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A Social Security Administration office in Washington, DC, on March 26.

Social Security’s new anti-fraud measures start Monday. Here’s what you need to know

Tami Luhby, CNN April 14, 2025

(CNN) — The Social Security Administration is set to implement on Monday new anti-fraud measures that have sparked widespread concern and confusion, heightened by the agency’s repeated changes to...

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he arrives for a two-day state visit, at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport, Vietnam, April 14, 2025.

China’s Xi heads to Southeast Asia to strengthen ties as Trump focuses his trade war on Beijing

Nectar Gan, CNN April 14, 2025

Hong Kong (CNN) — Xi Jinping has appealed to Vietnam to join China in upholding multilateral trade, as he begins a high-stakes diplomatic tour of the region’s major export-reliant economies in a bid...

Ed Martin speaks at an event at the US Capitol in Washington on June 13, 2023.

Ex-January 6 prosecutors urge attorney disciplinary board to investigate Trump’s controversial pick to be DC’s top prosecutor

Devan Cole and Jamie Gangel, CNN April 14, 2025

(CNN) — Five former prosecutors who worked on criminal cases stemming from the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are urging the disciplinary office governing lawyers in Washington, DC, to open...

Michelle Obama speaks on stage during IMO Live podcast 2025 SXSW Conference and Festival at Austin Convention Center on March 13 in Austin, Texas.

Michelle Obama addresses recent absences from political events and divorce rumors

Kaanita Iyer, CNN April 10, 2025

(CNN) — Former first lady Michelle Obama discussed stepping back and making time for herself on a podcast released Tuesday, addressing her recent absences from political events and rumors of marital...

US-China rivalry over Panama Canal sparks tensions, leaving Panama caught in war of words

Patrick Oppmann, CNN April 10, 2025

(CNN) — Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and its namesake canal that joins the Atlantic to the Pacific have...

A customer shops at a Costco store in Teterboro, New Jersey, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.

Here’s which grocery store items will get more expensive because of tariffs

Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN April 9, 2025

New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump, during his announcement last week of sweeping tariffs on countries around the world, called groceries an “old-fashioned” and “beautiful term.” But...

Shipping containers are seen on a cargo ship at the Port Jersey Container Terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey on April 8, 2025.

China announces 84% tariffs on US goods in showdown with Trump

Nectar Gan and Juliana Liu, CNN April 9, 2025

Hong Kong (CNN) — China unveiled retaliatory tariffs of 84% on imports of US goods on Wednesday, matching additional tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump earlier in the day and further inflaming...

US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a ceremony in Washington on January 25.

China lashes out at JD Vance for calling Chinese people ‘peasants’

Nectar Gan, CNN April 8, 2025

Hong Kong (CNN) — China on Tuesday slammed US Vice President JD Vance for referring to the Chinese people as “peasants” in an interview that has drawn widespread ire and ridicule on China’s internet...

For the first time, two-in-one flu and Covid combination vaccines — which vaccinate against both Covid-19 and influenza in a single shot — could be up for FDA action this year.

Anti-vaccine sentiment may derail vaccines already awaiting FDA approval, experts fear

Jacqueline Howard, CNN April 8, 2025

(CNN) — Concern is growing among public health experts that anti-vaccine sentiment within federal and state governments may derail emerging and cutting-edge vaccines that are now awaiting regulatory...

Shown here are two of three wolves genetically edited by scientists to have traits of a dire wolf, a prehistoric animal that went extinct about 12,500 years ago.

Scientists say they have resurrected the dire wolf

Katie Hunt, CNN April 8, 2025

(CNN) — A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences. Colossal...

Palestinians carry the body of a Palestinian-American boy who was killed by Israeli forces in the village of Turmusaya, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on April 6.

Palestinian American teen shot dead by Israeli soldiers in West Bank, official says

(CNN) — Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian-American teenager and wounded two others in the occupied West Bank on Sunday night, according to Palestinian officials, after the Israeli military said...

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on April 6.

Fact check: Trump falsely says Europe doesn’t buy anything from US, wildly exaggerates trade deficit with China

Daniel Dale, CNN April 7, 2025

Washington (CNN) — Speaking to reporters Sunday on Air Force One, President Donald Trump defended his new global tariffs with a familiar series of false claims about tariffs and trade. As he has before,...

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