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Start your week smart: Hegseth confirmed, hostages released, South Korean president, FEMA’s future, religious charter schools

By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — The richest man on the planet has a new enemy: the humble penny. Elon Musk’s fledgling Department of Government Efficiency wants to eliminate the 1 cent coin, which costs more than 3 cents to produce. Advocates say simply rounding up (or down) to the nearest nickel

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Airstrike kills at least 70 seeking care at last functioning hospital in North Darfur capital as Sudan’s civil war rages

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — At least 70 people were killed after a drone strike targeted the last functioning hospital in the besieged capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state late Friday, according to local officials and the World Health Organization. At the time of the attack, the hospital was “packed with patients receiving care,”

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Australia is grappling with a rise in antisemitic attacks. Police are investigating links to paid criminals

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Sydney restaurateur Judith Lewis couldn’t save the mezuzah, a framed parchment inked with Hebrew prayers, that was hanging in her family’s café when arsonists set it alight in the early hours one Sunday in late October. The symbol of Jewish faith was badly damaged in the blaze

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Final secret files are coming out on the murders that shattered the 60s. What we may learn on JFK, MLK and RFK

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump announced an executive order Thursday to release the remaining government files in three of the country’s most notorious assassinations, it immediately grabbed public attention and raised intrigue. “And everything will be revealed,” Trump said as his Sharpie applied his famously angular signature. The announcement was

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‘Our innocent kids are struggling.’ Victims of massive listeriosis outbreak say those responsible must ‘do the right thing’

By Hanna Ziady, CNN (CNN) — Theto Ngobeni was just 18 days old when doctors first inserted a shunt into the back of her head to drain excess fluid accumulating in her brain. She was born with a condition known as hydrocephalus, which doctors said was caused by a listeriosis infection that her mother contracted

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Residents say they were forced to flee Jenin refugee camp as Israel’s West Bank military operation intensifies

By Nadeen Ebrahim, Nada Bashir and Kareem Khadder, CNN Jenin, West Bank (CNN) — The sound of gunfire and explosions filled the air as residents of the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank hauled their belongings down the muddy pathway. Smoke billowed from multiple areas in the camp’s Al-Hadaf neighborhood, while a bulldozer

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A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents prepare to arrest alleged immigration violators at Fresh Mark in Salem

A Chicago elementary school turned away agents they feared were from ICE. They turned out to be from the Secret Service

By Dalia Faheid and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Fearing federal agents asking to search a Chicago elementary school Friday morning were from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, school officials denied them entry. But it turned out they were US Secret Service agents pursuing an investigation. Around 11:15 a.m., the agents attempted to enter Hamline Elementary

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