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| He's back: Obama returns to public stage | | Former President Barack Obama will deliver the first public remarks of his post-presidency here in his adopted hometown of Chicago on Monday, three months after handing off the baton to President Donald Trump. |
| Can Le Pen actually win? | | No sooner had Marine Le Pen taken to the stage to greet her adoring supporters than the rest of the French political system was already moving against her. |
| WH, Capitol Hill scramble for deal to avert shutdown | | Fights over money to pay for a border wall -- as well as Obamacare subsidies and an infusion of resources for the military -- are threatening to trip up congressional talks over a funding bill to head off a government shutdown Friday. |
| Star of DiCaprio film wins prestigious award | | He has been beaten, threatened and imprisoned. But the former child soldier and winner of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize says he will not stop until those wanting to destroy the Democratic Republic of Congo's protected wildlife "are held responsible for their actions." |
| T.I. speaks out on police brutality | | CNN caught up with Tip "T.I." Harris at the SXSW festival last month, where the Grammy-winning rapper and actor premiered his latest passion project, "Us or Else" — a short film that examines the relationship between police and the black community. |
| Cillizza: Welcome to Trump's big week | | A series of legislative and symbolic deadlines come to a head this week in Washington amid a slew of polling that suggests President Donald Trump is historically unpopular at this early moment in his White House. |
| Opinion: The hero on the flight | | Video evidence has emerged of an American Airlines incident in which an unidentified male passenger confronts a male flight attendant, warning him "You do that to me, and I'll knock you flat." The flight attendant rushes right back at the passenger and responds with "Hit me. Bring it on." This chest-bumping came shortly after that same flight attendant apparently had a confrontation with a female passenger holding a baby and yanked a baby stroller away from her. |
| The next great health innovations for kids | | What medical advancements could save the lives of our children in the future? That's the question members of the American Academy of Pediatrics asked themselves. Their answers were published last week in the journal Pediatrics. |
| Sanders backs anti-abortion candidate | | Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday stood by his decision to back a Democratic candidate whose record on abortion has drawn fire from many in the party. |
| Would more female cops make us safer? | | Vera Bumpers, the first female chief and first African-American chief of Houston's Metro Police Department, remembers one of the first calls she went on shortly after joining the force right out of college. |
| 100 days in, Democrats' biggest asset is Trump | | The messaging woes with rural, white Americans, the hurt feelings over a bitter primary, the lagging national party infrastructure, the Republican-dominated statehouses decimating unions and limiting voting access -- all of the challenges that doomed Democrats in 2016's election still exist. |
| NYC's first Girl Scout troop for homeless girls | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 10:11 PM | |
| The members of Girl Scout Troop 6000 are just like any other girls. They go on trips, draw, sing and dance and sell those famous cookies. But their connection goes beyond Tagalongs and Thin Mints. |
| NYT: Trump relies on Hannity, Murdoch | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:17 PM | |
| The New York Times reports that President Trump seeks outside counsel from Fox News CEO Rupert Murdoch and host Sean Hannity. |
| Sessions: The border wall will be funded | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:15 PM | |
| Attorney Gen. Sessions says the border wall between the US and Mexico will get funding "one way or the other," despite a looming budget battle in Congress. |
| Kelly: If N. Korea gets missile, US at risk | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 8:17 PM | |
| DHS Secretary John Kelly warns that North Korea could put a nuclear weapon on a missile that could reach the US before President Trump's second term in office. |
| Why Putin and Trump both like Le Pen | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 5:59 PM | |
| On one hand, Donald Trump's praise of France's far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who appears to have received enough votes in Sunday's election to advance to the May 7 runoff, is not surprising. Le Pen, like Trump, ran a campaign that was anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and traded on white supremacist themes. (It's no coincidence that former Klan leader David Duke has publicly praised both Le Pen and Trump.) |
| A refugee ship and the Holocaust's start | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 5:03 PM | |
| Monday is Yom Hashoah, the day designated in 1953 by the State of Israel to commemorate the murder of millions of Jews during the Second World War. Selected to mark the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, this day is meant to impart a lesson: Jews should be remembered not only for dying in the Holocaust, but for fighting for their lives as well. |
| Hash brown recall due to possible golf balls | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 4:41 PM | |
| You have an early-morning golf match. You make coffee and contemplate the optimal breakfast to help you hit the ball straighter and calm those first-tee jitters. |
| Four-year-old falls out of moving bus | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 4:39 PM | |
| It's a scene that would make any parent shudder -- a 4-year-old girl tumbles out of the back of a moving bus in the middle of a busy highway. |
| CNN anchor: Ailes sexually harassed me | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 11:23 AM | |
| In an interview on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Camerota said publicly for the first time that she was one of Ailes' targets. |
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