(CNN) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday appointed Atlanta businesswoman Kelly Loeffler to take over the seat of retiring Sen. Johnny Isakson. Kemp, a Republican, had been pressed by President Donald Trump to appoint Rep. Doug Collins, CNN previously reported, but selected Loeffler in a rare act of defiance against Trump by a member
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Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WTMJ) — Milwaukee Bucks’ superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo is getting a lot of attention for what he did off the court after Saturday’s game. He gave a local teen a pair of his signature shoes. 17-year-old Hunter Peterson had no idea Giannis was going to surprise him with
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Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says President Donald Trump’s love affair with tariffs is backfiring. And he’s not surprised at all. Breaking from decades of US presidents lowering trade barriers, Trump is waging a global trade war that spread this week to Argentina, Brazil and France. Trump’s tariffs are aimed at protecting American workers,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATHENS, GA (WGCL) — On North Jackson Street in downtown Athens, a local alteration shop is gearing up for the big game. A team of seamstresses have a hand in getting Georgia’s iconic red and black football jerseys ready for the SEC Championship. “I don’t get nervous doing
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The reports trickled in, vague and confused at first. There had been some sort of car crash. Tiger Woods was involved. He might be injured. Fears at first for the health of one of sport’s biggest stars, maybe the biggest. Then news of a collision with a fire hydrant and a tree yards from Woods’
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As the holiday shopping season gets into full swing, consumers will have a way to evaluate where some of their favorite US retailers stand on guns. A coalition of gun-reform advocacy groups on Wednesday released a scorecard that gives letter grades to 29 retailers based on their in-store gun policies, their public stance on gun
Continue Reading President Donald Trump spent part of Tuesday blasting France for its digital tax plan, because he said America should be the one to “take advantage” of American companies. Despite the risk of a similar backlash, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is vowing to move ahead with his own digital tech tax. The planned UK tax
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso United Family Resiliency Center will host two Victims’ Forums as part of the community’s path to recovery from the Walmart mass shooting tragedy on Aug. 3. The forums will be an opportunity for community members to share their needs regarding recovery, learn how to recognize signs of trauma
Continue Reading A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter is guilty. He is likely out of office and on the way to jail. And it all started when a reporter asked reasonable questions about his spending habits. On Tuesday, Hunter
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A gold-hunter claims to have found the UK’s largest gold nugget, weighing a hefty 121.3 grams (4.28 ounces), in a Scottish river. The metal lump, found in two pieces and dubbed “The Reunion Nugget,” was discovered by a treasure hunter in May. If proven to be from Scotland, the precious metal would usurp the “Douglas
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Read legal expert Pamela Karlan’s prepared remarks at House Judiciary impeachment hearing here: cnn.com/2019/12/04/politics/karlan-impeachment-testimony/index.html
Continue Reading Read legal expert Noah Feldman’s prepared remarks at House Judiciary impeachment hearing here: cnn.com/2019/12/04/politics/noah-feldman-impeachment-testimony/index.html
Continue Reading Read legal expert Jonathan Turley’s prepared remarks at House Judiciary impeachment hearing here: cnn.com/2019/12/04/politics/jonathan-turley-impeachment-testimony/index.html
Continue Reading Read legal expert Michael Gerhardt’s prepared remarks at House Judiciary impeachment hearing here: cnn.com/2019/12/04/politics/gerhardt-impeachment-testimony
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Anna Faris and her family had a close call on Thanksgiving Day. The actress and her family were in Lake Tahoe at a rental home over the holiday last week when two family members fell ill. What they thought was altitude sickness turned out to be carbon monoxide poisoning. Multiple fire departments in the Lake
Continue Reading “The Moodys” bills itself as a “holiday comedy event series,” which is really just a grandiose way of describing a longer-than-usual movie, being diced into three parts on Fox. If the presentation feels like a bit of an experiment, the content — adapted from an Australian show — is too familiar to be much more
Continue Reading Ahead of the next hearings in the impeachment inquiry, House Republicans released a report analyzing the evidence presented thus far. In an effort to undermine the credibility of the original whistleblower complaint, and the legitimacy of the inquiry itself, the report passes off several debunked theories as facts. Here are a few: The whistleblower’s accuracy
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The suspect accused of killing two Boston doctors inside their penthouse wrote haunting messages on the walls of the crime scene, according to new testimony in the double murder trial. Lina Bolanos, 39, and Richard Field, 48, both well-known anesthesiologists, had desperately tried alerting authorities before they were stabbed to death in 2017. Jurors could
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Germany moved to expel two Russian diplomats on Wednesday, after prosecutors said they had grounds to believe there was Russian state involvement in the killing of a former Chechen fighter in Berlin this summer. Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian citizen of Chechen descent, was on his way to midday prayers at a mosque in downtown Berlin
Continue Reading Thick, black graffiti sprayed onto a Russian polar bear’s coat poses an extra threat to an animal already in danger, experts say. Video shared on social media shows a lumbering polar bear whose back had been branded with “T-34,” the name of an old Soviet Union tank. The video was posted to Facebook on December
Continue Reading Chipotle has a plan to help young farmers — and to keep its restaurants stocked with its customers’ favorite menu items. The fast-casual restaurant chain is offering three-year contracts to farmers under 40, if they meet certain standards. Chipotle is also donating funds to farms and partnering with the National Young Farmers Coalition to raise
Continue Reading At least 23 people died and more than 130 were injured in Sudan after a fire triggered an explosion at a factory in northern Khartoum on Tuesday, according to state news agency SUNA. The incident happened while a tanker truck was offloading gas at a ceramics manufacturing company in an industrial area of the city,
Continue Reading Sometime later this week, Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is expected to name businesswoman Kelly Loeffler to the Senate vacancy caused by the planned resignation of Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson on December 31. Which, no big whoop, right? A Republican governor picks a Republican to fill a Republican-held seat. But this is the Trump era!
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French President Emmanuel Macron made clear he was in no mood to back down following an extraordinary attack from President Donald Trump on Tuesday. Sitting alongside Trump in London, Macron said he stood by his comments about NATO — he recently described the long-time coalition as suffering from “brain death” in part due to a
Continue Reading The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is looking more disorganized than ever, but a major Pacific rival could help push them back together. Speaking this week during a two-day meeting in London to mark the organization’s 70th anniversary, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance needed to start taking “into account that China is coming closer
Continue Reading Happy Wednesday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. Wall Street has issued binders full of 2020 forecasts in recent days, and the consensus is clear: Strategists expect the global economy to remain subdued in 2020, with GDP growth
Continue Reading The impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump enters its next stage this week as the House Judiciary Committee holds its first hearing. The Wednesday hearing, which will feature constitutional law experts, follows a series of public hearings in the House Intelligence Committee where current and former administration officials testified as part of the House Democrat-led
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