CNN By Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden is going to provide a status update on the ongoing situation in Ukraine at 3:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, according to the White House. Russia has amassed more than 130,000 troops near Ukraine’s border in recent weeks, according to US estimates, raising fears from Western and Ukrainian intelligence
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle and Eric Levenson, CNN Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre have reached an out-of-court settlement in her sexual abuse lawsuit against him, according to a court document filed by her attorneys Tuesday. The parties anticipate filing a stipulation of dismissal of the case within 30 days, according to the letter addressed to
Continue Reading By Sarah Jorgensen, Jason Hanna and Erica Hill, CNN The families of five children and four adults killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have reached a $73 million settlement with the now-bankrupt gun manufacturer Remington and its four insurers, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said Tuesday. The settlement comes more than seven years after
Continue Reading By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Canadian authorities made headway over the weekend against protesting truck drivers and others who have been blocking US border crossings and occupying parts of the country’s capital in opposition to Covid-19 rules. The “Freedom Convoy” protests began in late January over Canada’s new vaccine mandate for truckers entering the country from
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By Rachel Janfaza, CNN Monday marks four years since the deadly shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, and the nation remains plagued by the gun violence that the students-turned-activists who were in the building that day pledged to fight. In honor of the anniversary, those activists are hoping to pile
Continue Reading New and growing anti-vax protests, inspired by the Freedom Convoy, are threatening trade in the US and other countries — even as officials say they’re reopening Ambassador Bridge between the US and Canada.
Continue Reading By Peter Nickeas, CNN The shooting death of Amir Locke by a Minneapolis SWAT officer serving a no-knock warrant during a homicide investigation last week has prompted calls for an end to the practice of serving high-risk warrants on homes without giving occupants a chance to open the door. There’s growing consensus among policing leaders
Continue Reading CNN, U.S. ARMY, THE WHITE HOUSE, POLAND MINISTRY OF DEFENSE, RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE, TRAVEL.STATE.GOV, VGTRK, POOL By Kylie Atwood, CNN The United States has ordered the evacuation of most of its embassy staff in Ukraine as fears mount that a Russian invasion of the country could take place in the next few days. A
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators have put the brakes on their push to speed Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to children under 5. Friday’s move means another monthslong delay for the shots. The Food and Drug Administration had urged Pfizer to apply before its study was even finished on
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, Caroll Alvarado and Jenn Selva, CNN A woman was fatally shot and nine police officers were injured early Friday in a Phoenix suburb, police said. The nine officers are among 15 law enforcement officers injured in separate shootings across the US in the last 24 hours, according to a CNN tally. “Enough
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that a Russian invasion of Ukraine “could begin at any time” and the United States continues “to see very troubling signs of Russian escalation, including new forces arriving at the Ukrainian border.” The top US diplomat made the comments alongside his counterparts from
Continue Reading CNN By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Prices keep rising, and Americans are growing concerned that Washington’s policies won’t do much about them. An early look at consumer sentiment in February shows just that. Sentiment dropped more than economists expected between the first two months of the year, reaching the worst level in a decade at
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak and Natasha Bertrand, CNN President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday allowing $7 billion in frozen assets from Afghanistan’s central bank to eventually be distributed inside the country and to potentially fund litigation brought by families of victims of the September 11 terror attacks, senior administration officials confirmed Friday. The funds,
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CNN By Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration is “very closely” monitoring the protests by truckers at US-Canada border crossings in which standoffs have emerged over vaccine mandates and other issues, threatening supply chains and other major disruptions, a White House official told CNN. “We know that a number of companies and industries are seeing
Continue Reading By Allie Malloy and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday acknowledged the stress on American families’ budgets after a key inflation report showed annual inflation has hit 7.5%. However, Biden claimed, “there are also signs that we will make it through this challenge.” “On higher prices, we have been using every tool at
