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Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...

There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the FAA is warning.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

Opinion | What it looks like in the world’s data center capital Among cemeteries, baseball fields and homes, these Northern Virginia buildings power the internet.

What it looks like in the world's data center capital

Virginia has around 600 data centers, with more planned or under construction

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Famed primatologist Jane Goodall gave an interview on Netflix's show "Famous Last Words" that would only be released after her death. Goodall shared some candid words about world leaders.

China’s jobless youth aren’t happy with a plan to attract foreign professionals with a new ‘K visa’ | CNN A new visa category launched by the Chinese government to attract young science and technology professionals is causing fervent backlash in China, where well-educated young people are already struggli...

China's new K-visa, which is aimed at attracting foreign tech talent, sparks an online backlash in China, where youth unemployment stands around 19%

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Journalists grabbed, shoved by ICE agents in New York immigration court, video shows | CNN At least one journalist appeared to be injured after one reporter was grabbed and another was shoved by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a New York City immigration court Tuesday m...

At least one journalist appeared to be injured after one reporter was grabbed and another was shoved by masked ICE agents at a New York City immigration court Tuesday morning, video of the encounter showed.

Jimmy Kimmel received massive standing ovation during return taping, attendees say | CNN Business The ABC star taped a new episode on Tuesday evening, and he spoke at length about the controversy that enveloped the show, according to attendees who spoke with CNN afterward.

Jimmy Kimmel is back on his late-night stage — and full of emotion. https://cnn.it/4nKQHCe

Trump will never change, but Kirk’s death shines a path to MAGA’s future | CNN Politics President Donald Trump wants the world to understand that Charlie Kirk’s killing will not temper him or induce him to mend the country’s divides.

"President Donald Trump wants the world to understand that Charlie Kirk’s killing will not temper him or induce him to mend the country’s divides," Stephen Collinson | Analysis https://cnn.it/4gACl5g

The US economy has a new problem: Democracy is under siege | CNN Business Some political scientists see a pattern that suggests American democracy is being undermined in real time. The stakes are massive for the US economy and the business world.

"It’s as if MAGA has gone Maoist"

Nation’s top economic statistician fired. Central bank independence undermined. Federal gov't buying chunks of private companies & demanding cuts of revenue streams. Unprecedented presidential power to lob tariffs...

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Charlie Kirk DM’d me before he was murdered. Here’s what he said. | CNN Politics The day before he was horrifically murdered, Charlie Kirk sent me a direct message on X.

Van Jones writes about the intense debate he was having with Charlie Kirk, followed by Kirk's invitation for Jones to speak on his show.

Before he could respond, an assassin shot and killed Kirk.

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YouTube video by The Daily Show Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Er... youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg?... via @YouTube

Former President Barack Obama commented on the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during remarks in Erie, Pennsylvania, saying that "regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy." https://cnn.it/469EiCa

Actor, director, environmentalist Robert Redford dies at 89 | CNN Robert Redford, the dashing actor and Oscar-winning director who eschewed his status as a Hollywood leading man to champion causes close to his heart, died Tuesday, CNN has learned. He was 89.

Robert Redford, award-winning director, environmentalist and star of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men" dies at 89

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Qatari prime minister says Netanyahu ‘killed any hope’ for Israeli hostages in exclusive CNN interview | CNN Qatar’s prime minister excoriated Israeli Prime Minister Benajamin Netanyahu in an interview with CNN on Wednesday, calling Israel’s attempted assassination of Hamas leaders in Doha “barbaric.”

EXCLUSIVE: Leader of Qatar calls Israeli attack on Hamas in Doha "barbaric" and "state terror"

“I think that what Netanyahu has done yesterday, he just killed any hope for those hostages" Qatari PM tells CNN

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Kyrgyzstan Adopts the Snow Leopard as Its National Symbol - The Times Of Central Asia The snow leopard logo will become a national symbol of Kyrgyzstan and will be used at the state level, according to Erkinbek Mamayev, head of the Wildlife

Latest from our @jonathancampion.com Kyrgyzstan adopts the snow leopard as a national symbol reflecting strength freedom and heritage while boosting conservation efforts timesca.com/kyrgyzstan-a... #Kyrgyzstan #SnowLeopard #Conservation #WildlifeProtection #EndangeredSpecies

Kim Jong Un heads to Beijing in famous armored train used by generations of North Korean leaders | CNN As a select group of world leaders prepares to roll into Beijing for a massive military parade on Wednesday, one is traveling in his signature armored green train: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's armored train has been rolling towards Beijing so that he can attend a military parade in the Chinese capital

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At the SCO summit in China, Vladimir Putin blamed the West for the "Ukraine crisis" & called for creating "a system that would replace outdated Eurocentric & Euro-Atlantic models."

