The top State Department official overseeing US policy in Europe and Eurasia is the latest witness in the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. Ambassador Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, is appearing Saturday before the House Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees. As has been the case for
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Even as power was fully restored late Saturday morning at New Orleans’ main airport, nearly 84,000 customers in the region were still without electricity as the remnants of Tropical Storm Olga moved across the Gulf Coast. Olga is expected to bring heavy rain Saturday to parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, according to the National Weather
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Fall like weather will greet the Borderland today as we start our mornings with cold temperatures and reach the lower 70s for the afternoon.
Skies will be sunny as we continue our string of dry weather.
It’s enough to raise eyebrows and pop your eyes out. Yes, the unlikely duo of Rudy Giuliani and the Joker have descended upon one Ohio porch in the form of giant pumpkins. President Trump’s personal attorney in pumpkin caricature weighs in at 277 pounds, while his associate punches in at 108 pounds of terror. Jeanette
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SpaceX is on a mission to beam cheap, high-speed internet to consumers all over the globe. And this week the company revealed a few earthly locations that are already linked to the network, including CEO Elon Musk’s house and the cockpits of a few Air Force jets. It’s part of early testing for the 60
Continue Reading Maria Butina, convicted of conspiring to act as an agent for a foreign state in the United States, returned Saturday to her native Russia and insisted that she was pressured to plead guilty in the case. Butina landed in Moscow one day after she was released from a federal prison in Florida and deported. “I
Continue Reading When Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was developing a section for news, he said it would be devoted to curating “high quality” information from “trustworthy” sources. That was back in April. On Friday, as Facebook began rolling out the product for testing to users in the United States, the company revealed a baffling decision: Among
Continue Reading Anita Dunn remembers a time in politics when it was almost unheard-of for women to be running political campaigns. Susan Estrich was Michael Dukakis’ campaign manager in 1988, but she was an anomaly until 2000, when Dunn and another woman, Gina Glantz, ran the Bill Bradley campaign. Now, not so much. Dunn, a senior adviser
Continue Reading The world economy is slowing. In past recessions, fast-growing emerging markets have helped bail out the global economy. But there’s one thing standing in the way of history repeating itself this time: the strong US dollar. As global growth slows and the United States’ economy shows signs of weakness, investors are looking for places where
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A key witness in the impeachment inquiry has sought for a court to decide if he should testify, caught between a House subpoena and a demand from the White House to protect President Donald Trump’s immunity from testifying to Congress. Charles Kupperman, who served until last month as deputy national security adviser at the White
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A trip to a tourist attraction in Scotland turned out to be a life-changing moment for one woman after a thermal camera detected she had breast cancer. Bal Gill, 41, was looking back over images from her trip to Camera Obscura and World of Illusions, in Edinburgh, when she noticed a heat patch over her
Continue Reading A New Jersey school district has become a lightning rod for criticism because of a policy that would allow school administrators to ban students from school activities if they owed the district lunch money. The policy, which was passed earlier this month in Cherry Hill, has been the target of tweets by several Democratic presidential
Continue Reading Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are having a “big party with friends” at Camp David to celebrate their 10th anniversary this weekend, a White House official confirmed to CNN on Friday. President Donald Trump is scheduled to spend the weekend at Camp David for the event celebrating his daughter and son-in-law, according to the White
Continue Reading Elizabeth Warren says it will be ready in a “few weeks.” Her centrist primary rivals say that’s a few months too late. For now, though, the Democratic presidential field has been left to wait, and speculate, on what Warren’s forthcoming plan to pay for “Medicare for All” will look like. But the arrival of the
Continue Reading A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Impeachment Watch newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Another action-packed week in the impeachment inquiry has wrapped up. Get all the latest news here: Whistleblower won’t testify Attorneys for the whistleblower whose complaint kicked off the impeachment inquiry made clear
