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Trump spent years trying to undermine Jack Smith. Now he wants to block special counsel’s final word

By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump. The court fight that prompted Cannon’s order is the capstone of Trump’s yearslong assault on the institution of special counsels, and the

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Man accused of setting woman on fire on subway told police he didn’t remember it, court documents show. Then he saw the video

By Lauren Mascarenhas, Jeff Winter and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — Sebastian Zapeta-Calil repeatedly told detectives he had no memory of an attack that killed a woman who was set ablaze on the New York City subway train he was riding the morning of December 22, according to court documents. Then, investigators played surveillance video

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Macron’s claim that Africans failed to say ‘thank you’ for French military aid sparks outrage

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — African governments have criticized a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he said that some leaders showed “ingratitude” for the deployment of his nation’s troops in the Sahel region in battling Islamist extremism. Macron told French ambassadors at a conference in Paris on Monday that Sahel nations

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This alien plant is lethal for the environment. Now it’s being turned into a plastic to regrow forests

By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — Lake Naivasha, northwest of Nairobi, Kenya is becoming increasingly unnavigable. Water hyacinth, the world’s most widespread invasive species, is blanketing the lake, choking its fish and leaving people stranded. “Sometimes it becomes very serious,” says Simon Macharia, a local fisherman, about the weed problem. “There was this incident where

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