By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Happy Monday, readers! If caffeine is your daily vice, you may be glad that all Starbucks are offering free coffee today to members of their loyalty program. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. 1. Super Bowl The Philadelphia
Continue Reading By Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Israeli police raided two Palestinian bookstores in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, confiscating books and arresting one of the owners and his nephew, according to their family members. CCTV footage shared by the owners, four brothers from the Muna family, shows police officers putting
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The number of new marriages recorded in China fell to a record low last year, despite sweeping government efforts to encourage young people to tie the knot and have babies to halt demographic decline in the world’s second-largest economy. Some 6.1 million couples registered their marriages in
Continue Reading By Michael Rios and Edward Szekeres, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador’s center-right President Daniel Noboa fell short of securing an outright majority in the country’s general election, according to results available on Monday, setting the stage for a run-off vote against his nearest leftist rival. The second-round vote, provisionally scheduled for April, will decide if the
Continue Reading By Dana Karni and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The families of the three Israeli hostages released Saturday have spoken out about their loved ones’ ordeal in Hamas captivity, saying they hope their suffering provides impetus to efforts to free all those still in Gaza as soon as possible. Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and
Continue Reading CNN By Joseph Ataman and Richard Quest, CNN Paris (CNN) — For a man who’s spent his career battling to make France more pro-business, Europe’s prospects on artificial intelligence are worrying: an oversight that could cost the bloc dearly. “We are not in the race today,” French President Emmanuel Macron told CNN’s Richard Quest in
Continue Reading By Joseph Ataman and Richard Quest, CNN Paris (CNN) — For a man who’s spent his career battling to make France more pro-business, Europe’s prospects on artificial intelligence are worrying: an oversight that could cost the bloc dearly. “We are not in the race today,” French President Emmanuel Macron told CNN’s Richard Quest in an
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The counties of San Francisco and Santa Clara in California in addition to King County, Washington, and the cities of Portland, Oregon, and New Haven, Connecticut, have sued the Trump administration alleging it has threatened and unlawfully targeted sanctuary jurisdictions, according to a lawsuit filed in
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Meghan Pryce, CNN (CNN) — It’s Super Bowl Sunday — the most important day of the year for NFL fans and big-name brands. Advertisers have shelled out upwards of $8 million for a 30-second spot during the game in the hopes of making an impression on an estimated 120 million viewers.
Continue Reading By Mohammad al-Sawalhi, Ibrahim Dahman and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Israel completed its withdrawal from the Netzarim Corridor on Sunday, a militarized zone that splits Gaza in half, as part of its commitments under a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have filed through the area, many of them returning decimated
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar and Sharif Paget, CNN (CNN) — Andre Howard Jr. had just picked up his three children from school and taken them to Dunkin’ Donuts for an evening snack, a cherished weekly family ritual that abruptly turned into a terrifying, narrow escape from tragedy. Their wholesome tradition was violently disrupted when a medevac
Continue Reading By Jay Ganglani, CNN (CNN) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party won elections in the sprawling megacity of Delhi for the first time in 27 years on Saturday, defeating one of his most prominent critics in a much-needed boost after losing its national majority last year. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Local residents confronted and drove off neo-Nazi demonstrators waving large swastika-emblazoned flags along a highway overpass on Friday between Lincoln Heights and Evendale, Ohio, home to a historically Black community that has endured a long history of racism. White nationalist groups in Ohio have recently grown increasingly brazen in
Continue Reading By Yash Roy, CNN (CNN) — Known as the neighborhood grandma, 88-year-old Edna Schubert often spent her days helping children with their math homework or watching them ride their bikes on her driveway. She lived alone in her North Bay Shore one-story house and while she had no children of her own, she treated the
Continue Reading By CNN Staff (CNN) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 occurred on Saturday in the Caribbean Sea, according to the US Geological Survey, sparking a tsunami advisory. The tremor hit 129 miles southwest of Georgetown, Cayman Islands, at 6.23 p.m. ET Saturday, the USGS reported. The US National Tsunami Warning Center (NWTC) initially
Continue Reading By Dana Karni, Mitchell McCluskey and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — For the Israeli hostages freed Saturday, the suffering did not end when Hamas militants paraded their frail and gaunt figures on a stage in Gaza ahead of their release to the Red Cross. Only later, after the freed men arrived back in Israel, would
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal workers: firefighters. The freeze comes at a critical time, when fire departments across the country would typically onboard thousands of seasonal federal firefighters in preparation for wildfires in the spring
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CNN By Karina Tsui and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — All 10 people killed when a regional airline flight crashed off the coast of western Alaska have been recovered and identified, authorities said Saturday. “All ten individuals aboard the Bering Air plane have been officially brought home,” the Nome Volunteer Fire Department said in a
Continue Reading By Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — US-funded aid work around the world has been largely brought to a standstill, multiple sources tell CNN, despite Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s claims that the United States continues to provide lifesaving humanitarian aid. As the Trump’s administration’s 90-day freeze on nearly all US foreign aid continues into a
Continue Reading By Eve Brennan and Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law that allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities — namely White farmers — without compensation, as well as the country’s stance against Israel and
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