Editor’s Note: Seek advice from a health care provider prior to starting a workout program. CNN — If you are a man or woman approaching 50, look down at your middle. If you’re like many people, you might have to lean over a bit to see your feet. Yes, it’s …
Read More »Brandon Tsay: The man who wrestled a gun from California shooting suspect at Alhambra dance hall thought he was going to die: ‘This was it,’ he said
CNN — It was late in the evening Saturday when Brandon Tsay heard the “distinct sound of metal” in the lobby of Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio, a dance hall in Alhambra, California, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday evening. Tsay, whose family had owned the business for three generations, …
Read More »Tyre Nichols’ family attorney says video shows police beating Nichols like a ‘human pinata’
CNN — Attorneys for the family of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died after a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, said video footage shows the cops’ “non-stop beating” of Nichols. “He was defenseless the entire time. He was a human piñata for those police officers. It was an unadulterated, …
Read More »McConnell plans backseat role as McCarthy battles White House over debt ceiling
CNN — Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell has engineered ways out of a devastating debt default in the past. This time may be different – at least for now. Facing the riskiest debt ceiling standoff in a dozen years, Senate Republican leaders are planning to take a backseat role and …
Read More »Pandemic unemployment benefits fraud likely tops $60 billing. House GOP to start investigating next week
CNN — More than $60 billion may have been paid out in fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report released Monday by the US Government Accountability Office. The watchdog agency, however, warned that the estimate has limitations and should be interpreted with caution. The actual …
Read More »Blue Ivy takes stage with mom Beyoncé in Dubai
CNN — Talent runs deep in the Carter family. Beyoncé took to the stage for the opening of the Atlantis resort in Dubai over the weekend and was joined on stage by daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, 11, for a performance of “Brown Skin Girl.” Beyoncé also performed some of her …
Read More »Charles McGonigal: Former high-level FBI official charged in alleged schemes to help sanctioned Russian oligarch and conceal payments from ex-Albanian intelligence employee
New York CNN — The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office was charged in two separate indictments Monday for allegedly working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch after he retired and concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars he received from a former employee of an Albanian …
Read More »Winter is more than halfway over, and many Northeast cities still await their first snow day
Editor’s Note: A version of this article originally appeared in the weekly weather newsletter, the CNN Weather Brief, which is released every Monday. You can sign up here to receive them every week and during significant storms. CNN — While the western US has been piling up snowfall over the …
Read More »Iran’s regime is trying to execute its way out of trouble
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in today’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, CNN’s three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Istanbul, London and New York CNN — The cries of the women outside a Tehran courthouse swell to a collective wail. The gathering …
Read More »Ruben Gallego announces Senate bid in challenge to Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona
CNN — Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona on Monday announced his campaign for US Senate, setting up a potential 2024 clash with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who recently switched her party affiliation from Democrat to independent. Gallego, a Phoenix-area congressman and retired Marine who served in Iraq, released a video …
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