Huawei says business is still booming despite the US campaign against the Chinese tech company. The Shenzhen-based company reported Wednesday that it generated 610.8 billion yuan ($86 billion) in revenue during the first nine months of 2019, a 24% increase over the same period last year. The private company did not disclose detailed earnings, but
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Seúl (CNN) — El líder de Corea del Norte Kim Jong Un dio un pintoresco paseo —que políticamente es muy significativo— en un caballo blanco en una montaña nevada que es considerada sagrada para muchos coreanos. Las fotos publicadas este miércoles por KCNA, el medio estatal de Corea del Norte, muestran al líder cabalgando un
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Police investigating the theft of a solid gold toilet from a stately home in the UK made three arrests Wednesday. “A 35-year-old man, a 34-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman, all from Oxford, were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit a burglary,” Thames Valley Police said in a statement. All three remain in police
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The White House is launching a new effort to slow the speeding Democratic impeachment push, but its noncooperation strategy is being constantly thwarted by a daily stream of explosive secrets being spilled behind closed doors on Capitol Hill. Current and former officials are painting an ever more damning picture of a wider than originally perceived
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Wildlife activists in Zimbabwe are pushing to halt an alleged plan to sell 35 baby elephants to China and Pakistan as part of an ongoing row over wildlife exports. The sale has been in the works since last year, according to Advocates4Earth, an environmental lobby group that is suing the government over the alleged plan.
Continue Reading Twelve Democratic presidential candidates faced off Tuesday night on the same stage at the CNN/New York Times debate. Watch some of the biggest moments of the night here: Buttigieg to O’Rourke: I don’t need lessons from you Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg sparred over O’Rourke’s suggestion for
Continue Reading Sen. Kamala Harris on Wednesday defended her calls for Twitter to suspend President Donald Trump’s account, a plan she reiterated on stage at the fourth Democratic primary presidential debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times. Harris first made her call following the President’s tweets about the whistleblower complaint at the center of the
Continue Reading A majority of US adults support the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump from office, a Gallup poll released Wednesday finds, continuing a trend of recent surveys that have found increased support for the Democratic-led effort. Fifty-two percent of Americans support impeaching and removing Trump from office, while 46% disagree. That’s a 7-point increase
Continue Reading Dozens of migratory birds were killed Tuesday night when more than 300 of them struck a building in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, the Carolina Waterfowl Rescue group said on its verified Facebook page. The birds, identified as chimney swifts, hit the windows of the NASCAR Hall of Fame building, according to video from CNN affiliate
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Click here for updates on this story INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (WDAF) — A kind gesture led to an unlikely friendship between a sanitation worker and an elderly woman in Independence. Colette Kingston often monitors movement around her 88-year-old mother’s home on East 8th Street South. She had a Ring camera installed to check on her mother,
Continue Reading The war, or wars, in Syria may be approaching an end. The third of the country that was under the control of the once US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will slowly be reabsorbed into the orbit of Damascus, as will the troops who fought alongside the Americans. The SDF, abandoned in a flash by the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — The spokesperson for Metro Nashville Public Schools has released a response to allegations that agents claiming to be from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) visited a middle school and demanded records of a list of students. Metro Public Schools has confirmed that two uniformed
Continue Reading For months, Democrats probed President Donald Trump and his administration for documents, the President’s financial records and interviews with key associates. They ran into one dead end after another. Now that the investigation has narrowed to Ukraine, that’s all changed. Despite a White House vow that it would not cooperate with the “illegitimate” impeachment inquiry,
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. Back from a recess, Democrats were debating whether to address gripes about the impeachment process and hold a vote authorizing their inquiry as it races forward. New revelations about the extent of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, IL (WGN) — New video shows the moment a Good Samaritan disarmed a robber on a CTA Blue Line train Sunday morning before the Chicago Marathon. As the train stopped at Cumberland, Jean Paul LaPierre stepped off and asked another commuter why marathoners seemed to be rushing
