By Associated Press (CNN) — Family members were getting ready to cut the cake at a toddler’s birthday party when the gunfire started inside a banquet hall packed with relatives and friends over the weekend in California. “I actually thought it was my balloons popping. It was gunshots,” said Patrice Williams, the birthday girl’s mother.
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By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Belarusian incursions into Lithuania’s airspace constitute a “hybrid attack” by the Lukashenko regime, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Monday, as the Belarusian representative in Brussels was summoned. “The situation at the border with Belarus is worsening, with the growing incursions of smuggling balloons into Lithuania’s airspace,”
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By Tal Shalev, CNN (CNN) — What began as Israel’s leader cold-shouldering the mainstream media is becoming a more widespread assault on the country’s freedom of the press. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not granted an interview to Israel’s three main broadcasters in over four years. He’s accused them of “brainwashing,” claimed they assist Israel’s
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — You know that feeling when you read something online and it seems deliberately provocative, almost manufactured to create outrage? You may have just encountered “rage bait” – content deliberately designed to elicit anger in order to increase engagement. And it has become so ubiquitous online that the Oxford Dictionary
Continue Reading CNN By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — You know that feeling when you read something online and it seems deliberately provocative, almost manufactured to create outrage? You may have just encountered “rage bait” – content deliberately designed to elicit anger in order to increase engagement. And it has become so ubiquitous online that the Oxford
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN The Trump administration is set to expand its immigration crackdown to New Orleans this week. Local officials say they have received scant details about the operation, fueling fear and uncertainty within the immigrant community. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day.
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By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Any Lucia Lopez Belloza arrived at the airport in Boston excited to embark on a surprise trip home to spend Thanksgiving with her family in Texas. The 19‑year‑old freshman at Babson College was nearing the end of her first semester studying business – a major she hoped would help
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By Alaa Elassar, Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Cheers rang out as hands lifted the gleaming trophy high, a symbol of victory for this undefeated small-town Virginia football team. But in the midst of Saturday’s celebration, one key figure was glaringly absent – someone who should have been at the heart of it all. Eleven
Continue Reading WCYB, VIRGINIA STATE POLICE, CNN By Alaa Elassar, Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — Cheers rang out as hands lifted the gleaming trophy high, a symbol of victory for this undefeated small-town Virginia football team. But in the midst of Saturday’s celebration, one key figure was glaringly absent – someone who should have been at the
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — As Department of Homeland Security agents are expected to surge into New Orleans this week, the latest Democrat-led city targeted by a federal immigration enforcement crackdown, a common thread has emerged among local officials: They’re being kept in the dark – and it’s spiking fear among the immigrant community.
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By Nicki Brown, Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old accused of killing a health insurance company executive in a brazen attack that sparked a national debate, appeared in court Monday for the start of a multi-day hearing as his attorneys seek to have his diary entries and other key evidence
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By Chris Lau, Karina Tsui, Rhea Mogul, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kong’s leader said he will ensure “justice is served” over the inferno that killed more than 150 people last week, as city officials point the finger of blame at construction companies for allegedly using substandard mesh netting to wrap scaffolding on the
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Four men have been arrested over their alleged involvement in an “international satanic child sex abuse material ring,” according to Australian Police, who say they’re still working to identify the victims. Det. Supt. Jayne Doherty, commander of the New South Wales sex crimes squad, said the four men allegedly
Continue Reading By Alessandra Freitas, Kit Maher, Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro made his first public appearance in days on Sunday, putting to an end speculation within the country that he had fled amid escalating tensions with the US. Maduro, who usually appears on Venezuelan television multiple times a week, had not been
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CNN By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — A child’s birthday party – a usually joyous event – turned into the site of a mass shooting Saturday night that left three children and one other person dead and 11 wounded, with the suspected shooter still on the run. The tragedy in Stockton, California, adds to a
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CNN, POOL, WHDH, WCVB, COHASSET POLICE, PETER KIRBY By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — A jury in a suburban town south of Boston is set to hear the murder case against Brian Walshe in the death of his wife, Ana Walshe, nearly three years after her disappearance garnered national attention. In a stunning move
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — A jury in a suburban town south of Boston is set to hear the murder case against Brian Walshe in the death of his wife, Ana Walshe, nearly three years after her disappearance garnered national attention. In a stunning move on the first day of jury selection earlier
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By Christopher Lamb and Billy Stockwell, CNN Beirut (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV touched down in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Sunday with the hope of being a “messenger of peace” as he began a three-day visit to the nation at the heart of a Middle East battered by recent conflicts, just days after an Israeli
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By Jennifer Hansler, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Alejandra Jaramillo, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump expressed optimism after a high-level meeting between US officials and a Ukrainian delegation in Miami on Sunday, suggesting there was a “good chance” of a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. Talks were “going along, and they’re going
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By Tal Shalev, Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally requested a pardon in his long-running corruption trial, arguing it was in the “public interest.” In a letter addressed to President Isaac Herzog, Netanyahu wrote that his trial has become “a focal point of fierce controversy” for which he bears “broad
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