The 2019 Gotham Independent Film Awards, which honor the best in independent cinema, gave streaming giant Netflix a lot of love on Monday. The nominations were led by “Marriage Story,” “The Farewell,” “Uncut Gems” and “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” with three nominations each. “Clemency,” “Diane,” and “High Flying Bird” received two nominations
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Attorney General William Barr “disagrees” with a forthcoming report by the Justice Department’s inspector general that says the FBI had enough information in 2016 to launch an investigation into President Donald Trump’s campaign, The Washington Post reported Monday. The Post, citing conversations with people familiar with the matter, said Barr has also privately told associates
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(CNN Business) — Funcionarios comerciales de Estados Unidos propusieron el lunes una ola de aranceles sobre los productos franceses, tras publicar un informe en el que se encontró que hay un nuevo impuesto en Francia sobre los servicios digitales —que afecta a grandes empresas tecnológicas estadounidenses como Facebook y Google— que representa una barrera comercial.
Continue Reading (CNN) — Tres ataques separados se dirigieron a mercados muy concurridos en el noroeste de Siria, produciendo un brutal número de muertos el lunes en el área devastada por la guerra, según grupos locales de voluntarios y de derechos. Al menos 19 personas fueron asesinadas, 12 de ellas eran niños. En la provincia de Idlib,
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Happy Tuesday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. US President Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “Tariff Man,” is back in action — injecting fresh volatility into markets just as stocks had notched a string of record highs. What’s happening:
Continue Reading (CNN) — Máximo, un solicitante de asilo, huyó de su Honduras natal con su hijo para buscar una nueva vida en Estados Unidos. Pero mientras espera que se escuchen sus casos, dice que prácticamente se han convertido en prisioneros en un refugio para migrantes en la ciudad fronteriza mexicana de Nuevo Laredo, donde los carteles
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Russia switched on an enormous gas pipeline to China worth billions of dollars Monday, affirming increasingly close economic and political ties between the two countries. Named the “Power of Siberia,” the pipeline runs more than 8,100 kilometers (5,000 miles) across the two countries, according to Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua, and will deliver 38 billion
Continue Reading Donald Trump and the Prince of Wales have developed a “good working relationship” since the US President’s state visit to the UK this summer, a Clarence House spokesman has told CNN. Trump and the first lady are in London for a NATO summit and will be meeting with Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El presunto narcotraficante César Emilio Peralta, quien era la persona más buscada de República Dominicana, fue capturado en Colombia este lunes tras eludir a las autoridades durante casi cuatro meses. El arresto de quien también es conocido como “César, el abusador” fue informado por Jean Alain Rodríguez, procurador de República Dominicana. En
Continue Reading We might not all be Greta Thunberg, shunning air travel for weeks-long odysseys aboard Atlantic yachts, but turning our backs on short-haul flights in favor of train travel is, for many of us, a more practical enterprise. Rather than bemoaning the loss of eco-conscious travelers, some airlines seem to be embracing this rail-orientated gear switch.
