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Washington CNN — President Donald Trump made multiple false claims in a Friday speech at the Department of Justice in which he discussed the legal system and crime but also a wide range of other topics, including immigration, the war in Ukraine and former President Joe Biden. Trump also made numerous allegations for which he provided no evidence, alleging unspecified “egregious crimes” in the government during the Biden administration, corruption among unspecified judges, illegality by media outlets that he claimed cover him too negatively and “crooked” behavior by law firms connected to cases involving Trump. Here is a fact check…
New York CNN — Scotch and Irish whiskey aren’t the only alcohols that will feel the pain of a 200% tariff on European-made products — so will your favorite bottles of Bordeaux and Chianti. Wine, which already dealt with an 8% drop in US sales last year, was hit with another blow this week when President Donald Trump threatened another round of tariffs set to go into effect in April. A “vast majority will struggle to manage these added expenses,” Francis Creighton, CEO of the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA), said in a statement. “At the end of…
CNN — US forces working with Iraqi intelligence and security services killed a high-profile leader of the Islamic State in an airstrike in western Iraq, according to officials from the two countries. Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, alias ‘Abu Khadijah,’ was known as the “deputy caliph” of the militant group and “one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world,” Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement posted on X. President Donald Trump posted on social media Friday night, saying “the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our…
CNN — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer welcome in our great country.” “Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates” President Donald Trump, Rubio alleged in a post on X. “We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA,” Rubio wrote. Declaring someone persona non grata (PNG) is a severe diplomatic rebuke and usually forces them to leave the host country. CNN has reached out to the South African embassy in Washington and the State Department…
Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. CNN — Heavy or prolonged menstrual bleeding is a common experience for about 33% of people who are in transition to menopause. Episodes of excessive flow often meet the criteria of abnormal uterine bleeding, a medical condition defined by vaginal bleeding within a six-month period that is excessive in amount, duration or frequency during or between menstrual periods. Despite the prevalence of excessive bleeding and its impact on quality of life, scant research…
Baghdad, Iraq AP — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with US-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister announced Friday. “The Iraqis continue their impressive victories over the forces of darkness and terrorism,” Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement posted on X. Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu Khadija,” was “deputy caliph” of the militant group and “one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world,” the statement said. On his Truth Social…
Havana CNN — Cuba’s power grid collapsed Friday night, triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its more than 10 million people into darkness. “At around 8:15 p.m. tonight, a failure at the Diezmero substation caused a significant loss of generation in the west of #Cuba and with it the failure of the National Electric System,” Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines said in a statement. Efforts to restore service are underway, the ministry added. Video filmed by CNN in the capital Havana showed streets and buildings shrouded in total darkness, as people used electric torches to navigate the streets.…
CNN — Widespread confusion and fear rippled through the federal workforce Thursday as federal agencies faced a key deadline in President Donald Trump’s push to drastically downsize the government. Thursday is the deadline for agencies to hand their cost-cutting proposals in to the White House and the Office of Personnel Management. It wasn’t clear whether those plans would be made public, or when agencies will fully implement them – a process that could see the federal workforce reduced by tens of thousands of jobs, in addition to cuts the Trump administration has already made. Many federal workers told CNN there…
CNN — President Donald Trump excoriated the Justice Department prosecutors who investigated him and vowed to use it to target his own enemies in a campaign-style speech at the department’s historic Great Hall on Friday. The hourlong speech served as both a victory lap for beating the two federal criminal cases brought against him by the Biden administration, and as a condemnation against any officials – some of whom have been fired from the DOJ – who touched those cases. Trump is a departure from how previous presidents have dealt with the Justice Department. White Houses in the past have…
Hong Kong CNN — China, Iran and Russia called for diplomacy over “pressure and threats” and an end to “all illegal unilateral sanctions” following talks on Tehran’s nuclear program Friday in Beijing, Chinese state media said. The meeting, attended by the three countries’ deputy foreign ministers, comes as Beijing aims to position itself as a power broker on the urgent international security issue, just days after US President Donald Trump said there were two ways to handle Iran: a deal or “militarily.” “The relevant parties should be committed to eliminating the root causes of the current situation and abandon sanctions…