Continue Reading Pete Buttigieg, continuing his criticism of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, said Wednesday his 2020 rival has been “more specific and forthcoming about the number of selfies she’s taken” than about laying out details of how she’d pay for “Medicare for All.” “Not only is it important to have ‘yes-or-no’ answers to ‘yes-or-no’ questions at a time
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FORT COLLINS, CO (KMGH) — Ten years ago, the world watched as a homemade balloon soared across the Colorado skies. And inside was a 6-year-old boy, probably terrified and possibly injured. Or so everybody thought. This month, Robert Sanchez, a senior staff writer with 5280 Magazine, published an
Continue Reading Prince Harry was overcome with emotion during a speech at an award ceremony Tuesday as he recounted the feeling of knowing he was going to become a parent. The Duke of Sussex told the story of how he and his wife, Meghan, attended the WellChild Awards last year knowing they were expecting their first child,
Continue Reading A string of Democratic presidential candidates slammed the tech industry Tuesday night as they debated Silicon Valley’s effects on competition and political speech. Entrepreneur Andrew Yang took aim at frontrunner Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposals to break up Big Tech, saying he would be in favor of forcing divestitures in some cases — but that simply
Continue Reading A dozen (!) Democratic presidential candidates took the stage in Ohio for the fourth debate of the 2020 election, the largest field ever to participate in a single debate. I watched, took notes, tweeted and picked some of the best — and the worst — of the night. My winners and losers are below. WINNERS
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los estadounidenses gastaron 1.400 millones de dólares en las marcas más populares de bebidas de frutas para niños y aguas saborizadas en 2018. Sin embargo, según las pautas nutricionales, ninguna de estas bebidas era saludable. ¿Por qué los padres harían esto? Tal vez porque las compañías de bebidas estadounidenses gastaron 20,7 millones de
Continue Reading Conservative lawyer George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, has donated to one of President Donald Trump’s Republican rivals: former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh. Federal Election Commission filings show that Conway donated $5,600 on August 30 to Walsh’s longshot bid to grab the Republican nomination from Trump. Walsh raised about $129,000 between
Continue Reading Bank of America’s business withstood the slowing economy and tricky interest rate environment better than feared. The nation’s second-largest bank said Wednesday it managed to narrowly grow lending profits despite the recent plunge in interest rates. Bank of America’s results, coupled with JPMorgan Chase’s big earnings beat, could help ease recession fears in the United
Continue Reading Guess who was watching the fourth Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday night? Former Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly! And he was shocked — SHOCKED — by what he saw. In a series of tweets, O’Reilly expressed amazement with traditional liberal politicians expressing traditional liberal policy prescriptions. Here are just a few of O’Reilly’s wonderment tweets:
Continue Reading A Fort Worth police detective said officers should apologize for Atatiana Jefferson’s death and acknowledge their role in police-involved shootings like hers. In a Facebook post, Detective JC Williams said Jefferson was “unjustly killed and is a victim.” “There are NOT two sides to this story and this is not an ‘us vs. them’ situation,”
Continue Reading Former Vice President Joe Biden is running low on money. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are riding waves of small donations. Billionaire Tom Steyer plowed eye-popping sums into his presidential campaign. And one White House contender reported raising just $5 during an entire three-month period. That’s not a typo: yes, $5. Here’s a look
Continue Reading A grand jury has subpoenaed former Republican Rep. Pete Sessions on matters connected to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, two Giuliani associates’ dealings with Ukraine and efforts to remove the US ambassador to Ukraine, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Sessions’ subpoena suggests that investigators are looking to gather information on his
Continue Reading Elizabeth Warren got a taste of the front-runner life during a heated debate on Tuesday in Ohio, as the moderate candidates onstage bombarded her throughout the night and, during an especially pointed exchange, assailed the Massachusetts senator over her refusal to directly explain how she would fund “Medicare for All.” The question during the CNN/New
Continue Reading MGM Resorts is offloading two well-known Las Vegas casinos in separate deals that total nearly $5 billion. The gaming company said Tuesday it’s selling Circus Circus to a rival resort owner for $825 million. MGM is also forming a joint venture with private equity firm Blackstone to acquire the Bellagio’s real estate and lease it
Continue Reading Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, who has made party unity a major theme of his presidential campaign, on Wednesday admonished his rivals for launching “personal attacks” during the fourth primary debate, saying if the candidates cannot stay unified, they won’t be successful in “trying to unify the nation.” “It’s fine to delineate your differences with other
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