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CNN — Laura Loomer can get President Donald Trump on the phone, but she can’t get a seat in his briefing room. As the White House opens its doors to a new class of media personalities – online commentators, podcasters, web video hosts and partisan influencers – one of the most prominent figures in the pro-Trump digital ecosystem remains on the outside looking in. Loomer, a far-right provocateur with a loyal online following, has a direct line to the president and a proven record of influencing his personnel decisions. Yet her requests for press credentials from Trump’s White House have…
CNN — Ruth Buzzi, who rose to fame as the frumpy and bitter Gladys Ormphby on the groundbreaking sketch comedy series “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and made over 200 television appearances during a 45-year career, has died at age 88. Buzzi died Thursday at her home in Texas, her agent Mike Eisenstadt said, according to the Associated Press. She had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and was in hospice care. Shortly before her death, her husband Kent Perkins had posted a statement on Buzzi’s Facebook page, thanking her many fans and telling them: “She wants you to know she probably had…
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CNN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his conversation with US President Donald Trump at the Vatican last month was their “best” yet, with the two leaders discussing US sanctions and Kyiv’s air defenses. The brief meeting on the sidelines of Pope Francis’s funeral in April came at a crucial time for Ukraine, amid concerns that the US could scale back support for Kyiv and abandon peace talks. Both sides described the talks as positive, which marked their first face-to-face encounter since their disastrous Oval Office meeting in February. Soon after, Trump questioned whether Russia’s President Vladimir Putin…
Editor’s Note: “My Happy Place,” a CNN Original Series following celebrities on deeply personal journeys, airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. CNN also tapped its anchors and correspondents to share their happy places. Visiting New York’s Strand bookstore makes CNN’s Erin Burnett happy. New York City (CNN) — Books — real books, the tangible, flip-the-pages kind — have an enduring appeal. As do bookstores — real bookstores, the brick-and-mortar, browse-and-discover kind. There is an atmosphere and culture to them, expert curation and literary serendipity. Bookstores are vital social capital too — third spaces where strangers mix. But there is also…
A U.S. lawful permanent resident was arrested on Wednesday after she allegedly attempted to smuggle a drugged child into the country through the Southern Border using a fake birth certificate, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Gloria Lopez-Corona, 24, from Mexico, attempted to enter the U.S. with a five-year-old boy through the San Luis port of entry in Arizona, where she presented a birth certificate that was revealed to be for a different child based on the age, as the birth certificate was for a two-year-old.The child was determined to be an unaccompanied child from Mexico who was sedated. The child…
CNN — The Trump administration’s removal to Honduras last week of three children who are US citizens underscores how its push to carry out a historic deportation campaign can result in extraordinary circumstances and violations of internal policies and due process rights intended to avoid such situations, legal experts say. The at-times slapdash approach has resulted in the government running up against the parental rights of some undocumented adults and the rights of their US citizen children, who enjoy all the same legal protections as other US citizens. The three young children from two families were removed to Honduras with…
New York CNN — Hours after the a key US tariff exemption expired on Friday, Chinese e-commerce site Temu announced it was overhauling its shipping model, sending out all American sales via US-based sellers. “All sales in the U.S. are now handled by locally based sellers, with orders fulfilled from within the country,” A Temu spokesperson said in a statement early Friday. “Temu has been actively recruiting U.S. sellers to join the platform.” The change is a major shift for the platform. Temu – and other Chinese e-commerce sites like Shein and AliExpress – had previously used the de minimis…
London CNN — Britain’s Prince Harry has revealed that his father, King Charles, no longer speaks to him and that he cannot imagine bringing his family back to the UK after losing a court case over his security arrangements on Friday. In an explosive interview with the BBC after the court ruling, where at times he was visibly emotional, Harry described being “devastated” at the decision, which he said made it “impossible” for him to return to the UK with his wife Meghan and his two young children. But he said that he would “love” to repair the rift with…
Shanghai, China CNN — This year’s Shanghai auto show has a clear message for visitors: China is now a global leader in innovation, and it wants the world to know. The massive, thrumming exhibition that took place in the country’s financial capital over the past two weeks boasted over 60 football fields of floorspace, packed full of carmakers using the event to unveil a raft of new models with curtain-pulling reveals. To a soundtrack of bass-thumping music, big brands showed off everything from electric batteries that can run for hundreds of miles on a five-minute charge to flying vehicles and…