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Month: January 2023

Court releases video of attack on Paul Pelosi

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Jack Hannah and Jack Forrest, CNN The San Francisco Superior Court on Friday released video and audio recorded during last year’s attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, including police body-cam footage depicting the moment of the attack and the alleged assailant’s police interview where he admitted he wanted to hold

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2 inmates, including a murderer convicted of double homicide, are captured after escaping from Virginia prison

By Rebekah Riess, CNN Two inmates who had escaped from a Virginia jail were captured after authorities found them hiding in a Tennessee barn, officials said. Officers apprehended Johnny Shane Brown and Albert Lee Ricketson on Friday in Rogersville, Tennessee, after the pair escaped from the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority in Abingdon a day

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Exclusive: Supreme Court did not disclose financial relationship with expert brought in to review leak probe

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst The Supreme Court did not disclose its longstanding financial ties with former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff even as it touted him as an expert who independently validated its investigation into who leaked the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. The court’s inquiry, released last week with

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British teenager who made far-right hate videos ‘influencing’ Buffalo shooter jailed for 11 years

Despite recent mass shootings in California, Buffalo, Uvalde, and Tulsa, Americans are pessimistic that new gun safety laws will pass Congress because of partisan polarization. But even in the mythical gun-loving wild west, sheriffs wouldn’t allow guns into town. David Yamane, a gun-owning sociologist, discusses with Reality Check’s John Avlon the disconnect between gun mythology in America and its gun culture today.

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Justice Department announces new arrests in plot to kill New York-based journalist directed from Iran

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department announced new arrests Friday in a plot to kill a New York-based journalist and human rights activist who is critical of the Iranian government. The three men charged, who are allegedly part of an Eastern European criminal organization with ties to Iran, are facing murder-for-hire and money laundering

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Tyre Nichols’ mother says Memphis officers ‘brought shame’ to their families and the Black community

By Zoe Sottile, CNN RowVaughn Wells, whose 29-year-old son Tyre Nichols died from injuries sustained during a police traffic stop in Memphis earlier this month, says that the officers involved have “brought shame to their own families” and “brought shame to the Black community.” Wells spoke with CNN’s Don Lemon on Friday morning in her

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Biden formally announces Ron Klain is stepping down as White House chief of staff and will be replaced by Jeff Zients

By Allie Malloy, CNN President Joe Biden announced White House chief of staff Ron Klain will step down next week and will be replaced by Jeff Zients, the former Obama administration official who ran Biden’s Covid-19 response operation. Biden said there will be an “official transition” event at the White House next week to “thank

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Southwest Airlines is testing a software fix after the travel meltdown

Southwest Airlines is testing software fixes developed after its Christmas travel meltdown. The airline is choosing to upgrade its current crew scheduling software rather than replacing the entire system. The company decided to keep the underlying software system because it “generally worked as designed” even during the meltdown, CEO Bob Jordan said. The software’s shortcoming,

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‘A war of attrition’: Humans and extreme drought damaging Amazon rainforest much more than thought, study suggests

By Laura Paddison, CNN Human activity and extreme drought is causing far more damage to the Amazon rainforest than previously thought, exacerbating climate change, according to a new study. While many climate studies focus on Amazon deforestation — where trees are completely cleared and land use changes — this study looks at “degradation.” This is

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