Jerseys Bearing The Last Names Of Jordan, Kaepernick And Obama Break Records In Online Auction
December 05, 2020 at 02:10
(CNN) Sports jerseys from Michael Jordan, Colin Kaepernick, and even a former president all set world records this week during an online auction. Jordan's historic rookie Chicago Bulls jersey -- the one he held up at the press conference announcing his sign...
Pentagon Blocked Biden's Intelligence Transition Team From Meeting With Agencies
December 05, 2020 at 01:49
(CNN) The Trump administration prevented President-elect Joe Biden's transition team from meeting with its counterparts at Pentagon intelligence agencies this week, according to a former senior intelligence official familiar with intelligence transition dis...
Va Is Telling Veterans Groups That Covid Vaccinations Will Start Within Weeks
December 05, 2020 at 01:30
(CNN) The Department of Defense is set to receive the coronavirus vaccine directly from the companies that manufacture it once it is approved for use, and will administer it to DOD personnel, a US official tells CNN. At the same time, the Department of Vete...
Opinion: How Joe Biden's Past Could Shape Kamala Harris' Vp Future
December 05, 2020 at 01:20
This reporting comes in part from her book, "First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents and the Pursuit of Power." "Number one, that person's being underutilized," Obama says in "President In Waiting," a CNN Films documentary on the vice presidency. The vic...
Request From Breonna Taylor's Family For Special Prosecutor Is Denied
December 05, 2020 at 01:10
(CNN) The Kentucky Prosecutors Advisory Council declined to appoint a special prosecutor in the case of Breonna Taylor' s March death in a botched police raid, according to a report by CNN affiliate WDRB . Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, had requested a spe...
Cartoon Network And Black Owned Animation Studio Launch Awards Show Honoring Black Animators
December 05, 2020 at 01:07
(CNN) Cartoon Network Studios is partnering with animation house Black Women Animate to establish the Black in Animation Awards Show. The online event will be held Sunday and aims to recognize Black creatives who have left a tremendous mark and continue to...
Covid 19 Has Already Exhausted The Us. And It's Only The Start Of A Dark And Deadly Winter
December 05, 2020 at 00:45
They're already stretched thin and exhausted after months of confronting the deadly Covid-19 pandemic , but they fear the worst is stillyet to come. "I think we're past the breaking point," said Dr. Adolphe Edward, CEO of El Centro Regional Medical Center i...
Ousted Cybersecurity Chief Krebs To Trump: 'These Constant Attacks ... Are Very Dangerous'
December 05, 2020 at 00:26
(CNN) Former top cybersecurity official Chris Krebs sent a clear message to President Donald Trump on Friday: Stop attacking the integrity of last month's election because American democracy is fragile. "I'd tell him the same thing that we kind of adopted a...
China Wants To Weaponize Its Currency. A Digital Version Could Help
December 05, 2020 at 00:08
It's hoping a digital currency could deliver both. If the program is expanded nationwide, China would becomethe most powerful economy yetto offer a national digital currency , beating a forthcoming digital version of the euro from the European Central Bank....
Student Loan Payment Pause Extended To January 31
December 04, 2020 at 23:40
Washington (CNN) People with student loans will get another month of relief after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos extended the pause on student loan payments through January 31. Borrowers haven't had to make payments since March, but the relief was set to e...
Analysis: A Hopeful Sign For Covid 19 Stimulus Relief
December 04, 2020 at 23:29
A vaccine and President-elect Joe Biden, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it to reporters on Friday morning, another signal that she is now willing to negotiate over a stimulus bill previously too small to be considered. With the pandemic tightening its gr...
Calls Grow For State Department To Cancel Holiday Parties Due To Covid 19 Spike
December 04, 2020 at 23:08
(CNN) There are growing calls for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to cancel a number of planned in-person holiday events amid record-breaking daily Covid-19 case counts across the United States. Public health experts have begged individuals to stay at home t...
While Trump Rants About Votes, None Of His Election Security Officials Support Him
December 04, 2020 at 23:00
(CNN) President Donald Trump is increasingly isolated in his claims of election fraud as a growing number of senior administration officials are either directly contradicting his baseless allegations or refusing to echo them. Ratcliffe is a fierce Trump loy...
This Order Speeds Up The Timeline Of The State's Regional Stay At Home Order And Affects Some Business Operations
December 04, 2020 at 22:49
(CNN) Six San Francisco Bay Area governments issued a stay-at-home order Friday ahead of California's statewide mandate, restricting activities in a drastic effort to reduce the spread of Covid-19 as hospitals cope with a surge of patients. The order applie...
Trump Administration Must Accept New Daca Applications, Judge Orders
December 04, 2020 at 22:38
(CNN) The Trump administration must post a public notice that it will accept new applications for the Obama-era program shielding undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation, a federal judge ordered Friday. Judge Nicholas Garaufi...
Trump Orders A Near Total Withdrawal Of Us Troops From Somalia
December 04, 2020 at 22:34
(CNN) President Donald Trump has ordered the majority of US troops to leave Somalia "by early 2021," in just the latest major military policy decision being taken in the final days of the Trump administration. "The President of the United States has ordered...
Presidential Pardon Investigation Involves Kushner Lawyer And A Gop Lobbyist, Sources Say
December 04, 2020 at 22:26
(CNN) The Justice Department bribery-for-a-presidential-pardon investigation, which became public this week , involves the past efforts of well-connected Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell and Republican lobbyist and fundraiser Elliott Broidy in the early days o...
White House Exodus Begins Even As Trump Continues To Baselessly Claim Victory
December 04, 2020 at 22:21
(CNN) White House staffers at all levels are plotting their departures as a growing number of aides to President Donald Trump are abandoning his quest to overturn the 2020 election results -- some in frustration with the building they are leaving behind. Mu...
Pelosi Defiant Over Handling Of Stimulus: Rejecting Gop Proposals Was 'Not A Mistake'
December 04, 2020 at 22:02
When asked by CNN's Manu Raju if it had been a mistake to reject a smaller stimulus proposed by Republicans months ago since they're talking about a similar proposal now, Pelosi responded, "No." ... My chairs have worked very hard on all of this." "When I s...
An Agency Review Makes It Clear That Mask Use, Physical Distancing, Avoiding Crowds And Washing Hands Can Help Control Covid Spread
December 04, 2020 at 21:57
(CNN) Masks are "critical" to controlling the spread of coronavirus, and that includes at home sometimes, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. CDC review of what works makes it clear that mask use, physical distancing, avoiding cro...