By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business As more of Facebook’s internal documents are revealed, Facebook Oversight Board member and PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel emphasized that the platform must do a better job with transparency. The Oversight Board’s first report, released last week, revealed that the group of independent content moderators prompted Facebook to restore more
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By Theresa Waldrop and Dakin Andone, CNN Terry Duane Turner, charged with the murder of a motorist who had parked in his driveway in Texas, “was defending himself and his property,” his attorney told CNN. The family of Adil Dghoughi, the victim, said they are concerned Turner will use the state’s “stand your ground” law
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly and Lauren Fox, CNN Listening mode is done. Informational meetings are over. Public posturing and private positioning are a thing of the past. Now — after what seems like roughly a dozen straight “critical weeks” for President Joe Biden’s sweeping multi-trillion agenda — is the moment the rubber meets the road. Biden
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business As Wall Street watches the debate over President Joe Biden’s flagship infrastructure, climate and social spending plans in Washington, it has one major question: Will corporations pay more in tax to fund the programs? This week, investors could get an answer, as Democrats race to finalize a package and get
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By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Facebook has confronted whistleblowers, PR firestorms and Congressional inquiries in recent years. But now it faces a combination of all three at once in what could be the most intense and wide-ranging crisis in the company’s 17-year history. On Friday, a consortium of 17 US news organizations began publishing a
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By Yasir Abdallah, Kareem El Damanhoury, Mostafa Salem, Jennifer Deaton and Kara Fox, CNN Sudan’s military dissolved its power-sharing government and declared a state of emergency Monday, catapulting the country into its biggest political crisis in its two-year-old transition. The coup comes after months of rising tensions in the country, where military and civilian groups
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN Jennifer Aniston has led the tributes to her “Friends” co-star James Michael Tyler following his death, saying the show “would not have been the same” without him. Tyler, who was best known for playing Gunther — the Central Perk manager and Rachel Green’s admirer — on the hit ’90s sitcom for
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN High US inflation will likely dog the economy until the latter part of 2022, predicts Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Then it will decrease to acceptable levels again. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN High US inflation will likely dog the economy until the latter part of 2022, predicts Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Then it will decrease to acceptable levels again. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN High US inflation will likely dog the economy until the latter part of 2022, predicts Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Then it will decrease to acceptable levels again. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN High US inflation will likely dog the economy until the latter part of 2022, predicts Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Then it will decrease to acceptable levels again. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN High US inflation will likely dog the economy until the latter part of 2022, predicts Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Then it will decrease to acceptable levels again. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN High US inflation will likely dog the economy until the latter part of 2022, predicts Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Then it will decrease to acceptable levels again. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need
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By Alex Thomas and George Ramsay, CNN Undefeated in 32 fights and victorious across a thrilling trilogy of bouts against Deontay Wilder, Tyson Fury has cemented his status as the best heavyweight boxer of the current era over the past two years. But where does Fury stand in comparison to boxing’s legendary fighters? According to
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By Amir Vera, CNN Four years after White supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, for the “Unite the Right” rally, a civil trial that started Monday will decide whether organizers had predetermined the event would turn violent. Dozens were injured and one person died in the chaos surrounding the rally. “There is one thing about this
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hurley, CNN An 11-year-old girl was petrified — her word — of needles, so much so that she didn’t want to talk about it with me. She couldn’t talk about it without becoming visibly upset. Her heart raced, her breathing became rapid, and her stomach hurt when she tried to answer my questions.
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By Rob Picheta, CNN The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has once again reached record highs, according to a UN report published Monday, putting the planet on course for warming that far exceeds critical limits to stave off catastrophic climate change. The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2020 was 149% higher than
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By Tara John, CNN Lockdowns, spiraling cases and a vaccine divide is framing the start of Europe’s second pandemic winter, bringing chaos to eastern European countries and uncertainty to those in the West. Despite the widescale availability of vaccines this winter compared to the last, Europe is the only part of the world reporting an
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Watch live coverage of storms in the player below. SUNDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: Storms are starting to fire up along the cold front in western Missouri, and will quickly become severe as they move east into Mid-Missouri. A Tornado Watch has been issued for the entire area until 10PM. Watch a 3 p.m. update from the
Continue ReadingBy Yasir Abdallah, Kareem El Damanhoury, Mostafa Salem and Jennifer Deaton, CNN Sudan Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his wife Muna Abdallah have been arrested and taken to an undisclosed location, the prime minister’s economic advisor Adam Hireka told CNN Monday in events that bore the hallmarks of an apparent coup. The country’s Ministry of
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