Among the many guests who had their pictures taken with President Donald Trump at the White House’s annual Hanukkah party last year were two Soviet-born businessmen from Florida, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman. In the picture, which Parnas posted on social media, he and Fruman are seen smiling alongside Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump ignored Pentagon advice Friday and pardoned two officers, while also restoring the rank of a third after all faced war crimes allegations. Trump granted a full pardon to Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and a full pardon to Army Major Mathew Golsteyn, and restored the rank of Navy SEAL Eddie R. Gallagher,
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Gunfire broke out at a high school football game in New Jersey on Friday night, sending terrified fans diving under bleachers and leaving at least two people hospitalized. The shooting took place at the end of the third quarter of the game between Camden High School and Pleasantville High School, CNN affiliate WPVI-TV reported. Both
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EL PASO, Texas — “The People’s Tree” is on its merry way. The U.S. Capitol Christmas tree is already being taken to Washington D.C. The 68-year-old New Mexico blue spruce was cut down in the Carson National Forest and it’s going to take two weeks before it reaches D.C. It was a lot to take
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(CNN Español) — Frida Kahlo en chaquetas. Paisajes venezolanos en vestidos. Huipiles incorporados al atuendo de mujeres que caminan apresuradas a su oficina en Wall Street. La impronta latina en la moda cobra cada vez más terreno. La curiosidad que despiertan los colores, las propuestas diferentes y las historias detrás de cada prenda, está conquistando
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EL PASO, Texas — Here are the high school football scores for week 12 of the Borderland Blitz: 11/14 & 11/15 Montwood 32 Midland Lee 65 Chapin 7 Amarillo 14 Hanks 34 Austin 14 Andress 9 Canutillo 27 Fabens 7 Seminole 35 Frenship 35 Americas 36 Lubbock Coronado 54 Eastwood 41 Bowie 28 Parkland 64
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Every week feels weird and wild lately, but this one included some particularly difficult setbacks for President Donald Trump. Public impeachment hearings got underway with three credible witnesses — and Trump drew immediate criticism over his decision to attack one, ousted US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, as she was testifying New closed-door testimony directly
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Hours before they were to attend an educational conference in Indianapolis, three judges went out drinking for a few hours and decided to walk to a strip joint. Finding that closed, they then stopped at a White Castle, where two men in an SUV shouted at the judicial trio, prompting one judge to hold up
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SANTA CLARITA, California — Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow, the 16-year-old gunman who shot himself after killing two classmates and wounding three other students has died at a hospital, authorities said. The junior at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita died Friday afternoon, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. The teen opened fire at the school
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An Oklahoma judge has reduced the financial penalty Johnson & Johnson must pay for its role in the opioid crisis from $572 million to $465 million, according to a court order filed Friday. District Judge Thad Balkman had previously ordered that the health care products and pharmaceutical giant pay $572 million, but later said he
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Until someone invents a device to teleport humans from one side of the Earth to the other, this is the next best thing. An experimental research flight operated by Australian airline Qantas touched down in Sydney on Friday, after flying nonstop from London — a journey that pushes the frontier of modern aircraft capabilities —
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A 19-year-old Washington State University student died at a fraternity house on Tuesday. A day earlier, a fraternity member at Arizona State University was found dead in his room, and a San Diego University student died Friday after attending a fraternity event. Three fraternity-related deaths in less than a week have brought renewed scrutiny on
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Union members at Ford easily approved a new four-year labor deal with the automaker, avoiding the strike that idled rival General Motors for nearly six weeks. The United Auto Workers union announced that 56.3% of members at Ford voted to approve the deal. Workers at only a handful of factories voted to oppose it. Support
Continue Reading Less than 164 feet (50 meters) from a Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) base, student protesters are building a fortress. Black-clad, masked protesters man the walls of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Kowloon’s Hung Hom district, some peering through binoculars and others holding bows and arrows. The roads leading to the technical college are
Continue Reading A US ambassador told President Donald Trump that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “loves your ass” and that Ukraine was going to move forward with the investigation Trump had asked Zelensky for a day earlier, according to new testimony from a US official in Kiev who overheard the phone conversation. David Holmes told lawmakers in a
