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Maeve Reston, CNN

Stark contrast between Trump and Biden on display in dueling town halls

    (CNN) — President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden weren’t on the same stage on Thursday night but two simultaneous town halls managed to clearly lay out the stark differences between the candidates. Trump and Biden were both forced to answer tough questions as the President vied for an elusive campaign reset while […]
3 years ago
Nathan Hrushkin and his dad Dion found the bones during a hike.
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David Williams, CNN

A 12-year-old found a 69 million-year-old dinosaur fossil while hiking with his dad

Nathan Hrushkin has wanted to be a paleontologist for as long as he can remember, and the 12-year-old has already made a significant discovery.
3 years ago
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Rachel Metz, CNN Business

Now you can hum to search Google for that song you can’t remember (but can’t forget)

If you've ever had a song stuck in your head but can't remember enough lyrics to search for it, Google has a solution: hum to search.
4 years ago
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 27: Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA.), delive...
Eric Bradner, CNN

Biden campaign halts Kamala Harris’ travel after two people in campaign’s orbit test positive for coronavirus

Joe Biden's campaign is halting the travel of his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, through this weekend after two people -- a flight crew member and Harris' communications director, Liz Allen -- tested positive for coronavirus.
4 years ago
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and her husband Jesse, right, arrive after a break to her c...
Paul LeBlanc, CNN

Witnesses set to clash over Barrett’s confirmation during final Judiciary Committee hearing

Witnesses are expected to offer competing arguments over the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court during the Senate Judiciary Committee's final hearing Thursday.
4 years ago
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Megan Marples, CNN

Covid-19 travel restrictions state by state

CNN has compiled a list of state-by-state travel restrictions within the United States.
4 years ago
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Ben Westcott, CNN

Chinese President Xi Jinping tells troops to focus on ‘preparing for war’

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on troops to "put all (their) minds and energy on preparing for war" in a visit to a military base in the southern province of Guangdong on Tuesday, according to state news agency Xinhua.
4 years ago
FILE: Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett listens during a confirmation hearing before the Sena...
Jeremy Herb, CNN

WATCH: Final day of questioning for Supreme Court nominee

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett returns to Capitol Hill for a third day of confirmation hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
4 years ago
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Betsy Klein, CNN

Trump and Biden will participate in competing town halls on Thursday night after cancellation of second debate

Trump and Biden will participate in competing televised town halls on the night they were originally scheduled to debate.
4 years ago
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Lilit Marcus, CNN

Machu Picchu reopens for a single tourist who’s been stranded in Peru for seven months

Like many travelers around the world, Jesse Katayama found his dream trip thwarted by the spread of Covid-19. But after an unexpected seven month stay in Peru, Katayama is finally crossing "visit Machu Picchu" off of his bucket list -- and he got to enjoy being the only tourist there.
4 years ago
The Expedition 64 crew members (from left) NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhiko...
Ashley Strickland, CNN

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is ready for a 2nd ‘bucket list’ trip to the space station

Just a few weeks ahead of the 20th anniversary of a continuous human presence in space, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov are scheduled to launch for a stay on the International Space Station.
4 years ago
Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson, both professors at Stanford University, received the Nobel Pr...
Theresa Waldrop, CNN

Knock on the door late at night was a professor’s Nobel co-winner notifying him of their win

It was the middle of the night in California when the Nobel Committee tried to reach Paul Milgrom to tell him the good news: He had won the Nobel Prize in economics.
4 years ago
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READ: Amy Coney Barrett’s opening statement to Senate Judiciary Committee

Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are set to begin Monday. Read a copy of her opening statement, as prepared for delivery, released Sunday in advance of the hearing
4 years ago
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Mallika Kallingal, CNN

Shaquille O’Neal: ‘I voted for the first time, and it feels good’

Shaquille O'Neal says he may get "roasted" for admitting it, but the towering former NBA star had something to confess this week.
4 years ago
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Dan Merica and Kevin Bohn, CNN

Commission cancels second debate between Trump and Biden

The Commission on Presidential Debates on Friday canceled the second debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden after the President declined to do a virtual debate.
4 years ago
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 11: Paris Hilton attends the 2019 WWD Beauty Inc Awards at The Rainbo...
Marianne Garvey, CNN

How the director of ‘This Is Paris’ reintroduced Paris Hilton to the world

The director of the Paris Hilton documentary, "This Is Paris," says that before making the eye-opening film about the heiress and entrepreneur, she, like most people, had misunderstood Hilton for decades.
4 years ago
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Giulia Heyward and Saeed Ahmed, CNN

Up to 1,500 birds may have flown into Philadelphia skyscrapers — in a single day

The only word Stephen Maciejewski can use to describe the event is traumatic. It should have been a routine morning for Maciejewski, the 71-year-old Audubon Pennsylvania volunteer.
4 years ago
'Leif Erikson Discovers America' by Hans Dahl (1849-1937) 

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Lisa Respers France, CNN

Leif Erikson Day and historical facts that just aren’t true

October 9 is Leif Erickson Day, but don't go grabbing that horned hat to wear just yet. The day celebrates the 11th-century Norse explorer who is credited with sailing to New Foundland and settling Vinland hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus ventured forth.
4 years ago
The truck is cranberry colored and had a large stock of Ocean Spray juice in the bed.
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Lauren M. Johnson, CNN

Ocean Spray surprises Tik Tok star with a new cranberry-colored truck

Ocean Spray is giving back after a TikTok video featuring one of their products exploded online.
4 years ago
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Scottie Andrew, CNN

Fat Bear Week 2020 crowns its big winner

After gorging on salmon all summer and fall, one Alaskan brown bear is the fattest of all and been crowned the winner of Fat Bear Week.
4 years ago
McDonald's is adding new bakery items for the first time in a nearly a decade as the breakfast wars...
Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business

McDonald’s adds new bakery items for the first time in almost a decade

McDonald's is adding new bakery items for the first time in a nearly a decade as the breakfast wars heat up during the pandemic.
4 years ago
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Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Business

Ad attacking Mark Zuckerberg to air during VP debate

A television ad attacking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for his company's handling of hate and misinformation will air during Wednesday's vice presidential debate coverage.
4 years ago
Caribbean reopening St. Barth. Photo courtesy - Brekke Fletcher, CNN...
Forrest Brown and Brekke Fletcher, CNN

Find out which countries are welcoming US tourists back

With US coronavirus cases around the 7.4 million mark, many nations continue to view America with trepidation. The European Union has omitted the United States from its list of countries whose tourists may visit. Americans still can't vacation in their neighbor to the north, Canada, nor head to many Asian favorites such as Japan.
4 years ago
Because of the pandemic, Karen Krishnapriyan and her husband held a small in-person wedding in Augu...
Rachel Metz, CNN Business

Forget Zoom: You can do meetings on a website that looks like a retro video game

On August 15, friends and family members from all over the world gathered in a church and reception hall to celebrate the wedding of Karen Dowling and Raghav Krishnapriyan.
4 years ago