He also said he is briefing other heads of state on his talks with President Trump in Alaska

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Mark Knoller, longtime CBS News correspondent, dies at 73 Mark Knoller was, to put it simply, a legend. For decades, everyone in the White House press corps knew him as the unofficial presidential historian and statistician.

RIP legendary CBS Radio correspondent Mark Knoller...who once took time out of covering the White House to wisely advise a 21-year old kid fresh out of college NOT to put his college at the top of his resume ("no one CARES where you went to school").

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"The international situation is both fluid & chaotic" China's Xi Jinping tells Indian PM Modi.

In a world swept by "once-in-a-century transformations," Xi calls for good Chinese-Indian ties... "to have the dragon and elephant dance together"

#china #India

India's Narendra Modi meets with China's Xi Jinping in China for the 1st time in 7 years.

Modi tells Xi after deadly border clashes erupted in 2020, "an atmosphere of peace & stability has been created... the interests of 2.8 billion people in both our countries are tied to our cooperation."

When the leaders of 3 of the world's largest countries gather in China this weekend, Donald Trump won't be there.

But experts say his shadow will loom large over the summit.

Meanwhile, North Korea's Kim Jong Un will also come to China next week to attend a military parade alongside Vladimir Putin

Trump casts a long shadow over China’s gathering of global leaders | CNN Analysis: The leaders of three of the world’s largest countries will be gathering for a Eurasian summit in China this weekend. Trump will be the talk of Tianjin.

The leaders of China, Russia and India meet this weekend in China...absent their sparring partner, US President Donald Trump

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Analysis: Trump says many people might want a dictator. Yes, many of his people. | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Monday denied that he aspires to be a dictator.

Authoritarian-curious?

Polls show around a quarter of Republicans "endorsed the idea of Trump seizing power, breaking laws and violating the Constitution when necessary, and being completely unchecked by Congress and the courts."

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More than a dozen people killed in Israeli strikes on hospital in southern Gaza, including journalists | CNN More than a dozen Palestinians were killed in a pair of Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza, according to the Nasser Medical Complex, including journalists from multiple outlets.

Israeli military carries out back-to-back strikes on hospital in Gaza, killing at least 20 people including journalists from Al Jazeera, Reuters and the Associated Press
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National Guard troops in Washington, DC, begin carrying weapons | CNN Politics US National Guard members deployed to Washington, DC, started carrying their sidearms on Sunday, a spokesperson for the Joint Task Force carrying out the mission told CNN.

US National Guard members deployed to Washington, DC, started carrying their sidearms, a spokesperson for the Joint Task Force carrying out the mission told CNN.

This Is the End of China’s Once Mightiest Property Firm China Evergrande, delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday, leaves behind a giant pile of debt and a long line of desperate creditors.

China Evergrande, the once mighty real estate developer, was removed from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, leaving behind a giant pile of debt and desperate creditors.

Fire burns for 12 hours on US Navy warship off Okinawa | CNN A fire burned aboard a US Navy warship anchored off Okinawa for 12 hours, injuring two sailors, a statement from the Navy’s 7th Fleet in Japan said.

Japanese Coast Guard crews helped battle a fire that burned for 12 hours on board the US Navy warship New Orleans off the coast of Okinawa

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US to screen for ‘anti-Americanism’ in immigration applications, a move critics liken to McCarthyism | CNN People applying to live or work in the United States will now be screened for “anti-Americanism,” including having their social media checked, authorities announced on Tuesday, in a tightening of rest...

People applying to live or work in the United States will now be screened for “anti-Americanism."

US Citizenship & Immigration Services announces this policy update. "Anti-American" screening will include checking applicants' social media

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The strange divide in how Americans experience summer temperatures | CNN Average temperatures elide a complex reality: The country’s experience of hotter summers — and thus one of the most visceral aspects of climate change itself — is fractured along geographic lines.

The contiguous United States has endured another searing summer. June was unusually warm, and a major heatwave afflicted nearly a third of the population late in the month, and July offered little relief.

This dramatic collision between 2 Chinese ships comes after years of warnings that jockeying between warships and warplanes in the South China Sea could lead to a tragic accident...

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How North Korean IT workers leverage AI and vulnerable Americans to infiltrate US companies Thousands of North Korean IT workers are using stolen and made-up US identities to make hundreds of millions of dollars a year to fund Pyongyang’s military programs.

CNN's months-long investigation into North Korea's fake IT worker scheme and the US laptop farmers who help make it all work:

Journalists: Isaac Yee, Teele Rebane

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