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MESILLA, New Mexico — Nearly 100 middle school students celebrated finally having classrooms to call their own on Friday. The Mesilla Valley Leadership Academy has its own campus after being bounced around to different locations within the Las Cruces Public School system over the past 3 years. The Mesilla Valley Leadership Academy is considered a
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Labor talks between Fiat Chrysler and the United Auto Workers union get underway in earnest next week. Whether they are as easy as the just concluded talks at Ford or as bloody as those at General Motors that resulted in a six-week strike remains to be seen. On the one hand things are going pretty
Continue Reading Bill Gates is back on top. On Friday, Gates surpassed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to reclaim the distinction of richest person in the world, with a net worth of $110 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It’s the first time the co-founder of Microsoft has held the top spot in over two years. He
Continue Reading A private group backing President Donald Trump’s border wall has kicked off a new project on the US-Mexico border in an attempt to showcase its barrier designs and shore up support for the President’s signature issue. It’s not the first time that We Build the Wall, a group founded by an Air Force veteran, has
Continue Reading (CNN) – Roger Stone, allegado desde hace muchos años de Donald Trump, fue declarado culpable este viernes de mentirle al Congreso y de otros cargos, en un caso que arroja nueva luz sobre la anticipación del presidente Donald Trump frente la publicación de los correos electrónicos demócratas en 2016 por parte de WikiLeaks. Stone, un agente
Continue Reading The White House placed the responsibility on the top Ukraine expert at the National Security Council on Friday after being asked about the discrepancy between the April readout of President Donald Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian President and the transcript released Friday. The President also ignored directives from his National Security Council staff to
Continue Reading The NFL has suspended Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett indefinitely — and at least for the rest of the season — for ripping the opposing quarterback’s helmet off his head and hitting him with it in Thursday night’s game with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Garrett’s minimum suspension, announced Friday, puts him out for six regular
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Cerca de una docena de personas armadas y vestidas con uniformes militares entraron a la sede principal del partido Voluntad Popular en Caracas, denunciaron miembros del equipo de la organización a la que pertenece el presidente de la Asamblea Nacional Juan Guaidó. CNN pudo conversar con algunos de los que estaban en
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WASHINGTON, DC — The ousted US ambassador to Ukraine testified Friday that she was “shocked and devastated” after learning that President Donald Trump had disparaged her in his July phone call with the Ukrainian President, while a tweet from the President attacking her during the impeachment inquiry hearing sparked a real-time response and new Democratic
Continue Reading The White House released a rough transcript of President Donald Trump’s first phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart as Friday’s impeachment hearing was getting underway. The congratulatory conversation contained few of the problematic requests that a later July phone call did. But it did show Trump eager to engage President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he would
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High clouds will hang around for the first part of the weekend then sunshine will take over for Sunday. Temps will be in the upper 60’s. Expect low to mid 70’s to hang around for Monday and Tuesday. Next week we are tracking a disturbance that will bring some moisture in here late Tuesday through
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The public battle between Taylor Swift and music manager Scooter Braun continues to escalate. Swift claims Braun and Scott Borchetta, the head of her former music label, Big Machine Label Group, are pressuring her not to record “copy cat versions” of her songs and to stop speaking about them publicly, and, in exchange “allow her”
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(Editor’s note: We CAUTION you that some of the images in the photo gallery may be disturbing to see.) EL PASO, Texas — Dozens of photos and videos obtained by ABC-7 appear to show overcrowding, mauled animals and clear policy violations at El Paso Animal Services. “This job is not easy,” confirmed Ramon Herrera, spokesman
Continue Reading Kaitlin Holt followed her instincts when five students barged into her classroom saying there was an active shooter on Saugus High School’s campus in California. One of the students who ran in was a girl with two gunshot wounds, Holt said on CNN’s “Full Circle” Friday. Holt used a gunshot kit in her classroom to
Continue Reading A forthcoming Justice Department inspector general’s report into the FBI’s handling of the Russia probe is already drawing criticism, weeks before its expected completion, amid concerns that witnesses wouldn’t be given sufficient time to review the document before its release. As President Donald Trump and his supporters seek to build expectations around the report, which
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