[aggregation-styles] CNN (CNN) They were there to "Stop the Steal" and to keep the President they revered in office, yet records show that some of the rioters who stormed the US Capitol did not vote in the very election they were protesting. One was Donovan Crowl, an ex-Marine who charged...
Costco Is Shutting Down All of Its Photo Centers
[aggregation-styles] CNN New York (CNN Business) Costco is closing its photo centers at all of its roughly 800 stores next month, ending a number of services that have a decidedly retro vibe. Four services will no longer be available to shoppers when the centers will shut down on February 14,...
CNN’s Amanpour Regrets Equating Trump With Nazi Assault
NEW YORK — CNN's Christiane Amanpour says she regrets equating President Donald Trump's tenure to Kristallnacht, an attack on Jews in Nazi Germany seen historically as the Holocaust's launch. A prominent Jewish organization criticized Amanpour for her remarks, made last Thursday on her nightly interview program that airs on CNN...
A Small Pacific Island Nation Recorded Its First COVID-19 Case in a Man Who Visited the US
[aggregation-styles] CNN The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, formerly one of the few places in the world untouched by coronavirus, has recorded its first Covid-19 case. This week, a 23-year-old man who'd returned from traveling to the US tested positive while he was quarantining. The man, who'd flown back to...
‘Sobering’ Report Shows Hardening Attitudes Against Media
NEW YORK — The distrust many Americans feel toward the news media, caught up like much of the nation's problems in the partisan divide, only seems to be getting worse. That was the conclusion of a “sobering” study of attitudes toward the press conducted by Knight Foundation and Gallup and...
Fox Anchor Gets Praise for His Interview With Trump
NEW YORK — As veteran journalists who now teach the craft to college students, Tom Bettag and Frank Sesno both said they will use Chris Wallace's interview with President Donald Trump to show how it's done well. “This was an ‘A-plus’ accountability interview,” said Sesno, who spoke to five presidents...
Anderson Cooper Is a Father; Gives Infant Son a Special Name
NEW YORK — Anderson Cooper is a father, a milestone the CNN anchor says for a while he didn't believe would ever happen. Cooper announced the birth of his son, Wyatt, Thursday evening on his show and in a lengthy Instagram post. His son was born on Monday via a...
Mighty Bernie at Bat? Sanders Makes Pitch for Minor Leagues
BURLINGTON, Iowa — Take Bernie out to the ball game? Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate, is aggressively opposing a Major League Baseball plan to cut 42 minor league teams across the country after 2020. Among the targeted are the Vermont Lake Monsters, the Single-A affiliate of...
Do Devin Nunes’ Constituents Think He’s as Ridiculous as the Rest of Us Do?
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times I came to Nunes Country this week to talk to folks about their representative, an ardent defender of President Trump who denigrates Democrats, the free press, the impeachment committees and anyone else who gets in Trump’s way. The 22nd Congressional District spans parts of Fresno and...
12 Democrats Meet for First Debate Since Impeachment Inquiry
WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Joe Biden is facing baseless but persistent allegations of wrongdoing overseas that could undermine his argument that he's best positioned to defeat the president. Bernie Sanders is recovering from a heart attack that raised questions about his ability to withstand the vigor of a presidential campaign. And Elizabeth Warren...