Gov. Gavin Newsom commutes sentences of all California death row prisoners to life in prison without parole
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports that a White House official is placing blame on President Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidates for losses in the midterm elections.
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Soccer player Jesús de Miguel has died after an on-field collision during a Spanish second-division match on Monday, his club CD Tenerife has said.
A federal judge opened a formal investigation into whether Justice Department attorneys and others within the Trump administration misrepresented the president’s plans to renovate a golf course in Washington, DC, ratcheting up a dramatic showdown between the White House and the courts.
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The federal judge overseeing the new case against former FBI Director James Comey is now set to decide whether placeholder charges can survive as prosecutors attempt to get an indictment from a Washington, DC, grand jury.
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A federal judge was skeptical of the Trump administration's urgency to rush construction of a controversial 250-foot triumphal arch that the president wants to begin next week.
The US State Department approved the potential sale of 500 Patriot air defense interceptor missiles to Ukraine, according to a department release.
Wall Street suffered a steep day of losses Friday after the latest tech earnings reignited concerns that massive spending on AI may not deliver the returns that investors expect.
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An appeals court has rejected a Trump administration lawsuit demanding that California set aside the ballots of thousands of people it claimed could be noncitizens, setting up a possible Supreme Court showdown.
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A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of intentionally ramming his car into a Mexican construction worker in Houston was charged Friday with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, prosecutors said.
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Christa Pike makes first public comments since surviving botched execution: "There hasn't been a moment since that night when I haven't been in pain"
Pope Leo XIV has submitted a mail-in ballot for the US midterms, becoming the first pope to vote in a US election and likely the first to vote in a secular democratic election.
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Elon Musk has plowed nearly half a billion dollars into elections in the 2026 cycle, a spending spree that makes him the single, largest disclosed donor in modern American politics and one of the Republican Party's largest-ever benefactors.
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For decades, many Palestinian citizens of Israel stayed away from the polls. But this time felt different: after four years under the most right-wing government in Israel's history, hundreds of thousands of Arab voters decided they could not afford to sit on the sidelines.
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Hackers stole over $6 billion in cryptocurrency on Thursday, shattering the record for the largest such heist as multiple investigators pointed the finger at North Korea. CNN has reached out to North Korea's mission at the UN for comment. Pyongyang has previously denied hacking allegations.
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An attempt by murderer Erin Patterson, who killed three people with a meal of toxic mushrooms, to overturn her conviction has failed, with an appeals court finding that her original sentence was too light for her "cold and calculated" crimes.
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Three people are dead after two helicopters collided midair near an airport in northwest Oregon, according to the Yamhill County sheriff.
An Egyptian man faces an additional life sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to federal hate crime and other charges for a deadly firebombing attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, last year.
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Israel faces weeks, possibly months, of political limbo after final results show there's no clear winner in its elections.
Here are several scenarios where party leaders could build a coalition to form a government:
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