Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will donate $10 million to support Democratic House lawmakers who are facing Republican attacks for supporting President Donald Trump’s impeachment, his spokesman Jason Schechter told CNN on Wednesday. The donation from Bloomberg follows his November announcement to spend $100 million on an anti-Trump ad blitz in key 2020
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A monument of a young African-American man has found its permanent Virginia home near the Confederate statue it was modeled after. “Rumors of War,” by artist Kehinde Wiley — who painted President Obama’s portrait hanging in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery — was unveiled Tuesday at Richmond’s Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), according to
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Hundreds of Italian mayors and thousands of citizens took to Milan’s streets on Tuesday in a show of solidarity for a Holocaust survivor who was put under police protection after receiving anti-Semitic threats. Senator-for-life Liliana Segre, 89, was only 13 when she was deported to Auschwitz. She later became a vocal campaigner against racism and
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Jennifer Aniston and Ellen DeGeneres joined forces for “Ellen’s Greatest Night of Giveaways” and gave one deserving family a life-changing holiday gift. The family’s emotional story brought Aniston to tears. Viewer Elyse Kimball made a video about her father, Jeff Kimball, who lost his wife and mother of their two daughters to cancer when the
Continue Reading The first thought watching something like “6 Underground” — an idiotic Netflix movie starring Ryan Reynolds — is “What were they thinking?,” until you realize thinking had little to do with it. The apparent goal was to make an action film for people who find “Fast & Furious” movies too heavily plotted, only to create
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Britt McHenry, a host on Fox News’ streaming service, Fox Nation, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit on Tuesday against the network and one of its on-air personalities, George “Tyrus” Murdoch. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, argued that Fox News retaliated against McHenry after she accused Murdoch, her former Fox Nation
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Another foggy start to the morning but the patchy fog will quickly burn off once the sun rises. It will be mostly sunny and cool this afternoon. The rest of the week will be nice and warm but changes will arrive this weekend. We could see breezy winds on Saturday with winds becoming stronger on
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After months of promising to reexamine how it handles harassment on its platform, YouTube has unveiled an update to its policy. On Wednesday, the Google-owned video platform said it would take a “stronger stance” against threats and personal attacks, among other changes intended to address the safety of its community. YouTube said it would now
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Few people enjoy in-flight turbulence, but while it’s anxiety-inducing you’re usually pretty safe and secure with your seat belt fastened. But on a Thomas Cook flight from Varadero Airport, Cuba, to Manchester Airport in the UK earlier this year, sudden unexpected severe turbulence caused two cabin crew members to suffer injuries — with one flight
Continue Reading J.J. Culver has accomplished something his brother, NBA player and former Texas Tech star Jarrett Culver, never did in college. J.J. Culver, who plays for Wayland Baptist University, became the second player in NAIA history to score at least 100 points in a game. The senior guard scored 100 in a 124-60 win over Southwestern
Continue Reading The meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US President Donald Trump on Tuesday was an “important moment,” but does not signal a thaw in relations between the two countries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday. “Of course this is an important moment — the very fact that the Russian minister was received by
Continue Reading Amazon’s play for the UK food delivery market is in doubt after Britain’s competition regulator said the company’s planned investment in Deliveroo could harm customers. The Competition and Markets Authority said in a statement Wednesday that the deal could reduce competition for online deliveries of restaurant meals and groceries. “There’s a real risk that it
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(CNN Español) — El exsecretario de Seguridad Pública de México Genaro García Luna fue procesado por el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos por tres cargos de conspiración para traficar cocaína y un cargo por realizar declaraciones falsas. Fue arrestado este lunes por agentes federales en Dallas, Texas. Según un comunicado del Departamento de Justicia
Continue Reading What’s wrong with this picture? Like the seemingly neglected art it captured, that’s up for debate. Bette Midler posed this question to Twitter, sharing an image of three young girls huddled on a bench in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. She knew the answer before she asked for it — their backs are turned
