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Jul 24, 2021
When I first told my medical colleagues that I would be traveling 14 hours to Tokyo, they looked at me with a bit of surprise, then hesitantly told me simply to "be safe." It is the same reaction I have often received when jetting off to cover a natural disaster, like the earthquake in Haiti, or a conflict, like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This time, however, the mission was to report on how people from all over the globe would converge for the Olympic games in a city under a state of emergency due to the pandemic.
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Jul 24, 2021
In some alternate universe, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg retired during the Obama presidency and Democrats were able to push through a successor to the conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Jul 24, 2021
The torch has been lit at the Tokyo Olympics and the opening weekend will feature competition in men's gymnastics, women's soccer, swimming, tennis and more.
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Jul 24, 2021
While the need for mask wearing never fully dissipated during the pandemic, guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in May that removed restrictions for vaccinated individuals was a welcome harbinger of a possible return to normalcy.
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Jul 24, 2021
A man and woman were arrested in Maine following the discovery of cocaine disguised as a cake in their vehicle, according to the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.
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Jul 24, 2021
Algerian judo athlete Fethi Nourine says he has chosen to withdraw from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics rather than face an Israeli competitor.
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Jul 24, 2021
Nothing gets cheddar than this...
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Jul 24, 2021
It's a year later than expected, but the 2020 Summer Olympics are finally here.
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Jul 24, 2021
A surge of monsoonal moisture is bringing rounds of heavy rain and strong thunderstorms to areas of the Southwest that are currently suffering from extreme to exceptional drought conditions.
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Jul 24, 2021
• Bumble match turns in riot suspect who allegedly whipped police
• Watch 'Almost giddy': Author describes Donald Trump during Capitol riot
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Jul 24, 2021
Just seven months after singing its praises, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is attempting to rewrite the Brexit deal he signed with the European Union.
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Jul 24, 2021
Which countries are tightening their Covid corsets and which are letting it all hang loose? CNN Travel reveals all in our latest weekend round-up.
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Jul 24, 2021
Firefighters are turning over the search and recovery efforts at the Surfside condo building collapse to the Miami-Dade Police Department, officials said Friday.
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Jul 24, 2021
So, you're all set for a trip to Europe in this most uncertain of summers. You've booked your flight, navigated all the paperwork for your destination (and for getting home), and have prepared yourself for snafus along the way. Oh, and you're fully vaccinated.
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Jul 24, 2021
Amy Tignor remembers the crowds that attended the Ozark Empire Fair's rides, concerts and livestock shows in past years.
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Jul 24, 2021
Amy Tignor remembers the crowds that attended the Ozark Empire Fair's rides, concerts and livestock shows in past years.
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Jul 24, 2021
Amy Tignor remembers the crowds that attended the Ozark Empire Fair's rides, concerts and livestock shows in past years.
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Jul 24, 2021
As dozens of wildfires burn across the West, officials declared additional states of emergency for counties in California and Nevada while the nation's largest blaze in Oregon continued to swell Friday.
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Jul 24, 2021
Dozens of wildfires currently blazing across the West have been exhibiting extreme fire behavior: demonstrating alarming rotational patterns and wafting smoke across the country while also creating their own weather.
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Jul 24, 2021
While the need for mask wearing never fully dissipated during the pandemic, guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in May that removed restrictions for vaccinated individuals was a welcome harbinger of a possible return to normalcy.
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Jul 24, 2021
While the need for mask wearing never fully dissipated during the pandemic, guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in May that removed restrictions for vaccinated individuals was a welcome harbinger of a possible return to normalcy.
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Jul 24, 2021
The Tokyo Olympics -- after a long delay -- are finally happening.
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Jul 24, 2021
The Tokyo Olympics -- after a long delay -- are finally happening.
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Jul 24, 2021
Instead of spinning hoops around the waist as kids have done for decades, Hula-Hoop dancers have some new moves as the trend returns.
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Jul 24, 2021
Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey's blunt message that unvaccinated people are letting the nation down capped a week where some Republicans finally seemed ready to abandon their dangerous coddling of Covid-19 vaccine skeptics and push Americans to get the shot.
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Jul 23, 2021
Minneapolis city officials voted Friday to approve the language of a ballot measure that will ask voters in November whether the city's police department should be replaced with public safety department.
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Jul 23, 2021
Fox News host Sean Hannity encouraged his audience to consult with their doctors about the coronavirus vaccine and even said he believes in vaccine science, despite several hosts on the network consistently pushing vaccine disinformation. CNN's Don Lemon calls out the Fox News anchor for what he says was a cop out when Hannity made a clarification on air.
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Jul 23, 2021
A massive wildfire raging out of control in the rugged mountains straddling the California-Nevada border, tearing through tens of thousands of acres was initially determined by US Forest Service officials to not be a threat and allowed to burn.
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Jul 23, 2021
David Buckley, the newly named staff director for the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection, was found to be retaliating against a whistleblower during his time as the CIA inspector general, according to a report by the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security.
