As prepared for delivery In 2014, Russia invaded a United States ally, Ukraine, to reverse that nation’s embrace of the West, and to fulfill Vladimir Putin’s desire to rebuild a Russian empire. In the following years, thirteen thousand Ukrainians died as they battled superior Russian forces. Earlier this year Volodymyr Zelensky was elected president of
Continue Reading The gravity and drama of the first televised impeachment hearings into Donald Trump’s presidency on Wednesday will imprint themselves on history and reverberate far from Washington. The most crucial stage of the Ukraine investigation so far has profound implications beyond the political and personal reputation of Trump and the question of whether he abused his
Continue Reading On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton was asked whether she might — still — run for president in 2020. Here’s part of how she responded: “I, as I say, never, never, never say never, and I will certainly tell you I am under enormous pressure from many, many, many people to think about it, but as of
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Talk of smuggling usually evokes images of drugs, guns and other contraband — but it was a fat cat that saw one man punished by Russian airline Aeroflot. Mikhail Galin was stripped of his air miles after smuggling Viktor the cat into the cabin with him on a flight from Moscow to Vladivostok in Russia’s
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Former Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tim Ryan endorsed Joe Biden’s presidential bid Wednesday, saying the former vice president has the ability to win swing states President Donald Trump won in 2016. “This election for many, many Democrats, regardless of where you live, is about who can beat Donald Trump. And the key to that is
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Jimmy Fallon and Kristen Bell pulled off a medley of 17 Disney classics in an over five-minute segment for “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday. The two kicked off their performance with “When You Wish Upon a Star,” then effortlessly covered “Under the Sea,” “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,”
Continue Reading Demi Lovato has found love again. The singer and actress posted a photo of herself and her new beau late Tuesday on her official Instagram account. The selfie shows Lovato getting a smooch from model Austin Wilson. “My (heart emoticon),” her caption reads. Wilson also shared a photo showing him embracing Lovato, 27. His caption
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Manchester City star Bernardo Silva has been suspended for one match and fined £50,000 ($64,000) for a “racist” tweet about teammate Benjamin Mendy. The English Football Association (FA) has also instructed the Portuguese international to complete face-to-face education after he admitted his post was insulting and improper and brought the game into disrepute. In September,
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Our plastic addiction is spiraling out of control, but one company thinks it has a solution from a material found in nature. Humans have produced more than 8.3 billion tons of plastic since the 1950s, according to the United Nations. Most of that is ending up in landfills and could take centuries to decompose. New
Continue Reading Just hours before two State Department officials become the first public witnesses in the House impeachment probe, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday dismissed that inquiry as “noise” and did not knock down a suggestion that it could be harmful to US foreign policy. Pompeo instead said it was his department’s “mission” to ensure
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(CNN) — El diplomático estadounidense Bill Taylor y el funcionario del Departamento de Estado George Kent testificarán juntos este miércoles en la primera audiencia pública en el proceso de juicio político contra el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump. 6 hechos cruciales que no puedes olvidar sobre el proceso de juicio político a Trump Un
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It’s a mystery that has baffled officials in India. What killed more than 2,000 birds near the country’s largest inland lake? Locals spotted the carcasses on Sunday along the shores of Sambhar Salt Lake in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, Arun Prasad, the state’s Chief Conservator of Forests, told CNN Wednesday. They alerted state forest
Continue Reading In his mostly scripted speech to the Economic Club of New York, the president revealed both his impeachment counter-programming and his re-election theme for 2020. The president’s message to New York’s financial elite: The economy is booming because of Trump. You may not like him, but you can’t afford not to vote for him. “Here’s
Continue Reading “Charlie’s Angels” has just enough fun with the premise to be tolerable, and not enough to justify a reboot that nobody really needed. This latest big-screen spin on the 1970s TV series brings playfulness and a stronger feminist streak courtesy of writer-director-co-star Elizabeth Banks, but it lacks the consistency to earn its wings. Lest anyone
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Continue Reading (CNN) — Un portavoz de la Policía Nacional de España confirmó a CNN que están buscando al exidrector del servicio de Inteligencia de Venezuela, Hugo Armando Carvajal, desde el viernes. “Lo estamos buscando para entregarlo al Departamento de Justicia”, dijo el portavoz de la Policía Española. “Lo hemos estado buscando desde el viernes cuando la
Continue Reading He’s one of the youngest EGOT winners in history. He and his wife are one of Hollywood’s iconic couples. And now, John Legend is PEOPLE’s 2019 “Sexiest Man Alive.” The magazine announced that the “All of Me” singer would hold the title awarded last year to actor Idris Elba, a comparison he poked fun at.
