By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN New York (CNN) — When lawmakers grilled TikTok CEO Shou Chew during a lengthy hearing last March, Rep. Darren Soto argued what has now become the crux of a bill that overwhelmingly passed in the House this week. “TikTok needs to be an American company with American values,” Soto, a Democrat
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Photos and text essay by Kate T. Parker, CNN (CNN) — For the last decade in my job as a photographer, I have traveled the country to take pictures of young people and listen to their stories. I am confident when I tell you the most important thing I’ve learned: They are going to be
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By Sarita Harilela and Sophie Jeong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced 12 people to between 54 and 82 months in prison over the storming of the city’s legislature council building during a pro-democracy protest in 2019, the city’s public broadcaster RTHK said. RTHK said the defendants were convicted
Continue Reading By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to an estimated $875 million after there was no grand prize winner Friday night. The winning numbers for Friday night’s drawing were 13, 25, 50, 51 and 66, with a Mega Ball of 6. It was the 28th consecutive Mega Millions drawing with no ticket matching all
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Essay by Yemisi Aribisala, CNN (CNN) — Femi Oyebade, a Nigerian diasporan for more than 30 years and a Guinness beer connoisseur, assures me that there is a stark difference between Irish Guinness and Nigerian Guinness. Chalk and cheese won’t suffice in defining the distance between the two. Nigerian Guinness has weight in your mouth
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Alexei Navalny’s team is used to working independently. The most potent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin was frequently absent for long stretches after being arrested, assaulted, poisoned, or imprisoned. But when Navalny died suddenly in February at age 47 in a remote Arctic prison, his
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS Associated Press Voters across Russia cast ballots Saturday on the second day of an election set to formalize six more years of power for President Vladimir Putin, who faces no serious challengers after crushing political dissent over his nearly quarter-century of rule. The election comes against the backdrop of a ruthless crackdown
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Mice accidentally introduced to a remote island near Antarctica 200 years ago are breeding out of control because of climate change, and they are eating seabirds and causing major harm in a special nature reserve with “unique biodiversity.” Now conservationists are planning a mass
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California lawmaker is trying to get the state Legislature to rethink policymaking by creating a committee to study how to make people happier. It is called the Select Committee on Happiness and Public Policy Outcomes and lawmakers held its first hearing this week.
Continue Reading By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Paris (CNN) — Hugo Travers may not think of himself as a journalist, but he could be the most popular one in France. Travers, 26, is the founder and face of HugoDecrypte, a French media start-up that delivers news aimed primarily at young audiences. What began eight years ago as a
Continue Reading By Kareem El Damanhoury and Julia Vargas Jones, CNN São Paulo, Brazil (CNN) — Former President Jair Bolsonaro presented top Brazilian military leaders with a plan to stage a coup after he lost the 2022 election, newly released court documents have alleged. The country’s Supreme Court released the testimonies from former army commander Marco Antonio Freire
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Un vuelo de United Airlines descubrió que le faltaba un panel externo en la aeronave después de aterrizar en Medford, Oregón, este viernes por la tarde después de despegar de San Francisco, California, según informó la aerolínea. El avión, que llevaba a 145 pasajeros y tripulantes, aterrizó de manera segura y
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — An independent commission has been reviewing the events leading up to Maine’s deadliest mass shooting. Army reservist Robert Card killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 25, 2023. The main takeaways from the report released Friday are that
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court has sentenced 12 people to prison Saturday over the storming of the city’s legislative council building at the height of the anti-government protests in 2019. The storming on July 1, 2019 — the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony’s return to
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Más de 50 países condenan las elecciones rusas en los territorios ucranianos ocupados en una declaración conjunta, publicada en el sitio web de la Misión de Estados Unidos ante la ONU este viernes. “Realizar elecciones en el territorio de otro estado miembro de la ONU sin su consentimiento es una clara
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The grandly colonnaded old city hall was designed by an Irish architect. A neighborhood near the wharves is still known as the Irish Channel. Landmark towers and spires of Catholic churches built for Irish immigrants dot the skyline. New Orleans is well known for a culture
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Los recién liberados documentos judiciales revelan que el expresidente Jair Bolsonaro presentó a los principales líderes militares brasileños un plan para permanecer en el poder después de perder las elecciones presidenciales de 2022. La Corte Suprema del país divulgó los testimonios del excomandante del Ejército Marco Antonio Freire Gomes y del
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — People across the United States celebrated Irish heritage at several major St. Patrick’s Day parades Saturday, marking the holiday a day early at events that included a big anniversary in Savannah, Georgia, and honored a pioneering female business leader as grand marshal in New York. The holiday commemorates Ireland’s patron saint
Continue ReadingBy GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America RENO, Nev. (AP) — Last month, when the wife of a Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Nevada talked candidly about the abortion she had before the two met — and the long journey of regret and healing that followed — many Republicans welcomed it as a more compassionate
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was returning from church a week ago when he stepped out of his armored SUV onto the driveway of his Wilmington, Delaware, home on an important mission: He wanted to inspect the landscaping. The sprawling home on a manmade pond, three miles
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