Continue Reading As Democrats finish up their official report on the impeachment investigations, to be released Tuesday, Republicans have issued a 123-page document — in DC terms, a “prebuttal” — that argues everything you’ve seen so far is being misrepresented. It is a direct refutation of just about everything you’ve seen in the public hearings and the
Continue Reading Starbucks is adding a new iced drink to its holiday menu as sales continue to grow for chilly concoctions — even in winter. The new drink is Irish Cream Cold Brew, which is the chain’s cold brew coffee mixed with Irish Cream syrup and topped with vanilla sweet cream cold foam and cocoa powder. It
Continue Reading Former National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn said he’s “concerned” there is no one left in the White House to stand up to President Donald Trump and tell him “what he doesn’t want to hear.” “We had an interesting nucleus of people when I was in the White House — the initial team. We were
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The Justice Department, responding to a lawsuit by CNN and BuzzFeed, released 295 pages of witness memoranda and notes from FBI interviews that were part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference, including contacts with Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. The witnesses include: former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, former Trump 2016 campaign aide
Continue Reading Teens from some of China’s wealthiest regions are outperforming their peers in the world’s richest countries in reading, math and science, according to new results from a global education study. The survey found that 15-year-old students from Beijing, Shanghai, and the eastern provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang ranked top for all three core subjects, achieving
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Want to live a long, healthy life? So do I. That’s why for the past 15 years I’ve explored places around the world where people have done exactly that — places I dubbed “blue zones.” And I’m convinced that the foods the people in these areas eat are a big part of their secret. On
Continue Reading Dictionary.com has picked its Word of the Year, the word that captures the zeitgeist, the collective spirit of humankind in 2019. It’s … “existential.” Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox
Continue Reading ¿Cuál es el organismo vivo más antiguo de la Tierra? La historia del himno “Un violador en tu camino”. Además: lo que revela una investigación de CNN sobre sacerdotes pederastas. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. Suscríbete al newsletter. 1. La orden católica que encubrió abusos a niños
Continue Reading Three separate attacks targeted busy marketplaces in northwest Syria, producing a brutal death toll Monday in the war-torn area, according to local volunteer and rights groups. At least 19 people were killed, 12 of them children. In the province of Idlib, Syria’s last major opposition bastion, airstrikes ripped through two marketplaces, killing at least nine
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Lionel Messi clinched his sixth Ballon d’Or award on Monday after yet another scintillating season for the Argentine. The 32-year-old saw off competition from the likes of Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo and Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk to win the prestigious accolade, which is voted for by journalists. Messi won the award for the first
Continue Reading Already trying to hold off his political rivals a week before the UK’s general election, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced criticism from one of the leading officials in European football for past comments calling women in burqas “letterboxes.” Speaking to the Daily Mirror at a time when racist incidents in football matches are seemingly
Continue Reading An emergency landing went horribly wrong Sunday night as a plane crashed in San Antonio, leaving three dead, according to fire officials. One of the victims was 22-year-old Eric Naranjo, his father told CNN affiliate KABB. “He was a little shy when he was in high school,” Severo Naranjo told the news station. “The best
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Seattle Children’s Hospital knew for years that a mold infestation in its facilities could be related to its air-handling system, but “engaged in a cover-up” that sickened many patients and resulted in the deaths of six children, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of patients who sought treatment
Continue Reading Welcome to the Wild West of possessive punctuation. After 18 years, the Apostrophe Protection Society has been disbanded by its founder and chairman, retired journalist John Richards. Despite his best efforts, he says, he lost the battle for proper usage of the “much abused” apostrophe. “We, and our many supporters worldwide, have done our best
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NATO leaders gathering to mark the alliance’s 70th anniversary in London face multiple challenges — including the uncertainty of what President Donald Trump might do. Trump opened last year’s NATO summit with a snarling dismissal of its “delinquent” members for not spending more on their defense budgets and a jibe at Germany for being “a
Continue Reading The US Navy on Monday awarded its most expensive shipbuilding contract ever, more than $22.2 billion worth of the world’s most advanced submarines. The massive contract for nine nuclear-powered, Virginia class attack submarines comes just months after the head of the US Navy in the Pacific warned of a massive Chinese naval buildup and his
Continue Reading Nobody likes to hear that an old friend is “brain dead,” so perhaps it’s not surprising that France’s allies seem to be going through the seven stages of grief over Emmanuel Macron’s pronouncement in the Economist last month that NATO is languishing. There was first shock and denial. Speaking alongside NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
Continue Reading One of Australia’s biggest wholesalers is counting the costs of losing a major deal with 7-Eleven. Metcash on Tuesday reported a writedown of 237.4 million Australian dollars ($162.5 million), just weeks after it disclosed the end of its supplier agreement with the convenience store chain. In addition, the split will likely lead to a loss
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Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in the Philippines as Typhoon Kammuri hit Luzon, the country’s largest and most populous island. Kammuri made landfall near the city of Gubat on Monday evening local time and has continued to strengthen. The storm has clocked maximum sustained winds near 215 kilometers per hour (130
Continue Reading Rohingya refugee children living in a sprawling network of camps in Bangladesh are being denied access to education in a deliberate effort by authorities to prevent them from integrating with local communities, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch released on Tuesday. The camps, located in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, are home to
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