Watch pope's funeral procession through Rome
In a spectacular procession through the city of Rome, Pope Francis' coffin was transported from St. Peter's Basilica to his final resting place at Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.
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Watch pope's funeral procession through Rome
In a spectacular procession through the city of Rome, Pope Francis' coffin was transported from St. Peter's Basilica to his final resting place at Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.
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Laura Coates explains the legal factors of arrested judge's case
CNN's Laura Coates examines the case of a Milwaukee County Circuit judge who was arrested by the FBI and charged in federal court for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest.
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Trump sends real estate mogul alone to deal with Putin
CNN's Erin Burnett shows how Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's envoy sent to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was greeted for the talks.
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Luigi Mangione's supporters on the death penalty
Luigi Mangione, accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare's CEO Brian Thompson, has gathered a fanbase. CNN spoke with the people gathered outside his most recent court appearance in Manhattan. Federal prosecutors have filed notice that they'll be seeking the death penalty in his case.
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Voter confronts Jon Ossoff about impeaching Trump
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) told a voter during a town hall in Cobb County, Georgia that he 'strongly' agrees that President Donald Trump needs to be impeached.
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Footage of Diddy physically assaulting ex-girlfriend will be shown to jury
Footage of Sean 'Diddy' Combs physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, will be shown to the jury in his criminal sex trafficking trial, which is scheduled to begin next month. After numerous attempts to exclude the 2016 hotel footage, which was first reported on by CNN, the judge denied the Combs' attorneys requests to eject the damning footage at a hearing. CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister reports.
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Key evidence in Karen Read trial
Karen Read, who is accused of causing the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, is being retried in Massachusetts. Read has been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene. A mistrial was declared last year after jurors said they were at an impasse. CNN's Jean Casarez breaks down key evidence.
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NIH funding pause affects Alzheimer's studies
The National Institutes of Health halted funding for 14 out of 35 Alzheimer's disease research centers in the United States. CNN's Jacqueline Howard explains how that decision has left researchers and patients in a state of uncertainty.
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Reporter details Musk-Bessent shouting match in White House
Axios reporter Marc Caputo reports that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Elon Musk got into a heated argument in the West Wing.
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Palestinian flag bearer reflects on her responsibility at the Olympics
In an interview with CNN's Amanda Davies, Palestinian swimmer and flag bearer Valerie Tarazi says she was inspired by Majed Abu Maraheel in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the first ever Palestinian Olympian and flag bearer who reportedly died in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza earlier this year due to kidney failure.
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Zelensky Went Soft on Corruption Because the U.S. Did
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That Zelensky brazenly weakened Ukraine's anti-corruption guardrails in the first place shouldn't come as a shock. They were erected only under sustained pressure from the Obama administration as part of an explicit bargain: In exchange for military and financial support, Ukraine would rein in its oligarchs and reform its public institutions. Over time, the country drifted, however unevenly, toward a system that was more transparent, less captive to hidden hands. But in the Trump era, the United States has grown proudly tolerant of global corruption. In fact, it actively encourages its proliferation. Beyond the president's own venal example, this is deliberate policy. Brick by brick, Donald Trump has dismantled the apparatus that his predecessors built to constrain global kleptocracy, and leaders around the world have absorbed the fact that the pressure for open, democratic governance is off. Anne Applebaum: Kleptocracy, Inc. Three weeks into his current term, Trump paused enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act—loudly declaring that the United States wasn't going to police foreign bribery. Weeks later, America skipped a meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's anti-bribery working group for the first time since its founding 30 years ago. As the head of the anti-corruption group Transparency International warned, Trump was sending 'a dangerous signal that bribery is back on the table.' For decades, the more than prosecute bribery cases; it tried to cultivate civil-society organizations that helped emerging democracies combat corruption themselves. But upon returning to the presidency, Trump destroyed USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the U.S. Institute of Peace, dismantling the constellation of government agencies that had quietly tutored investigative journalists, trained judges, and funded watchdogs. These groups weren't incidental casualties in DOGE's seemingly scattershot demolition of the American state. Trump long loathed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which he described as a 'horrible law,' an animus stoked by the fact that some of his closest associates have been accused of murky dealings abroad. Crushing programs and organizations that fight kleptocracy meshed with the 'America First' instincts of his base; the likes of Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon abhor the export of liberal values to the world. From the wreckage of these institutions, a Trump Doctrine has taken shape, one that uses American economic and political power to shield corrupt autocrats from accountability. Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, has been a prime beneficiary. Just as he was preparing to testify under oath, Trump denounced the prosecution as a 'political witch hunt' and threatened to withhold U.S. aid if the trial moved forward. 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