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Jul 23, 2021
At least 112 people have died in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, authorities said on Friday, after torrential monsoon rains caused landslides and flooded low-lying areas, cutting off hundreds of villages.
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Jul 23, 2021
President Joe Biden made a forceful return to the campaign trail on Friday night in Virginia, stumping for gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe by linking the Democrat's opponent to the man Biden had defeated several months ago -- former President Donald Trump.
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Jul 23, 2021
North Korea is doubling down on its culture war, warning citizens to stay away from all things South Korean -- including its fashion, music, hairstyles and even slang.
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Jul 23, 2021
CNN's Randi Kaye spoke to a nurse in a hospital in Florida about patients in the ICU with Covid-19 begging for the vaccine.
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Jul 23, 2021
As China steps up military pressure on Taiwan, the self-governing island is preparing for the next big frontier of warfare: crippling cyberattacks.
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Jul 23, 2021
In his first day on the job, Tom Manger -- the new chief of the US Capitol Police -- said Friday that he would be "a fool to not be concerned" about the threat of more attacks on the Capitol, especially given chatter on extremists' forums about possible action in August.
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Jul 23, 2021
• Alabama governor: Blame the unvaccinated
• DOD has had 2,000 breakthrough Covid cases
• Watch: DeSantis blames this for rise in cases
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Jul 23, 2021
Covid-19 has thrown more than few curve balls at Tokyo Olympic organizers -- but this isn't the first Games to battle a pandemic.
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Jul 23, 2021
Tennessee's top health official said Friday that vaccination efforts for teens will continue but that marketing efforts would be clearly directed at parents rather than their children.
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Jul 23, 2021
Dozens of large wildfires are raging across the western United States as the region experiences a historic and unrelenting drought.
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Jul 23, 2021
• Meet the lawmakers investigating the January 6 insurrection
• Watch: 'Almost giddy': Author describes Trump during Capitol riot
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Jul 23, 2021
Yet another US Capitol suspect was caught this week, all thanks to his Bumble match.
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Jul 23, 2021
Former President Donald Trump's political action committee has raised $75 million in donations so far this year, but despite Trump's continued support of the sham Arizona election fraud audit, none of the PAC's money has been used to fund the audit.
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Jul 23, 2021
Former President Donald Trump's political action committee has raised $75 million in donations so far this year, but despite Trump's continued support of the sham Arizona election fraud audit, none of the PAC's money has been used to fund the audit.
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Jul 23, 2021
A weakening In-fa is beginning to track away from the southern Japanese islands but has its eye set on eastern China by the end of this weekend. The storm could bring extremely heavy rainfall to millions in China.
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Jul 23, 2021
Kidnapped from church, shot at during an evening commute, chased out of their homes as flames licked up the street.
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Jul 23, 2021
The Department of Defense has experienced about 2,000 breakthrough Covid-19 cases among its more than 2 million fully vaccinated personnel, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Cesar Santiago-Santini told CNN in a statement, but it's unclear how many are a result of the Delta variant.
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Jul 23, 2021
More than six months have passed since the January 6 insurrection, yet Republicans and Democrats' ongoing haggling has only further hampered progress on one of Congress' important investigations.
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Jul 23, 2021
Health experts blame the recent surges in Covid-19 cases on the low rate of vaccinations, and now the accelerating Delta variant is threatening to increase hospitalizations and deaths as well, an expert said.
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Jul 23, 2021
On Thursday, the software company Kaseya announced that it could help unlock any of its customers' systems that were still inaccessible following a devastating ransomware attack early this month that took down as many as 1,500 businesses worldwide. But for many victims it was too little, too late.
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Jul 23, 2021
Players from the United States women's national soccer team filed an appeal Friday to overturn a 2020 decision against their equal pay lawsuit, saying last year's decision "defies reality."
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Jul 23, 2021
Joe Biden's White House probably thinks it had a perfectly fine Wednesday night after the President's CNN town hall in Cincinnati, Ohio. However, though Biden scored points on a big topic -- the Covid pandemic -- he has yet to find solid footing on the political landmines that await Democrats in the 2022 midterm election, chiefly inflation, the economy, immigration and crime.
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Jul 23, 2021
GM is once again recalling nearly 70,000 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles because of a risk that the battery will catch fire when the car is parked.
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Jul 23, 2021
A barrage of heat waves have plagued the US this summer and more above-average temperatures are on the way next week, affecting more of the country than those before it.
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Jul 23, 2021
Over the last 18 months, the story of the pandemic in the United States has steadily evolved, from rising terror as the virus took hold, to a long winter of anguish and then to profound relief as a scientific triumph-- vaccines!-- arrived and did their job amazingly well. But then the story shifted again, darkly, as the Delta variant thwarted our happy ending, largely because of vaccine refuseniks in about a third of the country.