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Ronnie Anne and her family have an altar for Día de Los Muertos, they live above their corner store and skateboard together. They’re just another Mexican-American family in the big city. Ronnie Anne is the star of “The Casagrandes,” a new animated series by Nickelodeon. The show is one of the first cartoons in the
Continue Reading Pete Buttigieg unveiled his criminal justice plan on Saturday, coinciding with a two-day swing through South Carolina — a state where he has struggled to gain traction with African American voters — and his participation in a presidential candidate criminal justice forum. The South Bend, Indiana, mayor joins several other Democratic presidential contenders by proposing
Continue Reading President Donald Trump declared Friday that the US is doing “very well” in Syria as the Pentagon began moving personnel and armored vehicles for eventual deployment into the eastern part of the country. Multiple defense officials tell CNN the military is in the initial stages of moving the vehicles to defend oil fields the President
Continue Reading Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a political newcomer who took over in May, probably knew he would face all kinds of challenges during his first year in office. A comedian-turned-politician who promised big changes, Zelensky would need to study the ins and outs of government. He would soon become commander-in-chief of a military still at war
Continue Reading NASA will send a mobile robot to the South Pole of the Moon to hunt for water, the US space agency has announced. The rover — the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER for short — is the size of a golf cart, and will sample the Moon’s soil environments to search for evidence
Continue Reading Former NBC News employees who signed nondisclosure agreements can come forward with their stories of sexual harassment at the network, NBCUniversal said in a statement. The statement was first reported by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who read it on air. “Any former NBC News employee who believes that they cannot disclose their experience with sexual harassment
Continue Reading Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, left two apparently unintended voicemails on a reporter’s phone this fall in which he discussed his need for hundreds of thousands of dollars and disparaged the Biden family, NBC reported on Friday. The unwitting calls and messages from Giuliani, colloquially called “butt-dials,” come as sources tell CNN that
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The camera pans across the South African Springbok rugby players as they stand shoulder to shoulder, singing their nation’s national anthem. This is an ethnically diverse team representing a country once ripped apart along racial lines. But one physical feature is ubiquitous. They’re big. Very big. Eben Etzebeth, the 6-foot-7-inch, 258-pound forward sports a pair
Continue Reading Seven children between the ages of 1 and 10 have been taken into protective custody by the South Carolina Department of Social Services after authorities found them living in a home near Charleston with two filthy bedrooms. Berkeley County Sheriff’s deputies had gone to the house Wednesday after a property management inspector became concerned during
Continue Reading A Chinese team has been kicked out of its own Military World Games after other countries alerted judges to “extensive cheating” by the hosts. Originally the Chinese athletes had taken the first, second and fourth places in the women’s middle-distance orienteering competition, as well as second place in the men’s, during the race on Sunday,
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ROCKY POINT, Mexico — Volunteer searchers say they have found more than three dozen bodies over the past three days in the desert near the Mexican resort of Puerto Penasco. Prosecutors in the northern border state of Sonora said late Friday that at least two of the bodies may be women. Tests are being conducted
Continue Reading The Princeton Theological Seminary is pledging to spend nearly $28 million on reparations over its ties to slavery, an effort believed to be one of the largest of its kind. Under the plan, which was announced last week and will be implemented over the course of the next five years, the private school of theology
Continue Reading Greta Thunberg once said, “You’re never too small to make a difference.” And she’s right! Anyone can make a difference, all it takes is a step in the right direction. This Make a Difference Day, an annual event taking place on the fourth Saturday of every October, is the perfect time to take that step.
Continue Reading David Schrader is creeping through the darkened hallways of the most-haunted house in America, looking for trouble. It’s well past midnight, and his paranormal team has been summoned to the 19th-century brick house in San Diego because people say a malevolent spirit dubbed “Yankee Jim” has taken up residence. They report hearing his footsteps clanking
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Below are the scores and highlights for week 8 of the Borderland Blitz: 10/24 and 10/25 Pebble Hills 28 vs. Americas 70 — FINAL Socorro 7 at Coronado 63 — FINAL Hanks 35 at Canutillo 38 — FINAL Parkland 55 at Horizon 10 — FINAL Riverside 17 at Ysleta 27 — FINAL Eastlake 28 vs. El Dorado 17
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