Continue Reading Tens of thousands of political ads went missing from Facebook’s archive this week, according to researchers, just days before voters go to the polls in the most important UK election for decades. A spokesperson for Facebook confirmed its library went down but could not say how many political ads disappeared. The problem affected several countries,
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President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are both looking ahead to the Senate impeachment trial, but there is a growing divide between the two over what that trial should look like, CNN has learned. In conversations with the White House, the Kentucky Republican has made clear he hopes to end the trial
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The chant goes up, “You dirty vegan b*****d, you’re eating our grass.” The abuse is directed at a player of fourth-tier English soccer club Forest Green Rovers. He is lying face down and motionless after he’d been on the wrong end of a challenge from a Walsall FC player in a League Two game last
Continue Reading (CNN) – Un jurado declaró este martes culpable a Bampumim Teixeira de homicidio en primer grado por los asesinatos de dos médicos en Boston, que fueron encontrados entre charcos de sangre dentro su penthouse en mayo de 2017. Teixeira, de 33 años y quien había trabajado como conserje en el edificio, fue condenado por apuñalar
Continue Reading Saudi Aramco shares increased 10% when they began trading on Wednesday, capping a stock market debut that shattered records but failed to achieve the $2 trillion valuation sought by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Saudi Arabia’s giant state-owned oil monopoly last week pulled off the biggest IPO in history, raising $25.6 billion by selling 1.5%
Continue Reading In Copenhagen, traffic is usually caused by the two-wheel variety of transportation: the bicycle. Ever since bicycles were imported into Denmark from France in 1869, they have become the main form of transportation in the Scandinavian city. In the 1920s, it wasn’t unusual to see both the working class as well as high society pedaling
Continue Reading When a Maryland real estate company handed out red envelopes to employees during the annual holiday party on Saturday, no one knew what to expect. So when the 198 employees of St. John Properties received surprise bonuses averaging $50,000, it was a holiday miracle most didn’t see coming. All the bonuses totaled around $10 million.
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. President Donald Trump wants the Federal Reserve to keep cutting interest rates. That looks unlikely — at least for now. Investors agree that the Fed, which announces its latest interest
Continue Reading Mohammad al-Shamrani has over 2,700 tweets under his name. While the alleged killer’s motivations remain a mystery, newly-obtained information about his social media presence offers clues about his mindset before his lethal shooting spree last week at a naval base in Pensacola, Florida. The Saudi Air Force officer was killed after shooting dead three US
Continue Reading The CEO position was more volatile than ever in 2019. A record number of chief executives left their positions this year, according to a report from career tracking firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. Nearly 1,500 CEOs departed their posts between January and November 2019 — a 12% increase compared to the same time period last
Continue Reading Make fun of them all you want, but Crocs and Post Malone’s latest collaboration sold out in under two hours Tuesday morning. This is the fourth design to emerge from the unlikely pair, with the previous three selling out in minutes, Crocs said in a release. Post Malone’s blend of country, grunge and hip-hop bleeds
Continue Reading Revelaron cargos de juicio político contra el presidente Trump. Firmaron un nuevo acuerdo comercial en Norteamérica. Además, las recomendaciones de la persona más joven en visitar todos los países del mundo. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. Suscríbete al newsletter 1. Formalizan acusación contra Trump por abuso de poder y obstrucción
Continue Reading There’s a high chance New Zealand’s White Island volcano could erupt again today, making it even harder for authorities to conduct rescue operations after this week’s eruption. 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
Continue Reading Barcelona forward Ansu Fati became the youngest scorer in the history of the UEFA Champions League after he netted a late winner in his side’s 2-1 victory over Inter Milan Tuesday. At just 17 years and 40 days old, Fati overtook Peter Ofori-Quaye as the competition’s youngest marksman after coming on as an 85th-minute substitute.
Continue Reading Washington (CNN) — Después de llegar a un acuerdo sobre la versión final del Tratado Estados Unidos-México-Canadá (conocido como T-MEC o USMCA, por sus siglas en inglés), el presidente Donald Trump tuiteó que “será el mejor y más importante acuerdo comercial jamás hecho por Estados Unidos”, y llamó a su predecesor, el Tratado de Libre
Continue Reading People out West wear cowboy hats all the time. But pigeons? Las Vegas residents spotted two of the birds around town in tiny cowboy hats this week. No one seems to know how the birds got the hats, but it worries a local bird rescue group. Mariah Hillman, co-founder of Lofty Hopes, a pigeon rescue,
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