CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. Obama returns to the spotlight with Chicago speech | | 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. |
Senate investigators chafe at pace of Russia probe | | Some Senate investigators are chafing at the pace of their investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and possible coordination with the campaign of President Donald Trump, three months after the Senate intelligence committee formally opened its probe. |
CNN anchor: Roger Ailes sexually harassed me | | For a long time Alisyn Camerota was reluctant to describe the dark side of working at Fox News. But on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday, she said, "Yes, Roger Ailes did sexually harass me." |
French president backs Macron | | France's defeated political establishment has begun to rally against the far-right leader Marine Le Pen as she goes head-to-head against political novice Emmanuel Macron in the final race for the French presidency. |
'Genius,' 'Z' series biographies aren't a bright idea | | In the 1990s, the lives of Albert Einstein, or Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, might have merited TV movies. Today, in an age of media abundance, both have been turned into 10-part series, with each demonstrating that not every subject is brilliant enough -- even Einstein's -- to merit such expansive treatment. |
Cillizza: The only measure of success Trump cares about | | For the decade-plus before he decided to run for office, Donald Trump was a reality TV star. And from that experience, Trump has drawn one, clear conclusion: Ratings are the only measure of success that mean anything in this world. |
The 100-day accomplishments Trump is touting | | President Donald Trump's 100th day in office comes Saturday, and despite his downplaying of the significance of the marker, his team is prepped and ready to tout his accomplishments. |
Trump fumes over early reviews | | President Donald Trump lives for superlatives -- he wants the biggest, the best, the greatest. So it's no surprise he's already fuming about uncomplimentary reviews of his first 100 days in office. |
4-year-old falls from moving bus | | A church bus driver will not face charges after a 4-year-old girl fell from his moving vehicle onto a busy roadway, police said Monday. |
'Feud' Season 2 will be 'a very different kind of feud' | | The story about a clash between two Hollywood heavyweights came to a close with Sunday's conclusion of "Feud" Season 1. And creator Ryan Murphy already has his sights set on next season, which will center on the ill-fatted marriage between Prince Charles and Princess Diana. |
Trump phones record-setting astronaut | | 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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