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Bob Saget, who was found dead in his Orlando, Florida hotel room last month, died from the result of a head trauma, according to a statement from his family. “The authorities have determined that Bob passed from head trauma. They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Another beachfront home in North Carolina collapsed into the ocean, officials with the National Park Service said Wednesday, as tides get higher and rising sea levels eat away at the coast. High tides in Rodanthe, where the home was located, have been slightly higher than normal over the past couple of
Continue Reading By Karol Suarez, CNN Fifteen people have died and four are missing following a landslide in Colombia, the country’s disaster management agency said Wednesday, with search efforts set to continue. The landslide hit the western city of Pereira on Tuesday morning, according to Colombia’s National Unit for Disaster Risk Management. Thirty-five people were injured, the
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By BEN FOX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A strained Border Patrol is getting increased attention from the Biden administration. Tense meetings have taken place between senior officials and the rank-and-file as the agency deals with the largest influx of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in decades. The Department of Homeland Security plans a series
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By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Sesame Street theme park is set to open next month in San Diego. Officials on Wednesday announced the opening of the first Sesame Street theme park on the West Coast. It will feature Big Bird’s Beach, Oscar’s Rotten Rafts, and a Cookie-Monster Tower, among other
Continue Reading By Geneva Sands, CNN Law enforcement is on high alert ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl and remains concerned about the sustained interest that international and domestic terrorists, as well as lone offenders have in targeting mass gatherings, according to a joint threat assessment obtained by CNN. But the multiple federal, state and local agencies that
Continue Reading By Allegra Goodwin, CNN A man arrested on suspicion of raping a woman on a United Airlines flight to London Heathrow Airport has been released under investigation. Police at Heathrow were alerted to “an incident on inbound flight,” at 6.39 a.m. local time (1.39 a.m. ET) on January 31, London’s Metropolitan Police told CNN on
Continue Reading By Hada Messia, Sharon Braithwaite and Hannah Ryan, CNN The body of a 70-year-old woman has been found in her house in northern Italy, two years after her death. Marinella Beretta lived alone near Lake Como in Lombardy. Her decomposed body was discovered on Friday by the Como fire brigade following complaints that a tree
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EL PASO, Texas – Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, (TX-16), witnessed the swearing-in ceremony of Gabe Camarillo as the 36th Under Secretary of the United States Army at the Pentagon. The Congresswoman and Camarillo met before the ceremony to discuss priorities for El Paso and Fort Bliss. Those topics include infrastructure, modernization, opportunities for economic development and
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By Tami Luhby, CNN Many parents may not be so happy when they file their tax returns this year. They could discover they’re getting smaller refunds than they usually do. That’s because more than 36 million families already received half of their enhanced child tax credit in monthly payments during 2021. “One thing that likely
Continue Reading By Richard Allen Greene and Hada Messia, CNN Pope Benedict XVI has pushed back against accusations that he knew in 1980 that a priest under his control was an abuser, while denying he had intentionally concealed his presence at a meeting about the priest that year. Benedict, now 94, became the first Pope in centuries
Continue Reading By Corinne Dorsey, Liz Stark and Marnie Hunter, CNN Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on CNN on Monday that “we need to take a look at” placing unruly passengers on a federal no-fly list as pressure mounts on the Biden administration to continue to address rising violence on airplanes. “I think we need to take
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, CNN The White House maintained its adherence to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance encouraging mask usage in schools Monday as some states take steps toward lifting mask mandates in the classroom. The CDC recommends that those who are vaccinated should “wear a mask indoors in public if you are
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy and Paul P. Murphy, CNN One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting at a grocery store in the southern Washington city of Richland, authorities said Monday. Richland Police Cmdr. Chris Lee said the suspect and the man who died had a conversation before the shooting inside the Fred
Continue Reading By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN An imaginative boy who loves comic books now has a graphic novel of his own on the shelves of his local library. Dillon Helbig, 8, wrote a Christmas book and snuck it into the library’s stacks in Boise, Idaho, his family said. When a librarian saw it, the staff decided to
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