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Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is warning that he will vote against the GOP health care plan if there is not sufficient time to review it publicly and allow his constituents to give feedback. Speaking to CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day” Wednesday morning, Johnson expressed his concerns about the way Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell […]

PNC Bank is closing its account with an influential marijuana legalization group, the Marijuana Policy Project. The group claims it’s being singled out because of its ties to the pot industry. “They have notified us that they intend to close it,” Marijuana Policy Project spokesman Mason Tvert told CNNMoney. “It’s because we accept contributions from […]

The next Olympic Games will be a spectacle of modern technology. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday announced a new partnership with Intel that will run through 2024. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker will provide drones, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and 360-degree video platforms to help capture Olympic events. The partnership will start […]

Unless you are a professional basketball player or a postal worker, shorts for dudes are usually not in the office dress code. But what about the rest of the working malekind, whose poor legs are doomed to be imprisoned in pants during the long, sweaty summer months? Shouldn’t they, too, be able to feel the […]

[Breaking news update, posted at 3:02 a.m. ET] A Wisconsin jury has reached a verdict in the homicide trial of Dominique Heaggan-Brown, the former Milwaukee officer who fatally shot Sylville Smith during an August 2016 foot chase. Heaggan-Brown was tried on a charge of first-degree reckless homicide in a shooting that sparked days of unrest. […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that the United States is waiting to see whether a “list of demands” presented to Qatar by a coalition of its Gulf neighbors and their partners are “reasonable and actionable,” one day after the State Department’s top spokeswoman questioned the continued diplomatic freeze. “In regards to the continuing […]

Some of the world’s worst diseases — think Ebola or AIDS — start in animals, jump the hurdle of species to enter humans and then get passed from person to person. These are called zoonotic or animal-origin infectious diseases. What if you could predict the location on this vast and spinning globe where the next […]

The elements of President Donald Trump’s approach to the Afghanistan war are emerging — and they’re markedly different from the stance President Barack Obama took. For one thing, Trump is committing US military forces to a long-term and open-ended deployment in Afghanistan, according to a senior US official. Obama surged tens of thousands of additional […]

On a single day in August, the sun will disappear behind the moon, and sky watchers in the eclipse’s path across 14 states from Oregon to South Carolina will witness a total solar eclipse. The remarkable event occurs when the moon blocks the sun, turning daylight into twilight and leaving the sun’s atmosphere — or […]

The doctor’s office is a risky place for us 20-somethings with slim savings. Maybe you need to go in for a routine physical. A persistent cough. A weird rash that WebMD couldn’t identify. Whatever it is, a $300 invoice probably isn’t part of the plan. Besides, isn’t insurance supposed to cover almost everything? When you […]

The smallest things we do can give away our biggest secrets. According to researchers at the University of Padova in Italy, how a person moves a mouse when answering questions on a computer may reveal whether or not they’re lying. The finding has the potential to identify everything from fake online reviews and fraudulent insurance […]

Disclaimer: We hope you’re hungry for food puns, because there are a lot in this story. Are home-cooked meals a recipe for success or disaster in the tech industry? We’re about to find out. Blue Apron, a service that mails you a box of fresh, pre-measured ingredients with the recipe included, is nearing an IPO […]

Melody Jackson’s beloved grandmother Eleanor was in the kitchen when she fell. Her cries for help went unheard, and her feeble attempts to lift herself up were unsuccessful. At the time of the fall, Eleanor was in her 90s, and it was some 20 years ago, but the memory remains with Jackson to this day. […]

Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, arrived in Israel on Wednesday for meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a spokeswoman for the US Embassy told CNN. Kushner’s first stop was a private condolence visit to the family of Hadas Malka, the Israeli border policewoman killed near […]

Democrats say President Trump is for sale — and they’re taking him to court to stop it. Some of the nearly 200 Democratic lawmakers suing the president over his business holdings argue that Trump’s refusal to respect the Constitution left them no choice. “We don’t do this out of any sense of partisanship, but because […]

Golf was already spinning on its axis in the aftermath of Tiger Woods’ arrest and a US Open set up to yield birdies, but it went into a real whirl at the news that Phil Mickelson was splitting with long-time caddie Jim “Bones” Mackay. The five-time major winner, 47, and his faithful bagman had been […]

It felt like pins, burning hot pins, pricking her arms, her legs, the back of her neck. Jenny Cary is standing outside the aptly-named Furnace Creek Visitor Center at Death Valley National Park and the oppressive 130-degree heat was doing a number on her. “My legs are burning!” she exclaims. But she stays put. Cary […]

A somber Queen’s Speech laid out a Brexit-heavy policy agenda and dropped key pledges made by embattled Prime Minister Theresa May, who on Wednesday officially begins the challenge of leading a minority government. Queen Elizabeth II read out a list of the government’s intentions at a tumultuous time for Britain. It included eight bills centered […]

What — or in this case, who — was conspicuously absent from the Queen’s Speech to Parliament? US President Donald Trump. Trump’s planned state visit to the UK, announced by British Prime Minister Theresa May earlier this year, was not mentioned by Queen Elizabeth II in her speech at the opening of Parliament on Wednesday, […]

Just six months after leaving a high-profile job at Apple, Tesla’s Autopilot software chief Chris Lattner is looking for a new job. “Turns out that Tesla isn’t a good fit for me after all,” Lattner tweeted late Tuesday. In January, Tesla picked Lattner to work on its self-driving car program, praising his reputation for “engineering […]

Travis Kalanick has resigned as the chief executive of Uber, the ride-hailing startup he co-founded and turned into a global tech giant. Kalanick had already taken leave from the company last week following the death of his mother in a boating accident. But the move failed to defuse a growing crisis over his leadership and […]

Saudi Arabia’s king deposed the sitting crown prince Wednesday and replaced him with Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the deputy crown prince, according to state media. Mohammed bin Salman, who is the son of King Salman, will now be the first in line to the throne. The 31-year-old has been appointed deputy prime minister and […]

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte begged forgiveness Tuesday for declaring martial law in Mindanao island and vowed to rebuild Marawi, the battle-scarred city at the heart of nearly four weeks of fierce fighting between the Philippines military and ISIS-affiliated militants. “I had no choice. They are destroying Marawi. I have to drive them out. But I […]

Democrats tried an inoffensive moderate message in Georgia. They ran a banjo-strumming populist in Montana. They called in the cavalry in South Carolina and tried to catch their foe sleeping through a long-shot in Kansas. None of it worked. In the special elections for House seats vacated by Republicans who wound up in President Donald […]

Did Mount Everest shrink after Nepal’s massive 2015 earthquake? Has it lost a few meters of snow cover due to global warming? Is it getting taller due to shifting continental plates? To clear up these frequently raised questions once and for all, the Nepalese government has kicked off the long and arduous mission of re-measuring […]