By Eliza Mackintosh and Nathan Hodge, CNN As French President Emmanuel Macron visited his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Tuesday for diplomatic talks on the country’s crisis with Russia, Moscow indicated there were “points of convergence” laid out by Macron during his five-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin a day earlier. But
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By Abbas Al Lawati and Eoin McSweeney, CNN Iran and the United States return to Vienna on Tuesday for another round of talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement abandoned by the Trump administration. There have been enough indications of progress from both sides to suggest that negotiations have entered a critical phase, but
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Would you scan your face? The IRS wanted to require all taxpayers to verify their identities this year using a facial recognition software. However, the agency is now scrapping those plans after receiving a wave of backlash from lawmakers and privacy groups. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Would you scan your face? The IRS wanted to require all taxpayers to verify their identities this year using a facial recognition software. However, the agency is now scrapping those plans after receiving a wave of backlash from lawmakers and privacy groups. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Would you scan your face? The IRS wanted to require all taxpayers to verify their identities this year using a facial recognition software. However, the agency is now scrapping those plans after receiving a wave of backlash from lawmakers and privacy groups. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Would you scan your face? The IRS wanted to require all taxpayers to verify their identities this year using a facial recognition software. However, the agency is now scrapping those plans after receiving a wave of backlash from lawmakers and privacy groups. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Would you scan your face? The IRS wanted to require all taxpayers to verify their identities this year using a facial recognition software. However, the agency is now scrapping those plans after receiving a wave of backlash from lawmakers and privacy groups. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
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By CNN staff In the span of a week, three American-born athletes of Chinese descent have been thrust into the spotlight at the Beijing Winter Olympics — to very different reactions in China. All three were trained in the United States and are only a few years apart in age, but their paths diverged on
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Eileen Gu fans temporarily crashed China’s leading social media platform on Tuesday, as tens of millions rushed online to celebrate the teenage freeski sensation winning her first gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics. American-born Gu, 18, jumped into the top position at the women’s big air competition
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By Chris Boyette and Kelly McCleary, CNN The suspect in Monday’s deadly shooting inside a grocery store in Washington state has been arrested, police said late Monday. Aaron Christopher Kelly, 39, was taken into custody without incident, the Richland Police Department said. Police earlier described Kelly as “armed and dangerous” and identified him as the
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By Amanda Jackson and Tina Burnside, CNN Authorities in West Palm Beach, Florida, are investigating the death of a bicyclist who fell to her death from a drawbridge as it opened. The victim was seen walking her bicycle on the sidewalk portion of the Royal Park Bridge, which connects West Palm Beach to Palm Beach,
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By Simone McCarthy and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Weeks-long isolation, repeat stints in quarantine and sub-par meals — these are conditions that some Olympic athletes snared in Beijing’s stringent system for controlling Covid-19 say they are contending with, and some are pushing back. Finnish ice hockey head coach Jukka Jalonen on Sunday accused China of “not
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By Tim Lister, CNN Even in the 21st century, warfare is affected by weather — and that may become a factor in any Russian offensive into Ukraine. The question on the lips of Ukrainians, and maybe Russian generals: “Has Rasputitsa come early?” Rasputitsa is the term for the mud of spring, when travel in Russia
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By Philip Wang The United States has approved the possible sale to Taiwan of military equipment and services, including engineering services to support the Patriot missile defense system, for an estimated cost of $100 million, according to a statement released Monday by the Defense Department. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Weeks-long isolation, repeat stints in quarantine and sub-par meals — these are conditions that some Olympic athletes snared in Beijing’s stringent system for controlling Covid-19 say they are contending with, and some are pushing back. Finnish ice hockey head coach Jukka Jalonen on Sunday accused China of “not
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By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing Bureau Eileen Gu fans temporarily crashed China’s leading social media platform on Tuesday, as tens of millions rushed online to celebrate the teenage freeski sensation winning her first gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics. American-born Gu, 18, jumped into the top position at the women’s big air competition
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette and Kelly McCleary, CNN The suspect in Monday’s deadly shooting inside a grocery store in Washington state has been arrested, police said late Monday. Aaron Christopher Kelly, 39, was taken into custody without incident, the Richland Police Department said. Police earlier described Kelly as “armed and dangerous” and identified him as the
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, CNN Even in the 21st century, warfare is affected by weather — and that may become a factor in any Russian offensive into Ukraine. The question on the lips of Ukrainians, and maybe Russian generals: “Has Rasputitsa come early?” Rasputitsa is the term for the mud of spring, when travel in Russia
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By Ashley Killough, CNN A Texas National Guard soldier has died in a non-mission-related incident in the town of Brackettville, the Guard announced Monday. The soldier was assigned to Operation Lone Star, a state-led effort in response to migrant crossings at the border with Mexico. Bracketville is about 30 miles from the border town of
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By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Citing a 65% drop in Covid-19 cases since the peak of the Omicron surge, California will end its statewide indoor mask mandate for vaccinated individuals next week, nearly two years after it was first implemented, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Monday. “On February 15, California’s statewide indoor mask requirement will expire.
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