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Jul 23, 2021
As thousands gathered outside Olympic Stadium, some in protest, wielding signs that read, "Cancel the Olympics -- Save Lives," and some in support, with signs that read, "I believe in the power of sport," the Tokyo Olympic Games Opening Ceremony asked us to Imagine. With clouds of drones coalescing in the sky to form an image of the Earth, alongside the lyrics of John Lennon's signature song -- sung by an international array of performers that included Americans John Legend and Keith Urban -- the spectacle's theme, "moving forward," became clear.
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Jul 23, 2021
As thousands gathered outside Olympic Stadium, some in protest, wielding signs that read, "Cancel the Olympics -- Save Lives," and some in support, with signs that read, "I believe in the power of sport," the Tokyo Olympic Games Opening Ceremony asked us to Imagine. With clouds of drones coalescing in the sky to form an image of the Earth, alongside the lyrics of John Lennon's signature song -- sung by an international array of performers that included Americans John Legend and Keith Urban -- the spectacle's theme, "moving forward," became clear.
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Jul 23, 2021
Tommy Bryant, a city councilmember in Tarrant, Alabama, says he will not resign after using the n-word during a public meeting.
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Jul 23, 2021
For months, conservative Nashville, Tennessee-based radio host Phil Valentine has repeatedly made posts on multiple social media platforms telling his fans that if they weren't at risk for Covid-19, they shouldn't get the vaccine.
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Jul 23, 2021
Photographer and aviation enthusiast Ian Simpson has lived in the East Anglia region of England all his life, and one of his favorite things to do is photograph planes at Royal Air Force bases in the area.
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Jul 23, 2021
A man has been arrested after using a car to block an ambulance, ordering the driver out at gunpoint and driving the ambulance away with a 16-year-old hit-and-run victim and a paramedic inside, Houston police say.
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Jul 23, 2021
• Alabama governor: Blame the unvaccinated
• FL Gov. DeSantis blames this for surge in cases
• The rise in US Covid-19 hospitalizations is a self-inflicted wound, expert says
• Family says conservative radio host has changed his tune on vaccines after he was hospitalized with Covid-19
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Jul 23, 2021
• Barrack pulls SPAC plans after indictment
• Opinion: Trump friend's arrest sends message
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Jul 23, 2021
President Joe Biden is poised to nominate Caroline Kennedy to serve as ambassador to Australia, three people familiar with the search process told CNN, in one of the highest-profile envoy selections yet by the White House.
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Jul 23, 2021
Workers at the Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, say it used to be one of the best jobs in town -- a place of shared meals, group outings and community.
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Jul 23, 2021
One evening earlier this month, a White rage-filled man sat behind a desk, looked into a camera, and began to rant about how something must be done to "save" the United States before "we become Rwanda," a not-so-subtle reference to the horrific genocide that occurred in the African country decades ago.
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Jul 23, 2021
• Cereal boxes, ice cream cartons are shrinking
• Why hundreds of Frito-Lay workers are striking
• Watch: Why are there so many job openings?
• Millions of jobs and a shortage of applicants. Welcome to the new economy
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Jul 23, 2021
• Why hundreds of Frito-Lay workers are striking
• Watch: Why are there so many job openings?
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Jul 23, 2021
Going out to eat might feel a little different these days. Maybe you're waiting longer for a table, even though the restaurant doesn't appear full. Or maybe your service is slower, and your server seems anxious.
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Jul 23, 2021
After being let go from his job as a software quality-assurance engineer in April, Eric Watkins said he filed for unemployment benefits in Colorado. But he hasn't received a penny of the $6,490 he said he was eligible to receive and he's not sure when he will.
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Jul 23, 2021
After being let go from his job as a software quality-assurance engineer in April, Eric Watkins said he filed for unemployment benefits in Colorado. But he hasn't received a penny of the $6,490 he said he was eligible to receive and he's not sure when he will.
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Jul 23, 2021
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) took issue with reporters asking GOP lawmakers if they were vaccinated, and said reporters should be asking the Democrats if they are vaccinated. A CNN survey found that 100% of Democratic lawmakers on Capitol hill have been vaccinated.
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Jul 23, 2021
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) took issue with reporters asking GOP lawmakers if they were vaccinated, and said reporters should be asking the Democrats if they are vaccinated. A CNN survey found that 100% of Democratic lawmakers on Capitol hill have been vaccinated.
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Jul 23, 2021
On Saturday it will be one month since the Surfside condo collapse, and the family of Estelle Hedaya tells CNN she is the final victim that authorities have yet to find and identify.
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Jul 23, 2021
Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday called out "the unvaccinated folks" for the rise in Covid-19 cases in her state, a remarkable plea at a time when many GOP leaders are refusing to urge people to get vaccinated even as Covid-19 cases surge in many parts of the country.
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Jul 23, 2021
• Live updates: The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are underway in 2021. Here's why
• Photos | Events to watch this weekend
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Jul 23, 2021
The once unstoppable growth of hard seltzer has gone flat.
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Jul 23, 2021
Dawn Butler, an MP for Britain's Labour Party, was thrown out for breaking the rules in the House of Commons.
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Jul 23, 2021
It's a year later than expected, but the 2020 Summer Olympics are finally here.
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