Got milk at impeachment? Rules allow for milk-drinking on Senate floor. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will hold a news conference before he leaves Switzerland to return to Washington, where his impeachment trial is under way.
Rutgers University named the first African American president in the school's history when the university's Board of Governors unanimously voted to appoint Jonathan Holloway as the 21st president.
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In a resurfaced CNN interview from 1999, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated that he voted for live witnesses during former President Bill Clinton's Senate impeachment trial.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate plunged into President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial with Republicans abruptly abandoning plans to cram opening arguments into two days but solidly rejecting Democratic demands for more witnesses to expose what they deem Trump’s “trifecta” of offenses.
CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports President Donald Trump went on a tweetstorm and raged against impeachment as he was watching the first day of the impeachment trial in the Senate.
Los Angeles Laker and NBA legend Kobe Bryant speaks about the MLS, Leo Messi and how there are women who could play in the NBA "right now".
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Seventy-five years after the killing stopped at Auschwitz, the survivors still bear witness, and many observe the rising hatred and anti-Semitism in the world today with a sense of deep disquiet.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts drew little attention to himself in the beginning 12 hours of his first impeachment trial. But it was just before 1 a.m., as tempers on the floor had started to wear thin, that he reminded senators, House impeachment managers and President Donald …
Over the course of the 18-month "Operation Liberty" rescue mission, 21 tigers and lions were saved from circuses in Guatemala. Now 17 of those big cats will be arriving at a secret sanctuary in South Africa. CNN's David McKenzie reports from Free State, South Africa.
Extreme cold continues for the East as sub-freezing temperatures start the day for many all the way to South Florida. As the cold sets in another storm is pushing over the Rockies and will dump additional snow and ice from the Plains to the Great Lakes. Pedram Javaheri has the details.
Mexican Football Federation president Yon de Luisa tells CNN that he believes Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez will succeed at MLS giant LA Galaxy.
CNN international correspondent David Culver reports from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, where the city has set up stricter measures to stop the virus from spreading.
Late-night TV hosts Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Trevor Noah mock the Senate over the rules in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
The Cruise Origin is a self-driving, ridesharing all-electric vehicle created by Cruise, a subsidiary of GM that's also backed by Honda. Cruise has not yet said when the Origin might hit the streets.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — After some last-minute tweaks on Tuesday, the proposed rules for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial now largely mirror the ones used for the trial of President Bill Clinton.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates have spent weeks reassuring voters they can unify the party, avoid the divisions that plagued the 2016 primary and defeat President Donald Trump in the fall. Instead, the scars of that battle are being ripped open less than two weeks…
House impeachment manager Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) referenced lyrics from the late rapper The Notorious B.I.G. when closing out his argument for why the Senate must subpoena acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.
Following remarks by impeachment manager Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and White House counsel Pat Cipollone, Chief Justice John Roberts warned both teams about using rhetoric inappropriate for an impeachment trial in the Senate chamber.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) criticized President Donald Trump's counsel during the Senate's impeachment trial, claiming they had repeatedly lied in the President's defense.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein spawned the #MeToo movement. Now, the former film titan is starring in the biggest trial of its era — a landmark moment in a global reckoning that has empowered women while shining a light on power dynamics in workplaces from Hollywood Boulevard to Main Street.
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MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (AP) — Since their surprise loss to President Donald Trump in 2016, Democrats have struggled with how to regain territory that long supported the party before suddenly flipping to Republicans. Their answer could lie with voters like Martie Boyd.
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Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new virus that originated in China. Governments are stepping up surveillance of airline passengers from central China and taking other steps to try to control the outbreak.
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Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new virus that originated in China. Governments are stepping up surveillance of airline passengers from central China and taking other steps to try to control the outbreak.
The Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump has begun. Here's what happened today that you need to know.
California creates new board to help its Public Utilities Commission when it comes to wildfires.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The ousted Grammys CEO fired back at the Recording Academy on Tuesday, alleging that she was removed after complaining about sexual harassment and pay disparities and for calling out conflicts of interest in the nomination process for music's most prestigious awards.
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SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. on Tuesday reported its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who returned last week from the outbreak's epicenter was hospitalized near Seattle.
White House deputy counsel Michael Purpura and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), one of the impeachment managers, debate the details of President Donald Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and when exactly Ukraine found out that there was going to be a freeze in funding for aid.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Known for two decades as No. 2, Derek Jeter is now linked to the number 1 — as in, who was the lone Hall of Fame voter who didn't put a check mark next to his name?
CNN's Isa Soares talks to Venezuelan politician Juan Guaido about his goals for Davos 2020 and the future of Venezuela.
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TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska (AP) — Lizzie Chimiugak has lived for 90 years in the windswept western wilds of Alaska, born to a nomadic family who lived in mud homes and followed where the good hunting and fishing led.
CNN presidential historian Tim Naftali says Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was not able to control his caucus, citing several changes McConnell made to his initial resolution to set the rules for the impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In an abrupt about-face, Hillary Clinton said Tuesday night that she would endorse her 2016 rival Bernie Sanders if he wins the Democratic nomination to face President Donald Trump in November.
Muhammad Haryz Nadzim, a three-year-old with an IQ of 142, became the youngest member of the high IQ organization Mensa UK.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) shares a personal story from when he was in the military during the impeachment trial of President Trump.
Loved ones say goodbye to college rower killed in a Florida crash at her wake Tuesday.
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DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government's auto safety agency is looking into allegations that all three of Tesla's electric vehicle models can suddenly accelerate on their own.
On January 17, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear three new cases during its October 2019-2020 term: Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court (consolidated with Ford Motor Company v. Bandemer), Chiafalo v. Washington (consolidated with Colorado Department of State v. B…
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Planned Parenthood on Tuesday endorsed a Democratic challenger to Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, saying Collins “turned her back” on women and citing her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court as well as other judicial nominees who oppose abortion.
Evening news briefing from CNN on Tuesday, January 21.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — On a rarefied world stage in the Swiss Alps, President Donald Trump cited accomplishments on clean air that aren't real, a level of economic progress he hasn't achieved and a blue-collar boom yet to be seen.
A new dinosaur species called Wulong bohaiensis is offering researchers clues into the relationship between bird species and dinosaurs.
President Trump made his address at Davos and was quickly countered by activist Greta Thunberg in a speech of her own.
Actor Harry Hamlin says when he portrayed a gay man in a 1982 film, it 'completely ended' his feature film career.
Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders responds to a comment from Hillary Clinton in which she said, "nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him."
It's official: A bill that would legalize hemp in Idaho was introduced Tuesday.
Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, and Brooklynn Prince star in a horror flick based on the Henry James novella.
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FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — An architect of the brutal CIA interrogation and detention program developed after the Sept. 11 attacks defended the agency and its practices on Tuesday as those techniques become the focus of an effort to dismiss key evidence against five men charged in the terrorist plot.
