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CNN's Josh Campbell reports on the history the Highland Park shooting suspect had with police and his troubling social media posts leading up to the July 4th attack. #CNN #News
A food crisis looms in Ukraine as Russia continues to block Ukrainian grain exports, skyrocketing the price of grain to $400 per ton on the world market. President Volodymyr Zelensky calls this 'food terrorism.' CNN's Isa Soares reports. #CNN #News
Former Notre Dame basketball coach and NCAA champion Muffet McGraw joins CNN's Chris Wallace to discuss players getting paid to play college sports. #CNN #News
A giant blob of seaweed twice the width of the continental United States is headed for the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump smelly and possibly harmful piles across beaches and dampening tourism season.
Sargassum — the specific variety of seaweed — has long formed large blooms in the Atlantic Ocean, and scientists have been tracking massive accumulations since 2011. But this year’s bloom could be the largest ever, collectively spanning more than 5,000 miles (8,047 kilometers) from the shores of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico #Leylasantiago.#cnn #News
Former lawyer for President Donald Trump, Joe Tacopina, gave a statement to CNN about why Trump believes he will be arrested and says he has not been contacted by the Manhattan district attorney.
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In an interview with CNN's Manu Raju, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) defends his actions on the day of the January 6 insurrection. #CNN #News
CNN legal analyst Norman Eisen breaks down US Attorney General Merrick Garland's remarks on the status of the Department of Justice's criminal probe into January 6 and why it points to "severe legal peril" for former President Donald Trump. #CNN #News
The US and international community has accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine as Russian artillery has devastated Ukrainian cities and lives. But it has been difficult to associate specific generals to specific crimes, the key to actually carrying out war crimes prosecutions. In Kharkiv, CNN has seen the aftermath of attacks targeting civilians using indiscriminate cluster munitions -- a war crime. In a two-month-long investigation, CNN can reveal the commander responsible for these attacks. CNN's Nima Elbagir reports. #CNN #News
Michael Cohen, former attorney to ex-President Donald Trump, joins CNN's Don Lemon for his first TV interview since he testified in front of a New York grand jury as part of an investigation into hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. #CNN #News
CNN’s Steve Hall, who was the CIA chief of operations in Russia, discusses why it will be difficult to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin and bring him to justice. #PaulaReed #vladimirputin #cnnnewsroom
The US military's European Command has released footage of the encounter between a US surveillance drone and Russian fighter jets over the Black Sea. The newly declassified video depicts critical moments of the mid-air encounter, which the Pentagon said lasted 30-40 minutes. #CNN #News
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on suspicion of war crimes such as unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to Russia. CNN senior international correspondents Ivan Watson and David McKenzie report from Ukraine.
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CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig breaks down what Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis and the special grand jury will be looking for in their criminal probe of election meddling in the state's 2020 election. #CNN #News
David Perdue's candidacy for the Georgia governorship underscores the dilemma facing Republicans as they try to position themselves for the fall elections. Many candidates like Perdue are eager for the Trump endorsement, willing to repeat his false claims about 2020 in order to get the backing of his fervent supporters. Yet others say harping on the past is a recipe to trip up their chances at a time when the political environment is rich for the GOP. #CNN #News
CNN's Fred Pleitgen gets an inside look at one of NATO's largest gas fields to see the security system in place against potential Russian sabotage.
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CNN's Jamie Gangel reports that text messages between Fox host Sean Hannity and then White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on election day reveal that Hannity seemed to be be taking direction from Meadows. #CNN #News
Mikhail Khodarenok, a former Russian colonel, criticized Putin's invasion of Ukraine on state TV but backtracked and had a remarkably different tone later. CNN's Matthew Chance reports. #CNN #News
CNN's Paula Reid breaks down the Atlanta Journal-Constitution report that Fulton County investigators have an audio recording of a phone call that former President Donald Trump made to the Georgia House speaker to push for a special session to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's 2020 victory in the state. #CNN #News
A secret plan drawn up by Russia's security service, the FSB, lays out detailed options to destabilize Moldova -- including supporting pro-Russian groups, utilizing the Orthodox Church and threatening to cut off supplies of natural gas. CNN's Nic Robertson reports. #CNN #News
The FAA held an emergency safety summit following a number of airline near-collisions. Experts and officials weigh in. #CNN #News
New photos and a short video clip emerged on social media showing Russia's guided-missile cruiser, the Moskva, badly damaged and on fire in the hours before the ship sunk in the Black Sea. CNN's Phil Black and Matthew Chance report. #CNN #News
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared as a guest on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” To cheers and applause, Blinken said an independent, sovereign Ukraine will be around a lot longer than a Vladimir Putin. #CNN #News
Chinese scientists are examining a potential weakness in the US missile defense system. According to a Chinese study, a North Korean missile could reach the US in 33 minutes if the US fails to intercept it. CNN's Will Ripley reports. #CNN #News
The US military's European Command has released footage of the encounter between a US surveillance drone and Russian fighter jets over the Black Sea. The newly declassified video depicts critical moments of the mid-air encounter, which the Pentagon said lasted 30-40 minutes. #CNN #News
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed the state of the war in Ukraine after they attended the tenth meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. #CNN #News
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pokes fun at candidates using their devotion to Trump as a platform in the Ohio Republican Senate nomination. CNN's Abby Phillip hosts a panel discussing the race that will act as an early test of Trump's influence over the GOP in this year's midterm elections. #CNN #News
As Russia threatens a second capture of liberated Kupiansk, Ukraine, CNN's Melissa Bell talks to Ukrainian residents choosing to stay in their homes despite constant shelling. #CNN #News
Lt. General Ben Hodges (Ret.) weighs in on newly released footage from the US reaper drone taken down by a Russian fighter jet. #CNN #News
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said supporting Ukraine, in what he calls a “territorial dispute” with Russia, is not a vital US interest. CNN’s John King takes a look at contrasting statements DeSantis made in 2015 when he was a member of the House of Representatives.
