Durbin on impending debt ceiling deadline: ‘We’re gonna get this done’
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin warns CNN’s Dana Bash of the potential economic repercussions if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell applies the…
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AP: States and cities slow to spend federal pandemic money
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Many states and cities across the U.S. are getting off to a slow start in spending money from this year’s…
Continue Reading Israel enlists army, security agency to halt Arab crime wave
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government says it is enlisting the military and the Shin Bet internal security agency as it tries to rein in a wave…
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Navajo Nation reports no COVID-19 deaths for 3rd day in row
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation has reported 35 more COVID-19 cases, but no additional deaths for the third consecutive day. The latest…
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‘SNL’s’ new Joe Biden hilariously tries to unite Democrats
“Saturday Night Live” opened its 47th season with new cast member James Austin Johnson taking on the role of President Joe…
Continue Reading Rep. Pramila Jayapal: $1.5 trillion for economic bill ‘not going to happen’
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) says the $1.5 trillion price tag for a social safety net bill — that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) says is his limit — is too…
Continue Reading French military aircraft banned from Algerian airspace amid diplomatic row
By Martin Goillandeau, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Sam Bradpiece, CNN The French military says its planes have been banned from Algerian airspace amid a…
Continue Reading Survivors of 2013 shipwreck honor dead on Italian island
LAMPEDUSA, Sicily (AP) — Survivors of a 2013 capsizing have joined residents of a tiny Italian isle to honor 368 migrants who perished on the…
Continue Reading Former Marseille president, businessman Bernard Tapie dies
By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writers PARIS (AP) — Bernard Tapie, the charismatic president of French soccer club Marseille…
Continue Reading AP: States and cities slow to spend federal pandemic money
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Many states and cities across the U.S. are getting off to a slow start in spending money from this year’s…
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AP: States and cities slow to spend federal pandemic money
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Many states and cities across the U.S. are getting off to a slow start in spending money from this year’s…
Continue Reading Syria’s Assad calls Jordan’s king amid thaw in relations
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s King Abdullah II has received a call from Syrian President Bashar Assad. Sunday’s call is the first between…
Continue Reading Up to 3,200 pedophiles worked in French Catholic Church since 1950, independent commission says
By Simon Bouvier, Saskya Vandoorne and Sam Bradpiece, CNN Between 2,900 and 3,200 pedophile clergymen have worked in the French Catholic Church since…
Continue Reading Rep. Pramila Jayapal: $1.5 trillion for economic bill is ‘too small’ and ‘not going to happen’
By Chandelis Duster and Daniella Diaz, CNN House Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal said Sunday that the $1.5 trillion figure for the economic…
Continue Reading Democrats see political peril in replacing Minneapolis PD
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A proposal on the Minneapolis ballot about the future of policing in the city where George…
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Poland: police confiscate journalist’s computer equipment
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in Poland have confiscated the computer equipment of a journalist working for a…
Continue Reading Poland: police confiscate journalist’s computer equipment
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in Poland have confiscated the computer equipment of a journalist working for a…
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11 people rescued after boat overturns in Seattle
By Alta Spells, CNN Eleven people were rescued after their boat overturned near downtown Seattle on Saturday night, the Seattle Fire Department said.…
Continue Reading ‘SNL’ pokes fun at school board meeting chaos
“Saturday Night Live” returned to the airwaves and parodied some of the chaos at school board meetings seen across the United States as students…
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ABC-7 StormTRACK Weather: Sunny Sunday, warming trend
Good Sunday morning. Today will be a lot like yesterday with sunny skies and no rain chances. The only difference is that it’ll be a few degrees…
Continue Reading Start your week smart: Nobel Prize … Women’s March … Coronavirus … Afghanistan … Miya Marcano
By Faith Karimi, CNN A California couple visiting an Arkansas state park found a 4.38-carat diamond on the ground. “I didn’t know it was…
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Rennes beats PSG 2-0 to hand league leader its 1st defeat
By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Rennes scored just before and after the break to beat Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 and hand the runaway…
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Chicago residents are fighting to save Navy Pier’s Crystal Gardens, one of the city’s only indoor green spaces
By Alaa Elassar, CNN Celine Wysgalla remembers the first time she stepped foot into Crystal Gardens as a 5-year-old, her tiny body overshadowed by…
Continue Reading US raises concern as China flies warplanes south of Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The Chinese military flew 16 warplanes over waters south of Taiwan on Sunday as the United States expressed concern about…
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Plane crashes into building near Milan; all 8 aboard die
ROME (AP) — A small private plane has crashed into a vacant office building in a Milan suburb. A prosecutor said all eight people aboard were…
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Man dies after falling while subway surfing in New York
By Alaa Elassar and Maya Brown, CNN A man in New York City died early Saturday morning while subway surfing on top of the J-train on the Williamsburg…
Continue Reading Pope calls for more humane prison life after Ecuador deaths
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has called for “more humane” prison life in the wake of bloodshed in a prison in Ecuador in which 118 people…
Continue Reading New Zealand says foreign nationals must have coronavirus vaccination to enter country from November
By Hira Humayun, Wayne Chang and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN All foreign nationals entering New Zealand will need to be fully vaccinated from November 1,…
Continue Reading How America ruined Christmas
By Allison Morrow, CNN Business The supply chain nightmare that’s been plaguing the global economy for over a year is about to snarl the…
Continue Reading The winner of Saturday’s $635 million Powerball jackpot is… nobody
By Carma Hassan, CNN Saturday’s estimated $635 million Powerball drawing resulted in no winner, an official with the Multi-State Lottery…
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