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For a little over a year, a tiny unmanned Japanese spacecraft has been sampling the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, capturing images, blasting a little crater in it, and firing a “bullet” into its exterior to dislodge particles. Now, after traveling about 180 million miles, Hayabusa2 has begun its yearlong journey back to Earth
Continue Reading “Man Made” looks at the transgender experience through what seems like a highly specific lens: The only bodybuilding competition for transgender participants. But focusing on competitors at different stages, facing a variety of issues, offers a complex, nuanced view, in a way that does a lot of heavy lifting for a small film. Setting these
Continue Reading Selena Gomez and longtime best friend Julia Michaels just got matching tattoos. The two singers inked matching arrows on their hands, and when they hold hands, the arrows point to one another. “It’s tatted… my arrow points to you forever,” Gomez wrote on her Instagram story alongside a shot of the two looking down at
Continue Reading The House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is moving into its next phase this week with its first televised hearings. For over a month, Democrats have investigated whether Trump used the powers of his office to pressure Ukraine to help his reelection by announcing investigations into his political rivals. On Wednesday, the House Intelligence
Continue Reading Its perfect white sand, turquoise waters, and eminently photographable surroundings, with an ancient stone tower on a tiny island just offshore, have made La Pelosa on Sardinia one of the most famous beaches in the world. But this week, in a bid to preserve the beach, authorities have announced a cap on visitor numbers and
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Another cold start to the morning, but we will see noticeably warmer temperatures with winds out of the west this afternoon. A very weak cold front will move through the area later tonight into tomorrow, this will put a hold on warming temperatures. Saturday and Sunday the region will warm back up with wind gusts
Continue Reading Pope Francis has condemned anti-Semitism, describing the persecution of Jews as “neither human or Christian.” Departing from prepared remarks at his weekly Papal audience in Rome, the Pope said: “I would like to make a separate note. The Jewish people have suffered so much in history, they have been chased away, they too have been
Continue Reading Ken Cuccinelli is expected to be placed in the number two post at the Department of Homeland Security by Chad Wolf, the incoming acting Homeland Security Secretary, after legal hurdles prevented Cuccinelli from serving in the top role, according to a source familiar with the plan. The Senate is set to vote on Wolf to
Continue Reading YouTube mom Machelle Hobson, who was accused of 30 counts of kidnapping and child abuse, died Tuesday morning in Scottsdale, Arizona, Maricopa police spokesman Ricardo Alvarado said. Alvarado was unable to say how she died. Hobson ran the “Fantastic Adventures” YouTube channel, which racked up more than 250 million views and featured her seven adopted
Continue Reading Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg has found a ride back across the Atlantic to attend the COP25 environmental summit in Madrid, thanks to a pair of Australian vloggers. Elayna Carausu and Riley Whitelum, whose YouTube channel Sailing La Vagabonde chronicles their life aboard a 48-foot catamaran, responded to Thunberg’s plea for transportation, made on
Continue Reading A US service member who was found guilty in 2013 of second-degree murder for ordering his men to fire on three men on a motorcycle in Afghanistan could soon have his sentence commuted by President Donald Trump, his lawyer told CNN late Tuesday. Army Lt. Clint Lorance has been ordered by the inmate administration to
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — En tres elecciones consecutivas, el presidente Evo Morales obtuvo una votación arrasadora de más del 50% de los votos, llegando a su punto más alto con más del 64% de los votos en 2009. Pero años después, Morales, que era el presidente latinoamericano que más años había estado en el poder (casi
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El día en que Evo Morales llegó a México después de que el gobierno de ese país le concediera el asilo, en Bolivia asumió una presidenta interina. Aunque la Asamblea Legislativa de Bolivia no pudo sesionar para designar nuevas autoridades por falta de cuórum, la legisladora Jeanine Áñez habló en el Congreso
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