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CNN's Manu Raju pressed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy about his decision to release footage from the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
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A panel on CNN Tonight discusses how the war in Ukraine has been framed by former Vice President Mike Pence and other Republicans and how that contrasts from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ take.
Ukrainian drone hunters are scanning the sky to spot and down Russian missiles. CNN's Melissa Bell reports from Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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CNN's Nic Robertson gained access to an enormous parking lot in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge where customs officials have impounded thousands of luxury cars parked by sanctions on Russia. #CNN #News
Attorney General Merrick Garland made his strongest comments yet about whether he'll charge former President Donald Trump saying that 'no person is above the law.' CNN's S.E. Cupp, John Avlon and Jeffrey Toobin discuss. #CNN #News
Silicon Valley Bank, the go-to bank for US tech startups, facing a sudden bank run and capital crisis, collapsed last week, leaving its high-powered customers and investors in limbo. It was taken over by federal regulators. It was the largest failure of a US bank since Washington Mutual in 2008. CNN’s Christine Romans reports. #CNN #News
From Fox News to Newsmax to OAN, conservative cable news hosts and their guests have continued to dismiss the January 6 committee hearings as political theater put on by Democrats. #CNN #News
Retired Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton says that if Ukraine doesn't take the opportunity to withdraw from a pocket near the key city of Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, they risk losing a large part of their military.
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Despite weeks of protests, the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, pushed two key elements of the sweeping judicial reform bill that limit the Israeli Supreme Court's power. CNN’s Richard Quest discusses this with Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron. #CNN #News
Russia has revealed that the goal of its invasion of Ukraine is to take "full control" over southern Ukraine as well as the eastern Donbas region. The announcement by a top military official marks the first time Russia admitted it was fighting to establish a land corridor through Ukrainian territory connecting Russia to Crimea, the peninsula it annexed in 2014. "Since the beginning of the second phase of the special operation, which began literally two days ago, one of the tasks of the Russian army is to establish full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine. This will provide a land corridor to Crimea," Maj. Gen. Rustam Minnekaev, the acting commander of Russia's Central Military District, said according to TASS, a Russian state news agency. #CNN #News
General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discusses the stakes of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the wider global implications with CNN's Jim Sciutto.
Why Russia's Ukraine aggression matters to Americans
by Zachary B. Wolf
Nobody knows for sure exactly what Vladimir Putin is doing with around 100,000 Russian troops parked near the Russia-Ukraine border, but it's making the US and Europe extremely nervous.
President Joe Biden said this week he expected the Russians would "move in" and that a slight incursion would be met differently than a full-on invasion.
The US has spent the past few days cleaning up that remark and making clear any type of invasion is unacceptable.
Asked in Geneva by a reporter if he thought, like Biden, that an invasion was likely, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov used some interesting language.
"Unless the United States doesn't go to bed with Ukraine, I don't think so," Lavrov said.
What does it mean for countries to 'go to bed'? All of this high-stakes geopolitical chess, then, comes down to how intimate the US gets with Ukraine in the eyes of Russia.
Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/22..../politics/russia-ukr
An important shift in Ukraine - and the US hopes more weapons will help
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20..../politics/us-ukraine
What does Putin want in Ukraine? The conflict explained
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24..../europe/ukraine-russ
ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl, author of "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show," describes conversations between senior Trump cabinet officials Mike Pompeo and Steve Mnuchin about invoking the 25th Amendment that ultimately fizzled out. #CNN #News
In the new video released by the Ukraine Armed Forces, cutting-edge, foreign-made drones are used to fight against Russian troops. A 'kamikaze' drone's point of view is shown moments before it strikes a Russian tank. CNN's Melissa Bell has more. #CNN #News
CNN exclusive reporting reveals that DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari first learned of missing Secret Service text messages in May 2021 -- months earlier than previously known and more than a year before he alerted the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021.
A federal Trump-appointed judge in Texas is considering a case that seeks to block the use of mifepristone, which is used for medical abortions, nationwide. CNN's Rosa Flores reports.
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CNN's Tom Foreman explains different trigger laws in different states and when and how they will go into effect. #CNN #News
CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman describes what she has heard about former President Donald Trump's consumption of the January 6 House select committee hearings in light of ex-Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone's testimony with the committee. #CNN #News
Then-President Donald Trump angrily demanded to go to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and berated his protective detail when he didn’t get his way, according to two Secret Service sources who say they heard about the incident from multiple agents, including the driver of the presidential SUV where it occurred. #cnn #News
Video from Fox shows FBI agents seizing the cell phone of former Trump election attorney John Eastman as part of the Justice department's investigation into the January 6 insurrection. Eastman says the warrant FBI agents used is "invalid on its face." CNN's Katelyn Polantz has more. #CNN #News
When a bipartisan group of lawmakers visited the Ukraine border in March, an unexpected guest showed up on the trip: GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana. Spartz, the first Ukrainian-born member of the US Congress and an outspoken advocate for her home country, had expressed interest in joining the congressional delegation but wasn't invited to attend the trip. So, she used her own funds to fly to the border of Ukraine in Poland and linked up with lawmakers once there to join in on some of their meetings, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. #CNN #News
CNN's chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin tells Anderson Cooper about the scale of the Department of Justice's January 6 criminal probe, and the significance of new subpoenas in the investigation. #CNN #News
