| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Obama returns to public life | | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| US to North Korea: Stop provocation | | With tensions rising between the US and North Korea, the Pentagon on Sunday called for the isolated communist nation to avoid destabilizing the situation further. |
| She just set a space duration record | | President Donald Trump, his daughter, Ivanka, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will call NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson from the Oval Office on Monday to congratulate Whitson on her record-breaking stay on the International Space Station. |
| The next great medical 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. |
| Surgeon general resigns | | Surgeon General Vivek Murthy was asked to resign by the White House on Friday after assisting in the transition to the Trump administration. |
| 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. |
| Farewell Kate O'Beirne | | The political world lost a legend this weekend. Kate O'Beirne, longtime Washington editor of National Review and longtime panelist on CNN's "Capital Gang" passed away Sunday of cancer. |
| Star of DiCaprio film wins prestigious award | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 11:47 PM | |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| This gold box is 'better than Facebook' | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 3:05 PM | |
| Thousands of commuters buzz by it; dozens more see it from the Starbucks line less than 100 feet away. But only a few enter this gold box in the middle of downtown Los Angeles' Grand Park. |
| Relieve the suffering people of Venezuela | | Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:47 AM | |
| Tens of thousands of Venezuelans who have reached a breaking point over the country's humanitarian and political crisis poured into the streets all over the country on Wednesday. They demanded that the government let aid enter Venezuela to help the many people who are desperate for food and medicine. They demanded that the government hold elections, free political prisoners, and reestablish judicial independence and the powers of the National Assembly. |
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