Ukraine says it thwarted a plot to overthrow the government (edition.cnn.com)
Boeing will get a ‘sweetheart’ plea deal, says lawyer representing 737 Max crash victims (edition.cnn.com)
US sends land-attack missile system to Philippines for exercises in apparent message to China (edition.cnn.com)
After unilaterally withdrawing from the INF treaty in 2019, US is the first country to develop and now deploy weapons prohibited under the treaty in the Philippines this year. It’s now clear the US sought to withdraw so it could develop and deploy prohibited weapons against China.
IRS plans to make its free tax filing program permanent (edition.cnn.com)
Italian animation company agrees to $538,000 penalty for ‘apparent violations’ of US sanctions on North Korea (edition.cnn.com)
Children are dying of starvation in their parents’ arms as famine spreads through Gaza | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Federal judge rejects $30 billion settlement between Visa, Mastercard and retailers | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Synagogue in Russia’s Dagestan on fire as gun attack leaves at least one police officer dead | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
The synagogue is now on fire with large flames and plumes of smoke billowing heavily out of a series of windows on at least one floor of the structure....
NASA has again delayed Boeing Starliner’s return to Earth (edition.cnn.com)
US signals that it has expanded policy to allow Ukraine to counterstrike into Russia (edition.cnn.com)
Airbnb undermined team that removed extremist users, whistleblower claims | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Jess Hernandez worked full-time as an investigations analyst for Airbnb’s dangerous organizations team from May 2022 to November 2023, researching extremist networks as part of the company’s work to keep dangerous individuals off the platform. But she says she was terminated in November 2023, shortly after her team was...
Attorneys reach deal that could allow some Dali crew members to fly home after months stuck onboard, court filings say (edition.cnn.com)
After 12 weeks stuck aboard a cargo ship that lost power and crushed a famed Baltimore bridge, some of the vessel’s 21 crew members could soon return to their families halfway around the world....
Bannon vows Trump’s opponents will be prosecuted in a second term | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, vowed investigations and prosecutions of those who have probed the former president and his political allies, declaring at a conservative gathering Saturday that Inauguration Day in 2025 will be “accountability day.”...
FAA investigating Southwest flight that came within 400 feet of crashing into the ocean | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
A federal investigation is underway after a Southwest Airlines flight plunged toward the ocean off the coast of a Hawaiian island....
How long have you been in there?! A popular tourist destination in China has installed toilet timers. Reactions are mixed. (edition.cnn.com)
A video recently shared on various Chinese news and social media sites shows a set of timers installed above a row of toilet cubicles in a female washroom, with each stall getting its own digital counter....
Four US college instructors injured in ‘brutal’ China stabbing attack | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Elon Musk has been getting Trumpier. A direct line to Trump may be next | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Israel phasing out use of desert detention camp after CNN investigation detailing abuses | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Israel has transferred hundreds of Palestinian detainees out of the shadowy detention facility of Sde Teiman in Israel’s Negev desert, a state attorney told Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday during a first-ever hearing about the facility where prisoners from Gaza have allegedly been held under conditions of extreme abuse....
A heat dome will send temperatures into the triple-digits across the West as fires burn (edition.cnn.com)
Daily temperature records will tumble as sizzling early season heat from a summerlike heat dome sends thermometers skyrocketing into the triple digits in parts of California and the West this week....
Preliminary results project Claudia Sheinbaum to become Mexico’s first female president (edition.cnn.com)
Mexico is set to get its first female president, with preliminary results showing Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and Mexico City’s former mayor, is on track to win the country’s largest election in history....
Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam in critical condition after Russian strikes, authorities say (edition.cnn.com)
Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), is in “critical condition” after it was hit in a Russian strike on Ukraine’s key energy facilities, authorities say....
China’s Chang’e-6 probe successfully lands on far side of the moon | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
FCC ends affordable internet program due to lack of funds | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
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