point Thursday. Just two weeks after President Donald Trump sent a handwritten letter to Powell demanding lower interest rates, Russell Vought, Trump’s director of the Office of Management and
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (CNN) — Many American schoolchildren grow up learning that Yellowstone was the world’s first national park. But across the globe in Mongolia, just south of the capital, Ulaanbaatar, a mountain holds a claim to the crown. Like many things in Mongolia, that mountain has a connection to Chinggis Khan
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CNN By Devan Cole and John Fritze, CNN Concord, New Hampshire (CNN) — A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The ruling from US District Judge Joseph Laplante is significant because the Supreme Court last month curbed the power of
Continue Reading By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s intensifying campaign against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hit a boiling point Thursday. Just two weeks after President Donald Trump sent a handwritten letter to Powell demanding lower interest rates, Russell Vought, Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), accused Powell of breaking
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By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Websites for Harvard College centers serving minority and LGBTQ students and women vanished Wednesday, The Harvard Crimson reported, marking the continued unraveling of diversity initiatives at the nation’s most prestigious university as it faces fresh pressure from the Trump administration. Websites for the Harvard College Women’s Center, the Office
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By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance is hitting the road on Wednesday to tout President Donald Trump’s agenda bill in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to an official in Vance’s office. The vice president will travel to West Pittston in Luzerne County, where he will hold a rally-style event
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The State Department will begin firing personnel “soon” as Secretary of State Marco Rubio implements his dramatic overhaul of the agency, according to an email from a top State Department official to staff Thursday evening. “Soon, the Department will be communicating to individuals affected by the reduction in force,”
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By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — The wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Thursday she is filing for divorce “on biblical grounds,” ending their 38-year marriage as he seeks to unseat Sen. John Cornyn in next year’s Republican Senate primary. Angela Paxton, a state senator, wrote in a social media post that her
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By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is traveling to central Texas on Friday to survey the aftermath of a catastrophic flood that has killed more than 100 people and put his administration on the sudden defensive over its emergency response efforts. The flooding, which overwhelmed whole neighborhoods in a matter of minutes,
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By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — A group of leading tech companies is teaming up with two teachers’ unions to train 400,000 kindergarten through 12th grade teachers in artificial intelligence over the next five years. The National Academy of AI Instruction, announced on Tuesday, is a $23 million initiative backed by Microsoft, OpenAI,
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WABC By WABC News Staff Click here for updates on this story KEW GARDENS, Queens, New York (WABC) — The man convicted in the vicious hammer attack on a woman at a Queens subway station was sentenced to life behind bars. William Blount, 60, was convicted of striking Nina Rothschild in the head with a
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By Victoria Butenko and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — An Ukrainian Security Service officer was shot dead in Kyiv on Thursday morning in what authorities told CNN was an apparent assassination. A spokesperson for the service told CNN that an SBU officer was killed in Kyiv and that investigation into the assassination was underway. The
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Paul McCartney may be 83, but he doesn’t sound ready to retire. The former Beatle is heading back out on the road. McCartney’s Got Back Tour is an extension of his 2022 tour of the same name, which was the last time he performed across the US. The
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KPIX By Max Darrow Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A Bay Area teen pilot has come up with a new AI tool to prevent dangerous situations in the air, for pilots who are not getting a lot of help on the ground. There is a lot that fuels humans’
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By Kayli Pascal-Martinez Click here for updates on this story KONA, Hawaii (KITV) — The Hawaii Police Department arrested and charged a Kea’au man with numerous offenses in connection with a robbery that occurred on Friday evening, July 4, 2025. The initial incident occurred at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at approximately 8:20 p.m. when
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By Dannielle Garcia, Aaron Page Click here for updates on this story DORAL, Florida (WSVN) — Two men tasked with overseeing public safety in Miami-Dade County are facing serious charges, accused of violating the same safety and trust they swore to enforce. 50-year-old Omar Fernandez, a Miami-Dade Corrections Division chief, was arrested on Tuesday after,
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CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence says he thinks isolationists “may have lost some of their footing” in President Donald Trump’s administration, as he praised Trump’s tougher talk toward Russia’s Vladimir Putin and his decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. Pence, since his split with Trump after the 2020
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CNN By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Scuffed, scratched and stained, this black leather Birkin bag just sold for €8.6 million ($10 million), with fees, becoming the most expensive handbag to ever sell at auction. The hammer fell at a winning bid of €7 million ($8.2 million). The first ever Birkin to have been created
Continue Reading By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Scuffed, scratched and stained, this black leather Birkin bag just sold for €8.6 million ($10 million), with fees, becoming the most expensive handbag to ever sell at auction. The hammer fell a winning bid of €7 million ($8.2 million). The first ever Birkin to have been created by Hermès,
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By Mike Sullivan Click here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — A woman is giving her neighbors in Boston a chance to connect with others through a “not mail” box outside of her home. Jean Powers said she got the idea during the pandemic “as a way to just kind of connect with
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Nutella maker Ferrero Group is buying cereal giant WK Kellogg Co in a $3.1 billion deal. Shares of WK Kellogg (KLG) jumped more than 30% in early trading. Ferrero said that it “plans to invest in and grow” the Kellogg business, which includes 14,000 employees and 22
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By Katelyn Polantz and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has obtained documentation backing up a former federal prosecutor’s claim that Emil Bove – a top Justice Department official – crudely told others in the department to ignore court orders before a controversial immigration enforcement situation in March.
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By Michael Rios and Rocio Muñoz-Ledo, CNN (CNN) — The words “Get out of Mexico” are still visible on one shop window as protestors violently kicked in the glass pane. In another clip, “Kill a gringo” is spray-painted on a wall in Mexico City as demonstrators carried placards demanding western foreigners “stop stealing our home.”
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By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Chances are you’ve seen the promos for the new “Superman” movie and wondered, “What the heck is going on with Nathan Fillion’s hair?!” The “Rookie” actor is featured in the new DC Studios extravaganza as Guy Gardner, one of the comic book characters who is elected to a position
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By Kathleen Magramo, Alaa Elassar, Stephanie Elam, Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — Thirty-one men working on a tunnel about 400 feet beneath the ground in Los Angeles were operating a machine to carve through the earth. Without warning, a portion of the tunnel collapsed around them Wednesday night. Trapped five miles from the tunnel’s only
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By Fiona Govan, CNN (CNN) — For the past two years, summer in Spain has meant prominent protests against tourism: holidaymakers being drenched by angry locals armed with water pistols in Barcelona and protesters marching under banners proclaiming “Your paradise is our nightmare” in the Balearic Islands regularly make headlines as the saturation of the
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By Erika Stanish Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — An oversized trailer hauling the blade of a wind turbine got stuck Tuesday in Bradenville, Westmoreland County, along its 700-mile route to Iowa. Derry Township Supervisor Don Kepple told KDKA-TV that the driver said he was on his way from Ebensburg to
Continue Reading KDKA, VIEWER HANDOUTS, CNN By Erika Stanish Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — An oversized trailer hauling the blade of a wind turbine got stuck Tuesday in Bradenville, Westmoreland County, along its 700-mile route to Iowa. Derry Township Supervisor Don Kepple told KDKA-TV that the driver said he was on his
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